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- Опубликовано: 23 апр 2024
- Thank God You've Returned... Riven is launching simultaneously on flatscreen and VR platforms later this year!
Riven is a meticulous, from-the-ground-up remake of the classic puzzle adventure game Riven: The Sequel to Myst (1997) developed for a new generation of players on Unreal Engine 5.
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Oh, the sound of the mag lev opening... I can't be the only one still acting on impulses to switch CDs every time I hear that sound? Like Pavlov's Dog... Atrus' Stranger?
Please insert Disc 3.
Yes! It is forever ingrained.
And the anxiety that there might be a disc read error in any game that required swapping discs...
After having played the game in its entirety upon its initial release, I repurchased it years later on DVD just for the single disc experience of seamless mag lev rides.
i thought i was the only one who compulsively reaches for the next CD every time 😅😅😂
I'm so glad they kept the audio the same. Those sounds are iconic. I'm looking forward to seeing how they handled the acting (Catherine, Ghen, etc) scenes.
I suspect those are literally the original sounds, and the gameplay is deliberately paced in this trailer to match those sounds. I will be amazed and delighted if they somehow reproduce the original sound effects in 3d spatial audio, but I’m not counting on it.
I hope they give us the option for the original cinematics. I did not like how Atrus was rendered in Myst... It was a bit uncanny imo.
@@ViviFuchs Agreed, but from what I've seen they brought on a professional animator for this one and Ghen actually looks near-photorealistic and more on-par with Metahuman (which is good, because the low-res 2d video won't work for VR mode, where you need to be able to see different angles of the character)
@@ViviFuchs The cinematics in Riven are more integrated into the world than the cinematics in Myst were (in Myst, most cinematics were talking heads on screens or linking panels, but Riven has a lot of scenes where NPCs walk around in the playable area). I'm not sure they would be able to make the original cinematics mesh well with the 3D environments.
@@NYKevin100 You know what, I didn't think of that. You're right, lol.
Its astonishing how insistent my memory is that Riven has always looked like this. My mind made it real, a long time ago. Very much looking forward to exploring this in VR though!
absolutely!
Exactly. Feels like I've *been* there!
Right? At first, my brain was like, "When do we get to see the new one?" And then it clicked. It's funny how our minds work, and how 'real' it seemed even back then.
Back when they were available from Museum Replicas, I got the Moiety dagger. Still have it. I needed a physical souvenir from this place my mind was certain it actually visited.
I mean, the art in the original was honestly not far off of this. Riven is literally ART in the truest sense of the word. Every frame is it's own masterpiece. I'm pretty sure most of it was made by hand, and one frame actually has an easter egg, the artist's son actually snuck his name into one of them, when his dad wasn't looking :3
The tease of ending it right before the maglev ride is killing me.
It was one of my favourite parts of the game when I was still a young boy. It really tickled my imagination. And now feel so privileged to be able to enjoy it once again. With real-time graphics and even in VR!
they had to switch the disc
Same. That's what will make or break the game in my opinion.
EDIT: I already wishlisted the game and will buy it for sure. It's just that this part will influence my enjoyment of the experience A LOT.
Somehow this "new, improved" maglev doesn't seem to be any "mag-lev" at all... Watching these puffs of smoke I just can't help seeing Gru (from "Despicable Me") and his hilarious "rocket car"... And now I just CAN'T unsee it...
PS: _"ending it right before the maglev ride"_ - and that's why they call it a cliffhanger... ;-)
Would be even funny if they just implementa CD change prompt just for the immersion of the original, haha. :D
I'm loving how in the rotating room, the 3d navigation aspect of the game is incorporated rather than just being a gimmick. The way you can see through the portals without clicking on them, and changing the peepholes to windows was a nice touch. It makes it much more immersive than if they did a 1 to 1 reproduction of the original in 3d.
there was already remasters of all of these games so this is basically making everything in either a new engine or from the ground up and taking the assets and improving them
@@HolmeBriannow you can actually step into that world in VR. that's more worthwhile than graphics remaster
@@HolmeBrian Riven never got a remaster until now. It only got a re-release in ScummVM to make it possible to run on a modern PC. It was still the original 1997 release, just with an emulator for compatibility.
@@HolmeBrian Myst is the only game in the series to get remastered multiple times. none of the likes of Riven or even Exile got thiers yet until now for Riven. I sure hope you guys are planning on expanding Exile someday.
