Pyst - A Complete Retrospective
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- Myst took the world by storm in the early to mid 90s, quickly entering the pop-culture zeitgeist. The 1993 point-and-click adventure immersed players with intriguing landscapes and challenging puzzles.
It was only natural then, with Myst on everyone’s lips, that some would take the opportunity to satirise the latest fad. Enter Pyst, a game for those that weren’t able to complete Myst.
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Pyst Making of: • Pyst - The Making Of (...
Pyst Theme Song: • Pyst - Theme Song | Jo...
Pyst Full Playthrough: • Pyst - Full Playthroug...
Soundtrack in order: pastebin.com/qSwLcgJs
Introduction 0:00
Myst 3:15
Playing the game 5:52
Diving into Pyst 8:47
Making Of 25:55
Back into Pyst 28:29
Multimedia Experience 32:30
Reviews 33:54
Legacy 35:58
Conclusion 37:50
Pyst - A Complete Retrospective & Analysis
Credits:
Research and inital writing: Lizzi Richards
Finalised writing, additional research, commentary, editing and design: James Lewis
#pyst #aprilfools #jwlar - Hry
April Fools!
Enjoy this overly analytical look at a parody game that is so bad that it's...bad, just bad.
I'm going to watch this whole thing because all of your video essays are interesting, no matter how little I care about the subject
And i did
I will never get these 40 minutes back and you can have them
Thank you
I keep forgetting what day it is. Well you clearly put a lot of work into this 40 minute video so it's fair that I watch the whole thing.
Pyst: the most elaborate ragequit of all time.
It seems like Pyst’s problem is one encountered by a lot of bad parodies: disinterest in the source material. The best parodies always have a certain level of love and respect for the source material, hell even parodies made by people who hate it can produce a few good jokes, but because the team didn’t seem to care much about Myst beyond its phenomenon status and it being too hard, we ended up with like 3 jokes ACTUALLY about Myst, while the rest are a bunch of random disconnected gags they thought were funny, cause they didn’t care about Myst enough to make any proper jokes about it
"The most magnificent roasts are always from your greatest fans and bestest of friends" - Ringo probably
But the premise of the parody is logical
And the rest of the parody relies ON that premise
Which is a good one
So like
We could just... Take Myst away from the equation, it's just a nice experience
If we keep thinking "Myst Myst Myst !" We're going to be sad that there is barely any link with it except the main plot
pretty much all of their has that problem
At first, I thought he was a really good John Goodman impersonator.
Then, I realized... That's no impersonator.
such a crazy video opener LUL
There is a behind the scenes that shows him acting but with the green screen, it made me laugh and also think how versatile an actor you have to be to pull this off, and he does ahah
Same thought here. I was thinking no way that's the actual John Goodman
I have to say, that game looks rough to "play", but the videos of them making it left me with a big smile on my face. I used to love games like that, so I probably would have loved it as a kid. It reminds me of the Dune parody novel, Doon.
I did play it as a kid, and I did love it. I still actually think some of the humor in this (and the X-files one they made) is much better than people say it is, and while it's not top-tier and very low-brow, I don't get what's actually supposed to be so bad or bland about it. Maybe it's just "you had to be there" kinda stuff, I dunno...
It's just not people's humor
I remember seeing an LGR video on this years ago and the big thing I remember him saying that Pyst only showed off areas that you could go to without having to actually solve a puzzle
On purpose I imagine, so that the target audience could actually relate lol
@@Jwlardoes it really matter if it's on purpose or not ?
to be fair to weird al, he did ask people who created the original songs if he could parody them. Ergo the "you've made it if weird al asks to parody your song".
Yeah. IIRC, parody wasn’t legally established as being fair use in the USA until 1997. Al always got permission.
@@Dave01Rhodes 1930, actually. That's when a record label sued early humorist singer and songwriter Spike Milligan claiming his parody content violated their copyrights, and it went all the way to the united states supreme court which delivered an extremely rare unanimous ruling that parody was not a copyright violation.
Weird Al's music is not parody for the most part. It's using an existing popular song's backing track under his own unrelated lyrics. Weird Al would almost certainly be on the hook for copyright infringement for most of his discography had he not asked first. "Smells Like Nirvana" would qualify, as it is directly criticizing Kurt Cobain's ability to enunciate his lyrics in the entire track. Songs that take existing accompaniment and sing about food are not parody.
Amish Paradise, the example used in the video, is the only song Al ever got in some amount of trouble for, making it possibly the worst choice for an example in a sea of technically bad choices as examples of parody as fair use.
