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ShadyParadox
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Welcome to my channel! I make videos featuring adventure/puzzle games.
I also live stream a lot of games, so be sure to follow my Twitch account and second UA-cam channel too!
Add me on Steam: shadyparadox
I also live stream a lot of games, so be sure to follow my Twitch account and second UA-cam channel too!
Add me on Steam: shadyparadox
Responding to comments on my video about Myst
Here's the video we're discussing: ua-cam.com/video/I8Z-ELqzXyA/v-deo.html
ABOUT ME
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Twitch:
www.twitch.tv/shadyparadox
Livestream Archive:
ua-cam.com/channels/_MCnNqjWh3UZaEWHcMXeeQ.html
Discord:
discord.gg/kXQQuxJC9G
Project Progress:
trello.com/b/DC0bZTZp/shadys-video-projects
Shadyblog:
shadyparadox.wordpress.com/
ABOUT ME
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Twitch:
www.twitch.tv/shadyparadox
Livestream Archive:
ua-cam.com/channels/_MCnNqjWh3UZaEWHcMXeeQ.html
Discord:
discord.gg/kXQQuxJC9G
Project Progress:
trello.com/b/DC0bZTZp/shadys-video-projects
Shadyblog:
shadyparadox.wordpress.com/
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Why Myst STILL needs another remake - Episode 1: The Current Vision
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What is Myst? A game made in 1993, of course. No, I mean - what are we looking at? What is the intrinsic nature of the worlds within? It may seem this question would have a straightforward answer, but as I'll argue here, the community may have been split into two schools of thought on this since the very beginning. Meanwhile, Cyan has periodically updated the game with new remakes as technology...
The ShadyParadox Files #8 - Quern Studies
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The ShadyParadox Files #8 - Quern Studies
The ShadyParadox Files #7 - Project Red Pants
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The ShadyParadox Files #7 - Project Red Pants
The ShadyParadox Files #6 - Space Quest IV
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The ShadyParadox Files #6 - Space Quest IV
Let's Fly Around realMYST: Part 5 - Channelwood and Rime
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Let's Fly Around realMYST: Part 5 - Channelwood and Rime
King's Quest VI - All Game Overs [Raw Footage]
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King's Quest VI - All Game Overs [Raw Footage]
Two Quick Updates! (it involves Riven)
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Two Quick Updates! (it involves Riven)
The ShadyParadox Files #4 - Flymode in RealMyst
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The ShadyParadox Files #4 - Flymode in RealMyst
The ShadyParadox Files #3 - Design and Detail
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The ShadyParadox Files #3 - Design and Detail
The ShadyParadox Files #2 - RealMyst, Exile, and "The Character"
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The ShadyParadox Files #2 - RealMyst, Exile, and "The Character"
The ShadyParadox Files #1 - The Channel (re-upload)
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The ShadyParadox Files #1 - The Channel (re-upload)
Shady's Entire realMYST Playthrough in One Video [10-Year Edition]
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Shady's Entire realMYST Playthrough in One Video [10-Year Edition]
Let's Fly Around realMYST: Part 4 - Stoneship Age
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Let's Fly Around realMYST: Part 4 - Stoneship Age
Why am I redoing my old realMYST LP?
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Why am I redoing my old realMYST LP?
Let's Fly Around realMYST: Part 3 - Selenitic Age
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Let's Fly Around realMYST: Part 3 - Selenitic Age
Let's Play Space Quest IV - Part 3 of 3 (in progress)
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Let's Play Space Quest IV - Part 3 of 3 (in progress)
Lets Play Space Quest 4 Part 3 [April Fools]
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Lets Play Space Quest 4 Part 3 [April Fools]
King's Quest V - All Game Overs [Condensed Cut]
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King's Quest V - All Game Overs [Condensed Cut]
King's Quest V - All Game Overs [Extended Cut]
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King's Quest V - All Game Overs [Extended Cut]
Live Stream of The Stanley Parable (7/15/16)
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Live Stream of The Stanley Parable (7/15/16)
Live Stream of The Witness - Part 10 (4/22/16)
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Live Stream of The Witness - Part 10 (4/22/16)
Live Stream of The Witness - Part 9 (4/8/16)
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Live Stream of The Witness - Part 9 (4/8/16)
Live Stream of The Witness - Part 8 (3/31/16)
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Live Stream of The Witness - Part 8 (3/31/16)
Live Stream of The Witness - Part 7 (3/25/16)
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Live Stream of The Witness - Part 7 (3/25/16)
43:15
The genie in the bottle is what highlights some of the problems with this game. There’s no way that a person on their first playthrough is not going to open that bottle, and only by opening it and knowing what happens could the player possibly consider giving the bottle to the witch to open
My version had a weird glitch where i couldn't offer him the book to exchange for the Shepards Rook!?😢😢😢 i dont understand it. The book item wouldnt light up white when i selected it and hovered it over him...
