Myst Retrospective / Full Playthrough (realMyst Masterpiece)
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
- Join me on a journey back through one of my favorite video game experiences: Myst! We'll be talking about Myst, why I did this video, why Myst is special, and then we'll skate through realMyst: Masterpiece Edition! #myst25
0:00 Introduction
5:00 Myst Facts
8:15 Myst Island
24:45 Selenitic Age
39:10 Stoneship Age
48:53 Channelwood Age
1:02:15 Mechanical Age
1:15:25 Endings
1:30:50 Rime
1:37:45 Closing
References:
- Making of Myst: • The Making of Myst
- GDC Postmortem (2013): • Classic Postmortem: Th...
- AV Club Interview: games.avclub.com/myst-creator...
- A Brief History of Myst: • A Brief History of... ... - Ігри
Great to listen to your passion through this. When this first came out, I came home from work, ate, put my kid to sleep and hit Myst from 11pm to 2am every night going to work sleep deprived and repeated. In the dark with headphones this game was soooooooooo immersive. I was just lost in Cyans world. Just loved it.
Also when I saw that head in the box. It was just as scary as Myst could be so unnerving.
loved the game too, the quality, music, elegance, and dark feel of the worlds, was so diff than any other game
1:07:37 Just in case you were unaware: The painting on the wall is a modification of a painting entitled "Napoleon On His Imperial Throne" by the French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1806, with Sirrus' face instead of Napoleon's. The developers throw this little knuckleball to those that were not paying attention during high school history class. Clever.
thank you for putting together a great survey. Many memories.
Oh I remember the submarine puzzle so well, the way I solved it was to actually go through it drawing a map of the maze. It was definitely one of the longest to solve.
So the sound queues were the path never knew that :D
It seems like many folks never caught on the sounds were what led you down the right path. I don’t believe I ever even solved it myself.
I was so proud of my 13 year old self when I legitimately solved this. I lived with my aunt and uncle in a little population 500 town for a year when I was in 8th grade. This game was relatively new in 96 and I just hunkered down in the basement and slowly beat this game on my own.
Haha yes, took me a while to figure it out. Had to backtrack all the way to the beginning and start again twice before I noticed that not only were there individual sound queues, but they also had two sounds for the diagonal directions.
This brings me back. Played this with the whole family back in 1995. So many good memories. Thank you for sharing this and I also loved your Riven play-through as I never got to play that one and probably never will have time like you mentioned. Great retrospectives on an awe inspiring series.
With the whole family? Wtf you smoking 😭👏😭👏
I'm trying this on the DS version, and its completely hair pulling.
I finished Myst just a few days ago and this video is just what I needed to complete my experience with the game. I love the lore and insights that you brought up and it hooked me even more into the world of this series. Thank you for making this video. I can't wait to play Riven and I'll be sure to watch your video on it as well.
I played this game as a kid and was so lost. Couple days ago I thought of it as an adult and im like o yeah im going back to play. Figure it all out . So satisfying. So happy I came back to the game myst in 2021 lol. Absolute classic
That's awesome! Nice job, it's nice to know it still works today =)
I would’ve loved to see behind the scenes of Myst 💖
Hey Jordan, I just finished watching your Riven retrospective, and re-watching this video. I've really enjoyed watching you play the games, but my initial introduction to the MYST series was Exile. Although I heard your opinions on it at the end of the Riven retrospective, I would really love to see a playthrough on it. I was about three or four years old when I watched my dad play it on his computer, and I have a terrible memory for things from my early childhood, so the fact that this game stuck out enough with it's unique designs and imagery is impressive to say the least (at least for me).
To me, it doesn't top Riven, although if just looking at it without comparison to the previous installment, MYST 3: Exile certainly stands up on it's own in a lot of aspects. The score, in my opinion, captured Robyn Miller's work so well while also still having it's own atmosphere. It is still one of my favourite soundtracks to date. As well as this, the design of J'nanin and that elevator in the basement of the main building was what I went searching for when trying to remember what this game was called years later. This is why I'd love to hear more of your thoughts on it, although your experience was underwhelming after finishing Riven.
