Any first time Riven players?

[grilledcheese]

I've played the original and I'm enjoying the remake so far! Any first-time players here? Curious what your impressions of it are like in 2024!

[joridiculous]

Played the original. I dont recognise or remember anything so far. Might as well
call it 1st time

[TheBrad]

Originally posted by joridiculous:

Played the original. I dont recognise or remember anything so far. Might as well
call it 1st time :taloslol:

Exactly the same here. I was a little afraid i would remember a lot in the new version and that it would make the game less fun. The opposite is now the case :)

[Blood Wolfe]

I played the original, but haven't picked this up yet. Glad to hear you played the original and are enjoying the remake. I may have to pick this up soon then.

As for the other comment, I also don't remember the majority of the original so it would probably feel mostly like a first time again too lol. Who knows though, memories may flood back as I am playing through.

[JanschD]

I played both Myth and Riven for just a few minutes before, thus I basically knew nothing of what's going on. I didn't enjoy the controls at all. Being able to freely walk around like in almost any other first person game is a huge improvement for me. I finished the Myth remake and I also enjoy this Riven remake so far.

[RangerXT]

I've only played the Myst remakes (realmyst masterpiece edition and the 2021 one) and I'm loving riven so far. I was going to play the original but held off for the remake and the wait was absolutely worth it

[FuzzyJuzzy]

Originally posted by RangerXT:

I've only played the Myst remakes (realmyst masterpiece edition and the 2021 one) and I'm loving riven so far. I was going to play the original but held off for the remake and the wait was absolutely worth it

You should absolutely play the original as well. It has different puzzles and some aspects are actually better than the remake.

[aaayau]

I played the original 5CD version, the iPad version, and also the Steam version.
Damn I remember all the landscape and every objects. Fortunately I forget how to solve most of the puzzles.

[Draxuss]

Originally posted by joridiculous:

Played the original. I dont recognise or remember anything so far. Might as well
call it 1st time

[verjigormm]

I've played all the MYST games except this one. Back in the day, I got the DVD version as part of a bundle ... and I didn't have a DVD-ROM drive. When I bought a new PC a few years later that had a DVD drive, Windows updates had broken the game and I'd lost interest by the time GOG re-released them years later. I've played the first remake, now's the time to finally dig into this one!

[ikeaman]

First time here, played myst as a kid and obduction and firmament recently and (replayed myst in real 3D). Riven is great ! I always heard people say it was their favorite cyan worlds game but didn't want to play the old point and click version and waiting seemed to have been the right choice !

[RangerXT]

Originally posted by FuzzyJuzzy:

Originally posted by RangerXT:

I've only played the Myst remakes (realmyst masterpiece edition and the 2021 one) and I'm loving riven so far. I was going to play the original but held off for the remake and the wait was absolutely worth it

You should absolutely play the original as well. It has different puzzles and some aspects are actually better than the remake.

I will one day. I actually got a copy of the ps1 port of all things on ebay for pretty cheap a while back so i might go all in on the old school experience

[zero254]

Never played it but I may be picking this up.

[Bear Wolfemann]

I played all of the originals, including URU and the Myst and RealMyst remakes, as I'm an ancient and badly scarred 45 yr old, I suppose I should really learn to stop picking my nose! (a tip of the hat to "monkey island" another favourite point n click adventure") I played Riven first, before I had even heard of Myst, on my brand "NEW" play station (before they had numbers after them, during ancient times)
I found Riven back then to be nothing less than a MASTERPIECE!, I later got Myst just out of curiosity, and boy, was it a graphical step back, interlaced images, and garish colors and VERY basic graphics had almost made it unplayable, however I had a... er, a "friend" who reintroduced Myst on a far better platform and I found it to be infinitely better. After a GREAT MANY years later and after FINALLY getting married to my... "friend" (thanks to marriage equality) we BOTH still love the games.
We've even found the novels based on Myst (written by Rand Miller, who plays Atrus in all games) very entertaining, however, that being said, me and my husband will always feel the best games to be RIVEN and MYST III EXILE (featuring the actor Brad Douriff as Saavedro [he played Sutter, the psychotic 'Betazoid / ex-maquis' crew member in Star Trek: Voyager, the mad scientist who got 'smushed' by the alien queen, in Aliens IV 'Resurrection', and ex murdering monk in Babylon 5] and many other things!)
Tho, something is to be said for the remakes, It feels like the days when I first started courting my "friend" all over again (okay, he WAS my 'boyfriend' back then it WAS 1997 after all, and I had just come 'out' as a confused and angry bisexual guy. Life can be a VERY COMPLICATED struggle for some of us!)
Computer / Video games like MYST and RIVEN helped us escape the monotony and inequality of our 'real' lives and experience worlds that weren't there to judge, suppress or condemn us for being who and what we are.
Sorry if this seems a bit of a rant, It's just, this Riven remake has brought back a lot of memories and feelings I had thought long gone and lost, 'cos we're essentially playing something old and new for the first time. So, I, sorry, WE recommend them ALL if you're a Myst fan like us, and make your own special memories.
The chronology is:
MYST,
RIVEN THE SEQUEL TO MYST
MYST III 'EXILE'
MYST IV 'REVELATIONS'
MYST V 'END OF AGES'
URU / URU 'PATH OF THE SHELL' (EXPANSION)
MYST "REMAKE"
MYST "REAL MYST" and now RIVEN "REMAKE"

[Gangleri]

I played the ps1 version as a 10 yo child. But only one or two islands because a disc was missing. Only remembered the rotating room and that's it. Loved this game so much, it looks stunning and the artdesign is just peak.

[Yashiby]

I only got a couple hours into the old version of the game and was hoping there would be an improvement on one thing in particular- pixel hunting. I really love the vibes and problem solving in this world, but things start feeling really tedious if you're missing one little thing to progress so you start sprinting around the world, clicking on everything. I'm not talking about missing something conceptually, im talking about litterally not seeing something. Just a button press or something that highlights interactable objects could fix this but I didn't see this in the demo. I ran into this again trying to enter the rotating room from the lower level in the beginning of the game until I finally clicked the latch on my 5th visit.