Grimbeard - Myst (PC) - Review
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1. I am not a gamer. 2. Back in the day I bought a copy of MYST. 3. Today (Oct 2021) I pulled it out of the basement, put it on an old 500mhz IBM 300PL and played it again. 4. I still didn't get very far...but I did MUCH better than the last time I played (in the 90's). 5. Today I ALSO ordered a used copy of "Riven" for a total of $8.50 from Ebay (the version with 5 CD's). Interesting day...I ended up here.
I remember a few videos ago, you mentioned that you were more or less homeless at the moment and since you had to initally record this video in your car, I'm guessing you still haven't found a permanent place of residence. Which is strangely upsetting to me, despite the fact that I've never even met you. I guess that's the effect you have on your viewers. Through your humour, your openness and your raw fucking talent, you've built a connection with your fanbase that I've never really seen before in such a relatively small channel.
I can safely say that most of us on here want to see you succeed and to be happy, which is in stark contrast to practically everyone else I watch on here who is basically 'some guy' I couldn't give less of a fuck about. It seems fucking wrong to me that anyone with your talent would have to sleep rough a single day of his life, so if things aren't great at the moment, you should know that you have several people on here who genuinely love you. I know I'd want to give you a hug if I met you in real life for how much your videos have been a comfort to me over the years. Anyways I'm sorry if a lot of this message sounded corny, but I guess I just wanted to say thank you, and I really hope everything works out for you. Mind yourself, my friend.
Inside My Strange Place
Well said. I just stumbled on to his chan recently and i’m very much enjoying it. Fantastic content.
Wish i could impact him for the better in some way
Hearting your comment without a reply seems very passive, this deserved a better response from him.
Jon Bourgoin really?
A lot of what was said was very personal.
Maybe he feels uncomfortable talking about his situation.
Maybe he just doesn’t know what to say.
I don’t think expecting a response is a fair judgement.
@@jonbourgoin182 what could he even say i would not say nothing either
Well... I think it is part of the intended charm. Think of it as a joke, a persona. If I was Grim Beard, I would heart he comment for the intent. But also check online on how to protect against stalkers. But hey, that is just my reaction. And as of yet, I have not been stabbed to death by people who have an unknown relationship with me.... take that how you will.
I've lost my joy for almost everything, except your videos. I've been rewatching them lately. They always make me smile and they're a great distraction when I feel awful. I'm sorry if this sound odd, but honestly, thank you man. Keep it up.
I doubt you're the only one ^^
Thanks for the videos, man - I keep recommending you to everyone I know.
Quality, original, entertaining content - much like this game you're doing your own thing at a time when most RUclipsrs just care to try and copycat the top of the food chain.
Keep it up!
That’s really sad. Jesus.
You feel any better? I hope you’ve gotten out of that slump.
I see these comments constantly, almost cliché at this point
@@ded2thaworld963 nothing is a cliche when it's happening to you
Okay, but no one noticed that @ 2:54 Grim perfectly synched his commentary over the moving lips of the dog character's portrait? Subtle and flawless, as ever. Well done.
Whoa
Yea, I liked that one too 👏🏻💪🏼
Game is good. Game is good. Game is good. Game is good. Game is good. Game is good.
Comment is bad
The amount of knowledge you collectively have on Video game history is very impressive to me.
I've actually cited your video on "Harvester" as a source in one of my essays questions in college concerning if video games (and media in general like film books, television, ect) contributes to increased violence in our society. I really appreciate how you speak not just from the heart but by backing up your point with logic and historical context to call out how bullshit some arguments are.
Keep up the fantastic work dude you're making quality content here.
Is that essay anywhere online? I'd love to read it.
That ending made me really emotional for some reason, about what games are about, and all that. Thanks for your videos Grimbeard, for your ideas, for your unique perspective, for sharing all of that. Somehow it makes me feel better, always when I watch a video you put out, somehow takes me back to all these times when I was playing these games, and even titles I did not play, it feels special. Hope you keep up the good work, dude, and hope everything is going as well as it can (which sometimes is not enough, but sometimes there are things that are enough for us to keep going, your videos are for me, so thanks again.).
