Anybody? | TheaterFire

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XIENVYIX@reddit

Myst was one of the first PC games I ever got. Holds a little place in my heart

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AKnGirl@reddit

I was just going through some old boxes and found the little booklet that came with the disc. Makes me want to replay…kinda.

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Mindless_Skirt_1041@reddit

Also ran it on a dx4 100 laptop with 12mb ram and 540mb HD that cost $2,400. EPS Technologies. Winter of 95

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badwolf42@reddit

Replaying the series right now! Just finished Myst 3 Exile!

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XIENVYIX@reddit

For me, going from Myst to Riven was a steeper learning curve than from Riven to Exile.

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prunebackwards@reddit

I went back to myst as an adult as had zero problems. I went back to riven when the remaster came out and it made me feel like I’d never been to school.

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badwolf42@reddit

Absolutely! Exile is more in line with the original Myst whereas Riven is >!entirely one big puzzle that partly requires you to stand in exactly the right places.!<

I’ve never played 4 so I’m starting that right after Death stranding.

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PheonixBuddha@reddit

hi friend, please try they journeyman 6 series if you could. would be a good break from myst and ds

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badwolf42@reddit

I’ll give it a look, and offer the obligatory Outer Wilds rec!

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vand3lay1ndustries@reddit

Myst took a very specific skillset back in the day and I just did not have the patience, same with games like Thief.

If you don't mind me asking, what do you do for a living now?

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badwolf42@reddit

Aerospace engineer, although just stepped away recently and have had the time to do this playthrough.

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Caroline_Bintley@reddit

Menacing Brad Dourif is best Brad Dourif.

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GameSpawn@reddit

The “good” ending with the “catch and release”… Brad committed 110%. Menacing, psychotic to heart broken, defeated to immeasurably grateful and proud.

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I should replay the game, because while I did complete the "good" ending, I couldn't help but try out the "bad" ending. Enraged Brad Dourif Ending Me With a Crude Hammer is the one etched into my memory.

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BallDesperate2140@reddit

I remember I accidentally clicked the lever and let him out, you could see him heft the hammer with a “oh I’m gonna hammer-whack you, buddy” look on his face; I panicked and Booked back to Atrus and promptly got hammer-whacked as I heard them screaming.

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Caroline_Bintley@reddit

Oh man, that sounds even worse! Now I'm tempted to replay and traumatize myself all over again.

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PaleoSpeedwagon@reddit

I used to work at Kinko's overnight and would take my lunch break playing Myst on one of the Macs in the print lab.

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cilantro_so_good@reddit

Myst was amazing, but Return to Zork holds that place in my heart because of the animation. The first time I ever saw some actual human talking to me from a video game

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LordHammercyWeCooked@reddit

That game was so terrible and unforgiving. None of the puzzles made logical sense. You had to just brute force your way through most of it. A first-time playthrough without at least 10,000 death screens would be considered a speed run.

One of the developers admitted that they made the game punishing on purpose because the last game was ridiculed by fans for being too easy. They took it personally.

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q120@reddit

Want some rye?! Course ya do!

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LordHammercyWeCooked@reddit

And they're aaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllll dead

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Melancholy_Rainbows@reddit

My dad and I still quote this at eachother.

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dezisauruswrex@reddit

I thought I was the only one only one who remembered this game! So many discs….

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JPMoney81@reddit

Myst and Titanic Adventure Out of Time

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Meatball-Alfredo-Mom@reddit

I loved the Titanic Game

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RipOdd9001@reddit

And 7th guest

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EchoLocation8@reddit

The 11th hour rocked too

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EducationalPush44@reddit

For me it was Myst, The 7th Guest and The King's Quest Collection.

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PopAndLocknessMonstr@reddit

Oh man, I remember being in class in elementary school trying to solve Kings Quest 6 puzzles, haha.

"There's got to be something up with that bear in the shop..." >!there wasn't!<

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JoeNoble1973@reddit

7th Guest was superior to Myst, imo. Better ambience, more engaging puzzles

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ticklemeozmo@reddit

7th Guest soundtrack is a banger..

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Fast_Edd1e@reddit

Return to Zork.

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thanto13@reddit

Have it for my 3DO

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CarfDarko@reddit

I had it on CD-i!

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dinkydeath@reddit

Would give my left foot to have my 3DO back. Gex, Devil's 18, Night Trap...🫠

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sawshuh@reddit

Road Rash for me. I still listen to the soundtrack.

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XIENVYIX@reddit

Way of the Warrior for me

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dinkydeath@reddit

Also Panzer General for waaay too many hours.

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stegogo@reddit

I have it for many systems. The 3DS version sucks hobo ass

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call-me-the-seeker@reddit

Got rid of that cartridge so fast. Even my younger eyes could not make out what anything said, the writing was so tiny and blurry. I would have had to already know, like a movie or book you know by heart.

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Myst 3DS, you suck

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falafelwaffle0@reddit

Myst began my lifelong computer game obsession.

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Tenaciousgreen@reddit

Same, and it made me think I suck at those kind of games and I gave up (I’m a woman)

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SakaWreath@reddit

Holds a little piece of my heart, hostage. FIFY

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FormerAverage1718@reddit

More like 3 days xD

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Ctendall@reddit

Myst

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Equivalent_Age8406@reddit

I hated these kind of games give me a point n click graphic adventure like monkey island etc over this any day

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fermentedradical@reddit

Oh, Myst

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Mdmrtgn@reddit

Before videos before instant guides. You were PROUD of that fucking 3 hours it took to get that page and then you broke out the camel non filter you stole off mom to burn while you watched the little video.

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TheOGCapitan@reddit

Oh, Pyst

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jackfaire@reddit

I was disappointed in Pyst

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snoogansthejew@reddit

I never got to play that. Was it any good?

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wdpw@reddit

It is! Don’t watch a damn playthrough—the whole point of the game is it’s a puzzle. Enjoy! (You can find it on Steam in believe.)

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percephony@reddit

They've also released the original for the switch ☆

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Candid_Leaf@reddit

What?!!!!!! Please don't tell me it's 59.99

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percephony@reddit

$20, actually

Still insane for a decades old game

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mb10240@reddit

Is it the upgraded “live Myst”, though? That might be worth it.

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percephony@reddit

the Myst-universe MMO? They released that as Uru but I've only ever seen it on Steam

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mb10240@reddit

No, realMyst. It’s no longer fully point and click and built on the Unreal Engine.

Then apparently there’s a remake for the Oculus, too.

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percephony@reddit

oh then yes, RealMyst is the one I'm talking about. It's much easier to get into the story now that it's not only point-and-click

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Nrthstar@reddit

Fick it, worth it to me. I never finished Myst. I did read the novel that came out, and looking back, I can't remember a single fucking thing about it now.

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percephony@reddit

I hope you have a great time ☆

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seiggy@reddit

No they haven't. Pyst is only on PC as abandonware.

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percephony@reddit

Oh, I assumed you were being funny about the name!

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wdpw@reddit

Yeah I accidentally thought the same thing, haha. Never knew there was actually a game created called Pyst.

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t3hmuffnman9000@reddit

To be fair, calling Pyst a "game" is being charitable. It was basically just flash-based shovelware with about 10 minutes of content, all of which was cringe. It's no wonder that Parroty Interactive went out of business after only making 3 "games".

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seiggy@reddit

Nope, Pyst was a parody game released on PC back in 1996. Staring John Goodman too.

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manism582@reddit

You can find both Myst and Pyst as part of the Exo-Win3x collection. Both are set up to run with modern machines along with a bunch of others from that era. Available at no cost, but donations appreciated.

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CrazyAnchovy@reddit

I found it on xbox

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seiggy@reddit

Not available on Xbox either. Only PC abandonware. *Myst* is available on Xbox. Pyst is not.

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wdpw@reddit

I think most of us are talking about Myst. I take responsibility for spurring the confusion in my earlier comment.

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maximilliontee@reddit

The new version is also not confined by static images but fluid movement. Much better of a play experience

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Banjo-Oz@reddit

Also on GOG.

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icelax99@reddit

If you enjoy being constantly frustrated, then yes it was good. I was also 10 and probably didn't have enough brain development to figure it out.

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SehanineMoonbow@reddit

Not really. I bought it at point of sale at some game or music store back in the day thinking it would be funny, but it was just dumb jokes about how many people had been to the island (like showing trash everywhere) and then a short video of John Goodman… in a tub, I think? Maybe wearing a crown?

In any case, it was really short and not very memorable. I do remember being annoyed that I spent money on it, though.

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dropkickninja@reddit

King Ralph style?

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NSFW_Ninjaa@reddit

Its been re-released on PS5

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jackparadise1@reddit

Oh awesome! It was so janky on the PS2!

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seiggy@reddit

Wrong game. Myst and Riven remakes are on PS5, not Pyst. Pyst is abandonware and no legal way to purchase new copies.

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ArtistWithoutArt@reddit

You can download it on the myabandonware site.

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jaggoffsmirnoff@reddit

You Myst it?

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Evocatorum@reddit

Was a fantastic game. Wish that they had created more about the world, but alas, we only got a few games.

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PoisonMind@reddit

There's a playthrough on Youtube.

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Howboutit85@reddit

Saxcat I think is the guy he does like every clickable

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imthestein@reddit

OMFG I totally forgot that existed

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Pretend_Variation305@reddit

I was happy to forget that it existed. I was hot garbage at puzzle games when it launched…but I did just remember that I played this buzzard on Windows 3.11 IIRC

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santahat2002@reddit

Exyst

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FaradayStewart@reddit

I never heard of Pyst! What a twyst!

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MaybeABot31416@reddit

It was just the home island, but I got a kick out of it

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ALPHAETHEREUM@reddit

Xyst dude

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mjrbrooks@reddit

You’re sillyst

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East_Penalty_7659@reddit

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WrongfullyIncarnated@reddit

oh it still does and now you can do it in VR

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CosmicMamaBear@reddit

I was fine, now I'm frustrated and my day is ruined.

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ziggzer0@reddit

Aw shyst

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injektileur@reddit

What the Fyst is this Shyst ??

(seriously, a memorable game, deserves a cult, never finished it at the time, although I found it cool. Don't know how well it aged.)

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seiggy@reddit

Wrong game. Pyst never released on the Saturn. Only on PC and Mac.

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injektileur@reddit

(of course it did, I still have it. Don't know if you're joking, though)

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seiggy@reddit

Not joking. Pyst only released on PC CDROM and Apple Macintosh. Never on the Sega Saturn. Myst on the other hand did release on the Saturn -Pyst - Wikipedia

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injektileur@reddit

lol, thanks for the info, and sorry, then. TIL.

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Rshields_388@reddit

Man that was a great parody. Also had John Goodman as the King of Pyst.

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Far-Pie-6226@reddit

I wanted that game so much.

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Ackapus@reddit

John Goodman hamming it up in there like it's a sequel to King Ralph, good stuff

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theUmo@reddit

Rarest of John Goodman performances

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br0kenr3crd@reddit

My sister claims she beat Myst, taking months to figure out puzzles and making sure the discs didn’t scratch.

I couldn’t claim bullshit except that I was her younger brother and I know it was an unbeatable game designed by assholes, for assholes.

Also, Pyst is still the best remake of any original. Change my mind.

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dance4days@reddit

I eventually beat it back in the day, and I’d say it’s difficult but not impossible.

Riven was too difficult for me though. I even gave it another shot while I was stuck at home during the pandemic but even with nothing else to do I just don’t have there patience for those types of games anymore.

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Mono_Aural@reddit

The Riven remake was actually a fun puzzle. It was still tough and I had to make a lot of notes using pencil and paper, but it was still fun and came together in a nice way.

Then I figured I'd retry the original Riven and... nope, even knowing some of the big puzzles already and I'm still completely flummoxed. It's so cryptic.

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10lbsDan@reddit

Did they change the marble puzzle in Riven? Nobody can convince me that anyone on the planet beat Riven without any help at all.

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Mono_Aural@reddit

Which puzzle is the "marble puzzle" exactly? Is it the one with the giant dome buildings?

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PristineObject@reddit

They did; it's marginally easier now. (At least, less cryptic.)

Back in the day, as a Myst-obsessed tween, I solved everything but the fire marble final boss on my own (the "waffle iron" grid). Had to print the solution from a forum to beat it. I still feel bad and ashamed.

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Eicr-5@reddit

Riven’s difficulty felt so artificial. One puzzle’s effects would be 3 disk changes away, so figuring out context was so difficult, and even when you finally did, actually working out the solution was drudgery

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MLDaffy@reddit

Riven was impossible. We bought it when first came out cause we loved Myst and ugggh... Shit wasn't cheap either I remember my father complaining about the cost.

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Raneynickelfire@reddit

...discs?

My copy of Myst was on a stack of floppies.

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Evocatorum@reddit

It wasn't unbeatable, just moderately difficult.

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Vorpal_Bunny19@reddit

We beat it as a family. It’s one of my favorite geeky teen memories. Even my mom stood up and did a wee happy dance, which was especially notable because she was a wheelchair user that didn’t get up and dance particularly often.

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NotLondoMollari@reddit

This is such a sweet memory.

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RetroGamer9@reddit

I played a lot of point and click adventure games back then. Myst didn't take me too long to beat. If you clicked everywhere and paid attention to the environment, there were lots of clues helping to solve the puzzles. Riven was tough. It was a great sequel, but I didn't have the patience for it.

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hahahahahahahaFUCK@reddit

I think they were using hyperbole.

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funkympc@reddit

I beat it back in the day without the strategy guide. I was somewhere between 12-14 when I beat it. Took me maybe 2 weeks playing a few hours a day. I loved games like Monkey Island, Space Quest, and Under a Killing Moon. Myst was alot like those games so it came pretty easy to me. Although to be fair I'm pretty sure I got Myst and Under a Killing Moon around the same time.

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Particular-Village91@reddit

I beat it! Made me feel pretty smart back when (although the feeling has since worn off)

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mangotheduck@reddit

It was not unbeatable. I beat it twice because it has two endings and the puzzles are not that hard. All the answers are in clues all around the island. You just have to pay attention.

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tyranny_made_easy@reddit

The sky is ruddy your fate is bloody

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key_of_arbaces@reddit

There is no possible way

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PopAndLocknessMonstr@reddit

Back for mooooooorrrrreeeeee? hehehhehHEHEHEHEHHEHE

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Beezelbubbly@reddit

I was just thinking about this game yesterday and how much it terrified and pissed me off lol

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zignut66@reddit

Stauf!

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Shesaiddestroy_@reddit

I named my white Swiss shepherd Myst because of Myst. (And his color too)

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punktualPorcupine@reddit

I’m pretty sure it’s spelled “Pyst”.

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MobileSuitGungan@reddit

I played this with my sister and dad when I was little and we had a notebook for it, we got stuck about halfway through it. I then finished it alone as an adult 20 years later

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isla-reed16@reddit

sounds like the start of a burnout spiral, good luck with that

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Remarkable_Athlete_4@reddit

I always got Pyst at this

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Elrohwen@reddit

Remember when you had to buy a book to get though video games instead of looking them up on YouTube? Those were the days

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FreeCandy4u@reddit

Love the game but the rocket ship broke me.

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tiromancy@reddit

I beat Myst, but it required making a journal, drawing maps, and documenting every clue and interactive object. Game guides simply did not exist.

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jazzlike-sounds@reddit

I went up on the rocket once. That was the farthest I ever got

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ResumeFluffer@reddit (OP)

Now there are complete walkthroughs for everything lol

We used to have to buy magazines just for clues about this stuff!

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hamburgler26@reddit

I remember reading a clue book in Babbages to figure out how to get past the underwater minecart maze thing, it drove me crazy.

Otherwise I feel like I mostly worked through it on my own, I still have my Myst journal and my son likes to play it, and I can go back to my old notes and use it to quickly help him get to new places to see as he's still a bit too young to work out a lot of the puzzles.

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The_Bard@reddit

There were text file walkthroughs back then. Just not as easy to find as they are now

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pmmeurbassethound@reddit

Absolutely, was gonna say they weren't looking deep enough because I was printing out game walkthroughs even back then.

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skttrbrain1984@reddit

Probably looked like

/ Myst \
/ Strategy Guide\
\ Ver. 2 /

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The_Bard@reddit

There's an old DOS RPG game called Darklands that I replay from time to time. All the guides out there for it are original and in txt format just like this.

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DMMeThiccBiButts@reddit

Ver 0.0.17

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Rasputin1992x@reddit

pffft i had my trusty notebook for all the clues and half the things i thought were clues that were actually useless... so much fun XD

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IAPPRECIATETHEDD@reddit

On one of the last puzzles there is a hidden wall inside a fireplace that has this wall of unlabeled buttons in a grid. Corresponding to that there is a book to read that has like 100 pages of these random grid patterns. The correct pattern is on page 85 or something.

I wrote down all 85 pages running back and fourth between those 2 lol.

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Wavecrest667@reddit

It's kinda annoying how short this is, lol. It definitely didn't feel that short.

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fllannell@reddit

Back when the players guide was basically needed to beat the game... sort of how you could call the 800 number Nintendo hotline (pay per minute) when you got stuck on Nintendo games. the average player didn't have the Internet at all at the time.

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TinfoilTiaraTime@reddit

You know what? That makes me feel a whole lot better about not being able to figure it out by myself! I'm a little upset, I didn't even realize they were made intentionally difficult, and I judged myself for 20 years. Maybe that's why I liked the Saw franchise so much, and still enjoy escape room puzzles. Huh, one more failure chalked up to the environment lol. Well, now that that perspective has shifted, maybe I can try again. Thanks for the info!

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percypersimmon@reddit

They had a book back then too. I think I got it on clearance from circuit city or something and that was the only way I could finish it.

