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'You’ve been asking, and we’ve been listening': Myst remake adds a whole new world to the classic adventure, one originally introduced in another overhaul from 25 years ago (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

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....

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Has anyone remade myst in powerpoint?