
- #MYST IV REVELATION RESOLUTION INSTALL#
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It will be installed in /opt/wine-revelation. It will do everything for you, so you just need to wait some time until Wine is compiled. If you use ArchLinux and have 'yaourt' installed, it is as easy as just typing "yaourt -S wine-revelation". The way to go is to place the patched Wine somewhere in /opt, so it will not affect other applications.
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Revelation will need a little patch to Wine, but it seems that this patcÂh could affect other applications in a bad way. The installation process of Myst IV - Revelation is a bit tricky.
#MYST IV REVELATION RESOLUTION INSTALL#
I have serious reservations about some of the designers' decisions (I haven't even mentioned the Slate, a writing device introduced in the demo but not used, which is another departure from Myst tradition), but like most fans, I'll be lining up to buy the game as soon as it becomes available.STEP 1: Install a patched version of Wine I'm holding out hope that all three features will be present in the final game.īottom line, this is a better demo than the previous one.
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Even worse, there doesn't seem to be a Zip Mode, a well-loved and desperatly needed feature, as the Myst games require a lot of back-and-forth-ing as the player tries to see what consequences their actions have had on the game world. Unfortunately, very little of the story is revealed, and the only character we meet seems to have nothing to do with Atrus or his family.Ībsent from the demo are the camera and the journal, which were both so helpful in Myst IV. In this sense, the demo does exactly what it's supposed to do-offer a tiny taste of mystery that whets the appetite for more answers. It's already clear that there's a complicated system of symbols in the game that the player is going to have to learn (I was especially pleased to see the return of D'ni numbers in base 25).

The new demo also addresses this problem-not only is the puzzle relatively challenging, but it's clearly only a small part of a much larger puzzle. I'm really not certain why the designers chose to move away from filming before a green screen, especially when it's obvious that they still need the actors for the voice work and the motion capture itself.Īnother problem of the Myst IV demo was that the puzzle was ridiculously easy (really, it was at the level of finding the not-terribly-well-hidden instructions and following them). The game designers have been making noises about a new 'face mapping' technique, but the results remind me of nothing more than Vincent D'Onofrio in Men In Black-there's a face, and there's something moving underneath it, but the two don't seem to be connected in the normal way. The result is what we've come to expect from motion capture-body movements are rendered perfectly, but facial expressions are almost unreadable. Even the man-made objects didn't have the level of detail I've come to expect from the game (a closer look at some of the screenshots available online suggests that, even at its gigantic size, the demo may feature low-quality graphics).Ī major departure from Myst tradition is the decision to turn away from green screen acting and use motion capture animation. The small area that the demo allowed me to explore-a tiny island where one of the game characters has settled-was disappointingly barren. Myst worlds are painstakingly detailed: whether it's indoors, where every surface is covered with books, scraps of paper that have been doodled on, pens, scientific implements, oddly shaped rocks, bits of string, pictures of loved ones, and even desk toys, or outdoors, where every bush, rock and blade of grass seem to have been individually drawn. It's good to see that they've learned their lesson, even if the result is a gigantic file that not everyone will be able to download.īeautiful as the game world is, however, I'm not certain about its Myst-ishness. When it released the demo for Myst IV: Revelation, Ubisoft sacrificed image resolution in order to keep the file under a certain size, to the horror and concern of fans. The first thing you always say about a Myst game is that the graphics are lovely, which, of course, they are.


The game's official site also contains a trailer and screenshots.) The demo weighs in at 457 MB and is available only for Macintosh.
