@@willmiles7978Yeah I'm seriously just waiting for her to play it, I started watching it on GT Live but they didn't do much with it, I just know she'll be a great person to watch go through it ✨
I remember watching my dad play these games. One of the last conversations I had with him was how I was in a game funk and he said I should give these a go, a few months later he was diagnosed with an aggressive throat cancer and could no longer speak. we lost him just before Christmas last year. I'm so glad this won the spin, its still a fresh wound but its so nice to have these moments pop up and feel him with me again.
I'm sorry about your dad, and your story hits me a bit hard, as I'm the one person in my family that completely lacks musical talent and always had to have my dad do the Selentic Age opening for me. If you like puzzles, it's definitely a good series, though I felt it fell off a bit after 3. When your antagonist is portrayed by Brad Dourif, it's hard to top that, so further games probably suffered a loss of interest from me based on that.
I remember "playing" this game with my dad, but it was really just me watching him play. I was too young to really be of any help. A couple years later he played Riven and again it was me pretty much just watching, but at the end of the game he was struggling on the final puzzle and I told him the correct solution out of nowhere. It turns out that all the information I was absorbing while watching him play was enough to lead me to the solution.
2:42:30: the actor who plays Achenar is Cyan co-founder Rand Miller, who also played Atrus (the guy in the green book). His IRL brother and other co-founder of Cyan, Robyn Miller, played Sirrus, and was also the composer for Myst. Cyan is in the process of remaking Riven, and released a trailer for it a few months back. The original still holds up and is considered the best of the series, if you accept the more point-and-click nature of the game. Be prepared for a much larger undertaking: back in the day, Myst was only 1 CD; Riven was 5
I remember tables full of the boxes when the game came out, prominently displayed at a computer superstore, and I had no idea what this even was. Palpable nostalgia😳
@@pg9840 honestly not being point and click makes it harder which is why they changed some things that weren't super obvious like the lighter for the boiler
Myst and Riven have such a special place in my heart. My brother and I would play them together on the family computer in the early 2000s trying to solve the puzzles together. I've always loved them and the interesting storyline and lore. So awesome to see you experience it for the first time!!
This brings me back to sophomore year of college where my digital media professor gave the whole class the assignment to divide ourselves into teams and play this game. We were graded based on our communication with each other and our level of creativity in how we collectively chose to solve each puzzle
@racheltorres668 he was one of my favorite professors who preferred a hands on approach when it came to teaching history of digital media and video game development
When I was a little kid, my parents were playing this game with a pair of their friends for a little time each weekend. They got stuck and frustrated and gave up on it. I was told it's okay for me to try and I played through and solved the puzzles and eventually the game. My parents were so proud of me. This game has the most nostalgia, emotional weight of any game I've ever played (except Ultima iV) Thanks for playing through it. I really enjoyed watching you puzzle your way through.
Thank you so much for playing this Gab. It reminds me of being a teenager and getting so lost in that world and the books. I would visit my friends house to play and I'd spend hours just reading through and playing, I don't think I ever progressed to anything but that didn't matter to me at all. Such a vast realised world created that I could honestly spend forever exploring
Loved the original PC version. My wife, mother-in-law and I played these together but on separate computers, helping each other as we went along. Lost her mother 4 years ago and my wife passed last year. Thank you for bringing back those cherished memories.
MYST is my childhood! I literally grew up sharing a computer chair with my sister playing this game on my dads computer! That opening sound is such a nostalgia trip!
@@strawberrypillz2160 Yep that's true for me as well. I played the original version on my Dad's mid-90s Macintosh as a kid. I guess my dad liked that I liked it because puzzles engage your brain.
LOLAt 54:00 you say, "This goes so much bigger than I thought." My response? You ain't seen nothin' yet, girl. I played Myst 30 years ago and absolutely loved it. I also played every iteration of it that followed, including Riven and Uru. Googling the game, I've discovered there is now a VR version. OMG...the graphics and the scenery in the Myst games are just amazing. As an older (I'm now 67) female gamer (who hasn't done much in the last 15 years or so), I find the idea of a VR version intriguing. It is a pleasure watching you enjoy something I played decades ago. I'll have to take in more of your videos. 🙂
I came across the original Mac version by accident when it was bundled with a few other games with a new Mac delivered to my wife when she started working from home 30 years ago (yep its not new). We just loved the graphics, music and puzzles. As we had young kids then it took us months to complete as we only spent an hour or so per week on it. Yes we took our time. I still have my original notes!
MYST is what got me into playing games back in the early 90's. I spent weekends with my best friend taking turns on our old Apple computer, trying to figure out the puzzles with all our little notes and sketches next to the keyboard. I have followed Rob and Rand Miller every since, loving their works. Have been considering going back to MYST after all these years. Thank you for playing this, from a fresh perspective. Nearly got teary eyed with all the fond memories.
I remember exploring this game as a kid. I was too young to figure out most of the puzzles, but I had my mom's Myst journal to follow. My favorite age was Channelwood. It ended up giving me a thing for trees, which I've carried my whole life. There's a big cell tower in my town that's disguised as a big tree, and seeing that thing has always taken me back to Channelwood. And of course I've had to go visit the redwoods in California and sequoias along the west coast to get the real Channelwood experience. I also spent years playing the Tree Spirit challenge in Minecraft and running a server for hosting a community of people doing the same. That led me into the most important path of personal growth in my life, which I'm still traveling more than ten years after it started and almost 30 years since I last played Myst. This game has had quite a significant impact on my life.
Man! This version is so different from the game I grew up with. The original version was a point and click with live actors playing the characters. The music was also very cool, too! Regardless, I'm glad you're trying out this classic
The cool thing about this remake is it's VR compatible, too! A lot of the changes I think make so much sense, even though the original version is still my favorite.
@@terrylandess6072 In the original game Rand Miller played the parts of Atrus and Achenar. His brother and co-designer Robin played Sirrus. They played the parts themselves back then mainly to save money on the game's production.
I’m a very old fart who’s been a gamer from the beginning. You drew me in with Myst. I don’t laugh much anymore but you absolutely cracked me up with your swinging, walking monkey arms. You’ve got a wonderful spirit. Keep it up.
The Creators of this game wrote a series of books as well. Reading them gives a deeper understanding of the world of MYST. It does read a little like a journal, but that was the point of it. There is a collection book of all of them as well if you don't want to buy a bunch of separate books, its an all in one.
Thank you for playing Myst! This came up as #1 on YT for my morning coffee today! I was taken back to the 90s and the influence this game had on my life path right out of school. You're solving the puzzles much faster than I did, lol! While I don't comment on YT much in general, I often watch your channel while I'm coding (you have great game observations that have helped shape my projects) - Again, thank you from this old cat lady :D
yasss i saw this first thing today too n it amazed me seeing her solve stuff it took forever for me to figure out! altho the upgraded one makes it way easier to see playable objects an switches, the first one they were hidden in dark or obscured. i def needed help from my uncle on this game! ugh the lower subway levels... fackkkkkk lol. thanks for ur upload honey from another crazy cat lady
My brother and I got Myst for Christmas in 1993. We stayed up and beat it overnight. My parents were pissed because it was expensive for a game at the time. I have since played all 5 games in the series. This game was mind-blowing in 1993 and is still fun today. The Siberia series is also excellent.
@@NicholasStabile Most likely. For those that don't know while Myst URU was designed as a client for MMO play it does also have solo play. The solo play was expanded with 2 expansions after the MMO failed to gain traction.
I am beside myself when I saw that you played MYST. The game is my childhood! Please continue the MYST series, especially the sequel, RIVEN. I know you will love ZORK Nemesis too.
