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post #1 of 40
9/30/10 at 5:00am
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The computer game finally gets adapted.

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post #2 of 40
9/30/10 at 5:09am
Actually there's a lot of plot in the novels. Its been so long since I read them that I can't quite recall if they were any good, but there's a lot of material to mine from them.
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post #3 of 40
9/30/10 at 6:24am
About as timely as news of an adaptation of the 7th Guest being green-lit; 15 years too late. Expect Devopment-hell, or the project eventually being aborted.
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post #4 of 40
9/30/10 at 6:35am
The plot is, some scholar (Atrius, I think?) discovered the ancient art of world creation through book writing and was usurped and trapped in his books by his evil sons. Each portal could only be restored by reuniting every single page with its respective book. The mystery involved figuring out where the pages were and who the good/bad guys were.

Yes, I played Myst waaay too much in my teens. Also, I can not at all fathom how a film could be milked from this game.
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post #5 of 40
9/30/10 at 7:58am
I can not at all fathom how anyone could have enjoyed playing Myst.
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post #6 of 40
9/30/10 at 10:02am
Myst would be great if not for all the god damned puzzles.
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post #7 of 40
9/30/10 at 10:10am
Myst was the Avatar of PC gaming's golden age. It attracted a huge audience, in numbers rarely seen up until then, mostly with its technical excellence and was a monster financial hit. And like Avatar the huge majority of the people that played it couldn't even remember its name six months later.
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post #8 of 40
9/30/10 at 11:42am
wow im surprised at the negativity. I haven't played the game since its heyday but I found it to be a surprisingly involving game.
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post #9 of 40
9/30/10 at 11:57am
yeah the whole slideshow was really immersive
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post #10 of 40
9/30/10 at 12:07pm
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wow im surprised at the negativity. I haven't played the game since its heyday but I found it to be a surprisingly involving game.
Seriously? I remember it being pretty reviled by gamers. For the old school Infocom/Sierra/Lucasarts guys it was stupid and just a step above solitaire. The harbinger of doom for adventure games. Everyone else (FPS, sim, strategy or RPG players) wouldn't even look at screenshots for fear of being rendered catatonic from boredom. Non gamers loved it though. It became the game of choice for people that didn't have any other games. Which only made gamers even more furious.
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post #11 of 40
9/30/10 at 12:09pm
To be fair I really liked it when I was 10 and it made me feel erudite
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post #12 of 40
9/30/10 at 12:15pm
How does guff like MYST score an adaptation but DAY OF THE TENTACLE gets left on the shelf? Shenanigans.
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post #13 of 40
9/30/10 at 12:26pm
To be fair, Riven rewarded you with some pretty amazing CG cutscenes that rivaled even Blizzard's work at the time. I remember being really into CG back then and admiring the game for its superficial artistry. By and large, the story was maddening, and the puzzles were push-button trial and error headaches. I've never felt like more of a lab rat than while playing a Myst game.

Brad Dourif stars in the third one.
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post #14 of 40
9/30/10 at 2:31pm
I was never really a big gamer particuraly PC so I guess I was in that group mentioned above.
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post #15 of 40
9/30/10 at 2:42pm
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Seriously? I remember it being pretty reviled by gamers. For the old school Infocom/Sierra/Lucasarts guys it was stupid and just a step above solitaire. The harbinger of doom for adventure games. Everyone else (FPS, sim, strategy or RPG players) wouldn't even look at screenshots for fear of being rendered catatonic from boredom. Non gamers loved it though. It became the game of choice for people that didn't have any other games. Which only made gamers even more furious.
Sounds snobbish. I avidly played doom, starcraft, c&c, fallout, and diablo. My favorite Infocoms have always been A Mind Forever Voyaging, Lurking Horror, Planetfall, Deadline, Moon Mist, and Trinity. Lucasarts - Maniac Mansion, Monkey Island, Tentacle, etc.