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HorribleDear@reddit

I bought a walkthrough from the bookstore (probably Border’s), and there was NO way I’d have ever figured out that game without it. I have flashbacks about how eerie the puzzles made me feel.

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MissKLO@reddit

Shit… the rocket was solid 😱 that was the music notes to get it going wasn’t it?

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jazzlike-sounds@reddit

Someone else here is saying it didn't go up. I could be misremembering. I certainly don't remember any of the details about what I did to get that far

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MissKLO@reddit

OK here’s what I remember 🙈 It’s been so long… but the hours played have made it to permanent memory, whereas I can’t remember what I had for tea yesterday 😂

There was a clock tower in the main hall, you had to make that move to shine on whatever bit of kit you wanted to go on, like the ship or the rocket, and then you had to pair your transport with something else on the island to make it work. The ship took you to the shipwreck pirate place, and I think something to do with clocks might have taken you to the flooded monkey jungle place, and the rocket took you to the futuristic place, and to get the rocket to work you had to hear a sequence of notes all the way over the other side of the island, and then input them into the controls on the rocket… which was really hard because you wouldn’t be off by even the smallest amount of pitch. Me and my mum got quite far on it, we defo completed 3 of the worlds… but I’m not sure how many there were.

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jazzlike-sounds@reddit

See kids, this is why you shouldn't do drugs. All those bong hits in my teens and early 20s... it's like I have amnesia now.

Your recall is impressive! I have only the vaguest recollection of some of the scenes in Myst, but that's somehow fitting - the game itself was very dreamlike.

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MissKLO@reddit

After seeing this post I’m thinking about downloading it on my phone… but I just don’t think I can be arsed to go through all that again 😂

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jazzlike-sounds@reddit

Lol. "Can't be arsed" describes my sentiment towards video games perfectly. Hence why I stopped playing them long, long ago.

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RalphWaldoEmers0n@reddit

The rocket went up?!!

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Darwinbc@reddit

No

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RalphWaldoEmers0n@reddit

It went …. Down?

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Darwinbc@reddit

I think a panel opens up and a book to the Selenitic Age is unlocked.

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ccosby@reddit

I couldn’t ever get the rocket to work. I knew what had to be done, just didn’t have enough of a musical ear to hit everything perfect. A friend ended up doing it for me.

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Howy_the_Howizer@reddit

I never got out of that damn first cave room.

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foamingturtle@reddit

My dad was a musician and I had him solve the piano puzzle in the rocket for me.

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jdsmith575@reddit

My sister got the tape recorder from Home Alone 2 for Christmas and I used that to help me sole that puzzle. I’d record the tone for a while and then play it back until I picked the correct one.

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abstrakt42@reddit

When you realize it was possible to beat the game on the first island with levers you see in the first ten minutes after all that…

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MissKLO@reddit

How?? But didn’t you have to collect all the pages?

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abstrakt42@reddit

To be fair, it has been a very long time and I don’t remember the specifics, but I do remember the feeling of shock when I realized you could just flip a couple of levers and the game would be complete. If I recall correctly, the papers just told you eventually what to do at that first island.

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Bighurt2335@reddit

I’m watching turian shepherd play through this blind on YouTube now!

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MissKLO@reddit

I must have spent weeks of my life going round and round that fucking island not having the faintest idea what to do.

I have a feeling you can download it for your iphone now

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SuperKamiDendei@reddit

Thought it was Zork for a hot minute there

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Frazzlefart@reddit

If you like this kind of game you can dip into Quern, a similar game from a different company.

I was pretty ecstatic when Cyan started releasing games on newer, updated systems and updated Riven. I really hated the mine cart maze when I was a kid.

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sneakablekilgore@reddit

I really enjoyed Cyan's Obduction.

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Frazzlefart@reddit

Same. They have a gorgeous way of building environments and atmosphere.

Feel kinda bummed no word on remaking Exile.

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HorribleDear@reddit

The trauma from that still haunts me.

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sweatshirtsweatpants@reddit

I remember Kings Quest in the mid-80s, but not Myst 10 years later. I had to ask my spouse about this game. Revoke my Xennial membership.

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MasterYodaJEDI4@reddit

Playing it back in the early 90s without the internet, or any guides, figuring it out took forever. But when you did figure a puzzle, man it was great!

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mochmaffews@reddit

I myst you

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Top-Wolverine-8684@reddit

My mom and I worked on Myst together, but then my mom became OBSESSED with Riven. My then-boyfriend (now ex-husband) used to rush to my house after college classes to work on Riven with MY MOM. They had a dozen notebooks laid out. I would come home from school (I was still in high school), and my mom and boyfriend would be sitting there together, eating Oreos and completely engrossed in it.

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MmmSteaky@reddit

Ex-husband, current stepbrother?

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RoundTheBend6@reddit

My cousin has an uncle dad situation lol

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DiscoCombobulator@reddit

I have a guy down the street who has 3 kids with his first cousin. We call him her "cusband". Yes i live in a trailer park. Yes his name is Ricky. Hell, im even in the same province where some parts of TPB were filmed. Its ironic

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RoundTheBend6@reddit

lol

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manokpsa@reddit

I have an aunt and uncle (brother and sister) whose exes married each other, making their sons both cousins and step brothers.

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THIS_MSG_IS_A_LIE@reddit

i’m my own grandpa…🎶🪕

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flyingthroughspace@reddit

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RoundTheBend6@reddit

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micro_penisman@reddit

Not sure if that's better of worse than an ex boyfriend/step-dad situation.

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RoundTheBend6@reddit

So far it’s been fine for everyone except the original father. Still bitter his brother now lives in his house.

The son gets along mostly well with both.

The wife of both still talks to both.

Weird indeed.

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adambomb_23@reddit

As soon as I read the above comment, I knew this was coming.

Thanks for being Reddit.

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klezart@reddit

Stepboyfriend

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flyingthroughspace@reddit

New stepdad

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snoopmt1@reddit

Was it Riven or the 3rd one that became impossible? Like "go to the beach and move this stick, then go back to the tower 3 worlds away and spin the glove. Now a hidden door unlocked on the bridge "

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Darwinbc@reddit

The shape of the cave entrance.

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DrMonkeyLove@reddit

And I thought Monkey Island 2 had some puzzles that were a stretch...

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KhellianTrelnora@reddit

It was Riven. And they fixed it in Riven 2024. :)

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shanthor55@reddit

I think that’s Riven, I played that one a couple of times and this scenario sounds familiar. I didn’t much care for Exile, I don’t remember if I ever bothered finishing it.

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ristoman@reddit

What was cool about Riven was that a good chunk of the puzzles were wrapped up in the lore of the islands, especially the later parts. You had to understand the world to solve some of them. It wasn't just pure mechanics. That added to the immersion so much

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PristineObject@reddit

Yep, Riven was peak /environmental storytelling. Absolute peak. And the remake goes even harder with the lore.

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ristoman@reddit

Yeah I don't remember all the details of the original, but I played the remake recently and even knowing some of the puzzles already, I felt like it flowed a little bit better

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CarfDarko@reddit

My mum devoured anything that even remotely smells like Myst, she still has boxes filled with boxed cd-rom games, all point and clickers.

She also played both Portal games and even played around with the editor ;)

Thanks for making this all possible, gamer mums are awesome!

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Top-Wolverine-8684@reddit

My mom was obsessed with the world and lore. She read all of the novels that came out about the characters. (Yes, those actually existed.)

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enlighteningbug@reddit

Introduce her to Blue Prince, it's incredible and really scratches that Myst itch.

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Melancholy_Rainbows@reddit

Has she played The Room series? Definitely got Myst vibes from those.

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PineappleZest@reddit

That is so cute! My mom had at least four or five different notebooks dedicated to Riven. I kind of hope she still has them!

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minx_the_tiger@reddit

My dad had the notebooks too!

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arppacket@reddit

I am so glad my friend somehow got a copy of Riven and loaned it to me. I was definitely obsessed with it for a while too! Such a memorable experience!

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unicorn-beard@reddit

That's kinda cute tho

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duttyboy24@reddit

I remember watching my dad play Myst and Riven in the late 90s. He loved both, especially Riven.

Picked up Myst recently on PS5 thinking "Im in mid-30s, surely i get how to play this now "

Turns out I still dont.

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anotherusername1243@reddit

7th Guest or GTFO

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safety_otter@reddit

I got my first pc in 94, came with 7th Guest, Prince of Persia, and Myst. Never found time for Myst :P

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puersenex83@reddit

Fuck yes this is me. But i had previpusly played pop on my brothers old apple with a floppy

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TommyTbone@reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1sy0mhr/the_7th_guest_remake_official_release_date_trailer/

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MrDywel@reddit

You’re the first person to mention this. 7th guest was my first cd-rom game and we had to do a RAM upgrade to run it. Totally worth it. Myst came after it for me but I sunk countless hours into that haunted house of puzzles and mysteries

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dezisauruswrex@reddit

7th guest and 11 th hour were both so good!

