You need to sneak around while the train is going by. For almost any adventure game, if you get too angry at it, just look up the walkthrough to get you through that bit.

Yeah, especially for Dreamfall and TLJ, don’t feel bad about using a walkthrough. A lot of the puzzles are just a pain. The interesting part is the story, and if you have to look up the solutions to some of the puzzles to experience the story, so be it.

You need to sneak around while the train is going by. For almost any adventure game, if you get too angry at it, just look up the walkthrough to get you through that bit.

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The prospect of episodes doesn’t appeal to me at all, not if they keep up with the sorry ending of Dreamfall… what a letdown! TLJ may not have wrapped everything up, but I didn’t feel cheated out of a complete story.

I liked both April and Zoe and all the characters surrounding them, especially the barista. (It was the first time I saw that word.) I don’t care that much for puzzles and and combat, but I do like the story line.

The characters have a kind of genericness about them – they’re generic pretty, make generic jokes, say generic romantic things, etc. All the characters never remind me of anyone I actually know in the real world, just of other characters from fantasy fiction.

Which might’ve been Tørnquists idea in the first place ofcourse, it always felt like a bit of a missed oppurtunity to me.

I have found TLJ and Dreamfall to be interesting that they hold for me two of the greatest stories ever penned in video games, while also being two of the worst endings.

What really drew me into TLJ wasn’t so much the plot, but the setting and the characters. Even the bit players were wonderfully fleshed out, despite the sheer number of them. The game events, however, I fairly indifferent to. Save the balance? Fuck the balance! Despite how wonderfully developed the various characters, we rarely learn much about what happens to them. What happens to Emma and Charlie beyond the first couple chapters?

As such, the ending TLJ sucked for what it didn’t touch on, rather than what it did. Well, the whole 11th hour “hey guys, this is getting too predictable, we need to shake it up” aspect of it did bother me a little (twist endings work better when they make the viewer think “damn, how’d I not spot that”, rather than “that’s bullshit”. And don’t try argue that TLJ wasn’t written sequentially, just look how much longer and more fleshed out the beginning chapters are versus the later chapters, Grim Fandango is the same way).

Dreamfall’s ending was different, but worse. Actually it wasn’t so much an ending, but an arbitrary cut off point. It’s almost irresponsible by Tørnquist. It’s so hard to predicate whether you’ll even get to make a sequel in the games market, and Dreamfall is about as far away from surefire sales as you can get.

I honestly don’t care for MMOs, but here’s for Age of Conan and the Secret World not sinking Funcom.

tl;dr: Don’t mess with the camera or controls (unless you’re Tim Shafer), and Tørnquist needs to work on the “resolution” section of the plots of his stories.

And TLJ is probably one of the only franchises I can see really work well in an episodic format. Let’s face it, TLJ and DF got a bit long-winded, and the mediocre gameplay did subtract. Chop it up into smaller episodes, to make it a easier digestible, and their sales would probably go way up.

Plus, of course, a stable source of income for Funcom probably isn’t to be sneezed at either, especially not considering their MMO’s tend to be complete failures for the first 18 months after launch.

It’s probably some sort of class-resentment thing, but I disliked her enough to run her repeatedly into the wall, muttering ‘why are you hitting yourself, Zoe?’