Riven Remake First Play!

[@kemasuk]

I see now why the project was called *The Starry Expanse* I especially love "how" they "solved" the mile-plus long bridge that connected Crater and Dome islands.

[@gregkrazanski]

the boiler is for creating paper pulp that gehn uses to make paper for books. the minecart takes the wood from jungle island and dumps it into the woodchipper to prepare it for the boiler. the pipe you're walking through is the drain of the boiler. pretty much nothing in the game is there for no reason, it's nuts

[@cursedblake]

Yeah it’s crazy the detail

[@TheExileFox]

20:00 i like how you immediately get into the Starry Expanse / Star Fissure

[@cursedblake]

Couldn’t resist

[@matthewwilliams3827]

They did a stunning job with the remake/expansion of this game! My favourite areas were Ghens Lab, Ghens 233rd age, Catherine’s Prison Island. I also love the music that plays in that area.

[@cursedblake]

I’m excited to keep exploring and reliving one of my favourites games

[@epicfox567]

Was looking forward to your reaction! I’m almost done with it and it’s phenomenal. I love all their changes tbh as a longtime fan.

[@cursedblake]

Thanks dude! I really enjoyed making this

[@waelelsebaey]

Well,thank you man for all the nostalgia dose in your videos and for informing us about what's up

[@cursedblake]

Thanks so much! I have a heap of fun reliving these games and talking about them! I’m glad you have been enjoying them

[@fortinjack77]

A truly amazing and incredible video. :D They, absolutely did, a great job and you can feel the passion, that they had making this. :D Thank you very much. :D

[@cursedblake]

That you for watching! I had a blast playing it

[@hobog]

38:15 the orange rings are heaters, because riven water has bacteria that makes it repel from heat (i guess the big boiler filters/kills the bacteria)

[@cursedblake]

Yeah! In the next episode I read through all the journals and was like oh that’s what that was ! Thanks for the comment I really appreciate it!

[@TheExileFox]

You can get out at any side of any maglev station which is nice.

[@QuestionMan]

I've always felt that excited every time I played a new Myst game.

[@cursedblake]

This feels like a new myst game for me

[@epicfox567]

Also I got that glitch with Ghen as well. If you click it the second time it works perfectly. The first time messes up .

[@Jayy997]

Yea this game has loading issues, especially the first time you do things.

[@cursedblake]

Yeah it’s a bit weird and jarring but still loving the show experience

[@tegannorthwood1891]

Enjoying your playthrough because you’re not running through it and actually taking the time to look at things…! (my macbook pro’s too old to play it 😞) And also nice to hear an Australian like myself who’s played it before going through it 🙂 Are you going to keep going with the playthrough?

[@cursedblake]

Thanks so much! Yeah I hope too.. I’m currently “editing” the next part. Just got super busy with irl stuff. So it’s been pushed to the back a bit. But should have more time now to edit. So I’m hopeful next week or the one after the video will be out!

[@cursedblake]

It’s taken a while been busy with irl stuff but finally got the next episode out. Hopefully will get the next one on soon!

[@butwhytho6522]

Hey another little change with the keyboard - w moves forward, but shift-w runs... so W (capital) runs. So you can caps-lock to toggle run permanently, which makes shift-capital-W walk. Thought that was neat!

[@cursedblake]

that is super cool!

[@matthewwilliams3827]

Haha awesome

[@kayeplaguedoc9054]

They outdid themselves, this is the first they've fully succeeded in getting down the look and vibe of the original CG but in real time Not to knock the Myst remake but it still didn't quite rebottle it the way this one has

[@cursedblake]

Yeah that’s how I feel about it also. It feels like they have remade the game but made it different enough so people can enjoy the challenge again

[@QuestionMan]

Hammerspace is canon to Myst now.

[@TheExileFox]

There is a button to the right when you sit in Ghen's chair

[@TheExileFox]

The bridge collapsing is one change that's new

[@cursedblake]

Yeah that was surprising for sure

[@Welther47]

I just prefer the 360 nodes, prerendered graphics myst 3 and 4 had.

[@stilldreamy5181]

For a remake that mostly looks even more realistic and beautiful than the original, to start you out with a very cartoony looking Atrus just shows how bad of a move this was. It completely takes you out of the experience and makes you feel like you are watching some stupid kids cartoon. The movement of his lips don't even match the words coming out of his mouth. Couldn't they have had FMV or like real human textures displayed on top of the 3D model or something like that? They really should have learned their lesson and at least given the option to see FMV. Not everyone is playing this in VR. Then immediately after that when I start walking around, everything is shimmering strangely. The stuff on that island in the distance, the rails going over the ocean, the moving shadows of the moving grass on the ground right next to me. So because everything else looks so amazing, it these strange bits just stand out to me even more and pull me out of the experience.

[@stilldreamy5181]

Ok I fixed the shimmering. For some reason it kept changing the "super sampling quality" to the very bottom "ultra performance". But now for some reason its actually staying at "quality" when I set it to that.

[@stilldreamy5181]

Also, the screenshot tool is retarted. It captures the images blurry, not the same as what you see on the screen, and can end up making the clues unreadable when you go to reference it in the screen shot later.

[@matthewwilliams3827]

I wouldn’t say it looks more realistic than the original, but yeah it’s really beautiful.

[@TheExileFox]

@@stilldreamy5181 doesn't seem that way from other lets plays

[@ProbablyOkay]

Don’t like CG characters :(