Thanks for reading this, and keep up the great work. If you do decide to talk about and / or play through MYST 3: Exile at any point in the future, you can be sure I'll tune in! :)
I agree with this comment. Loved the this and the Riven play through. Thank you Jordan, and please do more!
Thank you so much for making these videos. I am really looking forward to your videos for the rest of them:)
Watching this actually enticed me to go back and play Myst again! Best game ever! Sure has stood the test of time! I played it collecting all the red and blue pages completing all the various endings! Got to know my way around pretty well. My favorite age was channelwood and I was super excited to find the bonus age Rime!
Riven was awesome as well, but much tougher and took some serious time and effort! Thanks for the video!
I know this is a little late cuz I'm just now finding your channel but thanks for doing doing these walk throughs!
I love Myst. It's strange to see the game "speed run". Thanks for the video.
I think this run through is great, but it is no way a speedrun. Speedruns of Myst are like 45 seconds long. It’s a stupidly competitive category! Haha.
I remember writing to the publisher of The Book of Atrus as a fan hoping someone would consider turning the story into a movie. The response I got back was a refusal of rights legal notice from lawyers at Disney. I was 16.
I had an almost identical experience with the Mechanical Age. Had me frustrated to no end, but was one of the biggest reasons I fell in love with the game. Great job on the video! I'm excited to get to the next ones.
I never got through Myst so seeing this and watching and hearing your passion was a real treat! Thank you!
Really enjoyed re-living the story. Thanks
Thank you very much Jordan, your excellent walk-throughs and insights have added a new dimension to my play-throughs of these wonderful games. Greatly appreciated! In short you ROCK :)
I'll be binging all these Retrospectives shortly :)
How you describe your feelings toward Myst and Riven is how I feel about a little Nintendo DS title called "Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective." It's a similar masterpiece, of puzzles and storytelling integrated, from the creator of Phoenix Wright. I would easily put that game in my top five, and I believe it's a fantastic take on the genre of point and click adventure/puzzle games. I've likewise introduced quite a few people to it, and they always love it. Definitely check it out if you are able.
I was baffled on the beginning of the water puzzle in Channelwood when I was a kid too. And I'm kicking myself because if I had any sense of plumbing I would've 1) known what to look for in that beginning cabin under the windmill and 2) seen that the spigot in the original version was in a lit square of sunlight on the floor. However being that mechanic was so hyper realistic I looked right past it without recognizing the obvious.
Loved both Myst and Riven as a kid. What a fantastic trip down memory lane. Thanks for putting these videos out!
Thank you for sharing that quote in the end!
Damn that Cyan intro is nostalgic as hell
I loved this game as a kid! Thanks for the video!
The puzzle at 30:30 you learn the sounds from the mechanical age. The mechanism at 1:09:00 plays the sound for NSEW. I think you're hinting at it but you never say the connection.
That’s what I was thinking. I played through mechanical age before the maze
Because you know damn well he cheated this as a kid. There’s no way to know which sound goes to which direction except for North, without first visiting the mechanical age. Bro just don’t wanna admit it.
Rand and Robin are chewing the scenery to bits in the bad endings and it's *_AMAZING!!_* 😂
Ahh, nostalgia! I know this is an older upload and you just got finished with Myst IV but I hope to see 5, too! Fantastic job, so much fun! G’chehv ah’shehm, as the D'Ni would say! Keep up the fantastic work!
The sound of the tone generator machine in the rocket ship reminds me of the "intermission" music in Monty Python and Holy Grail
Great video Jordan. I need to pick this game up again! Have not played Myst or Riven since childhood. Such classics.
In the past couple of days, I've grown to love your content. Great stuff, man! I have always been a Myst fan, but sadly I've never completed any of the games. So, the plan is to use your videos as sort of a walkthrough.
I am glad I wasn't the only one tripped up by the Mechanical Age elevator puzzle. That had me stuck for ages back in the day.
