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[CyberCrrash75]

ÃŽ the longest title evar



again a warning, this post is about the endings i found... DO NOT read on, if you havent finished the game
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so... this is it, prisoned on our beloves myst island with either Yeesha linking away without saying a word, or Esher becoming a madman...

did i miss something.. this is kinda a bad ending... the game in itself was cool, but the player standing there watching esher becoming crazy and taking all power... this doesnt wrap things up.. what will yeesha do with the tablet? did she even get it? it wasnt in her hands...


arrgh

[CyberCrrash75]

ÃŽ the longest title evar



again a warning, this post is about the endings i found... DO NOT read on, if you havent finished the game
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so... this is it, prisoned on our beloves myst island with either Yeesha linking away without saying a word, or Esher becoming a madman...

did i miss something.. this is kinda a bad ending... the game in itself was cool, but the player standing there watching esher becoming crazy and taking all power... this doesnt wrap things up.. what will yeesha do with the tablet? did she even get it? it wasnt in her hands...


arrgh

[frenyo]

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There is a good ending of course... think... it is very-very simple. Give the Tablet to...

[CyberCrrash75]

sure, but how? i looked around mystobsession forums and they have no idea... mmmhh, actually a challenge to get the good ending... thats good.

But, we do get to go with all the endings to myst island? it was neat, i went there and asked my brother if he recognized it (the las time he played, was years ago)
i read that ti'ana's grave is there in realmyst, is it in myst 5? i couldnt find it.. .(though i dont know where it should be)

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duh.. now i feel stupid, i thought that wouldnt be possible to do... well, got the good ending. quite nice, though i didn't understand, why freeing the bahro would make the new tree grow...
also its sad, that we couldnt explore the last age... but we got a nice view.

the final choice, is also quite symbolic:
is a myst fan supposed to stay in the past, with myst, or to go into the future and go into a new direction.

[DoggThang]

I also didn't quite get the significance of the ending - in ways I'm not sure how this is the 'End of Ages'. Lovely shot at the end though and a nice sense pf completion.

In spite of my frustrating time of trying to get the Bahro to recognise one of the symbols, I felt that this was the easiest Myst yet. In ways this really suited me - I have neither the time nor the patience I used to have. At times though, I was a little disappointed. For example, I drew a big map of the corridors with the coloured buttons, looking forward to working out the significance of the sequence only to find that the answer was simply written on a piece of paper - many of the puzzles were a case of just finding where the answer is written. That said, the Ages were beautiful, the music stunning and the experience of just being there is what made it all worthwhile. A fantastic game and an utter shame that it could well be Cyan's last.

As usual, I was immersed. It's like going on holiday - I will always be grateful to Cyan for giving me these trips away to other Ages.

[CyberCrrash75]

it is a great game, even at 800x600 pixels (i couldnt put it higher, without sacrificng texture and video quality...)

and it was the easiest myst ever, i usuallt needed several days for myst games, even with hints, in myst 5 i needed hints only once at the laki elevator and finished in two days.

the ending really gave a sense of completition...
riven was once the final game, but in that one you just fell in to a hole and saw stars, even if it was a good ending, i never got a feeling like in myst 5, that now truly everything is right, and atrus will never again need my help.

atrus' decision for the new D'ni age is a little weird.. i mean the cavern was chosen so the people would go on writing new and incredible ages, from what i've seen of releeshan and read of book of marrim, they will never again write books as they did in the old D'ni times... really an "end of ages"

[PatTheMav]

Well, well, well .. finished the game in 6 hours and feels a bit like a letdown. Before UBI sent me the game, I thought about purchasing the Collectors Edition for private use, but now I really don't know if those special features are that much a value to me as a no-fanboy (I mean - c'mon, those guys discussing D'Ni History in fanforums are the real fanboys out there, not guys like me just havin' played every Myst game except for URU).

To be fair, the game delivers a sense of closure which is fine in and of itself for a final piece in a series. But when it comes to gameplay, making at least some money was the most obvious target for Myst V. This is not always a bad thing, but "watering" down all puzzles and lowering the difficulty to explore new customers who might've avoided previous Myst games because of this difficulty, brings said feeling of rushing through the game and to have missed something.

Knowing Cyans fiscal problems, this isn't such a bad thing, but for my taste there are too many "experiments" in this final Myst.

First the 3D-Engine - when it comes to the graphical quality, I'm fully satisfied with Myst V. It's just using low-end shader-effects and higher polygoncounts instead, having slightly less environmental designs compared to previous Myst games (especially the water effects would've been better using Shadermodel 2, but would've also reduced the available target audience) and I think nobody expected HDR-driven blooming like that one on top of rivens golden dome.

But when it comes to controls it just never felt right. Fps-controls are simply not Myst, Classic and Classic Plus made me missing the old Zip-Mode and I had to click endlessly and pressing the shift-key meanwhile to move faster (this method is even faster than sprinting in fps-mode). This node-driven classic mode was a good thought, but in my opinion there should've been more efforts to make that mode feel even more "Mystish".

Now this wouldn't be a problem, if the puzzles are right and the puzzles are all true to the Myst-theme, but they're really easy sometimes and I missed those complex machines with different levels of puzzling to solve them completely from the previous games.

To wrap it up, it's a good game, not superb, but still good, it's true to Myst in nearly every aspect, gives us Myst-fans closure, but it's rather short for anyone familiar with that type of puzzles.

For those of you not having high-end rigs, I uploaded some screenshots I've taken today while finishing the game - to view them simply click this URI and then change the number from 01 through 15 :

http://www.patthemav.de/eoa/end_of_ages_01.jpg

BE AWARE - this Image contains a spoiler for some of you :

http://www.patthemav.de/eoa/end_of_ages_16.jpg

[uecasm]

Nuts. I was hoping to do a spoiler tag, or do invisible text or something, but it doesn't look like the forum will let me. So be warned: this post contains a BIG FREAKING SPOILER for the ending (and not a puzzle solution!).

I'm not going to put in massively long spoiler lines, because if you've read this far down a thread with this title and you haven't finished the game yet, then you deserve to get spoiled

Anyway, something odd I noticed in the ending sequence: you get referred to as "my old friend". Just the once. Everything else in the game, however, points at you *NOT* being the same stranger as in previous Mysts (significant elapsed time, plus Yeesha saying that she isn't familiar with you (and she would be familiar with the classic stranger, as s/he was around a lot when she was growing up)). Indications seem to be that either you're someone completely new, or you're one of the Gathered (from URU). Definitely not "my old friend". Slip of the tongue, maybe?

[LeoXGo]

Where does Yeesha say she's not familiar with us? We have to be the stranger, first thing Yeesha says is "if you're looking for my father". Only the stranger would look for Atrus, the Uru called wouldn't be that familiar to him.

[JustBrett]

Yeesha doesn't even introduce herself in her opening speech, leading one to think that she expects to be recognized.

What Yeesha says in the end is that she's not close to the player, not that she's not familiar with the player. There is a slight difference there. You can be familiar with one of your father's old friends without necessarily being close to them. Yeesha saw the Stranger a few times as a child, and then probably didn't see him/her again after she left Tomahna for her journey to D'ni.