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danielsdesk@reddit

We’re getting a 7th Guest remake if anyone is interested

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Big-Honeydew-961@reddit

I miss this game so much

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RednocTheDowntrodden@reddit

I still listen to the 7th Guest soundtrack every October. It's a tradition for me.

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retribution81@reddit

7th Guest superiority FTW

11th hour sucked though

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Gurgiwurgi@reddit

the song still slaps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m5SDmVNo-I

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arcxjo@reddit

I was poor, we only had Celtica.

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sarcasmexorcism@reddit

that is myst for me. got it for my dad and he also said WHAT.

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According-Property64@reddit

Bombastic Eyeroll 🙄 loved the artistry of the game, wanted to get into it and riven but yeah was quite difficult of a game....

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He_Was_Fuzzy_Was_He@reddit

I played it and finished it under a day. I was a hero at my friend's house according to his whole family.

They had the game and had been trying for weeks.

I'm a logical/illogical person and I didn't think like they did. That's how I solved it all and got out. LOL

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Incubus1981@reddit

The puzzles in this game were utterly brutal

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mikehamm45@reddit

I was obsessed with this… played it, had no clue what was going on

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Sandoriah@reddit

Im going through this nowwwww

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RustedMauss@reddit

Idk, I figured it out. Gave me my love of puzzle games.

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dutch1664@reddit

As you all know, the graphics were insane! Like 10 years ahead. What the hell the game was about I never figured it out but my friends and I loved just looking at it 😂

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elesr13@reddit

This road seems strangely empty and unoccupied…

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rdldr1@reddit

The game companion piece to The Myst Official Strategy Guide

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Orbital_Vagabond@reddit

Grab a beer, you're gonna be stuck here for three more.

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Few_Item4327@reddit

Never played Myst but I recognize it from the Myst course on walkabout mini golf in VR. It’s a cool place to stroll around. And yeah, lots of levers.

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TheLastOuroboros@reddit

Myst was eh.

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Large-Inspection-487@reddit

I gave up. Just could not lol

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watsthtsound@reddit

Yea but the graphics!🤣

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taskforceslacker@reddit

They rebooted it and it’s in Steam. Yes, I bought it. No, I’m still not smart (patient) enough. Bitter irony.

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nakedcellist@reddit

It's really nice in VR

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TytoCwtch@reddit

Is it good? I loved Myst as a kid and I’ve just bought a Meta Quest 3s so was debating trying the VR version.

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nakedcellist@reddit

Oh, I think you will like it!

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MechanicStriking4666@reddit

I’ve bought this game so many times on so many platforms, and I’ve still never gotten past the first few puzzles.

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pblol@reddit

The first one is pretty straightforward. There are different areas that you visit. Very minor spoiler if you want to progress: >!go to the library, point the tower at the point of entry you're interested in and then ascend!< it will give you relatively obvious clues to the puzzle to progress.

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selkus_sohailus@reddit

Man I saw it on steam and was like 🤔 maybe?

Then I thought about how stupid I’d feel if I paid for the game again just to get nowhere again

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Calavera357@reddit

The Riven remake is fantastic

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ResumeFluffer@reddit (OP)

bittersweet?

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snokyguy@reddit

Fucking lever

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lowfiswish@reddit

I’m pretty sure that cd disc is roaming around somewhere in my parents basement waiting for some poor kid to check it out.

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Saguache@reddit

True but I recall measuring my progress in beers instead of hours.

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wet_Tap_5578@reddit

Fuck that game. Teenage me spent so much wasted time trying to figure it out. 👎

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WasabiDoobie@reddit

Lmao, every other year or so, I go back…. For another three hours….

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njasmodeus@reddit

I LOVED the books written in the universe. I also discovered Rammstein at the same time. I would be looping their album Sehnsucht that I bought at a used cd store while on a road trip with my mom and sister. (Also bought The Simpsons Sing the Blues, lol)

The German I didn’t understand became the language of the D’ni

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m155m30w@reddit

Omg this game!

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LeadingGap9229@reddit

Right?!? And why I did I think pulling it 100 more times would change any outcome?!?

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Intelligent_Draw8963@reddit

The absolute brilliance of Myst is that is was built using Hypercard on the Macintosh

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SeaSkimmer2@reddit

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papabear556@reddit

My god! What have done to this sweet innocent child.

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HeavyFunction2201@reddit

She’s on ozempic

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Acceptingoptimist@reddit

She played MYST

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papabear556@reddit

Genuinely chuckled at that.

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MetalLinkachu@reddit

Buccal fat removal surgery.

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Da12khawk@reddit

Leave Methany alone!

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NSFW_Ninjaa@reddit

Is that Willam Dafoe?

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SeaSkimmer2@reddit

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NSFW_Ninjaa@reddit

Oh my

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NotNamedBort@reddit

This made me scream with… horror? Delight? Both? I have no idea.

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AwkwardFactor84@reddit

I have this for 3do. Hate that game

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bozodev@reddit

Myst was one of my favorite games of all time. I enjoyed how frustrating it was. That was what made the thrill of figuring it out.

I kept detailed notes so I could try to almost reverse engineer what was going on.

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MagickMarkie@reddit

When I was a kid, this was my dad's favorite game (along with Arkanoid and Fun House pinball.) He used to spend *hours* playing it and even got the hint book. I never understood the appeal, but I'm glad at least that he could appreciate video games.

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Abidarthegreat@reddit

I beat it when it came out. Loved that game. Now I'm playing tons of Blue Prince.

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Jim_E_Rose@reddit

It’s why I bought a computer!

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jimmysmiths5523@reddit

I have this game AND the strategy guide!

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AllenKll@reddit

I loved myst. I spend hours trying to figure it out. Totally satisfying when I did.

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Klutzy_Way994@reddit

Somebody gave this to me along with the walkthrough book. Yeah that game was ridiculous. Preferred Mech Warrior 2

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argyle9000@reddit

This is hilarious. This game was way too hard for my young friends and I when the game came out, but we played it nonetheless. We were always in awe of its amazing graphics and mystery.

I've been having a nostalgiagasm lately by watching playthroughs of the Space Quest series by Sierra. I'll add this to my YouTube list. I don't really have any desire to play these old games, but watching the playthroughs is a lot of fun because I can relive a lot of moments and emotions I had when I was younger. Tons o fun.

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GladosPrime@reddit

Bring me the blue pages!

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themoonhasgone@reddit

I was OBSESSED with myst. I even still have my copy of the Myst to Riven hardcover book. NEVER got through that game though. This meme resonates so hard with me lol

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Barbiedawl83@reddit

I was given this game as an elementary aged kid. I couldn’t do much. I really wanted to explore more but it was really hard. I wish I could play it now and see if I could get any farther

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Accomplished-Bee6892@reddit

Yes, stuck for hours. But I loved it when it came out. Was very young, but compared to 2d sidescrollers, it was amazing.

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Accomplished-Bee6892@reddit

Myst is an awesome, confusing , game. But it blew my mind the first time I played it when it came out (I was probably 10). I remember not being upset that I was messing up the puzzles and just enjoyed the experience of it being 1st person pov.

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greysunday_616@reddit

And then Riven to deepen the madness

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Ltimbo@reddit

I played through the remaster on switch about 5 years ago. I was able to get through most of the game as an adult but I had to cheat to get through the mine at sequence. The sound queues weren’t good enough for me to understand and I later read that the developer regretted that sequence as too cryptic. So I felt vindicated. But I did finish the game. A true classic.

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garyyo@reddit

I just mapped out the whole thing on paper. I thought it was the intended solution and loved it. Disappointing to hear there was a puzzle there I missed.

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zjuka@reddit

I sorta cheated in the rocket puzzle in the remake - I’m absolutely tune deaf and by the time I would get from the organ to the dials I would forget the note, even when I did one at the time. So I recorded the sequence on my phone and that was the only way for me to recreate it on the opposite side. Original Myst decades ago was a group effort or I would never pass it on my own.

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einulfr@reddit

The only way you could figure out what the sounds meant was to find them on top of an elevator in a completely different age (Mechanical). And the tricky part there was that you had to get in the elevator, take it up, hit the middle button, and then step back out before it dropped down. Then you could fuck with the levers on top of it and get the sounds to play depending on the NESW orientation, and only then do you learn which directions the sounds represent.

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Luger14@reddit

Myst enjoyable yet frustrating even ~35 years later

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Zealousideal_Sir_782@reddit

There was another game about being some sort of thief. I think you stole the Crown Jewels and hand to sneak out in the sewer or something. I never beat that on either

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LogicalFallacyCat@reddit

I actually did find a second island at one point but then got stuck. I loved the concept of leaving you to figure out everything on your own, but I'm playing Outer Wilds and feel like it's executing this vision much better.

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LassieDear@reddit

I gave up and made my boyfriend play it while I watched

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ResumeFluffer@reddit (OP)

Kinky! Lol kidding. That's too funny, though. Did he rage quit?

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LassieDear@reddit

It was great, like a pre-YouTube let’s play! And he had way more patience than me so he actually finished

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froebull@reddit

I think I still have Myst, for PS1. And I still have the PS1. I could relive all the frustration if I wanted. lol

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samebatchannel@reddit

I enjoyed this game, but riven was a different beast.

