I'm forever passively remembering games which satisfy that description. I was always getting into people's computers to search for games and loading up whatever I could find
Is that really why everybody had it? I remember seeing it at everybody’s house I went to in the mid 90’s (america).
I always assumed it was just a viral game, had no idea it was a pack-in.
Yeah I’d say it’s for at least 13-14 year olds, so probably the majority of the posters here lol.
I played it a few years ago with RealMyst. Really blew me away, definitely one of the best /vr/ ever made. But you gotta play it with a pencil and paper to get the most out of it. A guide ruins it.
This was always the game your friend’s older cousin had and when you tried to play it as a kid you could never get past the hubworld
I played it a couple years ago. The puzzles were mostly self-explanatory and easy. Shit that held me up turned out to be annoying pixel hunting homosexualry rather than a real puzzle. I liked the world but not much else. Riven looks a lot harder and more interesting but I don't know if I want to get bogged down playing something that will require me to fill up a notebook.
>The puzzles were mostly self-explanatory and easy.
Don't tell me you knew the lighthouse puzzle without looking up a hint guide. I don't believe it. I only was able to solve it because I got lucky and hit the right button without knowing what the buttons represented.
I beat the game without using a guide, yes. But when I tried to play Scratches, I could barely make any progress on my own and had to keep cheating with guides. I ragequit eventually because it made me feel like such a moron.
Really, the puzzle where you use the telescope and mark down a direction, then press that button? I wasn't aware it was considered that difficult by anyone.
Now the rocketship and it's age can frick right off, the only bad part of the game IMHO.
I beat the game without using a guide, yes. But when I tried to play Scratches, I could barely make any progress on my own and had to keep cheating with guides. I ragequit eventually because it made me feel like such a moron.
Do you mean the tunnels with the sound? As far as the telescope, I thought you had do math for it to get the right degree, no?
Yes. As a kid as simply didn't understand how things related to each other.
When I replayed it I found that everything was very straight forward, you just need to understand how the ages work and then it pretty much gives you the answers.
Frick those rotating gears inside the clock though.
Myst and pokemon are both games I feel need faster UI for me to tolerate now. I go back to give it a fresh start and I keep pitying myself for putting up with it until remembering it was that or watching a VH1 top 30 countdown all day. Of course I put up with it, there was nothing else to do back then.
Back in the day I could play this sort of thing. Now I'm old and don't have the time and energy. I'm tired of pushing and pulling everything in the world to see what randomly changed. I'm tired of haruspicy and tea leaves and copying every vague piece of imagery because on the other side of the planet it'll be some incredibly contrived locker combination. I'm so burnt out on this I can't even get into La Mulana.
It really does exist for an era where there was no entertaining competition. Myst or...what the frick else? Myst or watch a VHS. I wonder what games Im putting up with now because I dont have 2030 stuff yet.
>I wonder what games Im putting up with now because I dont have 2030 stuff yet
I only see bullshit in our immediate future, but insane possibilities off in the distance if we can survive long enough to get there. AI isn't a reliable storyteller or artist but it gets terrifyingly close sometimes. VR is a kludgy overpriced gimmick but it won't be that way forever.
You make it sound like the 90s were the stone age. TV, music, bars, cinemas, public spaces all existed back then you know. I don't buy for one second that people who enjoy Myst were somehow forced into it by lack of options. You're either the type to get it or you aren't.
>bars, cinemas, public spaces
Kek all that shits outside though, myst was competing with tv, music and books and is far more interactive than any of those
This is "last place you looked" logic. I should have had the wherewithall to ask my parents to keep me entertained with leagues more entertainment than I knew I could have at the time by thinking of retroactive entertainment I hadnt considered yet? Remember, the 90's media was expensive. You could rent 3 movies and the blockbuster guy would argue that he didnt get it for 30minutes until he checked with the other guy who has the second bin in the back(because rentals all looked the same).
Maybe my next move is picking tomorrow's winning lottery numbers, I cant believe I dont have the foresight to pick them the last couple times, I mean I know those winning numbers, why didnt I pick them back then?
