Let's Play Myst III - part 1 - An interrupted reunion
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Ten years after the events of Myst and Riven, Atrus and the Stranger meet again. But, as usual, not everything goes entirely smoothly.
Skip the prologue: 7:53
I return from my hiatus with what is probably (actually, make that "definitely") the most requested Let's Play on my channel! I apologize for the long delay, but it was unavoidable due to various real life reasons.
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Hi Sven. I don’t know if you still read comments 9 years after posting these videos, but when I am struggling with life I watch through your let’s plays and it’s like putting on a comfy jumper. Thank you for all the work you put into these let’s plays.
how do they carve the padlocks from the stone if the stone is unbrakable?
@@ghdfhsfnfgbadfhsfh They don't have to because nara's not really rock; it's manufactured and can be extruded into any shape they need, like 3D printing.
It's just my take on it, it's not official. I don't think the stranger could've been involved in the rebuild though as he doesn't appear in the Book of D'ni and more importantly, this is clearly the first time the stranger meets Catherine since Riven, and the first time he visits Tomahna.
A chance encounter at the first visit to the cleft may seem unlikely, but that was mainly done to keep the story short. :)
A long time we've waited for this, the day that was forth told to never come. But our wait ends today, we join our fellow travelers and watch Sven as he plays Myst III in only the way he can. Thank you for doing this game.
Myst 3 has, in my opinion, the best music of the series. The main theme gives me chills every time.
I love your introduction! It's perfect!
Agreed! Sven is a good player and a great copy-writer! My only criticism in all his work has been that he's a little too "meta", but then I like to be immersed in a story, whether I'm playing or watching someone else play. But I love watching his vids.
This game is only in 480p. Scaling it up to 720p or 1080p would mean scaling by a non-integer number and would therefore only reduce quality. It would also increase the video size and processing time drastically, for literally no benefit. It will look the same as just displaying this video full screen.
I upload games in whatever resolution is best for them. This game's native resolution is 640x480, so that's what I upload it as.
your Catherine shaking the baby comment! 😂 reminds me of a co-worker many years ago, when I was pregnant with my daughter, gave me an old vhs tape entitled ‘Never Shake a Baby’ and crossed out never to write ALWAYS - lol, she had a great sense of humour .. anyway, here I am in 2021, replaying all the Myst titles and I’m really loving your let’s plays - very well done and greatly appreciated ❤️
If there could be a school based off of Myst and all the other games Rand and Robin would be principals and Sven would be a professor! As usual Sven well done! Every single Myst series walk through I grow even more impressed.You NEVER disappoint.
+lovemeg5186 I would attend that school.
This game is only 640x480. The only way to make it "HD" is to artificially scale it up, which I don't like doing.
I could do that, but the game would still only be 640x480. You will have to invent a time machine, go back to 1996 (or whenever development on this game started), and ask Presto Studios to make the game in HD. That's the only way you'll get me to upload it that way.
I love the story you told at the beginning. (the prologue)
With automatic captions, the Ages of Myst are translated as follows:
Somatic, Stewardship, Comical and Channel Would.
Yes, thats exactly how I will always remember them...
dilandau3000, by far the best let's player on youtube.
AVISynth and VirtualDub. None of which changes the fact that this game is in 640x480, and scaling cannot increase quality regardless of the software used.
Well, now we know why Sirrus and Achenar were nuts; Catherine wouldn't stop shaking them as babies!
Then you are free to watch those instead. ;)
Pretty awesome intro with that prologue of yours, very good, I initially thought it was read from one of the manuals or something until you said you came up with it.
You're almost more knowledgeable about these ages than Atrus himself. I'm impressed.
This is the best thing to ever show up in my subscriptions. Ever.
I loved the playthrough of Riven, so I'm very excited about this one. Great work!
Oh wow, you *wrote* that intro? Amazing! Are you a writer?
Oh my god. I've been waiting so long for this! Thanks so much!! :D
beautiful. Long live 420p (and low resolution in general)!
I like your intro, your theory on what could have happened after riven, the way you took your urn avatar, put on atrus's shirt, and called it atrus, and your thing about yeesha thinking she's the grower might be the result of being shaken as a kid.
also, I wonder if spain knew about this place.
She's not, she's just too determined to give GLADos or Wheatley the satisfaction of a response.
This is a very nice introduction, evocative not only of the game's own narration but also of the authors that I think influenced it (like H. Rider Haggard and H. G. Wells).
