Discworld Noir
 

I would like to see the Discworld series on Abandonia. I can't remember much from them, but I remember thinking they were fun to play, although they were extremely illogical. (Of course this is because the Discworld Series written by Terry Pratchett is the same). :D

ive played the first one.. I dont like em , the solutions are stupid and sometimes impossible to get ( the only way i got through was with the help of my trusty walkthrough site) its just too much like some of the old text based sierra games TOO TRICKY... too tricky that its just not fun :evil:

You might be right. I seem to recall an incident where you need to get hold of a key that was on a table, but the man who owned it would not let you.

The answer to this was, of course, to get hold of a love potion. Then walk down to the beach, grab hold of an octupus. Give it the love potion. Put the love-sick creature in your inventory. After this you would have to find some way to get a laxative. When you have all this you head back to the man with the key, put the octopus in the poor fellow's toilet, then put the laxative in his drink. Wait for it to set in effect, then as the guy is occupied with the octopus in the restroom.... You nick the key.

I'd like to play the old discworld games just because I love the books so much :)

Me too! That is why I want to see them on this page!

(My icon is the picture of Cohen the Barbarian from the Discworld series, as some of you might have seen).

Yeah i have the entire terry pratchet collection, discworld rules!

I have all of them (except for 1) and I've got the last 5 books in Hardback (oh and "the last hero" aswell... you know... the big book with pictures)
Too bad some idiot destroyed my cover of 'The Truth' :(

I do hope Terry pratchett's new books will centre around the original characters again (Vimes and the watch or Rincewind) because the latest two books ('Wee Free Men' and 'Monstrous Regiment') though they are great... the original characters only play a small role in these books.

I prefer Pratchett and his humour over any fantasy author any day.
I tried Tolkien but the characters there were just too... over the top.
The over-dramatical hobbits, the overly heroic Aragorn and sortlike.
Thats why i prefer Pratchett (and also Frank herbert): the characters are realistic and have real weaknesses. plus I love how Pratchett reflects modern-day affairs in his books like the liberal media that almost always takes the side of the underdog (right or wrong)

But I want to see some more Rincewind... thats why I'd love to play the original games

I don't know. Rincewind is, for me, a bit far out (even by Terry Pratchett standards)... My favourite characters are Cohen, Death & The Patrician, in that order.

cohen the geratric barbarian is the coolest!

got two of the books as animated films... muhahaha....

I bought one of them on dvd, but I think it lost much of the feel. You just can't animate the Discworld. Still it was a good atempt.

my favourite characters are: the Patrician, Vimes and Death.

Rincewind, the wizards (except for the Bursar) and the Witches of Lankre are my least favourite chracters.

Discworld!!
 

I would love it if someone posted those games on this site, they're great fun!! :lol:
-Sean

I like the wizards (apart from Rincewind) and the University, I also like the books with the Lancre witchs and the City watch/Samual Vimes in them. And about the games, Discworld 1 was very hard and illiogical while Discworld 2 was much easier, the best by far was Discworld Noir as it had a much more engrossing atmosphere and storyline than the others and the system of clues was genius and I am surprised no other games have taken inspiration from it, I would love to see them on the site.

Discworld is great! It would fit nicely in Abandonia's adventure collection. It is rather large download though (100MB).

warning for visitors of hotu: whatever you do, don't download the game from there the sound file english.smp is corrupted and thus the game doesn't function... (also the english.zip file doesn't solve the problem)

My school theater put up a Discworld play last year... But as I'm a freshman I missed it.This year they put um Alice in Wonderland :)
I tried to read a Discworld novel few years ago (don't remember which), but I didn't really speak that much english back then (don't do today, either...) so I didn't understand it and gave up... I'm thinking about trying again... :D

I got this gothic alice in wonderland shooter from one of the designers of the quake series. It's an interesting take on the series I must say. Fighting a big monstrosity known as ''the red queen'' :twisted:

I have that Alice game, the gameplay is not very good but the graphics are brilliant, everything is so twisted and macabre, you find yourself enduring the gameplay just so so you can see the next breathtaking scene.

Thanks for the warning, I was considering downloading it there :shock: . As for the stuff about the alice game, I work in a comic book store and we brought in some of those figures, they were really creepy but really cool!! I've never heard of the game though, who makes it?

Alice was published by EA games and developed by Rogue Entertainment.

Oh, ok, thanks. I'm not the biggest shooter fan for computer, although I will admit, I do so love the bond games on PS2!!
-Sean

Rogue Entertainment? That company made Heretic, Hexen, Hexen II and Strife too! :D
Of these company I can say: if they do an 3D-shooter, it's most certainly good one.

interesting, I might have to pick that one up...This is way off topic, I'm sorry, but since we're talking about shooters, have any of you played red faction 2 for PS2?
-Sean

Well, that's not quite right, sorry for the wrong notice - Rogue Entertainment only made Strife, but Strife is a very good game, I think. I for my part like it very much. As for Heretic, Hexen and Hexen II - they were made by Raven Software.

