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WARNING: DON"T BUY IF YOU HAVE WINDOWS XP

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 19 / 20
Date: October 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

WARNING: Holiday season is upon us - The DVD version of this game (MYST) as well as its sequals EXILE and RIVEN do not work with Windows XP especially if you have Quicktime 3.0 or higher. We contacted the company though thier website and they have no intention of upgrading or providing drivers for said games to accomodate users. By their own suggestion at CYAN and RED-ORB and PRESTO is if you have purchased these games and they do not work take them back to the store and see if you can get your money back. Unless the compatibilty with any game produced by this company specifically says it is XP compatible DO NOT PURCHASE IT> Thanks

Watch Out

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 15 / 16
Date: June 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is the Windows 95 version of this game. It won't work with the newer versions of Windows.

Not up to the hype

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 29
Date: November 24, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I bought Myst based on the reviews that I found. All of the reviewers seemed to like it and so did the people I knew who played it. Unfortunately, that just led to a huge disappointment when I played the game.

One of the main selling points of the game was the beautiful scenery. I will give it that, the scenery is indeed well-done. However, I was often annoyed by how much stuff they threw in that you couldn't do anything with. You wander around, find something that could be interesting and realize that it doesn't really do anything. The whole game felt like a demo for what computer graphics could be like instead of an actual game.

What's more, I found the game pretty boring. Nothing ever really happens plot-wise. Which doesn't have to be a bad thing, really, if there was something interesting to keep your mind off that fact. I spent the whole time I was playing the game fairly bored. I also admit to having to use a walkthrough to get past a couple of puzzles. And they weren't ones I felt stupid about afterwards either. The hints given in the game are awful. Many solutions to the puzzles come out of left field. And then I hit the piano puzzle which I found impossible to get past. After a few hours of failing miserably with that I gave up never to play the rest of the game. And after reading the rest of the walkthrough was not at all unhappy about that choice.

Stupid Game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 29
Date: November 14, 1999
Author: Amazon User

The game is pretty good, but it's impossible to move on. You're always getting stuck!

THE worst game I've ever played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 10
Date: September 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I got it as a gift from a relative and when I played it made no sense, I went everywhere, and it was just sooooo boring that I haven't played it since and that was 3 years ago.

Sorry but I was disappointed!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: August 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Saw so many grand statements about this program and how great it was only to be disappointed. Maybe I'm just not a game player - certainly not a Myst enthusiast! I would be happy to sell my copy!

Why is this a classic?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: September 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game continues to haunt my memories as an irritation because of it's length and puzzles, which usually amounted to no more than treading back and forth across the island of Myst. While the environments were increadibly beautiful, they fail to make up for the miserable gameplay, which has you go to one place at least 5 times to solve five different puzzles. The story is intruiging, yet the game's ending fails to please the player, since, you'll discover shortly after completing it, it could be completed in a matter of minutes.

A good game for 10 to 20 dollars, but you shouldn't spend more than that on this weekend game.

More puzzling than a Ribuk's Cube!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: March 19, 2000
Author: Amazon User

What what game I'm describing. It's old, it's puzzling, and it's a blockbuster game. It's, you guessed it, Myst. And that is probably the easiest puzzle you'll get concerning Myst, too. Since it is a popular game that was released a quite a long time ago, you've probably heard of it by now. I'll just say this one thing: If you're deaf or impatient, AVOID. There is a puzzle that involves matching piano tones...heck, even if you're NOT deaf, it's still quite a puzzler! But don't fret...you can beat this game in FIVE MINUTES if you know how, and it can be found in the many game walk-throughs of the Internet. After all, with the difficulty of THESE puzzles, rest assured, you'll be looking for one!

Dull

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: December 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I give this game 2 stars because the people who made it basically made it in their house and now they're millionaires. I give them credit for that.

That still doesn't hide my secret irritation for this game.

Maybe half the fact is I don't know what the heck is going on. The other fact is that every now and then you get some character or maybe something that is supposed to be like a character, but in the end all you're doing is going through a series of backgrounds. If strolling through a museum sounds like "Die Hard" to you, then this is your game. My final complaint was it was essentially like a bad Zelda dungeon: endless puzzles, one after the other. Maybe its a thinking person's game, but it's still incredibly boring and repetitive. I'm surprised they didn't have a puzzle to open the box, and then another puzzle to get the CD key, and then the CD key was a puzzle, and then...

So yeah...just what the hell WAS going on?

I beat the game, what do I do now?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: January 04, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Okay, i'll agree the game was a good alternative to the all the first person shooters out there, but what are you susposed to do with it after you've solved all the puzzles?

Call me crazy, but I think one of the most important factors of a good game is replay value and Myst just doesn't have this. When you get stuck on a puzzle, there's nothing to do but ask a friend who's beaten the game what to do next. And as i've asked before, What are you susposed to do after you beat the game? (and please don't say "you could always play it again", because if you do, i'll know you're truly a geek:)

I know it would defeat the perpose of this genre of beautiful non-violent games but I would like to see a combination of Myst and Doom in the future. A game where you could kill a few monsters while you're between quests.

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