It scared me as well. I think it's because I kept anticipating walking into other people. I blame other computer games of the time like DOOM. Plus, then there's books with people/videos yelling and seeming freaked out.
Coming back and seeing this makes me excited for the Starry Expanse project, which started as a fan project remastering Riven in the same vein as the realMyst remaster, and is now officially sanctioned.
The actors in the books are the creators of the game Robyn and Rand Miller!!! I LOVE Myst!!! My favorite game of all time!!!! Nice job taking us back!!! :) :)
I don't care what anyone says that time knew how to draw out the emotion in people through music visuals creepy 90s era style of work and it was so amazing to me
I remember being in high school in 1996, and the first time I heard of this game was when a friend in band class mentioned it to me. It was the best thing I ever begged my mother to buy for me, and I played it on the brand new Acer desktop she had just gotten for me. It was the beginning of lots of wonderful gaming memories I had with that Acer before it finally went kaput 12 years later.
It's a WHOLE NEW let's play for you to enjoy in its _entirety_ right now! Over four hours of puzzle-solving adventures ready for you to marathon through right now! I hope you enjoy, and thanks for watching!
I’m 4 years late in finding this, but I’m glad I did. My son was 6 yrs old when he and I played this on my IBM. We made notes as well, drawing detailed pictures. It led to a lifelong passion for video gaming on both our parts. Sadly, he passed away in 2015; I feel I was meant to find this now, in true Myst fashion! Thank you so much for the happy memories!!
This was my favorite game of all time....not just for the freedom to walk around and explore....but the overall feel...the music, the visuals. It was fantastic.
I played this game when it first came out. I loved it. It appeals to the right hemisphere of the brain which requires intuition and seeing the forest for the trees. You can't come at it with presuppositions. You first have to explore as much as you can. Then you start making connections which for me was very exciting.
Such an amazing time we live in. Here I am watching your video and had the same experience as you, playing this with my father on our Packard Bell, now watching you play the remake because I cant remember what the hell to do as I am playing this now in Virtual Reality.
I played this game as a little kid too, but I could never wrap my head around the puzzles. I have come back to this version and it's still difficult. When I dropped on that island it brought so many memories back. It's just like you, I don't remember the puzzles, but I remember the world. That's why this game touched me.
Haha! I went back and looked in the boxes and there’s pages and pages of notes and diagrams we took trying to figure stuff out. Screenshots are much better. But the notes are cool as an added bonus to my memories
I loved the reference at 5:40 about never forgetting details of old games. My friends and I played Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and Time Splitters non stop back in the day. Goldeneye multiplayer on Complex was epic
Great comments during the video! I laughed out loud a lot :D especially because you are litterally exploring for the first time. I aready know the Island very well so it is fun to watch!
I know I'm about to be flamed for being a prude or some similar term, but I wish this walkthrough series didn't have so much language in it because I would LOVE to show this to my kids to get them interested in such a landmark historical game. It's presented so well and Jon has a great voice that's calming and immersive.
Sorry about that! Now that I have kids myself, I totally understand and appreciate this feedback. I don't make many videos on here anymore- but when I do, they'll be free of swears 😊 ... but the cussing wasn't that bad in this video, was it?
one of the many things i love about myst is that the player character is actually the player(or so I think) - YOU find the Myst book, YOU are transported to the island, YOU solve the puzzles
Im running an old PC from 2009-2010 with good hardware from the time and I got major lag issues. probably just decade-old hardware. the game looks beautiful, I love standing by the spaceship and watching the sunset. also in free-roam, set your speed to highest, then hit caps lock on. this makes you "run" and the movement speed is much higher and better. great video, thanks.
+Sir Percival Paladin I remember this game scaring me when I was little. The emptiness of the world made me feel that someone would pop out at any moment and scare me...
Ericha leigh i would also watch my dad play this... at the time it felt so epic as in lifes secrets would be revealed at the end. had it on the p133 amazing graphics at the time.
If I could go back in time and play MYST for the first time all over again, I'd give my give my firstborn right testicle. Alas, I get to watch Let's Plays on UA-cam and I am totally game. MYST is a frickin' experience. I hope you have enough fun that you don't rage quit.
Jon, you are playing a classic. This game is one of the oldest and most venerable adventure games of all time. I would honestly say that this beautiful void, as it's called, DEFINED the puzzle-adventure genre. I hope you enjoy it. It's worth every penny.
He did enjoy it. 20 years ago. That's about the time I tried to play this the first time. I hated it. For some reason could not make it past the music puzzle. I played it again about 10 years ago. I still didn't love it, since it was clunky for that time, but I enjoyed the puzzles. In fact, I played through the entire trilogy back then. I also have Myst 4, but never finished it. I remember almost nothing about it. Maybe I will watch this.
Brax1982 I have never been able to find Myst 4. Got Myst, Riven, and Myst 5 as part of the Cyan Steam Pack, and I got Myst 3, but I was never able to get Myst 4. Had to read up on it. A true bittersweet ending, that one.
WatcherCCG I'm gonna watch a Letsplay of Myst 4 one of these days. I didn't really manage to get into that one. The free-roaming style doesn't make things easier. Before playing it I heard much about Riven being so difficult, but I finished it without any help. I thought that game was the most logical adventure/puzzle game I ever played. That was so cool. Even though I cannot remember anything any more I still remember the feeling of finally playing that game and enjoying the hell out of its atmosphere (not puzzles so much, I think). Myst 3 was tougher, actually. I believe that was my favorite. But this original Myst was more frustrating than the others. Probably the toughest.
This was an amazing walk-through. You don't give anything away. You have a great personality and I love how you and your father played it.y father passed away after I discovered the myst games but I know he would love it. We used to play on our commodore 64 games where you had to type the write the right answwr/line to continue. It reminds me of that. Thank you! Great laughs too. I hope you do Rivens.
Watching this on February 4th - *my birthday* - only to see you scrolling slowly to February 5th, your birthday, and for a brief moment I was questioning reality until you stopped on the 5th, not 4th. Lol Nevertheless, this game TORTUREDDDD me as a kid - I could *NEVER* get anywhere with it - and now I’m here trying to see just how it’s done; thanks for the trip down memory lane. And hey, happy bday tomorrow! 🎉
Jon Is watching this set me in a tailspin! I downloaded the version for iOS and regret it already! Lol it’s different from the desktop version, and naturally, I’m stumped! Thanks a lot! Lol 😋
Also if you get the chance I'd really like to see you do a Riven walkthrough I know theres others out there but, I haven't played it before and if you're going to do one I'd rather wait watch yours.
This was a very happy walk down memory lane for me. I was a young adult when I first played MYST. Like you and your dad, I took notes like mad (better notes than I took in college). Filled the journal from cover to cover. Sadly, I have misplaced that journal. Could finish the game in no time, if I had it. Recent downloaded all the version of MYST from a gaming service. The original game play like crap on a today's machines, by realMYST did the trick. The music, ah, don't get me started. It has to be one of the BEST game score ever composed.
Have you heard if they are planning to do the rest of the series like "RealMyst"? I found a game play of Riven, but the constant jumping from frame to frame as the player clicked along was hard on my eyes. The scenes were pretty though.
There is an independent group working on converting Riven to realtime 3D - but they're only like 10% finished after working on it for years and years. Seems like it'll never be completed.
Great game just got it and I did played it when it first came out ..... Now 70 years off age still remember it .... :-) I still have the disk .... using doxbox ....
Thank you for doing this video, I got the game, started it, and was wondering what in the world am I meant to be looking for. SO now i know how to start it off, glad to know that there is no clues, you just have to figure it out as you go. Also good to have some background. Thank you, Right off I go back into the world of Myst.
I know its been difficult to post a lot of Game Time videos, giving all the grief with UA-cam, but I sincerely love this series and I hope you continue to release it! Thanks for the laughs!
Hipzip 14 Obviously! Anything specific you'd like to see next? Lots of votes for "Super Mario Sunshine" in the last poll I ran, but I just finished with Mario RPG.
Mostly because I was like 12 and didn't have the abstract cognition/spatial reasoning skills developed for it yet. That and this game requires an appreciation of delayed gratification that 12 year olds don't do so great. They tend to be more into Halo....which didn't exist then. So, Quake. We'll go with Quake.
Yeah, this game was too hard for me to figure out at that age. I really really really wanted it, and asked my dad for it for Christmas and everything and I was so excited and played for hours, getting nowhere until I asked him to buy me the guidebook. And then it just felt like work. I only recently started playing games again (just got a Switch and just beat Zelda and am now enjoying Skyrim) at 33!!
@ panda sounds EXACTLY like my experience with Myst. Just started to get back into games myself and bought Obduction last week. Its like a massive beautiful escape room. So awesome.
I remember buying this in college. I had a 4x CD player and an overkill 486 setup. I think I paid 4k back then. I remember the excitement to get back to it. Starting it again after so many years is going to be a treat.
I played the og version on PC like back in the early 2000s and, once it was finished, there was no real replayability because you still had your notes, you know where the last page is, and you know where the last puzzle is... Later versions of the game randomized which grid-pattern you needed each game and actually locked the last page up instead of just leaving it out in the open.
I was, and still am, a huge fan of the Myst series. But it seems the best way I can recapture the magic is to vicariously experience it through others. This is what the let's play format was made for, and I loved it despite the framerate.
Was really young when Myst came out and never completed it, but can totally relate to that nostalgia around it. Oh and also played it on a Packard Bell originally hahaha. Currently playing through on Oculus and got a little lost. Thanks for the walkthrough!
