Includes Obduction, Myst, Riven, Uru and others
I feel like Cosmic Osmo is doing something that would best be kept behind closed doors
Why did I buy this? It’s just as confusing as 25 years ago
My thoughts exactly. Did people back then really enjoy myst or do they just pretend to be nostalgic for it because it makes them sound smart to the other people who are also pretending to be nostalgic for it?
Played through it for the first time when the remake came out and really enjoyed it, no nostalgia here.
It’s certainly not for everyone, not for any big brain elitist reasons, it’s just a game you want to sit down with a notepad and play which isn’t what everyone wants out of a leisure experience. But some people watch trains go by with their notepads out and I don’t understand them either.
An amazing set of games. Myst and Riven always captured my imagination and I spent hours and hours playing them back when they first came out. Obduction was a really cool throwback, too. Glad to see the series getting the attention it deserves with newer gamers.
Yes. I would say it was a good game but my heart really belongs to the old school pre-rendered environments and FMV cutscenes.
Did you ever play Grim Fandango? It was up there with Myst for me, although also very funny.
Interesting that I don’t see Firmament mentioned. Is it just too new to be in this bundle?
I never finished Myst as a kid because my dad was so big on horror games, I assumed Myst would get spooky. Also link to bundle. https://www.humblebundle.com/games/myst-more-redux-30-years-myst
I really liked Obduction. It was a rock solid puzzle game but omg the loading screens were a huge detractor. You had to move between multiple areas to solve some of the puzzles and to do so you got a loading screen which took it’s toll on the immersion factor.
You just reminded me of that maze rotation puzzle where the controls for rotation were behind a very long loading screen. That was just pure torture. I almost gave up on the game right there. Wtf were the devs thinking?
I agree, great game with some big occasional frustrations. That puzzle near the end where the clue wasn’t working properly so they just patched it out altogether was a real bother for me. “Ahh there’s a bug. Let’s just make everyone have the bug” sure is a wild approach to fixing things
@skua@kbin.social. The only puzzle I remember getting hung up on was the base 4 math puzzle. Math and I don’t get along so I looked up the answer only to discover that the input/drawing part was wonky and had to be cheated or brute forced.
I was lucky in a sense that I’m quite mathematically minded, I suppose. I believe that they actually patched the game so that it was always possible to return to the conversion machine in Hunrath though, so that players could always reference that if they weren’t getting along with the base 4 stuff
