Decline Dreamfall Chapters - Console Immersion Action Decline Kickstarter [Spoilers]

[PlanHex]

RPS has a 30 min video walkthrough, w/ and w/o commentary:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/01/08/the-longest-walkthrough-30-minutes-of-dreamfall/

Gotta watch that later.

Don't bother, it's the same as the gamespot one from before.

 

[Morgoth]

I just skimmed through the video and everything, except the writing, looks like utter shit.

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

MY EYES
MY PRECIOUS EYES

 

[taxalot]

Some people have one game, one story in them. Like other artists who only have one book, or one song. I am starting to wonder if Thornquist is one of these artists.

 

[evdk]

Some people have one game, one story in them. Like other artists who only have one book, or one song. I am starting to wonder if Thornquist is one of these artists.

Starting?

 

[J_C]

Some people have one game, one story in them. Like other artists who only have one book, or one song. I am starting to wonder if Thornquist is one of these artists.

Since The Longest Journey, Dreamfall and The Secret World all have great stories, this is obviously false.

 

[evdk]

Some people have one game, one story in them. Like other artists who only have one book, or one song. I am starting to wonder if Thornquist is one of these artists.

Since The Longest Journey, Dreamfall and The Secret World all have great stories, this is obviously false.

Is there a shitty game by once capable devs whose cause you would not champion?

 

[Grunker]

Some people have one game, one story in them. Like other artists who only have one book, or one song. I am starting to wonder if Thornquist is one of these artists.

Since The Longest Journey, Dreamfall and The Secret World all have great stories, this is obviously false.

Is there a shitty game by once capable devs whose cause you would not champion?

J_C likes everything. Except women. Evil women are coming to destroy his fun!

However, I liked Dreamfall. Obviously much less than The Longest Journey proper, but it was alright.

 

[J_C]

Some people have one game, one story in them. Like other artists who only have one book, or one song. I am starting to wonder if Thornquist is one of these artists.

Since The Longest Journey, Dreamfall and The Secret World all have great stories, this is obviously false.

Is there a shitty game by once capable devs whose cause you would not champion?

Yes.

 

[tuluse]

I only watched a few minutes of the first video, but ugh. Why does it have to be so try-hard grimdark?

Remember when we got to play as a plucky art student who's biggest problems were finishing homework and getting hit on a by a creepy dude?

Now we're a MURDERER who has LOST THE WILL TO LIVE. Could it be any more cliche and boring a premise?

 

[taxalot]

Dreamfall's story was not the worst. But my point is : it was a horrible game.

 

[VioletShadow]

I'll wait a couple months till the game is at least beta to judge the graphics. I like the "insight into characters' minds" feature, could make solving puzzles a much more logical and intuitive process. I'm hoping the puzzles and story will carry the game, don't really care that much about the graphics although they should go for a bit more than "looks barely better than Dreamfall". Overall, just pretty excited to finally play the conclusion to the story.

 

[J_C]

Dreamfall's story was not the worst. But my point is : it was a horrible game.

I'm just saying Ragnar can make and made good stories. Game design is another thing.

 

[DeepOcean]

They had a design philosophy of making the game a casual "experience" at the time, with alot of hype and talked how adventure games future would be and all that blah, blah, blah. I just hope Ragnar came to his senses and realized that isn't a good idea. The Longuest Journey is the only game he made that I had fun playing, all the others had good stories but horrible gameplay.

 

[Jaesun]

The thing is, instead of spending a ton of time on story and art, they have to waste tons of development time on shitty 3D engine crap. And I bet anything, the interface will just be terrible.

They could avoid all this doing a proper 2D adventure game, just like the first one. But they chose to go NEXT GEN!!!111!!!

Yes I am angry, but whatever.

 

[abnaxus]

The question is whether we'll ever get that actual Longest Journey sequel, the one that would explain how April turned into an utter bitch.

 

[Kz3r0]

The question is whether we'll ever get that actual Longest Journey sequel, the one that would explain how April turned into an utter bitch.

Plot twist for the sake of plot twist, any retconning will surely be utter retarded, be glad that they aren't going to address it.

 

[VioletShadow]

The question is whether we'll ever get that actual Longest Journey sequel, the one that would explain how April turned into an utter bitch.