The prologue only makes sense if you've read the novel "The Book of Atrus". Otherwise, it's confusing as hell. What Atrus is commenting on is his escape form Riven. He trapped his father Gehn there and intended to use the linking book to Myst as he held it over a fire to ensure that there was no way for Gehn to escape. It didn't work out that way exactly, as Atrus' grandmother and future wife (Catherine) were already making alterations into the age while he was there. They wrote the 'star fissure' into the world, which was the huge starry crack that opened in the ground. Atrus jumped in, used the Myst linking book to escape, and the book continued falling into the rift (which is what we see in the opening). As to where it ended up, he has no idea, and it worries him. That's what his opening rumination is about. Unfortunately, the first game explains none of this whatsoever.
I am born 1982 and I remember this game well it is one of my very first pc games Command And Conquer is the only one to be my first.. luckily.. I didnt get very far in Myst but I got pretty far :) Loved it. Thanks!
I can't explain it but the original Myst was the most immersive experience for me. At the time it felt like the place actually existed. When I tried RealMyst I found it had more visual information - maybe too much. It required less imagination.
I found several old CDs from back when my family used a foot-thick computer that took ages to boot up, and played a few that did actually work on my pretty new desktop PC. Atlantis: Search for the Lost Journal, Survivor and Toy Story Activity Center. Major nostalgia from those games. Interesting game though, Myst... sure is "realMystifying"!
I’m so happy to see someone who has no idea what they’re doing playing this game!! I wish I didn’t have the game nearly memorized because I’d love to experience it again not knowing a thing and trying to figure it out without help! So cool to see you figure things out. Very funny too!!
I played with my dad on a packard bell too 😄😄. Must have been 15 or 16. I just downloaded it through Steam. It works. I'm so excited. A trip down memory lane. 😊😊😊
@ 5:40 - "you go back to those old maps, like the temple map, and the facility, you still know your way around those bathroom stalls at that soviet dam" You're god damn right I do. And I still know how to get through Rock Tunnel to Lavender Town too.
"...even the menu's a puzzle..", LoL! Subscribed, this is great. I just installed the entire Myst/Riven/Uru Anniversary bundle from Steam. Had several puzzle's that took me MONTHS to figure out and sometimes had to have friends help me out. Great to revisit these worlds. Also, I'm the only one I know (in my personal life) that own both Myst and Riven Soundtracks.
I had this game with the walkthru.... It's puzzles were sofa king cryptic... I watched the playthru and ending on YT. Saved months of my life no doubt! lol
I had this game at one point. Somehow I lost it. However the pixels in it were very glitchy. In the ship part down stairs no matter what I did there was nothing I could see or do. I miss this game so much. Wouldn't mind trying to get it in my possession again. I always loved the music though.
Thank you so much for doing this walkthrough. I got this game with the notorious Barbie PC when I was 6 years old and always wanted to play because it looked so cool, but had nooooo fucking clue what was going on. And of course, as you said, they cannot be played on newer operating systems. Its so satisfying to actually see what's supposed to be happening
In July 1994, my brother and his wife lure me down to their place to "have some fun." Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight! I get there Thursday night...they introduce me to this monster...Friday morning, I start playing and...NO KIDDING!!...I didn't stop until I'd solved it Sunday night! This was the most amazing game I have EVER played. (Yes,......I am a geek...nerd...whatever!)
Also, I feel secondhand embarrassment reading all the comments from rude people here. This is a really enjoyable video series, and it's a great way to re-experience one of my favorite games of all time.
Still one of the greatest games ever made. This game changed everything. The immersive storytelling. The entire gameplay mechanic where you have no clue what you're even supposed to do. The graphics. First game released entirely on CD-ROM. How many games prompted people to go out and buy notebooks that they could draw maps in, and take notes in and sketch the clues they were finding?
Dude.... are you like my brother or something? I'm 35 and my dad and I also played Myst on a packard bell dx2 50 486. What an awesome thing to be able to relate with someone. Cheers to dad's that can game with their kids!
I can totally relate to everything you said about playing this with your father, golden eye, perfect dark, etc. Also we are almost the exact same age! Good stuff
Lol, I was born Feb 22, 1986 @8:05pm. I shared the same experiences that you speak of with the original Myst. This game if anything, has taught me patience as a young kid. For a 60mhz computer to load the next static image, it took around 2 seconds per click, which is a lot considering all you do is click, lol.
