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The Longest Journey

DrezDrez Registered User regular
edited April 2007 in Games and Technology
I know this is a FAQish kind of question but I never actually completed the game. I'm going back into it and don't want to read spoilers/walkthroughs, but I was always curious if the decision you made early in the game - go on the date versus blowing it off - had any impact later in the game. I always made April go on the date so she wouldn't look like a BEE EYE TEA SEA ATE-CH after she made the promise to the guy, and I know you get a different sequence of events/cutscene depending on your choice, but I'm just curious if that affects anything later in the game.

Also, uh, great game, huh?

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  • GinsaneGinsane Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Awesome game.
    Also a different sequence if you choose to work at The Fringe, or stay at home.
    And no, I don't believe it changes anything later on.
    Except how chapter3 ends. Staying home with emma or going out.

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  • XagarathXagarath Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Great game, horrible puzzles.
    I need to go back and finish it sometime.

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  • RohanRohan Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Drez wrote: »
    I know this is a FAQish kind of question but I never actually completed the game. I'm going back into it and don't want to read spoilers/walkthroughs, but I was always curious if the decision you made early in the game - go on the date versus blowing it off - had any impact later in the game. I always made April go on the date so she wouldn't look like a BEE EYE TEA SEA ATE-CH after she made the promise to the guy, and I know you get a different sequence of events/cutscene depending on your choice, but I'm just curious if that affects anything later in the game.

    Also, uh, great game, huh?

    I don't think so.
    I mean, he betrays her no matter which decision she makes, so the only difference I've found through repeat play-throughs is the FMV that plays.

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  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Is this game easy to find (non ebay and such)? While I haven't looked too hard, I'd like to know if it's around. The rumors on planned Dreamfall followups make me nervous.

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  • DusdaDusda is ashamed of this post SLC, UTRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    What is this game? It sounds like a dating sim, though I'm going to assume from the generally positive responses thus far that I'm probably way off.

    That and the lack of anything involving tentacles.

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  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Dusda wrote: »
    What is this game? It sounds like a dating sim, though I'm going to assume from the generally positive responses thus far that I'm probably way off.

    That and the lack of anything involving tentacles.

    It's a PC adventure game that was released, I want to say, about seven or eight years ago. It's highly praised for being generally well written. Dreamfall was released on PC and Xbox as a sequel.

    I'd link to some places about it, but that gets kind of spoilerish. Wikipedia has an entry on it.

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Dusda wrote: »
    What is this game? It sounds like a dating sim, though I'm going to assume from the generally positive responses thus far that I'm probably way off.

    That and the lack of anything involving tentacles.

    Until Sam & Max Episode 5: Reason 2.0 came out, I'd have called The Longest Journey the best point-n-click Graphic Adventure of the last 10 years or so. Or at least high up there.

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2007
    Drez wrote: »
    Dusda wrote: »
    What is this game? It sounds like a dating sim, though I'm going to assume from the generally positive responses thus far that I'm probably way off.

    That and the lack of anything involving tentacles.

    Until Sam & Max Episode 5: Reason 2.0 came out, I'd have called The Longest Journey the best point-n-click Graphic Adventure of the last 10 years or so. Or at least high up there.

    I'd probably agree with that.

    Wait, no, The Last Express just barely squeaks in, since it was published in 1997, but next year Drez's claim will be true.

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  • MasoniteMasonite Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Santa Claustrophobia wrote: »
    Is this game easy to find (non ebay and such)? While I haven't looked too hard, I'd like to know if it's around. The rumors on planned Dreamfall followups make me nervous.

    Amazon?

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  • emnmnmeemnmnme Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    The inflatable duck puzzle is a high point in adventure gaming. I stared at that thing for twenty minutes at least before getting it.

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  • hambonehambone Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I don't have much else to add to this thread other than:

    This game is amazing.

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  • BlackjackBlackjack Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    emnmnme wrote: »
    The inflatable duck puzzle is the single most goddamned retarded thing in adventure gaming. I stared at that thing for twenty minutes at least before getting it.

    fix'd

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  • KiwistrikeKiwistrike Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    the game's okay.

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  • DarkPrimusDarkPrimus Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Kiwistrike wrote: »
    the game's goddamn amazing.

    A few esoteric puzzle hold it down. (Like the aforementioned duck.)

    But it is one hell of an original story and probably some of the best voice acting and writing in a game ever.

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  • RaggieRaggie Schattenjäger Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    I don´t see how a single really bad puzzle could put a good game down. I didn´t even dislike the duck puzzle myself, in fact. It was far-fetched sure, but I did manage to solve it without help and within reasonable time.

    The Longest Journey is played for the experience, not for gameplay. The story and characters more than make up for the few puzzles that don´t open up right away (it´s still a fairly easy adventure game). I´d rather solve off-beat puzzles than fight a million generic random encounters to enjoy a good game script, anyway.

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  • StrangeAttractorStrangeAttractor Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    What a shitty game. Drama and Monkey Island puzzles don't mix.

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  • XagarathXagarath Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Orikaeshigitae wrote: »
    Drez wrote: »
    Dusda wrote: »
    What is this game? It sounds like a dating sim, though I'm going to assume from the generally positive responses thus far that I'm probably way off.

    That and the lack of anything involving tentacles.

    Until Sam & Max Episode 5: Reason 2.0 came out, I'd have called The Longest Journey the best point-n-click Graphic Adventure of the last 10 years or so. Or at least high up there.

    I'd probably agree with that.

    Wait, no, The Last Express just barely squeaks in, since it was published in 1997, but next year Drez's claim will be true.

    Discworld Noir still holds in for a few years for me.
    But it'd be a strong 2nd.

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  • DrezDrez Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    The most retarded point-n-click puzzle ever, which isn't really a puzzle in my opinion, is finding the Sunstone in The Legend of Kyrandia: Book 1. The top of some stream becomes clickable when it wasn't before and there is hardly anything that points you toward it...just some nonsense fucking poem.

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  • OrikaeshigitaeOrikaeshigitae Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited April 2007
    Drez wrote: »
    The most retarded point-n-click puzzle ever, which isn't really a puzzle in my opinion, is finding the Sunstone in The Legend of Kyrandia: Book 1. The top of some stream becomes clickable when it wasn't before and there is hardly anything that points you toward it...just some nonsense fucking poem.

    What about the fake mustache puzzle in GK3?

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  • Target PracticeTarget Practice Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    emnmnme wrote: »
    The inflatable duck puzzle is a high point in adventure gaming. I stared at that thing for twenty minutes at least before getting it.
    I'll assume you meant a low point. Ridiculous puzzles like that are part of the reason the adventure game genre died.

    Of course, I'm partially bitter because even when I figured it out, it wouldn't work for me due to a bug; I had to restart from my last save. (I ran into several gamebreaking bugs, actually. There's another one late in the game when you're trying to get into that one guy's office.)

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  • RenzoRenzo Registered User regular
    edited April 2007
    Orikaeshigitae wrote: »
    Drez wrote: »
    The most retarded point-n-click puzzle ever, which isn't really a puzzle in my opinion, is finding the Sunstone in The Legend of Kyrandia: Book 1. The top of some stream becomes clickable when it wasn't before and there is hardly anything that points you toward it...just some nonsense fucking poem.

    What about the fake mustache puzzle in GK3?

    I read about that one, and it cracked me up. It's shit like that makes me feel alright about using a walkthrough for adventure games.

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  • GlalGlal AiredaleRegistered User regular
    edited April 2007
    And for anyone not familiar with said puzzle...

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