And I loved Myst. However, I will still play all of the games just specifically mentioned except Myst, which I now find kind of boring. So, I guess it wasn't really a timeless game, but it definitely had its appeal when it first came out, IMO.
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post #16 of 40
9/30/10 at 2:51pm
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Sounds snobbish.
Never said it wasn't. Gamers are more snobbish about their hobby than wine collectors.
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post #17 of 40
9/30/10 at 3:46pm
I still load up the original from time to time. No use for the sequels though.
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post #18 of 40
9/30/10 at 5:02pm
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Never said it wasn't. Gamers are more snobbish about their hobby than wine collectors.
I guess I'm not above game snobbery, I threw a fit with Beth's epic slaughtering of the Fallout franchise.

I don't know, it seems there are way better games to adapt. Baldur's Gate anyone? I've been waiting for that for a long time, and the closest I've ever seen was that strange Dungeons & Dragons movie.
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post #19 of 40
9/30/10 at 5:09pm
I read the first novel back in the day... I remember really liking it and spending about a week thinking Myst had a wonderful world that I was going to be a fan of forever... then that didn't happen.

I am cautiously optimistic, there might be a damn fine movie in there, but it is going to be tricky to put together.
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post #20 of 40
9/30/10 at 6:03pm
I suppose it's too much to hope for it all being shot in first-person with the occasional hand extending out to fiddle with something, and Sam Rockwell doing voiceover narration. "The hell... Okay, I'll just... Why can't I move that!? Fuck! Fine, what's over... Oh, come on, I'm trying to go there -- no, there! Goddammit! Christ fuck goddamn fuck..."
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post #21 of 40
9/30/10 at 6:21pm
The soundtrack will be an orchestra of mouse clicks god fuck this game
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post #22 of 40
9/30/10 at 6:24pm
We just keep inching closer and closer to Tetris the movie.
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post #23 of 40
9/30/10 at 7:35pm
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I suppose it's too much to hope for it all being shot in first-person with the occasional hand extending out to fiddle with something, and Sam Rockwell doing voiceover narration. "The hell... Okay, I'll just... Why can't I move that!? Fuck! Fine, what's over... Oh, come on, I'm trying to go there -- no, there! Goddammit! Christ fuck goddamn fuck..."
I would see this movie so many times. So many times.

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post #24 of 40
9/30/10 at 9:12pm
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I can not at all fathom how anyone could have enjoyed playing Myst.
As a kid I absolutely loved the game.
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post #25 of 40
9/30/10 at 9:15pm
Me and my dad got engrossed in it together.
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post #26 of 40
9/30/10 at 9:17pm
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As a kid I absolutely loved the game.
Count me as another who really liked that game. It was of it's time, but at the time it was great.
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post #27 of 40
9/30/10 at 9:33pm
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We just keep inching closer and closer to Tetris the movie.
Will this suffice?
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post #28 of 40
9/30/10 at 9:38pm
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Will this suffice?
I thought it would look more like this
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post #29 of 40
9/30/10 at 9:44pm
That does look like something straight out of the 80's.
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post #30 of 40
10/1/10 at 1:01am
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Originally Posted by stelios View Post
Seriously? I remember it being pretty reviled by gamers. For the old school Infocom/Sierra/Lucasarts guys it was stupid and just a step above solitaire. The harbinger of doom for adventure games. Everyone else (FPS, sim, strategy or RPG players) wouldn't even look at screenshots for fear of being rendered catatonic from boredom. Non gamers loved it though. It became the game of choice for people that didn't have any other games. Which only made gamers even more furious.
I'll admit to not being as tied into gamer culture as I am now when Myst came out, but I don't remember this reaction at all (and I think you've got a fair bit of your history mixed up. The only FPSes to speak of at the time were Wolf3D and Doom, so there weren't really 'FPS Gamers,' and LucasArts hadn't yet peaked. DoTT came out that year, Indiana Jones was the year before, and nobody knew about Sam and Max yet). I loved it, all my friends loved it. My brother never really played it, but it wasn't out of any sort of scorn (and I recall him quite liking 7th Guest). And we weren't gaming neophytes or anything. My brother and I started our gaming on C64 with Infocom and Sierra and the SSI Gold Box D&D games and Ultima V and Speedball and all that other fantastic stuff.