My dad played these games with my sister and I when it first came out. I cannot begin to explain how much those memories mean to me, huddling around that old brick of a computer with our puzzle notebook, entranced by the story, graphics (phenomenal at that time) and the innocent jump scares. Even just hearing the music gives me chills. We had to be too young to really help with the puzzles, but my dad made us feel like we were driving the ship, and he was just holding the mouse.
This game is one of my favorites because my mom and I used to play it (and also Riven and Exile) together when I was a kid! The music is SO nostalgic and takes me back right away to those times! I ABSOLUTELY recommend Riven, the sequel to Myst! In my opinion it’s much more interesting plot-wise, it features more characters, and the worlds/ages look beautiful!!
She mentions the game makes you close doors, and THAT was my bane in Riven since an important switch was hidden behind a door if you leave it open after entering.
Agreed, the music in both Myst and Riven is beautiful. In the subsequent games, to me, the music fell quite flat, disappointing and conventional, possessing none of the character of the original Myst worlds.
Oh man, I haven't played the remake yet, the fact that you can take back both pages now is so, so nice. In the original, you had to pick one, you couldn't physically carry both. So if you wanted to help both brothers, you had to go back to grab the other page. It was such a pain.
The Myst series means so much to me, I played them growing up as a child with my grandfather and mother, and then on my own when I was older. So much so that my 30th birthday this year will be Must themed. When my spouse sent me a message at work that you were playing this I COULD NOT WAIT to get home. Watching someone experience Myst for the first time fills me with such joy.
Myst and Riven are two of my most favorite video games. They are old but classic. Love the way it came with no instructions. You can start anywhere. The storyline has no set outline. One of the first. I’m sure it pissed off people when it first came out. But eventually you figured it out. A true mystery game. Thanks for playing it again. :~)
"Myst" was together with "The seventh guest" my first real video games as a young man in 1993. so these to games has a special place in my heart. Even the following games in the Myst-series (Riven, Exile, Revelation and so on) I still remember fondly.
Whenever I remember Myst, The 7th Guest also immediately comes back to mind! I've replayed Myst a handful of times since I was young, but I've never gotten my hands on 7th since. Maybe I should find it...
I want a Myst movie. Just a guy wandering around an island, looking at all this pretty stuff, pulling levers, flipping switches, pressing buttons, the occasional "Oh, I get it now..." Just that for 2.5 hrs.
@@nateman10 I was going to say that. There are three Myst books and they could definitely be adapted into movies or TV series, especially the first two.
My dad used to play this game with my brother and I when we were kids! Back on the old-school PC version, with two discs, and set camera angles! I used to be so freaked out by it, but my brother loved it. So cool to see you play it!
YAY FOR MYST!! I can't possibly put into text how wonderful it is to see this game again! This might be one of the earliest video games I ever played, my whole family used to sit in the living room crowded around the monitor for game night with Myst. Hope you have a blast playing! Thank you so much for this trip down memory lane Gab and I hope anyone interested checks the games out. There are like 4 sequels to enjoy! :D
One of my earliest memories is adults all huddled around one of those old tube computers trying to figure out MYST while the kids all watched Labyrinth
I've been binge watching your videos, because they made me feel so comfortable and you are so much fun to watch. Myst was one of my first adventures and there are so many memories connected to it. So this is a very special video to me!
The original Myst came out on September 24, 1993 for Windows 95 and was one of the first games to have all of the outstanding graphics of its time. The game did really well and spawned all sorts of other games inspired by its exploration that few games had before it. I played this game at my uncles house and remember having to swap out the floppy disks between books in the game.
Actually, Myst came out in September 1993 on Macintosh only and was created on Hypercard (which was an Apple only software). It got ported to Windows a few months later. As a Mac user, it was very exciting to get such a wonderful game on Mac first... Those days...
This video brings back some great memories. This game came out a couple of years before Windows 95. The original version ran on DOS. It was games like this, Riven and the Seventh Guest that made us install our first Pentium processors and upgrade our graphics cards. We actually had to jump through a couple of hoops to get graphic intense games like this to run on Windows 95 when it did come out.
This is one of my favorite games of all time. I don't think it totally holds up compared to modern games, but it was unbelievably influential. I actually just finished playing it in VR yesterday!
The direct sequel "Riven" was quite good. Larger worlds and more puzzles. But never updated/remade as far as I know. Then there were Myst III, IV, and V. Cyan only developed the last of those three, but they were decent games. There was also Uru, which was an MMO in the mythology of Myst. The idea was they would keep evolving it to add new Ages and puzzles, and you could encounter other players. It was kind of cool, but was a bit of a failure and never really got the updates promised.
This game also reminds me of early memories playing with my dad. He kept entire notebooks on the clues back before walkthroughs were easily accessible online. The warping sound of the Books always brings back so much good nostalgia.
I was so happy to find this. I played MYST when it was new in the early 90s, on CDs, on my little Mac desktop computer. Then moved on to Riven, which I don't think I ever fully solved. You're waaaaay better at gaming than I am so this was really nostalgic for me and fun to watch.
I remembered playing Myst back as a kiddo. I wasn't good, but I do remember playing it. Along with other games. Lighthouse: The Dark Being, 7th Guest, Riven. Ah, seeing this just brings back childhood. And me not being able to really solve puzzles.
"This must've been mindblowing back in 1993." Absolutely. My wife & I played it together, and it felt literally miraculous the first time we solved a puzzle that led us to a linking book. A new & different WORLD.
I love that you played this game. This was my very first computer game. I played it on a Windows 95 PC. I love the lore of the games. There are several games in the series, and I think Riven (the second Myst) was my favorite but the Myst 3 and Uru were also decent. Uru is the single player counterpart to Myst Online, which is still going by the way (it had a bit of a rocky start but dedicated fans helped bring it back). There are some official shards that are running and several community run shards as well as community created Ages. It's also completely free.
Sorry if this ends up as a duplicate as it appears my original comment got deleted. I had a link to the game's website but I guess UA-cam didn't like it LOL.
FYI: the fourth ending is literally just Atrus (dad, in the green book) saying "well good job now we're both stuck in here because you didn't bring the page so I could go back to Myst.", the end. Also the series has 5 "canon" games in total. Myst, Riven, Exile, Revelations, and End of Ages.
oh the nostalgia! I remember playing all myst games with my mom when I was younger. We had a little notebook with observations and a handdrawn map like a little adventurers book! I'm so happy to see you play this game
I had this on my Packard Bell 486SX back in the day. I worked 70 hours a week and never got around to it. All these years later, it's such a pleasure watching you play it for me. Your channel is the perfect spot to relax and enjoy our passion for games. The spookier the better Cheers!!
I don't remember what PC I played this on, but it must have been a decent one, because I do not remember it lagging much. I was a Computer Tech back then, and a co-worker came in with the Myst game. I saw it and had to get it. We both played, and talked about our progress at work. That was a fun game. I have been thinking about getting a new copy to play again.
Wow this takes me back to the days of the Sega Saturn. Took me years to refind this game and realize it wasn't just a fever dream I had at one point. Thanks for the nostalgia!
An important part of my childhoods emotional frameworks has strong ties to Myst and Riven. I had a great childhood overall, but these games really sucked me into worlds I could not imagine I could be a part of. Our parents back then tended to say we are wasting our time with silly computer games - perhaps if you had done nothing else, it would not be optimal, but these games were no waste of time. The memories they evoke if I just hear the soundtrack, are incredible. Of course, importantly they are also memories of my family. I will never forget how my dad thought Riven was "a real island where they just took pictures" and I had to convince him that it was all just made up, imagined, and created with technology. It's also what got me into 3D modeling and rendering ...
Thank you for this trip down Memory Lane. Myst was way ahead of its time, and provided me with many hours of delightful visions and puzzle-solving. The series kept up the magic from release to release, and never let me down. Cyan was amazing. I always bemoaned the day when they sold out/were bought out by a bigger gaming company. Having been an Adventure gamer ever since Zork I (with no graphics whatsoever), Myst stands at the top. I recently came across the notes and drawings I made during the Myst adventures, and even my notes are impressive!
