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I'm just making that up
Directed by Michael Bay. Nothing but 100 minutes of puzzles, titties, and explosions.
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Hey! It's my birthday too! hi5!
God dammit.
That fucking chess one. Arrrrrgh.
So, you never played Myst?
Here's the general gist:
At the time it was one of the more beautiful games ever produced. The kicker is that it was the puzzle game to end all puzzle games. It and its sequels can generally be counted amongst the group of the most annoying, but highly satisfying games ever made.
There were few, if any, people that you interacted with. Just the environment, ambient music and the fucking puzzles that you'd spend hours working out.
Also, happy birthday.
Later in the game, you come across a puzzle where you need to counterbalance a weight composed of the different colored rocks with a limited set of your own rocks. Fairly easy to do if you were paying attention earlier, but it would take you forever through trial and error.
Not only do you need good problem solving skills, you need to be observant.
I am not good at puzzle games.
High-five indeed.
If it was on Steam for Mac I'd buy it today. But god damn fuck that game.
Of course these days, you can't make a book about a boy traveling through worlds with his estranged and deranged father who creates and destroys world on a whim with the stroke of a pen. If does become a movie, it's going to be some bullcrap action flick with some loose references to the lore.
To enlighten a bit, I'll try to remember what the stories were about.
Also, Gehn is a psychopath bred of racism of his half-human, half-D'ni heritage. It's a good story.
The book of Ti'ana is about the boy's grandmother, the first human to meet the D'ni, who were digging to the surface. It's basically just the love story of Ti'ana and Gehn's Father, and the explanation of the people of D'ni.
The third book, The Book of D'ni was boring in my opinion. It's about Atrus and Catherine rebuilding D'ni after the first game's events.
If I had to choose a movie, The Book of Atrus was less epic, but far more endearing. It's the one that leads up directly to the games.
Edit: I see now it's being based on Book of Ti'Ana. That's still good. It's better than D'ni and delves into the world of the D'ni.
Point #1 makes me happy. The Myst books are absolutely fantastic and anyone who likes quality literature should read them.
Point #2 makes me mad that they won't use the people who wrote the original story.
For those playing along at home, Ti'Ana is Artus's grandmother (Atrus the writer father guy in the games).
edit: With kind respects to rfilyaw for pointing out my error.
I thought it was much easier than Return to Zork (which I guess is the only other puzzle game I've played anyway). Prettier, too.
Please forgive me, and I don't wanna be a super nerd. Ti'Ana was his grandmother. His mother died at childbirth and he was raised by his grandmother.
i remember when i got the first game, it came with some little envelope you opened in case you were seriously stuck. i put off opening it as long as i could (since even if no one else knew, i would know) and by the time i finally cracked and went to cheat, the envelope contained hints about the sparse handful of shit i'd already managed to figure out myself
Heh. I was honestly thinking about Return to Zork when I wrote that as well. I don't know which one was harder, but both were stone cold bitches.
I'm a silly goose. You are completely right. Also, I didn't see your post when I submitted mine. ~editing the tomfoolery now~
that organ puzzle was the only puzzle that was ever really super hard
and goddamn
if you are not musically inclined it is a game ender
The page.
Give me the page?
Please give me the page.
The page, my friend.
Yeah, I'm good at puzzles, but I'm terrible at games where the first trick is to figure out what the hell the puzzle is.
oh boy was it ever
Jump to about the 7 minute mark
I spent about 2 hours trying to hum the tune and match it up.
Finally I said fuck it, counted the keys on the keyboard, and moved the sliders up very very carefully one notch at a time.
Also fuck the huge minecart maze.
that damn game.
"Think of it as Evolution in Action"
God those puzzles though... it's the kind of game you needed to look up solutions for, except this was 1994 and the internet barely existed :P Maybe there were BBS servers dedicated to it, I have no idea...
Edit: Also, that comic is brilliant and captures the ridiculousness of that game perfectly.
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maybe puzzle games just aren't your thing?
I solved like 80% of the puzzles in the first 3 Myst games without any hints.
And half of that 20% was ridiculous stuff in Riven.