Thread 717100684

Discworld needs more video games. It's unreal that with the open-world fever of the past two decades and the million bland, uninteresting wankfests attempting to portray large, detailed worlds, we never really got any adaptations of this series set on an entire fictional planet.

>>717100684 (OP)
Would you trust a modern dev with discworld? Knowing that rhianna pratchett will be the one they consult when they ask "is this obvious massive deviation in tone, style and content ok"?

Loved that book as a teen

>>717100684 (OP)
As long as you ignore the last 10 books where it all goes to woke shit yeah.

>>717100684 (OP)
>Reddit in fantasy world form
Lmao no

>>717100684 (OP)
People these days dont appreciate mildly clever humor.
They just dont find it funny, you need slapstick comedy like South Park or Rick and Morty to grab their short attention span

>>717102536
>reddit
>first published in 1987
Yeah ok

>>717102665
Anon, you don't understand. If xey convince everyone that everything good is Reddit, anons will stop discussing anything good, so the website will die and xey can have it all to themselves.

>>717102665
The last books were pretty Reddit tho
"Nightwatch" was the last good one (and one of the best) The series should have stopped there since Terry got diagnosed shortly after finishing it

>>717102606
I don't appreciate mildly clever humor when I can have wildly clever humor. There should be nothing "mild" about a man.

>>717101976
>Would you trust a modern dev with discworld?
I 100% believe that a dev team like Valve or even Respawn could make a true Discworld game.

>>717103008
I agree but Im going to blame dementia for the last few books. I guess he decided to pander since he was losing his own voice as a writer and yeah he should had stopped.

>>717101976
That's harsh, Rhianna herself said that Discworld is her father's work and that she sees it as her duty to protect it against everyone, including herself. And objectively speaking she's doing a good job so far (the Watch tv show that got cancelled in one season pre-dated Terry's death, so she had no say in it)

Gaspode was the best character he ever wrote

>>717100684 (OP)
>Discworld written by someone other than Pratchett
pass

>>717100684 (OP)
>Discworld needs more video games
No. Stfu retard. They'll completely ruin everything and you fucking know it.

>>717103008
>Nightwatch" was the last good one (and one of the best)
Not it's "I Shall Wear Midnight". People always forget the Tiffany Aching books, which is a shame because they're like the classic Witches books but without the third witch POV that is always way less good than Granny Weatherwax's or Nanny Ogg's...

>>717100684 (OP)
sorry buddy terry pratchet is a rapist now so his books are never going to be adapted

>>717103534
I like the small scotsmen in that series but Tiffany herself was pretty boring

>>717103356
It was Granny Weatherwax actually
People would say Death, Vimes or the patrician but an evil witch who was forced (by herself) to be good was comedy gold in any situation. Most of the witches novels would be dull if it werent for Weatherwax hard carrying the whole story

>>717100684 (OP)
What a fugly cover

>>717103763
That artist was pure SOVL

Witches series is the best one. This is truth nuke.

>>717103816
I liked when he literally drew Twoflower with four eyes in his face in the cover of the first book when the character just wore glasses.
Just because Rincewind confuses the glasses for extra eyes and describes him as having four eyes.

>>717103224
Yeah I can accept thats harsh. She promised to care properly for and not mess with the legacy and so far, seems to have resisted. As much as I might roll my eyes at her other contributions to games (still need to play overlord), shes done right by discworld.

This the book thread?

>>717103880
wrong, it's
>Loose grouping of mostly unconnected books about all the weird cultures of Discworld
>Witches
>Death
>Watch
>Wizards
>Rincewind
POWER GAP
>M*ist

Rincewindbros...

>>717103880
Read that as Witcher series for a moment
Apparently they suck I dont know

always thought mort would've been a good movie. Tim Burton etc

>>717104208
Trash character, he was never funny

>>717104127
Fappu notep looks kino, like harry potter

>>717104184
Moist was fine, but the last book with the tranny dwarf king ruined everything.

>>717104184
Should I be excited to read Small Gods? That's the favorite Discworld book of my author friend who I have a crush on, but my local tabletop only has one copy and it was already busted by some retard who stripped the spine.

>>717104208
Great character, he was always funny

>>717104423
Its really good yeah.

>>717104423
Its one of the best, if not the absolute best
Unless you are a religious person

Can I get a qrd on these books? I know nothing about the series

>>717104423
Don't fall for the author girl meme anon. Holdout! Anonymous!

>>717104505
Im a catholic and I loved it.

>>717104567
I'm pretty sure that if this place knew who I was talking about, I'd be laughed out of the thread.

