This Ancient Puzzle Game Inspired Thousands of Games - Myst
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Myst Part 1 - back in 1993, when dinosaurs still roamed the earth, Myst was released. The game's unique approach to mystery and puzzle solving resonated with video game developers everywhere. Pretty much every first person puzzle game took some inspiration from Myst. A 2021 remake just came out, let's see if it holds up.
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How long ago is 1993 exactly? The exact amount of time is unsure, but historians place it between the dominance of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle and the first Mesopotamian society. Truly amazing that this game has withstood the test of time and receives remakes in our current year.
I 100% read this
Woah that 26 years ago well then.
I officially read this lol
Well in 1980's they made movies that you can still watch to this day so I don't think 1993 was too bad
I was born in 93
To set a frame of refrence for how old this game is, I once read a story that detailed someone's first playthrough of this game. When they were stuck, they called a hotline for in-game tips, the tip was to listen to the surrounding enviroment, which was hard for that user, because their PC didn't have an audio card.
In 2004 I once bought a copy of Ragnarök Online from my local newspaper stand. It came with a begginer's guide and a lot of maps and pictures I loved to browse through. Little did I know that the game was in a DVD and that my computer's drive was limited to CD's! Had to change that to install, which as a kid took a while for me to figure out. Then the Launcher had THREE GIGABYTES of updates to run through, which with my dial-up 35Kbps speed took me OVER 24H to update, and it failed multiple times due to loss of connections!
Weeks later I finally got to play it and I hated it and went back to my other games hahah
Me and my friends played this when I was a kid, and I traded walkthrough hints for the ability to play with my friend's toys. Which he begrudgingly allowed because I was the only kid in the neighborhood who had internet access and could look up guides online.
When Riven came out (on five CDs no less) I made sure to have my parents also buy the official guide book.
When my mate told me I need an audio card, I thought he meant like a subscription card I had to insert into the back or something.
Holy
So the walkthrough book to this game had an actual walkthrough and then a walkthrough written out in the form of a journal from the player’s perspective iirc. And ohhhhh I never got to play the game but I loved that journal so much I read it about 17 times
woah i want one of those
@@Snacman8 thank you!
Riven had a similar guidebook, the journal part was more hint based, then there was the straight solutions one.
I even created a PDF file for each one of the books in the library and uploaded them to a web site owned by Cyan. They existed for a time and then were deleted.
"The book with everything in it, I hope."
"Oh, I've straight up teleported."
Yep, that's Myst in two sentences.
I’m pretty sure randomized means the puzzle solutions are randomized, with they way to achieve said solution also changing to fit the new solution. This is because the original myst puzzles weren’t randomized, so if you knew the solution, you could skip the puzzle
@Ben Apel Way more then half the game. If you know the true ending secret, you can beat the game in under a minute.
@@MrPoptart151 and if you're going for all pages, about 11 minutes
This version has an achievement for beating it in under 2 minutes. Game on
“Damn we suck at sailing” as a sailor this is my new favorite quote
For some reason, the fact that a sailor watches Tyler is really funny to me. We like sailing though, good on ya man:)
#Arghhh
Wrong type of sailor, I know
@@Yokozai haha I watch his uploads before bed every night and I don’t think I’ve missed a day since he finished The Witness. (I didn’t watch those ones as he uploaded them because I wanted to play it for myself). So it’s safe to say he’s my favorite CZcamsr
@@griffin6738 oh nice! Yea he's my reminder to head to bed! I think I've been watching since baba is you! I've only missed days if I had to, if there's an emergency or such
It's so... ethereal to see Myst like this, new graphics, new mechanics, walking
To be fair the walking around was added in the early 2000s remastered edition. This one adds 2021 graphics that look really awesome
I only played Myst Masterpiece Edition, back in 2006? 7? I think. Now seeing the island with ray tracing, dynamic water, free movement... It's like inverse uncanny valley. I actually had to pause the video, for crying out loud!
I remember watching my dad play an original version of one of these game once or twice back when I was like 7, before I even knew what video games really were. Knowing there’s a remake and being able to actually understand what this game is now that I’m not basically a fetus will be amazing, I’m very excited to know that this is something that exists.
the amount of fond memories everyone in the comments seems to have for this game is absolutely lovely! ive never heard of this game before, but now im very excited to watch tyler run through it
0:17 haven't looked into the new version so I might be mistaken as to what the randomize solutions option means, though for those who are unaware the older game had puzzles that had the same solutions set in stone. The reason why that's relevant is that if I recall it's really easy to speedrun the old version since technically you only needed to know the solution to a certain puzzle (and if you memorized that one solution, then all the other puzzles become obsolete).