So excited you are playing this game! I remember watching my dad play this in the basement as a child! This game fostered a love of puzzle games for me. Brings back warm memories.
Oh my gawd, such memories! Spent many a late night trying to solve Myst. I was lost in those tunnels for the longest time. And you can imagine, on a slower computer back in the day, any wrong moves took ages to retrace! Thank so much for the nostalgia!!
I was so excited to see this thumbnail. One of my all-time favorite game and series to be honest. It's really wild seeing Myst translated into full 3D like this. Personally I think the main island lost a bit of Its charm with the style shift but they absolutely NAILED the vibe in Stoneship and Selenitic, those ages looked GORGEOUS. HIGHLY recommend the rest of the series Gab! There's 5 main games and the MMO-lite offshoot Uru. If there's any other you play though you MUST play Riven because it's genuinely probably one of the best puzzle adventure games ever made! Cyan is working on a full 3D remake of Riven right now but no release date is set. Still worth checking out the original game though if you can get it to run successfully.
Thanks for trip down memory lane! I played this when it was point-and-click which made the puzzles extra hard, so I'm glad you experienced a much smoother 3D experience!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! My friend and I played this as tweens and were so invested! We went out and bought the physical ‘hints & guides’ manual but had my dad read only the hints to us so we didn’t get spoilers. 😂
I remember playing the first Myst game when I was like 8 years old. I love seeing people still enjoying it today. It is a true original classic. No one had seen anything like it at the time.
i grew up watching my dad play the original version of this so this was SO nostalgic. glad you finally got to play it cause so many of the other puzzle games you play have such a Myst vibe. pretty sure this was the first of it's kind at the time.
OH MY GOOOD I remember watching my dad play this when I was just a kid!! This game is practically the origin of my love for video games and I completely forgot abt it! I’m like actually tearing up haha 😭
Oh my god! It is so amazing to see Gab discovering a game I played as a kid! I remember playing this in QuickTime, tho by the time I discovered it I think I would have been on Windows 95. There was no free movement back then, it was just a series of static slides and you clicked to move/turn. It is so good to see that it has been lovingly brought to life with a modern game engine! I would really love to see Gab play more of this, and at least the first sequel. Riven was by far my favourite!
The original game didn't use FMVs. It was actually long before those were a thing. It actually used Apple's QuickTime video for all of the movie bits. And on lots of Windows systems it was an absolutely horrendous pain to get the QuickTime engine installed and running correctly just so you could get the game to play properly (guess how I know). And the original game didn't even have the ability to walk around like you see here. You got a static (pre-rendered) view, and if you clicked to the left or right it would switch to a different view looking a different direction, and if you clicked on something "ahead", then it would slowly transition to a new view, where you were standing further down that direction (similar to walking around in Google Street View, but without the ability to even rotate your view). It was an almost entirely static game, with elements (like the levers) on some screens that you could manipulate. The reason all the elevator doors all have to be closed, and they have little windows in them is because that area was the maximum size of video playback the game could support (average computers and CD drives at the time couldn't even do full-screen video). When you flipped the switch, it would play a tiny QuickTime video in the space where the window was to make it look like you were going up or down. For the time, it was an absolutely state-of-the-art application of technology, which brought games to an entirely new level, but of course looking back on it now it all seems unbelievably limited in some ways, and just makes it that much more amazing that somebody could create such a great game even with such limited technology at the time.
Never thought I'd ever see you do Myst. My very first point and click game I received as a gift long long ago. It was so surreal, the puzzles fun, and the music great to zone out too. Perhaps one day you can do the sequels like Riven down the road.
The first sequel to Myst, Riven, was released in 1997 and was followed by three more direct sequels: Myst III: Exile in 2001, Myst IV: Revelation in 2004, and Myst V: End of Ages in 2005. I remember back then that I played them all - anxiously waiting after each one for the next to come along!
this brings back the memories though it was added to steam only a few years ago the older version of myst dang this is still as amazing as it was back then :) thank you Gab for being amazing
Your Myst playthrough is the best I saw! Not only you solve the puzzle, you also tell the story behind it. So now the sequel to Myst, Riven, has been remade and released. Looking forward to your playthrough of Riven!
@@terrylandess6072 Yeah. So many subtle things, that helped make it even more potent. Or like that with the carry-one at a time, it helped get you to retrek the path and content, and often coming to the zones a 2nd time (or more) really does make you think a bit more about the environment. It gave both that "brand new" experience of it, and the "coming back to a familiar space" experience. I recall what you're mentioning, and it was a bit annoying at first, but turned out to make each environment kinda a much deeper experience to come back to it again and see it and traverse it as an already-familiar space. And it gave it a neat depth. That original version of the game really was built to specific balance, and effect. Like many video games that have so much care in the balancing of elements. It's hard to match when remakes tweak, add, or remove. Unfortunately.
@@AbbaJoe26 Also the other side of the coin: Players may not want to return each time and begin to make a judgement on which brother they may choose to help, which in a way manipulates the player.
@@terrylandess6072 That was one of the dualiities about the game (heh, small pun). The narrative wasn't erally in the environment, but in the exposition from the characters in their trap books (and their various writings secondarily). The game kinda forces you to 100% it, to get a proper clear full understanding. It's both a pro and a con, depending on if the particular player is a Detailist/Comopletionist/OCDer ot is a "get the game done as quickly as possible with the least amount of work". Both are legit human mindings of gaming and styles, but yeah, the game definitely leans toward making the Detail orientedd, Puzzle Solving, "repeat the level to get all the content" kind of minds. But kinda cool that the narrative is so interesting and uncommonly well done that it pulls in the min-work speed playing folks too.
@@ZaneTheSaber It's SO WEIRD seeing everything actually viewable in first-person, I think I played through MYST like 5 times when I was a kid, even the intro I could still remember word-for-word.
The original Myst was the first computer game my dad ever sat me down and taught me how to play. This game is so nostalgic. My sister and I will still whisper "blue pages" at each other.
HOLY WOW. So for a scale of time, I was born in 1991 and remember sitting on my mother's lap while she played Myst and had to swap between *five different disks.* Then the sequel, Riven, came out on *seven!* [ I still have that set with a bunch of older computer parts I've collected ]. Also, y'know how you're walking around a beautiful environment? The environments in Myst were glorious, but also *static screens* with minimal animations. Movement through the space was not something you could do freely but controlled by clicking from screen to screen to screen to walk up a path, or navigate the bridges while directing the water. To see you just... *walk around,* go off the path, *walk in the grass!* My jaw hung open in awe and nostalgia as I watched you play the opening. If you're up for something *really* old school, you may consider the original Zork. It's available without a download to play in web browser last I checked. Maybe play it with Sean co-piloting? Because there's a labyrinth in this text adventure and if you wanna survive you're gonna need to draw your own map, and having a buddy to help with that is the only way I've ever gotten through it. Also be careful with the Nasty Knife :3
Thank you so much for this. I spent dozens and dozens of hours playing the original back at its release, bought the books they wrote, and played all of the games. It was brilliant work for the time! The remaster made the game play a lot easier (and faster) to move.
I remember my mom playing Myst when I was a little girl. Then when I was a little older, my friend and I (KatFTWynn) played Riven, but we kinda sucked since we were so young, lol.
The resolution and color depth were such that my wife and I could only play it at night with the lights out. That added so much to the ambiance! I love this redone version allows you to go and see everything.
Gab I know in stream you said you’d wait for the Riven remaster to come out, but considering how the FMV was implemented in Riven you should just play the original if you want that experience. Bc the new version is very unlikely to have even the option to swap back to the FMV as it was usually fully bodied, making it harder to swap. Like how the endings of this remaster were still animated and not the original FMV.
