RealMyst is the original Myst game but put into a 3D, walk through, environment, instead of the interactive slide show that was the original Myst game. Kinda the same as Uru, but without the 3rd person view. I am very nostalgic about the original Myst game and I spent some time playing through RealMyst (a version I've never played before) on the weekend. I can still remember the moment of finding my first Myst book (the Mechanical Age). I have mixed feelings about the new version. The interface is rather spastic, not nearly as smooth as Uru. Although navigating locations is much easier with it now being full 3D, the feel of the game is completely different. For example, the forest on Myst Island doesn't have anywhere near the same cathedral feel as in the original game. What is cool is the changing weather and daylight effects in each of the Ages. Very neat.
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| Stone Ship Age From Real Myst |
My eleven year old has always wanted to play Riven, so we downloaded that but recognized there is going to be a problem because Riven needs a version of QuickTime which is six or less, but I-Tunes requires QuickTime to be version 7. I've yet to figure out a way of running both versions on the same machine. I'll have to get back to this issue, one solution being to install the Riven disks that I still have into another older machine that we don't use.
With these old Myst games coming available and new Uru material coming down the pipe in the few days, it might get hard to actually get some work down.
HC
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