Win Ben Steins Money, Road Rules, Aaah real monsters, Doug, and the second half of The Bone Collector, Doom 1, Scorched Earth, dollar store pinball game floppies thats it, thats all there was, or look at best buy ads and imagine what your life would be like owning that stuff you'd never buy. Didnt even know about search engines until maybe 6th grade when surely dogpile was going to be the big one that lasted, so its not like I was gonna type "www.stufficandorightnowtopassthetimethatsmorefunthanmyst.com". It was myst or the 90's, 90's didnt suck but you didnt get a best-of-90s experience everyday, ace of base wasnt busting down my door on the daily because they saw my sign outside. This was back before the heavy demands of 16mb ram to run Unreal, this was when top graphics could give you Quake.
The frick? I'm not reading all that shit. If you're so utterly bored, there are a million other things to do than play one specific videogame, whatever decade you're in. Some cost money, some don't. I can't believe this even has to be explained.
>"Im not reading that thing that perfectly dismantles everything I said before and what Im about to say"
Weird to admit, but thanks for invalidating your opinions early before I committed more time. Whole thing's about stuff to do in the 90's dummy, why you think I contextually jumped to 30 years later is as funny as it is concerning
I'm the opposite, the older I get the less energy I have for action games unless they're short and focused. But thinking games like Myst, P&Cs and also strategy games I can still get completely engrossed in.
It really does exist for an era where there was no entertaining competition. Myst or...what the frick else? Myst or watch a VHS. I wonder what games Im putting up with now because I dont have 2030 stuff yet.
Nah, it just sounds like you guys lost your patience and sense of exploration as you got older.
Feels like my time is getting robbed for something better, like im reading a magazine frame by frame of a movie with subtitles in it versus just watching a movie. Ever go back to pokemon and everything in the game has a 0.8 second delay between actions and the text scrolls at your 3rd grade reading level even on fast? Its just a slideshow
I love exploration. Being tired of formulaic lock and key puzzles doesn't make me tired of exploring things. I'm all ready to delve into the wilderness that captured the hearts of our primitive ancestors and suddenly I have to arrange blinking lights to complement these other blinking lights from two hours ago
Oh, please, criticizing Myst of all things for having formulaic puzzles is moronic and you know it. There's nothing that satisfies that sense of exploration more than figuring out some mystery machine left behind by some untold ancients. It's not the game's fault you're such a brainlet it takes more than two hours to finish one age.
I remember being blown away by the 2000s version
That and escape from jurassic park made me want to gouge my eyes out when I got around playing Deus Ex cartoonishly ugly graphics and "physics"
Bought this game on GOG back in 2012, played 5 minutes, uninstalled, forgot about it.
Decided to try again 10 years later in 2022, puzzles just clicked, slideshow movement just made sense, became completely addicted, binge played the whole series with no spoilers or guide. I am also a dad now. The meme was real all along.
Idk about this one but I remember a substitute teacher I had in middle school for some reason made us all right essays about Myst 3.
I can't remember what the class subject was actually meant to be but it definitely wasn't "write a short story based off this pre-rendered background".
I think the sub we had just wanted us to help finish the game for her.
That seattle art style, the brown/red wood everything with glass and silver, bill gates house mixed with every planetarium or map room you've ever seen.
An age where I need to buy a CD-ROM drive for my PC?
Come on anon. We've had cd-rom virtualization for over 20 years now.
Every age is the right age to enjoy Myst.
Then why did it have a reputation as "that game with the surreal pictures your dad is into?"
It was for boomers to enjoy the pre-rendered backgrounds and lack of actual gameplay.
I'm forever passively remembering games which satisfy that description. I was always getting into people's computers to search for games and loading up whatever I could find
A lot of PC racing games of the era seemed to be targeting that audience.
Real pity.
Myst very often came bundled with new CD drives. People who weren't into games played Myst for curiosity's sake and some got hooked.
Is that really why everybody had it? I remember seeing it at everybody’s house I went to in the mid 90’s (america).
I always assumed it was just a viral game, had no idea it was a pack-in.
Because kids had shitty taste back then.
As opposed to kids of today who all have a great taste?
Yeah I’d say it’s for at least 13-14 year olds, so probably the majority of the posters here lol.
I played it a few years ago with RealMyst. Really blew me away, definitely one of the best /vr/ ever made. But you gotta play it with a pencil and paper to get the most out of it. A guide ruins it.
This was always the game your friend’s older cousin had and when you tried to play it as a kid you could never get past the hubworld
this, outside of a few parts you shouldn't have any major problems with this game at any age or lets say any age past early childhood
What about ages beyond Myst?
I played it a couple years ago. The puzzles were mostly self-explanatory and easy. Shit that held me up turned out to be annoying pixel hunting homosexualry rather than a real puzzle. I liked the world but not much else. Riven looks a lot harder and more interesting but I don't know if I want to get bogged down playing something that will require me to fill up a notebook.
riven is really good, probably the best in the series. kinda hard though
>The puzzles were mostly self-explanatory and easy.
Don't tell me you knew the lighthouse puzzle without looking up a hint guide. I don't believe it. I only was able to solve it because I got lucky and hit the right button without knowing what the buttons represented.
I beat the game without using a guide, yes. But when I tried to play Scratches, I could barely make any progress on my own and had to keep cheating with guides. I ragequit eventually because it made me feel like such a moron.
Really, the puzzle where you use the telescope and mark down a direction, then press that button? I wasn't aware it was considered that difficult by anyone.
Now the rocketship and it's age can frick right off, the only bad part of the game IMHO.
Do you mean the tunnels with the sound? As far as the telescope, I thought you had do math for it to get the right degree, no?
IIRC, the telescope has degrees listed on it, so once you figure out which degree is zero on the dial it's smooth sailing.
I'm a fricking moron and am absolutely hopeless at puzzle games
It has nothing to do with age and everything to do with having patience.
>Are you now the right age to enjoy this game?
Frick this game
It was traumatic
Myst a shit
not interested in games that don't value replayability
Yes. As a kid as simply didn't understand how things related to each other.
When I replayed it I found that everything was very straight forward, you just need to understand how the ages work and then it pretty much gives you the answers.
Frick those rotating gears inside the clock though.
Ironically, I enjoyed this game when I was like 6, and now that I'm 28, I don't have the patience for it.
Myst and pokemon are both games I feel need faster UI for me to tolerate now. I go back to give it a fresh start and I keep pitying myself for putting up with it until remembering it was that or watching a VH1 top 30 countdown all day. Of course I put up with it, there was nothing else to do back then.
>Myst and pokemon are both games I feel need faster UI for me to tolerate now.
Even with zip-mode on? How would you even make it faster?
Holy shit, this is classic "why didnt you know that button did that?". Yeah I never knew that one.
Back in the day I could play this sort of thing. Now I'm old and don't have the time and energy. I'm tired of pushing and pulling everything in the world to see what randomly changed. I'm tired of haruspicy and tea leaves and copying every vague piece of imagery because on the other side of the planet it'll be some incredibly contrived locker combination. I'm so burnt out on this I can't even get into La Mulana.
It really does exist for an era where there was no entertaining competition. Myst or...what the frick else? Myst or watch a VHS. I wonder what games Im putting up with now because I dont have 2030 stuff yet.
>I wonder what games Im putting up with now because I dont have 2030 stuff yet
I only see bullshit in our immediate future, but insane possibilities off in the distance if we can survive long enough to get there. AI isn't a reliable storyteller or artist but it gets terrifyingly close sometimes. VR is a kludgy overpriced gimmick but it won't be that way forever.
You make it sound like the 90s were the stone age. TV, music, bars, cinemas, public spaces all existed back then you know. I don't buy for one second that people who enjoy Myst were somehow forced into it by lack of options. You're either the type to get it or you aren't.