2:44:14 - Trivia fact: The "door must be closed" requirement is a legacy from the limited animation capacities of the original Myst. The game could pull off showing the view from an elevator in motion, but only from a small viewport and a single specific angle.
My husband and I played Myst when we were first dating … such memories! Many nights staying up way too late, playing Myst. We spent most of that spring very sleep deprived…It was the first computer game that I really loved. I still have the cd. Haven’t seen any imagery for decades + thanks for the memories
Omg this is *THE* game for me!!! Holy shit this is the essence of my childhood, I remember so much but simultaneously nothing of it, I had no idea it was remade! Sooo excited 👀
47:20 - I had the original Myst on the Phillips CD-i system. Myst was only available on Mac in 1993, then Windows in 1994. It hit the consoles in late '94, or '95. I forget. There was a parody CD that came out a bit after the Myst hype - and the Myst hype was HUGE back then - and it was called Pyst. It was the same island, but all trashed after the millions of people who played Myst came through, messing with everything. It actually starred John Goodman. lol Fun fact: Myst was the best selling computer game of the entire 1990s. It held the title of bestselling PC game until The Sims, in 2002.
Woahhh nostalgia running through my veins. I remember being in primary school, back when this was a point and click game. We played as a class 30 minutes a day, and had to write about it afterwards. That was literally our English lessons for a while.
I think this is the 2nd remake. Iirc, the first remake was "realMyst" (also in 3D) and this one has integrated VR support with further gameplay enhancements.
My childhood, a game most dearest to my heart, which retains it's magic even 30 years later. I'm so glad it got so beautiful a remake - and I'm glad you got to enjoy it!
Thanks very much for playing Myst for our enjoyment! I'd been thinking of revisiting the game (or the novel based on it) recently, but watching this video was an excellent way to do that. You should know that you missed a lot of exposition by not listening to Atrus as soon as you opened the green book, but before you went through it. I made the same mistake when I played it myself as a young teenager. You might also consider watching the original videos for the brothers' messages; when you began your new stream, it seems you turned off FMV mode. The series had a lot of games! There were five main Myst games: Myst, Riven, Exile, Revelation and End of Ages. There was also a game called URU that was meant to be a multiplayer online game but is still playable as a solo game, with additional content available. In my opinion, Myst IV Revelation was the best of the series, with Myst III: Exile close behind. Riven is known for being very difficult and sprawling, though also very cool.
It is so fun watching this walkthrough! You make me laugh with your reactions to different things. I've played this years ago with my husband, and later with my kids. It's nice to see it has stood the test of time.
It was SUCH A TRIP watching you play Myst!!! Omg, I hadn't played it since I was a little kid! It's so funny to see the puzzles from an adult's perspective, I feel like I could actually solve some of them now. I'm still super impressed with how fast you figured them all out! Please play the other Myst games, or at least Riven! Riven is INCREDIBLE. If you don't have anything that can run the old one, I think the remake of Riven is either coming out soon or else it has already been released, I forget which! Thank you so much for playing this amazing game! It was so much fun to get to see you experience it for the first time!
My dad and my brother loved the MYST games! As a child, I would watch them play and marvel at how they worked out the puzzles. They even drew a map of each area for every game and wrote down clues for the puzzles.
I recommend playing four first games Myst, Riven, Exile and Revelation. It brings the story to completion. End of ages is adding story but free-standing from the the other games. Uru was an experiment to create an online Myst world. you can play in single player mode but has not a story in the same way as the earlier games.
Oh my gosh this game just brought back ALL the memories. Played it when it came out but not since. The sounds are just engraved in my brain. Thanks for playing!
I remember playing this and being stumped as a kid. Awesome to see you play through this game. Been wanting to see someone make this into a playthrough and couldn't have been a better person to do it. Thanks for the great content!
Played this like a team game with my family growing up. It's so fun to watch you play (and to get to walk around instead of click from location to location). Really impressed by how fast new players can figure it all out these days. We didn't know anything about games like this.
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Still kills me how long Obra Dinn has been on it but unselected knowing how it's just MADE for Gab
@@willmiles7978Yeah I'm seriously just waiting for her to play it, I started watching it on GT Live but they didn't do much with it, I just know she'll be a great person to watch go through it ✨
@@willmiles7978 Especially if chat answers any/all question she has.
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What about Riven the sequel to Myst
I remember watching my dad play these games. One of the last conversations I had with him was how I was in a game funk and he said I should give these a go, a few months later he was diagnosed with an aggressive throat cancer and could no longer speak. we lost him just before Christmas last year. I'm so glad this won the spin, its still a fresh wound but its so nice to have these moments pop up and feel him with me again.
I'm sorry about your dad, and your story hits me a bit hard, as I'm the one person in my family that completely lacks musical talent and always had to have my dad do the Selentic Age opening for me. If you like puzzles, it's definitely a good series, though I felt it fell off a bit after 3. When your antagonist is portrayed by Brad Dourif, it's hard to top that, so further games probably suffered a loss of interest from me based on that.
Thank you for sharing your story ❤ I imagine he is enjoying the video alongside you. Sending my love and condolences to you!
I remember "playing" this game with my dad, but it was really just me watching him play. I was too young to really be of any help. A couple years later he played Riven and again it was me pretty much just watching, but at the end of the game he was struggling on the final puzzle and I told him the correct solution out of nowhere. It turns out that all the information I was absorbing while watching him play was enough to lead me to the solution.
Sorry for your loss man
so sorry for your loss. may your dad's memory be a blessing. I too used to watch my dad play these games when I was a kid.
2:42:30: the actor who plays Achenar is Cyan co-founder Rand Miller, who also played Atrus (the guy in the green book). His IRL brother and other co-founder of Cyan, Robyn Miller, played Sirrus, and was also the composer for Myst.
Cyan is in the process of remaking Riven, and released a trailer for it a few months back. The original still holds up and is considered the best of the series, if you accept the more point-and-click nature of the game. Be prepared for a much larger undertaking: back in the day, Myst was only 1 CD; Riven was 5
That’s awesome!
I still, to this day, do not understand the final puzzle in Riven. Can't wait to give it another go : )
Riven had some brilliant puzzles, especially some that were nicely integrated into the environment.
That's truly awesome news, thanks for the heads up ! Fox
I loved playing Myst and Riven while living with my grandparents back in the day. I didn't know they remade it!!
As someone who played this in its Point and Click format in the early 2000s, it’s so weird to see this as a fully walkable first-person game.
I remember tables full of the boxes when the game came out, prominently displayed at a computer superstore, and I had no idea what this even was. Palpable nostalgia😳
It's got a VR version too!
Yeah it was wild. I knew they did a remake, but I thought they just updated the jpegs or whatever. I wasn't expecting it to be this good.
@@pg9840 honestly not being point and click makes it harder which is why they changed some things that weren't super obvious like the lighter for the boiler
@@pg9840 This is the most recent, third remake of the game. There was RealMyst in 2000, and RealMyst Masterpiece in 2014 before this 2021 edition.
Myst and Riven have such a special place in my heart. My brother and I would play them together on the family computer in the early 2000s trying to solve the puzzles together. I've always loved them and the interesting storyline and lore. So awesome to see you experience it for the first time!!
did you read any of the books? theyre quite good.
@@ravenouscadaver8 I have not, but they are on my current list of books to get and read!
This brings me back to sophomore year of college where my digital media professor gave the whole class the assignment to divide ourselves into teams and play this game. We were graded based on our communication with each other and our level of creativity in how we collectively chose to solve each puzzle
Dude your professor sounds like the goat
@racheltorres668 he was one of my favorite professors who preferred a hands on approach when it came to teaching history of digital media and video game development
Theres 5 myst games in total and and 1 that doesn’t follow the series
I always thought Myst should be part of school curriculum. Great way to introduce a whole raft of skills in a fun way.
