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Nov 15, 2018 4:53 PM
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tibris
you want hard, try playing this game when the videos that open the books (which you need to travel into them) won't load
badhabitgirl
I NEVER KNEW WHAT I WAS DOING
ThisGuyHere
I got into an argument with our computer teacher at school because I had finally figured out how to progress and they wanted me to leave.
Steelfin
Actually went through this game for the first time 2 years ago. Not that hard, if a bit time consuming. raced a coworker.
jlynna11
I remember when my local newspaper published a hint for this game in every Sunday newspaper. My dad and I used to wait for it!
tinythunder
Hell, even just seeing Brøderbund brings back memories.
4horsemen06
I had the guide book
MuzicToMyEars
The reading pause between the "What" and the "The Fuck" makes me laugh hysterically every time I see this.
ssjalhazred
Fuck, Riven was worse, though.
Lilly64
I had a guide with me for if I got really stuck, but it’s surprisingly fun to solve those puzzles on your own. Not many games with that 1/2
Lilly64
Kind of depth to their puzzles anymore, where you had to take notes and really think. They were built to be impossible to guess answers 2/2
ZaphodBeetlejuice
Getting through this was just a bunch of happy little accidents.
SpartanSamuel
Isn't that life, though?
dejoblue
The Making Of Myst: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cULHgP8tmo
TheDogEnd
This was one of my favourite games growing up. My friends never understood it. Rewards feel good after earning them through hard work.
darwinhacker
Myst as in "I myst the fall of 1993" because of this game.
TheShadierGnome
Three hours? To this day I have no idea what that lever did.
jolietjane
I paid actual money for a strategy guide! Back then that's how it was!
Godzillaismycat
Myst!!! Haven't seen this in ages!!
FallingWithStyleSquirrel
I see what you did there.
neospor1n
My wife and I beat this on coop last year, meaning she sat on my lap and shouted random things
FallingWithStyleSquirrel
That sounds awesome.
neospor1n
We took turns one person drives, one person takes notes. For her birthday I’m giving her the sequel to continue
FallingWithStyleSquirrel
Good luck. Riven makes Myst seem like child's play. Fortunately it's even more fun and interesting.
awkwardbeautiful
I had to wait for the image to load. I was expecting a card catalog or Britanica Encyclopedia CD Rom
LivingCactus
I got stuck on the final pipe system on the end of the game, had to look up that one.
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LivingCactus
ahhh, I didn't realize
FallingWithStyleSquirrel
Apparently there were sound cues. I brute forced it by trial and error while drawing a map. Took forever.
LivingCactus
I tried the map method and failed miserably lol
3PiecesOfBread
Between Myst and 7th Guest I was convinced that CD-ROM was the future forever
adrenalive
We had to upgrade our 1x speed external CD-ROM drive to run 7th guest. Between that and phantasmagoria - fucking nightmare fuel for a kid
TheNihilistsParadoxicalWashingMachine
Oooh I loved 7th guest ! Took me a good few attempts coming back to it reinstalling over the years to finish it though. Great game !
RatsLiveOnNoEvilStar
11th Hour was its sequel.
ButtWeightTheirSmores
My uncle had a spiral notebook filled with notes and diagrams. He had his children involved to solve puzzles. Myst DOMINATED his household.
UramboTauro
This game _required_ having a notebook on hand. Took me forever to chart my way out of the Selenitic Age. Still have all my notes somewhere.
Phischstaebchen
I remember kinda thick books with complete solutions for all the point and click adventures of LucasGames....
mksu
My dad and my uncle each had a stack of notes like that. I was like 10 and didn't have the patience for it, but sometimes I'd play with him.
stonoceno
Haha, I'm so happy to know other families were like us! The whole series is family tradition. My sister and I even read the novels together.
TinFoilFox
Wow I feel so included now. My family was totally into it. I remember Me and my sister had a whole section in our note for the railcar bit.
