Joshi Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 Should be, although the first one is a little non-sensicle to play. 2 is good and for all it's flaws, I really enjoyed the third one. See if you can grab them (although getting any of them but 3 to work on xp or later will be a job). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fealiks Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 I got the first game (the first proper, visual, Eric Idley one) to work fine on XP. I tried to use DOSBox originally, then I tried Scumm VM, but in the end it just worked with a disc emulator thing (Daemon tools). Got it running perfectly. I didn't finish it though, it was too much of a drag to play. I loved Eric Idle's voice and most of the others (apart from Tony Robinson, mister one-voice-fits-all) and I enjoyed the atmosphere and Discworldiness of it for the most part, but the puzzles were just too annoying. I haven't played the second one or Discworld Noire though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 Second one's good, makes light of the fact that the first one had stupid puzzles and is quite fun, but I can't get it to work on XP or vista. Noir works fine with Vista and is also good although a couple of well known characters and badly characterised (what the hell is up with snively little Vimes?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brighteyes Posted May 24, 2008 Share Posted May 24, 2008 Hey the dw con! Went to that twice, the people are friggin nuts but it's fun. Ya get giant fat barbarians buying you drinks, sit outside the bar listening to girls play american pie on the steel drums or just sit n play ninja burger with the younger geeks. Havent been for a few years but got good memories, hey Joshi try to get in with Paul Kidby, he's a seriously nice guy and might help with general art advise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fealiks Posted May 25, 2008 Share Posted May 25, 2008 Wow you met Paul Kidby. Cool. His art is amazing but I think I still prefer Kirby's style. I mean, Paul Kidby's art is better, but Josh Kirby's art is better.. also.. erm. Yeah. Only I know what I mean. Edit:Wow, the site's had a slight update. 'Bout time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted May 25, 2008 Share Posted May 25, 2008 Unfortunately I won't be going to the con, cons have never really been my type of thing, the only reason I'm involved in this is because they found me and asked me to be involved. Really, I'd go, but 1) I don't have the money (and no, they're not paying me for this, being a non-profit dealio, all I'm really getting out of this is exposure, and since I've never had anything published like this before, I'm happy with that) and 2) I don't have the time. Would be nice to meet Paul Kidby though, I'm a huge fan of his. Not to say I didn't like Kirby's style, his was more of a fantasy type art (although he took amazing artistic license with his covers, but no one minded), whereas Kidby's is more traditional. Really, at some point I'd like to meet Pratchett as well, but for now, I'll settle for an autographed magazine cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fealiks Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 Kidby's art is what I think that the Discworld would actually look like. Kirby's is how I prefer looking at it. Kirby's world is Kidby's world through beer goggles. There, I explained it. And I think everyone would agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted May 26, 2008 Share Posted May 26, 2008 Kirby had a way of being very wishy washy in an extremely precise way. His work conjured up a great deal of movement and raw power without making it dominate the picture and allowing the characters to shine through. At a passing glance at one of his book covers one might simply feel it's a brilliant piece of fantasy art work that someone decided to plaster on the front of a book, but upon reading the book you realise Kirby has also read the book and decided to create an amazing piece of artwork to portray a single scene in that book (maybe not the most important scene, but certainly one that he himself felt was a good scene to portray) in his own unique way. Kidby, instead, prefers to adorn the newer Discworld covers with iconic images conveying the feel of the characters and the book (one thins of Moist atop the mountain of letters in the classic hero pose, or Vimes on a Thud board surrounded by stone dwarfs and trolls), instead of picking out any one scene. In the realm of book cover artists they are both great. But in a time where digital art is evermore threatening to push down the traditional artist, it is nice to see Kidby is not letting go of his paintbrush yet and a shame that a once great oil painter such as Kirby can no longer grace our lives with his work. Wow, I wasn't expecting this post to be a tribute to the guy. Oh well. R.I.P Josh Kirby (27 November 1928–23 October 2001) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fealiks Posted May 27, 2008 Share Posted May 27, 2008 Nice tribute. *takes off hat* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kjølen Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 THERE'S A CANARY IN MY PASTA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fealiks Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 THERE'S A(N) <obscure animal> IN MY <mundane food>!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kjølen Posted June 10, 2008 Share Posted June 10, 2008 HOW DID YOU CRACK MY FORMULA?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 My God, what have you guys turned into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fealiks Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Bored, bored monkeys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huz Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 Weeeeee arrrree saaaaillling...... All together now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fealiks Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 Just dropped in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fealiks Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 To see what condition my condition was in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthAve Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 I'm not a fan of the outside. They're are praying mantis' out there..and who will play my xbox? Oh yeah, and hi people. Just dropping in to say hi to Joshi and Fealiks, and anyone else I haven't talked to in awhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 Howdy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthAve Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 Aw Neil, I missed you buddy. ~huggles~ How have things been here at the Harbour?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 I've no clue, I really only come here occasionally now, as far as I know it's been fairly quiet. Hows things on your end? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarthAve Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 RD is sort of dying or turning into a pond of filth and naughtyness, I'm apparently a regular at the Swamp, and I'm occasionally peeking around Ahto enjoying the discussion there. Also, I am 3 months pregnant and am changing my avi/sig theme to Cardboard Tube Samurai fairly soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samnmax221 Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 BANG!CLANK!BAM!BOOM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshi Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 Wow, that was more information than I expected Well congrats I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samnmax221 Posted June 27, 2008 Share Posted June 27, 2008 Wow, that was more information than I expected Well congrats I guess. You said it was quiet. I assumed you meant it was "too quiet". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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