Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

[Frogacuda]

The RPG genre on the PC in 1995 or 1996 was as dead as the adventure game genre is today.

Isn't that around the time Diablo came out?

[Yoshi]

You look at other DreamCatcher and ESPECIALLY Adventure Company games and they're normally panned by the gaming press and ignored by the public. If the adventure game isn't a dead genre then it's in a persistent vegetative state.

When complete trash like Myst is your recent posterboy, what do you expect?

[TobalRox]

I think there's some hope for the genre. Indigo Prophecy was successful.

This is the first I've heard of that... I actually thought I read somewhere that it was a huge disappointment. I have also yet to see any units moved from our store, and a lot of other stores around here never even bothered to carry it.

[MechDeus]

The one genre I am afraid is dead, dead and never coming back, is the space sim.

This makes me so sad. X3 looks good and all for it is but what I really want is a Freespace 3.

As for Dreamfall, I see nowhere around me carrying it (the only store listed by EB/GS as having it in is on the complete opposite side of the city). I would love to support it but I don't really like ordering games off the internet, maybe I'll just have to deal with it this time.

[NeoZeedeater]

As for Dreamfall, I see nowhere around me carrying it.

Me either. I looked at several stores today and none had it. EB told me more were coming though. It seems that this game has really shitty distribution.

[JonathonIngram]

Me either. I looked at several stores today and none had it. EB told me more were coming though. It seems that this game has really shitty distribution.

That's what happens when you get a distributor that usually specializes in the release of Mac games.

[haohmaru]

The one genre I am afraid is dead, dead and never coming back, is the space sim.

Why do you think that it's never coming back?

[Frogacuda]

Me either. I looked at several stores today and none had it. EB told me more were coming though. It seems that this game has really shitty distribution.

Actually it's just part of EB's new policy of trying to not get games in at launch to breed a culture of preorders.

See, most people who put money down on a preorder forget to come pick it up, so it's EB's most profitable service. So now they get enough copies to meet preorders in, plus maybe 1 or 2 extra, and then they get more in a couple weeks later. Ain't that cute?

[Joust Williams]

Fry's had like a billion copies of this for Xbox yesterday. It was 30 here

[Master]

I hate to be this way, but I'm not buying it until it is B/C on the 360.