No really, I cannot stand idly by and watch these people make fools of themselves like this. Stop laughing at them. It's cruel.
"Games that have a story": a game can have all the story it likes, and still be a steaming crock of horsepish. There is no evidence that suggests story = entertainment. Pride and Prejudice has a story but nothing will ever make me watch Helena Bonham Carter fornicate with farm animals. Not again. But I digress...
Cyan actually took the road less traveled by making games that have a story, and BROKE ALL SALES RECORDS
- BROKE ALL SALES RECORDS! Holy sh*t, thats just like Jurassic Park, Titanic, Bryan Adams and the Spice Girls! Myst is truly a great game!
Now pay attention: Grim Fandango = story + fun. Monkey island. Planescape. Zelda. All fun with stories. But what about Civ, Quake, Super Mario and Stratego: Final Fight? - all fun without stories.
BUT BACK TO THE POINT...Myst has story (if you can call that obsessive trawl through every substandard fantasy cliche a story). AND YET...Myst is the most boring piece of self-indulgent twaddle ever to waste a pixel.
So what is my point? There is no point! Its a **VIDEO GAME** and a third rate one at that. Don't argue with me. The world knows I'm right.
Myst has has its time - Cyan milked the middle-brow morons, the gaming-ignorant masses, and made a fortune. Remaking Myst is even less of a good idea than remaking Doom (are you watching Carmack, you whore? See the company you're keeping?).
Jesus, this is why people think computer gamers are dangerous, self-obsessed social retards with poor hygiene. It's not the kids addicted to Quake and toting firearms that are a danger to Christian America, its the Myst freaks with intellectual pretensions and goth websites trying to convince us that windows wallpaper is entertainment.
She laughed; the softest, gentlest laugh he'd ever heard. "Did you ever wonder what it would be like to go swimming out among the stars?" - excerpted from Myst: The Book of Atrus
- is this supposed to indicate the literary quality of the game or was the entire post a master stroke of irony that I failed to comprehend? There's a language too? It's worse than I imagined.
Anyway, where I come from, Myst isn't a game it's a bathroom cleaning product (mmm pine scented)
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No really, I cannot stand idly by and watch these people make fools of themselves like this. Stop laughing at them. It's cruel.
"Games that have a story": a game can have all the story it likes, and still be a steaming crock of horsepish. There is no evidence that suggests story = entertainment. Pride and Prejudice has a story but nothing will ever make me watch Helena Bonham Carter fornicate with farm animals. Not again. But I digress...
Cyan actually took the road less traveled by making games that have a story, and BROKE ALL SALES RECORDS
- BROKE ALL SALES RECORDS! Holy sh*t, thats just like Jurassic Park, Titanic, Bryan Adams and the Spice Girls! Myst is truly a great game!
Now pay attention: Grim Fandango = story + fun. Monkey island. Planescape. Zelda. All fun with stories. But what about Civ, Quake, Super Mario and Stratego: Final Fight? - all fun without stories.
BUT BACK TO THE POINT...Myst has story (if you can call that obsessive trawl through every substandard fantasy cliche a story). AND YET...Myst is the most boring piece of self-indulgent twaddle ever to waste a pixel.
So what is my point? There is no point! Its a **VIDEO GAME** and a third rate one at that. Don't argue with me. The world knows I'm right.
Myst has has its time - Cyan milked the middle-brow morons, the gaming-ignorant masses, and made a fortune. Remaking Myst is even less of a good idea than remaking Doom (are you watching Carmack, you whore? See the company you're keeping?).
Jesus, this is why people think computer gamers are dangerous, self-obsessed social retards with poor hygiene. It's not the kids addicted to Quake and toting firearms that are a danger to Christian America, its the Myst freaks with intellectual pretensions and goth websites trying to convince us that windows wallpaper is entertainment.
She laughed; the softest, gentlest laugh he'd ever heard. "Did you ever wonder what it would be like to go swimming out among the stars?" - excerpted from Myst: The Book of Atrus
- is this supposed to indicate the literary quality of the game or was the entire post a master stroke of irony that I failed to comprehend? There's a language too? It's worse than I imagined.
Anyway, where I come from, Myst isn't a game it's a bathroom cleaning product (mmm pine scented)