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Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey |OT| Book One: Reborn
- Thread starter ab.aeterno
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You can redeem the game now but it remains locked on Steam.
Basileus777
Member
They sent the keys out? I didn't get mine.
Edit: Never mind, it was on my humblestore account and I didn't know it.
It took me 20 hours to complete the original TLJ, and another 12 for Dreamfall. Definitely on the lengthy side of things considering they're Adventure games.
ab.aeterno
Member
Yeah, I'm glad I took the time to write them, as I kept having the reaction of "wait, I don't remember that," when reading various wikis and the like for the lore and plot of the previous games. If nothing else, it helped refresh my memory a lot.
Your Humble page will be associated with the email you used on Kickstarter/PayPal. Try to use the key resender with your associated backer email. You can also verify with BackerKit.
That worked, thanks! Not sure why I didn't get an email alert from Humble though.
I'm not sure if alerts go out by default. My experience from a few KS projects has been that redemption/reward pages show up in my Humble account as "unclaimed keys" without notification, since my Humble and Kickstarter/backer emails are the same. Then I just had to claim respective pages and voila! Glad you resolved your issue.
Game delayed a bit because of some bugs.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redthread/dreamfall-chapters-the-longest-journey/posts/1024769
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redthread/dreamfall-chapters-the-longest-journey/posts/1024769
QuickSilverD
Member
Does the PS4 version have a some sort of tentative release date/window yet?
RedAssedApe
Banned
shutdown the op! haha hope its nothing too serious
Not until sometime after all the chapters are released on PC.
sammyCYBORG
Member
Any ETA on when it will be finished? I want to wait until all episodes are out. It's been a long wait so a little bit longer won't hurt...
Think I'm going to replay TLJ/Dreamfall before diving into this. Stoked to hear more impressions, glad to hear the writing is supposedly good. I'd forgotten how good the writing/voice acting is in the older games.
To the above poster, I believe they've mentioned wanting to have them all out within a year and/or following similar release schedule to The Walking Dead.
To the above poster, I believe they've mentioned wanting to have them all out within a year and/or following similar release schedule to The Walking Dead.
ab.aeterno
Member
It will probably take a year, give or take a few months. They have said they're going to follow a similar model to The Walking Dead, so expecting a new episode every 2-3 months seems reasonable.
Same. I planned on doing it, but got distracted by other games. Given how much I've forgotten, I feel like I need to replay them again.
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Deleted member 102362
Unconfirmed Member
Offering early access to the game was such a poor choice for a backer reward. I'm glad I'll be playing a fixed version.
Nice. The artwork is beautiful. I can't wait to get my copy once the game is finished.
sammyCYBORG
Member
I can wait that long.
Hope they're good. Although Dreamfall wasn't as good as TLJ I still really liked it and I'm glad this series can be finished. Thought it was gonna be a Shenmue situation...
I haven't run into any of those issues but I haven't played with the default subtitle options. Fewer bugs is always nice though!
I'd suggest playing it. Even though it was from the Xbox era, the PC version is really well done. It supports all sorts of aspect ratios, resolutions and controllers. Load times are practically non-existent.
While it's a ~12 hour game, that's almost all content. There are very few puzzles, and what's there is very easy.
While it's a ~12 hour game, that's almost all content. There are very few puzzles, and what's there is very easy.
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Deleted member 102362
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That's a good thing.
I've also realized I should clarify my comment. I'm not against the concept of early access games, but in this case, if they were offering early access, it should've been as a beta for players to offer feedback on, ala Wasteland 2. Letting them play it a few hours early, only to hit a critical bug in what is supposed to be a finished product (with the admission that there are lesser bugs to be addressed) seems less savory to me. That is what I meant by poor choice.
Dynamite Ringo Matsuri
Member
Good freakin god. First Sleater-Kinney reunion now this. It's been a hell of a week.
Now someone announce Shenmue 3 LOL
Now someone announce Shenmue 3 LOL
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Deleted member 102362
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Fully? Yes.
If you're content with an incomplete picture, with trips to the community wiki to fill in the gaps, then you'll be fine. Not if you want to fully immerse yourself in the story, though.
I hope you're able to work your technical problems out. Maybe it's a compatibility issue?
xenorevlis
Member
While I share the sentiment that we've waited this long, making a few extra hours nothing... I know deep inside those of us who have been waiting for today (not to mention all my kickstarter pals) are fidgeting with tiny swmi-rage monsters squatting atop our excitement as we await the release.
Hopefully sometime after my media delivery systems class I'll be able to start downloading. Does anyone know the total size?
Hopefully sometime after my media delivery systems class I'll be able to start downloading. Does anyone know the total size?
GavinUK86
Member
I've been playing it for about 5 hours now and there are tons of visual bugs everywhere, especially with the lens flare effects.
Performance is atrocious too. I put everything on low and at 720p and it was still chugging along at 20fps in places. It seems to be like that no matter what settings you choose. 1080p and High or 720p and Low. It still hangs at 20fps.
It'll probably be delayed until tomorrow or possibly even later considering how rough it feels.
Story wise though, it's interesting. Not as gripping as the previous two but enough to make me want to carry on.
Performance is atrocious too. I put everything on low and at 720p and it was still chugging along at 20fps in places. It seems to be like that no matter what settings you choose. 1080p and High or 720p and Low. It still hangs at 20fps.
It'll probably be delayed until tomorrow or possibly even later considering how rough it feels.
Story wise though, it's interesting. Not as gripping as the previous two but enough to make me want to carry on.
ab.aeterno
Member
Not sure. The only place that I didn't see it specified was on Humble, where it's also $5 cheaper. No idea if it comes with the extras, so I omitted them from the list.
Yeah, the lens flare issues are pretty annoying, especially since I can see exactly why they're happening. I just want to reach into the code and fix it. It's such a simple problem.
Performance was great until I got to chapter 2. Had to drop quality and resolution to keep going--but only when I'm "outside".
GavinUK86
Member
Yeah, the fps in the city dropped to the 20's for me.
GavinUK86
Member
GavinUK86
Member
2600k, 8gb ram and gtx660. pretty old now in hardware years but it should be enough to run this comfortably. i guess a lot of it will be sorted when we get the new version though.
GavinUK86
Member
.@RedThreadGames 3 minutes ago
Scratch that, Steam is down so #Dreamfall is no longer uploading
The Dreamfall Chapters store page doesn't have a timer anymore. It just says 'coming soon'. T_T
I hope they finish uploading soon. Luckily those nordic countries have fast internet.
