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It makes me cry that hypercard studio was discontinued.
Just for the record, I hte all MYST games... but I loved "Cosmos" and have been looking for the CD of that game until intel macs came out and meant doom! Edit: Maybe I'll take a look t my last PowerPC computer and see if I can fix it. I bet it was jut HDD failure and my three year computer cycle was up. Retired 8 years ahead of schedule. Last edited by cosus : 2012-06-17 at 06:00. Reason: Fixing my G4... |
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I am worthless beyond hope. Join Date: May 2004
Location: Inner Swabia. If you have to ask twice, don't.
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Uh. Billions of dollars of blow is bad for you.
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As a kid, I'd played the wide plethora of educational games available at my school (Oregon Trail and the other Trails, Operation Neptune, several Super Solvers games...), but Myst was my first exposure to more mainstream video games. I played through it with my best friend and occasional hints from her mother, and while parts of it were over my head, the act of picking out a story solely by what was left behid was infectious. Then Riven came out and then her mom got the books, and I was forever down the rabbit hole. It was not the first thing I would say I was a fan of, but it was my first experience with participating in actual fandom with other people. I went from tentatively posting on a forum to moderating that forum, and now I'm doing an academic project on community within online fandoms that will be my college capstone. The amount of influence that game and its successors has had on my life is immeasurable.
Also, it has brought me many a fantastic friend. "A blind, deaf, comatose, lobotomy patient could feel my anger!" - Darth Baras twitter ; amateur photographer ; fanfiction writer ; roleplayer and worldbuilder |
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But god damn, that fucking pipe puzzle. |
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Is that the one with the gears that had to be turned? That one drove me nuts.
Wrote a quick Prolog script to solve it. Used the script in the programming languages class I was teaching the next day as an example of 'the right tool for the right job'... Most of them had never seen a functional language before. |
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But I'm not sure that was the hardest one. Wasn't there one where you had to navigate a maze in a vehicle, guided by chimes? Like, the vehicle would come to a stop, and a chime would play, and you were supposed to eventually gather that the different chimes meant you should go in different directions. That one I had trouble with. The library computers didn't have sound. |
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The worst puzzle in Myst or Riven, as far as I'm concerned, is the fucking "waffle iron" that powers Linking Books in Riven. I am well aware of the theory behind it, and it does make logical sense, but fuck that shit I'm cheating it every single time. "A blind, deaf, comatose, lobotomy patient could feel my anger!" - Darth Baras twitter ; amateur photographer ; fanfiction writer ; roleplayer and worldbuilder |
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I never got that far in Riven.
I liked Myst, though. It blew me away when I played it. It was just so new, like with the graphics (would you believe it came out before Doom?), and the first-person perspective, and such. The environments were really artful and atmospheric, and I liked the idea of worlds inside of books and such. It's been so long since I played it, though...I doubt I would remember the answers to most of the puzzles. I guess that'd be ideal, though, if I wanted to play through it again! |
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If any of you have a Windows install handy, GOG is selling Myst Masterpiece Edition for $2.39, as part of their Battle of the Games summer promo. I'd buy it myself but sadly the Masterpiece Edition apparently doesn't play very well with WINE or CrossOver.
"The things that will destroy us are: politics without principle; pleasure without conscience; wealth without work; knowledge without character business without morality; science without humanity; and worship without sacrifice." - Mahatma Gandhi |
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