It's interesting what you say about remembering the graphics being great. I have that with all games of my childhood, too. I wonder why the mind remembers things in such a positive light. I don't have time to watch the entire lets play right now, so I'll wait for the episodes to come out. Really looking forward to seeing it all though :)
All 7 games are being updated for WIN10 in Cyan's Kickstarter for Myst's 25th anniversary www.kickstarter.com/projects/1252280491/myst-25th-anniversary-collection/description
The games actually need to be worked on. 1993 was a LONG time ago and even Riven isn't even officially supported on Win7, so yes, they do need work. It's really semantics though. The 7 Myst games WILL work on Win10 in a few months.
Perhaps I misunderstood you. The games are obviously going to be ported to work on newer systems, but - strictly speaking - they're not being "updated" the way Myst was for "RealMYST"... you get me? Sorry if I confused you, haha.
We had this on the after school program from when was in elementary school. None of us were able to do anything except wonder aimlessly through the world.
i love that you mentioned playing with your dad! i did the same with this game. my dad beat it and i claimed i could do the same. he helped me with all of it lol
Was my 1st game that i buy ever when release ...i was playing it on my intel 100 mhz cpu if i remember well ..lovely years i see now u complete it at 30 minutes i was playing that and finished it in 3 months all my summer then ...good days!!!AMAZING GAME from amazing creators true artists ,CYAN we need u make more games !!!!BTW if u want something similar with new age graphics and from CYAN ofcourse try to play OBDUCTION...good game too i started before few days.
I don't know why, but this game scared me so much as a kid. A great game, though!
Ben Grieve - me too! Its strange isn't it but also I couldn't solve it either.
Ben Grieve Scared me too!!!!
It is the isolation. And the lack of instructions. It is creepy to be so alone and not know what you need to do.
It still scares me!!! :D
It scared me as well. I think it's because I kept anticipating walking into other people. I blame other computer games of the time like DOOM. Plus, then there's books with people/videos yelling and seeming freaked out.
Coming back and seeing this makes me excited for the Starry Expanse project, which started as a fan project remastering Riven in the same vein as the realMyst remaster, and is now officially sanctioned.
Will it ever get completed though? It's been in development Hell for like a decade now with almost no real progress.
@@Jon wow, has it really? I just found out about it… I’d love to see it completed but given that detail it doesn’t seem likely.
@@Derekthepersonable Their Twitter account was opened 13 years ago. Only two posts since 2018 though. Would love an update... but not looking great.
I can remember being so like “wtf do you want from me?!” Playing this years ago... it’s such a good but frustrating game 😂
I got this game when I was like 7 and was just like…”this is for grown ups”
Same here! I was WTF! I HATE this game! Reading, patience taking notes! You want to make Diablo players happy? Turn all 3 diablos into Myst!
Loved this as a kid, so many memories but I will admit, i never made it far....way too confusing, but still so captivating.
The actors in the books are the creators of the game Robyn and Rand Miller!!! I LOVE Myst!!! My favorite game of all time!!!! Nice job taking us back!!! :) :)
MYST easter eggs
I don't care what anyone says that time knew how to draw out the emotion in people through music visuals creepy 90s era style of work and it was so amazing to me
Dillon Mann you should play Outer Wilds! I came to this LP because I just finished the story and it reminded me of Myst.
I remember being in high school in 1996, and the first time I heard of this game was when a friend in band class mentioned it to me. It was the best thing I ever begged my mother to buy for me, and I played it on the brand new Acer desktop she had just gotten for me. It was the beginning of lots of wonderful gaming memories I had with that Acer before it finally went kaput 12 years later.
What instrument did you play in band? I play clarinet
Lol
Are you Dutch
Mysttt
@@klowey It was a flute. Yikes, this was ages ago, lol.
@@Domino365 Wow, yeah. I was a freshman when I wrote that lol
It's a WHOLE NEW let's play for you to enjoy in its _entirety_ right now! Over four hours of puzzle-solving adventures ready for you to marathon through right now! I hope you enjoy, and thanks for watching!
Literally transports me back into time. I almost feel completely like the teenager that I was back then were it not for my arthritis.
I’m 4 years late in finding this, but I’m glad I did. My son was 6 yrs old when he and I played this on my IBM. We made notes as well, drawing detailed pictures. It led to a lifelong passion for video gaming on both our parts. Sadly, he passed away in 2015; I feel I was meant to find this now, in true Myst fashion! Thank you so much for the happy memories!!
Can’t wait to watch part 2.
This was my favorite game of all time....not just for the freedom to walk around and explore....but the overall feel...the music, the visuals. It was fantastic.
I played this game when it first came out. I loved it. It appeals to the right hemisphere of the brain which requires intuition and seeing the forest for the trees. You can't come at it with presuppositions. You first have to explore as much as you can. Then you start making connections which for me was very exciting.
Such an amazing time we live in. Here I am watching your video and had the same experience as you, playing this with my father on our Packard Bell, now watching you play the remake because I cant remember what the hell to do as I am playing this now in Virtual Reality.
