Myst Masterpiece Edition

I am dumbfounded by the number of 5-star reviews. I remember Myst CDs being in a little display next to the register for $5 in my local Babbages for what seemed like a decade in the perfect spot for your clueless grandma to buy you a copy for your birthday. Ignorance of quality is the only logical explanation for someone actually liking this game. This game was many folks first exposure to a computer game more complex than solitaire and did have graphics which were impressive at the time. I can see being impressed by this game in this scenario (particularly if it was 1995ish). I mean, if you've never seen a car before, even an AMC Gremlin would seem like a wondrous thing. What I don't understand is people who are still impressed with the Gremlin when they've been exposed to Ferraris, Bentleys, Porsches, or heck, even a Mustang or a Focus. Myst was the farmville of its time. The game non-gamers played in droves and gamers couldn't figure out why. While we were playing Xcom, doom, TIE fighter, Ultima Underworld and oh so many good adventure games from lucasarts (full throttle, Monkey Island games, Sam&Max, Maniac Mansion and Day of the Tentacle, etc) and other studios, they played Myst and Riven as we shook our heads. There are so many classic adventure games that are so much better than this one, it confuses me how people would still hold this in high regard. Terrible game, terrible puzzles, terrible story. Not worth revisiting.

i HATE THIS GAME IT IS TERIBLE

Very overrated game.

I had the original CD version, and ... how to describe this... It is BLAND. There is nothing in this. It is a Giant Empty Space where you have like nothing to do. Oh, sure, every hundred screen you can push a button or something - I rate glitchy, uncontrollable mess of games higher than this. The real MYSTerie here is, how this thing got so many sequels.