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Another Longest Journey Adventure in the Works

Funcom licensing the rights to a sequel, while it focuses on The Secret World.

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If I compiled a list of games people have endlessly recommended playing but, nonetheless, remains within a stack of games in the garage for no good reason, The Longest Journey is pretty high up.

Maybe today’s news that former The Secret World creative director Ragnar Tørnquist has founded a new company, Red Thread Games, to begin work on the next chapter, will get me to play it.

(Probably not, but let’s play along. I don’t want to look for that box.)

The next installment is dubbed Dreamfall Chapters. Funcom, who owns the rights to the series, has given Red Thread Games the opportunity to move forward with the game. And while it will be independently funded (Funcom will remain focused on online games), Funcom will share in the game's profits.

Dreamfall Chapters is in pre-production, and more details are coming in the next few months.

The Longest Journey was released in 1999, and its sequel, Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, wasn’t released until 2006. Funcom just likes to take its sweet, sweet time with giving adventure fans more from that universe.

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@Parsnip said:

More details probably means a kickstarter in a few months. I'll pledge so hard.

They've already gotten some funding from the Norwegian Fillm Institute according to this article: http://bitly.com/QZlcBl (The Norwegian Kroner sign(Kr) gets translated to a pound sign for some odd reason.)

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Happy dance! By the time I got around to Dreamfall the possibility of another sequel was seemingly long gone so the cliffhanger was absolutely crushing, it truly soured the entire franchise for me briefly, but if it will be ultimately justified (and I have faith in Mr Tornquist and co. , and accept absolutely that they will not come up with what I'm expecting, for the record when they release details, I will not be the half assed critic on the sidelines telling them what their franchise is) then I can hardly wait. Also, this strengthens the possibility of moar rereleases (HD or not) of the previous games. Wonder how's that iOS version coming along. BRB, have to high five KVO :D

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I loved The Longest Journey, that game had some really great writing. I still have not gotten around to finishing Dreamfall, maybe this is the kick in the ass I need to do so.

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BEST NEWS OF THE DAY!!

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I need to dig through my old stuff and find the game box for the longest journey, I wish I could find it online with Norwegian speech. The way it was meant to be played

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@ToastMansaid:

I think I remember hearing about Dreamfall Chapters years ago... Or am I making this up?

your not, 2007.

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FINALLY!! The story and story telling in TLJ and Dreamfall is amazing, it needs a follow-up after the cliff-hanger in Dreamfall.

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Good News Everyone!

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Yes, finally!

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Fuck yeah!

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This is AMAZING news!

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Patrick you need to play The Longest Journey, one of the best games of all time. Can't wait for this

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@dropabombonit said:

Patrick you need to play The Longest Journey, one of the best games of all time. Can't wait for this

Also the most convoluted puzzles of all times. Seriously, use bread crumbs on a rubber duck to deflate it? WHAT?!

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@ahaisthisourchance said:

@Parsnip said:

More details probably means a kickstarter in a few months. I'll pledge so hard.

They've already gotten some funding from the Norwegian Fillm Institute according to this article: http://bitly.com/QZlcBl (The Norwegian Kroner sign(Kr) gets translated to a pound sign for some odd reason.)

They already confirmed they will be looking for backers via Kickstarter too.

Which is fine with me, I'm still of the opinion that we wouldn't see a lot of these games ever released without it.

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I ran across Dreamfall while watching one of those game award shows and it being nominated(maybe winning) best sountrack of the year. This game is very high on my all time favorite list.

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@InfamousBIG: I only remember a couple puzzles being insane at the start and the rest of them actually making sense.

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Loved Dreamfall, and never finished TLJ. This seems like a great time to replay through them both from the beginning.

If I had known, I would've done this for Extra Life!

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Never finished Dreamfall. Guess I'll reinstall it then.

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The Longest Journey is easily one of my top 3 favorite games of all time, however I refuse to get my hopes up until the game goes gold.

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Finally! :D

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Patrick.....get off your ass and play The Longest Journey. It's arguably the greatest adventure game ever made. It's on Steam and GOG, so there's no excuse. Get to it!

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@jerseyscum said:

Patrick.....get off your ass and play The Longest Journey. It's arguably the greatest adventure game ever made. It's on Steam and GOG, so there's no excuse. Get to it!

Yeah I mean it was easily one of the best and last adventure games, before the Telltale era.

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Oh, FUCK YES! Loved these games.

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YES! This is definitely the most I've ever anticipated a sequel, ever.