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Computer games were, at one time, unified. We didn’t even have the term “casual game” in 1993, let alone the idea that a first-person shooter (then an unnamed genre) could be considered a “hardcore title.” There were people who played computer games, and people who didn’t. People who got way into golf or Harpoon or hearts or text adventures — those were the “hardcore” players, in that they played their chosen field obsessively.

When Myst and the CD-ROM finally broached the mass market, this ecosystem was disrupted. Myst had, Robyn Miller makes clear, been designed to appeal to non-gamers. It sold to them. Enthusiast magazines like Computer Gaming World couldn’t set the taste for the industry anymore: there were millions buying games who didn’t read these magazines. An entirely new breed of player. In this situation, what could be more natural than concocting an us-and-them formula? In a very real way, it was already true.

The great narrative of Myst is that the “hardcore” game press and playerbase lambasted it when it launched. Disowned it. A slideshow, they called it. Abstruse, idiotic puzzles; pretty graphics and not much depth. “Critics and hardcore game players universally panned it as a slide-show that had little actual gameplay interaction”, claimed PC Gamer’s Michael Wolf in 2001.That same year, a columnist for Maximum PC recalled Myst as a “tedious code-breaking and switch-throwing mess”, and saw its then-new remake realMYST as “a pointed reminder of why the press dumped on the original so heavily when it came out.”
Kompjuterske igre su svojevremeno bile objedinjene. Godine 1993. nije čak ni postojao izraz “kežual igra”, a kamoli pomisao da bi se pucačina iz prvog lica (tada nepostojeći naziv žanra) mogla smatrati “gejmerskim naslovom”. Postojali su oni koji igraju kompjuterske igre i oni koji ne igraju. Oni koji su duboko ušli u golf ili Harpoon ili srca ili tekstualne avanture - oni su bili “gejmeri”, s obzirom da su opsesivno igrali svoju izabranu oblast.

Kada su napokon Myst i CD-ROM prodrli na masovno tržište, ovaj ekosistem se poremetio. Myst je, objašnjava Robin Miler, bio kreiran da privuče one koji nisu gejmeri. I oni su ga kupovali. Časopisi za entuzijaste poput Computer Gaming World-a više nisu mogli da kreiraju ukus u ovoj industriji: milioni onih koji ne čitaju ove časopise kupovali su igrice. Jedna potpuno nova vrsta igrača. U takvoj situaciji, ima li šta prirodnije nego kreirati formulu „mi i oni“. U suštini, tako je već i bilo.

Čuvena priča sa Myst-om je da su ga „gejmerska“ štampa i igrači žestoko napadali kad je izašao. Odbacili su ga. Nazvali su ga običnom projekcijom slajdova. Nerazumljive, idiotske slagalice; lepa grafika i bez mnogo dubine. „Kritičari i gejmeri su ga bez izuzetka kritikovali kao projekciju slajdova koja ima malo igračke interakcije“, naveo je 2001. godine Majkl Vulf iz PC Gamer-a. Te iste godine, kolumnista časopisa Maximum PC prisetio se Myst-a kao „dosadne zbrke razbijanja šifara i pritiskanja prekidača“, a njegov tada novi rimejk realMyst doživeo je kao „gorak podsetnik na to zašto je štampa tako žestoko odbacila original kad se pojavio.“


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