>>717104514
Its a fantasy series in a magical world but everything that happens there is a parody/reflection of our own world

>>717104514
quirky and "funny" take on fantasy and adventure novels

>>717104423
it's my favorite book

>>717104514
Tolkien but if the characters were real people with everyday problems like how am I gonna afford rent and magic is more like a nuisance that people are fed up with in the world than anything else.
The first couple books read very much like classic fantasy, it doesnt find its own voice until book 3 or 4

My two bits no one asked for on ranking Discworld series
>City Watch : absolutely the most consistently good one up until Snuff, hard carried by Vimes but watching the cast go from "four guys with trucheons trying to not get beat up too much" to the greatest legal organisation of the setting is a big draw. Also good whenever the cast show up in other books.
>Witches : almost tied with City Watch, Weatherwav and Ogg are the best and have basically NO bad POV. But sadly the third witch (whether it's Magrat or Agnes) is always horrifically, horrifically dull.
>Moist von Lipwig : really good series (at least the first two books) that sadly had to be shorter than what Pratchett intended (because he died). Unconventional protagonist and coming into the Discworld when the setting was already fully fleshed out helped a lot
>Tiffany Aching : Witches series but with a younger protagonist. Underrated as fuck but nothing much to say about them, Pratchett probably wrote these books because he was sick of Ankh-Morpork
>Death : overrated as fuck. Death is usually fine (probably why Reaper Man is the best of his novel and probably in the top 5 Discworld overall), but holy hell everyone else he has to share the splotlight with is so dull, ESPECIALLY Susan.
>Wizards : the worst series BY FAR, Rincewind isn't funny or interesting and Ridcully can't carry the load alone. It's so boring that most of the recurring characters don't even have names.

Concerning the various oneshots novels, it goes :
Small Gods > Thief of Time (technically Death, but the best part is the standalone characters) > The Truth > Monstrous Regiment > Pyramids > Moving Picture

Small Gods being, of course, easily above most others Discworld novels.

Never read the Amazing Maurice, never got the impression I missed much.

>got 4 books last haul
>dragonlance, very dnd but also pretty boring
>collection of hp lovecraft stories, wasn't really me
>last and first men, big sci-fi story, words words words
>name of the wind, finally a good book

>>717101976
She was braggable as a person on Overlord, plus what >>717103224 said

>>717104514
Try this short story, it gives a pretty good idea
https://www.angelfire.com/weird2/athenia/stories/pterry/troll.htm

>tfw no Vimes versus Weatherwax book where Vimes has to solve a crime in Lancre but Granny is trying to get him to drop the case
It would've been so kino. Unstoppable force versus immovable object kind of deal.

>>717105302
Great idea, I think I will ask Claude to write it. Thanks for the inspiration!

Am I the only one that likes the barbarian characters

>>717105375
May you live in interesting times.

>find three body problem trilogy
>book 1 is kino
>book 2 was all over the place
>book 3 had tons of ideas not served in a good way

Post your favorite middle-grade fiction and spar with anons over how yours is better.

>>717104514
Witty fantasy series, as the books go on you get more reoccurring casts and a sense of the world advancing but you can still just pick a book and read. Wizards are also pretty based in it, they used to just pick a spot they liked and summoned a wizard tower to then just throw magical nukes at everyone else's tower until the creation of the wizard university wglhich keeps them fat and lazy but still willing to summon Death to help find some lost keys just because they can.

>>717105680
not bad

>>717105871
Isn't that just literally Twilight but genderbent?

>>717105871
>>717106024
>he doesn't know

Since we are talking about our recent reads I finished the first black company book and found it enjoyable.

>>717100684 (OP)
My older sister left 20+ discworld books at our countryside home before she moved to a small apartment in a migrant infested city and became a troon supporting liberal, i have never touched a single one. Faggot shit, glad she got excluded from the Will.

>>717106351
That nigga looks like the hook puppet from Puppet Master.

>>717106351
The first three are all pretty good, then the next six or whatever are really one story stretched way out so each individual one isn't that good but the whole thing is worth reading.

>young adult novels are almost always trash
>novels aimed at middleschoolers somehow manage to be more mature and fun to read than YA

>>717104127
It is. And we need games based on the otherland series.

>>717105848
that reminds me that Sourcery exists and is a good book

>>717106663
Yeah since you cant keep the attention of the dumb teen with stupid drama, children need actual real storytelling to be engaged

just a reminder Leviathan is getting an anime adaptation

>>717106753
>cant
can

>>717106782
It's already on netflix.

hell yeah, discworld thread

>>717103702
>Most of the witches novels would be dull if it werent for Weatherwax hard carrying the whole story
i've been working my way through discworld recently, and honestly hard carrying is underselling it.
i didn't like the witches ones much, but granny alone made it worth it.

the scenes where she midwifes some woman who got horsekicked in the baby bump and the whole religion discussion with the priest were some of the best writing ever

now, should i go for the wizard saga or the death saga next?

