YATTA!
Holy GOD! I've been playing Myst III (exile) since 2000..I don't remember, but it's been at least since I used to live in Poughtown and I FINALY((exclamation point Underline)) got out of the lesson age. I started the third game about two years ago after finishing and loving myst and riven. So I'm all excited to do this new game. I went through the puzzles no problem and then I got to this one point and got stuck. Totaly and infinitly stuck. I opened all the tusks, but...... theres these levers and... I can't operate them. They have controls that (if you play myst games) you know must be writen, floating, something somewhere in the island you're on.
"But I didn't miss anything!" I exclaim in panic.
I search the island over again, and over again , and over and over. I can't find a damn thing. I get frustrated, and put it down, thinking that if I come back to it later I might gain some kind of insight as to what I missed. I pick it up again and go through the same process. I find nothing. I go over my notes in my journal. I've drawn out full detailed pictures of everything I saw and I still haven't seen these circle symbols. I'm looking for them everywhere, thinking... well if you tilt your head and squint maybe this symbol can look like it. Now, I'm over thinking the thing. Myst never had puzzles where you had to imagine clues like that. So, ok, I break after a few months and look it up. I get these codes with the previous hint being "have you seen these circles before?" and I'm like.... "NO! FUCK YOU! If I saw them, I won't be here, trying to get the codes!"
So I get them and, in shame, I go back to the game, thinking... "OK, I just have to live with the fact that I needed this one clue. I'll get past it, and just move on and get to having fun with this game again."
Well that doesn't work either! I'm trying and trying and trying. WTF? I finally put the game away for good only to take it out one more time - still an exercise in futility- before this present try. Knowing that Exile is useless, I tried to skip ahead to Uru. I've had Uru for a while, but I didn't want to skip because I felt like I was missing storyline, but I resigned myself to never getting past where I was in Exile. Uru, I sadly find out, has this stupid glitch in it and makes my computer restart everytime I try and enter this one room. SECCOND game down the drain. So, Ok... I'm up against a wall, so I say. ok... time to find answers online for Exile and compare, b/c that guide must have been wrong. I look through a few... one that refuses to just give you the damn things, and then I find this walk through... yeah a walk through for Myst.. why are you playing it? Hints are one thing.... but anyway, I find it and I'm reading, seeing where I missed whatever it was I should have done. I stumble upon :
The second time you ride the elevator up with the fixed controls, it turns around and the gate disappears.
I'm like... wait what?! I fixed the controls how it said so in the book and the elevator didn't turn around for me. I get back under the damn thing and remember, I never rode it up the first time. I found the switches first and changed them (thinking I'm all smart) before I ever got in the elevator. So, I never realized that the scene that plays out up there was stock for when the controls were still broken. I thought it was the 'horray you completed a puzzle' footage I was watching. I see the one thing, ONE THING, I did wrong with the controls and vuallah, I'm up there , the guy links out, I'm in a new room.
There you have it. It's like... being in a stale mate in solitaire, going through the cards over and over and then you see this one move you missed and the cards just stack themselves. I've got the next puzzles like cake, I get the cage down grab my next age and get the FUCK outta J'anin.
AHhhhhhh, peace. Now I can go to sleep soundly finally after two years of being a prisoner on that island, I feel like I really Identify with that character now. :P
"But I didn't miss anything!" I exclaim in panic.
I search the island over again, and over again , and over and over. I can't find a damn thing. I get frustrated, and put it down, thinking that if I come back to it later I might gain some kind of insight as to what I missed. I pick it up again and go through the same process. I find nothing. I go over my notes in my journal. I've drawn out full detailed pictures of everything I saw and I still haven't seen these circle symbols. I'm looking for them everywhere, thinking... well if you tilt your head and squint maybe this symbol can look like it. Now, I'm over thinking the thing. Myst never had puzzles where you had to imagine clues like that. So, ok, I break after a few months and look it up. I get these codes with the previous hint being "have you seen these circles before?" and I'm like.... "NO! FUCK YOU! If I saw them, I won't be here, trying to get the codes!"
So I get them and, in shame, I go back to the game, thinking... "OK, I just have to live with the fact that I needed this one clue. I'll get past it, and just move on and get to having fun with this game again."
Well that doesn't work either! I'm trying and trying and trying. WTF? I finally put the game away for good only to take it out one more time - still an exercise in futility- before this present try. Knowing that Exile is useless, I tried to skip ahead to Uru. I've had Uru for a while, but I didn't want to skip because I felt like I was missing storyline, but I resigned myself to never getting past where I was in Exile. Uru, I sadly find out, has this stupid glitch in it and makes my computer restart everytime I try and enter this one room. SECCOND game down the drain. So, Ok... I'm up against a wall, so I say. ok... time to find answers online for Exile and compare, b/c that guide must have been wrong. I look through a few... one that refuses to just give you the damn things, and then I find this walk through... yeah a walk through for Myst.. why are you playing it? Hints are one thing.... but anyway, I find it and I'm reading, seeing where I missed whatever it was I should have done. I stumble upon :
The second time you ride the elevator up with the fixed controls, it turns around and the gate disappears.
I'm like... wait what?! I fixed the controls how it said so in the book and the elevator didn't turn around for me. I get back under the damn thing and remember, I never rode it up the first time. I found the switches first and changed them (thinking I'm all smart) before I ever got in the elevator. So, I never realized that the scene that plays out up there was stock for when the controls were still broken. I thought it was the 'horray you completed a puzzle' footage I was watching. I see the one thing, ONE THING, I did wrong with the controls and vuallah, I'm up there , the guy links out, I'm in a new room.
There you have it. It's like... being in a stale mate in solitaire, going through the cards over and over and then you see this one move you missed and the cards just stack themselves. I've got the next puzzles like cake, I get the cage down grab my next age and get the FUCK outta J'anin.
AHhhhhhh, peace. Now I can go to sleep soundly finally after two years of being a prisoner on that island, I feel like I really Identify with that character now. :P