When I was a little kid, my parents were playing this game with a pair of their friends for a little time each weekend. They got stuck and frustrated and gave up on it. I was told it's okay for me to try and I played through and solved the puzzles and eventually the game. My parents were so proud of me. This game has the most nostalgia, emotional weight of any game I've ever played (except Ultima iV) Thanks for playing through it. I really enjoyed watching you puzzle your way through.
Thank you so much for playing this Gab. It reminds me of being a teenager and getting so lost in that world and the books. I would visit my friends house to play and I'd spend hours just reading through and playing, I don't think I ever progressed to anything but that didn't matter to me at all. Such a vast realised world created that I could honestly spend forever exploring
Loved the original PC version. My wife, mother-in-law and I played these together but on separate computers, helping each other as we went along. Lost her mother 4 years ago and my wife passed last year. Thank you for bringing back those cherished memories.
Sorry for your loss.
MYST is my childhood! I literally grew up sharing a computer chair with my sister playing this game on my dads computer! That opening sound is such a nostalgia trip!
Wait... you too?? Is Myst just ultimate dad game for some reason?
This is me with the sequel Riven! I played/watched my dad and sister play it and we drew some maps and got so invested.
@@strawberrypillz2160 Yep that's true for me as well. I played the original version on my Dad's mid-90s Macintosh as a kid. I guess my dad liked that I liked it because puzzles engage your brain.
"wom wom wom wom wom womm dsk dsk dsk dssk"
It's just missing the music box tune playing as the camera flies through a blue, polygonal landscape that leads to the Cyan logo.
LOLAt 54:00 you say, "This goes so much bigger than I thought." My response? You ain't seen nothin' yet, girl.
I played Myst 30 years ago and absolutely loved it. I also played every iteration of it that followed, including Riven and Uru. Googling the game, I've discovered there is now a VR version. OMG...the graphics and the scenery in the Myst games are just amazing. As an older (I'm now 67) female gamer (who hasn't done much in the last 15 years or so), I find the idea of a VR version intriguing. It is a pleasure watching you enjoy something I played decades ago. I'll have to take in more of your videos. 🙂
I did exactly the same. In those early days of computers these were just mind blowing for their graphics and game style.
I'm around your age, too, but the idea of Myst VR intimidates me. I'd love to watch while someone else did it, though.
I came across the original Mac version by accident when it was bundled with a few other games with a new Mac delivered to my wife when she started working from home 30 years ago (yep its not new). We just loved the graphics, music and puzzles. As we had young kids then it took us months to complete as we only spent an hour or so per week on it. Yes we took our time. I still have my original notes!
MYST is what got me into playing games back in the early 90's. I spent weekends with my best friend taking turns on our old Apple computer, trying to figure out the puzzles with all our little notes and sketches next to the keyboard. I have followed Rob and Rand Miller every since, loving their works. Have been considering going back to MYST after all these years. Thank you for playing this, from a fresh perspective. Nearly got teary eyed with all the fond memories.
I remember exploring this game as a kid. I was too young to figure out most of the puzzles, but I had my mom's Myst journal to follow. My favorite age was Channelwood. It ended up giving me a thing for trees, which I've carried my whole life. There's a big cell tower in my town that's disguised as a big tree, and seeing that thing has always taken me back to Channelwood. And of course I've had to go visit the redwoods in California and sequoias along the west coast to get the real Channelwood experience. I also spent years playing the Tree Spirit challenge in Minecraft and running a server for hosting a community of people doing the same. That led me into the most important path of personal growth in my life, which I'm still traveling more than ten years after it started and almost 30 years since I last played Myst. This game has had quite a significant impact on my life.
Man! This version is so different from the game I grew up with. The original version was a point and click with live actors playing the characters. The music was also very cool, too!
Regardless, I'm glad you're trying out this classic
The cool thing about this remake is it's VR compatible, too! A lot of the changes I think make so much sense, even though the original version is still my favorite.
The actors who played the brothers in the blue and red books were the creators of Myst.
@@biteofdog I thought it was Rand, 'husband' of Catherine . . . .
@@terrylandess6072 In the original game Rand Miller played the parts of Atrus and Achenar. His brother and co-designer Robin played Sirrus. They played the parts themselves back then mainly to save money on the game's production.
@@todd8398 Thanks for the clarification :)
I’m a very old fart who’s been a gamer from the beginning. You drew me in with Myst. I don’t laugh much anymore but you absolutely cracked me up with your swinging, walking monkey arms. You’ve got a wonderful spirit. Keep it up.
The Creators of this game wrote a series of books as well. Reading them gives a deeper understanding of the world of MYST. It does read a little like a journal, but that was the point of it. There is a collection book of all of them as well if you don't want to buy a bunch of separate books, its an all in one.
The sequel remake comes out soon, this game was a huge deal... this was the first CD-ROM game..
@@joedorer8867 Thank you for the heads up, I'd love to play Riven again!
I'm definitely gonna look into reading those, thanks for mentioning them
@@kessorensen3269 it's unfinished though... one day rand will finish the series... hahaha it's a good read they just put a collectors edition out
@@joedorer8867All we know is that the Riven remake is in progress. No ETA available yet. But I'm sure it will be "soon" on the geological time scale.
Thank you for playing Myst! This came up as #1 on YT for my morning coffee today! I was taken back to the 90s and the influence this game had on my life path right out of school. You're solving the puzzles much faster than I did, lol! While I don't comment on YT much in general, I often watch your channel while I'm coding (you have great game observations that have helped shape my projects) - Again, thank you from this old cat lady :D
Not to take from this wonderful gaming lady, but she isn't the only one.
yasss i saw this first thing today too n it amazed me seeing her solve stuff it took forever for me to figure out! altho the upgraded one makes it way easier to see playable objects an switches, the first one they were hidden in dark or obscured. i def needed help from my uncle on this game! ugh the lower subway levels... fackkkkkk lol. thanks for ur upload honey from another crazy cat lady
Myst has one of the best cold opens in video games. That dock is iconic
The link book's sound gives me all the nostalgia, especially.
Amen.
The link sound is classic even more so.
My brother and I got Myst for Christmas in 1993. We stayed up and beat it overnight. My parents were pissed because it was expensive for a game at the time. I have since played all 5 games in the series. This game was mind-blowing in 1993 and is still fun today. The Siberia series is also excellent.
5? which one did you skip? There are 6
@@b.s.864 If I were a betting man, it would be the MMORPG Myst game
@@NicholasStabile Most likely. For those that don't know while Myst URU was designed as a client for MMO play it does also have solo play. The solo play was expanded with 2 expansions after the MMO failed to gain traction.
@@b.s.864 I made it thru Exile but I couldn't stomach 4 and I gave up on it. The series wasn't the same without Rand Miller.
Riven with the strategy guide and posters was $50 but I was obsessed and bought it
I am beside myself when I saw that you played MYST. The game is my childhood! Please continue the MYST series, especially the sequel, RIVEN. I know you will love ZORK Nemesis too.
Oh gods riven 😂 so good❤
RIVEN was my favorite as a kid, with Revelation coming a close second!
YAAAAAS ! Riven and Zork Nemesis!!!!! Zork Grand Inquisitor was fabulous also, but Riven and Zork Nemesis are two of my favorite games of all time.
Might want to wait a little while for Riven; Cyan is currently working on remaking it in Unreal Engine. It looks AMAZING so far!!!
My dad played these games with my sister and I when it first came out. I cannot begin to explain how much those memories mean to me, huddling around that old brick of a computer with our puzzle notebook, entranced by the story, graphics (phenomenal at that time) and the innocent jump scares. Even just hearing the music gives me chills. We had to be too young to really help with the puzzles, but my dad made us feel like we were driving the ship, and he was just holding the mouse.