Thank you so much for making this compilation!!!❤ i don't think people understand how much time this would have taken!!?😮😮
great stuff, I've been checking your channel periodically for that next part. it's been great fun thinking about all this.
thank God for Prodigy's bulletin boards for hints
I just finished playing through quern so id love to see this become a full series Im also curious is you have played any of the Black Cube games.
This got put on hold at the moment as I'm currently working on a different project, but I'm still interested in returning to this one once it's done. I have not played any Black Cube games. Tell me more, I do stream puzzle games all the time on Twitch...
My childhood 🥲 I think I actually managed nearly every death shown on one of my 4 millions replays. But there were a few I definitely didn't recognize. Those $@#%ing cliffs, man.
Wish the time difference wasn't so late for me. But great stream as always
Hello Shady. Hello everyone also. Thanks for the stream. It was very fun and entertaining. Congratulations on finishing the game. I guess time to get all the achievements, now. This Riven is okay/fine. Some changes are nice, like visiting the village. I concur with the death of the bridge, as it was nice to have the islands connected, and have another way to go through the Islands. This version of Riven seems much easier than the original Riven. Only one puzzle element was difficult for me, the marbles puzzles, with figuring how to subtract and how to add. It took some time before realising it was the number given by the light marble, which I put in the machine without knowing what to do with it. It seemed they updated it with a ding sound, as in your stream. The characters model are a bit better than Myst VR, but I still prefer live and real actors like in the orignal Riven. I had a funny bug/glitch during visiting Gehn's age. I was out of the cage, and I could walk freely during his speech. It was really bizarre. I have some of it recorded, and put it on my channel, if you want to check it, now that you have finished the game. I have one save with this glitched state, meaning I can reproduce the bug for the second visit to Gehn's age. Anyway, I apologise for the long comment, being annoying, and not being able to be here for the whole stream. Thank you, Shady and chat, for the chat, banter, fun, your patience, and your friendship. Have a good day, Sunday, time, and one, Shady and everybody. Cheers. Live long and prosper. God bless you all.
Hey min great stream 🏴
I recommend syberia 3 and 4 on ps4/ps5 and dreamfall 2 on ps4/ps5 they both are good mind...puzzle bender games😊
47:18-"Wee! Wee! Wee-wee!"
Saladin really wanted to use his 'prove your point' line. 😄
21:18 death by Chlamydia
As nice as the real time 3D looks, Riven appears cluttered now. The subtlety that made the original game so good is missing.
Greetings. I don't know if there's anyone still following this video after all these years, but I'll try. I'm playing Riven (old version not the remake) via GOG. But when I click on objects (e.g. the egg in Ghen's lab), the mouse cursor doesn't disappear. What does it mean? Does it still work or maybe the easter eggs were removed in the GOG version?
Hey the next time you go back into the round-hole prison thing, use the glass finder thing to look for marks for the invisible button thing that opens the brick wall thing to the tunnel thing. I bet that thing was intended to make that easier to find and you just missed it the first time around.
So what's wrong with RealMyst: Masterpiece Edition? Rand will never make Myst with the same design/aesthetics but in interactive 3D so RM:ME is the closest we're ever going to get and it deserves a bit more credit.
Just what the Myst series needed! Inventory items! Streamlining! Easier puzzles! Riven is Fixed™ now.
