I've been a Myst fan for decades and some of these didn't even register as elevators.
@craigm571321 сағат бұрын
Finally someone did it. Always wondered no-one rated the elevators in myst. Thank god.
@pedazodeboludoКүн бұрын
Would kill for a remaster of Myst III: Exile... not likely to happen though. But man, riding the marble coaster in VR would be amazing!
@Ultracity60602 күн бұрын
Not surprised my two favorites are in the top three (fire hydrant easter egg?), and the sing-song squeak of the door to the watchtower elevator is forever burned in my memory. But disqualifying the wahrk gallows right out the gate? Heartless!
@mitchellradspinner44912 күн бұрын
now this is good content
@Derpmind4 күн бұрын
Conclusion: Riven!
@n-razm4 күн бұрын
I had the exact same problem with the steam elevator in Myst 3. It feels so validating to hear someone else complain about such a specific thing lol.
@jadegecko4 күн бұрын
53:50 let's not forget the little kid in the jungle, probably the worst jumpscare in the series
@rhinctus4 күн бұрын
got so excited seeing this video suggested, really good!!
@bruce19474 күн бұрын
Nice video! Brings back so many memories. Riven's golden elevator remains one of my favorite moments in gaming history.
@zazander7324 күн бұрын
This is the kinda content we need right now. Thank you.
@TheZampa4 күн бұрын
Here after finishing the Riven Remake and I'll have to say, it's so great to be back in the series! Exile was my favourite game, because it was the first one I got to play and somehow understood what was going on.
@vektheartist4 күн бұрын
I was wondering where the classic Myst Observatory Tower elevator would go! Discovering that one was very satisfying along with the tree elevator. Now you have to do one with all the rides/vehicles. I personally would put the classic Selenetic Mazerunner at #1 as long as the ride is I love some of twists and turns and the speeds it goes towards the end😂🙌🏾🔥
@StreetSurfersAlex4 күн бұрын
This is great!
@diamondlanguage5 күн бұрын
Engaging, interesting, and fun! Yep, I watched the whole thing and would do it again
@FransLebin5 күн бұрын
Gehn's Great Golden Elevator has always been weird to me. Sure it's pretty, but why is is so extravagent? Why is the inside of it so shabby looking?
@Ava_Hofmann5 күн бұрын
i think i would put the channelwood elevators lower than you did, purely due to the fact that--unlike most elevators in these games--you have to manually close the door to these elevators in order for them to work. that detailed caused me problems similar to what you experienced with the steam puzzle elevator when i played through myst.
@alasanof5 күн бұрын
Most of these elevators feel like dangerous safety violations. I'm sure each of these have injured someone at least once.
@SardonicSays5 күн бұрын
Wonderful all around! Though I would argue that the Bird from Edanna is effectively an elevator, in that it takes a person from one predefined location to another predefined location, mostly vertically. Similar to the leaf but grander and with more of a path. It's kind of mindblowing the level of detail the ages are written to if you think about it. Or rather if you believe the worlds exist before they are connected via linking book out there in the Myst multiverse, how vast the multiverse must be to have this kind of required interaction be a natural consequence of random evolution, then cherrypicked by writing the linking book with something written along the lines of "There must be a bird that carries a cage from the lowest part of the gigantic tree, to its nest in the upper reaches". It's a deep shame we haven't seen these kinds of things explored more fully in the Myst universe. It's an ocean of possibility if you think about it.
@MattGiuca6 күн бұрын
Incredible analysis. I love how you took such a goofy concept and made a real deep look at gameplay/story overlap and character moments. From memory, there are only about 4 elevators in the whole of Uru and I don't think any are particularly interesting. There's one (Gahreesen) that I would notably put at the bottom of the entire series because in the multiplayer version it had a tendency to dump you into the floor and force you to start the whole age from scratch, repeatedly until it luckily worked every so often.
@davidtavernas31676 күн бұрын
I don't know anything about Myst, but this is a really COOL video!
@keiyakins6 күн бұрын
There's... at least two new elevators in Riven 2024. (The gallows is one one of them)
@sambinder3296 күн бұрын
love how they took the crater island - golden dome walkway entirely out in the remake.
