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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Oh, and on the back of that last rant: some Youtube Let's Play makers should be shot.
I wanted to play Myst, the Masterpiece Edition from 2014. Sue me, but I never played Myst before. I was too you to play/understand it when it came out. I did buy it on GOG.com a year ago or so, so I downloaded it and installed it.
It was very dark. VERY dark. Never noticed something like that, because I've been using this laptop for desktop work for the last year. So, I went on YouTube to see how the captured video's would look.
I start a random longplay, and the guy starts blabbering about the history of Myst. I was already scrolling on the right-hand side, to find another playthrough where I could see the beginning stages without waiting 5 minutes (scrolling in a 2,5 hour long video on Youtube is hard).
Suddenly that guy says:
"I wonder if that bug is still around that the game had in the 90's."
I wasn't really listening, so I thought he was going to describe a crash in a certain situation or something, which wouldn't be relevant in a complete remake. No, he says:
"You could pick up _____, and put the code from ____ into ___, and you'll finish the game."
YOU STUPID **** IDIOT!
YOU RANDOMLY CREATED ****
**** @$%@52^@^@$52452 245$ !!!
You don't say something like that in an introduction. You gave away the entire point of the game: how to find that last piece of information. I can't unhear this. You even fracked the entire reason to watch your playthrough, you fool.
The entire point of Myst is that convoluted, Rube Goldberg-like creation of different ages, trying to find out what is happening. I don't know that yet (not entirely, at least), but the temptation to just pick up the last clue and find out immediately is tempting.
Now I can only do two things:
- Don't play the game, just read the storyline online, and move on to Riven.
- Play the game as if I don't know this.
To some extent, I have a feeling that both are not an option and I need to go on a mission to have that guy shot. Or tortured. Or something.
(BTW, it turned out that the laptop screen is quite dark overall, and has both black and white crush, despite it being a high-end IPS screen that gets good reviews. It can be partiall sovled by raising the Gamma value in the graphics cards settings, but even on optimal settings, you'll still lose black values 1 and 2, and white values 254, 253, and 251. Fortuantely, those are seldomly used in games, and I don't use this system for editing photo's.)
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I remember playing Myst when it came out, it was wonderous and took me quite a while to solve it (never knew about the bug). I replayed the remake this past year and it was done reasonably well. I still recommend you playing it and just forget what you heard. The game is worth your time. Most, not all, puzzels are great to solve.
Riven on the other hand I never really gotten into.