Good Riven Ending

[ixplosion]

rand miller is a truly spectacular and captivating narrator. somebody become a director and take on this cinematic goldmine of a project.

[aptspire]

1:55 "SPAAAAAAAAAAAACE!"

[Marein86]

Dear fellow fans! Riven is being remade in 3D - an awesome project similar to realMyst. Check out the progress and please consider donating! Link in description.

[macadoolahicky]

@Marein86 I got excited until you said "similar to realMyst"

I was hoping more like Revelation. That game's graphics were PHENOMENAL

[SidNightWalker]

I just beat this game after having installed it months ago when GoG released it.A simply amazing, amazing game, even after all these years it's just as captivating and awe inspiring as one could ever ask for a game to be.

[okamiyazaki]

Falling through the stars at the end of this game was so cool... it really sparked my imagination.

[MilleniumLP]

One thing i cant understand: Why Atrus bring the Player not back to D´Ni and let him fall in the Star Fissure?????

[unclealand]

@MilleniumLP The Player doesn't belong in D'Ni. The Player is from here, Earth. Remember, first we found the book and accidentally crossed over into Myst. After Myst, we were asked to help rescue Catherine in Riven, and Atrus told us "If this goes well, we might be able to get you back to where you came from." Falling through the star fissure is how the book got to Earth, and it is how the Player will eventually get back.  Corny, but it was fun.

[onigiriponystaar]

Ohhhh. So falling through the fissure is a good thing! That makes much more sense. When my sister and I played it, I guess we forgot to rescue Catherine, and Atrus got mad and threw us into the fissure. It was scary.

[zak779]

A game (as is Myst and Uru in my opinion) without parallel. I remember playing it very very well, but it;s also nice to see a video as this to remind one of it at the same time. I know I will have to play it again from the beginning.

[LicensetoIL]

A film of this game could be pretty cool, if it had the right director/actor etc.

[Craziness714]

Ah. The first video game I ever played. How fondly I think of the frustration you gave me.

[SJothra]

Having watched this, and remembering the intro to Myst, it seems that this 'sequel' is actually more like a prequel.

[eedobaba7726]

@SJothra

The intro to myst is very much foreshadowing the end of riven, but it's not the same event. the intro to myst is when young atrus jumped into the fissure to escape Gehn and trap him on riven. This is also seen in the third Gate room slide and described in detail in the book of atrus.

[ninjb42]

this game has some sweet graphics for being made in '97

[JWRandall423]

Yeah, thanks, Atrus. Thanks for holding the book over the gorge. Don't make it easy for me to get back home, friend-o; even though you said at the beginning there might be a way for you to do that. Just let that book conveniently plunge into the freakin' void, dumbass! I cheated my way -- uh, I mean, I struggled my way all through this game, just to have you do me in the butt like this! Wonderful! This is why Riven is one of my favorite games of all time! I love to get reemed in the end!

[SentraMaster]

@JWRandall423 Actually the whole point is that you fall through the fissure and land right back on Earth. The original Myst linking book seen in the intro to Myst fell through the fissure to Earth in the same fashion. Atrus helps you get back home by sending you plummeting into the fissure.

[JWRandall423]

@SentraMaster Hmmm. Well, that's only if "the power of assumption" can be used as a principle in physics. Something "falling" through space is not always going to land in the same place it landed before. Well, anyway, the game is still my favorite of all the series, and one of my favorite games, period. So, I just got to grit my teeth everytime it comes to its streaky conclusion, I suppose.

[SentraMaster]

@JWRandall423 I agree, it was a dangerous assumption by Atrus (unless his knowledge of the Art allowed him to conclude with certainty that things would play out with you returning safely to Earth), but still very dramatic, and a great way to end the game, in my opinion. =)

[JWRandall423]

@SentraMaster Atrus never struck me as someone, Art or no Art, as someone who could grasp things with the god-like certainty that would be required to assume what he assumes. Admit it, S-Master, you're just more fogiving of what he did, than I am. You just had more fun floating through the abyss of space, waiting for the sequel to come out, than I did. And that's fine. Maybe that makes you the better person. But, I'll tell you what; Atrus got crossed of my X-mas list, after that little stunt.

[SentraMaster]

@JWRandall423 Lol, fair enough. But in all seriousness, if you read the novels, it will make more sense why Atrus is able to reasonably conclude what will happen if you fall through the fissure.

[JWRandall423]

@SentraMaster Ah, well, I can't claim to have read the novels. I'm still trying to finish "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman". Doesn't look too good for the home team on that one, though.

[mike4ty4]

@JWRandall423 However, you have to remember this game is a world of fantasy more than hard science. So it's more like a magic portal than going through "space" (and if it were actually space, you'd be killed by the vacuum.).

