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Every few years or so I google for newly discovered hi-res Riven pics. I totally missed the Kickstarter, didn’t know this game even existed (or will exist) until today. Surprise!

The most current release date is June 2016, if I’m not mistaken. I expect that’s over-optimistic… two months to go and they have released just one teaser trailer?

(Cheeky developer blog post about release dates, past & future)

First impressions: What the…? Looks more like Far Cry than a Myst game. (Wrong guess, it also features some classic art deco/art nouveau interiors. How well will this will blend together?)
The Kickstarter marketing blurb is terribly ambiguous. Will it be single- and /or online multiplayer, with optional puzzles/episodes as downloadable content?

Whatever and whenever they deliver, this looks like one hell of an ambitious game. I hope the story and puzzles receive as much attention to detail as the modelling, and they use the Unreal 4 engine to its full potential.
* Obduction Reddit thread - latest news & gossip column

Meanwhile: Starry Expanse is a fan project to make a 3D version of Riven. They’ve posted some very nice screenshots, worth a look.

Coming in july, rererevealed samey trailer.
Art design is super generic , after Witness, Talos ,Rapture or past Riven/Myst, this looks like average fan mod.
Music is cool though.

Even Uru had better worlds.

I found these system requirements for Obduction at Steam and at Cyan support:

System Requirements
Windows Mac OS X

MINIMUM:
OS: Windows 7 SP1 64 bit or newer
Processor: CPU Intel i5-2500 equivalent or better
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 660 GTX w/1GB / AMD 7700 series w/1GB equivalent or better
Storage: 20 GB available space

RECOMMENDED:
OS: Windows 10 64 bit
Processor: CPU Intel i5-4590 equivalent or better
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 970 w/4 GB / AMD R9 290 w/4 GB equivalent or better
Storage: 20 GB available space

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The game doesn’t look “bad” but it doesn’t look like it warrants these requirements either. I wonder how much attention has been focussed on getting it working with Oculus Rift as opposed to getting it looking good on the normal PC setups that most people will be using.

crabapple - 05 June 2016 01:19 PM

I found these system requirements for Obduction at Steam and at Cyan support:

System Requirements
Windows Mac OS X

MINIMUM:
OS: Windows 7 SP1 64 bit or newer
Processor: CPU Intel i5-2500 equivalent or better
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce 660 GTX w/1GB / AMD 7700 series w/1GB equivalent or better
Storage: 20 GB available space

RECOMMENDED:
OS: Windows 10 64 bit
Processor: CPU Intel i5-4590 equivalent or better
Memory: 16 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 970 w/4 GB / AMD R9 290 w/4 GB equivalent or better
Storage: 20 GB available space

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The game doesn’t look “bad” but it doesn’t look like it warrants these requirements either. I wonder how much attention has been focussed on getting it working with Oculus Rift as opposed to getting it looking good on the normal PC setups that most people will be using.

Is there any UE4 release yet that warrants lesser req?

nomadsoul - 05 June 2016 01:25 PM

Is there any UE4 release yet that warrants lesser req?

Going by sites like this UE4 wiki and Googling the specs for the individual games at sites like Steam, there are quite a few.

I wonder who Cyan thinks their target audience is.
I would guess that the number of Myst fans who also play FPS and have state of the art computers is much lower than the number of Myst fans with more modest computers.

crabapple - 05 June 2016 01:57 PM

nomadsoul - 05 June 2016 01:25 PM

Is there any UE4 release yet that warrants lesser req?

Going by sites like this UE4 wiki and Googling the specs for the individual games at sites like Steam, there are quite a few.

I wonder who Cyan thinks their target audience is.
I would guess that the number of Myst fans who also play FPS and have state of the art computers is much lower than the number of Myst fans with more modest computers.

There is Park there in the list, can be a good benchmark.
Wilco can fill you with more details but i reckon UE4 will scale up reqs with more modified versions and poor optimizations.

crabapple - 05 June 2016 01:57 PM

nomadsoul - 05 June 2016 01:25 PM

Is there any UE4 release yet that warrants lesser req?

Going by sites like this UE4 wiki and Googling the specs for the individual games at sites like Steam, there are quite a few.

I wonder who Cyan thinks their target audience is.
I would guess that the number of Myst fans who also play FPS and have state of the art computers is much lower than the number of Myst fans with more modest computers.

You can’t use a terrible game like Alone in the Dark for comparison.
They are using a recent engine with a lot of bells and whistles, makes sense the minimun specs are at least decent. They are close to The Park that doesn’t look anything special to be honest, but runs great.
I just hope the use of the UE4 allows them to avoid the shit perfomances that are included in every Unity 3D game.

Edit: And I do think they should be going for a good Rift perfomance and shouldn’t be afraid to go for high specs. Myst was the CD-ROM launcher, no?

wilco - 05 June 2016 03:36 PM

crabapple - 05 June 2016 01:57 PM

nomadsoul - 05 June 2016 01:25 PM

Is there any UE4 release yet that warrants lesser req?

Going by sites like this UE4 wiki and Googling the specs for the individual games at sites like Steam, there are quite a few.

I wonder who Cyan thinks their target audience is.
I would guess that the number of Myst fans who also play FPS and have state of the art computers is much lower than the number of Myst fans with more modest computers.

You can’t use a terrible game like Alone in the Dark for comparison.
They are using a recent engine with a lot of bells and whistles, makes sense the minimun specs are at least decent. They are close to The Park that doesn’t look anything special to be honest, but runs great.
I just hope the use of the UE4 allows them to avoid the shit perfomances that are included in every Unity 3D game.

Edit: And I do think they should be going for a good Rift perfomance adhouldn’t be afraid to go for high specs. Myst was the CD-ROM launcher, no?

Shitty builtin hardwares back in the day never needed for Prerenderd games, they had built in direct draw software emulation. Others were movie streamers.

Even Syberia didnt req much.

But i have no clue wat card today can run good looking or badly optimized ue4 game.

Unity btw is crap, it has been giving ps4 nightmares.
Heard unity5 has turaround the situation on pc?

Also, Ethancarter was upgraded to ue4, try that since it had more detail than obduction.

nomadsoul - 05 June 2016 04:02 PM

Shitty builtin hardwares back in the day never needed for Prerenderd games, they had built in direct draw software emulation. Others were movie streamers.

 

You got to move away from prerendered and slide-show if you want to move ahead. I think at least Cyan is trying in this case

nomadsoul - 05 June 2016 04:02 PM

Unity btw is crap, it has been giving ps4 nightmares.
Heard unity5 has turaround the situation on pc?

Dreamfall Chapters at least improved, but the game has been released for over a year and episodes delayed multiple times…

Advie - 05 June 2016 04:04 PM

no, KQV was.

Those were all returned the second Cedric spoke

Looks awesome to me too, SpeedBo.

I’ve been following it since Kickstarter and it’s got me checking my spam folder in case I miss the email confirming my order stats.

I was a little leery at the beginning about it ‘til they started adding the textures and all the things that made it look like a true Mysty game.  There’s no doubt now that they’re almost there.

Can’t wait!