Any excuse to post about The Longest Journey. That’s my motto. And this is quite a good one. Good Old Games are putting emphasis on that first G today with the addition of one of time’s finest adventures (and the game that’s most important to me) to their catalogue. It is of course also available on other download sites, but getting it via GoG means it’s DRM free, and it turns out, cheaper (just)! Hooray (just)! If you’re in the right country! TLJ is currently £5.99/9.99€/$9.99 on Steam. Via GoG it’s $9.99, which translates to £5.45 in the UK, but for our European allies it plummets to 6.11€. If you want to know more about the game, and why it’s so damned special, there’s a million squillion things to read about it on this site. If you haven’t played it yet, I hate you. But I’m prepared to forgive you.
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BTW, the best review I ever read about TLJ was from a guy who doesn’t even like 3rd person, story-focused adventure games very much: http://www.eblong.com/zarf/gamerev/longestjourney.html
I haven’t played it. I shall put it on the list of “game that i should one day play but probably won’t”.
I bought the Special Edition of Dreamfall, which came with the Dreamfall OST as well as The Longest Journey. A lovely game. I’m beginning to see why Walker plays it at least once every year: I’m beginning to want to play it again as well.
I played this a few months ago and…hm, I still loved it. I guess I understand why some people’s reactions are so overwhelmingly negative about it. But sort of in the same way that those faults push them away regardless of what else the game has to it, TLJ’s good parts are strong enough to pull me in, and keep me in for its all length ( and several playthroughs over). I’m still entranced by the surreal storytelling, imaginative visuals, beautiful music, and hilarious exposition pieces (the map-maker’s guidance through Marcuria, April twirling in the camera behind the news-reporter’s story about the transport crash, ALL of Flipper’s dialogue, etc). I still click through every dialogue option in each conversation just because I WANT to hear it all. And yes, I used a guide to get through several puzzles, and the underwater statue/island totem puzzles was a terrible double whammy to get through. Still love the game as a whole. Not by any means perfect, but a favorite of mine still.
So, yeah, I’ll be buying it at gog for sure. I left my copy in my home country and I doubt my family would be able to find it to mail to me if I asked. I’m thrilled I can get it now.