Now here's a game that I've been wanting to play for as long as I can remember, and STILL haven't gotten around to.
After playing The Curse of Monkey Island for the first time, my lust for point-and-click adventures was at an all-time high (I'm only 20 years old now ; point-n-click adventures were before my time! *sadface*), and I discovered and played game after game, including another of my favourite series: Broken Sword.
When I saw a lonely Last Express box at a videogame store, I found the artstyle to be reminiscent of Broken Sword, so I was already smitten. After hearing about the quasi-real-time concept, I was in love! Alas, I had not the money to buy it.
Time passed, and as old games became more and more of a pain in the ass to play on newer machines, I let go of my desire for the game.
But now, GOG has given me a glimmer of hope!
Has anyone here played it? What'd you think of it? Is it a game that holds up? Or one that makes you think "oh.... wow... I actually like this game."
Fire away, GOGers, with thoughts and impressions!

Yup, GOG should contact Jordan Mechner and buy the rights for him.
And market this game properly, to give it the success it deserves.
Because there is not many revolutionary games like The Last Express.

There was talk of this game getting a re-release (as it has not aged at all!), which seems to have fallen through, so now could be a very good time for GOG to approach Jordan about having this game on GOG.
I have to be honest though and say I think it deserves more. Part of me feels having this game on GOG would be like only being able to buy books by Charles Dickens at Walmart's!
Games like The Last Express, the Monkey Island series, Sam and Max and other adventure games that have not aged, should be honoured and still sold in major retailers. Maybe book stores, etc, just like classic 20 year old books and films are still available.
Many times I have thought on release of a game like The Last Express, that they should have been advertised in regular magazines and daily newspapers, and sold in bookstores and department stores only. I feel for certain 'intelligent' games, trying to sell them to the gaming market and expecting reviewers and many gamers to 'understand' them is just not possible.
When you think of games that haven't sold well, they are nearly always at the 'intelligent' end of the market. Games like Planescape Torment, The Last Express, System Shock 1 and 2, Beyond Good and Evil and even Psychonauts. The latter game was on the surface a platformer, and yet it dealt with psychology and 'mature' issues. The other titles speak for themselves. I am sure you could name many more. I would include Darklands, Terra Nova: Task Force Centauri and Hardwar.

Er... selling games in a book store?
While I'm sure people can appreciate the sentiment, that's a pretty big case of totally missing the target market.
And I think you're picking and choosing with your examples here.
I'm sure for every great and intelligent game you can name that didn't sell well, I could name 10 that are absolutely horrid in every way.
Also, at the time that The Last Express was released, I don't think society was ready for advertising videogames outside enthusiast publications. The medium as a whole was very largely scoffed at.
Finally, can we please try to keep my thread on topic -_-

YESSS! I played this on GameTap, and even though I was following a tutorial, it was SUCH an involving game. I'm really pissed about the whole whistle thing, which I missed the first time through (and is basically the only thing you can miss without the game immediately penalizing you) but things like overhearing conversations, the various languages on the train, the twisted plot...superb.
Last I found on Wikipedia was that Interplay had the rights to the game, but went bankrupt. Since GameTap legally offered it, we could ask them who now has the rights.

It is available for GameTap Gold Members. The problem is, I'd love owning it. It is really hard to find and is one of the greatest things to happen to video-games.
Every now and then you will find in gaming publications someone asking if games are art already, to which my answer is always: "The Last Express and Another World were art and video-games a long time ago". Sure, The Last Express has its faults (a couple of puzzles which are not well designed, in my opinion, and a terrible bug in the rewind mechanism in one of the last action sequences), but the game is so good overall that it is among my favourite games of all times.
It has a compelling story, wonderful characters, an amazing historical context (the days before the first World War) and beautiful art. When Myst was created the video-gaming landscape changed, and until this game nothing was as important. Unfortunately, problems with distribution and advertising canned the game before it really had a chance.
And I agree with UK_John: games like this one deserve being sold in places other than game stores, where they would be kept alongside Halo, Gears of War or Final Fantasy.
P.S.: Vote for this game in the Wish List, atop the forum threads. We might get lucky.

If Interplay still holds the rights, GOG probably already has access to it, since they started GOG with portions of the former Interplay library.
Actually, the real GOG wishlist is here:
http://www.gog.com/en/wishlist/
The topic at the top of the forum is just for discussion of the wishlist.

A while back, some neighbors were holding a garage sale. I eventually learned that they had a downstairs room that served as a library for old Mac software (they've used Apple hardware since the 680x0/System 7 days up to some recent OS X Tiger laptops).
One of the old games caught my eye-The Last Express. GameSpot had this in their list of "Top 10 Games You've Never Played", or something like that, which is why I noticed it in particular. Even better, the three discs had both Windows and Classic Mac OS versions, making it usable on my systems without emulation! (Also, this is just a three-sided paper sleeve that was Interplay-published rather than Broderbund-published. Does this mean that it can be slipped into the Interplay catalogue for a mere 5.99?)
However, I've never actually gotten around to playing it-yet. I'm saving it for a blind Let's Play, as I believe that it will give the game some much-needed exposure that way. Should I record and post my playthrough on YouTube, or do it on a live Internet stream site (ustream or justin.tv)?

What is a "blind" Let's Play?? Is that where you play the game blindfolded???
Seriously though, if you do make I would love to see it. Nothing more entertaining than a well written and thoughtful LP.

A "blind" LP is when you've never played the game before and go in without knowing what to expect. It allows for more hilarious surprise reactions.
As for "well written and thoughtful", I do my commentary ad-lib and on-the-fly, and I think it sucks a bit because of that. I also don't like my voice. But, heck, some people still enjoy what I do, and perhaps even want to play the games I'm playing (which is my entire goal of LPing obscure games). If you don't know what I'm talking about, watch this. (My prior LP was even worse-even more awful commentary, plus JRPGs don't make good video LPs to start with. No wonder I decided to reboot it as a screenshot LP.)

I bought this game a long time ago and started to play it on a very old PC and wasn't able to get very far. But I really loved the game and was very impressed with it. The replay value is great cause each time you play, you make different choices as to what to do...a different order of doing things and that changes the story. At least, that is what I've read. I would consider it a classic.


I tried to vote on this game, but wasn't able to find it on the wish list, so I added it again and then it showed that it had been previously listed. Anyway, my vote is in.

You mean this?

http://www.gog.com/game/last_express_the

You're kidding, right?

Edit: Okay, you registered here in 2012. Release Date = January 26, 2011

At times I've seen the Last Express hailed as one of the last great adventure games. It was ambitious peoject and it still holds up very well thanks to the gameplay concepts it has. It's story drive and you can move backwards in the story if you want to try other approach on things. And further more, the script is really good, as well is the voice acting.

During a moment I thought the game had been removed, glad to see that it is not the case.