I appreciate the honesty: "I read the whole wikipedia page..."

myst tickle

I solved almost everything without looking up stuff. For some reason I did a websearch on the Whark gallow, which was not the hardest of puzzles. But the fire marbles I had immediately, maybe I was lucky, but it didn't seem so difficult. But overall the difficulty is brutal, I also never met anyone who finished the game without at least one or two web searches...

Wonderful games - I finished all the <Myst games unaided and also others such as Time-lapse and Obsidian. Riven was my favorite though. I replayed Must when Realmyst came out. Don't understand why there isn't a version you can actually walk though with VR glasses so you can feel like you are really interacting with the worlds. If there is such a version I haven't found it I believe Obduction was released with this sort of interface.

The musical score was always way ahead of its time.

This game laid the foundation for a style of game that I loved, and the best parts of Jedi : Fallen Order is when it feels like you are playing this game.

In all honesty, combat was great for the game. It was just monotonous to a fault. But the way everything really revolved around seamless movement made me both satisfied and infuriated while playing. I just hoped that they could go back and explore the systems in this reboot. But with the new PoP game looking almost like a mobile game on steroids, I think its time I ended my wishful thinking.

Imagine a time when an Apple computer was a poor choice for gaming. Oh... nvm.

I would love to see an updated version of this video. A lot has happened in seven years.

Found this in 2024. Great Video! I'm wondering if it's a FPS booster to play in B&W

My two favorite PC games in the 90's were Doom and Myst. I briefly worked on a Myst WAD file (a Doom map based on Myst) but gave up.

Riven was the best

I remember when Myst original released, it was amazing because of the photo like imagery, stereo ambient sounds and the mix of live action with computer generated graphics. Groundbreaking IMO. But most of all, the puzzles were very challenging. I would love to see a documentary on the puzzle creators and the incredible work they did to keep us engaged!

I just watched Gab Smolders Myst remake playthrough. I stopped when I realised that I have gotten my first VR headset and haven't played Myst in VRmode yet. Yummy!

I agree with you all though honestly, I think this game is pretty good. Sure it has no fail states but so do some indie games and PoP 2008 feels like a precusor to those kinds of games. I also think it's better than Sands of Time for the reasons you stated plus, PoP 2008 uses bad combat as a way to punish the player for not mastering the timing and inputs where with SoT, it's just bad combat that lacks any depth and is full of endless enemy waves. Also, what I don't get is how this game is bad but shit like AC2 and the Uncharted games are better, sure they have fail states, but it is impossible to reach those fail states due to how brainless the "platforming" is.

I played and enjoyed Mercenary on commodore 64 😮

I played Riven for the first time in the summer of 2002. I was 17 years old. It took me 3 weeks of grinding the game, taking notes and just being mesmerized by the environment. I finished it entirely by myself, no hints, no guides, no help. Still the best adventure game gaming experience I've ever had.

My brother finished Riven without a guide, but he’s a scientist now, so I guess that checks out lol

Myst was the only game i liked, i actually liked everything about it.. i was addicted to it

Thanks for linking the music, although I would really like to know the song playing at around 9:20. Intriguing and soothing. I like these sorts of tracks.

it's funny I'm watching this video cuz i just purchase the O.G. Deus and about to play them all ..

Are you done with KZbin?

I think the issue people might have with it is that it's fluid, continuous, but unearned movement and progression.

Idk about the flow or whatnot, but this game’s graphics is insanely great

is it just me or does Matt sound like @Stryxo

I loved Riven, I remember my brothers could not bet it. I finished the game in 3 hours without any guides or assistance. I just thought my brothers were silly for calling it super hard 😅

2008 favourite

A shame mafia definitive edition wasn't published yet

Thank you for review from 2023!

I really liked the Prince of Persia reboot and would like a sequel or other conclusion to that saga. I prefer the Sands of Time saga of course and there is no reason for a reboot. As a standalone title though it was actually quite good and sales would have probably been better if it had a different title.

Great experience. Thank you.

Mission commenting on every pop 2008 related videos 🦋

When Exile came out, it included a CD of the music and we still enjoy that soundtrack 22 years later!

Bruh their first game was called the ManHole that shit got me dead

I'm sorry but the nostalgia rabbit hole I went down when you mentioned Afterdark screensaver collection at the very beginning just about gave me whiplash. WOW.

One of my very earliest gaming-related memories is of my dad playing Myst while I sat on his lap and watched. Now, with my 24th birthday in a couple of months, I’ve got the bug in my ear to treat myself to the Myst bundle when Steam has their winter sale. This is one of those games that holds a DEEP place in your memory, even if you’re like me and never really played it yourself when you first saw it. I very much look forward to experiencing the series myself soon.

its a shame this channel lost traction and no more videos are coming out. This seems to be on par with chanels like Ahoy or Arch and those could find themselves on another program with their quality

After all these years of people hating this game, I really feel good people loving it the way it was meant to be loved at the time it came. I think simply the game came at the wrong time, it came very ahead of it's time. And people actually wanted a Prince of Persia game like the original trilogy, and this being different from that resulted the game in being hated. I think Ubisoft should start new with Prince of persia, with a game that has best of both worlds, the Parkour fluidity, graphics and beauty 2008's and story, complexity, characters, like the original and we will have a masterpiece

I don’t remember any Myst puzzle that seemed ‘arbitrary’.

A lot of people (including me) hated change of personality and appearance (altho later in the game; the first one was partly explained). Complete change of combat and "lose" of many abilities, felt like a downgrade to Prince. You also couldn't die; which devs poorly explained as a substitute for no time manipulation. I suppose most people didn't even give a chance to it (some bigger fans didn't even accept it as a PoP game) after first impression... or simply didn't hear about it, due poor advertising & lack of new/proper name (literally the same as the first game). Regardless of it being an over-simplified game - I still believe it's one of the greatest production which came out from Ubi and a hidden, forgotten gem... Polished and stylized graphics stands really well even to this day, a numerous different, great soundtracks; in the so high amount, feels almost too much for such very short game. Phasing of story and a different environments types is really well-balanced. There are also optional dialogues, which you can decide to listen or not, which is also a nice feature. And while the platforming is probably the most enjoyable part of the gameplay; After some time it feels a little bit too much - too repetitive, which is probably my biggest complain. But again - the game is not really that long (even if you decide to grab all collectibles), making it overall a really pleasent experience, which rather won't make you feel like you've waste your time.

This game haunted my dreams as a child. So cold. So empty. So exponentially terrifying. The fact this video was recommended to me for seemingly no reason feels borderline chthonic. I mean it nothing personal to your video but when I see it and start cold sweating that's because I know Myst has seen me again. And I only clicked to write this message before it inevitably takes me...

Nice video

They should complete Adam Jensens story.

@30:50 yet another reason to hate ubisoft

For me personally, Panzer Dragoon Saga is dare I say much better than Final Fantasy 7.

pop 2008 despite so many good details is a weak game, the developers could have killed it but they played it too safe

Subscribed budy. Awesome video

6:00 That's not entirely correct. SoT allowed to you quickly jump from one pillar to the next by pointing the joystick into the direction of the next pillar and holding the jump button. But because of the camera this often resulted in the prince jumping into the void.

I'd probably still be logging into live if I could. I didn't care about a lot of the content, but it was a nice place to hang out in a Bevin or a Relto or do Eder Delin and such.

I love Myst