@@CreativeSteve69 I kind of doubt Exile will get a remaster/rerelease, unfortunately, given it was made by a different company.
That the textures are so in keeping with the original, and not an order of magnitude more photo realistic, is brilliant
Yeah, was thinking this, how much it looks and feels like the original.
The original art was already quite realistic for it's day just because it was all pre rendered.
@@Veggie13 It was, and they had to downrez it for the computers of the time. That certainly helps but avoiding temptation to redo everything rather than stay true to the original is commendable.
the original kinda looked nicer
That's actually disappointing. In a way, it looks *worse* than the original, because the original had a full raytracing, this doesn't. So if you don't upgrade the textures, you end up with overall a worse outcome.
Honestly this remaster doesn't look all that different from the memory I have of playing this as a kid, goes to show how groundbreaking the visuals were for the time. Thanks Cyan, you're making one of my wildest dreams come true.
It was the first (and only) video game my mother ever bought me. I remember how one evening she came home with this huge carton box she brought back from her trip to Amsterdam. "They told me it's the biggest hit, everybody plays it", she said. To say it was HUGE for a post-soviet kid was to say nothing. Very special memories.
*Sits in maglev*
*Turns it around*
*Flips the lever*
*Starts moving*
*Fade to black*
AAAAUGH, YOU TEASING SODS!
Seriously though, this looks amazing. I can't wait to get properly lost in Riven again for the first time since the 90s.
Bringing a new meaning to "Teaser" trailer. I cannot wait to see the full maglev ride 😁
The underwater rail submarine in the village will probably look amazing too.
Really punch up that audio!
i guess the additional bridge elevation mechanism is just to make sure that no villager can enter the golden dome area. and it seems to me that it is not overly complicated anymore to access the fire marble dome. changes to make riven even more realistic and immersive. bravo!
RIVEN!!!!!!!!!
Looks amazing, but few minute details still missing... For example, the spinning room in the beginning, after half of the rotation animation the room should slow down before stopping (as would be logical physically). Also, when the "cage" rises above the chair in the next section, when the metal beams get to their highest point they should wobble in place after stopping. Both of those points were in the original, and they're an integral part of what made this world feel so real to me... I really hope they're still in the pipeline. In any case, looks incredible, can't wait to see how the final product comes out, and I hope against hope that this time you'll include live footage of actors...
Agreed; I also noticed the rotation of the Gateroom, and thought, "Hmm, that doesn't have quite the same feel and 'weight' as the original animation." It's very close, though.
I noticed these things too! The rotating room doesn’t feel like it has any weight at the moment, in the original it really felt like the machinery was working hard to make it turn.
If you compare it to the original, the new version comes to a stop much more quickly than the original.
Another detail: In the original the maglev has a distinctive "Power up" phase where it lifts off the tracks slightly before moving which don't appear in this version.
Thought the exact same thing too. Even the textures look rushed here, outer delimitation of the spinning room is ugly.
This will look so good in VR
I´m worried about the maglev inducing dizziness tho
Both Myst and Riven were such an inspiration and drove me to explore and develop my creative talents. This totally brings me back and I'm so excited experience the game in it's new glory!! I literally got chills watching this...
It Looks exactly the same the old one, even down to last detail. Beautiful! 👏👏👏
A arte original já era bastante realista para a época
The ending is cruel. I love the ride T_T
Cutting away before the cable car ride was a bit rude, but wow this looks awesome.
So *that's* what the right-hand lever on Gehn's chair does.
There never was a right-hand lever in the original. There was a button, and all it did was "activate" the chair to project an image in the temple. Adding in a lever to activate one of the bridges... that's new. I wonder why that was done...
@@Chessrook44 Ah yes, that's right! Memory playing tricks on me.
The lever to open the door used to be next to the screens themselves. In retrospect, it makes a lot more sense for that lever to be in the left armrest, given the chair's function. First you turn on the recording device, then you open the door to let the villagers in, where they are immediately greeted with your imposing visage.
@@Chessrook44i wonder where the button to activate the imager is?
AH AH Exactly my thoughts!!!! It is beautiful though... cannot wait for it to come out.
I remember seeing a CNN tech segment covering Riven back in 1997, when I was a kid. They showed the "coaster ride" in game. All my friends wanted me to buy Red Alert, so I could LAN with them. I opted for Riven instead... just because of that ride lol.
