Obduction is a game deliberately crafted in the style of Myst
and is from Cyan, the creators of Myst. It has the 'feel'
of Myst navigation, while exchanging point and click for 3D
graphics. I highly recommend it.
Anyone ever play Sudden Strike?
Damn, that was a while ago :)
Did a long time ago.
Enjoyed it, but got to the point were I just wanted to play, not puzzle
I did and enjoyed the puzzles (mostly). The music was exceptional.
I vaguely remember the name, but don’t recall playing it. I do remember playing Zork, which is probably the same time frame.
Indeed, all the versions of it.
I would love to see a completely new version of it which would allow real time walkthroughs (rather than the choppy advances via clicks), 360 pivot abilities (like in car interior adverts), and perhaps less puzzles (in order to allow just an adventurous jaunt into an imaginary world, finding neat things, etc).
Don’t really care about the war games. As a retired military type, had enough of real life for that.
I did enough Zork and related games before MYST. Tried it, but soon bogged down.
Did get the trilogy for my father, who did solve them all. I happened to wander into the room just as he finished, so got to see the final sequence. Bought him a MYST dagger as a reward.
Yeah, that was the first and last game I ever played. Graphics were ground breaking. I couldn’t get past the second or third puzzle, found it to be an enormous time-suck, and quit that stuff entirely. I found that FR was a much better way to spend my limited time ;>)
The video and sound quality was the best I'd ever seen, and I was amazed by it. I never "solved" the game, but I got pieces of it.
I remember it had to access the CDROM all the time, for each scene change. Back then, hard drives were what? 50MB? 100 MB? Something like that? And a big computer had 8 MB of RAM, IIRC, and a 50 MHz CPU.
Yes, and I loved it. I wish it were available to play on a windows 10 platform.
I think I might still have a MYST disk.
That game was Awesome.
So was F117 and Leisure Suit Larry
I still have MYST and its sequel Riven. Fun times.
Ahhh good memories!
The world needs more wholesome entertainment like this.
Before MYST was a series of games known as “King’s Quest.”
Similar puzzle solving program that was written on a level kids could enjoy, too. I can remember playing with my two daughters...working as a team to solve the problems....when we picked up a “rotten” tomato. It said “put me down or I’ll juice all over you!” We laughed about that for days.
As I said...good times. Good family memories.
I did. I never made it off the island. Now, I wonder whether there was a smoke monster.
They should have a new game called RINO where you are President and you can’t get your agenda through because of RINOs, and you have to go through all this crap to get things done. “Oh no, here comes Democrat operative John McCain to vote no AGAIN! What will you do?”
Myst and a similar game, the 7th guest were the "killer apps" of their day forcing computer owners to finally chip in for a CD-ROM drive. Before that, computer game companies really hadn't figured out how to incorporate the added benefit of the CD-ROM into a game. When it was used at all, it was typically to add a few sputtering bit of unattractive video here and there. But Myst changed that, using the extra storage of the CD-ROM to load entire hi-definition (for the era) environments.
I recently tried to play Myst again. It doesn't really hold up that well by modern standards and comes across more as tech demo of what the technology of the day was capable of than an actual game.
Yeah, it was the first game to force me to buy a hint book. Beautiful to look at and listen to but frustrating.