Very excited by this!!

CyberHippie · April 04, 2003, 02:29:01 PM

The ending left things open to a sequel. They talked about things going in during the next guardians reign. It's starting to fade already, but didn't they talk about the two worlds joining again?

BTW - How do you see those outakes? Somehow I missed that.

KatieHal · April 04, 2003, 03:39:00 PM

Allow me to cliarfy - it was open to there being a sequel, is what I meant.

KatieHal · April 04, 2003, 03:40:25 PM

After you finish the game, click on the"book of secrets" on the opening screen. it's the picture to the right of the diary.

Oldbushie · April 04, 2003, 05:03:13 PM

I think you have to get something within the game for it to show up as well. Something about the plants near the tower of that guy who perceives time backwards...

CyberHippie · April 04, 2003, 05:07:18 PM

Huh?! Plants near a tower where guy percieves time backwards? Oh, maybe you mean Abnaxas... I don't think I did anything with plants around there though.

Speaking of plants... What was the purpose of the fake leaf I had, that was outside April's room?

There must be something because I'm sure I clicked on the book of secrets and nothing happened...

KatieHal · April 04, 2003, 05:23:56 PM

Yeah, I wanted to know that too!! That and the picture of her friends, I never used that for anything either. Stupid red herrings....

Oldbushie · April 06, 2003, 09:51:22 PM

You gotta use the fake leaf in Abnaxas' garden.

From eeggs.com:
1: start game
2: after you leave your room for the first time take a look at the plastic plant in the corner. Take a leaf.
3: continue play of game as normal until you are invited by Abnaxas, the creature who can see through time.
4: go to his house and plant the leaf in the garden beside the flowers, it should reference to it as fertile ground. If it the correct spot a plant will grow and you'll get a comment about the book of secrets has opened.

5: go to the title page and you will find an extra option to look through "the book of secrets"

CyberHippie · April 06, 2003, 11:49:18 PM

Sweet!

copycat · April 08, 2003, 02:26:14 PM

Strange, I don't recall me ever planting the leaf and yet at the end I have always had access to the book containing the outtakes. Until I had finished the game it just 'beeped', I think, but afterwards I could access it, no leaf necessary.

Maybe the leaf-thing allows you to browse through the book before you have ended the game. Or maybe the book of secrets is yet another book than the book containing the outtakes?

KatieHal · April 08, 2003, 04:20:32 PM

No, the book with the outtakes is clearly labeled Book of Secrets. Do you get to see more stuff if you plant the leaf maybe?

Oldbushie · April 08, 2003, 05:42:18 PM

copycat:

Did you ever plant the leaf in a previous game? Or did someone else play the game on your computer? That might be part of it.
Either that, or you got lucky and hit some sort of bug which opened the book for you without the leaf sequence.

copycat · April 09, 2003, 02:59:34 PM

oldbushie:
a) not as far as I can recall (and I must warn you my memory has lots of leaks)
b) No way, since that would mean a serious infringement of my privacy.

I seem to hit good bugs/glitches on several occasions. Must be because I'm still using good old Windows95 (OSR2).

KatieHal · April 09, 2003, 03:08:55 PM

It can't just be a random thing, because I got it to open too without the leaf sequence. I loaned the game to a friend or I'd try to do the leaf sequence and see if that give syou extra stuff to look at.

Storm · April 09, 2003, 04:36:13 PM

Ahem...
You people should put on a spoiler warning or make a new thread about it when you post this things :-/

*hopes she won't remember any of this when playing the game*

CyberHippie · April 09, 2003, 08:31:29 PM

Sorry, I hadn't even thought that it might be 'spoiling' it for someone.

Oldbushie · April 09, 2003, 11:37:25 PM

Yeah, it's not exactly a spoiler into the game, but I suppose Abnaxas might be a slight spoiler...

Ah, well.

No more potential spoilers...

Rosedragon · April 17, 2003, 08:27:13 PM

Is the Longest Jouney a computer game? I seem to have trouble finding good computer games in my area, and I'm not willing to pay a lot for them. I'll save up my money and read my books, and wait for Tierra and the other fangames to be finished. I was disapointed with the last game I bought.

copycat · April 18, 2003, 05:22:12 PM

IMO, TLJ is a great computer game. A few months ago I could still acqure replacement CD's from the UK (I had a faulty CD), so I'd think it'd still be available on-line

Rosedragon · April 20, 2003, 08:10:23 PM

I'd like to find QFG on ebay. I've never played it, and it's a Sierra classic, it seems like a game I'd enjoy. I can't wait for Tierra and the other groups to finish their version of the game.

Harley77 · April 21, 2003, 12:23:02 PM

I've bought and played every QFG released, All of them are gems. In fact I have the original part one when it was called Hero's Quest. I loved the parser interface, Of course I started out on a parser, From my understanding those used to a point and click tend not to like the typing.

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