Barjack
My friend’s mom was like that with 7th guest
PantlessThunderGoose42
I love “The Room” series on the App Store. It’s nowhere near as in-depth, but the puzzles are similar.
djsdkdjsk
The Room is pretty cool. The amazon app store had the 1rst one for free
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Hey, thanks for the tip! I'm always looking for puzzle/adventure games. They're not so popular these days.
FallingWithStyleSquirrel
I'm sure you've heard of these ones but definitely check out The Talos Principle and The Witness.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
I actually basically missed the last 5 years because I had kids, so no I haven't! Thank you so much!
SynthAndy7
Member PYST?
MinMinForTheWin
That and The X-Fools.
belongsinamuseum
Whoa! I do!
CobraClutch
I had it. John Goodman was in it!
bswoboda06
Time always seemed to pass really quickly when playing that game. Sit down then realize 6 hrs later you’ve accomplished absolutely nothing.
insongwhang
That's how I usually feel about EVE onlkne
Dracongield
Just like real life
LeElephantRouge
but it was pretty!
idontlikepickingusername
Want that feeling again? Try Kerbal Space Program. Fun until you realize you forgot an antenna and wasted the last 2 hours.
Christx30
Been there. Got an automated lander into lunar orbit. Forgot to deploy solar panels. Had to send another ship up to nudge it to get 1/2
Christx30
enough power to deploy the panels, cause it was dead.
SecondSince
"I found this hidden button and pressed it like a hundred times. Don't know what it does but i found it and pressed it!"
ThomasThundersword
For anyone who doesn't know, there is a version called real myst on steam. it's myst but in 3d first person. 1/2
ThomasThundersword
2/2 played it with my mom who was a huge myst lover back in the day, was fun and she says it holds up. realMyst: Masterpiece Edition.
FallingWithStyleSquirrel
Unfortunately it runs like shit. Same with Obduction.
ThomasThundersword
eh idk felt smooth to me when u played it, might be a hardware issue
FallingWithStyleSquirrel
I could certainly have a better computer, but more advanced games run just fine. I'll get back to in on my next pc though.
ThomasThundersword
yeah it's worth tinkering with imo. for ref i used a 980m gfx chip with 16gb ram and an i7 in a laptop windows 8.1
titaniumspine
Cyan just released update patches for the whole series on Steam and GoG. They run pretty well for me, and I don't have a powerful PC.
FallingWithStyleSquirrel
Dope. I'll check it out again. This post got me jonesing for it.
InfocalypseRising
I played the remaster with a guide and the whole time was just like "Yup, never woulda gotten that. That either. Nope."
FrogAyago
Totally!
PedestrianElectrobastard
"Oh, I had the right idea all along, I just didn't do everything in the exact right way."
Cobaltios
realMyst actually has in game hints. You can have little hints to push you in the right direction, or just have it give you the answers.
neospor1n
My wife and I solved every puzzle except one
HaulinOats
That’s how The Witness is too
JayshushMcGush
Witness is dope though
HaulinOats
Yea it is but some of the puzzles are super simple and some I would never get without looking it up
strangelyaddicting
I played this game for two hours trying to find a purpose... I never played it again. Not my style
AuntSharron
It’s just an escape room video game
PolarHailStorm
You really have to change the way you think and approach problem solving to make progress in it. It's kinda crazy.
Ohio
I beat the game without a guide. It's really only hard in the beginning. The game has a pattern to its puzzles.
InfocalypseRising
Did you get the "good" ending though
Ohio
Yeah. But you can luck into it like I did. I figured out later that there were optional puzzles I missed that would help you w/ the decision
Ohio
In fact all you need is a notepad and the idea "changing something often changes something somewhere else." Makes the game not very hard hah
FallingScar
I feel like i should try to play this again, and also Riven
Cobaltios
Riven holds up astonishingly well for a 20 year old PC game.
midrealmknight
Played Riven. Solved every problem. On way to final scene, game glitch at a particular spot. No way to actually resolve game. Frustration.
