Jay Shadow
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According to one of the recent kickstarter updates they already have a release date for Book 2, but aren't publicly revealing it.
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Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey |OT| Book One: Reborn
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Haunted
Member
Man, there's a lot to like here. Ragnar's down-to-earth and realistic character-based writing, the impressive scale of Propast, simply exploring and adventuring about, soaking it all in.
This is clearly a labour of love, so many small details in the environments, the weird post-European language everyone's speaking, English mixing with German, French, Spanish and Czech for a really flavourful street-talk worthy of the raunchiest cyberpunk settings, the writing is believable and on point as always, it's so refreshing to have a main character talk about mature topics and really personal things (like her sex life) without it being mired in clichés or milked for titillation. Story-wise, the sense of mystery and suspense is still there, even if this is obviously something of a slower-paced episode, (re-)introducing a lot of the gameplay mechanics, story and characters.
It's great that this game was made.
And yet... and I almost feel bad for this obvious small team and their dedication - as a technical product, there's a lot of jank. The performance is really abysmal, there's a ton of slowdown, really severe in parts... awkward animations, missing animation transitions, horrible lip-sync - they've crafted these wonderful places to explore with the means available to them (this is probably the best-looking Unity game I've seen so far), but the myriad of technical issues tend to really take the player out of the experience.
Still, for anyone even passingly familiar with TLJ or Dreamfall, or interested in a solid third person adventure with strong, believable characters and writing that's not afraid to tackle complicated and uncomfortable topics - don't miss this.
This is clearly a labour of love, so many small details in the environments, the weird post-European language everyone's speaking, English mixing with German, French, Spanish and Czech for a really flavourful street-talk worthy of the raunchiest cyberpunk settings, the writing is believable and on point as always, it's so refreshing to have a main character talk about mature topics and really personal things (like her sex life) without it being mired in clichés or milked for titillation. Story-wise, the sense of mystery and suspense is still there, even if this is obviously something of a slower-paced episode, (re-)introducing a lot of the gameplay mechanics, story and characters.
It's great that this game was made.
And yet... and I almost feel bad for this obvious small team and their dedication - as a technical product, there's a lot of jank. The performance is really abysmal, there's a ton of slowdown, really severe in parts... awkward animations, missing animation transitions, horrible lip-sync - they've crafted these wonderful places to explore with the means available to them (this is probably the best-looking Unity game I've seen so far), but the myriad of technical issues tend to really take the player out of the experience.
Still, for anyone even passingly familiar with TLJ or Dreamfall, or interested in a solid third person adventure with strong, believable characters and writing that's not afraid to tackle complicated and uncomfortable topics - don't miss this.
Green Yoshi
Member
A really nice adventure game, although it hates my Radeon HD 5570 (a bad GPU, but Dead Space 3 and Just Cause 2 work perfectly)
Chance Hale
Member
Is there a way to force real fullscreen? I want to use gsync but can't because it seems to actually be a borderless window.
QuickSilverD
Member
has anyone played this with a laptop i3 and an HD4000 Intel integrated graphics card, cause that's all I have and don't intend to upgrade to the glorious master race anytime soon... maybe I should wait for the PS4 version.
Given how poorly it runs I'm pretty skeptical we'll see this on consoles as soon as they claimed. It also explains why they scrapped the Wii-U version.
Both TLJ and Dreamfall are easily worth playing, so it's only a question of how much time you have.
Dreamfall's ending in particular was pretty bold IMO. I'm glad I finished it.
Just finished Chapters. Having played the prequels right before, it added a lot with some of the story beats for me.
Spoilers:
As some others have mentioned, performance isn't great, but I kept the resolution at 1440p with AA off (780Ti here) and it was generally quite good, besides busier areas in
. Still, for a game like this, it's hardly a deal-breaker; writing, voice acting, and music are first-rate.
Spoilers:
While the introduction of the game was sad, given everything that happens in these games, I don't think it's improbable that we see April again, at least in some form.
Overall, a lot of fun to walk around and explore. Interested to see what extent choices made will have in future chapters.
Overall, a lot of fun to walk around and explore. Interested to see what extent choices made will have in future chapters.
As some others have mentioned, performance isn't great, but I kept the resolution at 1440p with AA off (780Ti here) and it was generally quite good, besides busier areas in
Propast
Funny you mention this one.
There's a wheel that you can turn with the glowing orb before you enter the cave. When turning the wheel, it elcits 4 squeak-like pitches. I thought this was obviously the melody, but no dice. I had to look up the solution as well.
Via Purifico
Banned
Yeah don't bother, i've played it on my vaio ultrabook with an i5 and HD4400 and the framerate tends to drop as low as 10 fps, even with everything on low. I wish there was an option to lower the resolution to something like 800x600, otherwise i'm waiting for the ps4 version.
Dominic_Shade
Member
Two hours into this game. Really happy Zoe has a journal. I had so much fun reading all the entries.
