RIVEN - A Remake 20 Years in the Making.

[@IMayOrMayNotBeNoelG]

Played these when they first came out and loved them. I always thought how wonderful it would be to see it in smooth 3d where you could look anywhere and not just pre-rendered camera angles.

[@michelleo8499]

I was riveted by both Myst and Riven when I was a teenager. My quest for games like them continues…

[@brodriguez11000]

Hard puzzle games. Bust out the scratchpad.

[@mamushi390]

The witness is very similar, check it out if you havent yet

[@jacobsteele7138]

It was too hard for me as a teenager.

[@negative-7846]

same, me and my best budy, his mom would be yelling dont you boys be power munchin! and we were lol

[@jaymel4691]

There's a short game called Haven Moon that looks very similar, watched a few gameplay videos and it definitely looks inspired by Riven. Maybe also the newer Cyan games Obduction and Firmament- those two look gorgeous!

[@aramagon7011]

i still have the original cant wait for this

[@n3r0n3]

god it's identical! I still remember the audio puzzle on that island ouch! This game was sooo overly abstruse... I'll look for it on psn I suppose no physical unfortunately... I really wish one day someone will remake Zork Nemesis.

[@StergiosMekras]

Huh... I did not expect this. Haven't visited that setting in decades.

[@dmytrykovalsky9429]

it is also available in VR !!! Wow !!!!

[@darrellpidgeon6440]

MYST 3: exile had me so fascinated. Beautiful graphics and awesome sound files. Riven looks like it won't disappoint.

[@somedude5951]

Impressive graphics. Very impressive. Such a thing could not be imagined in the 1990's. It looks like a movie, not a cartoon.

[@Oolore]

I played this game with my siblings it was so much fun! Looking forward to the re-release of it :) I wonder if they kept all the hidden cut sceens

[@carriegarrisonvos4433]

Wow that takes you back in time!! I always loved these games!! Tickles me they are remaking Riven!!

[@Emma_Sophie_Élémentaire]

Mega hype for Riven!!! ❤❤❤ I'm so excited and will be locked in for your live with this one. Notebook and pen are ready 😎

[@drinkingripa3928]

Me 2!

[@LuByrch]

@@Emma_Sophie_Élémentaire still finding old paper notes here and there from 20 years ago, when we played Riven with my dad. 😅

[@voxploxx]

Just finished this for the first time ever. Never played the original. Went in mostly blind but did come into it knowing a few things like the world is a puzzle and things arent always immediately solvable. Wow what an experience. I have 5 pages of notes and loved how you learn multiple different systems all culminating at the end. I now want more games like this!

[@tegannorthwood1891]

Play the original! :-) with the real original actors. (Maybe leave it a while first…)

[@halfdragoness8767]

Luckily there are 5 games in the series which you can get in bundles on GOG or steam. Would also 100% recommend Obduction. One of the best, most mind bending full world puzzle games since Riven :p

[@drinkingripa3928]

These games brings back memories. 😘😘

[@leslieross3404]

I check on this every now and then its been a while though. I had no idea a new one was released. WOW!. Best game ever and I've played them all. This popped up in my feed and I noticed it instantly, not sure why but HOTDOG. Can not wait to play it. Thank you for making this video to whomever and making my day!!!!

[@MistedMind]

16:20 That's a variation of a entertainment device from the late 1800s which's name I forgot. The rotating disc hides the view like a camera shutter just so that your vision is "tricked" into thinking the "eye" symbols on the rotating sphere are a making a moving picture -> the eye closes and opens in perpetuation. No idea what it will mean regarding the game though :D

[@Tortuosit]

Zoetrope?

[@shugster1914]

I still have Uru on my pc.....loved it

[@yvonnerosenkranz3204]

I've played Myst on Sega-Saturn. Time flies.... I'm still missing that game...😢

[@dolphinamoon]

OMG... It looks exactly like what I imagined. My teenage self spent hours and hours on those puzzles. 😅

[@TrevorBrass]

Everything seems .... smaller in 3d compared to the old 1997 version. The islands feel closer to each other.

[@godlaster3182]

i was so happy when i saw Myst was on the switch!! bought that as soon as i saw it!

[@Russpilot]

Watched the Blue Prince demo and saw that this and Myst are both similar. Wanted to check it out and throw you a subscribe!

[@Raptoria]

Riven comes out on the 25th

[@poolhall9632]

Mad flashbacks - thanks for this.

[@leslieross3404]

Purchased, know what I'm doing tonight. Might just have to call in sick because I will be up all night HOTDOG. Somedays are just so much better then others.

[@godlaster3182]

if you have read the Myst books you should all know what that crack is in the ground at the start of the game

[@ДушманКакдела]

He purposefully didn't read the books so that he could see you sob in the comment section.

[@godlaster3182]

@@ДушманКакдела oh thank god! i always hope that people are messing with me!