This was similar to how I ended up playing it! I didn't even know a sequel to Myst had happened, I wasn't in the right circles or reading the right magazines to find out. But in college, one of my professors showed us a maglev sequence, and I was enthralled. I went out and bought it the same day!
Because of that ride I'm still scared of rollercoasters
cyan rides are one of my favorite video game mechanics 🥰🎢
Love the tease at the very end where we get to HEAR the ride between islands but don’t get to SEE it. Well played, Cyan.
The rotating room should not stop so smoothly. Things like this have mass and inertia. You can hear it settle in the audio, but the geometry just completes its linear rotation ramp and stops dead...
there are a lot of things with what look like placeholder animation. the imager cage had a lot of springiness in its motion originally, but just a couple of quick overshoot keyframes here. a lot of things don't align with their sounds either. I'd be surprised if it isn't improved a lot by launch
Most anticipated game in like a decade. Sheesh
I can't describe how happy it makes me that the maglev door still has that same jerky opening motion, like it hasn't been greased in a while
I'm a little concerned at the lack of lurching in a lot of the animations, resulting in unnaturally sudden stops and starts, but at least the small amount of the maglev that was shown did show some lurching (though not as much as the original), as well as the track suggesting they didn't compromise it for VR comfort (I mean this as a good thing to be clear), and the sound after the fade shows that we'll still get the "swoosh" from passing the supports which I'm super happy about as I was concerned they'd omit it as they failed to include such touches in Firmament.
Other than that, I think the effect on the beetles looks a bit "cheap" for some reason, and switching from peepholes to windows makes sense for making the game possible in VR, but is perhaps not as cool. It was also really interesting to see that the layout of things has changed, and I think I actually kind of like it. I particularly like the changes to the "spider" chair.
All in all still super excited about this remake! I hope the animations aren't in their final state here, but either way it's going to be so exciting to get to relive my favorite game in a new way.
Yeah, I've noticed that a lot of animations in their realtime efforts have been lacking in the sort of bounce, anticipation, and follow-through that their pre-rendered counterparts had (my metric for the quality of a Myst remake is how well it reproduces the desk toy in Sirrus's bedroom in Stoneship, and so far they've all been disappointing…). I'm hoping they take a pass at plussing things before release, because the rotating room especially feels weird without the subtle wobble at the end of the rotation to imply the mass of the room settling against the mechanisms.
If you only read praise, you doubt yourself with your criticism...
At last I'm reading something critical.
And I'm a bit more disappointed about the textures than you all are!
In the rotating room, none of the grids are real 3D. All the shadows are painted on 2D maps. That's a huge step backwards! Because of VR performance? Maybe...
But even the textures of the stone walls at the entrance, light and shadow ratios, transitions between the edges...
The same at the entrance to the room with the chair...writing, ornaments, edges on the chair...And then the animation of the bridge, where the water only moves when the bridge moves...I sincerely hope that things like that don't stay that way!
I already didn't like it in Firmament, how pixels moved along the edges of moving objects in the surroundings...On the transport gondola here you can clearly see the mask at the back below the small extension. The unnatural shadow cast by the right track on the upper edge of the foundation when you move towards the gondola.
And in general the unnatural sharpness of all the shadows...
When you sit in the gondola, look at the transition of the edges on the left from the rock to the foundation...it makes no sense! Why does nobody care about such details when creating?
The lever moves and the pixelated unnatural reflection on the windshield...
At least I'm enthusiastic about the fog effects on the water...and the floating line at the bottom just before the fade out...
Even though we played the original Riven in 640x480, the animation sequences and environments felt more real. Agree with you on the “lurching”. There could in general be a bit more motion blur and finesse to the animations themselves. Many in this teaser feel a bit linear or lacking in the realness of the material they portray. The rotating room should come to a slow stop (it’s heavy no??) and emit dust effects around the doorway (it’s old and made of stone!).
The beetle wings opening had a lot of motion blur in the original from what I recall which made them feel less cheap when opening.
The maglev is the best here. The door opening with some jitter is pretty close to what I’d expect for worn metal and there’s a nice sway when the rotation of the pod comes to a stop.
It’s so close to capturing the feel of the original that we all fell in love with, just needs a little more attention to detail.
This is honestly pretty insane if I recall memories from my childhood while watching this video.
I love the fact that everything is now physically on it's actual place in the rooms and surrounding chambers/paths.
