Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Myst V: End of Ages
towerful@programming.dev 22 hours ago
The remaster of myst 1 is good, the remaster of riven is good.
Must 3-6 felt… Thin. Like, the game was about it being 3d and the tech… Not the puzzles.
I feel a true successor to the myst 1 & 2 games is Quern: Undying Thoughts.
Felt like the original premise, but in a modern game engine.
Another game that gave me the same hook as Myst is Blue Prince. A rogue lite puzzle game that is amazing.
Must 3 was okay. Balls world was easily the best. The other two were kinda jank. The ending was INCREDIBLE.
Saavedro’s “NOOO NO NO NO NO NOOO” wails of despair are amazingly acted yet they make me crack up every time I watch them. I will never tire of watching him scream.
I loved that age too
It actually is the game that gave me the biggest jump scare of any game I’ve ever played, too. Which is really really weird.
Which jump scare?! I’m so curious hahaha
There’s a couple, but this one in particular:
youtu.be/JSuhE1ndwjc My wife and I were playing together one night, and both of us went “HOLY SHIT!!” when we turned around and this dude straight murdered us. Tge thing is, up until that point Myst had been a totally safe place. You walked around knowing that although you might have made a mistake, it could be undone. You just needed to find the right solution. It was warm and comfortable. Even when he ran up the path, we just figured it was the next part of the plot. It was super unsettling to be MURDERED and find out you COULD actually LOSE. With the dude running straight at you like in a nightmare. It really, really doesn’t help that it is Brad Dourif murdering you.
Yeah Exile was fine except for the pixel-hunting bullshit in the forest world. Riven is still the best though.
Riven is easily the best, agreed. The forest shit was insane in Exile. The up-down elevator in the toilet world was also awful.
Yes! I loved the ending, it was so satisfying when it finally clicked how to get the good ending.
Obduction was okay, great world but really a slog to play. I got up to the end and couldn’t be bothered to actually finish it.
They made the puzzles so fucking tedious. The one that made you cross a loading zone to see if you had flipped the switches correctly nearly made me uninstall the game.
Got excited when it came out, started playing, and same story. Just couldn’t force myself to finish.
I’ve tried 2 times and couldn’t push myself to finish it
Myst 3 and 4 are my favorites in the series, personally. Especially 3.
Myst 6…?
A brainfart/typo
I hate the changes to Riven. They modified it to cater to VR and it really made me dislike it. I looked forward to the remake since the Starry Expanse project was started, that was like, 2009, and when I played it I felt so disappointed.
What’s Myst 6? Uru??
A typo/brainfart
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
3-5 weren’t made by Cyan, just published by them. They only got the rights back relatively recently.