Please, Please, Please Can We Have A Discworld Game
The discworld games are the perfect format to be included as with Sam & Max and ToMI, the point and click interface and the 'inane problem solving' would be wonderful. The voices are already in the original games so just an update of graphics would be great. The original games are now very rare to get hold of and would be great to get them onto XBLA or PC.
With the current interest in the Pratchett/Discworld films on Sky they are increasing in popularity in mainstream culture and I'm sure would be very sucessful.
Please Telltale, can you make this happen?
With the current interest in the Pratchett/Discworld films on Sky they are increasing in popularity in mainstream culture and I'm sure would be very sucessful.
Please Telltale, can you make this happen?
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We don't need more Discworld games. The original three were good, but not brilliant. Most of the problem lies in the fact that the games didn't have much original humour - lots of jokes straight out of the books (no problems there) but everything else they did was not really that funny, and definitely not quite up to scratch with Pratchett's style.
I'm more than happy for us to just keep getting Terry's novels while we still can. Next one (Unseen Academicals) is out in October, and he's started work on the fourth Tiffany Aching book, "I Shall Wear Midnight". Let's hope he can complete that and the third Moist von Lipwig outing "Raising Taxes" (only rumoured at this point) before his Alzheimer's gets too bad.
Let's not pollute Discworld with bad game spinoffs. I mean, I love and trust Telltale, but do you really think they can mimic Pratchett's style of humour?
[1] Including one I adapted myself
What if Terry Pratchett wrote the storyline? Which is a rare but not unheard of undertaking.
Beyond ideal, but again, the Alzheimer's
Granted, but that hasnt exactly stopped him from writing yet.
It's definitely slowing him down though. I saw a documentary about him and alzheimers a few months back and he really does seem to suffer at times, having trouble even writing his own signature nowadays.
The main issue is Terry, he would have to write the episodes, and given his current state that won't happen.
It would be nice, but I'm fine with MI and Sam and Max for now.
The problem with the old Discworld games was that they tried too hard to get the Discworld universe to fit into an adventure game. I don't think that worked very well; you ended up with a weird rehash of the Discworld plots and nonsensical puzzles.
However I think if Telltale were handling it, it would work out a lot better as their episodic style would fit far better.
They should probably avoid Ankh-Morpork and Rincewind (mostly because they've been covered too much by the existing spin-offs, but partly because it would be difficult to make them fit to Telltale's episodic model).
Lancre and the Witches would probably be a much better fit; I mean just look at The Sea and Little Fishes for something that would be a good example for an episode.
I agree that the writing would have to be done correctly. But I think you'd also have to agree that it can be done; just look at how the Vadim Jean movie adoptions have turned out.
They have the LOOK perfect, and there's lots of great inside jokes and tiny detailed stuff from the books for the fans.... but the adaptations fail mostly because of poor casting (on the whole) and very poor direction. Hogfather's Part 1 was a complete mish-mash of plot threads that I'm sure would have confused anyone who hadn't read the book, and The Colour of Magic just didn't work mostly due to the casting of the two main roles - David Jason could have made a good Rincewind about 25 years ago, but not now. Sean Astin is a great actor, and he did well with Twoflower... but Twoflower is supposed to be a parody of an Asian tourist, not an American one.
Anyway, if it gets people interested enough in reading the books, I'll support them.
Having been involved in and seen many stage adaptations of the books, they work sooo much better on stage, because you can afford to be silly (to get audience laughs) and it's far easier to have a sixty foot dragon when it's all in the audience's imagination
[Best play to be in, and funniest to watch: Lords and Ladies. And no, I will never, ever be doing the Stick and Bucket Dance, ever again!]
I agree that David Jason wasnt an ideal Rincewind, but he made a damn fine Albert.
Casting David Jason as Rincewind has stopped me from watching that adaptation... perhaps I'll go for it eventually.
I'm pretty sure he wrote the storyline for Discworld Noir.
I don't think there's anyway it would happen. Considering his health he's going to want to focus all of his attention to writing as many books as he can before he's no longer able to.
It'll be a sad day when he realises (if he realises) that he's passed that point.
I doubt she has the same writing style as her father though.
I was just about to suggest the same thing (having read some quotes from on Gamespot regarding narrative in videogames)
She must be very familiar with the stories.
Hmm... true. She is experienced in the field of writing scripts for video games, however.
...because I first played (and loved) Discworld 1 and 2 as games.
After anyone passes, interest in that person generally flares up to an extreme level. I would not be surprised if a new Discworld game came out after the horribly unfortunate disease runs its toll. I think virtually anything can be done right with enough time, effort, talent and money. Even if it's without the original creator, they just have to pay tribute to his vision and his creation. And Terry's vision was brilliant.
One chapter could carry Rincewind through a brief adventure in the Unseen University, the next could be a Witches story set in Lancre, then a Watch story in the streets of Ankh Morpork, and then perhaps Susan Sto Helit and Death, which could take place practically anywhere (death's domain, any number of folklore-related locales). It shouldnt be difficult to imagine a layered plot to tie all the characters individual 'chapters' together.
The only problems I forsee with that sort of format are
a) new player characters each chapter = less time spent with a single protagonist and b) new location models/character models each episode. That might be a bit much, given how quickely Telltale whips these games up.
Oh sure, but it's fun to dream~
This Discworld has no one main character. The books are typically split into: Death, the Witches, the Watch, Rincewind and "other". The Watch are far and away my favourite, Sam Vimes has also become a beautiful parody of Clint Eastwood.
The Discworld games did a lot of things well (Eric Idle as Rewind remains a defining moment), it was just a shame the puzzles were often completely illogical(which Monkey Island suffered from upon occasion). I did feel that Noir was a step in the right direction though.
So I say yes, I want a new Discworld game/series. Much more so than a Sam and Max episode 3, in fact.
I did eventually get the CD version with character voices (floppy version only had midi music, no voices) and DW2 and DW:Noir. All decent games in their own right, but still, I think the era of DW games is in the past...
I played the original Discworld game on either my Amiga 500 or our first Windows 95 machine, I can't remember which. However, I do remember loving it and I would be so happy to see a HD remake of this.
Please Telltale, find a way!