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djkidna@reddit

Now go watch a speed run of Myst 😆

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TheOffKn1ght@reddit

This game is from the 90s and it’s still a mystery to most. Love it.

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student5320@reddit

The original outer wilds

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LadyLoki5@reddit

I had entire notebooks devoted to this series..

Trying to draw glyphs, little symbols, alphabets. Quotes and passages that may or may not have been relevant at some point. Trying to map out puzzles.

One of the most absolutely infuriating and rewarding game series I've ever played. I'll never do it again and I'll never recommend it to someone else lol but I'm glad I suffered through it 🤣

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Tallal2804@reddit

Haha, yep. That series was a glorious, frustrating puzzle box. Respect the notebook dedication.

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scrambledhelix@reddit

There are also a few books too that were really good. The Book of Ti'Ana, The Book of Aitrus, The Book of D'ni. If you were ever interested in the Myst series then they are great reads with tons of extra lore.

Had to scroll down way too far to find the series mentioned. They were surprisingly good, one of the few that stick in my head thirty years later. I tore through 'em.

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SnooCats7584@reddit

Yes the novels! I got them through Scholastic book order in 8th grade and then my mom took me to CompUSA to get them signed by Rand Miller. I still have them, some of my most prized books. I only like the first two though. Book of D’ni was kind of a mess imho.

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gellshayngel@reddit

There's like a million remasters, I'm not sure which one to play.

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SeaworthinessOk2153@reddit

Back when you had to actually think to play a video game.

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phantompowered@reddit

I'm more of a fan of Riven, but yes. Absolutely.

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RoyalFalse@reddit

You can ask this question in Blue Prince as well, except actually get an answer, and also enjoy yourself.

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No-Pianist9277@reddit

My family was more into Zork (and this thread is really making me wanna find Zork Nemesis again if I can), but I read the first novelization of Myst and enjoyed it enough all those years ago. Maybe I'll try it out since it's on Steam and see how far I can get. By these comments, probably not far 😂

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Plane_Jacket_7251@reddit

If it wasn't for the fact that my copy came with the game guide book I would have never, ever finished this game. Cool game though. Pretty groundbreaking for the time.

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Tonio775@reddit

...but who amongst us came back for more with Riven?

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TehErk@reddit

The VR version of this is awesome, especially if you played the original. There's something about being surrounded by that world that's magical.

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Typical-Exchange-406@reddit

I loved trying to play that when I was like 9!

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Internal_Example1185@reddit

Yep.

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GlassAndStorm@reddit

Hahahahahah 😂😂😂

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rotorocker@reddit

I never played this or Riven as a kid. Downloaded them both a couple months ago. after 30 mins I was like nope!. Not my genre, I even tried return to zork as a kid and didn't enjoy it so I should have known better.

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vdub2625@reddit

I got as far as the control room for the power plant, and couldn't get any further.

I bought a game a few years later called "Pyst", with the same map and all but it looked like the aftermath of a frat party lol.

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deefunkt01@reddit

I hated that game.

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Dazzling_Song_6766@reddit

"Oh damn, that game was dope"

Goes back for 54th time and gives up 45 minutes in

"Fuck this game now I remember why I hated it!"

😆

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Polar_Version875@reddit

God I HATED this game by the end. It made me furious every time I tried to play. And when my bff beat it, I saw the ending, and was glad I didn’t bother. It sucked.

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Butt_Stuff_Profile@reddit

Playing video games in the 90s before YouTube was slightly masochistic.....

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OrionDC@reddit

God I hated that stupid ass game

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Minimalist19@reddit

Dude, this game, Magic Carpet, and two other games I can never remember the names of. I’d get to a certain part after playing for maybe 30min and be completely fucking stuck.

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Nole_in_ATX@reddit

So much time wasted staring at the computer screen

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Megmelons55@reddit

It haunts me lol

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Inevitable-Bid1237@reddit

Thoroughly engaging experience.

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lamar70@reddit

MYST !!! First game ever for me !

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CalmBeneathCastles@reddit

My Myst experience exactly. To be fair, I didn't own it and only got to play it a little, but GEEZ.

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st_j@reddit

https://i.imgur.com/RYKy9Jx.jpeg

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agperk@reddit

I literally spit out my sandwich laughing

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agperk@reddit

spat*

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Dude_man79@reddit

This was good, but you can't forget the other games like this, like Harvester and Phantasmogoria 1 and 2.

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rojoshow13@reddit

I remember playing it, I think when the PlayStation version came out. I spent many hours exploring and finding clues and solving puzzles. And all of a sudden I was transported to a completely different area than the island. And I was like, I didn't even solve everything on the island. Where am I? Now what? I never finished the game.

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kevstev@reddit

The initial learning curve was really high, but once you got the flow of it I didn't really feel this game was that hard. You did have to pay attention to subtle details- particularly audio cues, which was somewhat revolutionary at the time. But once you figured out the first area or two, it all flowed fairly easily IMHO- well at least once you figured out there were two pages in each area.

A game best played in a dark quiet room at night.

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Flat-Philosopher8447@reddit

Loved it. Never understood it

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xSir-@reddit

Myst

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subpoenaThis@reddit

It was the sounds... the sounds told you what direction to turn in the weird underground rail transport.

Then there was Riven, where my screen was too dark and I couldn't see the thing in the dark area and kept walking right past it. One of the few games where adjusting gama counted, also I started adjusting the gama and then bumping it up one notch because I don't want to spend hours looking for a thing I can't see.

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aschapm@reddit

That’s exactly where I got stuck when I tried it last a few years ago, thank you!!!

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JBCTOTHEMOON@reddit

This game may have been the start of my mental health problems.

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I_wash_my_carpet@reddit

Holy fuck... you just gave me a key.

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French_Dip_Please@reddit

You and me both.

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UserAllusion@reddit

It’s probably just a coincidence.

Yeah

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roberts8ls0@reddit

I think keeping a physical notebook full of unhinged scribbles just to open a single door permanently broke my brain.

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FairTurn2642@reddit

Hated hated hated this thing

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civilSurvivorMum@reddit

Myst creeped me out

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Alarmed_Drop7162@reddit

So ein Myst

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johnvalley86@reddit

I was obsessed with that game when it came out. Made an entire notebook with detailed notes of each area and answers to all of the puzzles. Lost the notebook years ago but I still have the game. Only things I remember how to do on the main island is raise the ship, start the generator to access the rocket, and the combo to the safe to get the matches inside the giant tree. I need to play it all the way through again

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FXShop5150@reddit

Did anyone ever solve this game? 3hrs my ass, try 30 years.

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HangryBeard@reddit

I still have an original copy.

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alittlegnat@reddit

i just played this recently w my husband on PS5 since he didnt play it growing up. he really enjoyed it !

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Rausage505@reddit

I think Myst was one of the first games that I ever just got bored with trying too hard, quit, exit, eject the CDROM, and never touched it again. Being frustrated isn't fun for me.

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BlackestHerring@reddit

Once you figure out the code, there’s no replay ability. But it was great the first play through.

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Initial-Writer-4586@reddit

I had a buddy and we tag-teamed the whole series over the years. It was a great bonding experience, but I definitely would’ve been lost and confused solo.

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JamesTheLockGuy@reddit

Goddddddn I hated this game for JUST that reason!

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OddbitTwiddler@reddit

God the hours wasted.

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AlissonHarlan@reddit

Thé 3 clues in thé enveloppe didn't helped at all

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mustardposey@reddit

I downloaded a couple weeks ago thinking my adult self will finally get somewhere finally. Nope

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Sweet_Cable6571@reddit

My husband bought me this as a birthday gift when he found out how much I love Myst.

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0x7E7-02@reddit

What is it? What's inside?

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Sweet_Cable6571@reddit

Ah my other post didn't post.. That's helpful 🤣

It's all the games.

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Sweet_Cable6571@reddit

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MilkSlow6880@reddit

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

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Halladay_lights_77@reddit

MY god! I'd still be trapped on that island if I was still playing.

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DonnieReynolds88@reddit

Brooo Myst. As a kid I spent months trying to figure this game out & never did. Fr

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miuzzo@reddit

Love this game, they re-released it n switch. I played it with my kids

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helikophis@reddit

I think I must be severely dysfunctional because I hated this game

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Qedhup@reddit

Riven was better.

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PinkCupcke007@reddit

Loved it. I played Riven too

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randomstimuli@reddit

Thankfully... did not start playing until I had AOL... no way I would have figured out some of the puzzles without looking em up

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EsotericAbstractIdea@reddit

I haven't played many puzzle games, but nomne have even caused a moment of confusion since playing this game.

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RealisticSorbet@reddit

I never figured the final fireplace puzzle out myself when I was younger. I remember being in an electronics store (might have been Fry's) and seeing a guide for Myst and thumbing through the solution. When I saw the pattern for the fireplace I took a pen and drew it on my forearm so that I could finally beat the game when I got home.

