[QUOTE="starsweeper"] Lol wot the game even about?
mrbojangles25
I dont have the faintest idea, i think youre like stranded on this island and you solve puzzles to power this rocket ship to get off.
I thought you said you played it?
The story is far, far more intricate than that. Read up on the Myst games and their stories at Wikipedia if you want to see just how complex they are. One of the things that makes the Myst games so masterfully crafted is that they rely heavily on making conclusions and even solving puzzles by looking at the little intricacies and your own theories about the story, which is kept in the background all the time so as to make you think it's not as important a component as it really is. This way, when you do figure out what's going on or how to solve something from piecing together things about this story that isn't thrust in front of your face, you're like "Holy crap, wowzers, oh my God, ultra brilliant, I'm a genius!!" It's the greatest feeling in the world.
The story in the original Myst goes like this.
*Spoilers*
The island of Myst is part of a world created by a man named Atrus, who is part of the ancient D'ni civilization (who are what the denizens of Earth decended from). The D'ni have the ability to actually write worlds into existence through books called linking books. How they do so isn't necessary to understand, all you need to know is that Atrus wrote the book Myst, and in turn created the world that is the island of Myst.
Your character, presumably a human of the normal world, stumbles across the Myst book, opens it, touches its viewing panel on the first page which shows the world to which it links in motion, and gets transported there. When you touch a linking book to another world, the book doesn't get transported with you, so unless you have a linking book back to the world you just came from with you, you're stuck. This is the scenario in Myst, this is why they just set you down on a dock on the island of Myst without any real explanation about what the hell is going on. It's meant to put you into the shoes of your character, making you feel just as lost and confused as he would be.
As you go through the game, you find these two books with viewing panels showing two men trapped inside. You learn with time that these men are the brothers, Sirrus and Achenar. Later, you find Atrus, the man who wrote Myst, trapped inside a book, as well, and learn that he is the father of these two men. As you progress, you find linking books to various other worlds that Atrus created, where you find pages to the books that Sirrus and Achenar are trapped in, which allows you to hear more messages from them.
I forget how the rest goes, but that's just the start of it all. Understand that Myst was not of the same production levels of Riven and the rest of the sequels. The story of the universe was not fully developed yet, so it was more obscure and less serious. With the addition of Riven, the story took on a whole new, grander scale, a truly magnificent one. In Riven, it is explained how you came across the Myst book, but I won't go into that because it's awfully complex to explain to someone on a forum.
See, this is why people don't really pay any attention when you try to talk about a Myst game today, they don't realize that its story was utterly brilliant because when they played the game, they got confused and figured it was just a boggled mess. But it wasn't. Almost every single puzzle in every Myst game can be solved by logic and intuition, and by combining all the aspects of the game - the cleverly inlaid story, previous puzzles and events you've come across, and so much more. This is why I consider the Myst universe of games the god of adventure games, its story is a huge component without even seeming to be, and is woven into every other aspect of the game. The Myst games are the singlemost skillfully created bundle of a masterpiece I have ever seen in all of gaming.
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