[JackLeft13]

GAH, I was playing through this recently, but it glitched and even after I restored power to them the linking books in the dome don't work! I'll just have to settle for this and move onto Exile.

[Phygar1]

@JackLeft13 lol did you get the combo from the dudes journal in the building?

[TheGiik]

I want to live in a world like Myst.

but then I'd have no idea what the heck to do because I'd be stuck on islands all the time.

[eedobaba7727]

I love the fact that in alternate scenes characters begin with the same words before the variable presents itself.

[theMETEORID]

I Love RIVEN !

[RisingDawnStudios]

I think this is the first game that implemented different endings.

[wwwHOOPCAPITALcom]

he jumped into the book

[cosmozelda]

I Had this game but my aunt lost in his car His car was stolen 

[CatConnoisseur]

Best ending to any game ever. Brilliant.

[mrfamous333]

I was playing URU today and I found the telescope and the metal bits lying around near the cleft! Whoa! I guess that's further proof that the Myst book fell to Earth.

[moietybaby]

This was such a rewarding end after all these hours of wandering around in that beautiful and slightly creepy enviroment which is RIVEN. It took time to play the game but i've never played a better game than this.

[gnetix1]

Hey can anyone tell me how to get the 'full screen' aspect ratio on Riven? I've tried a few different ways, but can only get the small centered box.

[TheFunwaregames]

I played this with my family when i was little.

[biglavignero4ever]

what had happened to myself?

[youvebeenthunderstru]

When the telescope cracks the glass and everything is sucked into that combination thing, that's really scary when you play it for the first time. It has a real effect to it.

[FlyingAce1015]

I still don't under stand the ending maybe I should find a computer bad enough to play it

[762full]

Riven had the best ending, and should have been the last Myst game.

(Myst V never should have been made)

Perhaps switching Riven with the some Myst IV-like game would have been ok, but Riven and this ending should have been the last in the series.

[uosasd2]

@762full - I think that they probably made this game thinking that it may be the last game in the series, because this ending could really imply the end OR a continuation. Monetary and/or business reasons were probably the cause of the later Myst games. I agree that Myst would have a more awesome legacy if this was the way it ended.

[DriftRoach]

@762full

i think Myst III was pretty damn good, but Uru is where i put my foot down, that whole story line just made my heart sink

but i ahve to agree, this would ahve been an excellent note to end the series on

[Whitegamer009]

I miss this game it was awesome!

[Marein86]

It still is!

[202saphira]

@Whitegamer009 they have it at best buy

[numgun]

Bloody hell, I just found a game that my friend's dad was playing and we were watching with my pal as he got this ending. I was like 8-9 years old back then and didnt know english, so it was all like "wtf is he doin man?".

I might just try playing this one myself one day. Could be a good change after years of blowing shit up.

[NameNotNeeded]

It could be implied that Earth is the foundation for all Ages in Myst. (They all borrow elements wordly to us) With that in mind, books may have their own 'space' that they exist in, so anything that should somehow break out of an Age would make it's way back to square one - our world.

It's some guess to the cryptic, undetailed ending

[Martinofredwall100]

Riven

[Martinofredwall100]

I had Rive once, but now I can't find it!

[ziggypotter]

Wow, Riven! I do like the Riven Kathryn better than the Exile Kathryn.

[wario22]

does that mean URU is set before or affter myst 3, because from that ending it looks like the begining of URU.

[7SethMurrant7]

lol my aunty got me into this game

her name is catherine

[TheEldritchMask]

I loved this game.

I dont think there has been a series of games like this that have captured the imagination...

OK Resident Evil but onl because of the funny camera angles and zombies.

The Myst games were in a world of their own.

Cheers

[cixelsyD1988]

Love the ending monologue.

[SwedishBerzerker]

Thanks man! I recently finished the game on playstation almost entirely by myself (except the fire marble puzzle and the stone ring puzzle) for the first time, and I didn't really understand the ending. I couldn't figure out why Atrus wanted me to die, and didn't send me home. Well of course that doesn't seem reasonable, but now I know! Really an awesome game, with one of the best stories ever (the same goes for the other Myst games). :D

[eedobaba7726]

Best game ever. In my opinion, the original Myst saga ends here. Cyan only planned to make this as the last game, and I feel it's pretty final.

[kendogoldensun]

why does Atrus want you dead and floating arroud the space??

[VideoGameGet]

Yea y got the game but it fuck up by ps3 shit blue-ray damage shit and it cant read it on ps1 or ps2 or ps3 but y allways love this game but y fell like taking air fresh a puzzle no time limit just be calm think and do it but it really fuck you brain up y just pass to the second island now y cant pass to the third you know my cd shit fuck up! HOW Y CAN AGAIN PLAY THIS GAME!!!

[kr33chure]

what the hell are u trying to say

[emilyrln]

had to watch the happy ending after seeing all the bad ones... cheered me right up :D

Riven... what a game!

