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Some GMs like to plot out everything in great detail which necessarily means you can't go off piste, they need you to go into the tunnels under the castle with the torch because they've worked out exactly what will happen when you do.

It reminds me of a phenomenon which is broadly disliked in tabletop Role Playing. Still, back then I could safely assume anything that looked that good had nothing behind the facade, today it's harder to guess.

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I wouldn't have built Myst because to me it seems pointless, why not just make a movie about this? Or a picture book? But clearly lots of people enjoyed it. More inexcusable is the aesthetic choice to do this now, when you can afford to have decent graphics and let players do whatever they want but designers often inexplicably decide to curate the experience to the point where you might as well just watch somebody else's play. Myst got there first and did it better than everyone else, so it gets the blame for something that was inevitable. Once a generic animation and a wall of text was no longer acceptable from a production-value stance, these games were stripped of their charm, and all you were left with were charmless puzzle games with some window-dressing. This meant anything the designer anticipated could be interacted with, because the cost of writing that text was low (particularly with Sierra's near lack of editing and playtesting). Most of the random actions that you could take to interact with the world in the Sierra games resulted in a fairly generic animation and a wall of text.

The level of interactivity was just too little to be convincing.Īs TFA says, a lot of people blame Myst for the death of the adventure game, but it was already trending that way in '93 as graphics improved. I felt that way for about 10 minutes, after which it felt like visiting a Hollywood set looks great but it's just a facade.

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