Discworld

[Curlypaul]

So I downloaded Monkey Island on the wii the other day. I've never played a MI game before but I remeber being dead jealous of all my Amiga owning school friends owning it so I was pretty pleased to finally get to play.

It got me in the mood to revisit the Discworld games. The first one was brutally difficult. You would find items (like a bone) and then you would find things that they would be likely to be used on (like a dog) but that would never work, the answers to the puzzles were always entirely illogical and without GameFAQs to help I got nowhere. I feel compelled to go back and beat the fucker.

I tried playing it a few months ago on the saturn (its the version that I played in the first place) but I fould the load times to be unbearable. Is the PS version any better or should I try the PC one? my PC is rubbish but it wont be loading of a CD so maybe it be better.

[Bootaaay]

The PC version definetly loads much faster than the console ports - not sure if there's any significant differences between the Saturn & PSX versions. Personally i'd just go with the PC originals, it doesn't matter how rubbish your PC is, it should definetly be able to play Discworld.

I'm a big fan of the books and all 3 of the games (although Noir had it's fair share of problems), even if the first one is as you say brutally difficult - I remember spending most of the time clicking everything on everything, can't count the number of times I heard Eric Idle say "That doesn't work!". Some of the puzzles were utterly bizarre, but it was cool when you finally figured out what you were supposed to do.

[Curlypaul]

I've just downloaded the first game, but its in french and its a DOS program, was there ever a windows version?

I played the sequel as well, I remember it running much better and the puzzles were a bit easier, although still hard enough to be challenging. Still want to crack the first game though.

[Funk, E]

Discworld is supported by SCUMMVM.

[Curlypaul]

Really? should I then be able to play this on my wii?

That would be cool, prefer sofa and big TV to desk anyday. Spend all my time at work sat at a desk

[Erik_Twice]

Ey I wanna try those games! I knew that they were Sierra-dificult but not that much!

How are the other two (And what were they called)?

[Curlypaul]

The sequels were Discworld 2 and Diskworld Noir.

Pratchet was involved in the design so the puzzles are pretty insane

[Hatta]

Yep, they're supported by ScummVM. I love ScummVM. From what I remember, the puzzles in Discworld (I only played the first) were even less intuitive than most Sierra games.

[Curlypaul]

Ok maybe I'm being dumb but what files do I need to make scummvm work?

I downloaded Discworld and I've got a directory that contains DWB.exe, DWU.exe and a whole heap of .gra files. When I point scummvm to the directory it tells me there is no game found?

Is scummvm wii an exact port of the pc version?

[Funk, E]

Not sure how the Wii version would work. Check around in the SCUMMVM forums, they're really helpful and will know exactly what files you need.