In the original you would klick on something you like to view and it would basically just switch the pre rendered image... but now it's there, the cave, the control room behind windows or doors, physically.
This must be fantastic in VR. (Hopefully also PSVR2 maybe?)
The game has that exact same feeling like the old one, but yet it is somehow new and like we never seen it before.
One of the games I'm looking forward to the most in 2024.
Amazing work!
It gave me chills just watching this. I haven't replayed riven in like 10+ years.
Well this is interesting. Not just because of changes made to facilitate VR or visual upgrades, like the peepholes in the rotating room or the clear oceanic gaps caused by underwater heated fissures (LOVE that touch!) but also because it seems they're going to make some gameplay changes, as indicated by the lever on the right of the projection chair. That never existed before... I wonder why they're putting that in.
That lever on the right of the projection chair seems to lower the bridge that connects Crater Island to Temple Island. In the original, you needed to lower that bridge from the inside of the golden dome, and then go the long way around (Temple Island->Jungle Island->Crater Island->Temple Island) just to extend a walkway that connects the two walkways within the golden dome. In the original, you can pretty quickly make this trek, as it only requires some fast clicking.
I was actually thinking about that trek the other day when I was replaying Riven. I thought it would be a lot more tedious to do with free movement in the remake. It seems they added the lever in order to make this quicker, so you can connect the golden dome walkways as soon as you leave Crater Island the first time. Honestly that doesn't even change that much puzzle-wise because you would still have to rotate the pentagonal room to turn on the power. I'm guessing they made a few changes like this to make gameplay more manageable with the new movement system.
Oh, yeah, I loved the gaps in the ocean too. Small detail I don't think I personally ever would have thought to add. As for the chair, I love the changes as it makes more sense in-world. Wasn't the control to open the temple door originally on the wall instead of on the chair? Given that Gehn used that chair to project a god-like image of himself in the temple it makes sense that he would want to control the door from there, and in the original it's obvious he was able to given what happens when you first return to Temple Island from the maglev.
As for the new bridge camera and lever, I can see that making sense that as a safety measure Gehn would want to also monitor the other entrance to the island.
They absolutely are making changes. According to the Game Informer article "As a result, the new Riven isn’t a carbon copy of the original. There are new puzzles, new locations, and new pieces of lore alongside structural changes to make the world more narratively consistent."
I also noticed that the entire room seems to have moved location. Before, it was in a cave, but did you notice there seems to be an intense sunlight-drenched rock outside that room now? I don't think Ghen's projection chair is inside a cave anymore! I really hope the puzzles aren't just a carbon copy of the original Riven. The Myst remake lacked something for me, it just didn't capture the feeling I had playing the original all those years ago. A big part of that was that I knew the layout and puzzles of every single age.
@@Mo0rc With the rather drastic changes we've already seen to the layout, it's almost agiven that the puzzles are going to be changed up. If nothing else the different placement of the dome on Temple Island means that the fire marble puzzle will have to be changed. Plus, the windows in the beetle room I think shows that like with the Myst remake they're making certain changes to make it work better in VR, which has me very curious about how they're going to handle the porthole under the star fissure since a large number of the changes in Myst were done to remove any leaning over that would have to be done.
Riven was completely incomprehensible to me at nine years old and I played it according to a guidebook. Almost 30 years later, it will be interesting to see if I can figure it out for myself!
The amount of fullscreen motion blur in the video is absurd for someone gently rotating the view with a gamepad. I'll be playing it with VR, so this won't be an issue for me.
i also remember having to physically go to a bookstore to purchase a published guide book in order to make progress! if it helps any, i replayed the original a few months ago and found it much less daunting than i did when i was 12 😄
@@cackleberry1596 I actually wrote to Cyan in the 90's asking for clues to progress - they sent me a guide in the post ❤ Thank you Cyan
This is going to be FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE best Myst game just got perfected!!!
So stoked it's not even funny! An extremely nostalgic, childhood game for me - I literally cannot wait. "Thank God you've returned."
Edit: big kudos for keeping the original sound!
Absolutely stunning, it's so pretty I want to cry. You really left EVERYTHING as it is, atmosphere, vibe, color palette, textures, its really just a 3D version of the world, an absolute dream. If I can play this in VR my life is complete. I really hope for a "making of", I am curious how you transported all the models and textures that were made on what I believe were SGI IRIX systems running Softimage 3D to Unreal 5. I really hope to see some of the technical aspects, that would be incredible!!