To be slightly more specific [but de-spoilered], early on, one will find a book with a few hundred pages, each containing a grids with light and dark squares, and will likely find a sort of combination lock into which one must enter such a pattern. A puzzle near the end of the game will instruct the player of the location of the book (which the player will have likely found) and the lock (likewise), and instruct the player to enter the pattern from a particular numbered page and do something with what the lock reveals.
A serious weakness of the game, IMHO, is that the player is likely to stumble fairly early upon everything needed to win, and would likely be able to guess what to do with it, save for needing a particular page number.
@@flatfingertuning727 When you consider that the game was essentially written in the Apple version of powerpoint at the time, that limitation is very understandable. It wasn't until the 2000s remastered editions that we actually got to walk around for ourselves the first time. rather than jumping via click from point to point. I've played every version of this game, and each time I have to figure out the puzzles again anyways because it has been so long since I played the previous time... but I guess if you wanted to cheat or had an eidetic memory you might want the randomized puzzles.
@@jcota2003 I think the purpose is for speedruns, to prove that people are actually doing the relevant puzzles rather than simply exploiting the known answers.
@@flatfingertuning727 I mean yes that is a benefit of it... I was just saying there was a reason that the original game didn't have puzzles with different or changing answers... and it was because it was written with a glorified apple/quicktime powerpoint style tool...
@@jcota2003 It had for many years been normal for many adventure games to have hard-coded puzzle solutions which players needed to discover, going back to the magic word xyzzy from the original Adventure. While the design of Myst may have imposed technical limitations that would have made it difficult to randomize puzzles, I think it likely the puzzles would have kept hard-coded solutions even without such limitations.
man I played this so much, it's amazing to see it not be a point and click adventure
Myst has the most nostalgia of any game to me as I played it as a little kid, your channel and the games you have played really reminds me of those days, seeing you play this new remastered version is great. I hope you enjoy the game and series
I have never played Myst but I know exactly what you mean. It has the feeling of aimlessly enjoying. Not hardcore action and stuff but just being in the moment and finding fun along the way.
Holy fuck I actually have all the Myst books. I absolutely adored the written series, and now one of my favorite youtubers is playing the game.
I like how it took Tyler the entire video to find the actual gimmick of the game.
I actually still have the original 1993 version lying somewhere in the attic, I think. Used to get so frustrated when I was a kid trying to solve the puzzles whilst awing at everything.
Ah, the good old days...
I beat this game as a kid at my mom's friend's house using their left handed trackball mouse. It was my Genesis as a truly powerful gamer
I can't believe you are playing Myst! I had this game when I was a wee kid, I remember playing it for hours and hours and never figuring anything out. :P
Probably because I was only a few years old. XD
I feel like Tyler had to look at a playthrough before playing this game so smoothly. How someone can complete it without outside help is beyond me
Why do i see you everywhere
@@frujey monokuma
It took me a full month to finish as a kid, it can be very cryptic. But since I know how to beat it now it's hard to say how much I would struggle with it if I did a first playthrough as an adult.
Smoothly? he couldn't even figure out that he had to close the elevator door for the longest time...
Ah yes. Go watch a play through on a game that came out the day he plays it. Brilliant
As someone who played OG Myst back in 1997 when I was a kid, watching you play it for the first time feels me with elation that you'll get to experience it for the first time, and tbh a bit of schadenfreude that you're playing it for the first time.
That damn elevator door caused my 12 year old self _so_ much trouble.
Back in the day I played this with a pen and notepad. Writing down every little thing since there was no way to look up a true walkthrough. The only thing was a phone line you could call to ask questions.
Damn, this takes me back.
Just bought it, ran through the game on Randomized, then mopped up all the achievements except Speedy (beat the game in under two minutes). I'll get that one tomorrow.
Me and my dad play this waaaaaay back. Like before I was even able to understand how to solve puzzles really. We kept up with thewhole series, and the first one I sorta helped with was Myst 4. Such memories man. Thanks for playing it.
What I love about this game is that you can beat it in like 2 minutes. Or you can make an entire series out of it.
Blast from the past!
