From The Archives: Riven Bloopers Short Reel 

Have you seen the Easter Egg bits?

@@mySeaPrince_ yeah Gehn's O sole mio!

I think I would be ok with the use of AI to bring their performances into a better quality for more modern releases. That said, it looks like the performances were baked into the scenery so I don’t know how well it would work.

@@vernanonix I don't know that much about AI .. but good editing software can isolate a moving person from a background. If the timeline was after.. then including the children from the original as adults would be fun also the original cast.. Maybe with references to the past also to honour those who aren't with us. I'm just thinking... Maybe set it as a later timeline.. Riven wasn't completely destroyed only where the last scene in the game was.. With a little damage other places.. which would give scope for revealing a few new places.. At the beginning of the original you see the man on a ledge after he had been darted... In the new game you can climb down there and find an entrance into the rock... The knife at the gate.. to get people to click there... Could be used to cut the rope so the gate will open.. A boat on crater lake would open possiblities.. All that said... I prefer the high quality slide version.. Myst Masterpiece over the real-time Myst .. I have seen it has a slide setting.. which several playthoughs switch to as they prefer that style of play... Also the image quality and sound are more immersive.

@@mySeaPrince_ Riven was canonically destroyed. Ghen made unstable worlds, which was one reason why Atrus was desperate to get Catherine back as fast as he could. You can find the Riven book in Exile and the linking panel is broken.

imagine he heek's you to patch up the embarrasment

"dunny"

and me too

Read that just as 2:12 came up

​@@JaneXemylixa oh my god. I love this joke.

had no idea they had these kinda bloopers saved. well come on then riven remake!

Rand makes the best Atrus! Can't imagine anyone else

It didn't look like he was having as much fun as the others. It didn't look like he hated it though more like he wanted to keep focused but he was making the best of it. If I were to guess he likely didn't mind it it's just comparatively he'd rather be working on the rest of the game than focus on acting. Atrus is pretty intense it would only add to his stress. Also the character of Atrus was probably not supposed to be as important as he ended up being. So it probably felt like a burden that he now always had to play him when originally it was out of necessity. If that's all he had to do he'd probably be loose and have fun.

I was thinking about the little girl recently -- "That trip had to be an accident, because what kind of monster would deliberately trip such a sweetie?" Good to see I was right.

@@Adreitz7 I remember swinging around in the game and all of the sudden boom she’s there and it was like a baby jump scare. Literally.

@@Goland454 That is still, to this day, the worst jump scare I've ever experienced in a game. It's burned into my memory. Something about the loneliness of the game made it so surprising.

@@CyanHusky the water age in Myst had the same effect. I kept thinking it was people or something in the trees.

I wonder if they even have any of the original footage from III and IV since those were made by other studios iirc.

Thanks. Now I feel old :P

That’s a pretty cool strategy! I always thought they just did that if they forgot or messed up their line. Everyone makes mistakes, so you might as well have a little fun instead of getting frustrated.

Yup. I just finished Riven for the first time, and the little girl tripping was used in the game. You can tell by the crew's reaction to her tripping that it wasn't planned either!

To be fair, they probably have much higher quality in the original recordings. They would have been downscaled for the game. Hopefully they'll be able to use the original characters in a quality that won't be detrimental to the remake. 🤞🏻

@@LynetteCMy assumption is they would have been recorded in broadcast quality NTSC onto magnetic tape. That upscales pretty reasonably. You could even make it a stylistic choice

@@lrochfort I'm pretty sure what you're seeing is what they got. These are transferred from the original VHS tapes they pulled from storage at Cyan.

new favorite side character

The creative process. 😆

Yes, that was accidental. We didn't set up a trip wire.

@@timg5628 I was thinking it was possibly done on command, like in the script. But that's a cute bit of improv right there.

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i know it's not in here, but I wanted to mention it anyway.

Sadly, Sheila Goold (Catherine) also passed away in 2017. :(

They did plan to do that, but according to Cyan themselves, it was too complicated.