@jenbanim7 күн бұрын
I thought you were supposed to brute force the Ameteria weight puzzle solution 🫠
@vabvaab7 күн бұрын
FINALLY
@adamgryu7 күн бұрын
It's about time!!
@Zet237yt7 күн бұрын
I have never played a Myst game. After watching this video, I am eager to play them one day.
@NuminosX7 күн бұрын
All hail the almighty algorithm! Dunno how I got here, but this is some quality content : )
@NthDegree2567 күн бұрын
The elevators in the Great Shaft rank pretty highly for me because the location is straight out of one of the Myst novels, The Book of Ti'ana, which spends some time on the Shaft's troubled and controversial construction - seeing it brought to life on screen almost a decade later was a wonderful surprise! Myst V unfortunately is much more of a sequel to Uru than to any of the other numbered Myst games, as it picks up both plot threads and literal repurposed Ages originally created for Uru. Uru can be kind of a pain to play, especially with some of the physics-based puzzles, but it has some incredible Ages that really feel like Cyan was firing on all cylinders (as well as its own assortment of locations that first appeared in the novels.) I'd say it's worth the effort, if you can find the time.
@boldspiritgamestudio7 күн бұрын
Putting the Amulet Elevator at 13 instead of top 3 or even top 1 is a crime against humanity. More seriously, amazing video, well done! As a huge Myst fan, I love that there's so much personality and mysticism even down to the elevators. People who don't know the series must think of us as crazy hahaha, to be able to make a compelling 1 hour video about them.
@epicfox5678 күн бұрын
Genius content. Do more Myst and Cyan content
@hydrogen-88 күн бұрын
the great shaft and k'veer are two different places - k'veer is a building in d'ni, while the great shaft is part of the path from the d'ni to the surface :o
@keiyakins8 күн бұрын
Time for you to play Uru, I think. It has... between four and ten elevators depending on how you count some edge cases in Kadish Tolesa. Two in Gahreesen, one in Teledahn, zero to six in Kadish Tolesa (I'd say one, personally), one in Er'cana. There's also Jalak which is entirely elevator but it's Jalak lol.
@keiyakins8 күн бұрын
The Great Shaft is not in K'veer... its miles and miles away. In fact it might actually be closer to Tomahna than K'veer!
@Cykelero8 күн бұрын
Loving the video, and seeing all these cool elevators. Also loving some of your memorable quotes! “Next is another elevator from Spire: the fog elevator. I named it as such because it travels through the fog.”
@Cykelero8 күн бұрын
Also love the “only elevator in the series that X” variations. Only plant elevator, only horizontally-moving elevator, only hexagonal/triangular elevator, etc. Very tempted to rank *these*, now.
@hbomberguy8 күн бұрын
I'm so glad someone else has thought about this
@LittleWeevil6 күн бұрын
Please make a Myst franchise is genius video pleasepleaseplease
@StreetSurfersAlex4 күн бұрын
Of all the things I expected from this video with close to 2300 views - a comment from hbomberguy wasn't on my list
@perrincalzada91313 күн бұрын
this feels like the type of video I’d find you commenting on lmao
@teejayburger21362 күн бұрын
@@LittleWeevil he made a patreon exclusive myst video that was really good
@rodlavery5098 күн бұрын
It is pretty remarkable how much better Riven is than every other game in the series. The original was magic and excellent design, but then the sequel somehow managed to dramatically surpass it. Then 3 was enjoyable but perfunctory and stupid, 4 was a bit confused but passionately THE MOST, and 5 was what would result if you asked Gehn to make a video game.
@dustingarner35718 күн бұрын
I don't understand how a game can be as good as Riven. Every time I think about it, it just feels like too much of a real place/story to possible have been created. That being said, despite its flaws, I absolutely love Exile. I consider it my favorite in the series, just because Riven transcends my ranked list of the games. Replaying Revelation infuriates me due to how long it takes to move around and interact with things. I played 5 for the first time just to make this video, and it just felt so different from anything else in the series that I don't even know what to do with it in my head. I completely agree that it feels like Gehn made it.
