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The Ending Has Not Yet Been Written
Grey Ghost
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The grounds have been prepared.
The paths raked.
Everyone, and everything, is in place.
All is in its final state of readiness.
You may enter whenever you choose.
(Leaving, however, is another matter.)
This thread is about Myst. Myst is a groundbreaking adventure game series, the first installment of which hit the market in 1993 (and remained the best-selling PC game of all time until surpassed in 2002 by The Sims). Developed by Rand and Robyn Miller and their company, Cyan, the Myst series tells the story of a man named Atrus and his family - a saga of love, betrayal, hatred, and revenge.
Atrus' past, and his ultimate fate, are inextricably entwined with an ancient civilization called D'ni, a society that resided in secret beneath the surface of our own world for thousands of years. The D'ni were masters of The Art - a mysterious process whereby special Books, describing other worlds in exquisite detail, actually become portals to these worlds, facilitating travel to them and allowing the D'ni to colonize the multiverse and spread their empire into countless Ages across the cosmos.
But years ago, a great cataclysm destroyed this incredible culture - violence and chaos, driven by prejudice and greed. Atrus' family escaped... but he sees in his own family the seeds of the very same evils that destroyed D'ni. What can be done about his father, who writes Book after Book with megalomaniacal furor and proclaims himself God of hundreds of worlds? Can he save his sons, who loot and plunder his own Books seeking worldly riches and power? Are there enemies still unseen who lurk in far-flung Ages and plot their inevitable revenge? Atrus doesn't have the answers.
But...
Into this chaos comes you: a Stranger, who stumbles upon a Linking Book to a place called Myst Island. There, your destiny will become linked to Atrus', and your quest to help him will take you to every corner of existence, and from the void between worlds to the darkest recesses of the human heart.
I hope you are... into books.
The paths raked.
Everyone, and everything, is in place.
All is in its final state of readiness.
You may enter whenever you choose.
(Leaving, however, is another matter.)
This thread is about Myst. Myst is a groundbreaking adventure game series, the first installment of which hit the market in 1993 (and remained the best-selling PC game of all time until surpassed in 2002 by The Sims). Developed by Rand and Robyn Miller and their company, Cyan, the Myst series tells the story of a man named Atrus and his family - a saga of love, betrayal, hatred, and revenge.
Atrus' past, and his ultimate fate, are inextricably entwined with an ancient civilization called D'ni, a society that resided in secret beneath the surface of our own world for thousands of years. The D'ni were masters of The Art - a mysterious process whereby special Books, describing other worlds in exquisite detail, actually become portals to these worlds, facilitating travel to them and allowing the D'ni to colonize the multiverse and spread their empire into countless Ages across the cosmos.
But years ago, a great cataclysm destroyed this incredible culture - violence and chaos, driven by prejudice and greed. Atrus' family escaped... but he sees in his own family the seeds of the very same evils that destroyed D'ni. What can be done about his father, who writes Book after Book with megalomaniacal furor and proclaims himself God of hundreds of worlds? Can he save his sons, who loot and plunder his own Books seeking worldly riches and power? Are there enemies still unseen who lurk in far-flung Ages and plot their inevitable revenge? Atrus doesn't have the answers.
But...
Into this chaos comes you: a Stranger, who stumbles upon a Linking Book to a place called Myst Island. There, your destiny will become linked to Atrus', and your quest to help him will take you to every corner of existence, and from the void between worlds to the darkest recesses of the human heart.
I hope you are... into books.
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I ought to go back and play all of these games!
Hahahaha
I like the sticker that says
NOT THE REAL GAME - IT'S A PARODY!
I am a terrible person
You mean the ending it didn't have?
when Atrus says "thanks a bunch" and lets you wander around the Ages until he needs you to run another dumb errand
Jerk
Oh god damn it YES
that took me an entire afternoon to get right
It was the beginning of a beaaaauuuutiful friendship.
"Sandra has a good solid anti-murderer vibe. My skin felt very secure and sufficiently attached to my body when I met her. Also my organs." HAIL SATAN
I cannot discern tones well at all
fuck that thing
jolly good.
I liked that blurring of the line between fiction and reality
The soundtracks are amazing
I have the ones for the first 3 games and I still listen to them all the time
My dad, though. He beat it, then I got him Riven for Christmas and he beat that too.
In 2000 they did a remake called realMyst which was all in real time instead of pre-rendered graphics, and had weather and sunrises and shit
you could probably find that one pretty easily, and maybe Riven too
and IV and V were not that long ago at all
I think it was the first game I ever owned on CD (damn it).
I found it alot harder than most Sierra/Lucasarts adventure games.
that completely blew my mind!
I heard it isn't a very good port though
these games are the very definition of 'atmosphere' for me, never to be topped
also i owned PYST but i could never get it to work on my pc. with that title, i do believe thats what they intended
especially Achenar's from the end of the first one ("...you loooooooose") and anything Gehn did in Riven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVbn98xfFJQ
Yeah but they brought it back with Gametap
and then that lasted like 4 months
too bad because it's basically the perfect franchise for an MMO
I heard it isn't a very good game.
Let's talk about some good adventure games:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzEWGaqdtcg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL0086T-u6A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yWnnk9fyJE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kVZ1sJZ9lo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HaYZsc66Bk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET_98IcvoTI&feature=related
they deserve a whole thread of their own, in fact
go make that thread
I have no idea. I should not be posting while tired.
I never did get into the point and click adventures. Although neverhood seems like it might have been fun.
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