Thank you for your effort and content. Subbed.
What a great playthrough! I played the original and seeing the new reworked features on this was so fun! The rain and storm aspects of the Stoneship era was fantastic. And the added world at the end - very cool.
"It's actual something to se this game in full 3D running".... Thanks mate. I'm currently at Riven replay with my wife who liked the three books about Myst. As I've never played Myst 5, I also have a reason to replay all of them now in 2023/24.... So from here, greetings from the VR-Version of Myst. Hope you got that, too and are waiting for the new Riven to come out sometime soon.
I saw Myst briefly on a friend's Apple PowerPC when it first came out, and always wanted to play it. Then when it came out for VR, I knew my time had come. It was truly special to play in VR. When I got to the sound maze on tracks (~30:00), I sadly never pieced together the sounds at each junction as an indication of direction. Instead, I did what I always do when faced with a maze: I took the first path on the right. This, ironically, ended up leading me directly to the exit. A Googling revealed that this was a known "flaw" with the maze. :)
Looking forward to the next installment!
"Hopefully we make it to End Of Ages"
Two years ago: Riven playthrough.
I'm trying to make sure the Myst 3 video is recorded and up before 2021 ^__^'
you know i never knew about this ending and just thought the being stuck with Atrus ending was the ACTUAL ending
That is actually amazing, it's so funny how quickly we can accept what's presented to us if it's presented in a certain way or context. Glad you have now seen the Best Ending! :D
Hi Jordan! After being drawn back to the Myst universum myself I discovered your channel. You are a gem stone, your videos have high production quality. Thank you and subed. Saludos desde Uruguay, Mike 🇺🇾♥️👍
Wow, thank you! I appreciate the kind words, enjoy your Myst adventures!
I enjoyed your Riven Play through so much I decided to check out your other Retrospectives, in order. i played and beat Myst for the first time last week. it's gonna be fun to see someone who knows what they're doing beat Myst.
I also noticed in the Cyan opening video a giant dagger the rebels use in Riven. just thought that was cool.
Honestly the maze in Selentic was mostly just tedious more than confusing, though I was lucky and had played the mechanic age first and so I remembered the sounds and the direction they go
ive played all the myst games a ton (5 and uru not so much, hehe. as much as i was so interested in d'ni after reading the books), never knew the maze was a sound clue puzzle. but i loved the ride so i didnt mind. but the mechanical age, i dont remember the noise either. i think i counted or timed/guessed its rotation position. i had the same anticipation for riven (grade 10). as good as games are these day, nothing beats that one as a new and amazing experience.
Just ran across this video this week. I love this. I too got a Gateway 2000 computer that came with Myst! The mechanical age was the only one I could actually figure out easily on my own without needing any help (not sure how I stumbled across the elevator trick). I just wish I had realized the turning of the tower would match up with the maze runner in the Selenetic age... I never could beat the maze runner myself, the "audio clues" didn't make sense, and I was too frustrated to just go back and brute force map it out or try to figure out the audio clues. Even a few of us at school were playing Myst and shared thoughts and ideas, but that maze runner always befuddled us. At some point I even convinced my mother to buy me the strategy guide (probably due to the maze runner specifically). As an adult, I'd like to think I'd do better if I went back to play it again, but I loved the playthrough with the additional backstory. Fantastic, looking forward to the other videos!
This jogged so may memories for me. It's incredible that you remembered how to complete all the puzzles off the top of your head like that! Thank you for taking me back through Myst. After all these years, I never even went to Rime because I assumed the game was finished after Atrus "handled" his son's books! Did Rime exist in the original?
I'll be sure to watch you play the sequels from here (and you got a new subscriber!)
Rime was not in the originals! It was a bonus added to the original realMyst to bridge the gap between Myst and Riven slightly, and I think they just wanted to give the game a tiny bit more content. Thank you for the kind words and yes, the Riven and Exile videos get progressively better (I think anyway 😉).
I had this game for sega saturn but couldnt get anywhere in it! I didnt finish the game until i seen it on Oculus quest 2 and what fun I had!
This was a fun rewatch. I always loved this game though I still consider Riven to be the toughest. When I played through this game I did the ages in the order of how the tower rotated so selentic age was last. The rotation simulator in Achenar's room in the Mechanical Age is the clue to getting back to the Myst book in the Selentic Age. If you tinker with it you'll note all 4 sounds and the direction. As you did that age first you have to brute force it but the answer is in the game.
i liked myst 4. it had one of the most beautiful scenes i have ever seen in the series. leading to a frustrating
puzzle though.
Just finished it today for the first time ever. When I played it as a kid, I could never work out how everything connected.
I actually found the game to be an enjoyable level of difficulty this time round. Clues and hints seemed to pop out and be obvious to me this time. There were still a few puzzled that were confusing and some mechanics that didn't make sense at first but I got through it without looking anything up.
An example of something I got stuck on that I shouldn't have was the elevators in the jungle age.. having to close the doors of the elevators before they would activate took me a while to work out.
One more little tidbit thing you can do is once the pirate ship is raised in the harbor you can tightrope walk up to the crow's nest for peak around. I have the Steam version of these games and you earn badges as you discover things but only in this game....at least so far as haven't finished Myst 4 or the others yet.
Love all the context for the game! Love your format as well. I just finished playing Myst for the first time with Myst: Masterpiece edition and from your intro it sounds like I was lucky to be able to get it to work on my computer! I'm in the process of editing together my experience into a condensed form for my channel so people can see another person struggling with the same puzzles they struggled with 28 years ago. Overall, I loved the environment and lore of the game, but some of the puzzles were very frustrating at times (The cart ride at the age you access through the spaceship was a particular thorn in my side). And maybe I'm spoiled with modern games, but I felt that the ending left a lot to be desired. But overall, I'm very glad I finally played what was for many their first computer game ever. I'm currently debating whether to play through the other games. How would you compare II and III to 1?
One of the neat parts was when you said, "We solved the riddle" (thunderclap)
Thank you for the great Video, the Riven one aswell, hope you do Exile etc at one point to!
..probably even obduction?
Thanks! I am working on notes for an Exile video, still planning to get that up by the end of the year!
came for the Myst... stayed to say your beard was on point in 2017
Have you thought about continuing this series? I’d love a video about end of ages
Funny enough, i always went the opposite route you do in this. Saving Selenitic for last because the puzzle always frustrated me to unlock the age (the music thing).
So I'd do Mechanical, Channelwood (sometimes Channelwood or Stoneship first, my favorite ages) then Selenitic. It took me a very long time to figure out the games true ending. The Fortress Rotation Simulator would often crash the original CD-Rom version of the game.
Planet's Edge ended on a major cliffhanger and they never made a sequel. 😭
Apparently they proposed it for twice what they thought it would take, $265,000, but it ended up being more like $600,000 (or $700,000, according to the New York Times).
Those graphics 😍 I was playing the Nintendo DS version earlier.
Yeah Myst has been ported to everything under the sun. I remember checking out the PSP version back in the day.
You’re an amazing commentator
There's a new Myst on Steam with a 'coming soon' tag. Looks like with even better graphics. I might buy this and leave it running on my pc screen at the start of the game. Then get my dad to sit at the pc to see if he can work out what the hell is going on... almost 30 years later. haha
Yeah, I had no idea the VR version was more than just realMyst in VR! Very excited to check it out.
I remember Played the First myst on Sega Saturn by a neighbour and was flashed. I hot my own PC from my own Money 1995 With a free Version of myst. Awesome time.
Also right at the exact time of, 55:18 the music, itself, is also on UA-cam, that is, if you wanna listen to them, without pay or anything, as they are also on UA-cam Music btw.
I do like how in realMyst you can move and look around freely, but the nostalgia definitely comes to me with the point-and-click to move and everything from the original version. I have both, and I just beat the original Masterpiece Edition. I'll have to play the realMyst version, too, though. It looks so pretty. ^_^ Trying to play through all the games, too. I've never beaten Riven or any after that so I'm looking forward to it.
Also, the maze in Selenitic is definitely one of my favorite puzzles, too. I thought it was very well put together. I didn't know what to do at first, but once the directions changed and I heard the different sounds, I figured it out. It also helped that most paths other than the correct one and where you came from were closed off at the beginning, which gives the player some time to figure it out. I remember brute-forcing through it as a kid, too, but I have a whole new appreciation for it now that I'm an adult and realized how it worked. I'd say the puzzles I didn't like the most were the telescope puzzle in Stoneship because if you hit the wrong button on the compass, it immediately turned the lights off so you kept having to go fix the lights before doing it again...which made figuring it out frustrating...especially when you knew what you had to do, but didn't realize the math you needed to do to figure it out. The other puzzle I didn't like was mainly because I don't consider it a puzzle...and that's finding the hut to open to the door in Channelwood. You can go around in circles in that place and never find it. -_- The puzzle in the Mechanical Age I honestly just used timing to figure out. I wasn't ever sure if there was a method to it or not...I just knew the switches moved the center island to connect to the outer ones, and each one had a different sound so you knew it switched locations. The fact you couldn't see the direction it was moving until you compared it to the prototype in Achenar's room was a little inconvenient, but the stopping points were fixed to the specific direction so that helped a lot. I just finished this game for a second time ever yesterday so I'm all nostalgic about the series right now xD
"telescope with nothing in it"
The building turns you know. Fun little Easter egg.
In fact, it's an achievement on the newer versions of the game =)
@@JordanRogers85 Sometimes I wonder, just seeing the amount of thought and intellect that goes into a game like Riven.... What if there are literally still secrets in there that just still haven't been uncovered. haha Because I wouldn't put it past them.
I thought Mechanical world was the easiest actually and the first too do..as the sounds of direction are memorized before you hit the rocketship world from the rotation in the mechanical world that's what got me through that terrible roller mine cart ride knowing those sounds of direction in mechanical world..that's why I do that one first...I like your commentary your calm and collective and with good amount of knowledge to these. Riven was hard. Revelation I couldn't finish Spires harmonic chair I just couldn't figure out for the life of me..good play
Runs great from GoG realmyst was nice for new hardware
Ahh I never knew that about that piece of paper on the ground being added later!
Makes sense why I always felt like it was kind of tacked on as a kid because everything always feels so deliberately placed, but a piece of paper sitting there and not being blown away was always odd to me
Microphone audio probably could have been like 1-2 decibels louder, or turn on audio ducking which lowers the game volume while you speak
First PS1 I ever played. Got hooked the minute I saw it. Got the pc version then Riven. After that they changed company's I think and the game changed after that.
Nice video, finally got to experience this game and this commentary is very informative, only critique is that I think you shoulda turned the game volume down, it can kinda drown your voice out at times with the environment sound
Any chance you also played Schizm? Theres one I played as a kid but didnt make it too far in
I tried to play Myst with a broken sound card the first time. I was soooo confused. The hint book just said something like "tower rotation." OK. So? Fixed the sound card and immediately said "Oooooh!"
I believe that "RETURN TO ZORK" was made with HyperCard to. || I have gotten motion sickness while playing that part.
This is a wonderful serious..Exile actually being the best..one Journal that explains everything..Riven being the hardest as there are very little insight on what's going on..got the typical ending waking up in those orb like huts.. Revelation was almost just as hard as Riven but not quite..I never finished it even with the actual answers given which roughens everything the whole game is waste on first playthrough but even with the actual answers still couldn't get things to work..like that chair in Sirius Prison age..pfft..I enjoy the challenge of the answer being right infront of me..feel stupid looking the answer up..but i could never get those crystals to start vibrating...I'll watch your campaign..figure out what the deal is.. The Myst world captivated me upon release
Wasn't Atrus able to construct all this because all he has to do is write it in the age's book with enough detail.
