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Myst installs upside-down on my computer. . . .
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I have to agree. The gaming industry has taken an unpleasant lean towards unintelligent games... they seem to believe that if a game has any sort of intelligence to it, then it's not fun. So, they removed too many controls, nuances, and subtleties that made PC games good games.
Unfortunately, this becomes self-propagating, as people become accustomed to such games, and simply do not find anything that requires the use of their brain to be fun... which causes the intelligent games to die-off.
I loved the entire Myst series. As well as the old logic-games like "The Dig," by Lucas Arts, or some of the original RTS games, like the first Dark Reign, or Total Annihilation (not the mid evil one).
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I miss thinky games like Myst...
They don't make 'em like they used to.
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one of the best games and musical scores ever
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I feel...happy!
I wish I could travel too myst too
This is a great series! You should do one on Jericho.
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Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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I enjoyed the game except that I think I got it when I was a shade too young, praise be to the guide book.
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I like the fourth one for being so damn pretty. Odd how graphics got worse for the fifth game.
I think the second one had the most depth though.
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When I'm rich, I'm going to buy my own chain of islands and build Myst and other parts
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Love this comic, especially the pose of the guy in the second panel
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Ahh... makes me wanna play it all over again....
Wait a sec... no. No it doesn't.
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I like these XD they are always nice and funny ^^
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You definately watch too many of Yahtzee's shows...
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I'm still pissed that my best friend stole Riven from me when we were 9...I'm 17 now. It's a long term hatred, now I just have to FIND a copy of it, and convince my mom that me touching her computer is not what slows it down, but it is in fact the 28 PDF's that she has open at any given time.
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Ha, I still have a huge fat purple folder overflowing with notes, maps, printed walkthroughs and screenshots. I dream of being a Myst Tourguide.
"And over there is the Clocktower, yes I know the time is wrong..."
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~yes I know the time is wrong
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"And we're walking, walking...here is the Giant Pine, the gateway to the Channelwood Age....wait, oh crap! The pilot light went out, does anyone have a lighter? What? Are you serious? None of you smoke? Ok, come on, back to the Library, to rotate the Tower, to get the bloody combination, to go back to the stupid fucking Log Cabin and finally back to the Great Pine! Y'know, all I ask for is a lil cooperation from you folks...you don't happen to have two twigs you can rub together? Huh? No? Fine. We're walking, walking..."
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lol sadly its all so true
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I liked Riven best (Myst 2). The landscapes were just so lush. And the ending was a complete Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.
Great guide, Jack. Especially number 8.
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The first was a brilliant and GENIUS.
I grew up with that game at hand.
No clue what I was doing, but I loved that game dearly anyway.
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Neat little comic.
Myst, now for Nintendo DS!
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ooooh.
Didn't realise it was on the DS.
*purchases*
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Love the game, love this strip. Yet what amuses me the most is the onomatopoeia in panel 2. ^_^
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I still have it for my Sega Saturn
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DDD: i had that game, but it was broken, so every time i got to the forest, it cut off...
i liked number 7 first.
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I played it! Won, too...
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XDDD I just started to play this game. The puzzles are so damn hard ><
The second to last one is my favorite and applies to me.... I love old OLD games... (Shivers is one of my favorites)
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God, I was young when that game came out. I just remember finding out that both of them were hommicidal rival brothers, hearing about their dad being a good guy, and saying "F*ck that!" and getting the white page. XD
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I had the game, but I never finished it.
Yeah, it was a very impressive visual work but the puzzels were insanely obscure, and it was hard to know how to get the good "ending".
*SPOILERS BEGIN*
You basically have no way of knowing which twin is the good one and which one is the bad one, but helping either gives you the bad ending, you basically have to do exactly what they tell you not to do right near the end to get the good ending, and even then its not much of an ending, your reward is to explore the island that you already spent hours exploring and solved all the puzzels forever.... yay?
*SPOILERS END*
It felt weak because if you know what happens, you can basically skip 99% of the game and beat it in about 2 minutes with the good ending, and the world was just so empty, theres practically nobody on the island or any of the other worlds you visit.
A few years later RealMyst was made, which is a re-make of what the creator originally wanted Myst to be but was not technologically possible at the time, basically, its Myst all rendered in 3D first person allowing you to look anywhere and move in realtime instead of basically have the entire game made out of video files.
I was interested in it mainly because I love the point-and-click/adventure genra, there were many popular games like those before, especially my Lucasarts, like the Monkey Island games, Loom, Beneath a Steel Sky, Full Throttle, and just about any game Lucasarts made back in the dos/win95 days that was not Star Wars. Also some non-lucasarts ones like Guilty and it's sequel Innocent.
These games are rare and few nowadays though, I heard a few came out on PC recently but supposedly they werent that great, a few have been coming out on handhelds and consoles though that are pretty good, like Trace Memory and Hotel Dusk for the DS, or Zack and Wiki for the Wii.
.... sorry, I can ramble on at times.... chances are nobody is even going to read what I wrote.
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I was forced to play this for long periods of time by my parents before I could play my brain rotting FPS games...
Still like the game and it probably explains why I have more brainpower than most of my classmates. awesome comic brings back good memories.
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i like that game, im still playing the last 2
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[thisissotrue. made me smile.]
Aaaaa . . . I remember this game! I got it when I was likely way too puny to figure it out, but it made me feel smart just by picking away at it anyway. ^^
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So true. Sadly I've experienced 7 numerous times. Have you played realMYST yet? Ending ties it better to its sequel, Riven, which I think is better than the original Myst (but realMYST > Riven)
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Ha! Loved that game, got stuck in one of the brothers books my first playthrough though.
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Ahh I love those kinds of adventure games... Shame I haven't seen a new one quite like it in a while.
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My cousin got Myst.. couldn't figure it out so gave it to me.. Errr he smarter than I am so yeah... i got as far as going WTF?! before the sooothing happy music put me to sleep. By then ya wake up like o.O! ROFL!! great lil comicness! You should do one for Grand Theft Auto Vice City or San Andreas or soemthing. hehe
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I finished this one with my father, helping each other when things got messy. But since weΒ΄re kinds of "adventure players rivals" we tend to play by ourselves instead of seing each other playing.
Me and him are old adventure farts.
Good old times...
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I am in complete agreement with you. I own the first, and only the first, having never played any of the others in the series.
Although I did play S'
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Adventure games as awesome as Myst need to make a re-appearance.
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i wanted to play that :/
the only 2 adventure games like that i played was Zork: Grand inquisitor and Ring..... but ring sucked hard >.< and Zork came with my first computer... but that was when i was like 11 or 12 ( i think... i forget exactly) and really wasnt smart enough to figure out what to do...
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I'm not a spiritual guy, but...
God bless you and all the truth written about the game AND gamers in this picture.
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Man, there's a blast from the past. That game was very confusing, I've just never really found my self with the patience to beat it. I wonder if anyone ever HAS beaten it without any kind of walkthrough...
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The first one was the best! And the guide book turned out to be absolutely necessary... I never got to finish the second one though. I think our computer died >.>
Thanks for the memories!
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Hehe... "You want a ticket to WHERE?!"
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As much as I love adventure games, I don't like Myst much, it's a bunch of puzzles on a pretty island, I like mine with humor or at least more conversation...
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