They probably had to recreate it all. I understand that the original source code was lost to accidents.
They did recreate them all. The Game Informer magazine article said after some effort they managed to import some old files but they were far too low-res to use even as a starting point and it was easier to just recreate everything.
@@darrennew8211 that makes it all even more insane! its looks exactly the same, how long did it take to get it so perfect?
@@amarug I bet if you actually put them side by side, you'd notice a number of differences. It's certainly close enough I'm not really remembering. There's windows instead of peep holes in the rotating room, though, and apparently the rotating dome isn't where it used to be?
@@darrennew8211 but they still did an insane job, i hope we get to play soon 😍
"You look as beautiful as the day i lost you"
Can't wait 😍
This was the most anticipated game of my childhood, and is now the most anticipated game of my adult life... cannot wait!! :-)
I’m intrigued by the slight difference in where the dome is on Temple Island! 🧐 Can’t wait to explore this new version!
"Thank God you've returned!"
I'm actually pretty excited for some minor changes like the chair lever and portholes. There's all sorts of tiny improvements that could be made to adapt it to a hi-res 3d environment without affecting the gameplay and puzzles. The improved sense of space and direction alone is going to be amazing.
I think the world is going to feel a.lot bigger now that you can't rapidly click to travel fast too
@@henrywalton5967 Oh great point!
But this chair is supposed to be a video-projecting device. The button on the right used to trigger the projection (although we could never actually see our own projection, of course; only Gehn's); now how is it suppoed to work?
@@filouk2 No idea, but I'm sure changes are considered carefully before being made for this one.
This looks all so promising. But please: Fix that particle effects on the maglev. The smoke looks a bit off.
This looks gorgeous! I am very excited to play it.
This has to make you appreciate the immaculate art direction and crazy skill that went into the original Riven. Of course this looks stunning and developers are extremely talented. But Riven was made decades ago and still looks stunning. Sure, it was pre-rendered but it still took next-level artistry to produce the degree of 3d graphics we saw in Riven back in the 90s. We're talking the days before PBR, path-tracing, rendering on GPUs, tools like zbrush, substance, etc... none of those existed back then. It was so much more difficult to produce realistic 3d nature in the 90s. And Riven knocked it out of the park.
Woaw this looks great the texture look good, there seems to be more clouds than I remember, and the lighting in the gateroom seems to be more luminous that I remember, but overall it is great. Great work Cyan!
Wonderful textures and lighting so far!
This is it. This is what's going to make me get a VR set.
You are choosing a really good time to get into VR!
Hey! This footage makes me think about something... Why did you guys stop using a "Hand cursor" in your games? It was such a part of the Myst identity for me, and it helped convey different kind of interactions (Grab, click, drag, etc.)
That being said, it's incredible how great this looks. The photo-realism is top notch... your previous Unreal Engine games looked great, but this is next level, i mean it doesn't have the usual "Glossy" Unreal feel, it looks life like.
Also, it's soooooooo exciting to see all the small changes... Position of the rotating dome, the windows instead of the peepholes, the new levers and interactions in the chair... can't wait to see more! :D
My guess is VR
I don't buy that for a second. The majority of people don't play in VR, and they could always add a setting in the options menu instead of forcing a VR change on everyone @@Cynbel_Terreus
@@Cynbel_Terreus I don't think so. It wouldn't really affect VR. I think they're just aiming for minimalism. The MYST remake had an optional hand cursor, anyway.
if there is a dot it the circle, you can interact. i love the hand cursor too but i think that would not fit with the new graphics honestly.
@@Cynbel_Terreus They've been using the circle cursor since URU, so it has nothing to do with VR.
My two cents, I suspect it has to do with how their focus has always been on interface minimalism. It also has the benefit of not alienating people with different skin colors without having to implement the ability to change the skin tone of the cursor like Myst 4 did. I suspect that's why they went with the mickey mouse hands in VR for the recent Myst remake (which, Cyan, if you're reading this, *PLEASE* just use human hands in this like you did with Firmament- and ditch the shiny orange balls too, they are way too immersion breaking).
testament to the original that this feels exactly the same.
It looks *incredible* ! 😍 I can't wait! Thankyou so much Rand and everyone at Cyan! ❤
It doesn't matter how many times I've played the Myst games, I will always buy the remastered versions and play them again. My favorite franchises of all time are Hitman, GTA, Fallout, and Myst.