Also, I think you're about to get a grasp on the varying age demographic of your viewers by reading the comments while you play this game, lol.
This was my first CD-ROM game. I was hopelessly unable to figure out IRQs and therefore couldn't have both my mouse and my sound card working at the same time. Fortunately the school I went to had a computer with both functioning, and they allowed me to play the game on it.
ah, CD-ROMs... So futuristic, so SHINY, they were so amazing they made me feel like we were in the YEAR 2000 already. You know, crazy cyborg society with giant mirror-like skyscrapers, flying pods whizzing by everywhere, bolts of pure energy connecting mysterious intricate machines: the dang THIRD MILLENNIUM. The utopian FUTURE in the palm of your hand
Yeah...it was cool to have PC games that could finally have FMV in them.
I remember my dad and older sister playing this game when I was a kid. I was jealous that they were so much better at solving puzzles than I was. We made semi-cooperative progress in the game on one main save file, but would also explore some on our personal save files. I was really proud the first time I solved a puzzle on my own. I think it was the clock tower.
I never played the game all the way through, since I was usually piggy-backing on progress of my dad and sister, so there are gaps in my memory of what lead to where. I think I remember getting off of most of the worlds, but not how to get onto them.
I remember playing the original with my dad years ago and not knowing literally anything about the story (as I was a little kid at the time) but having an absolute blast (with all the help from my dad) solving puzzles, especially during the submarine (rocket?) area. Blew my mind as a child. I still have my Myst Trilogy game disc set we used to play the first game all those years ago. Looking at it on my computer desk as I am writing this. Still one of the best presents I ever got for Christmas.
Yay, you're finally playing my favorite game ever! I hope you play the rest of the series too. Myst, Riven (read Myst 2), and Myst 3 are all top-notch, Myst 4 starts getting a little weird, but is still amazing, and you don't really need to bother with Must 5, its visually beautiful, but the puzzles amount to little more than a bug-hunt.
10:13 The Witness puzzle in the wild
I’m so excited for this one. I hope you play the rest of them!! They’re good games and they give me a lot of nostalgia, me and my dad used to play them on our old Macintosh when I was young.
I'm excited to see you play this as I've never played it before. I think I even may have heard you mention it in another puzzle game playthrough.
I played a metric butt-ton of modded minecraft and one of my favorite mods was MystCraft. How i never stumbled upon Myst astounds me, but the concept and naming of the mod now makes much much much more sense.
Had a similar situation reading Homestuck since there is something called Myststuck 60% of the way into the comic
Those odd puzzles make sense now
I'm really excited to see you play this. Your complete confusion during the initial exploration of the starter island reminds me of when I first played Myst. It'll eventually all make sense.
I have so many good memories of this! I was a little young for Myst when my dad got it but I really enjoyed it once I was old enough to take decent notes (no screenshots in those days) as well as the sequel, Riven. Looking forward to more of this series!
I played this game so much when it came out way back then. It took me many hours to figure out all the puzzles in it but I am proud to say I didn't cheat and look up any solutions. I didn't have internet back then anyway. The original didn't have full 3D like this version, you'd click and it would move you to different fixed positions.
edit: After watching you play this, I forgot just how incredibly difficult and obtuse some of these puzzles are. READ EVERYTHING. There was no screenshotting in the original version so I had to play with a notebook on my desk and write down/sketch stuff as I played. Good luck Tyler and DON'T CHEAT, this game is 100% worth figuring out on your own.
I remember playing this on an old Mac computer we had. Confused the hell out of me. Neat to see that they brought it back. Maybe they will bring back more of the oldies like Maybus.
I remember first time playing Myst a few years ago. I believe it was called realMyst masterpiece edition. Basically, you run around and explore to find out bunch of unrelated, diverse puzzles. Then you are stuck because you have no idea what to do. After some time tinkering with switches and buttons, you slowly come to realization of interconnected nature of many puzzles to eventually solve them all (hopefully). It was a solid 8-10 hrs experience for me. I like it has multiple endings as well.
The Myst soundtrack is GOAT for puzzle games. I remember playing this back in the 90s when it came out and you could not walk around. Just click and then it would load a location!
Loved this game, glad to see my favourite CZcamsr playing it. Can’t wait for next video
I am so happy to see you play this. I grew up watching my dad play this and when I got old enough I played through the sequel, Riven. Myst is definitely forever a classic. It was also the best selling PC game until the release of the original Sims game.