As I think about it, that would be a really sweet forearm tattoo.

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No_Statement440@reddit

Myst was great, and frustrating lol.

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Whole_Engineer_3757@reddit

Windows 95

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illini02@reddit

Man, I asked for this game for Christmas one year. I couldn't do shit in that game.

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mattiwha@reddit

Never got into it but the cover intrigued me

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TollyVonTheDruth@reddit

So accurate! For me, it was, "I heard something open/close, but what and where tf is it? I miss that game.

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StockNBLR@reddit

Lands of Lore - Guardians of Destiny was awesome too 🤙

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Mekhitar@reddit

I have still held on to our original notes from Myst and Riven (pictured). The journal dates for Riven indicate we beat it in 1999. I was 12; my sister, the note taker, would have been 19.

The Myst book has dates from 1995.

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National-Teaching-69@reddit

gif

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WankelsRevenge@reddit

The ultimate puzzle game for me was always 7th Guest

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mikeyb1@reddit

lol

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gi85on_@reddit

I hear it’s never been completed

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turlian@reddit

The day it came out my friend and I played it straight through without stopping. Took us 7 hours.

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NoDreamNoSleep@reddit

I should play this as an adult and see how stupid I really am.

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ShillinTheVillain@reddit

I could not figure this game out as a kid. I went back and downloaded it during the Covid lockdowns and beat it just for my 10 year old self.

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MisterJWalk@reddit

The fireplace code has been my avatar on websites that allow personal avatars since 1998. It doesn't all fit perfectly. But it's cropped in such a way that anyone who knows what it is can use it as a reference.

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PageBroad3731@reddit

Hahahaha. Amazing when i first got that i was amazed at what a “video game” was like. Looking back it was basically a walking game. It did have atmosphere tho

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MrCrash@reddit

When in doubt, click every single pixel on the screen individually over the course of an hour.

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YESmynameisYes@reddit

Single-handedly ensuring I would never play another computer or video game again.

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buzzbash@reddit

One of my few proud moments in gaming: completing Myst. I was 15, and up until that point there were a number of games I couldn't finish, like Ultima 6, Camelot, and Kings Quest games. But with Myst, I started taking notes. Had half a note book filled up with patterns and maps.

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Big-Honeydew-961@reddit

BRING ME BLUE PAGES

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LH99@reddit

I upgraded my mac to FOUR MBs of RAM at age 11-12 just to play this game.

No strategy or hint guides back then. I still remember when I figured out the first puzzle (cabin/tree). Beating that game was an accomplishment for sure

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cjasonc@reddit

I was a bit too young at the time, but I did give it my best over one rental weekend!

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Velvet_Samurai@reddit

I bought this on VR a few years ago and being fully immersed helped tremendously, but holy shit those were some bad fucking puzzles. Just really terrible. I got about 10 times farther as an adult in VR than I did as a kid on PC, but I bet I was barely halfway done.

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texpa@reddit

Hardest fkn game I ever played. I was obviously too young to figure it out, or it was that hard. Don’t think I got far in it.

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Only_drunk_posts@reddit

Have you Riven though

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thejodiefostermuseum@reddit

I have this theme for my ring tone.

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Timult2US@reddit

I still haven't beaten it, but this game was amazing in 1994 for it's graphics. Ended up playing Doom 2 mostly.

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BlueAwakening@reddit

I had no clue what I was doing when It came out. I was probably 13. Dont think I ever got past the first island. I purchased Myst on steam in my 30s and felt so smart beating the game on my own.

Side note: If you enjoyed Myst I highly recommend Blue Prince.

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Disregard-my-opinion@reddit

I met my spouse on the official Myst IRC chat room hosted at Cyan, needless to say we have a lot of Myst memorabilia on display around the house!

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Any-Ball-7159@reddit

My dad played that shit and successfully beat it. He let me try and goddamn. What the fuck bro.

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PineappleZest@reddit

Ah, memories. Especially when the old sound blaster would act up and you'd either get repetitive noises or your sound would just disappear altogether.

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SixersJawn@reddit

the password is swordfish.

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balthus1880@reddit

I never had it but I used to walk around in game when I would go to CompUSA!
CompUSA is also the first place I ever heard techno. Someone had a visualizer running to some music and it was "James Brown is Dead"

CompUSA in Manhhattan was fucking dope for a 13 year old.

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Sinderria@reddit

Ooooooooh, Myst...

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Buckeye_Randy@reddit

I never got out of those subway tunnels.... some say a piece of my mind is still trapped in myst

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One_Mission9448@reddit

This game is perfect for OCD people.

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Yep_why_not@reddit

Loved me some Myst. So many forgotten games from my youth. Someone just posted about Dino Park Tycoon and I remember playing that on our 6th PCs in school. That and The Secret Island of Dr. Quandary.

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roonilwonwonweasly@reddit

I hate hate hate this game!!!! It took me months to get through it because it was so frustrating.

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RipMcStudly@reddit

Hell, Myst was bad enough, but Riven was so hard I couldn’t figure out what the hell the strategy guide was saying.

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vr512@reddit

My dad bought this for us. Never got past the first 5 minutes. Lmao!

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MuleGrass@reddit

Neighbors dad played this and had notebooks filled with notes and observations, the ending wasn’t worth it was all he said

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dezisauruswrex@reddit

Hahahahahahha this was me a million years ago when it came out

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Timmonidus@reddit

Try beating Dragon Quest 3 without a walkthru

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DeadMetalRazr@reddit

I believe I'm still stuck trying to figure out what a lever did. I never finished Myst because of some puzzle that I couldn't figure out.

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Useful_toolmaker@reddit

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SimilarStrain@reddit

Definitely!

This was also before you could just do a quick Google search and find out what to do next. So you were absolutely fucked and had to figure it out yourself.

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PoolRamen@reddit

The early 90's spawned a bunch of prerendered games like this

I remember being particularly taken with L-Zone, even though it was kind of ropey

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Impossible-Pack6911@reddit

WHO DID THIS OMG

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mountednoble99@reddit

Myst was a fun game!

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socialcommentary2000@reddit

Something about blue pages or some shit? I duuno.

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RednocTheDowntrodden@reddit

When I see this I hear static and "Blue pages!".

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More-read-than-eddit@reddit

I somehow beat myst (maybe there was a hint guide I followed, like in phantasy star 3), but have gotten absolutely nowhere on subsequent casual plays. Riven never made a lick of sense to me and still does not.

I also read the first novelization and recall finding it almost unbearably depressing.

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Mehaull@reddit

I read the books too there was kind of a happy ending in the 3rd I think like not all the D’ni died and the civilization got a reboot if I remember correctly

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VenusValkyrieJH@reddit

This game angered my adhd ass like no other. I would always circle back to it.. play it for a week.. get mad… quit.. repeat .. lol

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Professional-West338@reddit

No fucking way it's the realmyst

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Mehaull@reddit

Did anyone read the books? They were kinda good from what my 13 year old self remembers

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Ok_Scallion_5540@reddit

Yup, that sure is... A .game

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RoomWithNoWindows@reddit

If you like this kinda game, try The Witness and The Talos Principle. Both awesome.

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scarletOwilde@reddit

Click, thunk, click. Oh yes.

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DEADPOOL___@reddit

I'm getting some King's Quest vibes.

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NurkleTurkey@reddit

I need to play it again. I remember it being easy.

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Thereminz@reddit

yeah, i never had it but it seemed cool/ but also confusing and really cryptic

watched a play through before,.. and it's like, how the fuck would you ever think to do that...like almost NES game level cryptic

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Grizz-Lee-2891@reddit

haha accurate!!!

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Anon_squanch@reddit

You must feed the pages to the book!

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lostcosmonaut307@reddit

THE BLUE PAGESSSSSS BRING ME THE BLUUUEEE PAAGESSSSS

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GTAmark@reddit

Must…find…blue pages!

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PastorNTraining@reddit

“Help I’m trapped in this book with my goatee (static for some reason) help me!

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lostcosmonaut307@reddit

BrInG mE tHe BLUE PAGESSSSSSSS!!!!!

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PapaTua@reddit

Classic Sirrus.

"WHO ARE YOU?"

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Windfade@reddit

I had to give up and Google wtf to do in that rail line after I had literally drawn a map. Even with a user made map and clear explanation, I still took a wrong turn.

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SwampCrittr@reddit

Not me yelling at my wife how this is considered my childhood trauma..

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Rattusglen@reddit

Anyone ever play Zork?

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DinnerSilver@reddit

Soundtrack is great ASMR though.

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Blando-Cartesian@reddit

Fucking Myst. I never completed it when it was new and got the VR version few years ago to finally figure it out. It’s great. Except that you can’t make notes while wearing a VR headset, and reading the in-game books is physically painful.

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bigbouncybelly@reddit

I was so pissed the first time I beat that game. And the second.

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Good-Bandicoot-2152@reddit

A nightmare from my childhood that I never recovered from.

