Is there a legal way of obtaining Discworld games?
I haven't played the first, but yeah, I think the challenge level in DW2 is just right. Except for that one puzzle at the very end, where there's a certain NPC randomly appearing in a certain location.Also almost sure 2 is really not as hard, I remember much less pixel hunting in particular where some random parts of items are spots but maybe I'm remembering wrong, this one I beat, it took me a while but I think I did not cheat but it's been a long time and I'm not certain. It's not as good either but still very good.
In case of bottlenecks usually. When there's that one puzzle you're stuggling with (oftentimes because it's bullshit) but would like to continue.Why using a walkthrough
What makes 1 an odious experience to me personally is the 'use L-space to move back in time' segment. If you fail to pass it at the first try, you're stuck in a loop and bound to load some former savefile. Needless to say, I was stupid enough to have overwritten my last savefile, losing hours of progress.They're not that hard if you've actually read the books, most of the 'moon logic' makes a certain amount of sense in-universe. That said 1 is much harder than 2, and also better.
What makes 1 an odious experience to me personally is the 'use L-space to move back in time' segment. If you fail to pass it at the first try, you're stuck in a loop and bound to load some former savefile. Needless to say, I was stupid enough to have overwritten my last savefile, losing hours of progress.They're not that hard if you've actually read the books, most of the 'moon logic' makes a certain amount of sense in-universe. That said 1 is much harder than 2, and also better.
I were stuck and unable to progress. Maybe it was some scummvm bug. Admittedly, this was uncomfortably long ago and I'm unable to give you any relevant details.What makes 1 an odious experience to me personally is the 'use L-space to move back in time' segment. If you fail to pass it at the first try, you're stuck in a loop and bound to load some former savefile. Needless to say, I was stupid enough to have overwritten my last savefile, losing hours of progress.They're not that hard if you've actually read the books, most of the 'moon logic' makes a certain amount of sense in-universe. That said 1 is much harder than 2, and also better.
Not sure what part you are referring to here, but leaving the map/crossing l-space resets most events. At least there was always a way out for me despite sometimes thinking there wasn’t.
Are you sure you were stuck?
Is there a legal way of obtaining Discworld games?
The Turbo-Autists who create ScummVM (seriously, read their mailing list sometime) spent years trying to untangle the rights and make the DW games freeware to no avail. But I suppose crazier things have happened.Is there a legal way of obtaining Discworld games?
I know the OP is ancient but since nobody mentioned this in this topic already and I was looking into this last week, it appears the rights to the games fell down some legal rabbit hole of mergers and acquisitions and Pratchett's daughter has no idea who has them*. In any case the Pratchett estate does not have the rights. Chances of a new release via GOG or Steam whatever is your favorite porn deletion tool are therefore slim, unless some lawyer realizes that someone could make a buck off something they had no clue the company owns.
*Personally I am surprised no internet autist bothered to try to figure out who has them. At first glance it seems Sony might have them, since originally Psygnosis published the two games before the success of Wipeout got them gobbled up. But the developer underwent some fucked up mergers so maybe that is what the daughter was talking about. Still if I had to make a bet, I would bet on the legal docs collecting dust in some Sony UK archive.
If any autist from the UK is reading this, this might be the perfect quest for you! Discover who owns the rights so that people can buy a worse than original re-release, from which some unrelated to the developers blokes can profit.
Finished 1+2.
Don't really get the complaints about difficulty to be honest. Like at all. Sure 1 featured plenty of moon logic and needs plenty of patience, but I've played harder 90's adventures and 2 was super easy.
Now looking at Discworld Noir, but noticed that ScummVM doesn't support the engine (only some preliminary work done for years) and there are no real guides for playing on modern hardware. Can somebody help?
Or should I just go for the Playstation version in an emulator?
Edit: Ah, yah. Shittiest thing about Discworld 1 was the L-Space animation. Probably took 3+ hours of playing time alone watching that shit.
You need to change the laws to do that.Is there a legal way of obtaining Discworld games?
I played all of these years ago and don't remember that much about them anymore, but I remember being able to finish Discworld 2 and Discworld Noir and on two separate attempts to play through the first Discworld getting stuck in exactly the same spot halfway through the game and not even a Walkthrough helping me find a solution, so I never finished it. I think it was something like the character I was supposed to interact with on a screen didn't appear or I didn't find a specific object or something.Don't really get the complaints about difficulty to be honest. Like at all.