IIRC they said that even though the 2M stretch goal was not reached for Dreamfall Chapters, Longest Journey Home (or whatever title it ends up with) would get made but would just take a bit longer. I think it's likely they'll use KS again.

 

[Boleskine]

New update is up at Kickstarter

Hullo everyone, and welcome to 2014, the official Year of Dreamfall Chapters! (And also horse, according to the Chinese zodiac.)

In today's mail, we have a production update, a brief T-shirt update, and some fancy new art. Enjoy!

Please note that there are light spoilers below. If you don't want to know anything about the story in Dreamfall Chapters, please tread carefully!

Production update
With the pre-alpha completed, the design team has switched attention back to the beginning of the game. Until the end of February, the focus will be on chapters one and two, iterating on and polishing the gameplay, story and dialogue for the early parts of the game.

(Chapter nil consists of two important non-interactive sequences, bridging Dreamfall and Chapters: those won't be revealed until the game is released, and we plan on completing that chapter towards the end of the production phase.)

The art team is following the same roadmap as the designers, but since most locations appear in multiple chapters, they're spending a bit more time polishing things up now before moving on. Consequently, they're a half-step behind the designers.

The latest location to receive those final artistic brushstrokes is a location we added during the Kickstarter campaign: The Enclave. After bringing that location back into the story, we realised how lovely and atmospheric it is. It's therefore grown significantly in importance, becoming the headquarters of the rebel movement in Marcuria.

Here is an early piece of concept art from the Enclave.


In this in-game screenshot — taken straight from the Unity engine — a couple of the rebels are conferring at the Enclave. The girl on the left is Enu-Mar Sand'ya, Twilight Child, Daughter of Te'a-Mar; a very important new character in Chapters. The gentleman on the right will be familiar to Dreamfall players: he was once known as Blind Bob; or, more accurately, Theoretically Blind Bob. What his name and role is in this game, we won't spoil.


And the bird on the left? Why, that's only the second best game sidekick of all time: Crow!

Contrary to rumours, he didn't kick the bucket in Dreamfall; he's not an ex-bird, pushing up the daisies. Crow's back, baby, and he's the same old Crow. Sort of. Things happened in the previous game, and Crow will never be quite the same. But he's still funny, sarcastic, inappropriate and, well, Crowy. (Crowish? Crowesque?)

Also, Crow's looking better than ever. We'd argue that he's the best looking talking bird sidekick in any game ever made. And as solid evidence, we present this brief, never-before-seen in-engine animation of Crow crowing, all birdlike:

The Crowmancer (YouTube link)

Groovy! And don't worry: he'll have a lot more to say in Dreamfall Chapters with proper words and stuff (once we've actually recorded his dialogue).

Friar's Keep walkthrough
Just before Christmas, GameSpot featured an exclusive video walkthrough with almost thirty minutes of gameplay from Friar's Keep, the jail where Kian Alvane has been incarcerated since the end of Dreamfall.

That walkthrough is now available in HD quality via our official YouTube channel (subscribe!), and (by popular request) we've also posted a second, commentary-free version of the video, for those of you who want to hear all of the dialogue (some of which is still placeholder and work-in-progress):

Friar's Keep walkthrough with commentary track (YouTube link)

Friar's Keep walkthrough without commentary track (YouTube link)

 

[abnaxus]

Furries now too?

 

[J_C]

Furry porn is the best porn.

 

[Blackthorne]

This is interesting, as I believe Funcom holds the license to The Longest Journey.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkai...ces-raided-delisted-from-oslo-stock-exchange/

 

[PlanHex]

There's some new gameplay footage here:
http://www.twitch.tv/egx/c/3973840

Surprisingly boring considering it involves tentacles and little girls.

Also features some Draugen stuff, but Infinitron already posted about that.

 

[VioletShadow]

I actually like the look of both Europolis and Story Time way more than I thought I'd do.

 

[DeepOcean]

I think Eurotropolis and storytime were kind of nice graphicaly but those faggots are going the same rout of Dreamfall with even less gameplay this time, fuck them. If they wanted to make a game without gameplay they could had easily find someone to publish their shit indie "experience" shit. I hope they add some decent puzzles in this fucker because I couldn't give two fucks about this game if Tornquist decides to become a full time Norwegian David Cage.