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From the creators of Myst and Riven yada yada yada

From the creators of Myst and Riven yada yada yada

It seems Cyan is wanting to start another project:

The video doesn’t seem to show much other than it’s a puzzle type game (Cyan’s specialty) with some nice looking graphics and a creepy voice. Of course unlike their last games Cyan wants to make this a VR exclusive title because so many people play VR… That’s the reason, right? Obviously there are waaaaaaaay more VR gamers than those zombies that stare at their multimonitor setups with drool rolling down their faces.

The team has developed what Miller called a working “experience,” similar to a demo, that will be shown later this month at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco in an attempt to garner interest and financial backing. It features the Mead-based company’s signature puzzle-solving gameplay, he said, in a world built from the ground up to be experienced through a virtual reality headset.

Well, that leaves me out. There aren’t enough games out to justify me getting into VR, plus I’m still pretty miffed about Obduction’s poor optimization for AMD GPU’s as well as overall optimization (broken LOD’s). Plus if I take into consideration how the last Kickstarter took place, and some of the more dramatic moments I’d rather not mention during their update posts, I really am reminded that I should play other games instead. Heck, I’ve been playing Quite a bit of The Phantom Pain lately, and that’s an NVidia Gumworks title.

That said I wish them no ill will. I would like for them to succeed and return to their former glory, but it seems unnecessary to leave people out if they can’t afford VR. Plus I would think they would make money if they developed a non VR version of their game. As it is Cyan’s core fanbase consists of about 7 people who still have use to run a Pentium III setup. :v:

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DGtram
DGtram
Melon Seed
March 3, 2018 7:28 pm

In other news: Konami buys Cyan Games, fires CEO Rand Miller, and turns the Myst franchise into pachinko machines..

Yutram
Yutram
Melon Seed
Reply to  DGtram
March 3, 2018 8:57 pm

I can already see it: Riven – The Sequel to Pachinko and URU – Ages Beyond Pachinko. Those linking panel animations would make some excellent backgrounds for it. And every time you lose, one of the Myst villains from the respective games ruins your shit!

Yutram
Yutram
Melon Seed
March 3, 2018 9:15 pm

Nice video – shame about the game. Cyan wants to be innovative, but they’re late to the party as usual, and once again going about it completely the wrong way. Hell, most VR games have non-VR compatibility and for very good reasons: not everyone has the disposable income to afford a full set of VR goggles and inputs, and the library for most VR games leaves a lot to be desired. Just this evening, I played Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes with friends in a non-VR fashion and whaddaya know? Didn’t take away from the game in the slightest. Which… Read more »

Bongmaster
Bongmaster
Melon Seed
March 4, 2018 5:03 am

Hahaa! Moneycannons! :v: