![]() ![]() These folks were usually raised on the Sierra and LucasArts traditions of third-person adventures - games that were filled with other characters to interact with, objects to pick up and carry around and use to solve puzzles, and complicated plot arcs unfolding chapter by chapter. Much of this vitriol comes from the crowd who hate any game that isn’t violent and visceral on principle.īut the more interesting and perhaps telling brand of hatred comes from self-acknowledged fans of the adventure-game genre. For a huge swath of gamers, Myst has become the poster child for a certain species of boring, minimally interactive snooze-fest created by people who have no business making games - and, runs the spoken or unspoken corollary, played by people who have no business playing them. Their passion was such that, when Cyan gave up on an attempt to turn Myst into a massively-multiplayer game, the fans stepped in to set up their own servers and keep it alive themselves.Īnd yet, for all the love it’s inspired, the game’s detractors are if anything even more committed than its proponents. Whatever the merits of that argument, the hardcore Myst lovers remained numerous enough in later years to support five sequels, a series of novels, a tabletop role-playing game, and multiple remakes and remasters of the work which began it all. Then, by the end of the decade, it was lamented as a symbol of what games might have become, if only the culture of gaming had chosen it rather than the near-simultaneously-released Doom as its model for the future. In the years immediately after its release, it was trumpeted at every level of the mainstream press as the herald of a new, dawning age of maturity and aesthetic sophistication in games. ![]() Myst‘s admirers are numerous enough to have made it the best-selling single adventure game in history, as well as the best-selling 1990s computer game of any type in terms of physical units shifted at retail: over 6 million boxed copies sold between its release in 1993 and the dawn of the new millennium. Even today, everyone seems to have a strong opinion about it, whether they’ve actually played it or not. Myst would prove to be one of the most polarizing games in history, loved and hated in equal measure. Their reaction was the exact opposite: they loved the game. But then, just as the Miller brothers were wondering whether they had wasted the past two years of their lives making it, the second group came in. Much to its creators’ dismay, they hated the game. Robyn and his brother Rand reluctantly agreed, and soon the first group of guinea pigs shuffled into Brøderbund’s conference room. When the game was nearly finished, he says, its publisher Brøderbund insisted that it be put through “focus-group testing” at their offices. This is where the problem i originally said comes in when trying to reinstall those programs that are not local.Robyn Miller, one half of the pair of brothers who created the adventure game known as Myst with their small studio Cyan, tells a story about its development that’s irresistible to a writer like me. ![]() And that is how the add/remove list is compiled. it doesn't matter where a program is installed as long as you have windows install it there will be directories on the local "C" drive telling the system where it is and that is installed. That doesn't make any sense because I also have a 1 SSD 2 HDD system and all my games installed on the other drive show up under programs and features. I have Remember Me, COD MW2, Far Cry 3, Mass Effect 1, 2 and 3 on my WD Black HDD (E Drive) and none of them show up in Programs and Features. I have WoW on my main C drive (the SSD) and it shows up in Programs and Features. ![]() The original Win 7 OS on the original SSD had not, and has not changed. Only after I installed that second HDD did I even install games. Then I added a second HDD - the one that contains the game files. When I built the computer I only installed the SSD and Win 7 64 bit. That's not what I did, as I said earlier. It sounds like you had the games installed on the 2nd HDD and then added the SSD and installed the OS on it. If you actually installed the games on the 2nd hard drive while the SSD was acting as the OS, they would be in the remove programs list. ![]()
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