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I hated Myst as a kid. Not just because I disliked the gameplay, but because its inexplicable popularity heralded a shift in the adventure game market. Instead of more Sierra or LucasArts-type games, there were, for years, scads of shitty, boring Myst-likes.
I hated it too. Not for any of the valid reasons you have though…
We didn’t have a PC powerful enough to play Myst. So I’d have to go play it at the library and remember to bring my floppy so I could have my save. But the library’s copy had a scratch on the disc, and it would always freeze/crash half way through. Hit that point twice, and I’ve never played it since…
…Who was asking about Myst?
Point and click has been a dead genre for like 2 decades now
It’s relevant enough for PC Gamer to be writing about it, so someone must’ve been asking.
This “dead genre” has been steadily receiving games the whole time it’s been out of the zeitgeist. And it’s popular enough that they were willing to remake one of the greats as well as its sequel. Things aren’t dead just because you personally don’t like it.
Remaking a game from a few decades back reads more as desperate than anything else. They’re relying on nostalgia for sales, not actually attracting a new audience
Idk about that, the Riven remake that came out last year was one of the best games I’ve played in ages.
You, specifically, enjoying a …remake of a spiritual successor to a game that came out decades ago… doesn’t mean the genre is alive and kicking.
I would disagee, while rare there are still a few new bangers that make it. For example Disco elysium. wouldn’t mind a remake of a couple of point andclick alsö
I’ve never really thought of it as one, but I guess Disco Elysium could technically qualify as a point and click adventure. It just doesn’t have the object combination based puzzles I normally associate with the genre.
There is a loud contingent of people who think myst is the peak of gaming.
They’re wrong, but harmless.
Man I loved Myst, this is cool!
A whole new world, do they mean Rime? Cause that’s not new. Fun tho from what I member
I was wondering why there was an update pending for it in Steam.