It’s an adventure game, technically, but one lacking in what were considered the mainstay features of the genre. So what was it about Myst that drove audiences nuts (in both senses of the word) back in 1993? Well like many games that see success outside of the traditional gamer market – what I suppose we now call the “casual” market – Myst takes a well established idea and strips it down to its simplest, most accessible form. Amnesia was obviously chugging that Myst juice. Its influence is even more pronounced now that slower-paced, horror-adventures are finally coming back to the fore. There’s a direct line of influence from early text adventure stuff like Zork, to Sierra and Lucas Art’s adventure games, to Myst, to pretty much every puzzler of the late 90’s and early 2000’s. No seriously, Dragon Quest VII was directly inspired by Myst. You can see elements of its design in Resident Evil, System Shock 2, Tomb Raider, Dear Esther (plus every other walk-em-up you’d care to name) and Dragon Quest VII. In terms of actual influence, Myst is huge.
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There’s been a handful of Myst-likes in recent years – Ether One, The Room series on iOS and The Talos Principle are the most obvious examples, but for a game that sold six million copies, Myst has very few direct imitators.īut nuts to those people.
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Myst was a commercial juggernaut: The best-selling PC game of its era until The Sims galvanized the creepy serial stalker/murderer market, yet the surge of “graphic adventure” games many thought its success would inspire never happened, and the series itself has lain dormant since 2005. There are some who would argue that the game actually has little in the way of a lasting legacy. So as an actual product, Myst (I’ll be dropping the Masterpiece Edition monicker from here on out as there’s very little difference between the two versions) doesn’t hold up, but as an artifact – a kind of gaming transitional fossil, it’s fascinating.
You should play the 3D remake ( also on GOG.com), it’s a lot better. There’s a core element of Myst that was, and still is, brilliant, but it plays like a PowerPoint presentation running on your gran’s spyware-infested Dell.
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A download you intend to play for entertainment in the year 2015? Christ, no. A physical copy would at least look nice on your shelf, but a digital download? No. So let’s get any pretense of this being a traditional product review out of the way: Myst: Masterpiece Edition, a copy of which GOG.com has generously provided for the purpose of this review, is a bit shit. Original Release: 1993 (Original), 1999 (Masterpiece Edition).
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