I played this game as a little kid too, but I could never wrap my head around the puzzles. I have come back to this version and it's still difficult. When I dropped on that island it brought so many memories back. It's just like you, I don't remember the puzzles, but I remember the world. That's why this game touched me.
after 25 years I got to see farther on the game than i ever did trying to play the game.
Me with Shivers, lol
I remember this game too. Just the world it took place in was amazing.
Haha! I went back and looked in the boxes and there’s pages and pages of notes and diagrams we took trying to figure stuff out. Screenshots are much better. But the notes are cool as an added bonus to my memories
GalaxyDreaming yes notes!! lol
haha, yes! i had a notebook at my side when i played this!
I loved the reference at 5:40 about never forgetting details of old games. My friends and I played Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and Time Splitters non stop back in the day. Goldeneye multiplayer on Complex was epic
"Even the fucking menu is part puzzle. Jesus."
Sold. I like you.
Haha, thanks :-)
Made me laugh out loud 😂
Hilarious.... "Myst has a great way of making you feel like you've made progress when you really haven't." Love it thanks
Great comments during the video! I laughed out loud a lot :D especially because you are litterally exploring for the first time. I aready know the Island very well so it is fun to watch!
I just bought this on oculus. I never played it as a kid.
I remember the notebooks we would create for games like mist and the old kings quest games. - certainly don't get those types of puzzles anymore.
I know I'm about to be flamed for being a prude or some similar term, but I wish this walkthrough series didn't have so much language in it because I would LOVE to show this to my kids to get them interested in such a landmark historical game. It's presented so well and Jon has a great voice that's calming and immersive.
Sorry about that! Now that I have kids myself, I totally understand and appreciate this feedback. I don't make many videos on here anymore- but when I do, they'll be free of swears 😊
... but the cussing wasn't that bad in this video, was it?
one of the many things i love about myst is that the player character is actually the player(or so I think) - YOU find the Myst book, YOU are transported to the island, YOU solve the puzzles
Correct!
Im running an old PC from 2009-2010 with good hardware from the time and I got major lag issues. probably just decade-old hardware. the game looks beautiful, I love standing by the spaceship and watching the sunset. also in free-roam, set your speed to highest, then hit caps lock on. this makes you "run" and the movement speed is much higher and better. great video, thanks.
Good to hear someone else bonded with their father with these old games... good times.
When I was a kid, my favorite game was Donkey Kong 64, whenever I go back and play that game, so many memories come back to me.
i remember being little watching dad play this! i was never any good
+Sir Percival Paladin I remember this game scaring me when I was little. The emptiness of the world made me feel that someone would pop out at any moment and scare me...
Ericha leigh i would also watch my dad play this... at the time it felt so epic as in lifes secrets would be revealed at the end. had it on the p133 amazing graphics at the time.
Ericha leigh me too
If I could go back in time and play MYST for the first time all over again, I'd give my give my firstborn right testicle. Alas, I get to watch Let's Plays on UA-cam and I am totally game. MYST is a frickin' experience. I hope you have enough fun that you don't rage quit.
Omg I Love this game!! Just recently downloaded this and Riven onto my android phone and tablet! So many happy hours solving good complex puzzles!❤
"Bonding with my father"
I was just playing this with my dad last night.
Only for the hints.
Jon, you are playing a classic. This game is one of the oldest and most venerable adventure games of all time. I would honestly say that this beautiful void, as it's called, DEFINED the puzzle-adventure genre. I hope you enjoy it. It's worth every penny.
He did enjoy it. 20 years ago. That's about the time I tried to play this the first time. I hated it. For some reason could not make it past the music puzzle. I played it again about 10 years ago. I still didn't love it, since it was clunky for that time, but I enjoyed the puzzles. In fact, I played through the entire trilogy back then. I also have Myst 4, but never finished it.
I remember almost nothing about it. Maybe I will watch this.
Brax1982 I have never been able to find Myst 4. Got Myst, Riven, and Myst 5 as part of the Cyan Steam Pack, and I got Myst 3, but I was never able to get Myst 4. Had to read up on it. A true bittersweet ending, that one.
WatcherCCG I'm gonna watch a Letsplay of Myst 4 one of these days. I didn't really manage to get into that one. The free-roaming style doesn't make things easier.
Before playing it I heard much about Riven being so difficult, but I finished it without any help. I thought that game was the most logical adventure/puzzle game I ever played. That was so cool. Even though I cannot remember anything any more I still remember the feeling of finally playing that game and enjoying the hell out of its atmosphere (not puzzles so much, I think). Myst 3 was tougher, actually. I believe that was my favorite.
But this original Myst was more frustrating than the others. Probably the toughest.
This was an amazing walk-through. You don't give anything away. You have a great personality and I love how you and your father played it.y father passed away after I discovered the myst games but I know he would love it. We used to play on our commodore 64 games where you had to type the write the right answwr/line to continue. It reminds me of that. Thank you! Great laughs too. I hope you do Rivens.
