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Beware! Game crashes constantly. Expect no support from FUNCOM

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Buyer beware! The game crashes constantly and locks-up my PC. I've tried it on two different PCs, and it crashes and locks-up both. Expect no support whatsoever from FUNCOM, the company that sells it. If you don't believe it, just try to contact the company. The forum is basically dead. You can post questions and requests for support, but expect no reply. Do a Google search for these words: funcom no support

See what you find. Don't say you were not warned.

so so game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I found this game to be a bit disappointing. There is a lot of dialogue to sit through and i found myself anxious to begin some game play. I also needed to download a patch in order for the game to stop locking up during play. In addition, there seems to be a glitch in loading a saved game. I need to start a new game and load from there.

Appropriate, really.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 05, 2008
Author: Amazon User

The Longest Journey. Aptly named.

When I finished gameplay, I snapped the disc in two and tossed it. Not worth the $9.99 I payed for it.

Great Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Excellent game. I loved the fact that you can't get killed, not matter what you do wrong. There is a LOT of needless profanity, but enjoyable adventure. It got a bit gabby at times but you have the option of skipping parts of those conversations. I also loved that it was not an adventure game that you could sit down and finish in one day. It is long, but if I'm going to fork out the bucks, it better be.

For it's age, definitely a great game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 19, 2008
Author: Amazon User

OK, I see how a lot of people are rating this game. Let me first say, I just finished it today, so it's fresh on my mind.

Let's get the reason I took a star off first. I ran the game with Windows XP, which according to everyone else and the game site, is prone to crashing. That's an understatement. At times, I had to exit every other program I was running and sign off of any internet activity to run the game. But it was a simple annoyance and had it's pros, such as turning me into an obsessive saver so as not to have to do too many things over again

Also, I didn't like how long things took. The only way to get around in any time was by running. Then there was the long times it took for the cut scenes with other characters walking around to end. Like in the library and it took ages to read all of the books. But this again, was a simple annoyance and did not deter me.

Now for all of the good. First off, for being made in 2000, this was great graphically. I have some games that were made after this one that had worse graphics so I am definitely not complaining. However, April was definitely not an attractive character, some looked much better up close. Also, I loved the actors' voices and their emotion throughout the story. However, at some points it got difficult to hear, but then again, that's what subtitles are for!

The story was just plain amazing. I love to play through a game with puzzles that has a good story line. What's the point otherwise? This one kept you in wonder, made you think, and was emotional. Actually, this is probably one of the best story lines I've played.

And last but not least, the controls were simple and intuitive. It took me only about 10 seconds of complete not knowing before I figured out what to do. It was very simple to learn the basic controls and that is so helpful, especially when the puzzles can be difficult without having to worry about difficult controls.

Overall, I say, get this game. However, it's not for everyone. It is very vulgar in language at times. It also has very little violence, if that's what you want to see. And it can also be very slow going at times. But if you are one who loves to run around and solve puzzles, then this is the game for you. I also think that if you enjoyed playing the Myst games, but longed for more human or otherwise interaction, this is definitely the game for you.

Brilliant Story in a Compelling Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the few games I have played that leaves me remembering moments as if they had actually occurred in my own life. Part of remembering is learning in the type of manner where I can relate to the story and relate the story to other elements of life and lessons. This is a novel brought into the genre of interactive video games. The story, the characters, the dialog and humor, the imagery, the engaging narrative. I finished the game and was ready to play again. It is always a pleasure to find a game that truly maximizes the capabilities of a genre. Too often the industry cookie-cuts a money making formula while focusing on graphics, resulting in static, limited selection with uninspired creativity. The Longest Journey belongs to the action-adventure genre of video games that was pioneered by Sierra in the 1980s and declined to near non-existence these days.

Technical notes: There is one patch to install that fixes a crash at the police station. After that, play goes without a hitch.