The only problems I remember with Myst were that it was practically impossible to get it to run stably on Windows (3.11) because it was all based on Quicktime and the Windows version of Quicktime was horrendous shit at the time.
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post #31 of 40
10/1/10 at 1:37am
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The only FPSes to speak of at the time were Wolf3D and Doom, so there weren't really 'FPS Gamers,'
Could Battlezone be considered an FPS, in retrospect?

You remember that stuff pretty clearly, I had to google to confirm your historical assertions.

BUT, I was never on the cutting edge of video games, usually playing them a year or two later when one of my dad's hacker friends would give us copies and cheat sheets...

Anyway, I really hope this movie gets shot down. What in the world is Hollywood going to turn to when people stop paying for video game/comic book adaptations?
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post #32 of 40
10/1/10 at 4:21am
Remember these were the pre ubiquitous internet days. And I live in Greece. All you had to go on were your friends, gaming magazines and if you were really elite a couple of BBSs. As far as I know scorn for Myst from gamers was pretty much universal.
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post #33 of 40
10/1/10 at 4:50am
The game aside, what the hell would a Myst movie be about? Walking around and looking at shit?

...i didn't get very far in myst...
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post #34 of 40
10/1/10 at 5:06am
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Remember these were the pre ubiquitous internet days. And I live in Greece. All you had to go on were your friends, gaming magazines and if you were really elite a couple of BBSs. As far as I know scorn for Myst from gamers was pretty much universal.
I don't think I have heard people truly hate on Myst, especially the original one, any where before this thread. I might be a little younger, but I have been into Video Games at least as long as Myst has been around and I did work at a Game Stop for a while. Not that working at Game Stop makes me an expert, but the proximity to gamers and game makers gave me a general grasp of their pulse.

I think the original Myst is respected for what it was and what it did to help legitimize hard core type games in a world where all video games basically were arcades and consoles for kiddies.
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post #35 of 40
10/1/10 at 5:11am
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Remember these were the pre ubiquitous internet days. And I live in Greece. All you had to go on were your friends, gaming magazines and if you were really elite a couple of BBSs. As far as I know scorn for Myst from gamers was pretty much universal.
That's my recollection as well. Myst wasn't a game for gamers. It was a game for gamers' girlfriends and moms. It was sneered at even in gaming magazines.

I remember seeing it for the first time after all the hype. I couldn't believe that this was the weak sauce everyone had been raving about. Clicking on static pictures to make more static pictures appear? That was what had everyone losing their shit? I was stunned by the sheer lameness of it.
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post #36 of 40
10/1/10 at 8:07am
Kind of like how Farmville and its ilk are viewed today by gamers.

OK, I'm calling it. Farmville: The Movie for Labor Day 2030.
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post #37 of 40
10/1/10 at 1:24pm
I hung out with someone and watched them play MYST once upon a time. It seemed cool enough, I remember being kind of envious because at the time I didn't own a computer capable of playing it. I just hope the movie doesn't insert a bunch of action into the film needlessly; what worked about the game seemed to be the eerie feeling you got from exploring this abandoned world
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post #38 of 40
10/1/10 at 1:38pm
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Something like this would be very cool (for maybe 10 minutes):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugV6cLgwomo
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post #39 of 40
10/6/10 at 4:45pm
Penny Arcade's comic response to a Myst movie....

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post #40 of 40
10/6/10 at 4:53pm
The most confusing thing about this is that there hasn't been an actual Myst game in over half a decade. In game years, that's an eternity, especially considering how many other currently popular franchises are kicking around.
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