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Whether you made a character or were assigned one by the designers of the game, nobody put very much effort into keeping up the illusion that it was you who was there in the game experiencing the events first-hand. I’m not talking about the ones they had hooked up to the Stargate, either, as I have recently been informed that Stargate is not actually a documentary.īefore Myst, games didn’t really try very hard to immerse you. I don’t think anyone ever envisioned at their inception that they would end up being used as portals to whole other worlds. 5/10Ĭomputers started as oversized calculators that used to fill whole rooms. This game was revolutionary when it came out, but you might want to try out one of the later games first (all of them are available on Steam) to see if you even like the style of gameplay it pioneered. But if you can ignore dated graphics and you like getting lost in immersive, full-formed worlds, this game could end up being worth your time.

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Myst more than any of its sequels just doesn’t hold up graphically – while you can tell it would have all been quite impressive in 1993, nowadays it’s obviously a series of low resolution slides and low resolution QuickTime movies.Īgain, the games that came after it were far more refined and hold up better today.

You can’t die at any point until the very end, which if you don’t like puzzles means you are essentially trapped in your own very personal hell, progressing only in the pursuit of sweet, blessed release.The game does have a hint button, but it serves only to mock you and prolong your suffering.Except because you’re not a puzzle person you will not enjoy that at all and will quickly long for death. If you’re NOT a puzzle person, then you will quickly find that the puzzles range from obscure to obtuse in their solutions and require all manner of exploration and experimentation and lateral thinking.

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You can’t die at any point until the very end, so you’re free to explore the world and experiment without penalty as much as you care to.

Innovative and immersive first-person adventuring done well for the first time outside of a ‘dungeon crawler’.

The game makes effective use of background sound effects and music to really pull you into the locations you’re exploring.

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The story and background information is scattered throughout the world and the designers expect you to find it on your own – the game is full of books and cutscenes that you can skip through, but you need to have been paying attention to know what choice will lead you to the optimal ending.

This game can really strain your brain if you’re the kind who refuses to look at a guide – you actually need to think a little.

If you ARE a puzzle person, then you will quickly find that the puzzles range from obscure to obtuse in their solutions and require all manner of exploration and experimentation and lateral thinking.

Also there are a lot of puzzles and very little in the way of help. Then you find some other books that have people trapped in them and they want you to let them out. So you find a book and when you touch it you get pulled to a strange island known as Myst. Will it hold up to modern criticism? Probably not, but let’s find out anyway. When a little adventure game called Myst came out in 1993, it was hailed as one of the best and most beautiful games on the market and helped push sales of then-new CD-ROM drives.

Of course, nowadays games that were sold on the appeal of the new technology of the 90’s alone don’t necessarily hold up. It seems terribly silly now but back then they were actually new and interesting features. People could be impressed and games could be sold by such complex and groundbreaking features as enemies that could look in directions other than towards you. The technology does as well, of course, which makes possible the absurdly higher standards we have in the present. Remember how amazing the graphics on some of these games were (or would have been) back in the 90’s? It’s funny how standards change so quickly. Genre: First Person Point and Click Adventure

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