The Completion Thread 2007

**gameoverDude** · 19 Dec 2007, 06:00 PM

Time Crisis 4 (1 credit/Arcade mode)

Score: 5,896,240
Time: 29'22"76
Accuracy: 62.6%

Sometimes you don't want to "just hold down the trigger & keep firing" during the helicopter scene.

**Tain** · 20 Dec 2007, 03:27 AM

Beat Myst. I was really, really young the last time I even thought about playing this. People who say it's full of illogical puzzles are illogical retards. Great game save for the interface and extremely dated CG. I look forward to playing Riven sooner or later.

I really wish I could have played realMyst instead, though. Going by the trial, it looks better, it (obviously) controls WAY better, and the little animations all over the place would have made the whole thing significantly more immersive. I just couldn't get the full game running for the life of me, even after some pointers from Compass.

**Razor Ramon** · 20 Dec 2007, 04:56 PM

Got 100% on Lego Star Wars II. The game was pretty fun but got very repetitive and not being able to skip scenes was just outright painful.

**Grave** · 20 Dec 2007, 08:22 PM

Originally Posted by Tain

Beat Myst. I was really, really young the last time I even thought about playing this. People who say it's full of illogical puzzles are illogical retards. Great game save for the interface and extremely dated CG. I look forward to playing Riven sooner or later.

You're kinda making me want to do this. I have the Mac version of realMyst and I may try it out on my G4 the next chance I have. Last time I tried to play it I was also very young and didn't find a lot to get excited about, but I find myself wanting to give it another shot more and more. But the bits I played of Riven interested me even less the first time around... well, we'll see, I guess. D:

edit: for the record, I never did play realMyst outside of seeing it on my cousin's computer, and I did find it quite visually impressive at the time, certainly a hell of a lot more engaging than the renders in the original game. I can see that alone making a big difference, but I won't be back at that computer for a few weeks.

**Rumpy** · 20 Dec 2007, 08:38 PM

I was annoyed when I found out the end of Myst was at the beginnig of Myst. Good trick actually. I remember Riven being gorgeous when it came out, could never get into it though, the puzzles were just way above me.

**Compass** · 20 Dec 2007, 08:44 PM

Riven is significantly more difficult than Myst I felt. In a bid to please the less patient gamers who just wanted to wander around looking at the pretty sights, and were frustrated that they had to <GASP!> solve puzzles in the hub in order to access the other Ages, Cyan opened up the majority of Riven's world from the get-go.

This has the unfortunate effect of giving the player an overload of information to process all at once. In order to get anywhere (story-wise) you really have to immerse yourself in the world, visit a bunch of locations, and do your best to filter out what's relevant and what isn't. That being said, I'm pretty sure the clues and mechanics to most puzzles are single island-contained, but you wouldn't necessarily know this going in. And there definitely are at least a couple overreaching puzzles that take all the islands into account.

realMYST is really, really good. Shame it's so hard to get working on XP. Hopefully there aren't any problems with Macs.

**Rumpy** · 20 Dec 2007, 09:31 PM

Is Cyan still around? Last I heard there is a online Myst game.

**Tain** · 20 Dec 2007, 10:41 PM

Originally Posted by Compass

realMYST is really, really good. Shame it's so hard to get working on XP. Hopefully there aren't any problems with Macs.

I was meaning to ask you, what sort of video card did you have when you played it? I'm curious because I think I heard the game was more nVidia-friendly.