Glad you enjoyed it! I hope to Riven some time next year, actually - so stay tuned.
This is one of my favourite walkthroughs on youtube right now
Glad you're enjoying it! Thanks for watching :)
Watching this on February 4th - *my birthday* - only to see you scrolling slowly to February 5th, your birthday, and for a brief moment I was questioning reality until you stopped on the 5th, not 4th. Lol Nevertheless, this game TORTUREDDDD me as a kid - I could *NEVER* get anywhere with it - and now I’m here trying to see just how it’s done; thanks for the trip down memory lane. And hey, happy bday tomorrow! 🎉
Thanks!
Jon Is watching this set me in a tailspin! I downloaded the version for iOS and regret it already! Lol it’s different from the desktop version, and naturally, I’m stumped! Thanks a lot! Lol 😋
The presentation style on this is so relaxing, great job.
Thanks :)
Also if you get the chance I'd really like to see you do a Riven walkthrough I know theres others out there but, I haven't played it before and if you're going to do one I'd rather wait watch yours.
I think I might end up LPing the entire Myst series, honestly. Will probably take a while though, haha!
This was a very happy walk down memory lane for me. I was a young adult when I first played MYST. Like you and your dad, I took notes like mad (better notes than I took in college). Filled the journal from cover to cover. Sadly, I have misplaced that journal. Could finish the game in no time, if I had it. Recent downloaded all the version of MYST from a gaming service. The original game play like crap on a today's machines, by realMYST did the trick. The music, ah, don't get me started. It has to be one of the BEST game score ever composed.
Have you heard if they are planning to do the rest of the series like "RealMyst"? I found a game play of Riven, but the constant jumping from frame to frame as the player clicked along was hard on my eyes. The scenes were pretty though.
There is an independent group working on converting Riven to realtime 3D - but they're only like 10% finished after working on it for years and years. Seems like it'll never be completed.
@@Jon thanks for letting me know. I hope they do finish it. The Myst series looks like a good set of games and I hope to play them someday.
Great game just got it and I did played it when it first came out ..... Now 70 years off age still remember it .... :-)
I still have the disk .... using doxbox ....
Oh my, the memories! This is my favorite all time game!
"Packard Bell".. that takes me back
I remember it very well. I loved it! I was lost in it! I struggled with it, but definitely the best ever game I have ever played
my dad and I loved playing this game. The music for some reason always creeped me out. It was such a cool game.
Thank you for doing this video, I got the game, started it, and was wondering what in the world am I meant to be looking for. SO now i know how to start it off, glad to know that there is no clues, you just have to figure it out as you go. Also good to have some background. Thank you, Right off I go back into the world of Myst.
hahahaha the glory of the myst confusion. It's so awesome to see because once you've done it everything is so obvi
I know its been difficult to post a lot of Game Time videos, giving all the grief with UA-cam, but I sincerely love this series and I hope you continue to release it! Thanks for the laughs!
Continue to release?
It's already uploaded in its entirety. There's nothing left for me here, haha :-)
Hahaha I meant continue to release more seasons. More games =)
Hipzip 14 Obviously! Anything specific you'd like to see next? Lots of votes for "Super Mario Sunshine" in the last poll I ran, but I just finished with Mario RPG.
***** I'm good with any choice, but I'm super looking forward to Uncharted 4, whenever it decides to come out.
***** What does Little Big Adventure! have to do with HipZip's comment?
Ugh this game took all the fun out of my childhood.
Mostly because I was like 12 and didn't have the abstract cognition/spatial reasoning skills developed for it yet. That and this game requires an appreciation of delayed gratification that 12 year olds don't do so great. They tend to be more into Halo....which didn't exist then. So, Quake. We'll go with Quake.
Yeah, this game was too hard for me to figure out at that age. I really really really wanted it, and asked my dad for it for Christmas and everything and I was so excited and played for hours, getting nowhere until I asked him to buy me the guidebook. And then it just felt like work. I only recently started playing games again (just got a Switch and just beat Zelda and am now enjoying Skyrim) at 33!!
@ panda sounds EXACTLY like my experience with Myst. Just started to get back into games myself and bought Obduction last week. Its like a massive beautiful escape room. So awesome.
Rubellite Fae I did too. I have fond memories of playing it all together as a family
I remember buying this in college. I had a 4x CD player and an overkill 486 setup. I think I paid 4k back then. I remember the excitement to get back to it. Starting it again after so many years is going to be a treat.
I played the og version on PC like back in the early 2000s and, once it was finished, there was no real replayability because you still had your notes, you know where the last page is, and you know where the last puzzle is... Later versions of the game randomized which grid-pattern you needed each game and actually locked the last page up instead of just leaving it out in the open.
I was, and still am, a huge fan of the Myst series. But it seems the best way I can recapture the magic is to vicariously experience it through others. This is what the let's play format was made for, and I loved it despite the framerate.
Dude! This video was amazing! Thank you!
Your reactions are exactly like mine when I first played this a few years ago 😆 I kept going "Oh shit!" when shit happened.
Thanks for this I recently bought the remaster and am beyond pumped to dive back into a childhood classic!
Was really young when Myst came out and never completed it, but can totally relate to that nostalgia around it. Oh and also played it on a Packard Bell originally hahaha. Currently playing through on Oculus and got a little lost. Thanks for the walkthrough!
The prologue only makes sense if you've read the novel "The Book of Atrus". Otherwise, it's confusing as hell. What Atrus is commenting on is his escape form Riven. He trapped his father Gehn there and intended to use the linking book to Myst as he held it over a fire to ensure that there was no way for Gehn to escape. It didn't work out that way exactly, as Atrus' grandmother and future wife (Catherine) were already making alterations into the age while he was there. They wrote the 'star fissure' into the world, which was the huge starry crack that opened in the ground. Atrus jumped in, used the Myst linking book to escape, and the book continued falling into the rift (which is what we see in the opening). As to where it ended up, he has no idea, and it worries him. That's what his opening rumination is about.
Unfortunately, the first game explains none of this whatsoever.
My father loved this game too, that and Crystal Key. I definitely had some great moments playing this game with him
It looks like the map at 5:25 has the texture positioned incorrectly. Surely the developers would have caught this?
Oh man, my Sega Saturn Days ❤
I am born 1982 and I remember this game well it is one of my very first pc games Command And Conquer is the only one to be my first.. luckily.. I didnt get very far in Myst but I got pretty far :) Loved it. Thanks!
I can't explain it but the original Myst was the most immersive experience for me. At the time it felt like the place actually existed. When I tried RealMyst I found it had more visual information - maybe too much. It required less imagination.
I love realmyst but nothing compares to playing it the original way. It seemed so much more 'real' back then... I also played this with my father.
Haha Jon, the commentary on this is hilarious:
Sirus: "who are you?"
Jon: "hi I'm Jonathan nice to meet you."
Glad you're enjoying it!
I found several old CDs from back when my family used a foot-thick computer that took ages to boot up, and played a few that did actually work on my pretty new desktop PC. Atlantis: Search for the Lost Journal, Survivor and Toy Story Activity Center. Major nostalgia from those games.
Interesting game though, Myst... sure is "realMystifying"!
Subscribed, love the gameplay and commentary ,good job !
Appreciate it, thanks!
Jon what system did you play it on originally?
I mentioned this literally within the first minute of the video... but an old Packard Bell desktop.
My dad used to play this game a lot! Look at those graphics tho.. impressive for 1993!
If this was the version from 1993, they sure would be.
@@Jon Wait..the version you're playing is remasterd I guess?😅
@@kalijnhuibregtse I mean, that's what I said in the title, description, and throughout the video itself - didn't I?
That constellation puzzle alone is good for the biggest head egg I'd ever had. But I loved it 25 years ago.
I’m so happy to see someone who has no idea what they’re doing playing this game!! I wish I didn’t have the game nearly memorized because I’d love to experience it again not knowing a thing and trying to figure it out without help! So cool to see you figure things out. Very funny too!!
Thanks!
I played this when it first came out and had no idea it was a puzzle game and switched it off after 10 mins!
I played with my dad on a packard bell too 😄😄. Must have been 15 or 16. I just downloaded it through Steam. It works. I'm so excited. A trip down memory lane. 😊😊😊
thanks for posting. I remember this game and the music. It transports me back to a peaceful time in my life.
@ 5:40 - "you go back to those old maps, like the temple map, and the facility, you still know your way around those bathroom stalls at that soviet dam"
You're god damn right I do. And I still know how to get through Rock Tunnel to Lavender Town too.
I laughed so hard when you were trying to save the game (not that I could have done it better. It just looked funny and relatable)
"...even the menu's a puzzle..", LoL! Subscribed, this is great. I just installed the entire Myst/Riven/Uru Anniversary bundle from Steam. Had several puzzle's that took me MONTHS to figure out and sometimes had to have friends help me out. Great to revisit these worlds. Also, I'm the only one I know (in my personal life) that own both Myst and Riven Soundtracks.
I love your walkthrough, this is the first video i'm viewing of yours, I'm hoping you do more of my fav games :D
Glad you're enjoying it!
Keyhole indicates that it is the key to the puzzle. The book indicates where the linking book is that the key opens.
