Like the rest of you, I liked TLJ a lot but I had been moderately pessimistic regarding Dreamfall up until yesterday. After reading what Evan Dickens from AG had to say about it from E3, a cautious optimism has started to grow in me.
As I got it, the reason for all the Action/Adventure confusion regarding Dreamfall is because Funcom is using interviews to advertise and promote their game. Because of that, when they talk to a general gaming magazine, they say it's full of action, fights and stuff but when they talk to an Adventure specialized site, they say most Action parts can be solved in a non-Actiony way as well, and that the entire game is actually an Adventure with a few action-packed sequences and nothing more. Go figure.
We'll have to wait and see I guess. One thing's for sure, for me, Dreamfall is the most interesting Adventure showing in E3 this year. All the rest is ranging from "mildly interesting and we'll see what comes out of this" (e.g. Still Life and Fahrenheit - which is pretty Actiony) to "terribly lame" (e.g. most of TAC's lineup).
Some german adventure site had the chance to play (!) a special preview and they will get a full preview the next days (I wonder why the game comes in 2005 then... well...). They said, you should forget about that "action" discussion, it's an pure real adventure game. And I trust those guys... yet
What German site is it?
Regarding personal Hype-O-Meters, Dreamfall is up there in mine as well together with Moment of Silence, Legacy: Dark Shadows and BASS2. Does it show that I'm a Sci-Fi freak
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