I think one of the best books from the discworld series is the last contenent, (or is it the lost contenet) i cant remember the first word or spell the second lol

anyways the name four ecks im sure everyone knows this but mabye if ur not from australia u dont notice, but anyways four ecks is XXXX which is the name of a popular beer. Reading this is seems totaly obvious to me but i thought id check to make sure everyone knew :D

Yeah that book was the best imo i dont know if its cause im australian or what but i found the whole book great with its comparason to aust

never played the games but from the sound of the diaretic octopus they sounds quite funny even if insanely difficult

The books are fantastic. I recommend everyone reads atleast one. I started from the first but it doesn't really matter.

The best introduction to Discworld would be Hogfather. This book samples some of the coolest characters from Terry Pratchett's mind.

I can't agree more!
Hogfather is one of my favourite discworldbooks (apart from those with the Watch)
I was known on a forum for some time as Mr Teatime.

there are quite a few hidden references to Australia in the last Continent.
Infact Pratchett's books are FILLED with references.
The Silicone Anti-Defamation League is, for example, a reference to the Jewish Anti-Defamation League.

anyway, you can find a long long list of all references on www.lspace.org/

But my favourite part in the Discworld series isn't the references but the brilliant characters.
Even the most unimportant character has a personality and background.
its quite amazing.
And with myb rother living in London I've got the hardcover version of all the latest books

Mort was a pretty good book too...heck they're all good.

And I never read anyone of them yet... :roll: :(
Time to go and buy some. :D

I'm in the same boat as free freddy when it comes to not having read the books. If any of you are really into discworld though, did you know they made a role playing game? I saw it in the store I work in awhile ago, it seemed pretty popular, if not very funny.
-Sean

never heard of it
Last game about discworld was an adventure game called Discworld Noir

Speaking of Discworld Noir...

Anyone played it? I've seen it available for download at HOTU but it's so bloody big that it'd take days on my connection.

Is it worth it?

In a word: YES. Discworld Noir is a beautiful game, from the witty dialogue to the dark and brooding atmosphere of the streets of Ankh-Morpork to the gripping storyline that will keep you going right until the end of the game. Added to the genius concept on combining and using clues to solve puzzles. I don't care if you have to rob your 90 year-old grandmother of her pension to buy broadband to download this game but GET IT.

I bought it.

The reason why this game (Not pc by the way...) is that they are fanatical fans of Discworld. They will buy anything written by Terry Pratchett or has the Discworld logo on it. The RPG is good fun IF you are Terry himself, but not for anyone else.

The reason? There is only 1 person in this world today who can use his mind to go THROUGH logic and out the other side! For the rest of the population, the game is just confusing and senseless.

Hehehe, so true. I'm glad you're the only one who caught that, I guess I gotta be more specific when I talk about "role-playing game" I meant like a book to role-play table top? Hope that clears things up,
-Sean

hmmm
never seen it.

i've got discworld Noit but I can't play it.
Its quite an amazing game.
If there is any game that, I feel, is underated: its discworld noir.
I have the game on cd's here but I can't seem to start it up :(
but I remember it has quite a long plot (from what I remember it was a bit confusing since it was a typical Noir plot mixed with discworld)
It wasn't written by Pratchett, but all the characters and enviroments were captured brilliantly.
Too bad we didn't see more of the Patrician (you only hear him talk during the game)
And just when you think its an average fantasygame set on the Discworld BANG
You die.
But its what happens afterwards thats unique I'm not going to spoil it for someone thinking of playing it, so i'll just say this: smells are clues too.

EDIT: oh and I don't recommend getting it off an abandonware site
It probably doesn't have any movies and voice files in it.
and without that...
well: without movies you won't understand a thing
and without voices and sounds it just loses A LOT of its charm

Smells are clues?

You mean Foul Ol' Ron? :lol:

No i'm talking about what happens after you die
you become like Angua

Nice! Angua rocks.

Allthough in the Truth... William de Worde suspects Nobby Nobbs as being the... umm... thing... that Angua is :D

yeah
In Discworld Noir some people will also say a few things about it.
I believe you cane ven ask Nobby about it, but I think he replies with some lame answer to avoid the question

A wizards staff has a nob on the end...