Love the Myst series always 😊😊😊
Hell yeaaaa! Childhood yaaay love it
Amazing, can't wait. Thank you Cyan!
Hearing the ambience music gives me the chills!
So friggin gooooooood!!
That music! Those SFX! Can’t wait to return to this world.
I played the original on my PC which had a new-fangled DVD-ROM drive. I bought it the second it came out, got my pen and notebook ready, and loved every second. Along with the Myst remake, I will once again buy this the second it comes out.
I still remember back in 98 how the big box was standing on the computer table next to the big CRT and all the CDs were lying there unpacked, there was this magical world on the screen! As a child I didn't understand how it worked but the pictures were so impressive! Now I'm even more excited to experience it again myself! I think this time I'll get a little further than back then 😀💜
i love seeing the steam and the rising water out in the distance!
Absolutely gorgeous i cant wait to explore
Wow I sure don't remember the windows in the round room and the fact that the chair now does something is very exciting.
This version of Riven is very very different, and I just hope it will be better in a good way because I'm not sure just yet
Myst and Riven... the games my dad and I bonded over when I was growing up. Many a night spent trying to solve the puzzles... I look forward to this once more!
Wow. In my head, playing it all those years ago when it first came out? It was like this, it was THAT immersive. My mind just filled int he blanks, I guess. This is Incredible! It will always be THE game to play....never thought you could make it better!
1. God that end was such a tease, you knew we were waiting on it, you build it up, then cut it off. You know we need to experience that in game, it's probably amazing in VR (which I don't have)
2. It's mildly a bit odd that the rotating room at the start seems to just stop ad the end of its rotation, it seems like it should settle a bit at the end.
3. The walkway raising in the view screen while in the chair looks like there might be some weird motion blur artifacting, hard to say what's causing that.
Those 2 points are nitpicky, but the animation of the room could be easily addressed and maybe it already has. I am super excited, I watched this and was like DAMN this looks exactly how I remember it. I love the peephole changes as well, a great touch. I look forward to release announcement and when it drops.
You cut the trailer in the best part! :( This is looking faithful and amazing remake. A minor gimmick: the chair's bars do shake a little bit when they are full opened in the original. I hope you add this to the animation for improving realism.
I cannot wait to play this in VR. My childhood was this game (and myst). I was never so mystified as when I found these games in my Dad's collections... In fact their magic inspired me so much, I became a computer programmer myself... I was just stunned that a game (just a computer program) could capture so much of my attention and interest with its music and story.
I am so hyped for this release!
Wow, I have so many questions, but I can't wait. I'm so intrigued because I see changes in some of the areas that indicate a change in layout, and I'm super stoked to play this day 1 when it comes out.
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Wow, just found this, hearing that ambient music again took me back nearly 3 decades, this is so great!
First this looks awesome. I can't wait to revisit RIVEN. Secondly, I wonder what the story is with IGN releasing this footage yesterday. I assume it was a mistake.
No scandal or anything... We arranged for IGN to have a 24-hour "exclusive" on the news in exchange for being able to be in front of their MILLIONS of followers... The 24 hours is up, sooo... Now we're screaming about it from our own channels! :-)
@@Cyan-Official Ahh interesting. Thanks for the clarification! I want to reiterate... I LOVE RIVEN, and I am looking forward to the release! :-D
Honestly speechless and I am so happily pissed off with the ending haha good stuff!
My reaction:
-Oh wow… a reveal!!!
-The font is lovely for Atrus’s voice. ☺️
-Look at the gold grating! Love it!
-*BIG GRIN* Such an iconic room.
-This looks beautiful! 🥹
-The ceiling seems a bit bare…
-The beetles are so shiny!
-YESSS. The lore art is just right.
-The cave color palette is perfection…
-No way; do we get to go for a maglev ride!?!?
-Look at the rivets in the metal!
-Dang it… 😢 No ride this time…
-That’s okay. This was still amazing. 😍
Thank you, Cyan! 💜
Man I loved this game. Used to play it non stop. I was so amazed as a kid how beautiful all the scenery was and trying to figure out all these puzzles.
I love how there are improvements made. It’s so clear the original game had to make sacrifices for the sake of technical limitations and QuickTime files. This appears to be a fulfilment of Cyan’s true vision. I can’t believe even Richard (RAWA) came back to work on this.
If people wanted to play the original game - it’s still there obviously. I fully welcome these quality of life changes and teasing that we’ll be able to explore more of our favorite world.
