I was way more prepared to waste time being confused by a game back in the day. You occasionally would try stuff for hours. Now if I get stuck 10 mins I start thinking they didn’t play test or design the game well enough haha.
Sometimes it’s like they expect us to take notes while playing the game.
Like I’ve got paper just lying there. What am I, a high schooler?
I feel like Outer Wilds is a good modern-day Myst, sort of anyway.
this is actually me when i was a kid.
Wow… I remember playing this for MONTHS, trying to figure out what buttons, levers, everything does. I dedicated an entire paper notebook to writing down clues, hints, and failed attempts. And then the same for Riven.
Now I simply don’t have the free time to dedicate to those games… #adulting
Bring me the blue pages
Sirrus! Is that you?
I remember getting stuck on Myst trying to light a fire. I kept sticking the match in and it kept not working. Got very frustrated. Took way too long to realize I had never actually struck the damn thing.
Was this the part to get the tree elevator running?!
Yarr
Looks like we need a c/sbubby
We already have one.
Excellent
It’s easy, you get the red pages… Or the blue pages… Oh crap, there is green pages?! WTF is this white page!!!
Get the D’nii out of here!!
Fun Fact: “Mist” is German for “manure”. And they did not change the title for the German release.
Make of that information what you want.
EDIT: I just remembered that it was called “Myst” … still the same pronounciation.
That game left my brain absolutely riven.
The Myst devs made a new gamr just a few years ago, called Obduction
And just this year released a new game called Firmament
Obduction was good. It had some issues, but it’s up there with the classic stuff. Firmament, unfortunately, was not good. Felt more like a walking simulator. There were few puzzles and they were not difficult at all. Not sure what happened. It’s pretty though.
Riven is by far my favorite of the classic series. They are working on a modern remake of that next and I’m pumped!
Was it good? Never played it and I’m thinking about getting it from GOG.com. In fact, just recommend me the best old games. The original Dungeon Keeper is probably my favourite game of all time.
I enjoyed it back in the day but it’s a different era’s game. You have to enjoy throwing yourself against a brick wall for a very long time until you finally crash through the door, and possibly taking notes and making diagrams or maps as you go.
I remember it being lush graphically, for the time, and very satisfying for the puzzles I did crack but I gave up before finishing it. I think it was some kind of blind maze that finally did it.
Yeah, playing it as a kid was nightmare. I had no idea what I was getting into, so it was just sitting there alongside Need for Speed and Rollercoaster Tycoon. By the time I realized I needed a note page to keep track of obscure bits of information hidden across the map, I was already in too deep to just have a properly organized note sheet. Never wound up finishing, but I remember just scrawling numbers and words connected by branching lines like some kind of schizophrenic conspiracy theory.
The collection is on humble bundle of you are looking to jump in.
What is Homble Bondle?
That’s quite the bundle, thank you.
Enjoy! 🙂
Make sure to get one of the modernized version of Myst, I think they’re up to about 27 or so revisions/redos. Don’t be afraid to try clues, but in all honesty the puzzles in Myst are pretty solvable by Adventure game standards.
Riven (II) and Exile (III) are both likewise excellent, with Brad Dourif as a bonus in the third. After that, different people took over and things got awful.
Definitely heard of Riven, some people say it’s the better game?
I’m a fanboy, I couldn’t pick one of the first three, they go together like one seamless game if you ask me. Again, just pretend the series ends there. :>
The German word “Mist” translates to “Shit” btw
I had more fun with PYST.
The humor was way over my head and probably hasn’t aged well, but it was fun at the time.