I didn't even notice the pipes were changed to be above water. Thing is, I personally think it's more realistic that they're ABOVE water. The pipes would likely require maintainence from time to time. In the original, they'd have to send divers to make repairs whereas in the remake they'd just need boats.
no need for divers when you can walk into the water holding a torch :D
It's a year since I lost my beloved 19 year old cat, Sofina and gave a home to a darling 22 year old called Marco. How long has it been since losing Joey 😢
It's been almost a year. His last stream was the final Firmament stream, which you can find in the Live tab. You can see him take his last steps about an hour and twenty minutes in, and everyone said their goodbyes at the end of the stream. He died the next morning.
Wouldn't it have made more sense for Alhazred to frame the Winged Ones for stealing Beast's coat of arms, since they could have easily have bypassed the island's traps?
@Humbledingify Yes, but the culprits were more of a game design choice than a story one. The writers wanted the Oracle visit to be the first time you hear of the Druids, and the Beast is the only leader you meet for the first time after that.
I need to find an old computer to play this on immediately
Alexander should've bought that Gnome-Be-Gone to deal with the Isle of Wonder guards.
18:43 that happens all the time. It's called Retconning. It's understandable because they were shooting in the dark when they made Myst in '93. Things change as they build the univers up. At least we don't have a "starwars" on our hands :D 19:52 I have to disagree with your argument, because Myst 1 is a pretty isolated "episode" within the Myst series. Is D'ni even mentioned by name? It's only natural that the expanded universe feel different, but since it didn't exist at the time they couldn't have aligned them. Basically, Myst might as well just have been a one off - is that what you prefer? And the rest of the series were Riven 1, 2, 3, etc.?
I like how Riven feels more believable. I think that's the right word; not realistic. Riven is a fantasy universe and there is nothing realistic about it. I think, those who want Myst to feel like a dream-scape, is in a very small minority. The only thing I truly dislike about the canon universe is that worlds are not created/written, but just handpicked from existing worlds based on the description book.
4:36 She looked at a man through binoculars, the man had the binoculars, she used the binoculars as a saw(should be sawed). I found it difficult to find a sentence with more than two interpretations. "She threaten to kill me in public".
I think the "magic" that is lost is due to moving it into full 3D. You can't make the same game, if you change how it's played and how it looks.
It's 2024. and Myst 4 is still the most graphically appealing to me. And I prefer the 360 degrees node based controls, as it's more relaxing to just play with a mouse. What would pre-rendered backgrounds look like today; HD photorealistic? Because of the URU and DRC (D'ni Restoration Council), and supposably another book cooking, there is room for maybe a new trilogy (w/ pre-rendered graphics and 360 nodes). One can dream.
VR is terrible
It is harder to watch than desktop, but I wanted to get Cyan's preferred experience the first time I played. I'm sure I'll stream it many more times in the years to come on Twitch, in which case I'll probably stick to desktop for those.
@@shadyparadox Would you ever consider doing updated runs to the Myst games you already completed? Because its super old by now yeah? like ten years or more? But I really do love them they have a certain charm being SOOO old ya know?
@Spades2233 I'm happy with the remake of the realMYST series I made a few years ago. It's still my voice from 2009, but there are lots of improvements (including unused lines) that distinguish it enough. I have thought about rerecording the Exile series though. While I do like how it turned out, there are quite a few things I'd do differently now. The reason I haven't is that I have other things I'd rather work on at the moment. But I'll take note that you mentioned it, so who knows!
I really hope they remake Exile. That is my favorite in the MYST series. Any of the other games afterwards, meh unless they change the story, game-play, VA's, and dialog (we don't talk about Catherine's new accent in the 4th game 🤢) to improve them. I think it would be cool if we could get a prequel type of game that shows Atris as a child with his grandmother being the one to help you through the game.
I don't trust what they would do to Exile, given the way their design philosophy has changed in recent years.
Not an adventure puzzle game, but I'd love a playthrough of you playing Still Wakes the Deep. For an adventure puzzle game I'd adore a plathrough of a classic, Zork Nemesis
Wish I could of watched this live. Loved the recording though. I'm still impressed with how good cyan are at recreating their 2d worlds into real-time 3d in completely different engines. The vr made me feel nausea though so prefer non vr playthroughs. Vr must be so bad to your eyes being so close.
Great stream! I don't think I like this version of Riven but I enjoyed watching you play it. Walking you the edge of the Fire Marble Dome was cathartic.