I had this game with the walkthru.... It's puzzles were sofa king cryptic... I watched the playthru and ending on YT. Saved months of my life no doubt!
lol
I had this game at one point. Somehow I lost it. However the pixels in it were very glitchy. In the ship part down stairs no matter what I did there was nothing I could see or do. I miss this game so much. Wouldn't mind trying to get it in my possession again. I always loved the music though.
this series has reminded me I still need to go finish Riven and Myst IV. Well there goes my next several weekends.
Thank you so much for doing this walkthrough. I got this game with the notorious Barbie PC when I was 6 years old and always wanted to play because it looked so cool, but had nooooo fucking clue what was going on. And of course, as you said, they cannot be played on newer operating systems. Its so satisfying to actually see what's supposed to be happening
Glad I was able to help! Thanks for stopping by :)
In July 1994, my brother and his wife lure me down to their place to "have some fun." Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight! I get there Thursday night...they introduce me to this monster...Friday morning, I start playing and...NO KIDDING!!...I didn't stop until I'd solved it Sunday night! This was the most amazing game I have EVER played. (Yes,......I am a geek...nerd...whatever!)
I randomly watched this video on 2/5/2019. Happy Birthday!
Isn't there an intro sequence in the holographic room at the beginning, or did that come later? Of the father talking?
Also, I feel secondhand embarrassment reading all the comments from rude people here. This is a really enjoyable video series, and it's a great way to re-experience one of my favorite games of all time.
Cool vid series. Love your enthusiasm and narration.
Still one of the greatest games ever made. This game changed everything. The immersive storytelling. The entire gameplay mechanic where you have no clue what you're even supposed to do. The graphics. First game released entirely on CD-ROM. How many games prompted people to go out and buy notebooks that they could draw maps in, and take notes in and sketch the clues they were finding?
WOW! I can't believe it's been 23 years!
Always loved this game
Dude.... are you like my brother or something? I'm 35 and my dad and I also played Myst on a packard bell dx2 50 486. What an awesome thing to be able to relate with someone. Cheers to dad's that can game with their kids!
+Chris Lemery Haha, glad to hear we shared a similar childhood :)
Same with me and my dad.
I can totally relate to everything you said about playing this with your father, golden eye, perfect dark, etc. Also we are almost the exact same age! Good stuff
Lol, I was born Feb 22, 1986 @8:05pm. I shared the same experiences that you speak of with the original Myst. This game if anything, has taught me patience as a young kid. For a 60mhz computer to load the next static image, it took around 2 seconds per click, which is a lot considering all you do is click, lol.
Hey yo Feb 22, 1982 here amigo. Pisces are way too empathic and emotional, but they are the best people, am I right?
Cihan Kenar Everyone born on the 22nd of Feb is the best in my book, lol.
So true! You are my nigga!
It's interesting what you say about remembering the graphics being great. I have that with all games of my childhood, too. I wonder why the mind remembers things in such a positive light.
I don't have time to watch the entire lets play right now, so I'll wait for the episodes to come out. Really looking forward to seeing it all though :)
Cool, hope you enjoy them :)
All 7 games are being updated for WIN10 in Cyan's Kickstarter for Myst's 25th anniversary www.kickstarter.com/projects/1252280491/myst-25th-anniversary-collection/description
While this is undeniably cool, they're not actually being _"updated"_ - just repackaged.
The games actually need to be worked on. 1993 was a LONG time ago and even Riven isn't even officially supported on Win7, so yes, they do need work. It's really semantics though. The 7 Myst games WILL work on Win10 in a few months.
I didn't say they didn't need work, I just corrected you that they aren't getting work.
If the games now, don't really work on Win10 but they will soon...... how does that happen if no one will work on them?
Perhaps I misunderstood you. The games are obviously going to be ported to work on newer systems, but - strictly speaking - they're not being "updated" the way Myst was for "RealMYST"... you get me? Sorry if I confused you, haha.
I played this game on an Apple desktop computer.
I also read a novel based on the world of Myst.
Played it years ago. Tried yesterday on son’s VR ~ trippy and now cooler.
I have to say, your channel is amazing,I’m hoping to be like you!
Appreciate that, thank you!
We had this on the after school program from when was in elementary school. None of us were able to do anything except wonder aimlessly through the world.
So much of my childhood was being afraid of one of the creatures in this. What a great game.
i love that you mentioned playing with your dad! i did the same with this game. my dad beat it and i claimed i could do the same. he helped me with all of it lol
Was my 1st game that i buy ever when release ...i was playing it on my intel 100 mhz cpu if i remember well ..lovely years i see now u complete it at 30 minutes i was playing that and finished it in 3 months all my summer then ...good days!!!AMAZING GAME from amazing creators true artists ,CYAN we need u make more games !!!!BTW if u want something similar with new age graphics and from CYAN ofcourse try to play OBDUCTION...good game too i started before few days.
Great time I had watching all of your videos you ever played zork? My introduction to p.c. games