Talk:Myst V: End of Ages

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Does anyone else find it remarkable how the game enforces this warning?  If you take one of the "wrong" endings, you'll find you cannot restore to a previous save - your journal images are nonfunctional.  
Strangely, though, you CAN restore to a previous image after beating the game with the "good" ending - by clicking "continue", you wind up in the Keep, faced with the decision all over again, but as before, if you choose a "bad" ending, you basically lose that player slot (stuck on Myst).  This caused me some difficulty, since after the first time I beat the game, I wanted to see the other endings.  I can understand their viewpoint - they don't want you to just reload and instantly pick the other solution - but it's frustrating to have to go back through the entire game to test out theories.  For instance, after beating Riven for the first time, I worked out all the possible endings, got to each, and made a save file at each, just for fun.  
(Pop Quiz - there are ten possible endings to Riven.  Can anyone name them all without checking the game?)
So my problem is, I dearly love replaying Myst games (I spend hours sometimes just sightseeing and taking photos in Kadish Tolesa, Spire, or Todelmer) - but I really want to test out my theories about game endings in Myst V without having to redo the entire game every time.  For instance, can the Tablet be dropped on Myst, and will the Bahro come for it there?  Can it be set back on the Keep?  Endgame experimentation is rather hard to do without the ability to save.  
Does anyone here know how to find Myst V's save files?  Kasreyn 10:29, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: No Second Chance

message: The current storyline (Episode 8) of Uru Live seems to explain that from its sight of things the stranger is Dr. Watson. He was the one who gave the tablet to the Bahro and freed them.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.182.43.132 (talk) 21:58, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explanation of the new stranger 

message: See also the previous post "No Second Chance". 
It's noteworthy that this game has, at least to my knowledge, the most "bugs" of the entire series. While I never had any trouble with the other games (including Uru), the InstallShield part of this one is really broken due to Java-related issues. I couldn't get the installation working without resorting to the command line (setupwin32.exe -is:tempdir C:\temp -is:log C:\templog.txt), and the uninstaller didn't accept java.exe as "valid" after I'd finished the game ;-) I had to turn desktop enhancements like SideSlide or YzDock off in order to not constantly drop out of the game after rapid mouse movements. 
The controls are not that intuitive, either. Holding the tablet prevents you from turning levers or pulling anything up or down, while back/forth and pressing buttons works. The red/blue levers on Tahgira are very tricky to move even with "free hands". End of Ages had me fighting the controls too often. A little more development time would have payed off. At least I had expected Cyan/Ubisoft to have released a patch for the installer years ago. On the whole, the project looks a bit abandoned. Uru was the more mature product of the two. 88.217.78.37 (talk) 23:56, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technical issues 

message: Recently, an external link was removed from this article (as seen here). Was this link really counterproductive to the article? WP:NOTLINK says:
"There is nothing wrong with adding one or more useful content-relevant links to an article; however, excessive lists can dwarf articles and detract from the purpose of Wikipedia. On articles about topics with many fansites, for example, including a link to one major fansite may be appropriate."
MYSTerium was one of the premiere Myst fansites for news, but it is now dormant. Instead of removing it completely, perhaps we should update the MYSTerium link to a more active fansite? — OranL (talk) 17:00, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
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