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Bacter posted:Alright, what is Discworld Noir? Excuse me, but I believe you will find that Rincewind is in fact a wizzard (it's written on his pointy hat)  .Otherwise, I am looking forward to this. I played the first 2 games a lot, and was always sad that I couldn't track this game down back when it was current.
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Bacter posted:I should mention that getting this thing to run on a modern computer is like living in a living nightmare. I haven't owned a computer that could rung Discworld 2 since sometime in the late 90s, and I've never wanted to jump through all the hoops it's going to take to get it running on a modern machine. That's also the reason I've never gotten to play Discworld Noir, so I am glad you managed to get it running. sullat posted:What's wrong with the first books? The first two are pretty good, even if they fall into the classic ”young(ish) wizzard saves the world” genre. The problem with the first 2 books is that they are very much parodies of other (older) fantasy works, and while they are still entertaining they aren't quite what I'd start someone on who was new to the series. I'm also not a huge fan of Equal Rites either, so I'd probably start them on Mort if I was dead set on giving them something from the beginning of the series.
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Tenebrais posted:Raising Steam came out recently and stars Lipwig too. I haven't finished it yet but it's a great read so far. I am slightly irritated to learn that Raising Steam is already out, and I don't own it. I guess I had just gotten used to the US releases being fairly close to the UK releases, but screw waiting until March to read more about Lipwig. I just hope I'll like it more than I did Snuff.
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FeyerbrandX posted:I still need to finish Snuff, but I know I liked it better than Unseen Academicals. And I thought that I stopped paying attention long enough for Raising I didn't care for Unseen Academicals that much, but I mostly put it down to the fact that it was centered around football/soccer, which is not a sport that particularly interests me. It still had some good moments, which I enjoyed upon reading it again. Snuff I just didn't really care for at all, and it will be awhile before I can give it a second read to see if it improves any with age. Tiggum posted:It's basically just a Dungeons & Dragons inspired hack-and-slash game with a bunch of other, mostly unrelated stuff bolted on. You can do a whole lot of stuff, like get involved in the player politics, run shops, craft things, etc. but the central game system is to get experience points by going out and killing a bunch of dudes, and then you spend that XP on skills that let you kill bigger, tougher dudes to get even more XP and selling the loot to get better equipment for more efficient killing of dudes. I've been "playing" on Discworld MUD for years, and this is basically true. They have gone out of their way to add other ways to get xp; jobs, command use xp, quests, achievements, even just being online grants a small amount of xp, but ultimately the fastest way to advance is to smash things with a weapon. The game itself is massive and still slowly growing, though the playerbase itself is shrinking. I still find it fun to explore the place, smash monsters, etc but really the best way to play is to be casual and not get stressed out about the best way to do things, or worry about the fact that due to the open ended nature of skills there is no sane way to catch up with some of the older players (which is why I avoid pvp at all costs). Bacter posted:Alright, my droogs. Decision time. Definitely a fan of the VLP format myself. Also, I vote you head to the Cafe Ankh next.
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Bacter posted:In Discworld news, I just finished Unseen Academicals[/b], and I feel exactly about Andy how I did about the psycho guy in Snuff. It seems like "dangerous violent bully psychopath" is sort of the go-to villain when the story doesn't need one, and whatever. I just finished reading Raising Steam. It definitely seemed a bit unpolished to me, but I liked it much better than Snuff or [i]Unseen Academicals. The moral lessons continue to be fairly heavy-handed and unsubtle though, but again I didn't feel like they were as bad as in Snuff. The other thing that really started to grate on me was the way it seemed like Pratchett was going out of his way to reference as many as his older books as he could. I'm not sure why it bothered me, it just seemed kind of out of place. On the whole though, it was an enjoyable read. Certainly not his best work, but definitely better than some of his more recent releases.
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