Let's Play: Riven - part 2 - Let's Read: Atrus's Journal

Watch me read a journal aloud! Amazing excitement to be had!

Yeah, so it's a bit boring, but I didn't want to skip the journals. If you don't feel like watching this, just skip ahead to part 3.

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• rand
• miller
• atrus
• gehn
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• journal

[Gibbagobba]

What OS did you run this on?

[Dilandau3000]

@Gibbagobba Windows 98 running in Virtual PC. It should also work fine on Windows XP, but I had some minor sound glitches with recording which is why I used 98.

[Gibbagobba]

@Dilandau3000 How do you run a virtual PC?

[Dilandau3000]

@Gibbagobba Download either Microsoft Virtual PC or VMWare Player. Both are free, the latter will work slightly better for games. Then create a virtual machine with the OS of your choice (you will need your own OS install media for this; if you have Windows 7 Ultimate you can download XP Mode for free, which includes a pre-installed VM with XP).

[TehNevs]

you have a great voice for this, will keep watching

[Surumii]

Ahh love how you did this :) hate when they make you pause the video and read it yourself. The quality is often so poor, it' a terrible struggle.

[supaHaf]

@Dilandau3000 I know it has to be like you say, everything else wouldn't make much sense. The thing that sparked these thoughts was that I watched the Intro to Myst again. We see that the book landing in front of our feet and don't hesitate and pick it up, which leads us to the stranger's story. Artistic license, I assume :)

[Dilandau3000]

@supaHaf It took 30 years between the book falling into the fissure and the stranger finding it. There's no indication it spent all that time falling. It probably just lay about in the desert.

Furthermore, we know the stranger didn't spend 30 years falling, since he meets Atrus again just ten years later in Myst 3. In Uru it only takes the player seconds to traverse the fissure after completing Yeesha's journey.

[supaHaf]

@TheScurvyNinja I'm sorry, i must have been unclear in my formulation. I mean: In the end of Riven [SPOILER] we fall into the Fissure, and our fall would have ended near the cleft in Mexico. But when Atrus trapped Gehn on Riven by throwing the Myst book into the fissure, it took about 30 years to arrive on earth, where the stranger used it (At least, that's what it looks like). So since the book fell 30 years through the void, wouldn't we take equally long? Or am I overlooking something?

[TheScurvyNinja]

@supaHaf No, actually. The star void is the place between the worlds. The [SPOILER] hole in Riven that opens [/SPOILER] leads there. The books create a link between worlds like a wormhole. So using books you don't actually go through the void.

[supaHaf]

I don't know if you answer this in a later video, or if my thoughts are flawed, but:

In the beginning of the first game we see the Myst Linking book fly down to earth, for us to be picked up. And there is virtually no pause between the ending of Myst and the beginning of Riven. Ergo our Myst book must have traveled through the star fissure for some 30 years. So, when the stranger jumps into the fissure at the end of this game, wouldn't he too fly through the void for this long? Bit disheartening

[bennyc500949]

o bougth Riven on steam but it doesnt work for me

after the intro completes and im standing in riven i cant click anywhere! :(

[BmdXxx]

i wonder how atrus tested to see if his prison books worked?

[BmdXxx]

these video's are so perfect to listen to whilst doing boring homework, your voice is really soothing, and I find doing homework more interesting