@@aaronbosen6743 Sure you're not referring to Spike Jones?
@@noneofyourbusiness4616 Literally, Spike Milligan.
great to see you're doing shorts now
😂😂
Underrated comment. 🤣
@@NemesisOgreKing underrated how
Okay, so that's what the title means! I've been perplexed by it for almost 3 decades now after seeing the box in a computer store when I was a kid. My native language is written and spoken the same way, so Pyst is pronounced very differently from English. This is the first time I've heard it spoken out loud in English and suddenly it makes sense. I'm now glad my family was broke and couldn't afford a PC at the time, or I would've wasted what little money I had on this crap just because John Goodman was on the cover.
Well Weird Al also asked every single artist for permission.
I think there's one he didn't manage to get permission for and he eventually made the song anyway cause he was so proud of the lyrics.
Probably his parody of Michael Jacksons Black or White .....he plays it at live shows
@@TonySpike It was Amish Paradise.
@@smergthedargon8974 with amish paradise he got permission from the record label but nobody there asked coolio and al assumed that he had given his permission so i would think hes talking about something else.
@@TheNejD Ah, got it.
It was a few songs.
MJ asked him not to parody Black or White because of the messaging about race.
There is an unreleased song only performed at live shows called Chicken Pot Pie, parodying Live and Let Die.
McCartney asked him not to release because of his veganism.
There's been no ill-will over the song, and McCartney is fine with it being played at live shows. Weird Al turned down a request to change the lyrics to Tofu Pot Pie.
Shockwave! Holy hell, that takes me back!
Myst, the only game to have more re-releases than Skyrim.
Tetris, Dragons Lair (which included a bunch of non-console releases, such as a DVD that used your remote control.), Street Fighter 2, Doom, Super Mario Bros, and Final Fantasy 1 all have more re-releases than Skyrim.
As of an article from last year, at least.
A lot of re-releases are actually straight-up unplayable if you don't know answers to puzzles, because graphics are unreadable and game is quite buggy in re-release form. I want someone to make tier list of them, since DS/3DS releases are really-really-really awful.
@@TheKsax And yet each of them had more effort put into it than all Skyrim re-releases and "remasters" combined. Funny how things work out.
@@SianaGearz While an interesting point, i am afraid myst console ports are worse then Skyrim ports/remasters, you neved had a case of straight up unreadable mess on screen, which you need to read to pass a puzzle.
@@SianaGearz I mean, each port & subsequent remaster of Skyrim did at least add new content. Most Myst rereleases are notoriously, absolutely, unequivocally unplayable.
I actually remember when this game came out- I saw the box a couple of times at my local Software, Etc. I also remember that it went from the full priced "New Release" section to the way marked-down "Bargain" section in less than a year. I also remember going out to spend some birthday money around '97 and I saw it on sale, thought about buying it, but I ended up with Fallout instead. I'm glad I chose correctly.
10:02 In the opening scene where you're standing on the Pyst docks, there's a black car in the water with a bumper sticker that says "Chapaquiddick" [sic] which is referencing the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident in which U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, 37, drove his car off of a bridge into the Poucha pond. Kennedy managed to get out of the car and swim to safety, but his passenger, 28 year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, was trapped in the vehicle and drowned. This incident is nuts if you've never heard of it. There are ALL KINDS of theories and suspicions.
Our boy little Ted is the younger brother of (then newly) assassinated president John F. Kennedy as well as a prominent member of the rich and powerful Kennedy family, and he also happens to be a raging alcoholic. As we all know, we should always trust known alcoholics when they tell us they weren't drinking when they drove their car off of a bridge. There is supposedly an hour of time missing from when Ted and Mary Jo left the party they were at. Ted said he tried to rescue her but 8 times but couldn't. He sat on the bank for 15 minutes after his heroic rescue attempts and then walked by 4 houses before getting to his friend's cottage to ask for help. It was very late, but he certainly could have woken someone up and gotten them to help him rescue her or at the very least phoned the local police. Then there were reports she didn't die of drowning but of suffocation. It's very interesting.
I'm not exactly sure why they put it in the game- when this came out it would have happened like 27 years ago. There were investigations and criminal inquests afterwards, but I don't know when they were. It just seems like it would be like putting a Bill Clinton/Monica Lewinsky joke in a game that came out this year. Not exactly fresh. If anyone knows if there's a better reason than possibly it had popped back up in the news around the time this game was made or the authors just loved sticking it to the Kennedys I'd be curious.