Just finished the episode, everything story related is great. I am still not sold on the whole consequences elements of the game and I am sad about the lack of puzzles but overall, the attention to small details in the world is magnificent. There's a lot of love put into the game and it shows!
Messofanego
Banned
PC Gamer's Richard Cobbett wrote this about the world, "It's hands down one of my favourite cyberpunk style universes, largely because it feels like it was designed by architects to be a place people live, rather than existing purely to push a dark, oppressive menace":
http://www.pcgamer.com/dreamfall-chapters-a-stark-contrast-with-cyberpunk/
Great read.
http://www.pcgamer.com/dreamfall-chapters-a-stark-contrast-with-cyberpunk/
Great read.
Basileus777
Member
I finished it and the writing is as good as ever. And Propast is really well realized setting. But there's too much busywork. They had a solid 2-3 hours of content and padded it out, and it's a shame because I would have enjoyed it more had it been better paced. And do something about that walking speed if you are going to put in a bunch of fetch quests in sizable city area.
It's an astonishing location for sure. TLJ has always had interesting settings, especially on the future/cyberpunk side but Chapters still stands out.
br0ken_shad0w
Member
You can probably get away with looking at an LP for TLJ and Dreamfall, but the part of what makes these games great is the worldbuilding and in Dreamfall the playable characters all have their own thoughts about the people and environment around them (which an LP may or may not pick up).
This was a fucking tease though. I loved what I played, but I wished it was longer.
This was a fucking tease though. I loved what I played, but I wished it was longer.
Giantbomb Quicklook
Spoilers, obviously.
Spoilers, obviously.
Wow, that really makes me want to buy it. Dat dialogue, based Tørnquist.
We don't know exactly when, though a few months ago they said they were planning an aggressive release schedule, so I guess it shouldn't be too long. Patch is coming this week.
Dreamfall just crashed so bad that it literally broke my computer. I can no longer boot to Windows.
I'm serious.
I can't even get into Safe Mode or repair options. What the fuck just happened?
Re-edit: some diagnostics told me my primary hard drive died. Just a coincidence, I guess...damn, though.
I'm serious.
I can't even get into Safe Mode or repair options. What the fuck just happened?
Re-edit: some diagnostics told me my primary hard drive died. Just a coincidence, I guess...damn, though.
Looking forward to 1.1. I hope the performance will no longer be so random across chapters (70 FPS at 4k in one of them and 11 (!) in another).
I guess I'll need to get to that 64 bit GeDoSaTo version.
I guess I'll need to get to that 64 bit GeDoSaTo version.
I was about to say that this is impossible.
Messofanego
Banned
Messofanego
Banned
You'll be quite lost
Thankfully, Red Thread Games just released this video:
Dreamfall: The Story So Far
You'll be quite lost
Thankfully, Red Thread Games just released this video:
Dreamfall: The Story So Far
Really good recap, short and to the point.
Finally got around the glitches that prevented me from completing the game (aka, the one where the game crashes all the time whenever I enter Reza's office), and I have to say that it was a great starter. I finished the book in about four hours, so I am surprised at the length especially since Ragnar said that Book 1 is the shortest of all. So I am expecting about 5-6 hours in the other books? I did take my sweet time in playing the game and going around Propast, despite it being laggy and crashing several times.
Interlude spoilers
Interlude spoilers
What the heck just happened there, and did I really just get to control a baby?
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Deleted member 102362
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Finished it. Spoilers pertaining to Reza (and the end of Dreamfall: TLJ):
I've always believed Reza died early on in Dreamfall: TLJ, and that whoever we see at the end is some sort of fake, as Zoe suggests. I'm very interested in seeing where this goes.
Basileus777
Member
He must be fake or been tampered with somehow. Even beyond the evidence from Dreamfall, why would he help frame the whistleblower for the conspiracy he was uncovering? The real Reza would know Damien Cavanaugh is not guilty.
ab.aeterno
Member
Patch looks like it's live or almost just. Patch notes on Steam:
Spoilered a couple bits just in case people are adamant about avoiding any details, but given they've talked about it themselves, it's probably public knowledge. But for now, I'll err on the side of caution.
Would love updated performance impressions from the worst areas, especially if you guys have any direct metrics to compare.
Spoilered a couple bits just in case people are adamant about avoiding any details, but given they've talked about it themselves, it's probably public knowledge. But for now, I'll err on the side of caution.
Would love updated performance impressions from the worst areas, especially if you guys have any direct metrics to compare.
So watched a bit of a lp bc i know my comp cant play this game. Seems like the actions have much more consequence than the tell tale twd games. The stories are actually affected by your decisions. Shitbot vs kidbot ftw.
Also how many eps are there supposed to be? 5? 5-6 hours each seems like a good deal.
Also how many eps are there supposed to be? 5? 5-6 hours each seems like a good deal.