Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Apr 19, 2006 23:36:03 GMT -5
Post by Discoalucard on Apr 19, 2006 23:36:03 GMT -5
My roommate Commie saw the chick on the cover, and said he would totally fap to those tan lines. This was in the mall food court, mind you. I picked up its predecessor, the PC-only The Longest Journey on the way. People tell me it is very good, but I'm wary of trusting the advice of modern adventure gamers. People also told me the Syberias were good. (They are very boring.)
Anyway, everyone should read this review:
www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3149772&did=1
Please keep in mind that it is totally wrong. Not factually, or anything, just misguided in every possible way. The major complaints are that you spend too much time running around, and too much time listening to dialogue.
You do spend a lot of time running around, but the first city is gorgeously rendered. It's not Shen Mue quality, but it's close. And second off, the writing is EXCELLENT - they characters do gab a lot, but it's very deliberate and really adds a lot to the characters.
Oh yeah, so, this is a traditional adventure game, pretty much kinda. Except you can run around and there's a user controllable camera and stuff. All 3D, no prerenders, no point n click. Nearby objects are highlighted, and pressing various buttons will let you look at them or interact. You can also go into focus mode to look at stuff from a distance. So far it works very well.
The fappable chick is Zoe, who is depressed despite being hot and very wealthy. She's dropped out of college, broken up with her boyfriend, and sits around the house all day, moping and talking to her awesome robotic talking (purple!) gorilla named Wonkers. I will tell you right now that it worth the $40 for this game to see Wonkers, especially when he (or, rather, a recording) recounts a story of poor Zoe getting shitfaced (such foul language from this thing) and was dragged to a hotel. He has such an amazing voice too - sort of like Clank from Ratchet and Clank, but somehow even more humorous.
Zoe keeps seeing weird Ring-like images on TV sets, telling her to rescue some girl. But then she gets involved in a courier mission with her ex-boyfriend, she gets arrested, beaten up, and basically sets off on a journey to save him. He's an investigative reporter, it seems. Also, there's at least one alternate world where magic rules, which apparently ties into the original game.
Anyway, this game is awesome so far. Just because it is only barely a "game" shouldn't stop you. I really hate the idea that you need to "play" "games" for their existence to be justified. I mean, the Indigo Prophecy started out great, but tried to be too gamey and ended up becoming retarded (I also quit before the story got dumb, as I've been told that it does.) This looks to be shaping up much better, even if the (apparently sparse) fight scenes are lame. If I wanted shitty fight scenes I'd buy the Fight Club game.
PS The Fight Club game was $4.88 at CompUSA and I bought it.
Anyway, everyone should read this review:
www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3149772&did=1
Please keep in mind that it is totally wrong. Not factually, or anything, just misguided in every possible way. The major complaints are that you spend too much time running around, and too much time listening to dialogue.
You do spend a lot of time running around, but the first city is gorgeously rendered. It's not Shen Mue quality, but it's close. And second off, the writing is EXCELLENT - they characters do gab a lot, but it's very deliberate and really adds a lot to the characters.
Oh yeah, so, this is a traditional adventure game, pretty much kinda. Except you can run around and there's a user controllable camera and stuff. All 3D, no prerenders, no point n click. Nearby objects are highlighted, and pressing various buttons will let you look at them or interact. You can also go into focus mode to look at stuff from a distance. So far it works very well.
The fappable chick is Zoe, who is depressed despite being hot and very wealthy. She's dropped out of college, broken up with her boyfriend, and sits around the house all day, moping and talking to her awesome robotic talking (purple!) gorilla named Wonkers. I will tell you right now that it worth the $40 for this game to see Wonkers, especially when he (or, rather, a recording) recounts a story of poor Zoe getting shitfaced (such foul language from this thing) and was dragged to a hotel. He has such an amazing voice too - sort of like Clank from Ratchet and Clank, but somehow even more humorous.
Zoe keeps seeing weird Ring-like images on TV sets, telling her to rescue some girl. But then she gets involved in a courier mission with her ex-boyfriend, she gets arrested, beaten up, and basically sets off on a journey to save him. He's an investigative reporter, it seems. Also, there's at least one alternate world where magic rules, which apparently ties into the original game.
Anyway, this game is awesome so far. Just because it is only barely a "game" shouldn't stop you. I really hate the idea that you need to "play" "games" for their existence to be justified. I mean, the Indigo Prophecy started out great, but tried to be too gamey and ended up becoming retarded (I also quit before the story got dumb, as I've been told that it does.) This looks to be shaping up much better, even if the (apparently sparse) fight scenes are lame. If I wanted shitty fight scenes I'd buy the Fight Club game.
PS The Fight Club game was $4.88 at CompUSA and I bought it.