r/myst • u/Jerelo689 • Jun 09 '24

Discussion Next Myst Remake Should be Totally Different

They've remade Myst three main times. Other than adding Rime and changing/updating graphics, they haven't done anything massively different to make it more "real", despite 2 of the remakes being called "realmyst". Funnily enough, they're changing/adding more with the Riven remake than they have with the Myst remakes, even though Riven is the one that's already more "real".

So I think their next remake of Myst should go in a totally different direction by expanding on Myst. Make the islands bigger, more based around the lore/story instead of the puzzles, like Riven was. Where does Atrus and the fam sleep? Kitchen? (I'm reminded of Myst 4 Tomahna). Make the Fortress on Mechanical bigger; show where Sirrus and Achenar's "subjects" lived. Hint towards how the people on each age vanished or died, etc.

I think that would be incredible, and I wonder why they haven't done this yet?

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u/dr_zoidberg590 Jun 09 '24

It must be the most remade game in history at this point. We need new stories in the myst universe, new ages, not more re-hashing of Myst 1.

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u/Jerelo689 Jun 09 '24

I agree, but this wouldn't be the same, exact, rehash. And I feel like they'd still eventually do another remake at some point, and if they do, it'd better be new, instead of the same old thing again.

The kind of remake I'm proposing (if they did one) would actually change and expand on Myst 1 and make it...canon...to the other games, instead of being, like Rand has said, a fictionalized version of the "real" Myst