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Hemos
on from the tv-worth-watching dept.
E1ven writes "The Sci-Fi channel and Cyan have just announced that they are collaborating on a miniseries based on the MYST series of computer games and novels. If they can combine the story of the books with the depth of their Dune series, this could be a great watch."
Re:Game/Film conversions
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 5, Informative
Except the Myst world actually had an excellent plot. There were three Myst books published, and they were all a surprisingly good read. The makers of Myst created the Myst world first, then decided mediums to express it through (games, books) afterwards, so it's not like they are trying to stretch the Myst game into a movie (I don't think there was enough story in the Myst game to do so). This is more akin to a book being made into a movie. I would recommend checking out the books, they are very well done. I am looking forward to their results.
We can watch a lonely guy run around punching codes into combination locks for four hours. Wait, on the other channel, they are showing grass grow. I think I'll rather watch that.
Re:Who cares...
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esper_child
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· Score: 5, Interesting
>I'd rather play Zork again.
that isn't saying a whole lot. Zork was probly one of the best games ever made. The only games that were more fun to play were also in the IF catigory. However if this is about the Myst books it could be good, as those were pretty good (unlike the rotten DooM books . The video games were pretty bad, infact I think they started the standard that games don't have to be good to sell a crap load of copies.
Now I would love to see a movie/series made out of the Zork series (Beyond would be great to see a movie of) or maybe Lurking Horror. Honestly i don't see why they don't pick games like that.
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Except the Myst world actually had an excellent plot. There were three Myst books published, and they were all a surprisingly good read. The makers of Myst created the Myst world first, then decided mediums to express it through (games, books) afterwards, so it's not like they are trying to stretch the Myst game into a movie (I don't think there was enough story in the Myst game to do so). This is more akin to a book being made into a movie. I would recommend checking out the books, they are very well done. I am looking forward to their results.
We can watch a lonely guy run around punching codes into combination locks for four hours. Wait, on the other channel, they are showing grass grow. I think I'll rather watch that.
>I'd rather play Zork again.
that isn't saying a whole lot. Zork was probly one of the best games ever made. The only games that were more fun to play were also in the IF catigory. However if this is about the Myst books it could be good, as those were pretty good (unlike the rotten DooM books . The video games were pretty bad, infact I think they started the standard that games don't have to be good to sell a crap load of copies.
Now I would love to see a movie/series made out of the Zork series (Beyond would be great to see a movie of) or maybe Lurking Horror. Honestly i don't see why they don't pick games like that.