Man I loved Myst, this is cool!
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A whole new world, do they mean Rime? Cause that's not new. Fun tho from what I member
I hated Myst as a kid. Not just because I disliked the gameplay, but because its inexplicable popularity heralded a shift in the adventure game market. Instead of more Sierra or LucasArts-type games, there were, for years, scads of shitty, boring Myst-likes.
I hated it too. Not for any of the valid reasons you have though....
We didn't have a PC powerful enough to play Myst. So I'd have to go play it at the library and remember to bring my floppy so I could have my save. But the library's copy had a scratch on the disc, and it would always freeze/crash half way through. Hit that point twice, and I've never played it since....
Myst’s “inexplicable popularity”, along with games similar to it, was partially due to the advent of CD-ROMs becoming a viable medium for games. These games came out just before 3D graphics hit gaming. Myst was released at the same time as Doom. So these games existed in a time where CDs could hold much more data than disks, but most games were still 2D. So “pretty slideshow” games (along with FMVs) were a legitimate innovation at the time.
Has anyone remade myst in powerpoint?
I was wondering why there was an update pending for it in Steam.
The best game in history just keeps getting better