in the vein of "the tetris effect", i propose "the riven effect", in which prolonged exposure to riven causes you to fuck with every object in your surroundings in a desperate search for a deeper meaning
i'm making progress
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thousands are sailing
the same self the only self
self willed the peril of a thousand fates
a line of infinite ends finite finishing
the one remains oblique and pure
arching to the single point of
consciousness
find yourself
starting back
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in reply to @Webster's post:
wow this is like the opposite of AAA games that explicitly train you to ignore the environment because none of it is interactive
the best use-case for modern-day graphical fidelity (and virtual reality) is games like Myst and Riven, not shooters where you run around too fast to take anything in, and [continues hour-long rant that she's been harping on since like 2010]
in reply to @Webster's post:
it looks like it should be a button but it's not, need to solve an earlier part of the puzzle maybe?
I think you might have to fill in the hexagon. Are there any green fluids in the service closet you just opened?
Haha this is great. I always feel like a huge dummy every time I play a Myst or Myst-style game because it asks you to recognize so much in your surroundings.
I'm glad that the King has returned so we can stop attributing this to The Witness
Legit thrilled at the Cyan renaissance happening now with the Riven remake
as it turns out, some of the people who were working at Cyan previously worked on The Witness
One of my big breakthroughs was realizing that all these machines were designed by a civilization that uses a base-10 positional number system.
My favourite thing about first-person puzzle games like Riven: I can fuck around with funny objects and unscrew things and press buttons and whatever without fear of breaking something important