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Why? It's just a point and click adventure. You don't need to have perfect accuracy. The single analogue stick on the PSP should do just fine.
Anyways, this is definitely exciting news for me. I have pretty fond memories of sitting at the computer with my older sister and playing Myst/Riven for hours at a time. Those games were so damn cool. The roller coaster parts were amazing.
The beginning of Bioshock, going up the lighthouse steps and down into the ocean with the bathysphere, REALLY reminded me of Riven the first time through.
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All in all I just don't think there was a point in a port/remake - but I could be wrong. Like if it sells 500,000 copies, I will quite literally shove my foot in my mouth.
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I blame it for the collapse of adventure games :p
"Ok... anything interactive on this screen? No... Anything on this screen? A switch! *click* ...that does nothing... Anything on this screen? No... This one? Hey, another switch! *click* and... nothing..."
Obviously the sales say otherwise, but I think I've made better adventure games in HyperStudio back in middle school... :p
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The remakes are purely for the nostalgia factor. The newer games continued its legacy of having great technology, and usually decent puzzles. Myst IV or V are very different from the original, although many gamers who were late to the party with Myst never got that bitter taste out of their mouths.
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I rented it for PSX for three days when it first came out, and got absolutely nowhere. After spending my childhood playing Sierra games like the Space Quest series, or Dynamix titles like Willy Beamish or Heart of China, I found it absolutely unplayable in a literal sense. It had decent prerendered graphics, but IMO they looked far faker than 7th Guest or Under a Killing Moon, and the game itself was an order of magnitude less interactive than any of them... or even Dragon's Lair.
Sorry, but I played it back then, and by the standards of the time, I really hated it...
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It's the world that makes Myst great. Still pictures aside, it really feels like I'm in the world of Myst when playing. The ambient sound effect and coherent world add a sense of realism missing from many of today's supposedly more realistic games. For example, solve a puzzle in Myst, and you might hear a sound off in the distance but not necessarily know where it came from, whereas a modern game would have to zoom in on the item the puzzle invokes, pan over to the puzzle, and then offer some more telling, obvious flare for when the player solved the puzzle.
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Make sure you have at least 6 inches allotted for your inseam.
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I can see this being a good marriage on the PSP for a time killer, but I wonder what it'll be priced like. $9.99 or $19.99?
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That damn Pumpkin Patch song still gives me the willies.
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Hee... accidental puns...