These 3 adventure games are lowkey '90s masterpiecesOct 31, 2022 - PC GamerIt’s time to drink deep from the well of '90s adventure games, where 2D and early 3D art both benefited from the soft phosphor glow of our CRT screens. Where we really cared about hotkeys because the balls in our mice were caked with gunk. Where developers working in the shadow of LucasArts games like Grim Fandango were getting weird... Read more.This mod updates adventure game classic The Longest Journey with HD visualsMay 26, 2019 - PC GamerIf you were looking for an excuse to replay The Longest Journey, one of the best adventure games of all time, then look no further than The Longest Journey HD, a new mod with upscaled backgrounds and sprites, a redrawn user interface and other smaller visual improvements. Modder Faberman used a neural network to upscale the assets, and has done the same with in-game cutscenes, which you can download separately here. Judging by the screenshots of the mod it's definitely an improvement on the original, and environmental details are much easier to see. To run the mod you'll have to own the base game and also install game engine ResidualVM, because the original engine doesn't support modified assets. The full instructions are here. Faberman says they will continue to make minor changes to the mod: there's still "room for improvement", partly because the quality of the original assets aren't consistent. Since the 1.0 release they've put out a hotfix for one specific location in the game, for example. If you've never played The Longest Journey, which came out in 2000, then it's absolutely worth grabbing it on Steam or GOG during a sale so you can explore its two fascinating worlds, one fantasy, one a futuristic version of our own. The Longest Journey looks great for its age with new texture modMay 21, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Even two decades after its release, The Longest Journey hasn’t lost its hold on players’ imaginations. Except now, satisfying that nostalgia fix doesn’t have to mean stomaching those 1999 graphics thanks to a high-res makeover mod released last week. (more…) Dreamfall Chapters Closed, The Longest Journey EndedJun 18, 2016 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunThis is the First Gameplay Footage of the new DreamfallFeb 15, 2013 - KotakuJust as Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journeygot near its $850,000 funding goal at Kickstarter, developer Red Thread Games put up an early prototype gameplay video. You can see the heroine Zoe running around a rich, fully explorable, shiny forest environment called Riverwood, as well as the new hybrid interface that combines freeroam movement and classic point and click gameplay. The Kickstarter for the project was launched on the 8th February and, should the campaign succeed, it will make Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey the third installment of the adventure series. Dreamfall Chapters Kickstarter video update #1This Video Game Predicted Twitter Back In 1999Jul 13, 2011 - KotakuOK, not really, but Ragnar Tørnquist's adventure masterpiece The Longest Journey certainly got close, as you can see in the image above. Via, where else, Twitter. Funcom "tinkers" on new Longest JourneyApr 8, 2011 - EurogamerBefore MMOs - before The Secret World, before Age of Conan and before Anarchy Online - Funcom was known for superb PC adventure game The Longest Journey. Eurogamer cooed at Ragnar Tornquist and Funcom's creation back in 2000, awarding a massive 9/10. A less memorable 2006 sequel, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, scored 5/10. Now, not only has Ragnar Tornquist told Eurogamer that a continuation of The Longest Journey is possible, he's said he actively "tinkers" with it. "95 per cent of my time is tied up - no I guess the correct answer is 120 per cent of my time is tied up with The Secret World, and I use 25 per cent of other time to work on other stuff," said Tornquist. "I always have other ideas for the future. People always ask me about, for example, a continuation of Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, and that's something I tinker with as well. "Right now the focus is on The Secret World; once that's out of the way we'll talk about other stuff." Tornquist elaborated that making a new Longest Journey game is "absolutely possible". "That's something we're discussing on a regular basis," he said. "It's just a question of finishing The Secret World and seeing where that's going and maybe I'll jump into something else. "It would be fun to revisit some time." The Longest Journey followed April Ryan, a young lady of the 23rd century. She hopped between two worlds - one normal, one magical - solving puzzles and unravelling a deep story and complex plot. Dreamfall: The Longest Journey struggled to adapt the same formula for a 3D world. The badly implemented and bolted on additions of fighting and stealth didn't help. Video:Dreamfall: The Longest Journey.