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Malrottian@reddit

Riven and that never sufficiently damned marble map puzzle. Worst thing was it was a present and I wanted to tell the giver that I had completed it. I now no longer feel that obligation, in no small part due to that game.

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SpecialistDevice4115@reddit

myst was sort of awesome and sort of agonizing as fuck

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PapaTua@reddit

I went ALLLL the way down this rabbit hole. I wrote to Cyan and nearly got a game testing job there out of High School.

I went to the inaugural Mysterium fan convention that they hosted in Spokane, and attended the first 7 or 8 of them. I was a beta tester for their MMO game for like 6 years before it launched.

Cyan and Myst really became my world for a long while.

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-Wicked-@reddit

I remember going to a local CompUSA for the release of Riven in '98 and Rand Miller was there signing copies and I was definitely fanning out.

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y2k2009@reddit

I was way too stupid for this game. I was still trying to crack the code on Leisure suit Larry.

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GamingIsNotAChoice@reddit

Played it with a few friends, we spent whole nights on some puzzles. Fond memories but these days not a chance. I ran out of patience years ago

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Super_Fa_Q@reddit

Tomb raider

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fyukhyu@reddit

So frustrating but also so fun

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Drawkcab96@reddit

I was a bit scared of the that game. Something about it was unsettling.

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jpetersell@reddit

3 hours. I’m closing in on 5 years.

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Kahmael@reddit

The sound track was dope though

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WiseSpunion@reddit

Lmao

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Synthetics_66@reddit

Be interesting to play a remastered version of this with a fucking game guide, lol

Awesome game, but young me was lost as hell

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JT-OG@reddit

not a xennial but my dad played this all the time when i was a kid. i loved watching him take notes on the game. i’ve played it several times by myself. he passed away in december. i wish i could watch you play Myst again, dad.

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this_knee@reddit

Yes. That was all of us normals when playing this. But the incredible and unique everything in that game caused us to press on through it all. And it was a great payoff.

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TimelySheepherder939@reddit

My dad loved this series so much, he played them and never completed a single one because he'd quit out of frustration.

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mangotheduck@reddit

The lever will not work until you solve the puzzle at the opposit side of the island. Then once that is solved you pull the lever and it brings the tree elevator down.

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ryceritops2@reddit

So I would always just buy the guidebook and then go through the game and realize I wasn’t smart.

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MetalTrenches@reddit

Still one of my favorite games. The puzzles really aren’t that difficult. The only ones we were stuck on for a long time were the underground transporter and the hidden island elevator controls.

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desrevermi@reddit

This game.

Oof.

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zue4@reddit

My parents bought me this when I was like 5 years old. They couldn't solve any of the puzzles either.

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Visible-Ocelot-5269@reddit

I don't know anyone that actually finished this - a lot of people just gave up.

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CorgiKnightStudios@reddit

Don't play this game as a kid.

I understood nothing...

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charutobarato@reddit

I played this game as a kid at my friends house. Ran around for a while, thought everything looked really cool. Couldn’t figure anything out and game up after maybe 30 minutes. I’ve never been interested in playing it again.

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foxguy2021@reddit

Ran around for a while, thought everything looked really cool.

Basically what sold the game. It was the first taste of interactive CGI at home.

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CorgiKnightStudios@reddit

Exactly the same experience and expectations.

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glazedhamster@reddit

I still feel that way playing shit in my 40s sometimes. At least we can just Google a walkthrough...but don't get me started how fucking annoying it is having to sit through a whole 20 minute video to get a solution that would have taken two sentences to explain.

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shortidiva21@reddit

Yesssss

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GamerCirca80@reddit

Never beat it. Still kinda pissed about it.

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Repulsive_Agency6748@reddit

I loved watching adults attempt to play this game, but I could never play it myself. I couldn't even operate the disc changing dos bullshit to play ANY game. But I did read the novels around this game and they were pretty sweet.

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howzit-@reddit

I don't think my brother and I ever made any progress in this game and I wouldn't even know how to tell anyway. But man we had a lot of fun just going around clicking stuff.

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The_Fat_Controller@reddit

Jesus Christ it wasn’t ridiculously hard it was just moderately hard.

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UncleGarysmagic@reddit

It’s a game you play once then never touch again.

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Konnorwolf@reddit

I checked Myst out form the library. Never got all that far back then.

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kimchiman85@reddit

Myst, what a fun game.

I know they had a second game but I haven’t played it.

It would be fun if they rebooted it.

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wdpw@reddit

They released it on Steam about 10 years ago. I think it’s still the same exact game, but at least accessible now without a disc drive.

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IGTankCommander@reddit

It doesn't do anything because you didn't pick up page 3 and put the blue gear on the three-leaf clover door two worlds ago and now you can't go back.

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One-Earth9294@reddit

I beat Myst. Probably didn't flip over every potential stone but it was fairly intuitive for a 16 year old to solve the puzzles.

Riven, on the other hand? That game is what this meme belongs attached to lol. That shit was off the charts with the complexity.

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PapaTua@reddit

I found Riven significantly easier than Myst. All the puzzles were so well integrated into the environment, it was just a matter of navigating around and they basically solved themselves.

Myst was more abstract puzzle after abstract puzzle, which was less intuitive.

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gerryn@reddit

Lol, basically solved themselves. I wish. I don't I solved a single puzzle, but I was amazed at the rendered graphics.

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Natural-Carrot5748@reddit

I never played Myst, but received Riven as a gift. I was usually great at puzzles, but not that game. I just remember getting stuck on the stupid little track trying to flip the right switches but always going back in a circle. It remains the only game I've ever rage-quit permanently.

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madsci@reddit

The graphics were so stunning at the time! We'd always have a demo running in the software store I worked at.

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Colperc@reddit

Ha! Totally

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mkct_6@reddit

The best—get a notebook and you will also have peace for a long time

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Findinganewnormal@reddit

My bestie and I spent so many hours and notebook pages on this. My computer (the family computer) made it until the end with the mine cart and didn’t have the computing power to handle those advanced graphics. Crazy to think I could probably play it on my phone now.

Riven was my personal favorite of the two but definitely spent much of my young life working through it.

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Sea-Big-1125@reddit

I played one called hero’s of might and magic back in the late 90s that was very much this way lol.

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ACatFromCanada@reddit

A masterpiece.

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blanksix@reddit

I found the box for this and the sequel when I was going through my dad's house a couple of years back. Loved this game and still occasionally have dreams about some of the puzzles.

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JohnnyLeftHook@reddit

Pretty much just click on every single thing on the screen until something happens.

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ResumeFluffer@reddit (OP)

We had it at school. You had to know what worked so you could remember it the next time you could play.

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disinaccurate@reddit

That magical period of 1994-1995 when everybody got their CD-ROM drives and played a couple FMV games, and by 1996 or so everyone was over it.

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BlushHeat@reddit

some memes age like fine wine, while others go sour faster than my attempts at baking this one just keeps getting better.

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InvestigatorEntire45@reddit

I hated that game so much.

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Uhokay1970@reddit

I beat this game so fast i was disappointed that people found it difficult. Then i was visiting a friend who was stuck on a puzzle i showed him and his game crashed. like six times trying to watch the video clip. Took me a few minutes to update his Quicktime and boom all fixed.

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Si_is_for_Cookie@reddit

Deep cut! Well played. Sam and Max, The 7th Guest, and Roger Wilco: Space Janitor all appreciate the callback.

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nirreskeya@reddit

Another knock-off was Obsidian which I thought was pretty good.

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BrattyTwilis@reddit

Got it with my first CD-ROM computer and I was able to complete it without a hint book. Felt pretty accomplished doing so. The sequel upped the ante on difficulty though

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nirreskeya@reddit

I bought a CD-ROM specifically so I could play the game. It took me 6-7 weeks of playing after school and on weekends, and about half of that was on the underground railcar thingy that would stop at different intersections. I had crazy hand-drawn maps from watching the animations of the movement that ultimately didn't help one bit; eventually I figured out the trick and it was easy.

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danelle-s@reddit

I also completed it without hint book. Didn't know about the sequel though.

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Thewrongbakedpotato@reddit

I only got through the first world on my own. I eventually beat the game, but had to use a walkthrough.

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kranges_mcbasketball@reddit

This was me in marathon 1 launching grenades at random key pads to make random bridges open. Fuck that game. I loved it.

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factoid_@reddit

This game was hard as fuck when I was 12. Now I love puzzle games and can’t get enough. All of Cyan’s games are great.

I wish they’d gotten to do all the stuff with firmament they wanted to do. And Obduction is a gem

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shadowlarx@reddit

This actually takes me back to 1996. I was playing a game from the old days of Squaresoft called Secret of Evermore and spent the better part of a year stuck on a particularly annoying boss called the Salabog.

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porthos40@reddit

Like the newer one-https://store.steampowered.com/app/754890/Firmament/

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TrixieBastard@reddit

I recently found my Myst notebook from the PS2 version. I have absolutely no idea what any of it means anymore

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sarahzilla@reddit

I remember figuring out I could go into the file directory and view all the videos. Couldn't beat the game, but I knew enough about it to make it look like I did. Lol.