This game is one of my favorites because my mom and I used to play it (and also Riven and Exile) together when I was a kid! The music is SO nostalgic and takes me back right away to those times!
I ABSOLUTELY recommend Riven, the sequel to Myst! In my opinion it’s much more interesting plot-wise, it features more characters, and the worlds/ages look beautiful!!
My sisters and I would travel from island to island in River to have the mine cart part - we acted like it was a rollar coaster.
She mentions the game makes you close doors, and THAT was my bane in Riven since an important switch was hidden behind a door if you leave it open after entering.
Agreed, the music in both Myst and Riven is beautiful. In the subsequent games, to me, the music fell quite flat, disappointing and conventional, possessing none of the character of the original Myst worlds.
Oh man, I haven't played the remake yet, the fact that you can take back both pages now is so, so nice.
In the original, you had to pick one, you couldn't physically carry both. So if you wanted to help both brothers, you had to go back to grab the other page. It was such a pain.
These games were surprisingly long and detailed for their time. There's even 3 actual novels you can read in the same mythos.
The Myst series means so much to me, I played them growing up as a child with my grandfather and mother, and then on my own when I was older. So much so that my 30th birthday this year will be Must themed. When my spouse sent me a message at work that you were playing this I COULD NOT WAIT to get home. Watching someone experience Myst for the first time fills me with such joy.
I can't believe you're playing MYST!! This was a cornerstone game of my childhood. I hope you play the entire game. I'd be ALL in.
Myst and Riven are two of my most favorite video games. They are old but classic. Love the way it came with no instructions. You can start anywhere. The storyline has no set outline. One of the first. I’m sure it pissed off people when it first came out. But eventually you figured it out. A true mystery game. Thanks for playing it again. :~)
"Myst" was together with "The seventh guest" my first real video games as a young man in 1993. so these to games has a special place in my heart. Even the following games in the Myst-series (Riven, Exile, Revelation and so on) I still remember fondly.
Whenever I remember Myst, The 7th Guest also immediately comes back to mind! I've replayed Myst a handful of times since I was young, but I've never gotten my hands on 7th since. Maybe I should find it...
@@nashiora At least Steam has different versions of it (25th anniversary, VR and so on) even if not the original.
My favorite! Those were my 2nd and 3rd video games (not Nintendo). My first was “The Colonel’s Bequest”.
@@lindsaylivingston9754 That is a game I am not familiar with. might be worth to check it out. I don´t mind playing older games.
Evelyn: *immediately touches green book without listening to Atrus*
Me: NONONONONONO
I know, it was sad she kept skipping the videos. She was missing the whole story.
I want a Myst movie. Just a guy wandering around an island, looking at all this pretty stuff, pulling levers, flipping switches, pressing buttons, the occasional "Oh, I get it now..." Just that for 2.5 hrs.
I don't know about a movie, but I think it'd be an EXCELLENT short film or student project.
@@nateman10 I was going to say that. There are three Myst books and they could definitely be adapted into movies or TV series, especially the first two.
My dad used to play this game with my brother and I when we were kids! Back on the old-school PC version, with two discs, and set camera angles! I used to be so freaked out by it, but my brother loved it. So cool to see you play it!
YAY FOR MYST!! I can't possibly put into text how wonderful it is to see this game again! This might be one of the earliest video games I ever played, my whole family used to sit in the living room crowded around the monitor for game night with Myst. Hope you have a blast playing! Thank you so much for this trip down memory lane Gab and I hope anyone interested checks the games out. There are like 4 sequels to enjoy! :D
One of my earliest memories is adults all huddled around one of those old tube computers trying to figure out MYST while the kids all watched Labyrinth
I've been binge watching your videos, because they made me feel so comfortable and you are so much fun to watch. Myst was one of my first adventures and there are so many memories connected to it. So this is a very special video to me!
The original Myst came out on September 24, 1993 for Windows 95 and was one of the first games to have all of the outstanding graphics of its time. The game did really well and spawned all sorts of other games inspired by its exploration that few games had before it. I played this game at my uncles house and remember having to swap out the floppy disks between books in the game.
Like Dragons Lair, the game wasn't rendered like a typical video game with Myst instead opting for high res interactive images.
Actually, Myst came out in September 1993 on Macintosh only and was created on Hypercard (which was an Apple only software). It got ported to Windows a few months later. As a Mac user, it was very exciting to get such a wonderful game on Mac first... Those days...
This video brings back some great memories. This game came out a couple of years before Windows 95. The original version ran on DOS. It was games like this, Riven and the Seventh Guest that made us install our first Pentium processors and upgrade our graphics cards. We actually had to jump through a couple of hoops to get graphic intense games like this to run on Windows 95 when it did come out.
windows 95 came out in 1995. myst came out in 93 for mac and then ported to windows 3.1 in 94. this game is older than the windows start button
This is one of my favorite games of all time. I don't think it totally holds up compared to modern games, but it was unbelievably influential. I actually just finished playing it in VR yesterday!
The direct sequel "Riven" was quite good. Larger worlds and more puzzles. But never updated/remade as far as I know. Then there were Myst III, IV, and V. Cyan only developed the last of those three, but they were decent games. There was also Uru, which was an MMO in the mythology of Myst. The idea was they would keep evolving it to add new Ages and puzzles, and you could encounter other players. It was kind of cool, but was a bit of a failure and never really got the updates promised.
@@BrianWhitmarsh they're remaking Riven at the moment!
This game also reminds me of early memories playing with my dad. He kept entire notebooks on the clues back before walkthroughs were easily accessible online. The warping sound of the Books always brings back so much good nostalgia.
This brings back some memories. I haven't even thought about Myst in 20 years or more.
I was so happy to find this. I played MYST when it was new in the early 90s, on CDs, on my little Mac desktop computer. Then moved on to Riven, which I don't think I ever fully solved. You're waaaaay better at gaming than I am so this was really nostalgic for me and fun to watch.
I remembered playing Myst back as a kiddo. I wasn't good, but I do remember playing it. Along with other games. Lighthouse: The Dark Being, 7th Guest, Riven. Ah, seeing this just brings back childhood. And me not being able to really solve puzzles.
7th guest scared the crap out of me as a kid 😅
"This must've been mindblowing back in 1993."
Absolutely. My wife & I played it together, and it felt literally miraculous the first time we solved a puzzle that led us to a linking book. A new & different WORLD.
I love that you played this game. This was my very first computer game. I played it on a Windows 95 PC.
I love the lore of the games. There are several games in the series, and I think Riven (the second Myst) was my favorite but the Myst 3 and Uru were also decent.
Uru is the single player counterpart to Myst Online, which is still going by the way (it had a bit of a rocky start but dedicated fans helped bring it back). There are some official shards that are running and several community run shards as well as community created Ages. It's also completely free.
Sorry if this ends up as a duplicate as it appears my original comment got deleted. I had a link to the game's website but I guess UA-cam didn't like it LOL.
FYI: the fourth ending is literally just Atrus (dad, in the green book) saying "well good job now we're both stuck in here because you didn't bring the page so I could go back to Myst.", the end.
Also the series has 5 "canon" games in total. Myst, Riven, Exile, Revelations, and End of Ages.
Obduction, the VR game from the creators of Myst.
Uru ages beyond Myst still exists, the other 5 games are just the core story of Atrus' family and The Stranger.
5 games. It's what Gehn would have wanted.
You can skip Revelations and End of Ages. I liked Exile, but it's a bit pixel hunty at times.
Really? I never played the games but read all three book so often and loved them...
Does game #4&5 exceed the 3-book series content?
oh the nostalgia! I remember playing all myst games with my mom when I was younger. We had a little notebook with observations and a handdrawn map like a little adventurers book! I'm so happy to see you play this game
Ahh, the FMV footage from MYST -- the scariest thing that my 8 year old brain could conjure back in 94.