RatsLiveOnNoEvilStar
Mine did to. There was a combination you were supposed to put in, but the pattern it told me wasn't correct. I never saw the final cutscene
Qualtagh
Riven is amazing. Not quite as absurdly difficult as Myst.
FallingWithStyleSquirrel
Get the fuck outta here. Myst was a cakewalk compared to Riven.
Cobaltios
Riven has 3 sets of randomly generated codes. And you also need to have figured out the in game numbering system too.
Qualtagh
Yeah, Riven did not spoonfeed those using online guides. But I've never actually met someone who solved Myst without cheating.
Cobaltios
I mean, it's definitely possible. Not easy, but possible.
UramboTauro
Learning to count in base 5, that was fun.
diontheunstable
the fuck you talkin' about? Myst literally had about half the answers handed to you on a plate if you knew where to look, and Atrus tells1/?
diontheunstable
you where to look. Tower rotation? The thing in the library with the paintings? The undamaged journals in the library?
diontheunstable
Literally the only two things I couldn't get at the age of SIX were the stoneship correlation between the lighthouse and the compass, and
diontheunstable
the fucking subway system in the celenetic age, which was just down to patience in trial and error.
ShoopDeDoop
I loved this game. It took me 2 years to finish it. My sisters hadn't even made it off the 2nd island.
lokitoki81
You made this game? You should do a thread about how you made it
ScienceHarder
Oh, I loved and hated it. Loved it at first, got stuck rapidly, got frustrated, tried everything I could, got angry, and stopped playing.
FallingWithStyleSquirrel
Respect for even finding another age.
ToTiredToRunTheWorld
There was more than 1 island?
AGiantSlor
I had a free copy. I gave it as much effort as i paid for it. Besides, Doom, Duke3D, and Quake just kept my focus anyhow.
ShoopDeDoop
Well, I don't know if you'd call them islands or worlds. There were around 5, if I remember correctly.
6war6scry6
I was going to say there's another island?
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shakedownblues
And after all that, they made a sequel called Riven.
FleetAdmiralCrunch
Then wasn't there a third? Exile?
Aranon
Wasn't Riven even more convoluted?
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Riven was awesome. And also the one that had Brad Dourif in it as the bad guy. The third one I think?
GerberLegalTeam
Yeah it was hard as hell but really rewarding to play.
UncleKitten
Ah myst
Izgood
I dont get it. What did I myst?
fblurbg
I wrote a creepy pasta about the game: https://youtu.be/s0dVAlnE-Hs It's my tribute to it. :)
belongsinamuseum
No idea what it was called, but I had a class in middle school specifically dedicated to beating Myst when it came out.
CrazyCatLad
I picked the box of Myst up so many times at EB or Target and put it back down because I didn't know what the fuck to make of it.
jrntn
Aim better.
JamesM666
* Myst
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exerminator2115
that spray bottle seems to be set to myst
MightestGlowCloud
Did you try to punch the fog?
lellyathemostlygood
Yes, but I myst.
3PiecesOfBread
You myst the myst myst
BlameableAmish
Brilliant set up, perfect follow through. Great teamwork everybody, we can call this day a win.
BitsofEpic
Their new game was fun
AccountCreatedToUpdogVotes
New game?
BitsofEpic
Yes indeed! Obduction, it's a spiritual successor to Myst and Riven made by Cyan
humanbeingism7
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LurkingBubbles
@InsipidInspector i need all 3 of these for christmas please
InsipidInspector
We ain't got a computer good enough to run the new one. Myst and Riven would work though
AccountCreatedToUpdogVotes
Nice, Don't know if my current, old ass, walmart dell will support it and of course they neglected the xbone.
Cobaltios
Well, the main reason they went with Ps4 was for Vr.
rosshell2718
Don’t forget “Exile”
Cobaltios
Exile wasn't Cyan though.