As somebody who still has the original Myst CD, this game brings back memories
My dad and I used to play this game when I was super young, I’ll have to let him know about this remake, maybe we could play it together again. You just walking around the island is bringing back so many memories (it was the location I spent most of my time, as I was not that great at the game, and struggled to understand the puzzles at the time), and I hope you will continue to play this game. I will watch every episode.
Man, I remember playing this game when I was in elementary school on my parent's computer. It's such a rush of nostalgia seeing this game again.
Played this game in VR, got super stumped on what to do.
Brought it up to my dad and he said the game sounded familiar to one he played before but he couldn't remember the name of it. Until I mentioned the game I was playing was Myst
He was thinking about the exact same game, and it was super cool to realize that he got to experience the game in the 90s as I was now experiencing it in the 2020s except I am doing it in VR.
What a world we live in.
I always loved the myst series, used to play them as a child with my grandparents on their computer. Riven is the one I have best memories of, keeping a notebook for all my observations and so on. Great to see you playing them on the channel.
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I was born in 93 and can confirm that elevators like that were commonplace :D
Yo PLEASE play the whole series of myst games. They all are amazing.
I hope he plays my favorite, which is Riven
AAA HE'S FINALLY PLAYING MYST. THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE GAMES EVER
I had just played the original myst recently and seeing this made me so interested and im very much enjoying the new random puzzles
This game looks really interesting, can't wait for the next video.
Oh we definitely need more of this!
I played this game like 13 years ago with my father, i find it verry interesting to see someone playing it for the first time
I love this game, it's both a classic and a masterpiece; it's great to see you play through this! ❤❤
As cool as it is to see an update on the graphics, if there's a way in settings to change the people back to their fmv originals, I'd recommend it. The original actors (the creators of the game) did a great job with facial expressions that don't carry through here, and they look much better, even if in a low res. Nerd ranting aside, cheers and gl! ❤
I am so hyped, this is gonna be a great series
This was the first ever puzzle game i played in the 90’s with my first computer. My sibling and i had notebooks of clues to solve puzzles. I havent seen this game in years and my favorite puzzler is playing it. Keep it up and if you love it the 2nd game riven is even better in my opinion.
Not ten minutes into the game and you've discovered more than I did in I don't know how many class periods trying to play this game.
Randomized is it changes ALL the puzzle solutions, Like the dates to find the Constalations, or the wattage and notes for the Rocket. Its a way to make it interesting for those that remember all the old puzzles from 93
Imma be honest i never played the original or realmyst, but as soon as i saw this on game pass i launched it and sat there for about 7 hours until i beat it. Then the next day i got the other endings and all achievements. What a fucking master piece. Really makes me want to play the original.
I played Myst in 1993 or maybe 1994. The graphics were actually pretty close to this, but you stepped from still picture to still picture. It was all ray trace rendered. Part of the reason it was so groundbreaking is that is was such a beautiful looking puzzle game for its day.
Wow this was actually part of the first few games I played on pc with my family that I can remember, along with shivers. There was the big floppies in there somewhere as well but I have no idea what they were.
YES! Finally! Thank you!
Dude this is my childhood, the best game ever made, thx for playing
This game was HUGE!
I will love this series.
"This inspired your favorite puzzle game" Nah it inspired my favorite Minecraft mod.
holy crap mystcraft, now that is a real blast from the past. i have not heard of that mod in so long
This is the game that got me into gaming. My friend and i would try and marathon through them when they would come out
Myst was the game that got millions (thousands?) of people to go out and buy a CD-ROM for their computers to play it. The game was a point and click slideshow of what you were facing, and the only moving stuff was the QuickTime videos in those books. RealMyst added the actual 3D world but most people that played the original never played the 3D one.
Somehow the stairs outside are what made me realize which game this was. Which I had completely forgotten the existence of.
never forget the time Tyler solved a puzzle in "the room" by inputting his computers time
Yey a new puzzle series! Hopefully you'll finish understand.
My first puzzle game. I did it without help, but and it was hard. Then again that was literally years ago and I started it when I was much much younger. Came back to it every so often, until I finally started to figure some of it out. Good luck and have fun. I might see about trying to finish Riven.
Damn this brings me back. It's so weird seeing it in a "free roam" style game instead of a point and click. Massive improvement though.
