Do I need to play the Longest Journey to understand this?

[joeymoto]

Think the game looks cool. Question is as above- should I play the previous game first or am I OK starting with this?

[Moregan]

the is a the historie so far when you start the game so you dont need it but the first game is the best ever adventure game ever to come out. dreamfall is also decent and is the preque to dreamfall chapters

[oniric.sound]

although the story recap in the beginning of the game is quite extensive, it doesn't cover everything. I'd suggest playing Dreamfall: TLJ (closest prequel) if you just want to have a good feel of the characters. If you're really want to savor the story, I'd suggest playing all the saga from the beginning. Trust me: it's worth it.

[joeymoto]

OK thanks, gonna play the whole lot then! Cheers for the advice.

[Zelena]

its ok ? hmm it depends on your perspective. if you like reading the last book of its series, then yes. But if you prefer to know the whole story your question is be answered by no. you can't. the whole Story makes no sense without the games before. thats so far :

1. The longest journey
2. Dreamfall - the longest journey
and after that there it goes :

3.Dreamfall Chapters

enjoy your journey ...

[stormwreath]

There are a lot of references in this game to the previous two games. Recurring characters, mentions of previous events, and so forth.

I don't think you absolutely NEED to have played the first two games; you're given enough context to make decisions and get through the game. But you would be missing out on a lot of the story. Some things won't make sense, or you'll see something mentioned but not know it's important, because it's referring back to the other games. I'd recommend playing the first two games, or at least watching a video Let's Play of them.

[caros]

Just understand that TLJ is a *very* different sort of game. It has tons of iconic adventure game content, ie, both spatial and inventory-based puzzles, an is an extremely rich world. You meet and interact with lots of different sorts of people in Stark and all the major races in Arcadia. There are great details, like if you click on April, she has some really great dialogue. Not sure how you would have done the puzzle with Saga collecting her drawings if you hadn't played TLJ. April is very peppery---so good that I felt very meh about Zoe initially, although she's finally coming into her own.

[Dr. Sedula]

No, you don't. Dreamfall Chapters does a pretty good job of bringing new players up to speed.

If you play the game and like it, you may want to go back and play TLJ just to see the details of what you missed, but no, you don't need it.

Play Dreamfall Chapters. Enjoy. :-)

[casualsailor]

I'd definitely recommend that you play the previous two games. TLJ is from 1999 so the graphics are a bit crude, but the game is fun and the puzzles are interesting.

Dreamfall has better graphics but less puzzles. It's more like modern "adventure" games where its just pushing the character thru dialogue. But still a very good story and fun.

If you don't want to play the prior games, I'd still watch a gameplay. There is a lot of lore and references to the events of the past games that will help you understand and appreciate what is going on.