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I loved this game when I was young, before I even heard about the Terry Pratchett books. It's only been a few years since I actually read all the books and then replayed the game, it's still amazing! The voice acting is so good, too. The only thing I hate about the game is Rhodan.
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Anoia posted:Happily, the great Adventure Game revival has hit the Discworld games as well. Word is they'll be making games based on the Tiffany Aching series, which means tons of psychotic blue They're not smurfs, they're pictsies!
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Nov 24, 2013 19:31
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Tiggum posted:It's also worth mentioning that there are TV adaptations of Wyrd Sisters, Soul Music, Going Postal, Hogfather and The Colour of Magic. My favourites of those are Wyrd Sisters and Going Postal, and the only one I didn't care for at all was The Colour of Magic. David Jason as Rincewind is just not something I can get behind at all. I actually like the Colour of Magic TV adaptation, because it combines the 2 first books into something you can easily follow without having to reread them. I really liked the books when I started, but they have very little coherence. The Going Postal adaptation left out too much of the book for my tastes  Which is why I really love Discworld Noir, really. It is not an adaptation of a book, so they are free to do whatever. And boy, did they do a lot of whatever. I'm not sure which character I love more. Probably Mooncalf.
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Nov 25, 2013 10:51
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Bacter posted:Yeah, in terms of editing for pacing, my general strategy is going to be to play ahead, note what things a person knows about (probably not only plot essential things, but everything they can shed some light on), and only ask about those. You need to talk about everything to Malaclypse, not matter how inconsequential you think it is. He provides some amazing insights!
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Nov 27, 2013 21:30
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Bacter posted:I'm chewing through Unseen Academicals now. While it's definitely not his AAA game, it's at least A - I could care less about "the footy", but the characters are pretty interesting, and Andy is a decent enough villain. It gets a lot better near the end, so hand in there! Snuff was ok-ish, but I got the idea that the sociopath villain wasn't really needed. It probably would have worked better without a single focus and if Vimes could just rage against the local elite.
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Nov 28, 2013 00:45
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He could introduce Lewton now thanks to Thief of Time, though. I'm a bit surprised Terry hasn't really done a genuine out-of-place alternate dimension character. It was hinted at once in Jingo! with the DisOrganizer, but it would have been fun to read, I think. But sadly I think with his illness that it'd be too hard for him now
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Dec 9, 2013 10:15
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Do remember that the gods are very, very prone to play boardgames with people as actual pawns, so if one of them has a hot streak rolling sixes (or whatever they roll), one man can do anything. (until the barbarians try to blow them up)
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Dec 19, 2013 17:24
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Bacter posted:This is absolutely true, but what are you referring to in particular? Anything that happens in the game that should have happened differently if you go by the 'normal' rules of Discworld from the books, really. This is the kind of game where plotholes can be fixed by saying: A wizard did it.
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Dec 19, 2013 17:53
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Tiggum posted:As for Elves... This is still the best one: Lords and Ladies posted:“Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.
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Dec 20, 2013 04:41
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Serperoth posted:The problem with Discworld is value. I just finish the books too fast, there's something about Pratchett's writing that compels me. Took me about a year to read all of them in order, just reading a dozen or so pages before bed (and then binging the last 100 or so for each book). Then I read them a second time. Dunno yet when I'm going to start the third read-through, though.
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Dec 26, 2013 01:08
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If Vimes really suspected Lewton, he'd have had him arrested on the charge of "Disturbing the Peace". You could also consider this to be the very early Vimes who's only recently stopped drinking and isn't at the top of his game yet.
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Jan 26, 2014 20:53
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Ferrosol posted:Yeah the watch has moved to Pseudopolis Yard at this point and Vimes is married so that suggests it's post men at arms at this point. On the other hand there is no mention of Vimes's err social rank so I suggest it's probably before feet of clay/jingo timeline wise. Also the watch is still pretty small at this point from the feel of things which argues against it being too late in time line. Whenever I play the game I get the feeling that the Watch in this game is a bit of a mix of the books, consisting of just Nobby, Colon and Vimes but in Pseudopolis Yard, with no mention at all of Carrot. This game probably takes place in an alternative universe version of Discworld, due to quantum.
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Jan 27, 2014 04:31
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Ferrosol posted:Also with regards to trolls its not mentioned much in the books but it's implied that the general mechanics of it are about the same as humans. You take a mummy troll and a daddy troll and then they make the bed rock (BOO! HISS!) and nine months later you have a baby troll. Shouldn't the baby be unborn 9 months before mom and dad troll unrock the bed? They (are supposed to) perceive time backwards, after all.
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Jan 28, 2014 22:26
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Yvonmukluk posted:One of the other character backgrounds? Guerilla Mime/Renegade Street Actor. Anyone who is a renegade in a guild-regulated profession is going to have to be a bad rear end fighter to survive long enough to earn money to live on.
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Jan 28, 2014 22:47
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citybeatnik posted:The other half is that the Fools Guild may or may not be a massive spy operation, with its fingers in courts throughout the continent. Does this mean King Verence is spying on himself?
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Jan 29, 2014 15:44
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TehGherkin posted:Anyone know the mystic sigils and sacrifices required to get this running on a modern system, by any chance? I've tried scryers, farseers and withinlookmen, not a thing. I've ran it on Windows 7 using the CDs and a no-CD crack to get it started.
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Feb 19, 2014 21:29
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