New game coming from the creators of Myst and Riven!

[rivenwanderer]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cyaninc/obduction

New game, new setting/universe, single-player adventure game in the Unreal 4 engine. Only will happen if it gets funded! I'm so excited about it ^__^

I occasionally feel weird about being such a huge, outspoken fan of the Myst series--I'm a girl, and Myst is so often dismissed by "hardcore" gamers, so it's easy to feel like I'm not helping the "girls are Real Gamers too, darnit!" cause. But you know what, I love what I love!

Anyone else have fond memories of the Myst games?

ETA: in case anyone else is both a Myst fan and likes tabletops, there's also a Kickstarter for a Myst/D'ni RPG based on the FATE system :)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1748001141/unwritten-adventures-in-the-ages-of-myst-and-beyon

Comments

[jewelfox]

I loved playing the original Myst, even though I had to keep looking up hints. >_>;

I got Riven and Myst III so I could play them with my mother of origin, but we never did, and I've put off actually playing them myself. I've listened to the Myst III soundtrack a bunch of times though, and I always loved the whole "books and fantastic worlds" thing the series has going on.

I tried Uru Live but couldn't really get into it. :\ It didn't seem to explain very well what I was supposed to do, and the controls were really awkward. It seems like the kind of game / series that's just begging for an FFXIV: A Realm Reborn style modernization and remake, though.

EDIT: FATE I always found kind of confusing. Coming from someone who grew up on d20. I looked at the new edition and it seems kind of neat but I still have trouble wrapping my head around such a strongly narrative-based system. Plus the original had really complicated skill and stunt rules, it felt like. I could just be biased though, I know d20 / Pathfinder have their share of complexity. >_>

[sporky_rat]

I backed it as soon as I heard about it. A new game from the makers of Myst and Riven? Hello, paging my checkbook TAKE MY MONEY.

Ahem. Sorry about that. But yes!

[stellaproiectura]

You know, I've always wanted to get into Myst? It seemed ominously dark; like, it appealed to curiosity, but it also had a tinge of the slightly macabre.

I don't think there's anything 'softcore' about adventure games, rivenwanderer! I'd like to see any 'hardcore gamer' get the brainpower to solve any adventure game from the 1990s. We've become so conditioned to the concept of the 'tutorial level' that the idea of problem solving beyond 'shooting a rock to have a better vantage point' is threatening.

[eltanin_draco]

O.O I totally missed this! Thanks for pointing it out. So many good memories playing mist.. and a few odd ones playing the spoof pyst :P