Should Dreamfall Chapters be licenced to TTG?
Now that we have seen TTG pull off a little drama with excellent results and since TTG is the only developer in the industry that can stick to a schedule, why shouldn't Ragnar Tornquist give his story/script/storyboards to TTG and let them handle the software development?
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At this point telltale has only made games based on comedic cartoons and comics. Don’t get me wrong, I love Telltale and all their games with all of my adventure game playing heart. But it wouldn’t be like Telltales style to make a game like the sequel to The longest journey. Still, if Ragnar Tornqvist would offer telltale doing a collaboration on the Dreamfall chapters. Then I’m certain we would see some interesting results.
But that doesn’t seem likely, does it? I think The longest journey series should stay where it belongs, with Ragnar Tornquist and Funcom.
Dreamfall's production values were too high as well, if Telltale took it over it might feel like a "toy" (for lack of a better word) version of what is traditionally a visually lush series
If there are any sequels, episodic or otherwise, then they need to have some sodding closure. Dreamfall made little to no sense, and then didn't even end properly. A part of me wishes I could just forget the whole thing.
While their main focus seems to be on comedic characters so far, they also developed a couple more serious games as well:
http://www.telltalegames.com/store/csi
I can't wait for Ragnar to get back to part 3, wether it's Chapters or a full game. To be honest, I'd prefer a full game. And as for TTG doing it? I'm not sure. The one thing that I don't like about TTG is that enviroments from previous games aren't explorable in new games, without having to re-install them in the next chapter. And I think that Dreamfall would try and combat that by building up a massive map, peice by peice.
I love Telltale, and this way works brilliantly for Sam and Max and Strong Bad, but it's been a bit of a constriction on Monkey Island, I feel. Maybe, if they do another MI (and why wouldn't they?!) fewer chapters with bigger parts?
I wouldn't mind if Dreamfall 2 takes a few more years to come out, as by then the game will have evolved into a much more well rounded experience.
Funcom seems very preoccupied with their MMORPGS right now, and you can tell that the writer for the series (Tornquist) is frustrated because he has all these ideas and no medium to convey them through.
It's been four and a half years since "Dreamfall" was released. Granted, that was almost seven years after its predecessor, but "The Longest Journey" at least did not end on a cliffhanger. "Dreamfall" did, and that means you can't just continue the story after five, six or seven years and assume that players still know the story, or even that it's still the same players, for that matter!
Although creator Ragnar Tornquist still has hopes that his saga would continue one day, and although the "Dreamfall chapters" were approached in general concept stages years ago, I find it unlikely that Funcom would still attribute resources to finish the saga. Not concluding his story in "Dreamfall" was Ragnar's fatal mistake, one that he really shouldn't have made, tragic in the literal sense.
If Funcom was ready to sell or lend the licence to Telltale (which I don't even find that unlikely), our dearest gaming company would face the same problem: Where to begin? They can't just tie all the open story threads together to decently end the story, they would have to explain all over again how these threads came into being for the gamers new to the story! From a storyteller's point of view, that's a tedious and boring thing to do.
As much as I would love to see Ragnar's story to be concluded, as much as I'd like a "Dreamfall" that actually has decent puzzle elements, as much as I'd want to hear April and Crow again - reviving this franchise is much too risky financially, for Funcom and even more for Telltale. I don't see it.
But thanks for reminding me. One of these days, I'll have to replay my Dreamfall Special Edition (Norwegian + English + Artbook) to see if it runs on Windows 7. Even if there's no gameplay to speak of.
/edit: I have merged the threads. After my rant, I actually found this old Dreamfall thread. That at least gave me the opportunity to attempt my first thread merge. "IT WORKS! I FINALLY INVENTED SOMETHING THAT WORKS!!"
I agree but for different reasons. With the Lost Journey story having too strong of a continuation TellTale would have to develop within all these plot points. Or easier put, TellTale just doesn't know how the story continues. Ragnar Tornquist has already finished the story so the only way would be possible is if the game was developed by TellTale with strong supervision by Ragnar Tornquist.
But I dunno...I am not up for the idea. I like TellTale more when they have the freedom to create their own narratives. They take a licence and revive it in their own way. Not just act as an out-sourced development studio.
So I'd say leave Dreamfall with Funcom.
Telltale's plate is pretty full right now and I think Ragnar Tørnquist can handle his own property. The only problem is production on The Secret World is taking aaaaaaages and if it isn't successful Funcom may be in some trouble. I don't play MMORPG's but I thinking of picking it up just on the off-chance it could help us get Dreamfall Chapters. Also, it does look kinda cool.
(merggggggeeeee)
But to solve the plot issues, why don't they simply attach the first two games for free to the season package.
That way if people want to know more, then they can play the old games.
(Or maybe also include a little PDF with the backstory)
I just hope that The Secret World is successful for everyone's sake, since the game looks awesome, and the longest journey games were awesome as well!