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“ the overlap between players of games like Doom and those like Myst is inevitably limited. (The surprising thing is that an overlap exists at all…)” Really? I
by mdonahoe 7y ago
“ the overlap between players of games like Doom and those like Myst is inevitably limited. (The surprising thing is that an overlap exists at all…)”
Really? Is it that rare to like both?
I find this hard to believe.
- eps 7y agoYeah, that's a pretty odd statement to put it mildly. Probably an over-extrapolation from an insufficient sample set.
- vitaflo 7y agoI do too, especially because when you combine the two you basically end up with Metroid Prime, another very popular well made game.
- lostgame 7y agoFor years I’ve (often unsuccessfully) tried to pitch people Metroid Prime, calling it ‘Myst with a gun’, to which my friends responses often include ‘what’s Myst?’. Doesn’t quite capture the platforming awesomeness, though. First good first person platformer I’ve played.
- tkahnoski 7y agoThis is one of those things that are obvious once stated, but for some reason never made the connection. I fell out of gaming shortly after Wii was released (adulting?). Did the later installments of the franchise deliver the same experience?
- jhbadger 7y agoAs the article mentions, a bigger anti-Myst sentiment was from the traditional inventory-NPC based adventure fandom, which was annoyed that this game eliminated inventory and NPC-based puzzles. And arguably killed the traditional adventure games, except for fan works.
- jhbadger 7y agoThis is literally what the article mentions: "But the more interesting and perhaps telling brand of hatred comes from self-acknowledged fans of the adventure-game genre. These folks were usually raised on the Sierra and LucasArts traditions of third-person adventures — games that were filled with other characters to interact with, objects to pick up and carry around and use to solve puzzles, and complicated plot arcs unfolding chapter by chapter. They have a decided aversion to the first-person, minimalist, deserted, austere Myst, sometimes going so far as to say that it isn’t really an adventure game at all"
- nsxwolf 7y agoThis seems really wrong in my experience. In 1993 my friends and I were playing anything we could get our hands on. Adventure games, solitaire games, flight sims, racing games, first person shooters - everything was just so damned amazing and novel you wanted to experience it all. It was just too early to have developed very specific tastes.
- Xelbair 7y agoYeah, it seems weird - i mean it is an anecdotal experience, but every of my friends who loved Doom loved Myst and vice versa... myself included.