I loved it. I played it somewhat blind on my own channel. I've only recently begun playing games on my channel using my actual voice - for a while, I only did lyric videos - and I wanted to play Riven. I played realMyst first, of course, but Riven had to be next. I'm already done with it, and let me tell it you, it was an awesome experience.
are you gonna do a letsplay?
I'm not sure. The new changes have taken away some of the better ideas I had. The game seems to have become more linear, which will make it harder to keep the videos interesting.
Thanks for the stream Shady. It was very fun and enjoyable. I hope you're enjoying this version of the game. It's nice to see your reactions and your thoughts on the positive and the negative points of the game. Good job by the mods. I really don't envy their responsibilities with moderating chat. Bravo. Thanks for the chat and fun, Shady and chat. Thank you for your patience and friendship. Have a good one and day, everyone. Cheers.
Very nice 😊
This is one of the most meticulous and thorough death reels I've ever seen.
Is it possible at all to complete the cliff before visiting the Isle of Wonder, as long as you don't head toward the mountain?
@@Humbledingify Yes. You can also meet the Winged Ones if you want. Since you're not prepared, they'll just send you to the beach. However, this means the game won't tell you when you are ready later.
My favorite from all MYST games, just, bliss
I think you hamstrung yourself by not laying out both ideas at the start. People can only react to the antithesis without really having a good idea of what the thesis will be. As a fan of video essays, I will say that a two hour video is always a treat. I don't watch them all at a stretch, I switch between watching, listening, and taking breaks. Not exhausting at all.
Cyan's changes don't bother me that much but you made some interesting points in your last video. The tendency to overexplain and rationalize things is a bit strange. You might be interested to see this clip from a panel with Rand, Robyn, and the director of the Myst documentary where they directly discuss this shift in philosophy - it starts 49 minutes in ua-cam.com/users/liveuASJUW5K7vc?t=2940
4:10 😂
_"Oh, by the way. You're about to be fired."_ Gotta love the way Gary Owens says that.
Yes, the deforestation is annoying but otherwise RealMyst is a nice way to explore the world in 3d. It's really sad how they changed the Channelwood water switches to accommodate VR. The problem with RealMyst is down to the scale of the island, which is why there's less trees. It would be hard to make the forest just as dense as it was in the original. If they had scaled the island up a little bit, I think it would have looked better (say 50% larger). Similarly Channelwood has an issue with the scale of the switches in Myst VR - or rather their height. The metal levers do not fit the age and I think a good compromise would have been to raise up the switch so that they sit at a comfortable height without changing the age too much (see for example the bridge you have to extend to reach the other platform inside the big dome in Riven which is placed at a decent height but might control something below the player) I really like the effort you're putting into this and; I think you could learn something from watching the more recent videos of Dilandau3000 as they generally have a very good narrative and if it was possible, I would love to see a video of you two just discussing the Myst series and maybe other Cyan games too. And here's a last little nugget: Rime is just a play on the word "prime" as it would "prime" you for visiting Riven. (this is my interpretation, not a fact)
Music from the Sims feels like an odd choice.
I do the 1st doom fate with the 🐍 0:51
Oh hi new video. I'll leave this here too, then. What the original had that I'm missing more on each iteration of Myst, is the eery, dark, creepy, ominous feeling of being somewhere I'm not SUPPOSED to be. Liminal space like. While it never was a horror game, many locations gave me the shivers down the spine. THAT is what I'm missing the most today. I do like the remakes for the 3D aspect of them, other than the poorly animated characters breaking my immersion whenever they come on screen. Greatly prefer the FMV modes, which isn't a thing for the otherwise pretty good Riven remake I'm playing rn.
What the original had that I'm missing more on each iteration of Myst, is the eery, dark, creepy, ominous feeling of being somewhere I'm not SUPPOSED to be. Liminal space like. While it never was a horror game, many locations gave me the shivers down the spine. THAT is what I'm missing the most today. I do like the remakes for the 3D aspect of them, other than the poorly animated characters breaking my immersion whenever they come on screen. Greatly prefer the FMV modes, which isn't a thing for the otherwise pretty good Riven remake I'm playing rn.