A while back, around the time I was doing Let's Play Uru Live. I slightly rewrote it (making it a bit shorter, among other things) especially for this video, however.
We've had an internet outage at our household for almost a week. Today, we're finally back online and what comes to greet me? The first part of Your long-awaited Myst III: Exile LP. Sometimes, life can be good to me.
You promised to make this something special and You didn't disappoint here, Sven. I wonder, when did You write that piece of fan-fiction You read at the beginning?
I haven't read any of the Myst books. Do they take place in between the games, or are they just novelized versions of the games?
The first novel takes place before the first game, and is about Atrus's youth; it ties heavily into both Myst and Riven. The second novel is set several centuries earlier and details the fall of the D'ni civilization. The third (and last) novel is set in between Riven and Myst 3 and is about Atrus's attempts to rebuild D'ni.
Awesome the. I definitely need to read them.
Welcome back!
I love your non-canon fillter story. There's still no explanation of why Atrus simply left the stranger to fall into the fissure thinking it was safe. That seemed like a real douche-bag move to do in the moment.
He's Back! Wooot! Time for some awesome myst
The next Riven live stream should happen soon. I'll post more info in the next few days.
Lol, Nevar Foget! But no, it is very cool that they included a text like that on the book of Releeshahn since it represents the new beginning of the D'ni.
16:17 actually, some of them might be ink, but the small greenish one on the top shelf on the left is a pepper shaker. You might know that already by this time though because you seem to be quite knowledgeable about the Myst series. Source: mystjourney (dot) com (slash) exile (slash) discoveries (slash) easter-eggs (dot) php
I am so excited for this Let's Play
LOVE that prologue you wrote, Sven.
Looking forward to the tales of Exile, and more reminders of just how bad Sirrus and Achenar were.
Great "Let's Plays". Love the commentary. Thanks.
Awesomely done Sven! Very clever, original and well made. :o)
Omg you wrote a whole little fanfiction ........I was like whoa I don't remember any of this shit and it's cuz it wasn't real !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ok miss creative genius
Strange that you keep referencing Myst IV and Uru, when this is Myst III. [shrug]
I really appreciate that you read the books too! I absolutely LOVE the books!! Never got the chance to look at the tapestries. Always seemed to trigger the invader.
How did you get this game? I have been searching all over the internet and every video game store I can find, but I cannot find this game anywhere.
Perfect introduction ! My english is not that good but you are perfectly comprehensible and intelligible.
i've played myself all Myst episodes, with great pleasure (I was young but i will never forget how fantastic was the experience, certainly my favorites games among all i played !).
I love your "Myst journey". It is so good to revive them through your videos and your speech. I've learn so much details i've missed and i now understand the whole story. How deep it is ! I look at those videos like i read a good adventure book. (and i read a lot :) )
Thank a lot.
I remember the novels published to fill in teh backstory to this game. Its quite an imaginative universe the miller brothers created
Watching Dilandau Let's Plays really is the definite way to experience Myst Games. It's like having the most competent tour guide ever. With a cool accent.
I am sure I wouldn't find the games that engrossing without all the informations and context you give. Looking forward to more, Sven!
Wow. Sven, I can't believe you've started doing this let's play and I actually missed it. Mostly, it's because I was busy this week with other things.Mainly trying to submit an abstract for a physics paper when the deadline was on Friday but I'm still glad to that you've finally gotten around to doing Myst 3.
By the way, how did your PhD go? I take it that you've submitted?
I kinda wish ShadyParadox had also done extra Let'sPlay the Myst series videos. His jokes were kinda lame, but he did a lot of things Sven does NOT do so well.
I Love The Games i played all of them the Music and conzept was so Great ❤️❤️❤️ memories
If I understand correctly, nara combines the properties of diamond and jade (specifically nephrite).
Diamond is the hardest known mineral, but it is relatively brittle, and if you drop a sufficiently large diamond from a sufficiently great height, it can shatter under its own weight. Conversely, jade (or rather, nephrite) is slightly harder than feldspar, but softer than quartz, and extremely tough.
That was actually a rather impressive opening by you. I actually thought it must have been in the manual in the box for the game and that I must have just not read it when I got Myst III. Bravo on your part it was very authentic.
Thanks Atrus, link yourself right over the bottomless crack. I could not have guessed how that one would turn out.
