Riven прохождение

[Eric]

Ive already looked at a UHS file once, just enough to tell me one

thing I didn't know, but still couldn't figure out how to make it

work. I was hoping rather than going back to the UHS (I left it

online just to make it more difficult to do so :-)) that someone

could just give me the tiniest of hints, like point me in the

direction I should be looking or whatever. (Like my brother's Myst

hint: concentrate on the bedroom areas.)BTW, since no one answered my sound problem earlier :-( it's a good

thing it sort of cleared itself up the next time I played. Except I

do get this one sound that likes to get itself stuck sometimes when

I'm on that island even when I leave the scene. I have to either

re-start or go back to another island and come in again. Either way,

a pain with the disk changes. BTW, who's the idiot who decided we

should have to start the game with Disk 2 every time? Very annoying.

(Especially since my Disk 2 is having problems.)Anyway, I'm on the village island. Basically I've discovered how to

get everywhere with the sub, and have been everywhere. Where I'm

stuck is that sort of teepee looking thing built with ropes. I can

get this sort of trapeez looking thing to come down, and then it just

goes back up without me being to do anything. What I found in the

hints is that apparently the floor will cover itself over instead of

just being the circular path it is now, but I can't find any way to

change it.Since I can't find any logical connection to anything else I guess

I'll just say what I've already accomplished. Let's see, the school

house (what I thought was a temple) -- I couldn't do anything but play

that little game (if that's what it is) and figured out the numbers.

Speaking of which, I've found the eyes with 2-5 on them, but haven't

found a 1. Somehow I think they're significant but haven't found any

logic to them yet. (I tried touching them in order, but without a 1

that somehow didn't make sense.) I don't know if I'm supposed to try

to figure out those letters or not, but that seems like a near

impossible task. Oh, yeah, that guy who shows up in that circular

hologram -- I returned to the temple on the first island and noticed

he was visible there. Not sure yet what that means. (I figure that's

Gehn and he's made everyone think he's a god.) (This is the point

where my brother would laugh whether I was right or not, and then

leave me wondering what the heck was going on. Of course, he knows I

don't want to know until I've figured it out for myself.)The little platform where the sub started at, where the fire and the

gold seat are. I haven't been able to do anything there, except move

the sub. I don't get what that little pool with the water in it's for

-- the one where an eye is. You turn that lever and it drains some

water into it, but I don't get it. (It might have triggered something

that I never made a connection to. I tried to wander around first

without touching much, but I just *had* to turn that little lever

anyway. :-))That's about it. I think a lot of what's left is hinged on me getting

up into that rope teepee thing.Very vague hints would be nice. Or a series of them separated by

spaces -- that way they'll be there and I won't have to bug anyone

again. (Until I get stuck on another island that is. Actually I *am*

stuck on another island, but I was hoping finishing this one would

trigger something.)

erimess24 hours in a day

24 beers in a case

coincidence?

>I'm ashamed to admit. I got through Myst with one mere tiny little

>vague hint from my brother and was hoping to do the same with Riven.

>And as I grow older I get less patient about playing around with the

>same old stuff for three days before I figure it out. (If ever.)

>

>I've already looked at a UHS file once, just enough to tell me one

>thing I didn't know, but still couldn't figure out how to make it

>work. I was hoping rather than going back to the UHS (I left it

>online just to make it more difficult to do so :-)) that someone

>could just give me the tiniest of hints, like point me in the

>direction I should be looking or whatever. (Like my brother's Myst

>hint: concentrate on the bedroom areas.)

>That's about it. I think a lot of what's left is hinged on me getting

>up into that rope teepee thing.

>

>Very vague hints would be nice. Or a series of them separated by

>spaces -- that way they'll be there and I won't have to bug anyone

>again. (Until I get stuck on another island that is. Actually I *am*

>stuck on another island, but I was hoping finishing this one would

>trigger something.)

>

It's supposed to be possible to run Riven from your hard drive.

If you have the drive space, you might try it. Even if you only had

room to copy Disk 2 to your hard drive it would help.From

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From: Brad Fermanich (brf123@nospam_sltic.com)

Subject: Re: Run Riven from my hard drive?

