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Disappointing if it doesn't run on your machine

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 22 / 23
Date: December 16, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I loved Myst and Riven. I was ready to love realMYST but it won't run on my brand new Pentium III system since I don't have the right accelerator card. I talked with Mattel (the real publishers) and they say that it won't run on MOST systems since it requires a high end processor AND a specific graphics.

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT GRAPHICS CARD or it's useless.

Sigh, now I have to find a way to return an opened software package...

A Turkey

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 21
Date: December 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I had never played Myst before and I wanted to give it a try because of its popularity. My biggest gripe is that the game offers no options. Every game I know of allows a player to customize the controls. I always use the inverted mouse look--pull back, look up; push forward, look down. I use this in Quake, Unreal, Thief II, Hitman codename 47, Forsaken, System shock 2, Half-Life etc. etc. Real Myst does not give me a choice, and I am not going to change my personal style for one game. The mouse is too sensitive, and there is no option to adjust it (as in other games). The "walk" mode is way too fast. So, just try playing a game where you seem to be running all the time, the mouse operates backwards, and is too sensitive in its left to right movement. Well, I can just stand there and admire all the scenery, I guess.

My system is a Dell XPS B733r (733 Mhz coppermine, PIII) with a geForce 256, 64MB DDR RAM 3D card, 128MB RDRAM, Soundblaster Live audio. Actually, the music in the game is very nice, and the graphics great.

Doesn't Work

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Like everone else I bought RealMyst because I was intrigued with the possibility of fluid 360 degree motion. I have an Athlon600 with 128 meg ram, an aureal vortex sound card, and a Viper II 32meg AGP video card.

After speaking with Mattel Inc, it turns out that RealMYST is not compatible with the Viper II video card due to it's Savage chipset. I also need to figure out a way to return an opened game back to the store.

Complaint instead of review

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 14
Date: February 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I have Myst and Riven on both Playstation and Mac. I ordered realMYST thinking that it was also for the Mac. Well, I was wrong. It is only for PC's. Myst was the one game that started it all for me on my computer. I have purchased more GAMES through Dreamcatcher and am sitting on pins and needles waiting for Myst Exile. I am heartbroken that I cannot get realMyst for my Mac and I am sure that others are too. Why were we left out? I know that I would enjoy this new version, but I guess I'll never know how great it really may be.

Its pretty, Big Deal...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 25
Date: January 11, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Yes, the graphics are very good but the game is akin to an interactive painting. And so what about the graphics? Whoopee, most games have good graphics nowadays too but GOOD games have some meat to them. RealMyst does not; it's a very bland game for people who don't like real gaming experiences.

After fifty minutes of looking at the pretty pictures, I was bored to tears and began the uninstall procedure. Phooey!

Missing one VERY important ingredient...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: February 08, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the single most incredible computer game in history. Far more visually impressive than anything I've ever seen, including the Zooilogical Garden™ demo and FAKK 2. The puzzles are smart, the story is interesting enough and the sound is just amazing. For someone who based his entire life around the original, it was quite a trip down memory lane, and (blushing) I would sometimes tear up just looking at it and hearing it's brilliant music. There is that one little nagging problem, though. This title, which originated on the Macintosh platform, has yet to show ANY progress in their mac "port". Cyan has forgotten it's roots in leaving this masterpeice exclusively among the un-enlightened (no offense). With the fastest towers in the world , the most powerful brand new OS in the world (OS X) and a range of graphic card options including the Voodoo5, ATi Radeon and nVidia GeForce, the mac would be the ultimate platform for the game.

But still I wait. :(

-MichiganJ.S (the ultimate cyan fan)

dark and hard to use

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 14 / 17
Date: December 06, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The illusion of motion, the passing clouds, the rising sun, the rain and storms were great, but God help anyone who does not know where to go or what to do in this game to begin with.

I have a new dell dimensions computer that meets or exceeds the system requirements of this game but I found it very difficult to move around and especially difficult to see necessary details. In the generator room for example, where you need to set 59 volts for the rocket ship,I could not read the numbers on the dials. If I had not kept notes from the previous version I would never have been able to set the voltage. The worst part, however was trying to set the sound tone settings on the rocket ship control panel. After setting the lever, I could not test the notes without inadvertently changing the setting. Additionally, I never knew whether I left them in the right place or not and could not tell without pulling the main lever to test them all. I finally gave up after half an hour of trying to launch the rocket ship, a task I have done numerous times without problem in the old Myst. I also found the whole game very dark and impossible to find buttons, handles, and interesting objects that I know to be there.Even after setting the contrast and lightness controls on the monitor I had a hard time finding my way around.

I bought this game to have fun and explore Myst with a fresh vision, but I found it too difficult to use and frustrating to play overall. I do not recommend this game for anyone who does not know this game intimately to begin with.

What's Wrong With Everyone!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 20
Date: December 16, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Don't get me wrong, I consider myself to be a pretty die-hard Myst fan, and I love all of my fellow reviewers with as much of my soul as I can muster, but I feel the need to issue a complaint about this wretched piece of junk that calls itself a game!
When I first saw Myst, I thought it was the most amazing thing I had ever laid eyes on, I was reminded of La Jetee, the old Chris Marker film in which we are given thirty minutes of still photographs telling a love story across time, space, death and reality. The film as well as the game opened the door for a whole new kind of narrative, one that was not reliant on the spectacle of motion. So, when I saw and purchased this game, I was weary of its potential offense. My weariness was not in vain as I asked myself:
DOES IT NEED TO MOVE? Just because a picture is worth a thousand words does not at all mean that fifteen or more pictures a second, sixty seconds a minute, sixty minutes an hour, nine hours a typical playing session does not mean that the game is worth up to and including 500 million words! Frankly, I can only think of two: PURE DRIVEL!
Anyone ever hear of the Kuleshov Effect? The Homeric Exposition? The Triptych Manifest? The Neurological Function of Visual Closure?
No?
Well, basically they all refer to your brain's ability to put two and two together to make four. You see one image immediately followed by another without viewing any of the action that exists between them, just like when in a movie our POV changes from one character facing right to another character faving left. This make sense to us because, by our brain's ability to fill in gaps in the action, we assume that these two characters are looking at each other.
What, you can't tell what has happened between two images of a library in which one image shows the library-as well as its surroundings-as appearing closer to you in the frame than in the previous image? YOU'VE MOVED FORWARD, (...)
Okay, perhaps I'm being a little too cruel, but it just annoys me to no end that there are those out there who feel that making still images move (rather than simply appreciate the beauty they present to you in stillness) somehow enhances the visual awe of art. Maybe if you have only a passing interest in the Myst mythos, and you enjoy solving puzzles far more than viewing such fine specimens of computer aesthetics, perhaps you will enjoy this game, otherwise, stick with the original and its sequels.

I'm sorry I was angry, it's just that, as a filmmaker looking to altnerative, mold-breaking techniques of entertainment, I felt the need to uphold the integrity of the Miller Brothers, and the good sir Marker.

This game should run smoother

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I am an avid Myst/Riven/MystIII fan. I bought realMyst to see the advanced graphics added to it..ie: Day,Night,Rain,Sun,and special effects. The game is really choppy. I even advanced my system, but it didnt help. I believe you shouldnt have to go any kind of frustration when playing a game and this one had a lot of choppiness and delayed reactions even after I upgraded my system. Too frustrating.

Real Myst or Real Boring?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: November 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Captivating the audience with graphics is about all this game is worth. Waste your time figuring out trite puzzles that are about as challenging as learning to count to 10. It gets two stars for graphics. If your looking for eye candy and to throw away 30 dollars, Real Myst is for you.

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