Ok, no joke, this morning I was wondering if you ever played the MYST series 👍 WIN!
The first 3 Myst's were AMAZING games! The series went downhill after Rand Miller abandoned the franchise.
I had this on my Packard Bell 486SX back in the day. I worked 70 hours a week and never got around to it. All these years later, it's such a pleasure watching you play it for me. Your channel is the perfect spot to relax and enjoy our passion for games. The spookier the better Cheers!!
I don't remember what PC I played this on, but it must have been a decent one, because I do not remember it lagging much. I was a Computer Tech back then, and a co-worker came in with the Myst game. I saw it and had to get it. We both played, and talked about our progress at work. That was a fun game. I have been thinking about getting a new copy to play again.
Wow this takes me back to the days of the Sega Saturn. Took me years to refind this game and realize it wasn't just a fever dream I had at one point. Thanks for the nostalgia!
An important part of my childhoods emotional frameworks has strong ties to Myst and Riven. I had a great childhood overall, but these games really sucked me into worlds I could not imagine I could be a part of. Our parents back then tended to say we are wasting our time with silly computer games - perhaps if you had done nothing else, it would not be optimal, but these games were no waste of time. The memories they evoke if I just hear the soundtrack, are incredible. Of course, importantly they are also memories of my family. I will never forget how my dad thought Riven was "a real island where they just took pictures" and I had to convince him that it was all just made up, imagined, and created with technology. It's also what got me into 3D modeling and rendering ...
Thank you for this trip down Memory Lane. Myst was way ahead of its time, and provided me with many hours of delightful visions and puzzle-solving. The series kept up the magic from release to release, and never let me down. Cyan was amazing. I always bemoaned the day when they sold out/were bought out by a bigger gaming company. Having been an Adventure gamer ever since Zork I (with no graphics whatsoever), Myst stands at the top. I recently came across the notes and drawings I made during the Myst adventures, and even my notes are impressive!
Really recommend reading the books!!! They’re excellent!!! Adds so much lore and depth to the games!
So excited you are playing this game! I remember watching my dad play this in the basement as a child! This game fostered a love of puzzle games for me. Brings back warm memories.
Oh my gawd, such memories! Spent many a late night trying to solve Myst. I was lost in those tunnels for the longest time. And you can imagine, on a slower computer back in the day, any wrong moves took ages to retrace! Thank so much for the nostalgia!!
I was so excited to see this thumbnail.
One of my all-time favorite game and series to be honest. It's really wild seeing Myst translated into full 3D like this. Personally I think the main island lost a bit of Its charm with the style shift but they absolutely NAILED the vibe in Stoneship and Selenitic, those ages looked GORGEOUS.
HIGHLY recommend the rest of the series Gab! There's 5 main games and the MMO-lite offshoot Uru. If there's any other you play though you MUST play Riven because it's genuinely probably one of the best puzzle adventure games ever made! Cyan is working on a full 3D remake of Riven right now but no release date is set. Still worth checking out the original game though if you can get it to run successfully.
Thanks for trip down memory lane! I played this when it was point-and-click which made the puzzles extra hard, so I'm glad you experienced a much smoother 3D experience!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane! My friend and I played this as tweens and were so invested! We went out and bought the physical ‘hints & guides’ manual but had my dad read only the hints to us so we didn’t get spoilers. 😂
I remember playing the first Myst game when I was like 8 years old. I love seeing people still enjoying it today. It is a true original classic. No one had seen anything like it at the time.
My favorite UA-camr playing one of my favorite puzzle games and uploading it on my birthday?! This is awesome!
Happy birthday!🎊🎁🎈🎂🎉
@@Princessmoonlight818 Thank you!
i grew up watching my dad play the original version of this so this was SO nostalgic. glad you finally got to play it cause so many of the other puzzle games you play have such a Myst vibe. pretty sure this was the first of it's kind at the time.
OH MY GOOOD I remember watching my dad play this when I was just a kid!! This game is practically the origin of my love for video games and I completely forgot abt it! I’m like actually tearing up haha 😭
Oh my god! It is so amazing to see Gab discovering a game I played as a kid!
I remember playing this in QuickTime, tho by the time I discovered it I think I would have been on Windows 95. There was no free movement back then, it was just a series of static slides and you clicked to move/turn.
It is so good to see that it has been lovingly brought to life with a modern game engine!
I would really love to see Gab play more of this, and at least the first sequel. Riven was by far my favourite!
MYST is a unique puzzle game with a story driven game play . You have to read the Books they are the main part of this series along with the puzzles .
The original game didn't use FMVs. It was actually long before those were a thing. It actually used Apple's QuickTime video for all of the movie bits. And on lots of Windows systems it was an absolutely horrendous pain to get the QuickTime engine installed and running correctly just so you could get the game to play properly (guess how I know).
And the original game didn't even have the ability to walk around like you see here. You got a static (pre-rendered) view, and if you clicked to the left or right it would switch to a different view looking a different direction, and if you clicked on something "ahead", then it would slowly transition to a new view, where you were standing further down that direction (similar to walking around in Google Street View, but without the ability to even rotate your view). It was an almost entirely static game, with elements (like the levers) on some screens that you could manipulate.
The reason all the elevator doors all have to be closed, and they have little windows in them is because that area was the maximum size of video playback the game could support (average computers and CD drives at the time couldn't even do full-screen video). When you flipped the switch, it would play a tiny QuickTime video in the space where the window was to make it look like you were going up or down.
For the time, it was an absolutely state-of-the-art application of technology, which brought games to an entirely new level, but of course looking back on it now it all seems unbelievably limited in some ways, and just makes it that much more amazing that somebody could create such a great game even with such limited technology at the time.
Never thought I'd ever see you do Myst. My very first point and click game I received as a gift long long ago. It was so surreal, the puzzles fun, and the music great to zone out too. Perhaps one day you can do the sequels like Riven down the road.
The first sequel to Myst, Riven, was released in 1997 and was followed by three more direct sequels: Myst III: Exile in 2001, Myst IV: Revelation in 2004, and Myst V: End of Ages in 2005.
I remember back then that I played them all - anxiously waiting after each one for the next to come along!
this brings back the memories though it was added to steam only a few years ago the older version of myst dang this is still as amazing as it was back then :) thank you Gab for being amazing
Your Myst playthrough is the best I saw! Not only you solve the puzzle, you also tell the story behind it. So now the sequel to Myst, Riven, has been remade and released. Looking forward to your playthrough of Riven!
OMG! The original Myst! :) What a perfect fit. :) Loving the Myst played by Gab combo. Thanks so much! :)
Something was different and it took me a minute to figure it out - we could only carry one page red/blue and had to return if we wanted the other.
@@terrylandess6072 Yeah. So many subtle things, that helped make it even more potent. Or like that with the carry-one at a time, it helped get you to retrek the path and content, and often coming to the zones a 2nd time (or more) really does make you think a bit more about the environment. It gave both that "brand new" experience of it, and the "coming back to a familiar space" experience. I recall what you're mentioning, and it was a bit annoying at first, but turned out to make each environment kinda a much deeper experience to come back to it again and see it and traverse it as an already-familiar space. And it gave it a neat depth.
That original version of the game really was built to specific balance, and effect. Like many video games that have so much care in the balancing of elements. It's hard to match when remakes tweak, add, or remove. Unfortunately.
@@AbbaJoe26 Also the other side of the coin: Players may not want to return each time and begin to make a judgement on which brother they may choose to help, which in a way manipulates the player.
