We've recently been playing #Obduction, gosh what an exercise in mind numbing repetitive tedium some of the puzzles are. It's basically a massive walking simulator with just a bit of mystery thrown in. I suspect we may park it for #BG3 and never return.

#Gaming #PCGaming

Myst's re-releases, sequels, and successors are going cheap in the next Humble Bundle - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/mysts-re-releases-sequels-and-successors-are-going-cheap-in-the-next-humble-bundle #Riven:TheSequeltoMyst #ActionAdventure #VirtualReality #PointandClick #AcclaimGames #HumbleBundle #SinglePlayer #MaximumGames #MidwayGames #Firstperson #Nintendo3DS #NintendoDS #CyanWorlds #Obduction #Strategy #Shooter #Puzzle #Midway #Indie #myst #PS4 #PSP #Mac #iOS #PC

Finished playing #Firmament by @cyanworlds tonight. Pretty good. I didn't enjoy it as much as #Obduction for various reasons, but as always I recommend it for people who like MYST-type games. It does have gorgeous graphics, as always.

Might do a blog post about it, as I have a few specific thoughts.

Kotaku: Myst Studio's New Game Has Loads Of AI-Generated Stuff https://kotaku.com/myst-firmament-cyan-studios-ai-machine-writing-art-pc-1850505094 #gaming #tech #kotaku #entertainment2cculture #singleplayervideogames #puzzlevideogames #gregoryaveryweir #videogamesequels #windowsgames #videogaming #cyanworlds #videogames #mystgames #obduction #pcgames #nvidia #riven #myst

Thanks to #Lutris and #Fedora and #WINE for letting me play the new #Cyan game #Firmament and the older one #obduction
It's awesome that the games will fully run in my #Fedora environment with no tweaks. There's some AMDGPU bug that crashed on launch, but I swapped to an #IntelARC gpu and it's much more stable. Can't get into the 3rd world without an engine crash, but there's a patch not out on GOG yet I hope to try. The devs don't "support' linux so hard to troubleshoot game crashes. Oh well.

@mrawdon @cyanworlds I never finished Obduction, I had a cross-country move interrupt my initial playthrough and just havent gotten back to it. I started #Firmament, but I almost feel like I should go back and finish #Obduction first.

Looking forward to spending a bunch of time this weekend playing #Firmament by @cyanworlds

Makes me think I should go back and play #Obduction again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ1PbvBVRuM

Yaaaaaaay I am so hyped up about this! :blobcat_party: I finished their last game, Obduction, quite recently and it was great! Environmental storytelling at its finest, just like Riven.
Now I can't wait to play Firmament in VR!

(if you're interested this kind of modern Myst-like, give it a wishlist on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/754890/Firmament/ )

#Cyan #Firmament #Myst #Riven #Obduction

Apr 11, 2023 - Day 101 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 108

Game: Obduction

Platform: Steam PC
Release Date: Aug 25, 2016
Library Date: Mar 22, 2018
Unplayed: 1846d (5y20d)
Playtime: 47m

As Obduction loaded up, it seemed like the kind of game I'd like. Kind of the polar opposite of yesterday's game, Kingdom; it's really pretty... and I found it deeply frustrating.

At its core, it's a first-person 3D puzzle game. I like puzzle games. Right off the bat, the interactions with the in-game characters annoyed me. You activate these projected pre-recorded video bites, and something about them just set my teeth on edge.

When you interact directly with an "in-game" character though, that really broke my concentration. The character appears pre-recorded & pre-rendered, and it's almost impossible to make out the critical info they're saying.

On top of this, interacting with the various devices in the world momentarily locks your view on the object you're interacting with. Consequently, with one of the early puzzles, I gave up in frustration, only to find that I was *so* close to solving it, and it would have been obvious, had cause & effect not been disconnected by the locked view.

There might be a reasonable puzzle game underneath the frustration, but I'm not sure I want to spend the time finding out.

Obduction also works in VR, so I'm reserving a final rating until after I try VR, but right now, it's:

2: Meh

#Obduction #Puzzle #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay

Our ongoing #livestream of #skiesofarcadia is happening at 9pm CST tonight!

Join us tonight to catch up on what the Blue Rogues are up to. Next stop--the Yellow Gigas!

https://youtu.be/45seiq8EZTU

The link to our main #youtube channel is on our profile, where you can catch our past #livestreams of Skies of Arcadia as well as #obduction and Everyone's Gone to the Rapture.

Hope to see you there tonight!

Every now and then, I get the urge to jump back into gaming franchises that I haven't touched for a while for various reasons. I'm now reinstalling all of the games from the #Myst series and its spinoffs/spiritual successors

#Myst #Riven #Uru #Obduction #Gaming #VideoGames #RetroGaming

@markmccaughrean i spent the weekend trying to convey to my adult sons the wonder and magic of Myst. i also played Riven. now trying to find #Obduction, a later game by the same makers.

So I've seen #VideoGames #Introduction posts out there and given that that's my whole jam, I thought I'd join in.

Top 5:
#Rimworld
#BlackDesertOnline
#Minecraft (I have two #Spigot plugins)
#Overwatch
#EliteDangerous

The first three I still play today.

Recent games I've enjoyed in no particular order:
#BeaconPines
#Cloudpunk
#OurLifeBeginningsAndAlways
#Obduction
#DivinityOriginalSin2

Kostenlos bei Epic Games: OBDUCTION

Beim Spiel OBDUCTION handelt es sich um ein Game aus dem Hause Cyan, Inc., den Machern von MYST. ...

https://phantanews.de/wp/2021/07/kostenlos-bei-epic-games-obduction/

#Computerspiel #Cyaninc. #EpicGames #fürlau #kostenlos #Myst #OBDUCTION

#Obduction #PS4share https://t.co/3AVtm90bAv

#Obduction #PS4share https://t.co/ZqdDQZEnzz

I love #Obduction ! #PS4share https://t.co/kPWOyIfi29