@NthDegree2567 күн бұрын
"a bit confused but passionately THE MOST" is the best description I've heard of Myst 4 yet.
@SleepyBear_SB8 күн бұрын
Informative, creative, visionary, beautiful, innovative. Truly this is a work of art, keep up the good work.
@dustingarner35718 күн бұрын
Thank you so much!
@BarkleyBCooltimes8 күн бұрын
thank you algorithm for showing me this.
@MiaSteinberg8 күн бұрын
Amazing how you made an entire video just for my Myst fangirl ass, personally ❤
@dustingarner35718 күн бұрын
Any time! ❤
@Dachusblot8 күн бұрын
I think you forgot one: the twisty plant elevator in Edanna!
@dustingarner35718 күн бұрын
While I did see that one being referred to as an elevator in some places online, I considered it more of a staircase (or maybe a spiral elevator). While it does lift you up without you having to walk, there's no platform that is rising along with you. It kind of just shuttles you up. I guess the case could be made, but I didn't think it fit my definition well enough.
@thepurpleriv9 күн бұрын
This might be the nerdiest piece of myst fan content I've seen in ~25 years of online fandom :) I love it though, the way you present it all is really engaging and fun!
@dustingarner35718 күн бұрын
That is such an honor. Thank you for enjoying!
@thepurpleriv5 күн бұрын
Thanks for making it! Would love to see an update or add-on for the Riven Remake too :)
@NSMike879 күн бұрын
By the way, in the Tree elevator in Myst, you don't have to use the button once you turn the gas off. The tree will descend below ground on its own, because the boiler is no longer generating the pressure needed to raise the tree.
@dustingarner35718 күн бұрын
Thank you for the information! I think I just got excited and pressed the button thinking I needed to
@LBetsy3269 күн бұрын
I had no idea i needed this but this is amazing! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Wrincewind.9 күн бұрын
The note you made about the Amateira Fulcrum Puzzle being one of only 2 puzzles that needed information from another age - What about the Selentic age tram-ride? while you /can/ brute-force it, the puzzle relies on you learning the sounds for north/south/east/west from the Mechanical Age's Fortress Rotation Simulation.
@dustingarner35719 күн бұрын
You are completely right, that one slipped my mind. It's even more egregious because you can't go back to Myst or Mechanical unless you've solved the puzzle. I think a lot of people just end up mapping it out.
@Dachusblot8 күн бұрын
You also need information from Spire and Haven to solve a couple of the last puzzles in Serenia, if I recall correctly.
@dustingarner35718 күн бұрын
@@Dachusblot That's true too. I think I didn't think of those because it always felt to me that it's assumed you go to Spire and Haven before you go to Serenia, though I guess it's theoretically possible to go to Serenia first.
@Cykelero8 күн бұрын
To me, the Selenetic maze puzzle *also* teaches you what the sounds mean. IIRC, on the first move, you can only go north; and so you learn the associated sound. Then you can choose between north, south or west; but you came from the south, and the sound is different, so you learn the sound for west. And so on! Though there's certainly an argument to be made that you might completely miss that the sounds mean something, and learning them on Mechanical is the nicer way to go about solving the maze.
@dastrubinator7 күн бұрын
You don't need to learn the sounds from mechanical. At the first few stops there is only one direction to go so you can deduce which directions go to which sounds. Dead ends help you deduce the other sounds.
@Jogwheel9 күн бұрын
This is quality content! :-)
@FiveaceAttorney9 күн бұрын
hey let me get the aux "this isn't the elevators again is it?" ... maybe
@arcaears9 күн бұрын
Never thought about the sheer volume of elevators in these games. Love this!
@dustingarner35719 күн бұрын
I think about it too much
@Divector89 күн бұрын
I can't believe I watched the whole thing... Who am I kidding, I'm a Myst turbo nerd. Of course I watched the whole thing, and a good thing it was.
@dustingarner35719 күн бұрын
Thank you for enjoying! Being a Myst turbo-nerd is a very enriching lifestyle
@zachcepeda9 күн бұрын
1 hour 3 minutes 32 seconds of my life lost, never to be regained