The north and south walls in the Myst library still bear the burn marks where the Haven and Spire Linking Books were destroyed back in 1806.Continuity Nod: Many of the balconies in D'ni are the same style as the balcony on Book Assembly Island on Riven.It turns out to be a code for the Myst island fireplace, found in the book in the aforementioned game as pattern 148. Call-Back: Over the course of Path of the Shell the player assembles various strange box-and-line patterns.Being Tortured Makes You Evil: The leader of the Bahro Nekisahl is the same guy whose shoulder skin Esher stole for linking purposes.Asshole Victim: Among the million-plus people murdered by Veovis and A'Gaeris were slave trafficker Manesmo and would-be false prophet Kadish.Ascended Fanboy: In the singleplayer of To D'ni, the Bevin neighborhood visitors list is populated with the names of well-known players from the first multiplayer period.Most of what Yeesha does, having learnt from the aforementioned Bahro.To demonstrate the Bahro's mastery of time, the night version of Minkata features a visibly spinning Galaxy! To put it into perspective, our own Milky Way takes 250 million years to rotate once!.Artistic License – Chemistry: Once you've got all the calendar sparks in Uru Live, the fireworks continue even if you've got the rain on.Could double as a "Truman Show" Plot if what Kadish used it for is any guide. Artificial Outdoors Display: Ahnonay's "island" is actually inside a giant machine with rotating spherical chambers simulating different eras.Had the multiplayer component continued as planned, pages that conflicted with each other would have been added, allowing for greater differences between different players' Reltos. The more impressive ones are harder to find, as rewards for exploration or solving puzzles. Once found, these can be turned off at will. And Your Reward Is Interior Decorating: Throughout the game are scattered pages that add decorations to the player's personal Relto island.Of special note is the Journey Marker shirt, which is given as a specific reward for finishing the main game, and supposedly indicates the wearer sides with Yeesha. And Your Reward Is Clothes: Items of clothing can be found throughout the game, usually in fairly conspicuous places, and can be customized once acquired.They included information that never made it into the game and hinted at what players might have been able to do had the original vision for the game been realized. All There in the Manual: In honor of the Myst franchise's 25th anniversary, Cyan released documents that provided backstories for some of the Ages.Unfortunately, GameTap pulled the plug due to a lack of subscribers and the various storylines were abandoned once again. When the multiplayer component was revived by GameTap, the plot threads picked up again with new content being released every week. Aborted Arc: Due to the cancellation of the multiplayer component, numerous plot threads involving Yeesha, the D'ni Restoration Council, the Bahro etc. The original game and its two expansion packs were re-released as Uru: Complete Chronicles in retail form, and on Steam and GOG.com. Two expansion packs were released for Uru: To D'Ni and The Path of the Shell. Eventually the multiplayer aspect was released as Myst Online: URU Live (again). Beta testers who had their own fan servers were allowed to keep their servers. The game was originally supposed to be multiplayer only, then had a single player mode added, then the multiplayer aspect was dropped altogether, after it was beta tested. The multiplayer aspect was troubled from the start. In the ruins you find a hologram of Yeesha, Atrus and Catherine's daughter, who tasks you with rebuilding the D'ni civilization. You play an explorer who descends into the ruins of the lost D'ni civilization, located somewhere beneath New Mexico. The biggest departure though, was that originally the game was going to have an Massively Multiplayer Online component to it, where multiple players could work together to solve puzzles. Unlike previous games in the series, Uru is third-person, takes place in modern day, and you play as a custom created avatar instead of the Stranger. Uru: Ages Beyond Myst is the fourth game in the Myst series, developed by Cyan Worlds and published by Ubisoft in 2003.
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