Great game interesting visual effects but pretty hard to play too. Ypu need a walkthrough or a hint book which what I have.
I'm on Quest playing this and I've got 5 red pages and 4 blue pages. (I think you can grab both pages in each age in the Quest version.)
Now I'm utterly stuck. I have no new hints and everything is unlocked, and the prison books aren't doing anything new yet.
And I don't wanna just go to page 158 of the burnt book... I wanna understand how I ended up with 5 red pages, and why I could feed each book 4 pages each. If anyone knows thanks.
I am extremely tone deaf and I could not solve that musical puzzle, I remember that was the first time I was ever truly angry at a game.
Just watched your Riven play through and now backtracking to Myst. Judging by your channel it seems you never did make it to the later games.
I still plan on it!
Do you still stream? What is your twitch name? I tried searching for it but I'm sure I misspelled something, lol.
I do not really stream puzzle games! I get way too embarrassed struggling to solve puzzles with an audience ;)
@@JordanRogers85 I can definitely understand that:)). If you feel like making a video, would love to watch it.
@@dans2111 www.twitch.tv/radicoon
Can you use WASD? I thought you could.
Do Myst 4, it's been nearly 4 years!
Soon!
What's a CD?
I’m with you. I had to “encase” my CD in a loading tray?
Also, alongside Phil Fish, Jon Blow has said The Witness was hugely inspired by Myst.
Fez and The Witness, two of my favorite games! :D
@@JordanRogers85 Have you played or have access to "The Outer Wilds"?
i miss gamepro and its yearly lamepro section. a very very long time ago they had a myst parody called pyst.
You ready for version #5 coming soon?
Absolutely! Can't wait to give it a go.
is realMyst Masterpiece the best looking version of the game? thanks
It's subjective! But I believe so, yes. Some people prefer the look of the non-masterpiece edition, but moving the game to a new engine allowed them to port it more easily.
@@JordanRogers85 tx!
Do a Pyst playthrough en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyst
I'll save it for a rainy day video ;)
@@JordanRogers85 lol I apologize now for ruining your rainy day
Didn't you visit Ti'ana's grave or did I miss it?
No I don't think so! Probably should have. I love how they really committed to the lore of the two first novels from Riven and on.
My old 75mhz, 2 mb graphics card took 5 mins to load each page, this footage is very refreshing.
what if I'm in a prison book to I'm not really actually in my room 🤣🤣
IF ONLY THE GAME AUDIO COULD HAVE BEEN LOUDER WHILE YOU TALKED..... CAN YOU HEAR ME O.K.?
Using this as a guide as I play this for the first time. However I am playing on the sega saturn so it feels quite slow in comparison haha.
Update: Did it! Thanks for making this video. It was really cool to listen to alongside my own playthrough
@1:29:00 He probably fire marbled them.
Ouch x_x
GOG has the 3D version. It's been remastered with more animated graphics and you don't have to click each screen. Just push the w key to go forward and the mouse for direction. It's really pretty. You also have 360 direction viewing I think. OK that is the Masterpiece edition.
This wasn't so muchh a retrospective but a Speedrun. . .
I am a speedrunner, it bleeds over sometime! I do plan to revisit Myst and rest assured it won't be too quick.
16:30 - did you see that new Myst with raytracing just released? The red and blue books have stupid 3D model heads instead of the real actors now. When I saw that, I quit the game and uninstalled it, and I was streaming. Luckily I didn't buy that piece of garbage game.
They look terrible. The original actors were interesting. Nobody in the gaming industry seems to make the correct decisions anymore.
One more thing as far as your video goes - I usually don't upvote videos but I upvoted this. I'm seeing insight, dignity, straight to the point, and no feigned enthusiasm. I've got nothing negative to say.™
I really appreciate the kind words! I try really hard to stay as authentic as I can. And yes, despite how amazing the re-release of Myst is in most aspects, the character models are not up to par.
“Return To Zork” used Hypercard©️ to