Also, not trying to nitpick but the car they put the bumper sticker on isn't the same make/model as Kennedy's car. He had a 1967 Oldsmobile Delmont 88, which has long horizontal tail lights, not the tall slender ones seen here. Maybe there's a good reason, but I must have MYST it... ahahaha!
Wow! That is a very interesting deep dive!
I agree that its inclusion here seems a bit odd, I guess you could put it down to an Easter egg for those in the know. As you said, it was already old news by the games inception.
Most excellent feature Sir, really enjoyed it. Been wanting to see what PYST looked like for decades, but always fell into the "can't be bothered to set it up" category.
But they did like their parody games back then, I remember "Who wants to beat up a millionaire" being another, but it's odd how comedy isn't really much of a thing within video games. The Portal games are probably the closest to get it right from an original perspective.
True, it’s a shame that comedy games aren’t made so often. But then again, with how subjective humour can be, the risk of a flop scares off most publishers Im sure. Like with High on Life, for example.
@@Jwlar Another problem I feel is video games are meant to be replayed over and over, so any jokes repeated adnauseum would soon lose their appeal.
Most of gaming comedy now comes from the glitches :D
I absolutely loves the asthetic of High on Life, it looks so different to any other game, did Justin Roiland's situation affect sales?
holy shit its Larry
Parroty Interactive was such a weird company in the 90s. They burped out time waster CD novelties based on Star Wars, the X-Files, and even Windows 98 but had the nuance of a flamethrower. All the satire was just "wow this thing is stupid, isn't other thing cooler?"
In the case of Pyst I get that they wanted to show the frustration of people who just up and quit on the main island without exploring the various dimensions but that's merely surface level context of Myst. If you truly wanted to mock Myst, you had to actually dig deeper into the game and examine the gameplay and lore, which was beyond the group's comprehension.
Well, if there’s only one thing to take away from this video, it’s that you certainly know how to take the Pyst out of something.
It seems like the game "Trailer park Tycoon" that came out in 2002 uses a similar style of Humor but manages to actually be amusing and have fine gameplay.
(i loved watching the Npcs interact with the weird nonsence of that World)
Yeah I played this as a child when it came out and it fell flat for me so I'm pretty sure I wasn't the audience. Goodman was the only highlight and to this day the "Privet... NO! Private!" line remains an inside joke with some family.
I had a DI in the Army that called us Privets. I think I was the only person there who understood the reference.
A 40-minute scripted retrospective on a 90s "comedy" FMV game. You are a braver soul than I. Bravo!
I remember seeing the big box version at CompUSA and Computer City back in the day, but at a retail PC game price point, the only joke were the people that bought it. I was curious about another FMV game that reminded me of this one called a Fork in the Road. Both were bad IIRC.
The Firesign Theatre guys are great. They're no strangers to video games either. You can hear their voices on two Intellivoice games. In fact, the iconic B-17 Bomber's bombardier voice you hear with the funny 8-bit southern drawl is the late Phil Austin. These guys had their hands in EVERYTHING we loved!
Crazy that an April fools day joke from you is still a solid 40 minute video when most people have a 5 second joke
Most creators I saw did long videos
Oh boy another birthday present!!! Oh right I was born as a joke...
Omg same
You’re not a joke dude. Everyone’s life has value, so long as they choose to find it. Keep your head up king, your 👑 is slipping 💕
Yup
I had this game when it was new. One of the first games i purchased myself. Bought it with the idea that Myst was frustrating and this would make fun of it..... it wasn't a good time, but the best parts were the song, and the Making Of video.
Agreed. The making of video and the song are way better than the game. They should've focused on making a "show" that mocked the game, rather than a game - at least then they could work with what they're experienced in.
Fire sign theater! I grew up listening to Nick Danger all the time! Unbelievable! 💛
God... I am just sad that I don't have a complete retrospective of the myst series to watch now :(
Maybe one day 🤔
I remember seeing Pyst on store shelves over here in Australia. I seem to recall looking at the back and not being super interested.
The fact, that Myst developers didn't cared about minimum specs and also caused lots of new buyed hardware and computers, makes it even more crazier how often it got sold.