I appreciate you covering the release history of Myst, the *Mystory* if you will.
Your content makes me produce serotonin
Holy shit, I remember Freddie Fish and the Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds... that and Pajama Sam were more formative than I should probably admit
No way man, they are quite good games to have your child play honestly. I bought a few for my Son because comparatively they stimulate his brain in ways other games wouldn't.
Great.. new Grimbeard. Now I gotta re-watch all your content again. ❤
90s PC game reviews and a KMFDM sticker? You have earned my sub, sir.
Thanks for all the content you are providing. You have one of the most unique takes on the critique genre with a really eerie atmosphere and personality. I also gotta thank you for helping me discover a bunch of new great music!! Keep it up man
-PastaAlfredo
When my boy is uploading, the day is just got 10 times better.
How did such a fantastic channel go under the radar (and my radar)
Grim boy your videos are the only ones in my sub feed I get excited to watch. Rn I'm watching 5 hours before I need to get up for school.
I remember having this game, but never finished it.
Kind of preferred point and click adventure games like Monkey Island.
Yes man! Me 2 :-)
I didn't play Myst (with any real attention or dedication) until last year. I loved the puzzles for being in that twilight zone of believably strewn about and immersive, but being all goofy levers and entry panels and things that are VERY video gamey. Perfectly dreamlike. After playing it I was like, "oh shit, I see the DNA of this game EVERYWHERE." And idk if it's been done better. Making the puzzles more involved takes away from the atmosphere... Adding more direction or story comes off as tacky unless you're going all-in... Cutting out the filler makes the levels feel like obstacle courses instead of places... It's like, soon as a game refines one of those elements, it no longer serves the same emotional function as Myst.
So I'm surprised you pointed out how much this game has aged and been topped since. I don't point that out as if it's an inconsistency or something, just wanted to share my perspective as a newly converted Cyan Solider on the frontlines of the pro-Myst culture war
Have you played Riven?
@@miguelbranquinho7235 Yup! It's a brilliant game-one of the best I ever played. It goes all-in on setting and forsakes traditional puzzling (mostly) to create one of the best video game places ever. But since it has so few puzzles, it's not really... fun? It's more meditative.
This might he a cop-out, but I can't see recommending it ABOVE Myst-it's both its own beast _and_ reliant on your expectations from Myst. You gotta play both!!
Myst III and IV, on the other hand... They're the first Myst but bigger, more elaborate, with richer settings and animated backgrounds...! And end up being Myst but overwrought and tedious . And other first-person Myst-style adventure games seem focus on having a bigger stories at the cost of atmosphere or more traditional point and click puzzles... I don't think there's a Super Mario Bros. to Myst's Pac-Land, I guess.
@@cantrip7 I personaly hate Myst IV, terrible puzzles and retcons a lot of stuff for no reason. Myst and Riven is where it's at.
Falling silhouette man is Atrus. "As I fell into that fissure..." My parents got me this on PC for my 11th birthday. I have never received a greater gift. This game was my life. The music and atmosphere particularly.
My cat likes this video. She loves when you move the cursor around. Apparently, even cats can enjoy Myst. 🐈
Yes! I voted for this one. So excited. I played this game with my mom when I was a kid
Thanks for voting, buddy ❤️
Wholesome.
I have been coming back to the unboxing segment many times, never fails to make me laugh and happy.
Thank you xx
Holy fuck.
A game I actually played.
Also, Glad to see the return of the First Person camera. I missed the crazy little bits you did with that.
Your videos deserve so much more attention, you clearly put some serious effort in, keep it up!
I had just finished watching all your video, this is too good to be a coincidence
I been watching 👀
Fuck I need to burn my house again and start running in the forest! This is the third time only this year!
May this year bring you over the 100k sub mark. We all know you deserve 10 times that.
YES I HAVE BEEN CRAVING THIS ONE
INJECT IT RIGHT INTO MY EYES
Myst fanatic here. We still exist. Riven is one of the greatest games ever made and blows Myst out of the water, plus it was released on Halloween.
