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DiscWorld Noir - played it yet?

ZnorXmanZnorXman
edited January 2012 in Chit chat
A few years back I got DiscWorld Noir but never got around trying it out. This morning I rediscovered it while cleaning and tried installing it on a Win7 laptop.

To no avail... :cry:

But then after googling around I found a few different tricks which eventually made the thing work (so far).

I am enjoying the conversations, very Pratchettesque and that's probably what makes it fun. Not gotten far in it yet but I can see this game getting better, at least the talkies are fun. An occasional bug here and there (probably because I'm using a Win7 computer), mainly with the character walking and getting a weird kink to his stride. The music follows the atmosphere but I have to say the graphics are ... erm ... dated, even for 1999 (imo).

Anywho, in the same box I also found the other Discworld game, the cartoonish one (with Rincewind iIrc). Had forgotten I had these as originals but happy to rediscover them. Will be trying to the one after Noir.

Have you played Noir, what are your thoughts on it? (or the other one)
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  • 1980-20..1980-20..
    edited January 2012
    Ive played the first two, didnt complete the first one for some reason but they were both really good. Would love to have a go of the noir one.
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited January 2012
    yeah I played it like 3 generation of consoles ago
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited January 2012
    I've got a copy on the old PS1. I only played it a few timrs as I couldn't seem to get into it. It did look very good though. I've got the first two on the Saturn and again,.i never completed the first onr as I vouldn't get into it, but I did complete the second one and I loved that :-)
  • Lee FogartyLee Fogarty
    edited January 2012
    I got it years ago & played through the first disc but the 2nd disc was never recognised as a proper copy.. I got another version with the 2nd disc that works but never played it lol

    Was a good game IIRC and typical Pratchett... I still have the discs so might play again :)
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  • thx1138thx1138
    edited January 2012
    I never finished the first one, I even got walkthroughs and followed it step by step and it wouldn't finish the final scene
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited January 2012
    I've got a copy of the first one for the PC I think?

    Is Rincewind still voiced by *Eric Idle in the second one? If not I'm boycotting it :D



    *Of course even if it's not him doing the voice I'll probably still never play it now?
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  • thx1138thx1138
    edited January 2012
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    I've got a copy of the first one for the PC I think?

    Is Rincewind still voiced by *Eric Idle in the second one? If not I'm boycotting it :D



    *Of course even if it's not him doing the voice I'll probably still never play it now?



    Don't Be Idle.

    I can't help who supplies my voice. :D
  • Bermondsey BobBermondsey Bob
    edited January 2012
    dm_boozefreek wrote: »
    I've got a copy of the first one for the PC I think?

    Is Rincewind still voiced by *Eric Idle in the second one? If not I'm boycotting it :D



    *Of course even if it's not him doing the voice I'll probably still never play it now?

    Yes, it's Eric Idle in the second one too. Infact, there's a scene that totally rips off the stoning scene from Life of Brian...Eric's very funny with his quips in that scene :lol:
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited January 2012
    apparently there are quite a few easter eggs in the games
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited January 2012
    thx1138 wrote: »
    Don't Be Idle.

    I can't help who supplies my voice. :D

    Robert Duvall?
  • ZnorXmanZnorXman
    edited January 2012
    Poo!

    It seems I've slipped through, and past, a glitch ... I've become terribly stuck, talked with everyone, fiddled with everything and so decided to check out a walkthrough.

    Turns out I was supposed to ask someone something specific but now that option is no longer available, and frankly I don't recall it actually showing up with that person. And this was a big thing that opened up the main quest further but now I can't get back to that point but have finished most of the piddly stuff.

    BAH! Bum hug! :mad:

    And I'm not sure I want to replay it from the start. Even though I enjoyed the conversations (it's all Terry Pratchett stuff through and through) there is just too much of it to wade through.

    :(
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited January 2012
    Reminds me of the time I tried to play the rather below average From Dusk til' Dawn game. When that went tits up, and after trying to fix it many many times after wasting a good few hours playing it and realising it was absolutely knackered I literally ripped the disc out of the drive, went out the back and frisbee'd it into the ditch.

    I've never seen it since, and good riddance too because it was sh*t!

    I suggest you do that with Discworld if you're not willing to replay it ;)
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  • thingleythingley
    edited January 2012
    I think the PC version of this is meant to be bugged to hell!

    From what I read a few years back you pretty much needed a windows 98SE setup or you could forget ever completing it. That was a while ago now though.

    I was looking at getting the PS1 version but just haven't got round to it yet - too many other games to play.
  • dm_boozefreekdm_boozefreek
    edited January 2012
    thingley wrote: »
    I think the PC version of this is meant to be bugged to hell!

    From what I read a few years back you pretty much needed a windows 98SE setup or you could forget ever completing it. That was a while ago now though.

    I was looking at getting the PS1 version but just haven't got round to it yet - too many other games to play.

    Collecting PS1 games these days requires 1 mk1 or mk2 grey PSX with a smart card/plugmod (or a chipped Greystation of any kind before PS1), several blank discs, and a *trip to the Snesorama trading forums!

    Jobs a Good 'un! :lol:

    *May sound like I'm condoning piracy here, but that site has a hod of Japanese games that never made it overseas, and you would never be able to buy them in the US or the EU ever (Or at least not for cheap what with the L@@K R@RE state of PS1 games these days).

    In my eyes certain degrees of piracy is a good thing (sod SOPA :D).
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  • colecole
    edited January 2012
    Angela Sutherland (Ant Attack etc.) helped to make this game apparently.

    http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/by_genre/developerId,22184/

    The 'Developer Biography' is an interesting read.

    http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,22184/
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