Better than reading a book, better than hearing an audiobook. Your videos are awesome, and they manage to put me in a calm state. And more than i can count, i watch/listen to these videos to help me sleep.
Exile should have started by linking to myst to meet atrus but only finding a note from atrus with a linking book to tomanah
I wonder what would have happened had the Stranger used the linking book to K'veer. Since you can only link from one age to another would the book not have worked or would it take him to an age that looks similar to K'veer?
oh I remember not finding this in stores for ages as a kid,
then finally finding a store that did sell it,
and then my computer being unable to run it because I only had 32 MB of RAM :'(
The pain of the 00's
Love the intro! Is the ten year gap official, or your own addition? I always thought Catherine was pregnant at the end of Riven (watch their body language), presumably with Yeesha. But of course, even if she was pregnant, she could have miscarried or something, then not gotten pregnant with Yeesha until years later.
The ten year gap is official, and based on the (D'ni) years mentioned in various journals. Canonically, the events of Myst and Riven take place in D'ni year 9462 (1806 on our calendar) and Myst III takes place in 9471 (1815).
@@Dilandau3000 Interesting! Wow, I’ve really got to track down those books!
The ideal settings would be native resolution (480p) in YUV 444 to preserve color detail and with a high bitrate to prevent blocking. If the videos were recorded like this and youtube would serve them, then there would be absolutely no reason to upload using a higher resolution than 480p. However, even if you upload a 480p video in this format, youtube will transcode it to lossy YUV 422 and use a low bitrate. Given these constraints, upscaling could indeed produce better-looking results.
My god, it's good to have you back pal! ;D I've been waiting so long for this LP, you should've seen the smile on my face^_^
Nice, cool way to explain the weird gap between Riven and Myst III. It's so poorly explained... or should I say not explained really at all.
Your voice is similar to Tom Hardy =)
Who?
Catherine clearly has no idea what is going on. She states that they moved here after Atrus finished Releshahn, but if that was the case, then when Atrus went to visit J'nanin for inspiration, he would have left behind a Chroma'agana (The age that Atrus and Catherine lived on before Tomahna) linking book. Not Tomahna.
after 11 years and watching the new riven, I come back to this LP, still impressed by your prologue
You are good Mr. Groot. I hope they ask you to write the script when they decide to make the Myst movies.
What I really don't like about this graphical style is how plastic and artificial almost everything looks. Riven looks far more organic. I wonder how that was accomplished.
It's kinda like comparing Jurassic Park with The Phantom Menace. Jurassic Park looks far more organic and real than anything in The Phantom Menace, and yet it was made 6 years prior.
Really strange.
If the story happens in the US, Atrus and Katherine will surely be paid a visit from both the IRS and local government for overdue taxes and building without a permit.
After I watched your Riven 2024 version I came back to here. As your intro is now in my head canon 🤣🤣
It's ok to tell your own version in your lets plays. Why? Because this is you going through the adventure and not the writer.
If I did a lets play of this I'd use something similar to the same game bridging story I usually use.
Sven! You're back! Thank you for getting me so deeply into the Myst universe!
Because the last thing he does in riven is leave you the myst linking book and he says " you know where to find me" then he links to myst and leaves you the book
that is until URU where you learn how they got here.
You know what's funny? I just finished rewatching your Riven Let's Play last night.. today, it picks up with what I finished last night :)
Haha quick call child support on Katherine. Lol
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i can only recommend journeyman project 3. it's a lovely immersive game from presto with the same engine. and the story is great too.
*Squealing like a little girl*
Yay, finally more Myst ^^
The writing on the Releeshahn book is D'ni for "We must not forget from whence we came."
24:59 Atrus's Ark.
maybe atrus was reading treasure island or a story of willam Wallace or beowulf
I'd like to know if it's possible to run Myst III in a windowed mode?
darn! 28 minutes already? i feel like i started the video 2 minutes aggo
Sven, Thank you soooo much for doing these myst series playthoughts. I grew up with these games and they are now a major part of my gaming history. I seriously think that if it wasnt for myst, riven and exile i would have became so obsessed about games. The myst series teached me that a game could be more than just a platformer, it could be a fully immesive world. I seriously think i have a much higher respect for media (movies and games) thanks to the Myst serios. Thanks for making my the LP
It's so great to see you back, Sven. And what a prologue! Like the others here, I had wondered exactly how the Stranger found Atrus again, and your version seemed quite realistic. I especially loved your "I realized the moment I fell into the fissure..." opening line. Looking forward to seeing more of your journey through Atrus's clever conundrums in the days to come. :)
(And on a side note, for those who are interested - I'm just a few videos away from finally being done with my Riven LP!)
i want to see this game with occulus rift support
I second that. The games do leave a bit to be explained and that introduction did that perfectly. I like how the stranger acknowledges that it is quite a surprise that the D'ni are actually from earth. In the games you are just sorta expected to accept it (if you notice at all).