As soon as you hit the first switch I knew you were going for the ending. I know the quick finish after all these years.
Dude, you are now playing one of the ultimate time capsule games. It has been released/re-released so many times that every gamer ever has either heard of this game, played this game or beaten it (eventually). I see this game and I remember the original on CD-Rom version, and navigating via clicks (not being able to look around openly etc). Anyways, good luck the puzzles in this are both deceptively easy and frustratingly difficult. its never just one puzzle but layers upon layers of puzzles that all intertwine.
Biggest thing I remember with these games is having a notebook and pen handy
3:10 *presses middle button*
*entire roof and small window moves*
"the center button doesn't really do too much"
I am 20 years old and I’m just now learning why the teleporting books mod for Minecraft is called Mystcraft.
Ahhh yes a classic. Played it back in the day.
Damn, I haven’t played this game since the mid 90s. It’s scary how much of it I remember
My fav game series
The puzzles only get more obscure the further into the games that you go. I remember my best friend and I spending an entire summer and several leftover notebooks from school on either the second or third one. We were in Jr. High, I think, so 12 or 13 years old?
You should also see if you can get your hands on a copy of the game based on the Xanth books. I believe it's DOS-era, I played it as a very small child. Companions of Xanth. The CD came with one of the Xanth books. It was absolutely wild.
Actually, honestly, DM me and we can work out finding you a copy (or a browser version) and settling on some kind of pay for you to play through Xanth, because what a fever dream of a game it is lol.
I am beyond excited
Going to be interesting watching this series, I played realMyst back in 2015 and have vague impressions of how everything hangs together.
This version looks so much nicer, though they originally had recorded live action for the recording in the entrance chamber which was nicer I think
Myst was so powerful it inspired an interactive for a Webcomic
Homestuck A6A3 had a "Flash Myst" for one of the planets and then again for the final page of the comic on Earth to thank the reader (The latter didn't have any puzzles due to it being after the True Final Boss)
Would love to see some more of this seriea.
my family played this when i was a kid. 6 people never finished the game. all the puzzles are weirdly complicated.
If I remember the symbols that show up on the posts around the boat. activate the ones that (are/are not?) also in the astrology room. when you turn on the right posts on the ship rises out of the water.
most of the puzzles are multiple steps, and it takes a bit to recognize what the puzzle is suppose to be
I've been looking forward to you playing this! Now do Riven!
I used to play Myst as a kid, and I really never figured it out. Need to play it sometime
I really want to watch this video to finish my sleep routine, but I want to play this game for myself. I am so conflicted right now.
My favourite teacher in elementary school would play Myst during English (taking our suggestions, of course). I don't know if it improved my english, but it was a whole lot of fun (even though our small child brains only solved the smallest portion of the game.)
I was gonna watch the video, but then I saw that epic intro and I was like “okay no spoilers, I have to play this” I will watch your vid when I finish the game tho
I remember playing this as a small kid... or rather trying to play it, could never get anywhere lol. But seemed so cool for the time that I kept coming back and trying lol
Finish this game. And then play Riven. It's a DATED game but it's one of my absolute favorite games. I beat the game without a walkthrough as a kid and that's been one of my greatest gaming achievements.
Here's hoping this inspires you to play what is my favorite puzzle game of all time, the sequel to Myst, Riven. The atmosphere of the game was unparalleled at the time and even to this day is unmatched. It's nigh impossible without a strategy guide, which means you would have to accept help from chat in spots, but it's so worth it. With them remaking Myst I suppose there's a chance they'll remake Riven as well. Which would be cool from an accessibility standpoint, but I'm not sure it would do it any favors from a game-experience standpoint. Anyways, since I started watching you when you started playing Polybridge I've been hoping you'd eventually play Riven.
Well, this is nostalgic
Imagine fitting this much stuff into a single game and not make a franchise out of it. Crazy.
There's also a VR port of this game. It's pretty cool, but about as confusing as the original lol
Waited to watch this tell I played the game, glad I waited. I encountered one bug that made me reset but was able to get to the end without any help!
I never realized until the very end of this video that the minecraft mod "Mystcraft" is actually a reference to an old game...
Another game similar to Myst is Shivers. I believe Shivers came out in 1995, so I'm sure it was inspired by Myst. I would enjoy watching Tyler play through Shivers, but I"m not sure if anybody else would. Would be a good game for October since it has a spooky theme to it.