I remember my only disappointment with the Village/Jungle Island is not being able to visit more of the village and see things from the very highest dwelling!
I am so beyond excited for this. I can’t wait to go back. ‘Thank God you’ve returned’ Cyan!!
Every frame a painting. Audio is on point too. Man I'm so excited, thank you Cyan.
Looks great, Cyan team! Ah, all the memories from 1997 come flooding back...! Many long winter nights spent in Riven.
Probably my favorite game soundtrack, hauntingly beautiful and wonderfully atmospheric in equal measure. Some of the best ambient tunes I've ever heard, they are ingrained in my brain. Thanks, Robyn Miller and the rest of Cyan as well.
This is so surreal! I know there were a lot of pre-rendered animations that made it feel more 3D, but my brain really did fill in the gaps clicking through the frames, so to see it fully realized but with the /exact/ same feeling is really exciting
I can't look at the round cage with the chair without thinking of Gerry Anderson's Joe 90 from 1968. Looking forward to Riven so much.
My favorite game of all time. Like others have said, it is interesting that the game already felt like this in my head all those years ago.
That first ride on the Mag-lev with the cables shaking and it going down to the right before veering left suddenly (which apparently has been changed, unfortunately in my opinion) are something I will never forget.
Thank you for bringing it back!
This looks so amazing ! I remember in the original documentary Robin was talking about how complicated the revolving beetle room was due to all the possible states they had to capture. I wonder if this was easier or more difficult and what were the new challenges encountered ?
Genuinely one of my favorite games, will buy immediately upon release
omg yes... everything feels so well done, the music, atmosphere, it so accurately captures the feel of the original so well, i just know it's gonna be magic
How many CD's? :p I hope you dont mind that old generation players we ll be picking up this mastepiece too! :)
MY FAVORITE MYST GAME! I'm so happy to see this being worked on. I love the series, and I've always been a huge fan of Cyan. :D
Where's Cho?! :D
"tahg-em-ah... re-ko-ah... tah... tah... tah... tahg-em-ah b'soo re-ko-ah"
at one time, closer to 1997, I could recite Cho's entire dialogue verbatim. I can still get it pretty close :) such memories.
This looks fantastic. Loving the vibe! I'm buying this one for sure.
Losing my mind over this, so damn excited!! Thank you Cyan! 💖
Riven has always been my favorite out of all the Myst games. The remake looks beautiful. I'm also intrigued by the design changes (windows instead of peepholes in the rotating room, exhaust from the mag-lev, and the entrance to the cage chair being off a sunlit path instead of a dimly lit tunnel, etc.). All I gotta say is "I WANNA PLAY!!! NOW!!" 😆
I just cant wait! Looks really impressive. Good job Cyan!
Still have the DVD version around. This looks like an amazing upgrade, stunning work!
This looks really cool! Looking forward to the game coming out.
It’s amazing to see what was once only possible with pre-rendered graphics be now realized in full real-time 3D.
Beautiful. So amazing. Thank you
loved all of myst, since it first came out, now waiting for riven to go onto the quest 2 supposed to be this year, cant wait.
Wow, this is incredible, matches the look and feel of the old title despite a completely different rendering, camera and navigation systems, outsanding execution.
I really hope this game sells well, because this is one of the best puzzle games ever created.
Also I'm really hoping that you kept non-VR players in mind this time and didn't make every door a sliding door, like you did with Myst.
Side note. I posted this in the steam discussion, but the store image you have for the game right now, has a symbol that looks phallic. I know what it is in the game, however I don't think it's the best option for marketing and advertisement. I would change it if I were you.
Either way, super excited for the remaster.
Oh, this is gonna be a must-play for me when it comes out! Riven was one of the first games I owned for my iMac and to an 11-year old it was as baffling as it was transportive and atmospheric. Cemented my love of puzzle games and I can’t wait to tackle it as an adult.
Welp, this is definitely a must buy. I am SO EXCITED for this!!!!
I’m gonna have to replay Myst in anticipation for this, aren’t I? Not complaining, of course.
Definitely my most-anticipated game for the rest of 2024, for sure.
I CAN NOT wait to play this and get stuck on that one puzzle again! (seriously)
This game had a really significant long-term influence on my creative core. I gotta grab this when it comes out on principal alone.
This really truly sounds like a Robyn Miller score.
It's literally the same music from the original