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Mysty Nintendo DS!
Tue, 08/07/2007 - 7:35am — Mark Vergeer
Leonie Manshanden - marketing director at Midway - has announced they will be producing the classic adventure game Myst for the popular dual screen portable console by Nintendo. Now this is a favorite of mine. I wonder if the other 'episodes' will also become available. A touch screen is excellent for such games as the homebrew ScummVM for Nintendo DS has proven!
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Myst vs. Dragon's Lair? Please!
I've never played Dragon's Lair, so I can't really give an intelligent opinion about it. From what I've read and heard others describe, it's a very simplistic game with high quality hand-drawn animation. The player just pushes buttons at certain points, triggering one or another animation (more or less a forked tree type of gameplay). The best part of the game seems to be the highly creative death scenes...
Myst, on the other hand, is a classic and, at least in my opinion, boldly expanded the frontiers of the adventure game genre. When you consider that most other GAGs were childish satire at best, Cyan really did demonstrate the possibility of the medium. I don't consider it as great as some of the games based more or less on its engine, but it's definitely far more than just a graphics gimmick like Dragon's Lair. In fact, I think the only reason people talk about Dragon's Lair today is that they love Don Bluth's superb animation; Dirk and Daphne have a lot of character and really come alive. Don't see that (anything even close to that) in, say, The 7th Guest, which also successfully wowed gamers with advanced graphics techniques.
Dragon's Lair
I can appreciate Dragon's Lair for what it is, basically a simple game of timing and watching pretty pictures. It's not a great game by any stretch of the imagination, but I argue that it does a better job at what it set out to do than Myst did. To me, Myst set the adventure genre BACK in terms of progress rather than advanced it. Dragon's Lair set the standard for the type of game that it is, simply by being first. Nevertheless, to each their own as it's impossible to argue with the success of either property. Hell, they're still re-releasing Dragon's Lair too! That also has to fall into the top whatever of most ported games...
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Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
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Ugh too....
Bill, what you say about Myst I can say about Dragon's Lair - the most overrated FMV game of all time! ;)
Editor / Pixelator - Armchair Arcade, Inc.
Myst - The most popular slide show of all time
Ugh! My feelings on Myst being grossly overrated and a poor game are well known, but it certainly has to be in the top whatever of most officially ported games and it keeps on defying the odds... Just a quick top-of-my-head run-off: Macintosh (multiple), PC (multiple), JaguarCD, Sega CD, PS1, DS, PocketPC, 3DO, CD-i, Sega Saturn and PSP, and that's without even trying...
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Bill Loguidice, Managing Director
Armchair Arcade, Inc.
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Wow
That DOES sound exciting. Playing that game on a touchscreen sounds very intuitive. Come to think of it, it'd probably be a great game for a tablet PC as well.