realMyst: Masterpiece Edition 12+
Cyan Worlds
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- $17.99
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Description
Newly updated realMyst:Masterpiece Edition v2.2 - polished, tuned, and better than ever!
realMyst: Masterpiece Edition is a beautifully updated version of realMYST for today’s Mac computers - celebrating the 20th anniversary of Myst! The models and textures have been reconstructed to provide an amazing graphical experience. The environments have been enhanced to provide dynamic water, weather, lighting, foliage, focus, and more. The interface has been redesigned to provide an enjoyable way to explore for both novices and gamers.
realMyst: Masterpiece Edition - this is not your father's Myst! It’s been 20 years since Myst became your world, and there's never been a better time to revisit the Ages. This newly refreshed and rebuilt version of realMyst is all-things Myst, but amazingly more real. You can explore anywhere, unfettered, and in realtime! Pick your own path through the forest on Myst Island. Listen to the crickets as the sun sets in the Channelwood Age. Relax in the falling leaves in the Selenitic Age. Spin around for a full panoramic tour of Sirrus’ throne room. Seek shelter from the thunderstorm in Stoneship Age.
And If you’ve ever been overwhelmed by realtime 3D - too many controls or too much motion - realMyst has something for you! You have the option to play the game just like the original Myst - with a simple point and click! Point where you want to go - click the mouse and you move through the world seamlessly to the new location. As a tribute to Myst’s 20th anniversary we’ve also added the original Myst images when you play in this Classic mode. Hold down the shift key and the original Myst image pops up, so you can see the difference and fondly remember that early Myst experience.
We’ve added plenty of new features to enhance and assist you on your journey. So whether you’re visiting Myst for the first time or you want to remember the first time - there’s never been a better reason to lose yourself and let the surrealistic Ages of realMyst become your world.
Features...
- All the original Myst Ages plus bonus Rime Age
- Full Myst gameplay and interaction
- Dynamic environments - rippling water, falling rain, waving trees & grass
- Advanced graphic effects like bloom, blur, depth of field, etc.
- Day and night - watch sunsets and sunrises, or explore at night
- Flashlight - for exploring dark nights or dark corners
- Haunting Myst music score and dynamic 3D sounds
- Classic Point & Click navigation option - just like original Myst
- Free roam interface option - standard navigation controls
- Zip Mode in classic navigation - hold down to keep walking
- Auto quality option - checks your frame rate and auto-adjust your quality
- Interactive Guides - illustrates how to interact with objects
- Bring up original Myst images to compare and reminisce
- Bookmark feature to save & restore progress
- Auto-save to insure you pick up where you left off
- realMyst Hint Guide - get past that one puzzle that's got you stumped
Minimum System Specs...
- MacOS - 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
- Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz
- 4 Gig RAM - 3 Gig Disk Space
- 512 MB SM 3.0 compliant video card
Recommended System Specs...
- MacOS - 10.9 (Mavericks)
- Intel Core i7, 2.66 GHz
- 8 Gig RAM - 3 Gig Disk Space
- 1 GB SM 4.0 compliant video card
What’s New
Version 2.2.0
Over 400 fixes and improvements in this update!
Most are art related: textures, materials, meshes, animations, lighting and shaders.
A few small gameplay bugs fixed.
Ratings and Reviews
General Notes and Technical Issues
First, a technical issue: While I was using Yosemite OS, the application stopped running and wouldn’t even open up. I resolved the issue by upgrading to el Capitan OS, deleting the existing application and then downloading a new copy. So far it seems to be working.
General Notes: This is a wonderful update to the original Myst, with all the old puzzles intact and a few new animations added along with the bonus age of Rime. It can be a little choppy, but that is less important to me than the wonderful feeling of once again stepping into Atrus’ Library, the eerie sounds while traversing the Selenetic Age, or the chill of looking through Sirrus’ telescope in the Mechanical Age. Long-time fans will appreciate most of the new graphics and the freedom of movement as they revisit familiar Ages, while new players can finally experience this revolutionary game on modern computers.
It’s good to be back on Myst. Some advice to new players: Tread carefully in these Ages, and examine EVERTHING! Take care.
Works like crazy
I’ll start off by saying that yeah, I can see this game getting choppy if you have the display settings set to maximum and your hardware isn’t set up to handle it. But by adjusting the settings to be in tune with your hardware, well, it works great. Case in point - I installed this on a 13” 2013 Macbook Air, set it up in classic mode, kept the graphics quality and such at midrange…and it’s working very well.
The game itself, well, if you haven’t played it when it was first released 20 years ago then you won’t get what a leap this version represents. Instead of a series of static scenes, the game is rendered real time and there’s animation…for instance, water moves and such. Video quality is also much improved. I like the ability to free roam but honestly…I just stick with classic mode since that’s the way the game plays best (in my opinion).
Enough about looks - the game has that surreal quality about it. At first you aren’t sure what you’re supposed to do, so you just explore. You do have some guidance a ittle ways into the game, but what you think is the goal ends up not necessarily being the goal later on. In other words, it isn’t just puzzle solving. There is exploration of, well, ethics and such too. And that’s aside from the sometimes devious nature of the puzzles, where part of the puzzle is trying to figure out what the puzzle actually is.
It’s a very good game, with an imaginative storyline that has held up over the years. It’s great.
Best release since the original
Looks good, better than all the other subsequent releases since the original (the original still looks better to me) It has two navigation moods. One like the original game (step by step, aka sequential frames like hypercard stack) the second like a real first person player game, like in a Unity3D engine. It’s still quirky to navigate, but I think it’s a non issue. The graphics have a few minor artifact, which are comon in most 3D game engines. I haven’t been through the whole game yet. I imagine there are new effects and animations to see. Thanks for the upgrad.
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Information
- Seller
- Cyan Worlds, Inc
- Size
- 1.9 GB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.10.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2014 by Cyan, Inc. All rights reserved.
- Price
- $17.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.