[@jaymel4691]

I play all the Myst games- even Uru, it's still fun, lol! So glad to see the Myst remake and now Riven! The first 2 are my favorites, Riven is my #1, so I bought this as soon as I heard about it! I don't dare to hope they will remake the others but that would be great if they did, or at least Myst 3- Exile!

[@Tortuosit]

Also for me, Riven was my no. 1. The rotating domes via Apple Quicktime, were like 0.2 FPS on my computer.

[@princessdashie9174]

Look at those symbols see if those symbols unlock that thing that needs to be unlocked

[@drinkingripa3928]

Which leads to another thinG! Luv this game!

[@BrandanLee]

Riven looks fucking gorgeous. An hey! It's not a power point on 40 flopy disks any more!

[@GeneraluStelaru]

It was 5 CDs back in the day.

[@kukipett]

I have all the myst games that i bought when they were relaesed. Myst, Riven, Myst Exile, Myst Revelation, Myst End of Ages, Uru, Uru Path of the Shell, then later i bought RealMyst in 3D. Now i will be very pleased to get that new Riven. I have also played Obduction and Firmament more recently. I remember that Riven gave me headaches, god some puzzles were really hard when nobody had played it and had a clue. Now it's different, there are guides, videos and tips on the net. I remember that when i had solved the game, i replayed it, capturing a video of the whole playthrough, i still have the full movies that i made of all those games. That was before KZbin was a thing.

[@brodriguez11000]

Some even had the three books.

[@markferguson8075]

How can a game be dear to yr heart when you havent played it

[@unitor699industries]

the memories are coming back

[@matthewwilliams3827]

It’s hilarious some peoples commentary over the part where that cho guy steals the book from you 🤣

[@Jovisstfan]

I'm convinced that Raptor and OperatorDrewski are the same person.

[@poolhall9632]

Myst had a playable demo on the PC my dad bought, but I purchased Riven and never finished it because that shit is so hard. 😅 Along with journeyman project, the legacy of time ... These were immersive and intelligent games

[@kiillabytez]

I hope they patch the lighting in the future.

[@Isoquant]

Is this compatible with VR, or do you have to buy the VR version separately?

[@Raptoria]

There is a VR version and non-VR version all in one. Only one game needed to do both!

[@Isoquant]

@@Raptoria Perfect, thank you!

[@KunnAllu]

Great video :)

[@Raptoria]

Well, thank you for watching!

[@johncage5368]

A really good game series.

[@larkalfen9510]

i have tried various puzzle games But most of the time i didnt even know what does the game wants from me

[@purefoldnz3070]

and its now officially out.

[@normanq1206]

Just finished Riven in VR a couple of weeks ago. A bit buggy in some parts, but it looked good and it played well. I don't think I ever finished the original, too much disc swapping.

[@Frankod3lo]

Este juego es una obra maestra...como me gustaría jugarlo en el ps4😢

[@jjtninja]

If you didn't beat it back then, well, anything you picked up back then will be meaningless since they've changed the puzzels.

[@Jim26D]

Would be so much cooler if the characters were fmv. It was so crazy back then and made the world feel real

[@Raptoria]

Perhaps they can add that again in the future, I think they are this way for the VR version of the game that is included all in one. But, would be cool if there was a PC version like this.

[@AnjektusStudio]

@@Raptoria Well! The source code is gone for The original. And fmvs are sadly to low quality to be put in this 3d inviorement

[@Aurora655]

It looks sooo good.

[@thesis-and-nieces6722]

Btw a spoiler: the “water” is not actually water as we know it.

[@westingtyler1]

others greatest games of thew 90s? super mario world, super mario 64, ocarina of time, half life 1,goldeneye, symphony of the night, metal gear solid 1, resident evil 2. i'm sure there are obvious ones i'm missing.

[@princessdashie9174]

I probably said something that was not supposed to be said

[@Atrazeal]

Dark Souls of puzzle explorers.

[@Raptoria]

Tricky too and very very fun!

[@klausbuechel]

great remake except the human cgi or whatever animations - loved the original human characters

[@thesis-and-nieces6722]

Myst has not aged well even with a new coat of paint. The puzzles having no connection to the story feels like an exercise in buttun pushing hoping something good happens. Lets see how riven holds up

[@BugzBbugin]

Turn up the sound please

[@Mikara65]

Turn your sound up...its fine

[@Wheatie79]

Is it just me or does the guard that gets 'bit' at the beginning look like Dave Grohl?

[@tenminutetokyo2643]

Pentagrams everywhere.

[@tegannorthwood1891]

because the D’ni number system is based on 5.