[SamusV4]

does anyone else consider the fact that half-life 2 could tie in good with myst? The Combine find Atrus?!?! LOL

[radioactivegamer]

I always thought the main character in Half life looked like Atrus a little.

[franklyhot08]

im playing riven right now! lol

[milodaman2]

it's a wonderful game.

as are the rest of the myst games.

[Twethereal]

I think this was the best game in the series. Although I really love the different worlds in Exile too. But there is something really special about this one.

[hatake16]

I dont understand, where does he go? Does he just die in space?

[Boadicia]

the star fissure takes you back to Earth; they later summon you to Tomahna in myst 3, though no one explains how

[julianwhite2]

You can survive a while in space with no O2

[Tarshin]

no you can't survive in normal space with o2 or not but this not normal space. it a parallel dimension in which life is sustained as part of it's properties. the black holes you see are portals to other ages and even places in our dimension such as earth. (that's what yer falling towards)

[Omegasigmaepsilon]

Yeah actually you can, space isn't a complete vacuum.

the reason you die is because you can't hold your breath forever and it's only one degree warmer than absolute zero. so you freeze.

[cubezero1]

Actually, you don't freeze for a considerable time, anyway, as there are no particles in space for your body's thermal radiation to be transfered to.

[SamusV4]

then your blood boils because of the lack of air pressure

[SwedishBerzerker]

In Gehn's book I think, he mentions that the Star Fissure actually isn't like you would expect space to be, in fact it has a nice environment that a human can survive in.

[SamusV4]

better be careful, one of those might take you to an alien starship! LOL

[patthebrit3]

This is one of the best games ever made. Enough said.

[jeffreypick57]

I bought and played this game with my son who was about 15 when it first came out, on I believe a pentium one. You could achieve all this on an those minimal computers. It took about 3 months doing a bit each day, thinking about it, writing everything down in a book of clues. The modern equivilent of bedtime reading. Each land was more beautiful than the last. It was hard and there were no walkthroughs in those days.

[morningtidedream]

Riven is truly the masterpiece of the Myst series, the hardest game, the creepiest, the most absolutely mindblowing. The amazing thing about these games are that the graphics are utterly gorgeous even though the game is so old.

[FractalBolt]

I love the idea of the Star Fissure and I love Myst games, they are so mysterious and intriguing, you can't find that atmosphere in most games.

[aarondirebear]

This quality is better than what i saw when i beat the game/

[BlindDogFulton]

I finally get it... Our character went home. That was the starry place Atrus lost the original Myst book in.

Holy fuck, 10 years after I beat the thing I finally get it.

[Twilight8621]

If you really wanna get into it, read the Myst Reader or Myst: The Book of Atrus. You'll understand Riven afterwards.

[aarondirebear]

Yeah, if you'll recall at the start of Myst, he said something to the effect of the book falling through the fissure.

[predator763]

the books are the bomb, and if u read the book of TI'ANA and the book of D'ni, play the URU game: To D'ni. Its asome cause u see what u read.

[Roadkill155]

I've only ever played riven out of the whole series... and that was when it came out, so i would have been 8 years old! and i STILL don't get the ending fully. is uru worth looking into?

[Daveh88]

Yes, you use arrow keys and its fairly good graphics, its weird, you need to really pay alotof attention to things that you read, but definently i would recommend Uru

[Roadkill155]

ill take a peek then - provided i can find the damn thing :P

[Rikushix]

Amazing series. I remember playing the original Myst as a 5 or 6 year old when it came out. Riven was great too, although extremely difficult at some points.

[ebrules]

I realized the moment I fell into the fissure that the book would not be destroyed as I had planned. It continued falling into that starry expanse of which I had only a fleeting glimpse. I've tried to speculate where it might have landed, but I must admit that such conjecture is futile. Still, the thoughts of who might one day hold my myst book are unsettling to me. I realise my fears might never be allayed, and so I close, realizing that perhaps the ending has not yet been written.

[ebrules]

I wrote that from memory, and I haven't played myst in at least 2 years. Go me!

[ebrules]

"Still, the thoughts of who might one day hold my myst book are unsettling to me" should be "Still, the questions of who might one day hold my myst book are unsettling to me"

"I realise my fears might never be allayed, " should be "I know my apprehensions might never be allayed"

I didn't do too badly :D

[Marein86]

Heh, nice work :D I would only have been able to do the first three lines or so...

[wario22]

i can belive this is the only one i havent played, but in the few scenes ive watched ive already learnt how all the games are linked, like the big sword like thing that goes down the hole is in the begining of myst5 and the hole itself is just like the one in uru

[wario22]

and the telicope is in the begining of uru aswell

[spacehelmetforacow]

and a whark skeleton.