Hi my friend! I recently subscribed and I LOVE your work and how you present your vids. Great work! I am a little confused though. Did you lp,Myst 4 before 3? I got all games now, Myst in several forms, Riven, 3,4,5 and Uru CC. Do you have any suggestion in which order I should play them. So far I have done Myst and Riven. It seems that Uru plays before 3? I‘m confused and in the www there are different meanings as well, not helpful. Please could you give me your opinion, Mr.Atrus? 😃🥂♥️
Thanks and love from Uruguay, Michelle 🇺🇾
I did LP 4 before 3 for reasons that aren't important anymore. The best order to play the games is Myst, Riven, 3, 4, Uru, 5.
If you ever direct any feature length films I'm going!!!!!!! hehe
FINALY
you play my faforite myst game
yes 3 is my faforite
This is kind like a more sophisticated FMV type of presentation. I wonder if they ever attempted to make another Gabriel Knight or Tex Murphy game in this style if that would be cool.
I like this story of yours. Coincidentally, I've been typing a journal for a soon-to-be flash-based game tribute to the Myst series. In short, A mining foreman from 1901 finds a passage into the Great Shaft from his copper mine in Arizona, and three workers follow him. During the Fall, A D'ni inventor named K'nehtis and his wife Moira had escaped to the Age they wrote, 245, and left their book in one of the Eder Tomahnee; when the four humans find this book, the foreman and one of his partners Link, but the second man, as greedy as Sirrus, isn't to be trusted by his foreman. K'nehtis and his wife had linked to Releeshahn and stayed there 50 years prior, but the situation's still not good.
Man... you and Shady pull these games off way too beautifully. It makes me infinitely sad that the well of Myst games for you two to tour us through has about dried up. :c Hopefully something else with as much soul finds its way to your walkthroughs in the future...
I really liked the first-person narration at the beginning, as though the Player Character was reading aloud from his journal. One of the fun parts about Myst is that so much is left to interpretation, so each player will form their own story.
Some of the images at the beginning like the telescope and skeleton I didn't recognize from Myst III. Were these taken from another game like Uru?
Great to have you back Sven. I hope all is well with you in real life and what's awesome to see you do this game. That prologue was excellent it felt like one of those written intros that you read out from the Kings Quests series you have LPed it was that believeable to me. I can't wait for more insight in the next part
Dilandau3000, I give you major props to the prologue that you wrote. Before I knew that, you made it entirely believable that it was written by the Miller bothers. I was convinced immediately that it was. So you really impressed me. Well done sir...well done.
Aha! I was so excited when I saw this! I love the way you structured this video! The introduction is a very nice bridge between the games, and the screen shots are very apt. The detailed explanation of the tapestries was great! I recently finished The Book of D'ni, but haven't yet replayed Exile, so I'm excited to see how much more of Atrus' Releeshahn journal I understand. Can't wait for more!
Moving somewhere and writing the age are different, it probably took Atrus a while to build a house there. It's also possible Atrus carries a few books around at once, in case he loses a linking book directly to his current home, then he could just use the link in a different age.
Not a fan of recasting Catherine like that
Yay!
But at the same time, noooo! This is the last one! Though I guess there's the possibility of you LPing Starry Expanse in...10 years maybe.
It's hard to find because it never got brought over to Steam.
My poor myst collection is so ragtag...
Myst on original disc,Riven for my phone, Exile for Xbox. It's revelation I'm having a hell of a time getting :/
Nice to have you back Sven! And Myst III! There's a game I haven't played in a while. Looking forward to seeing how our newest Myst adventure goes (though, the ending has not yet been written).
Btw Sven, I have always loved the way you commentate the progression of the game as if you were playing it for the first time too :-)
This is probably my favourite game of all time. I loved shadyparadox's let's play, and I'm sure I will love this too. Thank you for doing these!
Hey, Sven, Are you going to do M... oh.