My favorite Myst parody is Jon Bois' webpage of baseball player Barry Bonds leaving diary pages of trying to complete Myst
this made me glad we live in the age of internet where we arent stuck on some pixel hunting puzzle and google our way too victory.
you no longer fumble for awnsers in the dark, but atleast you wont go bump in the night against a brick wall anymore.
bro this video is dropping so much knowledge from an era I thought I knew about on me my jaw dropped
I think I saw those parody games in the bins of Video Club store circa 98-99
Oh man! This is weird cause I have actually been watching a lot of videos on Myst lately and had no idea of course that you were making this video 😂 Freakin' love this channel
A proper Firesign Theatre game could have been a really fun thing...
One thing I noticed was the lack of videos in Pyst documenting the downfall of the titular resort. The player character appears to have come to the island of Pyst after almost everyone else left. I'd like to see some videos in which the characters are saying stuff like "We've hit a bit of a rut in visitors, but I'm sure it'll turn around soon."
When I was young, I saw a copy of Pyst on a store shelf. As someone who loved Myst, I wanted it. I didn't get it, though. A while back I saw a playthrough on CZcams and I am glad I never got it. I'd have been disappointed in it even as an immature kid.
HAHAHAHA thanks for this nostalgy, i remember now this piece totally forgotten in my deep mind x)
Its crazy how these retrospectives can unlock core memories that i haven't thought of in decades. I don't think ever played pyst but the parody interactive logo brought back memories of clicking through the parody interactive star wars game when I was like 4 or 5 years old. I couldn't even read yet so i never got very far but I loved star wars and there was so much stuff to click on in the first couple screens id just sit there clicking on random stuff for hours. the game was already old by the time i got my hands on it probably around 2004ish.
Wait, this isn't Majuular. This is just Jwlar.
Indeed haha. We both started our channels around the same time, and the name's were just an odd conincidence I guess.
Trust me and listen/view the Firesigns' 1985 Eat Or Be Eaten CD+G, which was so far ahead of its time that there was nothing to even play it on until the 3DO came out! (It's on CZcams now)
I had a few magazines around the time this came out. and they panned it. I do like the vague idea of 'millions descend on a tiny island and ruin all the puzzles', but yikes, I didn't know it was that goofy bad =D thanks for doing the dirty work for us
You were just too sober for this game. As the name suggests you need to be absolutely pyst drunk to enjoy it.
I was so unaware that pyst was even a thing that existed that for a very brief moment I was kind of hyped about myst retrospective.
I did not expect anyone to put this much effort into it, or would have much to say about it. I think the video rivals the actual game in length.
Absolute legend.
after enjoying the Nick Knacks video about Nickelodeon's old show Livewire, the Fred Newman jumpscare here really got me
Wow, this jogged some memories. Thanks for the retrospective!
The review is about what I expected lol. Although I'm really glad you mentioned John Goodman's song; for years that was floating around on my computer and would randomly play when my library was on shuffle. :)
Looking back now with a new perspective, it's fascinating how this is more a commentary on the phenomenon of Myst than the game itself. It's hard to state how BIG Myst was. Think Pokemon Go (near launch) in terms of reach and broad appeal.
And it was mentioned briefly but Myst really was an early "Killer App." Some people didn't just get CD Roms for it, they got entire computers for it. Walking into a Best Buy, Circuit City or Future Shop guaranteed you would see little placards saying "I can run Myst!" next to some computers. I also remember salesmen and randoms just stopping to chat about the game & puzzles, hint-lines being advertised everywhere, and the giant push that it was the first "true multimedia experience."
Heck, it almost certainly started the FMV craze. An entire sub-genre of games trying to be that next "true multimedia experience."
Combine its push/prevalence with an elist attitude I remember some people having about the game, I can see how Pyst started to take shape. (It wasn't JUST a game to some, it was like an introspective novel compared to the Plebeian, childish arcade-y offerings of most games.)
So it's a shame Pyst is basically Putt-Putt for adults. Except worst and there's not nearly enough John Goodman to carry it.
I had forgotten about this game entirely. Never got to play it, but wanted it so badly at the time 😂
Daemon tools... Now that's a name I haven't heard in a while.
I'm pretty sure a large portion of Myst's success had to do with how accessible it was to non-gamers and adults. With one button mouse controls, no action, and a first-person perspective, people who didn't play games had zero mental adjustments to make to understand what they were doing, or at least vastly less than any other game. That, along with being a very early showcase for CD-ROM drive technology, probably had more (or at least as much) to do with it's sales than its other qualities as a game.
You set up the creators so well I was half expecting something not-terrible. Think I'd rather hock loogies in Beavis and Butthead's 90s game again.
I had this game years ago! I'm surprised anyone else remembers it.