[Whilyam]

The best ending for a game on all accounts. No one's topped Riven in my opinion. The attention to detail in the final scene. The metal on the rim around the telescope even distorts as the Telescope hits it. Beautiful. The game's impressionist/abstract structures only added to the great graphics and mind-numbing puzzles.

[stromboldt]

I wish they would still make games like this. Unfortunately, all that's left is FPS, MMORPG, and Simulators. The passion, blood and sweat that went into this game has completely disappeared from the Computer Game Market.

Rob and Rand Miller should make another game by themselves with their original team. I'd pay $100 for one.

[Marein86]

If only more gamers would... :)

[DMACtheking08]

I would

[godobladla]

@stromboldt i join to you. but my mother only lets me to buy games for 20 bucks. and only if i searched this long ago. but for that what you said, i think she will want to buy it too.

[milodaman2]

@stromboldt not for long, me being an indie developer will try to reinvent a myst clone. wish me luck!

[Chrisg586]

@stromboldt Indeed, we can't blame game devs for wanting to make money. I blame today's age of gamers...who have absolutely NO GOOD taste in video games.

[SidNightWalker]

@Chrisg586

Too true.That's the reason why so many great game genres are dead.

[seventhcyborg]

@stromboldt The big problem is, IMO, that most anything that TRIES to break the current trend/mold gets a legion of dumbasses in a fit.

[Shipgate]

I remember being very satisfied with Riven's ending. It was worth all the effort. But I was disapointed I had to fall into the Starry Expanse instead of going with those two.

P.S. I wanted to plow Catherine.

[Kakerot4141]

ditto mi amigo, on all counts, especially Catherine.

[Sean2122dd]

man i would like 2 do that in real life falling into nothingness

[computernoobMATAN]

man me too but only if I LIVED afterwards

[spacehelmetforacow]

the stranger (your character) DOES live afterwards, you fall into the fissure and end up on earth, somewhere in new mexico (the same place you found the myst book in the first game), And end up fit as a fiddle. 10 years later, Myst III happens

[computernoobMATAN]

what i meant was that in real life when u fall into a fissure youd die most of the time. theres also passing out while u fall but that may or may not go with this idk....i wasnt thinking about every detail when i typed that sorry

[arseny1991]

My dad bought this game 10 years ago when i was 5 and i still have not finished it........me and my sister haven't played it for like 8 years now. Will start again, for 1997, the graphics is amazing, looks realistic, what did they use to do that ????

[Kadratos]

probably actors

[circularsawtooth]

Softimage XSI.

[spykassa]

The first time i saw the ending i was like 3 years or somthing so it has stayed with me like a good feeling. i love the atmosphere in the hwole game. a litle brown-ish. and that crack.. i made a prfect drawing of it in my roof. lol

[madmaestro3000]

Awesome! I love how it's like the beginning of the first game. "The ending has not yet been written..."

[WaterSam]

Yeah, that is awesome...and thus he concludes that the ending can never truly be written. Totally Cosmic.

[pyram1dhead]

This woman was my favorite Catherine. She looks and sounds just like I imagined she would from the books.

I didn't care for the Exile one, and Revelation Catherine made me claw my ears off. I don't see why they couldn't have just hired the same actress again instead of changing her every game.

[spacehelmetforacow]

I think its cool how some of the later games pay tribute to this sequence.

theres a whark skeleton in the cleft (desert you start out in in uru)and you can find the giant dagger somewhere in myst 4 (check the official trailer)

[spacehelmetforacow]

oh, and next to the whark skeleton is the telescope!

[kinkoblast]

Not to mention the fissure on Relto in Uru.

[aznrocker9000]

do u fight in myst at all from to looks of it

iunno i think this game is only for smart ppl

[PeterPW]

Not necessarily... a lot of my friends have fun playing through the games with a strategy guide in hand every step of the way, just because some of it is so atmospheric and deep. Of course, these games are quite old now, so the graphics may not impress you like they once could.

[hamerhead12]

So, it ends where the first one began?

[Cr4zyOtaku]

the myst books r really good to read it will give u tons of ansswers and of course a little preview of Myst Revelations

[Macabeak]

That ending was so intense when I first finished this game... A bit disappointing, but all the same, when I first fell into the fissure and glimpsed those stars, I'll be honest- the whole thing just took my breath away. (The whole ending in general, come to think of it)

Beautifully done.

(By the way, I don't remember the clouds skipping like that XD I think the quicktime movie for the sky wasn't working properly on that person's computer!)

[Marein86]

As you can read in the description, it "was added by/after recording, it's not like that in-game." :)

PS: If this comment doesn't show up as a reply to Macabeak's: blame YouTube.

[DrClay999]

yeah i notised that replys arent really showing up and stuff. nice game

[Kyle0Evil0Eye]

kool