>bars, cinemas, public spaces
Kek all that shits outside though, myst was competing with tv, music and books and is far more interactive than any of those
This is "last place you looked" logic. I should have had the wherewithall to ask my parents to keep me entertained with leagues more entertainment than I knew I could have at the time by thinking of retroactive entertainment I hadnt considered yet? Remember, the 90's media was expensive. You could rent 3 movies and the blockbuster guy would argue that he didnt get it for 30minutes until he checked with the other guy who has the second bin in the back(because rentals all looked the same).
Maybe my next move is picking tomorrow's winning lottery numbers, I cant believe I dont have the foresight to pick them the last couple times, I mean I know those winning numbers, why didnt I pick them back then?
Win Ben Steins Money, Road Rules, Aaah real monsters, Doug, and the second half of The Bone Collector, Doom 1, Scorched Earth, dollar store pinball game floppies thats it, thats all there was, or look at best buy ads and imagine what your life would be like owning that stuff you'd never buy. Didnt even know about search engines until maybe 6th grade when surely dogpile was going to be the big one that lasted, so its not like I was gonna type "www.stufficandorightnowtopassthetimethatsmorefunthanmyst.com". It was myst or the 90's, 90's didnt suck but you didnt get a best-of-90s experience everyday, ace of base wasnt busting down my door on the daily because they saw my sign outside. This was back before the heavy demands of 16mb ram to run Unreal, this was when top graphics could give you Quake.
The frick? I'm not reading all that shit. If you're so utterly bored, there are a million other things to do than play one specific videogame, whatever decade you're in. Some cost money, some don't. I can't believe this even has to be explained.
>"Im not reading that thing that perfectly dismantles everything I said before and what Im about to say"
Weird to admit, but thanks for invalidating your opinions early before I committed more time. Whole thing's about stuff to do in the 90's dummy, why you think I contextually jumped to 30 years later is as funny as it is concerning
I'm the opposite, the older I get the less energy I have for action games unless they're short and focused. But thinking games like Myst, P&Cs and also strategy games I can still get completely engrossed in.
Yeah a diet of energy drinks and Snickers will do that to you. Hit the gym.
Nah, it just sounds like you guys lost your patience and sense of exploration as you got older.
Feels like my time is getting robbed for something better, like im reading a magazine frame by frame of a movie with subtitles in it versus just watching a movie. Ever go back to pokemon and everything in the game has a 0.8 second delay between actions and the text scrolls at your 3rd grade reading level even on fast? Its just a slideshow
I love exploration. Being tired of formulaic lock and key puzzles doesn't make me tired of exploring things. I'm all ready to delve into the wilderness that captured the hearts of our primitive ancestors and suddenly I have to arrange blinking lights to complement these other blinking lights from two hours ago
Oh, please, criticizing Myst of all things for having formulaic puzzles is moronic and you know it. There's nothing that satisfies that sense of exploration more than figuring out some mystery machine left behind by some untold ancients. It's not the game's fault you're such a brainlet it takes more than two hours to finish one age.
I remember being blown away by the 2000s version
That and escape from jurassic park made me want to gouge my eyes out when I got around playing Deus Ex cartoonishly ugly graphics and "physics"
I played the first three myst games in my mid to late 30s and had a good time.
Bought this game on GOG back in 2012, played 5 minutes, uninstalled, forgot about it.
Decided to try again 10 years later in 2022, puzzles just clicked, slideshow movement just made sense, became completely addicted, binge played the whole series with no spoilers or guide. I am also a dad now. The meme was real all along.
Idk about this one but I remember a substitute teacher I had in middle school for some reason made us all right essays about Myst 3.
I can't remember what the class subject was actually meant to be but it definitely wasn't "write a short story based off this pre-rendered background".
I think the sub we had just wanted us to help finish the game for her.
Wtf? Did she have you all play it in class?
Why do I immediately associate this game with snooty fricks who own Apple computers and listen to NPR?
because you're a zoomie
If I was a zoomie I'd just think that was normal.
That seattle art style, the brown/red wood everything with glass and silver, bill gates house mixed with every planetarium or map room you've ever seen.