I only remember playing Myst for a very short time and feeling incredible lonely and lost to the point that i had to stop playing it because it made me more scared then "horror" games. That being said i was a child and dont remember anything else about it
yo dude, thanks for keeping up the good work. you are probably going through some rough shit right now and it always makes me happy to see you still put out some goodies for us either way.
Great review as always man. The unboxing was so nostalgic and the video of course is informative and hilarious as always.
That abrupt cut of the rimshot for the Bethesda gag made me snort out loud.
Having only discovered this channel from... probably Mandalore's Pathologic vid, I think... I've been going through your work, skipping around to games I've played, my good sir, and, while I haven't checked out *everything* yet, my only issue it feels kinda weird looking at the time differential between your 2014 work and the time you put into them *now*. Fantastic work all the way around, though, and I am beyond impressed!
Youre channel is criminally undersubscribed to. Love your content and humor, really enjoy seeing you branch out with a Myst video. keep up the good work.
Such a joy to see you cover that behemoth!
Jeez, seems I suddenly got old when I wasn't looking. Floppy disks, discs, booklet covers, game boxes with extras, myst... I remember looking at it in the game store, y'know, when you went to a store to buy games, I'd have bought it, preowned of course, I'd pull out the manual and excitedly read through it before I got home. Then when I got home, I'd install the game and pray that my pc could run it.
Urg, where did it all go... what, er, ah yes, myst. Great video, good job!
Love your stuff man! Keep them coming!
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As a professional screen/digital squeegee printer, the Gildan reference was hilarious.
Maybe they at least printed on Port & Co. Anything but Hane's t-shirts are tolerable.
This is the first time I've ever heard anyone reference Pepper's Adventures in Time, and I love you for it.
I've been aware of Myst for a long time (since the Windows 95 days) but never picked it up for tried it. I think I'll crack into it sometime soon. Thank you for posting this video, I really like your style dude- and your incorporation of analog video into your set. Kudos bud
Ah yes, never have I gotten a game or album cover-book back into its jewel-case undamaged...
You can literally play it from the disc through ScummVM on modern windows. You just click "add game" and navigate to the disc drive. You can also just copy the files into a file on your computer and set that as the game location, but then you wouldn't get that slight taste of how sluggish the game was whenever you moved. And that's with modern disc speeds.
Just found your channel. Subscribed and love the content. Humorous, intelligent and entertaining. Great job with your content. Thank you.
Dad bought this for us to play years and years ago. We didnt get very far but remember thinking the tree people were such a weird,cool idea. Just bought the realMyst deal on GOG for that random Valentines sale so diving back in soon!
Myst was the first game I ever played if I recall correctly. It's certainly one that I still look back on with fondness since I was very young. (I was born in 1992 and I was 4 when I played it.) I remember being mesmerized by the environments and I loved the eerie feeling it gave me because it did incredibly well at emphasizing solitude and always gave me a sense of tension. It's also a wonderful example of why I also greatly miss instruction booklets with games, be they PC or console.
Dude I was just going back down the rabbit hole of Myst lore just last week. Very cool coincidence. It's fascinating to look back on. Really want to get Obduction when there's a sale.
Look at all them patrons! You're making it man!
I been blessed :p
@@GrimBeard it's earned and deserved
Amazing video man. You have some serious talent and I can’t wait to see what else you’ll make.
I hope you never change your intro.. Unless you're not happy with it anymore. But it has my favorite part of my favorite song from you. I love it.
What's the song? I tried looking it up from his records but couldn't find it.
@@SinaelDOverom Grimbeard - Lesser Harm
I remember my aunt telling me she was playing this, at a time where Shadow of the Comet and Beneath a Steel Sky were grabbing my attention, and I remember thinking oh, that must be a non game, something that appeals to stuffy adults. I think that moment shaped the next 20 years of my gaming life, to the point where it's jarring to hear first person adventure games being named as such. I do enjoy your content though, even though I'd never play or have played 90% of the games shown. Just goes to show it's character over content. Great video.