@@terrylandess6072 That was one of the dualiities about the game (heh, small pun). The narrative wasn't erally in the environment, but in the exposition from the characters in their trap books (and their various writings secondarily). The game kinda forces you to 100% it, to get a proper clear full understanding. It's both a pro and a con, depending on if the particular player is a Detailist/Comopletionist/OCDer ot is a "get the game done as quickly as possible with the least amount of work". Both are legit human mindings of gaming and styles, but yeah, the game definitely leans toward making the Detail orientedd, Puzzle Solving, "repeat the level to get all the content" kind of minds.
But kinda cool that the narrative is so interesting and uncommonly well done that it pulls in the min-work speed playing folks too.
@@AbbaJoe26 Agreed. The 'win' was concealed between two Diversions.
13:50 that "oh my god" made me laugh 🤣
What a throwback! How fun. I was also really excited to see Machinarium on the list, I hope she plays it another time.
I do miss the live actors. I don't understand why you'd replace them with the CGI. 😅
This was one of my favorite game series growing up. It still has a special place in my heart. So glad you played this
I saw Myst and was like....FROM MY CHILDHOOD? I never finished 😂😂
Also totally and updated version. I would have KILLED to.move around with wasd ❤
@@ZaneTheSaber It's SO WEIRD seeing everything actually viewable in first-person, I think I played through MYST like 5 times when I was a kid, even the intro I could still remember word-for-word.
SAME!! @@willmiles7978
My dad had a cheat book, and I remember consulting it constantly lol!
The original Myst was the first computer game my dad ever sat me down and taught me how to play. This game is so nostalgic. My sister and I will still whisper "blue pages" at each other.
HOLY WOW. So for a scale of time, I was born in 1991 and remember sitting on my mother's lap while she played Myst and had to swap between *five different disks.* Then the sequel, Riven, came out on *seven!* [ I still have that set with a bunch of older computer parts I've collected ]. Also, y'know how you're walking around a beautiful environment? The environments in Myst were glorious, but also *static screens* with minimal animations. Movement through the space was not something you could do freely but controlled by clicking from screen to screen to screen to walk up a path, or navigate the bridges while directing the water.
To see you just... *walk around,* go off the path, *walk in the grass!* My jaw hung open in awe and nostalgia as I watched you play the opening.
If you're up for something *really* old school, you may consider the original Zork. It's available without a download to play in web browser last I checked. Maybe play it with Sean co-piloting? Because there's a labyrinth in this text adventure and if you wanna survive you're gonna need to draw your own map, and having a buddy to help with that is the only way I've ever gotten through it.
Also be careful with the Nasty Knife :3
Thank you so much for this. I spent dozens and dozens of hours playing the original back at its release, bought the books they wrote, and played all of the games. It was brilliant work for the time! The remaster made the game play a lot easier (and faster) to move.
I remember my mom playing Myst when I was a little girl. Then when I was a little older, my friend and I (KatFTWynn) played Riven, but we kinda sucked since we were so young, lol.
The resolution and color depth were such that my wife and I could only play it at night with the lights out. That added so much to the ambiance! I love this redone version allows you to go and see everything.
Gab I know in stream you said you’d wait for the Riven remaster to come out, but considering how the FMV was implemented in Riven you should just play the original if you want that experience. Bc the new version is very unlikely to have even the option to swap back to the FMV as it was usually fully bodied, making it harder to swap. Like how the endings of this remaster were still animated and not the original FMV.
2:44:14 - Trivia fact: The "door must be closed" requirement is a legacy from the limited animation capacities of the original Myst. The game could pull off showing the view from an elevator in motion, but only from a small viewport and a single specific angle.
I couldn't be happier, this is the perfect video after a rough monday!! 🥰
My husband and I played Myst when we were first dating … such memories! Many nights staying up way too late, playing Myst. We spent most of that spring very sleep deprived…It was the first computer game that I really loved. I still have the cd. Haven’t seen any imagery for decades + thanks for the memories
Omg this is *THE* game for me!!! Holy shit this is the essence of my childhood, I remember so much but simultaneously nothing of it, I had no idea it was remade! Sooo excited 👀
47:20 - I had the original Myst on the Phillips CD-i system. Myst was only available on Mac in 1993, then Windows in 1994. It hit the consoles in late '94, or '95. I forget.
There was a parody CD that came out a bit after the Myst hype - and the Myst hype was HUGE back then - and it was called Pyst. It was the same island, but all trashed after the millions of people who played Myst came through, messing with everything. It actually starred John Goodman. lol
Fun fact: Myst was the best selling computer game of the entire 1990s. It held the title of bestselling PC game until The Sims, in 2002.
It is so strange seeing the game with mouse look.
Woahhh nostalgia running through my veins. I remember being in primary school, back when this was a point and click game. We played as a class 30 minutes a day, and had to write about it afterwards. That was literally our English lessons for a while.
Whoa is this a remake? I remember it was click forward, left, right, wow I feel old 🤣
I think this is the 2nd remake. Iirc, the first remake was "realMyst" (also in 3D) and this one has integrated VR support with further gameplay enhancements.
My childhood, a game most dearest to my heart, which retains it's magic even 30 years later. I'm so glad it got so beautiful a remake - and I'm glad you got to enjoy it!
0:00 The Wheel of Gabby XD
Thanks very much for playing Myst for our enjoyment! I'd been thinking of revisiting the game (or the novel based on it) recently, but watching this video was an excellent way to do that. You should know that you missed a lot of exposition by not listening to Atrus as soon as you opened the green book, but before you went through it. I made the same mistake when I played it myself as a young teenager.
You might also consider watching the original videos for the brothers' messages; when you began your new stream, it seems you turned off FMV mode.
The series had a lot of games! There were five main Myst games: Myst, Riven, Exile, Revelation and End of Ages. There was also a game called URU that was meant to be a multiplayer online game but is still playable as a solo game, with additional content available. In my opinion, Myst IV Revelation was the best of the series, with Myst III: Exile close behind. Riven is known for being very difficult and sprawling, though also very cool.
It is so fun watching this walkthrough! You make me laugh with your reactions to different things. I've played this years ago with my husband, and later with my kids. It's nice to see it has stood the test of time.
It was SUCH A TRIP watching you play Myst!!! Omg, I hadn't played it since I was a little kid! It's so funny to see the puzzles from an adult's perspective, I feel like I could actually solve some of them now. I'm still super impressed with how fast you figured them all out! Please play the other Myst games, or at least Riven! Riven is INCREDIBLE. If you don't have anything that can run the old one, I think the remake of Riven is either coming out soon or else it has already been released, I forget which! Thank you so much for playing this amazing game! It was so much fun to get to see you experience it for the first time!
"I was born in the dong of the Netherlands" had me cackling. I grew up in the dong as well just in a different country! XD
My dad and my brother loved the MYST games! As a child, I would watch them play and marvel at how they worked out the puzzles. They even drew a map of each area for every game and wrote down clues for the puzzles.
I recommend playing four first games Myst, Riven, Exile and Revelation. It brings the story to completion. End of ages is adding story but free-standing from the the other games. Uru was an experiment to create an online Myst world. you can play in single player mode but has not a story in the same way as the earlier games.
Thanks for playing Gab. It's been on my list of games to play for like 28 years lol
One of the only games you actually NEED a guide to complete lol. Game is for geniuses tbh :D
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Those noises scared the hell out of me as a kid. It's probably one of the main reasons I never made any progress in Myst.
Oh my gosh this game just brought back ALL the memories. Played it when it came out but not since. The sounds are just engraved in my brain. Thanks for playing!
I remember playing this and being stumped as a kid.
Awesome to see you play through this game. Been wanting to see someone make this into a playthrough and couldn't have been a better person to do it.
Thanks for the great content!
Played this like a team game with my family growing up. It's so fun to watch you play (and to get to walk around instead of click from location to location). Really impressed by how fast new players can figure it all out these days. We didn't know anything about games like this.