{"id":1633,"date":"2012-05-06T18:01:07","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T16:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/satrapov.net\/mysst\/?page_id=1633"},"modified":"2017-01-20T23:25:22","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T22:25:22","slug":"myst-masterpiece-edition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.grafskaya.club\/mysst\/detailed-reviews-g-z\/myst\/myst-masterpiece-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Myst Masterpiece Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also known as MME. &#8216;The same, but better&#8217; sums this one up quite nicely. Almost all this version does is update the graphics and the audio. The original game was released at a time when mainstream computers couldn\u2019t handle 24-bit images, so the developers had to reduce them to 8-bit and find a way to conceal the image quality loss. They mostly succeeded, but when technology caught up in 1999, they simply decided to re-release a better-looking version of the game. Still, it\u2019s very likely that you\u2026won\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/grafskaya.club\/mysst\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Comparison.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1634\" title=\"MME on the left, original on the right\" src=\"https:\/\/grafskaya.club\/mysst\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Comparison-300x138.jpg\" alt=\"MME on the left, original on the right\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.grafskaya.club\/mysst\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Comparison-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.grafskaya.club\/mysst\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Comparison-500x231.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.grafskaya.club\/mysst\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Comparison.jpg 593w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>actually notice the difference, unless you specifically compare two frames from each game side by side. The audio is better, the music having been remastered and new sound effects added, but again, unless you specifically compare the two, chances are you won\u2019t notice the difference.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So what\u2019s the point of this remake then, you ask? Well, it does add a bunch of frames to the game, meaning new views of each age from different angles. It also adds a help system, which contains maps and hints for each age. While I think it\u2019s superfluous, I\u2019m also speaking from the perspective of someone who knows the game pretty much by heart, so it\u2019s now a bit harder for me to judge what people might find difficult or not. And yes, navigation can sometimes pose a problem, I guess, as on the first level of Channelwood, with its identical-looking huts, or on Selenitic, with its thick fog.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The other argument in favour of this remake is the fact that it\u2019s more recent and therefore more likely to play nice with modern-day computers. In fact, I\u2019m not even sure whether it\u2019s possible to run the original game anymore, even in compatibility mode.<\/p>\n<div class=\"csRow\">\n<div class=\"csColumn\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 25.3%;\" data-csstartpoint=\"0\" data-csendpoint=\"243\" data-cswidth=\"25.3%\" data-csid=\"13cc5179-7bb8-c0ea-b02e-b49f953b595d\">\n<p><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/..\/detailed-reviews-g-z\/myst\/music\/\"><strong>&lt;&lt; Back to: Music<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumnGap\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 44.3%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.satrapov.net\/mysst\/wp-content\/plugins\/advanced-wp-columns\/assets\/js\/plugins\/views\/img\/1x1-pixel.png\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"csColumn\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: left; width: 30.4%;\" data-csstartpoint=\"668\" data-csendpoint=\"960\" data-cswidth=\"30.4%\" data-csid=\"792c2869-6d42-9d42-b576-35ed3bdc47c1\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.satrapov.net\/mysst\/detailed-reviews-g-z\/myst\/realmyst\/\">Forward to: RealMyst &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also known as MME. &#8216;The same, but better&#8217; sums this one up quite nicely. Almost all this version does is update the graphics and the audio. The original game was released at a time when mainstream computers couldn\u2019t handle 24-bit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grafskaya.club\/mysst\/detailed-reviews-g-z\/myst\/myst-masterpiece-edition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1582,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grafskaya.club\/mysst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grafskaya.club\/mysst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grafskaya.club\/mysst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grafskaya.club\/mysst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grafskaya.club\/mysst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.grafskaya.club\/mysst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10761,"href":"https:\/\/www.grafskaya.club\/mysst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1633\/revisions\/10761"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grafskaya.club\/mysst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grafskaya.club\/mysst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grafskaya.club\/mysst\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}