Fantastic Graphics, Easy to Follow Game - Addictive!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I like Nancy Drew series type of role-playing, work-at-your-own-pace games, that don't involve constant clicking, scrolling and fighting or gun-shooting. I like thinking games with puzzles and a bit-more degree of ease (than I found when I tried to play Myst, for example. Although I loved Myst it was far more difficult to play at the end of a long work day when my brain was weary.) This game was a great fit all around!

I bought this game looking for something with better (higher-resolution) graphics, than the Nancy Drew games, and boy did I get my money's worth. Not only does it look/ play great, the game was easy to figure out with minimal direction. I never "got lost" even if I stopped and started the game again a week or more later. There is even a diary to look back at and re-trace your conversations and steps to help you out. There are not just a few rooms or locations that you revisit over and over, like in some games, but instead, there are a seemingly limitless number of locals you go to and investigate. Of course, you do go back to places you've already been, but there are always some changes that revive it or new people to have conversation with.

The plot and theme are light enough to understand and follow, yet deep enough to keep from being boring or predictable. With so many places the game takes you through, it was like being in a whole new world with seemingly limitless places to go!

Beware those who want a game they can easily walk away easily from. I would have so much fun, 3 hours may have went by before I noticed. This game requires light concentration in some areas and some stronger reasoning and problem-solving skills in other parts. You might be forced to possibly re-walk your steps to see if you missed something (clues aren't always obvious) or get a better look at your "inventory" to see how you can use or it even combine items to make something all new to help you out of situations.

I liked this game so much, I ran out and bought the sequel the day after I finished it. That one was even better! I am itching for a 3rd version to come out, but I am not sure if one is in the works or not. I may need to get "Siberia" or something like that to hold me over in the meantime. I hear it is somewhat similar.

Just didn't care for it.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I played a couple of adventure games (Syberia and another one I don't recall) and I got really enthralled by this game genre, so, based on everyone's review, I got this one.
Technical issues aside, I just couldn't get drawn into it. The story is too new-agey, too "evil white males vs pure frolicking happy people", etc etc. I just couldn't get to care for the main character, for the plot (I found myself rooting for the bad guys), and would get annoyed at the choices I was given.
After enduring the first chapter, I had enough and uninstalled it.
The graphics (dated, but good) and execution (didn't encounter a single bug) save this one from a 1 star rating.

Greatest Adventure Game of All Time?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This could be the greatest adventure game of all time. I picked this one up after finishing Dreamfall. The voice acting is the best I've ever heard and the story line was great. April Ryan has to be one of the best game characters ever made. It's not because she is special, it's because she is so perfectly ordinary. The graphics are old and hard on the eyes but 7 years will do that. This game has very little action in it so stay away if that's what you want. I did enjoy Dreamfall a bit more but that's mostly because it was newer. Make sure you get the game patch from the official website and don't forget to check the voice outtakes after you finish the game. They are really funny. I hope a 3rd one comes out soon. They really left us hanging in Dreamfall.

My All time favorite PC games:

Battlefield 1942
Baldurs Gate 2
Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
Half-Life 2
The Longest Journey

long, soo long

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 05, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love adventure games, seek and find games and puzzle games. Thinking that's what this game was and seeing how it got such good reviews I gave it a try. After about 4 hours of reading dialogue, I began to feel very disapointed. It's like it's a movie you have to click through and read for hours and then they'll throw in a puzzle which is ridiculously strange. " Turn of the light in the bathroom and replace an eyeball while the guy's on the toilet. What? Who is going to figure that out? Some sicko? Every time there was a puzzle, I had to use a walkthrough. I wanted to play a game not read for hours and hours then finally get a puzzle which doesn't make any sense. You are basically just constantly meeting new characters and talking and talking to them, going to get them something then talking and talking to someone else and on and on. And I am only on the third chapter. I am going to finish it, since I paid for it, but it is basically a total waste of time, I started playing tomb raider instead.

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