Scents have a lot to do with Diskworld Noir. If you can't smell, you'd better wear extra deodorant. :wink:

And the Campaign for Equal Heights always makes me smile in Discworld :)

As for the games, Discworld 1 is feindishly difficult but very satisfying to complete. Discworld 2 is easier and funnier, and Discworld Noir (Discworld 3) is reckoned by some to be one of the best adventure games ever made, but it never got it's recognition due to bugs and due to the fact Perfect Entertainment (the makers of Discworld games) went bankrupt shortly after it's release. The really sad thing is they didn;t go bankrupt because the Discworld games don't sell (they sold really well) but because they had a legal arguement with Psygnosis, the publishers of 1 and 2, over who would publish 3. So when 3 was released it wasn;t released in big numbers and was never patched, so alot of people have had problems and never been able to fully appreciate what a brilliant game it is. (It's now finally available on a budget label in the UK if anyone is interested, but there is still no patch so you'll have to be quite determined to make it work; it's easiest to get it to work in Win98 but even then it can be hard)


Edit: If you want to buy Discworld Noir you can get it from Amazon UK , but they only have 5 copies left! It may have come to the end of its budget run.

Also, TheDiscworld.co.uk has a brilliant page of tech support. Unfortunately it's huge (reflecting the numerous bugs in the game) but there is alot of useful advice in there that might help anyone havig trouble getting the game running.

I have also seen it. It's based on the GURPS system. I never played it though. Anybody here ever tried it? I generally love RPG (both cRPG and tabletop) and the discworld series.

I never had any in-game problems with discworld noir myself.
I jsut can't make it work on windows xp anymore :(

Yeah, I heard it was very silly, and because of that hard to play... :wink:
-Sean

I can imagine that especially for the GameMaster it's very dificult to come up with a funny and entertaining story. Mmmmm, maybe I should buy it just to see how and what. Then I'll let you know.

Gee, I never had any problems playing Discworld Noir at all. So far as the other two are concerned I know that the Discworld 2 download at HOTU is a CD Rip version, so I've never bothered about downloading it (although I did with the Discworld 1). Does anyone know if there's anywhere you can get a download of Discworld 2 that is not a "rip" version?

I've tried one yesterday... but it didn't work.
so far i've never found a working discworld 2 version

The original game is on 2 CD's....hard to get a clean version on the Net, unless deeply ripped off.

I have at home original version of discworld II.

well this thread has been going on for some time now. Perhaps we should concider... uploading it? :wink:
I mean we've had all these strategy games, its time for some diversity.
How about some adventuregames (note the irony :wink: )

I agree, Discworld all the way!! But wait I thought it wasn't abondonware...?
-Sean

Hey guys... I was wondering if any of you have downloaded the discworld noir game from THOTU? It's just that I can't get it to run.. anyone got instructions on how to install it properly? It keeps asking me for the CD...

Check the "technical notes" section in HOTU...should be in the same page you downloaded the game.

The Underdogs' Discworld 2 worked fine for me, I just clicked on the .exe file in the directory. No CD rip crap, no asking me for the CD or anything.

Discworld or Discworld Noir? :huh:

If it is an abandoned game and it asks you for a CD, It would probably be legal to get a crack for it, or an .iso .

I remember playing a demo of a discworld game about 5 or 6 years ago. It had something to do with a toilet and an octopus and was a point and click adventure game. And i also remember it being absolutly funny. This probably doesn't help but I thought I'd mention it.

Yup, Discworld is awesome. ^_^

add it! :D
add it! :D
I love discworld!

I found a Discworld Game here CDos
It's 103 MB so there's no way im downloading it. But it looks pretty cool.
You'll have to make an account with the site to download it.

I just found out 20 minutes ago that i was the proud owner of a Discworld 2 CD. :D
So I install it, restart my computer, open up the game, and what does it do. It changes my resolution to 800 x 600, and 8 bit colour, without even letting me play it for one second. :angry:

Oh I had a lovely time breaking the CD up into millions of pieces. :twisted:

You could also have tried to solve the problem before destroying the game. There was a good change you could have solved the problem.

Or if you didn't want to solve the problem, you could've sold the game and made a nice profit :sneaky:

Mmmh....I don't think so.....Discworld 2 is actually made of 2 CDs......so who would buy 1? :huh:
Hey.....maybe it's the reason why the game didn't work....it requires 2 cd....

Patience is a virtue...

Haha

Well they are all very good points. But I'm not the best with computers so I wouldn't know where to start trying to fix it. And when I put the CD it said Discworld 2 and during installation it didn't ask for a second CD. It may have been a copy, there was a picture on the front but it was pretty much just a blue blob of nothing.

If anyone ever used the ZX Spectrum, I remember coming across a Discworld text adventure on it which was based on "The Colour of Magic". I can't remember much about it though. I think I may dig it out from my old Spectrum ROM CD. ;)

Or, ya know, you could try to play it with DOSBox, ya know. And, ya know, disc 2 is only for playing, ya know (a guy in DW2 speaks like this). :lol:

Who? I can't remember it.

Well I obviously don't know. I've never played it. :lol:

Ahahahaha :lol:

You wouldn't believe this, I found the second CD to discworld two, but now I don't have the first one. It might have worked as well.

and we're supposed to believe you? :rolleyes:

In the words of Pratchett: "pull the other one, its got bells on it"

:blink: :huh: I don't get it.

I read on a sourceforge forum connected to scummvm that the guys at scummvm has negotiated with Mr. Pratchett about helping them interpret the code and even release it as freeware...

Yeah! Definitelty a good idea! :ok:

Hi everyone! I need some help. There's this game on dos which i would really like to play but i just couldn't find it because i didn't know it's name. I'l write down a few facts and maybe you will know it.

It's a point and click adventure for MS-DOS.

Game is in a fantasy setting and it has humour.

Main character is a sorcerer that has an identical robe like the simon the sorcerer ( you know, red robe, one of those pointy hats that go with pijamas...) It's not simon the sorcerer because all characters were bigger than in simon the sorcerer games.

Game begins at some kind of a castle where a lot of other wizards live. Maybe it was a school or something.

Before you start at the castle, there's a cutsene of a grim reaper ( or something like that) who is bugged by a fly in some kinda of a middle-aged city.

That's most of it. If you know of some game like this, please reply it on forum in my topic. Thanks in advance. :help:

signed, Ryan

hmmm, maybe some part of diskworld?
i never got it to run though, so it's only a guess....

The first Discworld, for sure! :D
Very, very nice game, but there are some reasons it has not been uploaded, if I remember correctly...

Probaby because Discworld was released only on CD. :D

's definitely Discworld, and I reckon it would be far too big for the site too. The second one is equally great, and extremely funny. Discworld Noir's not as good, but holds some interest for fans.

Thanks guys!

signed, Ryan

Discworld Noir pwns all.

I've completed it 7 times and I still do every year. The story and characters are great as is the dark feel of Ankh-Morpork. The clues system was also genius.

All the discworld games are brilliant,
ps. Does anybody know were I can get Discworld Noir. It's the only one I don;t have original...

pps Does anyone know whether there is going to be a new discworld game anytime soon...

Dicsworld Noir is the best one, IMO, but I know many people who think disagree. Unfortunately it's notoriously difficult to get it to work properly in XP.

Anyway, the game was released in a budget edition, which shouldn't be too difficult to find. I just checked amazon and there was a couple of copies, but I'm sure you can find it elsewhere if you prefer.

And as far as I know there are no plans for a new Discworld game (which might be a good thing; I would hate it if they made a Discworld FPS or RTS).

I have it on budget, and yes it is hard to get going on XP - I've not managed it yet, which is annoying because I never got that far on it before.

If someone is interested, you can download discworld 1 on the underdogs webpage. But it has 106 MB. :wall:

Mr. Back Alley Ska reminded me of this series. Are these games abandoned/ESA protected? I heard they were pretty fun, and I've read all of Terry Pratchet's books. It would be fun to play the games.

I think it is...not sure. HOTU has it,

Discworld
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=315

Discworld 2
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=316

Discworld Noir
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=1505

thanks dude...I was too busy to go search for it myself, I was about to leave for my Madrigal Ensemble. <sigh> I guess HOTU will have to do. I suppose I can set it up to download over night because their connections are so slow.

They're not abandoned, though HotU might have some permissions. There's a possibility of DW becoming freeware though, apparently.

What I heard, mind you this is from rumors, that HoTU DID get permissions, and thats why they have the entire series for download, rather than one or two.

Officially, they're not abandonware yet. However, there's supposedly a deal between the developers, Terry Pratchett and the ScummVM team so that ScummVM will be able to run DW1&2, and the games will then become freeware.

Discworld (1995) by Psygnosis, Ltd. [ON SITE]
http://www.abandonia.com/games/en/878/Discworld.htm

Discworld II: Mortality Bytes! (1996) Psygnosis, Ltd.
Abandonware :brain:

Discworld Noir (1999) by GT Interactive Software
Still sold.

Actually, Discworld Noir is sold out.
So it's protected (until 2010 :(), not sold.

I've checked them recently in another topic:

Discworld (1995) by Psygnosis, Ltd. [ON SITE]

Discworld II: Mortality Bytes! 1996 Psygnosis, Ltd.
Abandonware [APPROVED]

Discworld Noir 1999 GT Interactive Software
Protected

Discworld

[ON SITE]

Discworld 2 - Mortality Bytes!

[APPROVED]

Discworld Noir

[PROTECTED] until 2010

Discworld Noir [APPROVED]

discworld noir
 

I'm pretty sure the third discworld, discworld noir is abandoned. any change we can get a download? :D

http://www.adventureclassicgaming.co...e/reviews/119/

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I just wanted to say that this is THE BEST THING.

Oh yeah, baby :clap: