I liked Myst 3 Exile.
I just started Myst and Riven 10 years ago, without walkthroughs... Didnt have a chance.

I´m think about getting realmyst, Riven or URU now, because of the sail.
But I fear Realmyst/Myst is too ugly and empty for me. Riven is too empty and difficult (pixelhunting). Uru... I dont like 3d-person view and the controls should be hard to handle.

What do you think about these games?
How hard are these games compared to each other?
I would like to know if I am thinking about these games in the right way....

Greetings!

Hi,

Uru can be played in third person OR first person, you can toggle between the two modes at will.

Difficulty wise none on them is easy, none of them is insanely hard. All of them have easyer bits and more difficult bits.

realMyst doesn't look ugly at all even on high resolutions (i play it at 1920x1200 and i think it looks great).

Form all the game in the series Riven is my favourite closely followed by URU.

Ok thank you.!
I have heard Riven is the most difficult because of the puzzles. Uru is difficult because of the jumpening.
Realmyst doesnt really attract me...

Is it more important for the story to have played Risen or Myst1?

It's hard to say whichis more important, i guess they are equally important even if Riven has a bit more of story to it. Anyway, you can't go wrong with Riven, it's an amzing game.

btw, URU and Myst V kinda follow a separate thread of their own in terms of story, and in terms of timeline they both come after Myst IV.

Thanks again! I think it will be Riven...

I hope it doesnt feel too empty for me. I liked the many videos in Exile...

Here's my take on all 6:

Myst - excellent, a classic, though I prefer the original point-and-click version rather than "RealMyst".
Riven - the best of the series. Huge environment, beautifully rendered, complex.
Exile - beautifully constructed, but a bit too short and too easy.
Uru - still waiting to form an opinion....though I don't like the 3rd person play.
Revelation - Very good...nice to be contiguous with the rest of the series. Beautiful environment, nice to "backfill" the story about Atrus's two boys.
End of Ages - Too much of a departure from the previous series--random phantom characters and tablets? What????

@ merow

Myst games are basically mind puzzle games.
Yes, there are differences between them but... its the same concept.
Get all of them and DONT get close to a walkthrough if you get stuck somewhere in the game.

just my advice, have fun!

I haven't played all of them, but I'l throw out what I already know:

Games I've Beaten:
Myst Masterpiece Edition - 3/5. The best one to start out with, probably, and I like the point-and-click gameplay. Story and gameplay wise, though, it is the weakest of the series. It doesn't include the Rime Age, though, so it has even less of an ending. Also, while the pre-rendered graphics look a little cleaner than realMyst, the textures aren't as nice and the resolution is bad, making the game look worse than realmyst.

Realmyst - 4/5. Same Story and Puzzles, but includes a new age which offers a slightly better lead-in to riven. The graphics feel like graphics rather than real places, although they look pretty good if you crank it up on a modern computer. A better version of Myst, but still not the series' hih point.

Riven - 5/5. While the resolution is low like the original Myst, the graphics are so nice it doesn't look bad at all. Everything in Riven looks so real that the resolution can be forgiven. Much more story, character interaction, and better puzzle integration in Riven. Best of the Myst game's I've played so far.

Myst III - 4/5. Graphics look great, although I'm not crazy about the 360 degree controls Presto used (It's better than what they used for The Journeyman Project 3, but it still looks a little worse than Riven). Cool ages and a great story, although the "hub to age" feel is a step back from the total non linearity of Riven.

Myst IV - 4/5. I haven't completed this one, but the graphics are amazing. This is the Myst game that looks the most real. I'm not a big fan about some of the puzzles, and some of the ages aren't my cup of tea, but it looks and sounds better than ever. And anything with Peter Gabriel is good in my book.

I haven't played enough of Uru, Myst V, or Myst Online to comment, other than that the real-time graphics really didn't impress me when they came out. Now that computers have improved and I can run them at "amazingly best" settings, they look pretty good for their time - I'd say End of Ages compares to a PC game released around 2010 or so. But at the time I had thought it was a huge step downward in quality.

In regards to using wallkthroughs, Myst gets complicated. Using a walkthrough the entire time ruins it but being stuck on a puzzle and going crazy for a week can bug you too. My advice is this:

Take a bunch of notes. If anything even seems like it could be important, note it down.
Try to play the game yourself (without a walkthrough) and if you get to a puzzle you can't solve, continue trying for two or three days. If at that point you still can't solve it and its making you want to abandon the game, get a walkthrough or hint and then close out of the walkthrough and continue on. Don't keep the walkthrough up in another window or your phone or something as you will not be able to resist the urge to look the minute you get stuck.