Indigo Prophecy

[ASYLUM101]

So... I picked this game up during a Steam sale about a year ago? Maybe less, who knows, but I've had it for several months, installed... sitting on my hard drive, not having been touched. I turned it on for the first time the other day out of extreme boredom, not having ANYTHING to do, and I saw that and I was like, hm... I actually bought this by mistake (it was 3.99 and I put it in my cart, but forgot to take it out, I didn't REALLY want it) but I might as well try it.

I turn it on, and am horrified that I can't even raise my visuals. I can't go widescreen, nor can I go anywhere near my resolution (max ingame is off by almost 1000 digits of mine res.) I suck it up and play anyway, and once I get past the first 15 mins... I'm hooked.

And that was 3 days ago or so, and I've put in 7 hours since then, and beat it already. Damn that was a good game, so good infact, I think I will beat it again, possibly for an alternate ending or something in between.

I've already picked up Dreamfall through ebay, I've gotten one recommendation for that from a friend as well as seen several reviewers of Indigo Prophecy recommend it on amazon and youtube.

Just felt like ranting at how good this game was. I was blown away. I mean, this is probably one of the best games I've ever played. I dunno, the story just seemed to completely captivate me, how it really gets you to interact with every action and pay attention to various details... again, the visuals are quite bad for the age (bad animations, bad models, textures are decent...) but the overall gameplay MOOOORE than makes up for it.

Goes to show you how far a good story and good gameplay can push a game.

[Malpheas]

The farthest journey or whatever is, I think, the sequel to Dream fall. (That is if I have the game right) A friend of mine has showered praise on the story of this game since she played it first.

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey.

[Renevent]

It's an adventure game right? Glad you liked it though always nice to find a gem you wouldn't expect to enjoy and get blown away by :D

[Malpheas]

I felt the same way with Xenogears, which people bash for overt use of strope type stuff. The story was AMAZING.

[ASYLUM101]

The farthest journey or whatever is, I think, the sequel to Dream fall. (That is if I have the game right) A friend of mine has showered praise on the story of this game since she played it first.

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey.

The only one I can find anywhere is Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. :/

And I highly recommend indigo prophecy to anyone, it's a really fun game and makes you want to keep playing. I dunno if I'd call it adventure.. I suppose that's the best title for it's genre though. Basically, you go around looking for clues and stuff, and then interact with people/objects and each interaction branches the story off in a different path.

[Malpheas]

I may be able to get a "demo" of the prequel. I'll let you know Asylum.

[Fisk]

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/320/

I played Farenheit (the uncut European version of Indigo Prophecy (including nudity which you americans are so afraid of), and it was great :)

[Malpheas]

Alright, just like the link Fisk supplied, there are two games: The Longest Journey and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey.

[Father Squid]

Personal opinion regarding the last last two games Maplheas is talking about... the first one (The Longest Journey) is a much better game...

But I'm a big adventure game fan - the first game I ever bought at the age of 12 was Deadline... one of the old Infocom text adventures (and depending on how you looked at it.. those graphics either sucked or were fantastic since you envisioned everything in your head)...

[jiaco]

@fathersquid - those infocom games are still around, and I plan to make my kids play them as soon as they can read well enough. Best childhood experiences with computers for me was playing those things. And this was a day before walkthroughs and all that, so some of them (deadline included) were a struggle. I remember Infidel being downright impossible for me to finish, but I must have been 12 at the time. Maybe I should try it again...

OT: Thankfully, I realized that I already own Farenheight. After Asylums praise I almost bought Indigo Prophecy, not realizing it was the same game.

[ASYLUM101]

Yea, american versions are renamed so as to not confuse people with a similarly named movie.

[Father Squid]

@fathersquid - those infocom games are still around, and I plan to make my kids play them as soon as they can read well enough. Best childhood experiences with computers for me was playing those things.

Me too... those and the original Ultima RPG's... And I have the Lost Treasures of Infocom CD's... but was wondering if you meant they were available anywhere else or any other format...

I remember Infidel being downright impossible for me to finish, but I must have been 12 at the time. Maybe I should try it again...

Infidel was a good one, did have a couple of super crazy puzzles though... for me the ones I remember never finishing were the Enchanter series and Suspended was brutally hard, and a couple I'd recommend were A Mind Forever Voyaging and Trinity... much more serious and mature than many of the Infocom games but very intense...

[jiaco]

Anybody interested in playing Infocom games, take a look at this project:

http://frotz.sourceforge.net/

it is an open source program that reads .z5 files.

As with MAME and other types of "things" on the internet, I am not a lawyer and have no idea how you are "supposed" to acquire the actual .z5 files legally but they are out there. I bought all these games for the apple IIe at one point in time. I hope the boxes are still in some box somewhere in an attic in California somewhere. But I dont have an apple IIe at the moment either.

[ASYLUM101]

http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?p=26572#post26572