Did you grow to be a stuffy adult in the end? Or do you consider yourself still a child at heart?
@@methebee I think I'm a bit of both, though I'm a bit more adventurous with game genres these days
I’ve played the Myst series first time ever last year, they soared to the top of my list of favourite games!
Loom was a great game. It was very inventive and is unique.
This is exactly what I wanted for Christmas
Just know if you ever feel doubts about your career that your videos make some people's lives better like some people go day by day just waiting for you to upload I know one of the few things I look forward too is one of your videos after a long hard day thank so much from the bottom of my heart for making life suck less❤️
o kurwa!
Can't believe I just stumbled across this channel while searching out Phantasmagoria videos. You deserve so much success! Judging from the comments on some other videos, it seems your sub count is rising fast (10k 4 months ago, 14.1k now?) so I hope you're about to blow up. The production value and amount of research you put into your videos is terrific!
You are sweet
aw, thanks :)
One of my first computer games. Came with the fully illustrated walthrough. You know, back when games were physical. Now you pay the same price for less.
Myst was the first game I ever had as a child. Looking forward to this!
the background music that starts at conclusion really scratches my brain some kind of way good lord
Becket callback so good. I wondered about that "werewolf" reference
I read somewhere that the falling dude is supposed to be Atrus, not the player.
This is correct. The ending of the first book starts right where the game begins which explains it.
I step on him
"probably not throw all of it away"
_has flashback to getting Earthbound for Christmas and tearing the big yellow box in half, throwing it and the manual in the trash and rushing to my SNES_
Ehhh its my fav goth boi
Jesus i didn't know so many adventure games existed
Adventure games are my favorite LP's to watch. Really shows a lot of the players character when he/she is solving a puzzle. High octane games don't really give you a lot of the persons character in my opinion.
@@bellystraw I would get mad if i would watch an adventure LP. seeing the solution while the player is struggling makes me scream at my screen
@@anonvideo738 That's part of the fun for me. Seeing someone struggle and their way to deal with backtracking and such. Also I'm not good at puzzle games so I'm often slower than the player
@@bellystraw you couldnt be more wrong. High octane games bring a lot of personality out of people.
I'm pretty sure someone's posted this ages ago (ha!), but the falling shadow dude? That ain't you. That's Atrus. The opening FMV is depicting Atrus' fall through the Star Fissure, back on Riven. You're quite literally only ever really billed as "The Stranger", and the best you could infer from other games like Uru is that the Stranger might've been a native to New Mexico and Carlsbad's more specific area, circa the late 1880s. Miller and Wingrove worked on "The Book of Atrus" and intentionally misled fans by setting the Cleft in an unspecified North African desert, mostly because they wanted to protect the narrative hooks they'd put in place in Uru.
For context, work on Uru was underway while "The Book of D'ni" was being worked on.
The only titles that cast the player as someone other than the initial Stranger were Myst V: End of Ages, and Uru - where you technically played a modern-day self-insert.
Wow, why have I not been recommended your channel yet. Definitely subscribing! 7/10
"You can't fly a rocket with a piano."
Wanna bet?
Mr. Elton John begs to differ
@@jacob_swaggerz Myst ain't the kind of place to raise your kids...
Senza could.
"You can't fly a rocket with a piano."
"COWABUNGA IT IS"
".....I couldn't shake the feeling that this was some fan creation, but it's still fine. Like, I'm probably underselling it, and it's probably the best version." This little part talking about RealMyst is just one gem among many in what I consider a review that quintessential, MustWatch Grimbeard. I laughed my junk off NUMEROUS times throughout this bad boy! (And by "junk" I just mean I laughed pretty hard. It's probably important to clarify just to put minds at ease)
My parents were sooooo excited to buy my brothers and I this game, when everything else we played was shareware. Because it was nonviolent. They tried to delete Wolfenstein, but they only succeeded in deleting the shortcut in the primitive pre-windows DOS manager UI thing.
Visually it made a huge impression on me, showing up as an influence in my terrible teenage artwork. Never finished the game though.