[@wmgthilgen]

In the opening sequence, there's a portion that in part state in the "AGE'S". Few people realize exactly what is ment by "THE AGE'S". The planet we live on is referred to as Earth today. And the planet is envolved in what laymen refer to as a wobble or in scientific term's Precession. Which in a nut shell, mean's if the Norhtern geographical pole is that of basically facing away from the sun as it orbit's it changes from being away, to being half way, to closer and then again to half way and eventually totall away again and again...The cyycle of precession is some 26,000 plus or minus a few year's in duration. That work's out to be using the Earth circumference, one degree every 72 year's. Which when doing some research, would put the star known as VEGA being the Norht Stat at one point in the process, and now Polaris, which though still extremely close to being true North of the geographical Norht Pole, but know longer exactly true North. One degree every 72 year's doesn't seem like very much and goes pretty much unknoticable. But in the long run mean's that if one in a location today is enjoying a warm/hot summer day. Some 12,500 year's ago or some 12,500 year's from today, that someone, in the same exact location would be enjoying a cool/cold winter day. Which though only one degree, doing the math mean's the climate in relationship to an area today, isn't to one degree the same as it was 72 degree's when one does the math and figure's, how far in mile's one degree of our circumference actually is. Doing the math, one degree work's out to be some 69 slightly plus mile's. The wind blown on a mountain one degree every 72 year's differently. Lead's to the wind on the alee side being slightly different. OF all the biological life form's on Earth, though we now number some 8 billion today. We are far from being the largest number's of biological life form's. In which the climate effect's. The supposedly reported as lessor form's of biological life, simply adapt to the ever so slowly changing in the climate due to precession. No other biological life form is concerned about time line's or duration's some longer, some shorter in the changes to the clmate as we human's are. It is stated and mandated to believe that only human's have a purpose, it's also we that have any care about time line'ss and or duration's of the various cycle's, Mother Nature provide's all biological life form's. Though it is the search for Purpose that has caused us to go from what we once were, to what we are now. With all of man's history to compare, if there is an actual purpose to our being, I'd spell it "G R E E D". Nothing else has led us from what we once were to what we've become than the advent of civilization's and there complete dependence on their economies, which can and has eihter made or braked a civilization. There's "NOTHING" more important to a countries success or failure then its economy. And haveing a good one verse a bad one basically depend's entirely on their being profit's. Having more than one need's and obtainabliltity of what one want's whch are two insanely different obsession's. Makes having more insufficent when one want's vs need's more. That's the ensense of GREED!

[@10percent4DaBigGuy]

honestly... i don't like how they replaced live acting.... that took away from this game

[@newYorkStories]

I don't care what everyone says, but these 3d animated characters are not doing it for me. The great feature of the original Riven were the live action video clips. The Artus intron alone made me lose interest. Sure, it works on a VR headset now, but it will look very odd that you can walk through a 3D space with the world around you looking super realistic, until you meet a human in there, and we are thrown back to 1998.

[@NilsKarlssonPyssling]

That intro cutscene looks so much worse than the pre-rendered original one

[@NilsKarlssonPyssling]

All the humans look sooooo baaaad :(

[@DolphLundgrensDolphinDungeon]

Like licky lip lop lits

[@Fireice889]

Are they going to add a option were you can disable the cgi on the characters, I personally don’t like it.

[@Raptoria]

I heard that they lost the source code for the original FMV acting, or it would not work for VR? But, it would be great if there was an original cutscene mode that would somehow work. Perhaps that can be added.

[@crissyhutto8409]

I’m still waiting for cyan to give me a refund for the broken mess they released in the Masterpiece collection on steam a few years ago. It’s actually unplayable, I refuse to support them until they make it right!!!

[@fudgemonkeyz69]

That’s weird. My games work perfectly fine. Have you tried the updated versions for the 25th anniversary? 👍

[@clumsiii]

cool game i'm interested your mic is too hot imo turn it down meh, everyone's a critic

[@RedM1n1onX]

I hope you can boost the living crap out of the contrast - hate these washed out games.

[@kiillabytez]

Boosting it would just make it worse.

[@pierresakurai4812]

I dislike the original FMVs being replaced by these 3D models. Looks really stiff and unrealistic. The lighting is off. Way too bright. Having a "full 3D world" to walk anywhere destroys the original game's movie like cinematographic direction, you were SET to certain frames. Highly atmospheric. World felt bigger and more threatening. This has been replaced by a go anywhere "blogger with a handycam" kind of feeling in a game designed to be the opposite of that.

[@amarokorama]

The lighting does look off in the video. Might be because he had enabled HDR. It did look much better on my PC.

[@ZachariasEnislidis]

Remake was forced. Why the hell they removed the FMVs? I think that this remake was unnecessary

[@kiillabytez]

Is any remake necessary?

[@AnjektusStudio]

So! Why not read about why The made something. Then make a stupid comment and say that it was forced. Becouse that is bullshit. The fmvs are to low quality to put in a 3d game of 2024. And it would not function in the VR version of The game.