{"id":148,"date":"2007-06-04T11:59:42","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T16:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/148"},"modified":"2016-06-14T12:57:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T19:57:23","slug":"myst-v-still-trying-to-get-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wurb.com\/stack\/archives\/148","title":{"rendered":"Myst V: Still Trying to Get Started"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been doing much gaming for the last week or so.  I&#8217;ve been busy, and expect to remain busy for another week or two.  I did, however, take the time to do a little experiment.  The company I work for has given me a Dell laptop &#8212; specifically, a Latitude D620.  I installed <em>Myst V<\/em> on it, and sure enough, it gives a quite acceptable framerate in the part where it was bogging down to unplayability on my usual machine, which has a faster CPU and more memory.  I may eventually just hook up the laptop to my monitor and mouse and play it from there, but this would be inconvenient for various reasons, so I&#8217;ll leave that as a last resort.  <\/p>\n<p>By now, I&#8217;ve played through the opening several times.  After an intro sequence with a voice-over by Atrus, the game starts in the world (or &#8220;age&#8221;, as the Myst series calls them) of D&#8217;ni, in the chamber where the original <em>Myst<\/em> ended.  Exploring from there, I soon met Yeesha, last seen as a little girl in <em>Myst IV<\/em>, now grown up and resembling the creepy messianic figure she appears as in <em>Uru<\/em>.  <span class=\"footnote_referrer\"><a role=\"button\" tabindex=\"0\" onclick=\"footnote_moveToReference_148_1('footnote_plugin_reference_148_1_1');\" onkeypress=\"footnote_moveToReference_148_1('footnote_plugin_reference_148_1_1');\" ><sup id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_148_1_1\" class=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text\">1<\/sup><\/a><span id=\"footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_148_1_1\" class=\"footnote_tooltip\"> For those not hip to <em>Uru<\/em>: It&#8217;s basically a multi-player online <em>Myst<\/em> spin-off, set some time after the games in the series proper.  The online part was cancelled shortly after launch, then the content packaged as a single-player game, and more recently the online game has been launched again. I may join <em>Uru Live<\/em> after I finish <em>Myst V<\/em>. <\/span><\/span><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> jQuery('#footnote_plugin_tooltip_148_1_1').tooltip({ tip: '#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_148_1_1', tipClass: 'footnote_tooltip', effect: 'fade', predelay: 0, fadeInSpeed: 200, delay: 400, fadeOutSpeed: 200, position: 'top right', relative: true, offset: [10, 10], });<\/script>  She said a bunch of stuff that I didn&#8217;t have enough context yet to understand.  I remember from <em>Uru<\/em> that Yeesha has this annoying habit of never explaining what it is she&#8217;s talking about, as if she were one of the fragmentary journals that litter the series.  Then I was teleported to another &#8220;age&#8221;, where someone called Esher gave me another spiel, mainly about not trusting Yeesha.  This is the point where the framerate started really degrading, and I gave up shortly afterward.  (There was a tunnel leading to some content, but I didn&#8217;t spend long on it.)<\/p>\n<p>So I got speeches from Atrus and Yeesha and Esher, and after hearing them repeated, I&#8217;m starting to make a little sense of them.  Atrus and Yeesha said things that might mean that Atrus is dead, although they both couched it in terms vague enough to admit other possibilities: in a game where people routinely travel between worlds, to say that someone is no longer of this world doesn&#8217;t mean much.  Also, Yeesha spoke of a &#8220;tablet&#8221; that &#8220;responded&#8221; to me, and which would be &#8220;released&#8221; after I did some stuff.  I&#8217;m starting to think that this is a part of a certain small table-like structure of stone slabs that I was examining just before Yeesha appeared.  Or maybe not.  It would make sense of the claim that it &#8220;responded&#8221; to me &#8212; the table glowed or something the first time I poked it, although there didn&#8217;t seem to be any other effects, beyond triggering Yeesha&#8217;s cut-scene.  It would be easier to interpret these speeches if they were written down rather than delivered orally.<\/p>\n<p>Come to think of it, doesn&#8217;t the UI provide transcripts?  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