Recordkeeping: Myst (2021) COMPLETE
Feb. 25th, 2022 02:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xyzzysqrlIt's traditional for me to install and run through Zork: The Great Underground Empire on every brand-new PC I own. It's part obeisance to where I came from and part irony, ha ha look what I am doing on all this computing power, behold how old I am.
Well, tradition is nice but always doing the same thing is very conservative and also boring, so I updated the tradition and tossed Myst on my machine. The 2021 remake includes raytracing and is generally so lovely I kept a running twitter thread of tourism photos which will link back here when I'm done this post. It's a big daisy-chain loop of Me.
I've always liked Myst's chains of mechanical connections and inferred logic. If you sit and read the books in the library, figure out how the marker switches and tower work, you're partway there. It's much different from the cartoon logic of most adventure games. ... Of course, I love those too.
Maybe it's because I knew most of the puzzle solutions from memory, but it just felt COMFORTABLE being back in those abandoned Ages again. It also made me aware how small they felt, though. I guess there's a metaphor for something in that. I don't want to bother assembling it though. DIY.
I sort of wish they'd ever re-released Riven, but Riven is so much bigger and presumably harder to put together. Myst's brevity means you can re-tell it over and over, but Riven is four CDs of lengthy tourism plus the secret fifth CD of Actually Knowing What The Puzzles Mean. I don't think anything after Riven will ever get remade. No one seems to much care about Exile, Revelations went hard on plot and alienated some of the fans, and End of Ages was quite depressing.
At least the maniac Uru fans are STILL GETTING UPDATES FOR THEIR GAME. Now that's inspiring.
Well, tradition is nice but always doing the same thing is very conservative and also boring, so I updated the tradition and tossed Myst on my machine. The 2021 remake includes raytracing and is generally so lovely I kept a running twitter thread of tourism photos which will link back here when I'm done this post. It's a big daisy-chain loop of Me.
I've always liked Myst's chains of mechanical connections and inferred logic. If you sit and read the books in the library, figure out how the marker switches and tower work, you're partway there. It's much different from the cartoon logic of most adventure games. ... Of course, I love those too.
Maybe it's because I knew most of the puzzle solutions from memory, but it just felt COMFORTABLE being back in those abandoned Ages again. It also made me aware how small they felt, though. I guess there's a metaphor for something in that. I don't want to bother assembling it though. DIY.
I sort of wish they'd ever re-released Riven, but Riven is so much bigger and presumably harder to put together. Myst's brevity means you can re-tell it over and over, but Riven is four CDs of lengthy tourism plus the secret fifth CD of Actually Knowing What The Puzzles Mean. I don't think anything after Riven will ever get remade. No one seems to much care about Exile, Revelations went hard on plot and alienated some of the fans, and End of Ages was quite depressing.
At least the maniac Uru fans are STILL GETTING UPDATES FOR THEIR GAME. Now that's inspiring.