>>717106501
Thanks for the heads up, I will keep that in mind as I go through them.

>>717100684 (OP)
The Discworld isn't really suited to game mechanic.
The magic goes in every direction, you need writing to suggest the visual joke or it will go above your head.

Even as an interactive cartoon, I don't see how it would work.

>>717106663
Middle-grade books are kino.

>>717107024
I feel like the wizard ones can be very hit or miss but I will say the last continent impacted my vocabulary and now I keep saying no worries because of it.

>>717105680
i would, if you didn't already post it.
artemis fowl is fucking great.
truly a marvelous example of every character is the best character imo

>first couple game of thrones books are great
>early tv show was top tier
>last half of seasons were ass
>but now the fantasy tv show race was on
>wheel of time got a show
>it was woke and sucked
>lord of the rings got a show
>it was woke and sucked
make it stop

Glad the 3rd book is finally coming out.

>>717105680
I win, nothing beats the ranger's apprentice in terms of middleschool kino
>fun action
>bully to best bro character arc
>protag hooks up with his tomboy crush
>marries the tomboy crush
>drug addict arc
>slave arc
>random japanese bushido arc
>author's fetish is mind control (also my fetish)
the royal ranger isnt cannon btw and if you bring it up I will sodomize you with a rusty pipe

>>717103702
>evil witch who was forced (by herself) to be good
by herself?
It's more that she should be evil by appearance, but narrative causality made so her sister (the opposite) ended up the evil one

>>717107024
>now, should i go for the wizard saga or the death saga next?
I'm a new Discworld fan and I just finished >>717100684 (OP) before starting this thread, and I gotta say that if you're anything like me, you should probably go with Death. I think Mort is one of those staple entries in a long-running series, like Hello Hellhole for Eddsworld.

>>717107527
>author's fetish is mind control (also my fetish)
The picrel you replied to's author's fetish is hypnotism and there is some mind control in it, so...
>CAPTCHA: HAY00

>>717105680
I rest my case.

>>717107768
>The picrel you replied to's author's fetish is hypnotism and there is some mind control in it, so...
oh I know, I fucking loved the artemis fowl books. In fact Im pretty sure author's shoving their fetish's into their novels is entirely responsible for my own kinks now

>>717104828
>>Death : overrated as fuck. Death is usually fine
I do wish for him to exist.

>>717102665
>>717102958
Discord is protoreddit lmao so random humour mixed in with nihilistic life is meaningless and we're all going to die no afterlife wubba Lubba dub-dub Morty.
Yeah it's pretty fucking Reddit even if it came before

>>717107912
>I fucking loved the artemis fowl books.
Not your fetish, but do you remember the consensual hypnosis scene that almost went off in book 7? I still remember reading that in class when it first released, at age 11, and getting so horny I was almost drooling on my desk.

>>717105680
>lmao anal discharge

for me it's louis wu of ringworld
the madman fucking all the aliens he can get his hands on

I am about to finish A Will Eternal, around 200 chapters left. I only know Meng Hao shows up at the end to meet Bai Xiaochun. There has been significantly less bag slapping in AWE.

>>717102420
>ignoring the girl power bullshit that is book 3
This shit has always been woke

About halfway through this. Can any Skulduggery fans here forecast the future books and tell me when to stop reading?

>>717108278
>Eoin Colfer predicted macro scat rope porn 10 years in advance

>>717108386
ordered this from amazon but it got lost in the mail

>>717107254
I could have sworn there was a hypnotist character in this series called the Swirl who only showed up once in a comic spinoff or post-credits bonus sequence, but I could be conflating that with something else.

>>717107254
>HOBEY HO, BOBBY
>LET'S FIND US A SNIGGER TO HANG

>>717108113
There is an afterlife in discworld and many books have the message that things do matter and that people matter
Just shut the fuck up

>>717107554
>hey guys, I'm in the chamber of secrets, just hanging out

>>717109639
is this that one series where the two sisters live in a fantasy conservationist park or something?

>>717109758
I only read the first book and I barely remember anything about it, so yes.

Every Discworld book is readable, but damn do I have some gripes. Most of the Witches characters are deeply unlikable(the day of the pillow is coming), relying on the scenarios to be interesting. The Watch started out really cool but lost its charm the greater the scope became, and Carrot drags down every scene he's in like a lead brick(or loaf of dwarven bread, if you prefer).

>>717109917
I read all books for villains and anti-normalfag cynicism, so I really don't empathize with this angle.

>>717107253
>you're an unlicensed thief in Ankh-Morpork

>>717100684 (OP)
A Discworld game would be lacking without Terry's help. Never played the point and click game even though I tried on an emulator. Also missed out on the Ankh Morpork map app (RIP). My favorites are Color of Magic and The Light Fantastic (even though people seem to like the newer books better) