You trip the breakers in powering up the Spaceship.You mess up the Constellation Pillar puzzle to raise the Ship.You utter an expletive while trying to figure out the Gears puzzle in the clocktower.You have to reset the Gears puzzle in the Clocktower.You miss aligning the Tower Rotation on the right place.You have to redo any puzzle to get out of an age.You have to unflip a switch, lever, or button because you flipped it earlier and had no idea what it was doing then but you do now.Honestly, I don’t know why such a drinking game hasn’t been written before now (if there was, I wasn’t able to find it), but hopefully this will close a crucial gap in the Myst fandom. Now, the easy way to go about this drinking game would be “drink every time you get stuck”, but I don’t want to have to go ahead and schedule your funeral a week from now, so let’s make things a little easier on your liver and a little more fun. To that end, get your friends together with the lure of free booze and play the Myst and Riven Drinking Game. (Sure, they say that Myst and Riven don’t encourage violent gaming? I’d like to see you play through them and not want to chuck things at the wall.) So, how do we go about making them more infuriating and fun? By adding alcohol, of course! I’m pro-drinking game, as many of my friends know, and it’s always fun to open up a bottle (or twelve) of beer or wine, maybe make a stiff cocktail (or seven) and drink with a purpose. Now, even if you haven’t played these games, let’s make them a little more infuriating. A corresponding realRIVEN was supposedly in the works, but is now being handled by fans at the Starry Expanse Project donate there if you want to see this come to life one day! If you dislike the original HyperCard format of Myst, I might also recommend playing realMYST, which is the 3D version that Cyan originally wanted to use but didn’t have the technology for in 1993. I strongly recommend you play through them at some point this winter, especially if you haven’t yet. Seriously, there’s a reason that Myst and Riven are among the best-selling games of all times, and it’s not just because Myst was the game that popularized CD-ROMs for gaming. You can get either for like US$5 off of Steam or GOG, maybe both plus several of the other Myst games for as much if you happen to get in on a sale. Uru, specifically the free-to-play Myst Online: Uru Live (donate to keep the servers up!)Īnyway, let’s focus on Myst and Riven, because obviously.If you haven’t played the games or read the books, and I seriously question your existence as a human if you haven’t yet, I recommend the following sequence: Still, it’s good to play through the games once in a while, if only to relive those beautiful scenes and music and the familial drama of the house of Atrus. I mean, Myst has a shortcut that circumvents nearly the entire game, so long as you remember a specific time and a specific page number, for crying out loud the other games actually require you to play through the game and unlock individual puzzles without any chance of a shortcut. Well, the problem is that these games don’t always have the best replay value. Then there’s Uru, the MMO, which is beautiful and amazing to play though, only parts of which require other people to help out alas, it was far too detached from its time, and the caverns of D’ni feel way more desolated than the designers of the game intended it to be. In my opinion, Riven was the best game of the series, followed by Myst in quality Exile (III) was good but felt too much like a game and not enough like an adventure, Revelation (IV) went far too much against the history and setting set up by Myst and Riven, and End of Ages (V) was just…sad for so many reasons. It’s a beautiful series, and it’s definitely had a significant effect on my beliefs and practice of the occult. For those who don’t know, the Myst franchise, started by the always-trusty Cyan, Inc.,spans five single-player games, one MMO, and three novels, as well as a poorly-received (so I’ve heard) comic book series that didn’t last past the first issue. Alas, I’ve never yet made it to a Mysterium con, but I will one day before they die out. I am, have always been, and will always be a lifelong Myst fanboy. It’s not surprise to people that, if I have one primary fandom, it’s Myst. Otherwise, I love you because you’re an amazing person. If you like neither puzzle adventure games nor drinking, then you may want to skip this. It is, after all, my blog, and some things just aren’t cut out for a long Facebook post. This is going to depart from my normal subject matter on this blog. Alright, it’s late, I’m getting over a cold, and I’m bored.
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