Holy crap thank you for reminding me that Companions of Xanth is a thing. Demons Don't Dream was my first Xanth book as a kid, so I always wanted to try the game version.
Yay! My favorite psychopath reviewer is back =)
Hey, in your intro, a girl at a table gets shot in the face...what's that from??
The Darkness 2 👍
@@GrimBeard Thank you! I've been wondering that forever lol
Dude,this is some good shit. Also,I really want to know what is the song that plays during the conclusion act(31:57) if you(or anyone)care to point out,I love the vibe.
I agree that Outer Worlds has too much inventory fiddling. Especially since I am a hoarder in rpgs and compulsively pick up everything.
All of the items were fun and interesting until you realise they are all the same 5 things with 100 different models.
"I KNOW THAT BECKETT ISN'T A WEREWOLF"
first time on your channel, i will totally check the rest of your videos.
I love these games that have logic based puzzles or just decisions that I can never solve without googling what to do
This and Titanic Adventure out of Time were pretty trippy for the time.
I wish I had such manly arms :(
We back
We out here 🖤
“You this is is merely cover art...but you’d be a C785!(“ best line ever.
Love you bro. Have you thought about maybe taking on Planescape Torment?
Again, loooooveee you
I gotta get around to that one, yeah 🤔
Love ya
Myst was my world at fourteen, and I spent far too much time simply wandering around and soaking in the setting after finishing it. It's clunky and slow in many places (the only puzzle I absolutely needed help on was the damnable labyrinth because screw labyrinths), but I still return to it once in every few years to toy with it for a bit. Riven was godly though, and my strongest memories of the series tend to come from that madhouse of tram rides and numerology.
Finally a channel representing us goth gamers
Video is good.
"You can't fly a rocket with a piano!"
Perfect.
But let me share with you a story my newfound subscribed channel (also excellent channel you got here), when I was but a young boy, one of my first games on the PC back when the age of Windows 3.1 was upon us- was in fact "Myst." Also "Rayman," loads of bootleg floppies with random DOS games, and "Crystal Caves" one of my personal favorites. I never played Doom till years later, I missed out on everything else, but I did play Myst.
My mom passed away in October of last year and this is one of the only games that we worked together to solve the puzzles on. Myst was absolutely the first thing I'd ever seen like it before, and though it was not quite as revolutionary as some might've hoped, it was enjoyable for what it was. Of course going back now, I can't remember why I ever played it to be quite honest, but it did capture that child-like imagination I once had. In my opinion, adventure games were kind of on their way out at the time, I don't even remember anything after Kings Quest, and if anyone remembers they did start to get stale after a time (plus the market was over saturated with them and they couldn't compete or adapt to the changing technology around them.)
So if anything Myst was kind of a "swan song" really. Maybe it deserves just as many accolades as it does scorn?
I remember playing this game in the 60's lol.
Grimm, did you ever play or can you review Meat Puppet and the Dark Eye (the claymation horror game) for Pc? Those are other 90s horror gems
I was going to leave a like on your video when I realised I already did it God knows when and I'm just watching and loving it again.
Good Outer Worlds review!
Awww yeah more GrimDaddy.
myst WAS a gateway. to Mystcraft, the best mod in existence
Please keep making videos.
Landed here looking for a LGR on Myst, was not disappointed 🙏🏻
you know . for someone who never heard of Myst . this is so informative .
Grimdad: Uploads new video
Me: Click dat shit
Have you played any of The Room games? If you like creepy point and clicks I think it might be for you! The VR one really put me in my happy goth place.
Remember playing this as a kid and it being to hard for me, but I was wowed by the graphics.
Oh brotha, I had to pause at 1:10, I couldnt even finish the first book, the beginning was so intriguing but then wow, like SO much time passes. Damn. I with you
Now here's a question: Is Myst one of the quintessential boomer games?
D1 Halberd Gnoll yeah, Myst and Tetris
Nah that would be Doom. Myst is the quintessential Nerd Dad game.
Apart from Silent Hill games, probably review Planescape Torment?)
The game is stored in the disc.