I enjoyed TLJ too and feel like Dreamfall is the worst piece of shit that could come and pretend to be the next TLJ. I still fail to consider it as TLJ2 no matter the fact that it has the same writer and characters, it's just not the same.
First as an adventure game it is a complete, utter failure. It never made any use of my brain cells. TLJ was a lot more difficult than Dreamfall and even then TLJ is not considered a difficult adventure game so it makes Dreamfall a "game" for pea brained people. Hellfuck, it has an action that lets you "scan" the area for things that you can interact with you really don't have to be perceptive in any way.
Second, the reason behind the switch to 3D and that scan action and all the dumbing down going on is obvious, it's the same as for Oblivion and all the other sell out : it's a game tailored for console retards. Button pushers do not have any brain cell to speak of. They need games where they can just use directional controls and push buttons without giving much thought about it.
Third, the story is retarded. I do not know how can anyone here can call that shit "a grown up adult story" (duh skyway), it's just your regular conspiracy theory that any nut on
www.abovetopsecret.com could have come up with, the conspiracy goes on even in Arcadia to put a fantasy twist on it. Of course if you are a Deus Ex fan you will love that nonsense. And the three main characters are all emo, all of them. They all have some kind of issues and quirks that reeeeeeeks of emo. Where is my regular, totally normal girl, April ? it's a wonder she didn't scare herself with a knife yet. Zoe ? she is a college dropout with no job and who spends most of her time in her basement. She finds herself as the key character in a conspiracy ? w-h-a-t t-h-e h-e-l-l.
Kian Alvane ? a religious dumbass who began to question his beliefs after an argument he had with someone he never has seen before.
And what's up with all those pop culture references ? they are blown out of proportions in Dreamfall. There is nothing wrong with having some but here it's too much and just breaks the fourth wall too often. When I saw that reference to the ring going on until the end of the game it made me feel more like WTF than awesome.
TLJ was one of the greatest adventure game, the last of its era before everything went downhill and the genre has slowly been recovering since. It had great puzzles and a fantastic fantasy story, one that makes you dream and stimulate your imagination to the core. The gorgeous pre-rendered graphics in TLJ added to the lot, the poor RT3d with poor textures of dreamfall makes it even more painful to remember.
The most insulting thing that could have happened has been done too : making episodic content. It was insulting enough to retcon TLJ into a trilogy while the first game was a complete story by itself but it's way more insulting to try to cash on it multiple times. I didn't buy into it with Valve and i'm not going to do it with anything else either. I piss on that new trend.
