Myst can now frustrate iPhone users

Maybe I'll see what all the fuss is about since this series refuses to die. It must be decent.

Just played it, it's damn nice. Moving left and right 'slides' the screen like when you're looking at pictures. I audio is a little jarring, since the game is so old, but yeah, it's WAY better than the original game was. I love it!

What a hard game this was :O

First got it when I was what.....6? So I would have had to be a child prodigy to complete it? lol

Too bad it's not Real Myst.

I never could get into this game, I found it mind numbingly boring. But hey, that is just me.

I'm a huge fan of the Myst series...even Uru...so I felt I should bring this up, even though I am sure you're well aware:

The screenshot you used (or were given) is from Myst III: Exile. Which, when looking back over the series, is probably my favorite of the bunch.

I could be wrong, but it looks like that pic is from Riven, Myst's sequel.

Too bad -- a "RealMyst" version (the fully 3D-navigatible version) with the iPhone motion controls would probably be awesome.

I don't think anyone's actually taken advantage of the freeform "window into another world" interface that should be possible with the iPhone.

This makes me warm and happy inside. I don't have an iPhone/Touch, nor need another version of this game, but I am glad it exists.

Also, I think Myst III or IV would work best on the iphone (III moreso than IV since they ruined IV with all that new-age bullshit and shitty acting near the end, and I have no desire to see it reiterated in any form), because of the ability to rotate the camera.

Riven is the best, though.

Remember when you figured out that puzzle with the animal shapes? You know which one I'm talking about. Not spoiling it for anybody, though.

Played for an hour last night and have to say it's very immersing, esp. for iPhone. Good value because the game is atmospheric, detailed and deep.
Pros: The user experience moving through the world and interacting w/ objects like flipping through journals and sliding levers works and gives he game a fresh feel. Sound design still strong.
Con: The graphics are a little compromised (water looks like a tarp)
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I wonder if anyone else here used the ten-step method (or however many steps it was) to finish the game... boom, start to finish in less than 5 minutes.

Though I did beat it legitimately prior to that.

OMG....

It's green and jumps like a toad. Rhymes with "bog"


Holy crap...Best game EVER!!!!!!!!! Goosebumps just thinking about it

I picked it up yesterday after the news hit the Myst community internally, and it's really quite well done. It does take a while to download and install, but they're definitely not kidding when they say it's the original content at its best (I have no other releases but the PC/Mac ones to compare it to, but it definitely holds up).

The images are nice and crisp (though the auto-zoom for manipulating some of the smaller puzzle controls does give away that they're using images no larger than the display resolution, because they get blurry when zoomed in), the audio is as rich as I think the made-in-1993 originals will allow by today's standards (it ain't Dolby Surround), and unlike the original release (and even the masterpiece Edition), the video playback is practically seamless... the boxes that appeared in the other versions because of compression and color differences are almost entirely gone.

Despite having a lot of small controls because it was built for a mouse and not a finger, the game is still very easy to control. Obviously, smearing your fingers all over the screen won't get you very accurate results, but it's not an exercise in frustration to get the right hotspot, and the aforementioned auto-zoom does help a lot with the tiny interfaces.

The game isn't flawless, but it only has minor issues in my opinion, and they're not terribly distracting to the gameplay. I'm not sure if it's unique to the 1st Gen iPod Touch, but the screen does occasionally flash black when going between video playback and still imagery, and the audio can sometimes hiccup if the same sound effect is present in several screens and you're navigating through them quickly.

Ultimately, I'm just glad I finally have the game in a format that doesn't require me to resort to a VM or Boot Camp to play it. New Macs have been unable to run Myst since the Intel switch, and Leopard even makes it impossible to run on PowerPC machines, because every other release is still reliant on Apple's Classic emulator in OS X. As much as I'd love to see Riven make the jump to the iPhone platform (and finally be free from the shackles of 8-bit compression), it's a massive game in every sense of the term, and I think I'd rather see Cyan roll out their earlier titles - like Manhole and Cosmic Osmo - first, since they're smaller and simpler. I wouldn't exactly argue with a Riven port either, though.

Seriously, for 6 bucks, you can't beat it with a stick.

Let's see Cosmic Osmo on iPhone. Or how about just a HyperCard emulator!?!