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Myst Comes to the Net in 2003

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the click-on-everything dept.

erichj writes "Reuters is reporting that Cyan Worlds announced that they will be releasing an online version of the popular adventure game Myst for internet play in 2003. Users will pay a fee for the privilege of unraveling the mystery online." The article mentions some multiplayer functionality, but I can't really tell if the online version will be new puzzles or not.

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  1. I can see it now by svallarian · · Score: 3, Funny

    You and 100 of your closest friends...boring each other to death.

    --
    I patented screwing your mom. But it got revoked for "prior art."
  2. Online Myst? by cliffy2000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why? WHY? This game nearly destroyed me. I am but a mere shell of the man I was before I played it. All the puzzles, all the insanity... now, it becomes universal! Universal insanity! Our world will implode! Implode, I say!!

  3. Are you sure you're not confusing it by teamhasnoi · · Score: 3, Funny

    with this or this?

  4. What's Next? by Hut-Moll · · Score: 2, Funny
    Jesus, what are they going to stuff into the MMORPG model next?

    This just announced Coleco has unveiled plans to turn the popular 'Donkey Kong' video game into the next big massive-multiplayer-online-roleplaying-game! Players will be able to climb ladders and jump barrels within an online community.

    Yuck.. wonder who approved this bomb of a game?

  5. Addicts? by bjschrock · · Score: 2, Funny

    "We don't want to create addicts," he said.

    If they do it well they just might, but if it can get really boring like the other games I don't think they have to worry about it.

  6. I can see the guys in the book saying by WickedChicken · · Score: 1, Funny

    No! Wait! Give those books to 31337A0LeR and do the world a favor...

    --
    "It's even worse if you're locked into a proprietary operating system." -http://www.wehavethewayout.com/scale.asp?rew=0
  7. Amazing... by seanadams.com · · Score: 4, Funny

    Amazing what you can do with Hypercard nowadays!

  8. Re:Multiplayer deserted island? by BoosterToad · · Score: 2, Funny
    I don't know if I am alone on this, but I really don't like the idea of a multi-player Myst. Part ot the mystique (no pun intended) of the game was the isolation, walking around alone on an island trying to piece a story together that might have taken place decades ago. I used to get spooked playing that game, sitting alone at night with the speaker volume up, wondering if at the next turn something would poke its head out.

    That was you! Bastard! I was trying to sleep!
  9. Fragging? by craw · · Score: 2, Funny

    So how do you frag somebody in this game? Cut the rope when somebody is in a tree elevator? Drown them when they are exploring the ship? Crush them under the tree? Run them over on the tram? Blow up the furnance?

    Or I guess the old tried and true method, "Hey! Check out this book!"