Comment by jasonjayr
6 hours ago
Did you like Myst? That was the complete opposite end of the spectrum.
Title screen video gives a vague story. Game starts. No dialog. No text. Just ... clicking and discovering the rest of the story.
6 hours ago
Did you like Myst? That was the complete opposite end of the spectrum.
Title screen video gives a vague story. Game starts. No dialog. No text. Just ... clicking and discovering the rest of the story.
"myst ... game starts"
well, now you're just making things up
I fucking loved that game. That and the Dr. Brain games define my childhood. Oh and gizmos and gadgets. And Commander Keen. And Descent. And Hillsfar. And Deathtrack.
But also yes, I did enjoy Myst. It's also what I enjoyed about Minecraft when it first came out. You just had to figure your shit out or get killed by zombies.
The market for video games is now on the close order of 1000 times larger than it was when Myst was released. It now includes the General Public, and all that entails.
Also there are a lot more high-quality games available now, for a lot less money. In the '80s and '90s you might spend $50-100 on a bad game and you'd play it anyways because you couldn't return it. Even if you could, your local game store only stocked so many things.
Now if you're paying full price for a game you've at least had the ability to read reviews and you know it's going to be half price in a year but you want it now. You also have tens of thousands of other games to pick from in basically any genre you want, accessible more or less on demand.
Maybe this is my nostalgia speaking, but it felt better that way. When there was so much less software every new application was a journey. The mystery of going to the local computer store and choosing a floppy disk in a plastic baggie off of that cork board. Or sending a mail order to some PO box in Texas somewhere, and then you get mailed back a floppy disk. Now you have so many options. The option that is often chosen is don't play anything. I probably am very biased on this.