Love that you used Kingdom Come Deliverance music in this, can't wait for the sequel 😩
amazing upload, I love your retrospectives regardless of topic. Though I do regularly fall asleep to the Arena/Daggerfall retrospectives as my favourites
Thank you! :)
Ho-leee shit, I forgot about this game 😂 Love the video
I like it honestly
I mean, I understand how buying it years ago might leave you sad thinking you waster your money
But like
Today, since it's free
I think it's really Allright
It's a really nice piece of art and I'm so happy it exists
I'm so happy it's still accessible ❤️
I think I'm just happy the history of those medias happened.
It definitely feels like the idea had potential but the jokes just don't land at all from what I've saw in this video
Wish there were more "retrospective" videos about the stupid software/games from back in the day that you ended up owning a CD of despite not having any idea how. Wonderful upload, especially for an April Fools post :)
I played this in the 2000s came across the disk in a yard sale . This was quite the experience.
Love when the work is easy.
This is amazing.
I've heard like, 2 people mention Pyst in the past 28 years. And one because of John Goodman and one because it made its way onto a game parody list.
Convinced my dad to get this during our regular trip to an Egghead store (before NewEgg and internet was a thing).
Looking forward to hearing about this "hidden gem." 😂
what a rabbithole. Im trying to wrap my head around on what is a real story here.
April 1th always has such fun uploads on CZcams. I'll be watching this video as I wait for my appointment so thank you.
Talking about it takes longer then the entire game. Mood. Wish my copy still played in CD players, that single was awesome.
Firesign! Ha! I had no idea one of those guys was responsible for this parody.
In fact, I think this game coming out is where I learned the word, "parody"
Also that narrator sounds like George Ledoux even though it's probably one of the Firesign guys.
Myst was alright, but 7th Guest was the real reason to install a CD drive.
never played it but I remember a few times hearing people remembering it and laughing about it. I remember the first time, when I was in HS, they were MYST fans and still liked PYST. Like you said it was only $15 at the most expensive, and I remember the CD with a cardboard sleeve shrink wrapped was only $2.99 or some absurdly low price. I bet the ones that liked it the most were pre-teen all the way though HS age, and they had to be that age when it came out and played MYST. So basically you had to be that age, have a computer at home, be a geek, had to play it within a few years of it coming out, and probably be from the United States.. That narrowed down the fan base to almost nothing but it still existed. I think all the game journos back then were just too old and, not sure of your age, but are you that age?
EDIT: Looking at the year it came out I'm probably remembering it correctly. I was the target audience minus I hadn't played MYST and although I built my own computer I built it for Quake II and then HL came out and I didn't play anything on my PC for a few years besides HL mods, lol. This game seemed a lot older in my memory, but it only came out one year before HL. It was around that time in HS I remember people talking about it and it was soon after HS I remember it only costing $3 new. I bet it sold so much because it was so cheap, cheaper than the bargain version of MYST, same shrink wrapped cardboard sleeve edition. Maybe they kept on parading MYST up until the end.
nice video, jewlar
I love me a day for foolish foolery :)
Jwlar.... ill watch all of this because im sure this was suffering to make lol
Shockwave and Flash are two separate runtimes, and should not be confused. Flash cannot run Shockwave content, and Shockwave cannot run Flash content. If you wanted to play games back in the day you'd need both runtimes installed. Flash was ported to Linux but Shockwave wasn't. I know that when Mattel still had the Hot Wheels flash site, they had a Shockwave game side-by-side with their Flash games. If you didn't have Shockwave you were SOL; it was a more complex game too. As far as I know, Shockwave was more or less abandoned as standalone runtime as Flash itself improved.
I too don't blame you for not wanting to play more Starfield and not making the video.
lol i went and watched the Part 1 Starfield analysis after seeing this comment, and i 100% agree.
15:31 That's hard to do I think, we as a people tend to put our world into fiction because what else are we supposed to do? Writing about the past or future you'll still put your current time in it to a point and works of the past put their current time into them just as we do now. Everything becomes dated, it's just whether it's any good or not.
Leave it to a guy with the last name of Bergman to take something contemplative and beautiful, and fill it with mockery and scat jokes.
Wait a minute. King Mattress is Gul Darheel!
what? I don't remember this one
can't be _that_ obscure..
And there i was, thinking the only copy in my home town being locked and buried somewhere within my vast collection of antique cardboard would prevent me from ever having to go through it again, only to be thwarted by the youtube algorithm!
weird al actually got permissions for most/all of his songs, he's just a nice guy like that.