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Organic-Yodelz@reddit

I read the subreddit name as Xenu while scrolling and thought this was about Scientology

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Imaninja2@reddit

Never played the game even though it was popular back then. The books were great though - an unexpected quality read out of the early gaming ip world.

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mizushimo@reddit

Every once in awhile I'd boot up the game on my 1996 gateway desktop, poke around in the first area and then give up and go back to might and magic 6. I did this many times and never got past the first area

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p_falcon@reddit

Omg Gateways were the only comps my parents would buy despite my desperate pleadings. I still remember the cow patterned mouse pads. I never tried Myst on it, i think Diablo 2 was about as much as it could handle. Ahhhh good times

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mizushimo@reddit

They were great though, I was able to upgrade it a bunch before we ended up with a more powerful hand-me-down computer. I remember taking it apart to install extra ram, an extra harddrive and a new graphics card at one point. I ran warcraft II, Starcraft and diablo on that thing

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p_falcon@reddit

Hell yeah, bro. We had to earn our gaming experiences back then. I remember the cinematics for D2 were mind blowing!! StarCraft 2 remains PEAK

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fuzzybad@reddit

Sounds about like my experience. Hours spent clicking every millimeter of the screen, just to find the interaction point. I got as far as finding some books that had embedded videos in them. Seemed pretty cool for mid-90's I guess.

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ResumeFluffer@reddit (OP)

I did this with my Worms2 CD and a gateway laptop. Lol

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daggersrule@reddit

I had a friend with worms 2 that I'd stay with a week or two every year. It was one of the reasons I loved going back.

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Lotan@reddit

Air. The Magic of Flight

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ResumeFluffer@reddit (OP)

That's the name of the Blue Angels' IMAX documentary. The Magic of Flight

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bioscimeg@reddit

This is hilarious! 😂🤣

I watched my parents beat this entire game series. My own live version of what my kids watch on YouTube today.

I bought the whole set a few years ago out of nostalgia and have not completed it. 🙃

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Im_Ashe_Man@reddit

Myst was great back in the day.

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herb2018@reddit

Loved that game

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Accomplished_Bit3153@reddit

Talk about levers. IYKYK

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RedBinKnight@reddit

My friend in year 6 had it for 6 months and never realised how to really begin the game by using the lighthouse to activate the stuff around the island. I borrowed it for a week and figured out most of the pages except for anything beyond the keyboard in the space ship.

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deephurting66@reddit

I beat Myst and had fun with Pyst

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twistedevil@reddit

I sucked at it, but I really just enjoyed walking around and all of the weird sounds. It was calming and peaceful.

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joeinternetib@reddit

Got the remastered ones last year

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cautionlasers@reddit

yaaassssss

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Magnetheadx@reddit

"They speak English in What?"

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Inglorious186@reddit

I never ended up playing this one but spent many frustrated hours on 7th guest and 11th hour

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bydh@reddit

I really didn't have the patience for this game. It was just a complete myst-ery to me. I gave up and went back to playing snes

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Worried_Change_7266@reddit

Omgggggggggggg

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snoogansthejew@reddit

This cracks me up every time, haha!

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Phantasm831@reddit

Oh that damned game!!!!

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jessek@reddit

I only played it a few times at friend’s houses

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Xiunte@reddit

I had this game on Sega Saturn but never finished it then. I didn't beat it until years later when I bought it again for PC. With NO walkthrough too! Just a notebook and a pen. I made it a point to beat all the others without cheating too (Riven was the hardest by far).

To this day, the Myst games are still one of my favorite series. Revelation (Myst 4) is my favorite. I believe it was the first one to have real 3D movement and there was a LOT of live-action scenes compared to the previous games.

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JoeRogansNipple@reddit

I need to go find Zork again, I think I have an old copy downloaded somewhere. Hopefully it wasnt tied to the CPU clock like Lost World was

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DocWagonHTR@reddit

I’m still struggling with the “beat it in two minutes” achievement. I just can’t input the final puzzle stuff that fast.

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imthestein@reddit

I had Myst down to a science such that I could beat it in 15 minutes and only had to go to one world to do it. I remember playing it at a computer store and someone watched me do it and they asked how the hell I did it lol

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sapient_pearwood_@reddit

I got it for my phone because apparently I hate myself and wish to cause myself psychological harm

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djseifer@reddit

Personally, I was a bigger fan of The 7th Guest and Return to Zork.

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LittlePlasticStar@reddit

Recently found a new game that scratches this itch called the Blue Prince. The creator was a huge fan of Myst. It’s super fun and I have a notebook of clues and I think I’m only half way through what all the game has to offer.

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lopachilla@reddit

I played that game when I was 11 or 12. I wandered around pressing stuff to see what changed. It felt like I was playing spot the difference and it took FOREVER. But somehow I managed to get to the treehouse place where there was the forest and all the walkways. I never got past that, though.

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Ender_v1@reddit

Myst and Riven

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SaganSaysImStardust@reddit

Riven will always have a place in my heart. It didn't age well, and I didn't think a remake would do the Thing. But in that corner of time and space in the world, it was perfect.

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lferry1919@reddit

No way, I was playing this the other day. I suck at it even as an adult. I thought maybe I'd be better at it than when I stole it from my mom as a kid. Nope.

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6BigZ6@reddit

Theres a VR version that really brought me back. Was pretty cool to visit some of the places in VR, even if the Quest 3 version is the same graphics as the original.

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scratchfury@reddit

I remember the music puzzle because it took me forever, and the whole time I was wishing I had a piano because it would have made it so much easier. After I solved the puzzle, I turned around to find a piano.

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Bastardforsale@reddit

I was a TA for a computer class in Jr high and the teacher just let me play that the whole time. I never got anywhere but it was amazing

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Fantastic-Regular614@reddit

That's all I have to say about that.

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FriedBreakfast@reddit

I'm STILL pissed at Atrus for leaving me to die at the end of Riven. The next two games I just wanted to jump through the monitor and punch him in the face for it.

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NotYourGa1Friday@reddit

Accurate. I wanted to explore soooo badly but I was shit at the puzzles

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CitizenFreeman@reddit

Oh my uncle would have loved this joke...

He passed in 2001 and we played tons of house of Myst together. He would play and leave me hints, I'd do the same.

I remember distinctly leaving "what?" as a response to his hints once 🤣🤣

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flaming_bob@reddit

TRIGGERED

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snwbrdngtr@reddit

My dad came home from work one day with an iMac (that there was no way we could afford in retrospect. Used? From a coworker?) and that Christmas we got Riven and Master of Orion II. My brothers and I actually worked together to complete Riven with like 2 big spiral bound notebooks.

To this day I haven’t played Myst and I feel like I should fix that…

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BlackPhoenix1981@reddit

Some of my all-time favorite games have been those off-the-wall, crazy stupid, "puzzle don't make no goddamn sense!!!!" games.

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smoothAsH20@reddit

I was able to get the patterns for the dots and return the pages.

The ending was anti climactic for all the work I put in. Man my notebook was huge by the end as I hand drew a map of everything. As I figured out each clue.

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caffiend98@reddit

I had this on my Sega Saturn... so many hours lost. Never came close to finishing it.

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hit_reset_@reddit

Myst is now available on mobile! I downloaded it for a flight and fell asleep 10 minutes in. I blame the red eye, not Myst. Maybe Myst. Still cool tho.

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Jedicounsel@reddit

This was like a month-long escape room

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flaneur-terrestre@reddit

I got this at Price Club in high school in the 90s, probably for our 486, and beat it in 6 days. I had a friend stay up all night with me to help with the mine cart part- neither of us picked up on the chimes so we brute forced it. Another sign of the times, I still know that friend’s 7-digit phone number… and we drank Zima

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UnderH20giraffe@reddit

I loved this game so much. Riven was even better. I even read the tie-in books which were awesome.

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Grandeftw@reddit

Yo the sense of accomplishment when you did figure out one of these cryptic ass puzzles only to get stuck at the next room for days weeks years

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trollinhard2@reddit

Do they speak English in what?

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big_z_0725@reddit

I played this game. I feel like the only person who doesn't have fond memories of it. It is not a good game. It was not a good game when it was published. It was a Hypercard app: basically Powerpoint with a little Choose-Your-Own-Adventure mixed in. The art, although mostly still images, was good, I will give them that.

In pre-smartphone days, when families had at most 1 computer, you cannot design a game with a backstory so deep you need to read books to understand it, and then put those books in the game only. Print them out, let me read them on the toilet or something. My mom limited my computer time to 1 hour back in those days. I was not going to waste that hour reading books on a shitty 14" CRT.

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dkonigs@reddit

I remember back when this was all the rage. At the time, I thought it was an excellent tech demo of what you could do with these new fangled CD-ROMs. But as a game, I never really liked it at all. It just felt like a ton of work was put into rendering all the imagery, but not so much in the game itself.

But it was absolutely ubiquitous, and in an era where you play what you have on-hand, I definitely ran through it a few times at friends' houses.

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