Newsgroups: alt.games.riven

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Date: 1999/10/27Phil wrote:

>

> Is there any way I can run the entire game from my hard drive?

>

> My CD drive is an external 8x connected to the printer port. And even

> though the "minimum" required CD drive is 4x, the movies are choppy (as

> though the CD can't keep up as it passes through the printer port). This

> has been a persistent problem that I always got around with other things

> by copying the movie onto the hard drive to play. But Riven either won't

> allow me to copy the movies or the game will only look for them on the

> CD. Is there any information on how to put the game on my hard drive?

> Thanks.Copy the files from the \data directories on the CDs

to the Program Files\Riven\Data directory on your harddrive.

Plan on using a couple gigs of space.

>> I'm ashamed to admit. I got through Myst with one mere tiny little

>> vague hint from my brother and was hoping to do the same with Riven.

>> And as I grow older I get less patient about playing around with the

>> same old stuff for three days before I figure it out. (If ever.)

>>

>

>Don't be ashamed -- Riven has some mind-bending puzzles. One of them I

>found to be as hard (or harder) than anything I encountered in Obsidian.The "ashamed" was more directly at myself because I knew I'd done well

with Myst and thought I should handle Riven well too. So far I

haven't found anything I considered difficult -- in fact, a lot of it

was easy -- but then, I'm stuck now, aren't I?

If you mean I figured that none of the islands are connected, kind of

mini games all to themselves like in Myst, no actually I didn't think

that. It kind of has more to do with this "set of puzzles" (the lake

section) seeming like it went together and should be solved together.

Or maybe that's still what you mean by "Myst mind-set."

Actually I'm "stuck" on all three islands I've been to, but I had a

gut feeling that the first island was something that would come later

in the game. Don't ask me why. So I I only figured out how the

circular door thing worked and have that set up to cross from the

bridge whenever I get there. And then went as far as getting the door

from the temple open. But I really haven't spent much more time

there. I was referring to the one with the water tower. Did you

guess right? I've got the whole water tower thing solved (I assume)

and I've been up in that little place in the cliffside. I've played

around with some other stuff but haven't figured it out yet. So I

returned to the village island.

Agreed.> No problems with hardware/softwareI've had some goofy sound things but otherwise no problem. I had a

few weird glitches and then finally found a patch for it that I didn't

know existed.

Maybe that's why I'm stuck? When I get stuck I at least like to know

I'm not the only one. :-) I hate when something's staring me in the

face and when I find the answer think, I really should've figured that

out. Of course, I also hate when I find the answer and think, now how

on earth would I have figured that out? Somewhere in between makes me

feel better.Actually, what ticks me off most is when I do like I did in Shivers.

I got almost all the way through without cheating. Then I got stuck

so I started going back everywhere and searching everything again,

only I'd never gotten back to the theatre. I was getting tired and

saved it for the next night. I forgot I'd never gone back to the

theatre and looked in the hints before starting. And sure enough, the

answer was in the theatre -- it was something that was triggered since

the last time I'd been there. And then I was really ticked cause I'd

meant to go back there and I would've found it. Then I cheated once

more, when it turns out that I was correct about something, but it

wouldn't work cause there was a trigger. And it was actually the

trigger I was stuck on and didn't even realize it.

Not really (that's why the smiley). I write the reviews as my attempt to

give something back to the adventure gaming community. If I am

lucky, it will foster more discussion about adventure games, and perhaps

even give the game authors something to think about when they write the

next one.

>> Some of the puzzles were *far* too difficult

>

> Maybe that's why I'm stuck? When I get stuck I at least like to know

> I'm not the only one. :-) I hate when something's staring me in the

> face and when I find the answer think, I really should've figured that

> out. Of course, I also hate when I find the answer and think, now how

> on earth would I have figured that out? Somewhere in between makes me

> feel better.

>>I enjoyed it immensely, but had to use the walkthrough more that I had

>>expected. Myst III backed off on the puzzle difficulty, to the point

>>where I didn't need any hints.

>

> I think I did hear that Riven was harder than Myst. But I kind of

> went in with this attitude that I would prove to myself that I could

> do it with no hints. Oh well.

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