Very respectable of him seeing as he didn't (legally) have to. Stand up guy.
My friend found this for $5 while we were killing a lazy summer afternoon at the mall. We returned it the next day for being a waste of time.
Is that freaking John Goodman?!
Yeah, I actually bought this back in the day, and I agree. Its biggest problem is that it feels like a Myst parody made by people who didn't understand Myst, and maybe didn't even bother playing it. Not to mention that you can see everything in something like an hour, and there's no replayability whatsoever.
40 minutes of pyst... I don't think I even subjected myself to that much of it when I had a copy back in the day.
Also @ 7:20 didn't know there was a sourcenext port of Diablo.
It's not really a port, just a resale with an included Japanese manual (only translating the install instructions and troubleshooting, none of the lore). The game is the US version, fully in the English, even the box has a US barcode.
Still a facisinating "version" of the game, that I somehow found from a UK seller via Ebay earlier this year. No idea how it ended up here.
Jamie Hewlett must have played this game at some point.
Not sure if Weird Al is the best example of free use protecting parodies. Because Al always asked permission from the artist he was parodying before publishing (or sometimes even finishing) the song. Prince for example never said "yes" to Als approaches so we never got Prince parody. Free use would had allowed Al to make parody of Princes songs but he is man of honor and never published/finalized his drafts. I think Eminem was another who didn't reply to Al (either at all or positively). Maybe there is one example where we can see free use protecting Als work when Coolio first gave Al blessing for parody but when he heard the song he hated it. But there was nothing Coolio could had done - not just because he agreed beforehand - but also because free use protects Als work. Still, i find it weird you used Al instead of any other example.
Yeah, a few others have pointed this out too. It really shows what a stand-up dude he is by always getting permission, even if (legally) never had to. I guess CZcams parody guys of olde, like Bart Baker, would've been a more accurate example.
@@Jwlar possibly better example yes. Great video btw! If this is only "complaint" (or suggestion, question, conversation starter) comments tend to have then i don't think im alone who found this video to be both entertaining and "educational" (i mean.. i did learn something... i think many of us did... i just dunno if this information is useful in any other way than maybe helps in some obscure trivia quiz some day).
This new thumbnail rules
40 minutes April fools. Mad lad
28:34, that's literally just the Jim Backus drunk pilot joke from It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World but 100x less funny
Parroty's "games" were awful, but I love that they exist. Of course, I might feel differently if I had actually bought them (and I almost did, several times).
1:29 ON NO IT'S PAROTTY
my god the section with the dislodged connector awakened something in me.
nothing good, just pain
It's always the simplest solution (until it isn't). I was panicking and reverting graphic's drivers, only to think about the cable later.
"Im the prince formerly known as, prince."
Is probably a reference to an american musical artist who went by the name of "Prince". And at some point changed his name to "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince", which ended up becoming a pop culture joke for a while here in the states
It indeed is, it's one of the few jokes that caught me off guard, possibly because I was more aware of the reference.
Wtf this game was like a fable when I was a kid in the 90s. I had assumed it was a freeware reskin but it had JOHN GOODMAN?
The problem with pyst is that the gags arent connected, theres no follow ups, theres no building of running jokes throughout the world, every room is like a separate episode
Exactly. There is no cohension to the humour at all other than the "Octoplex Corp" gags, and even those aren't great.
Actually, the reason Weird Al can get away with his works so easily is that he licenses the music he parodies.
Agreed. He was legally allowed to without them, but it highlights what a good guy he was by always asking/getting permission.
**IIIII'MMMMM PYYYYSSSTTT!!!**
36:32 Is that Widowmaker, there on the poster to the left?
I kinda want to make a 3D version of Pyst with actual gameplay, called realPyst
Isn't weird how if we make a comedy show mocking upper class people you'd likely get arrested or sued into the ground these days?
Woah woah woah hold on a second, Peter Bergman was a fucking doct- oh god dammit I'm just a week late to another april fool's video ~_~
I'd like to remind everyone that John Goodman had a very serious drinking problem around this time.
The German review primarily criticized that there's no game. "Parodying a game is a good idea, but where's the game?" The author also mentions that the parody promises to be "full of humor for the dedicated PC player", but Myst was too mainstream and had a mixed reputation among dedicated gamers, so wasn't really the best target for a parody attempting to appeal to a gamer audience. And the humor barely has anything to do with the game at all: it could have joked about obscure puzzles, but it doesn't. Nothing about it feels like a game, or even related to games, at all. That's why it got such a low score.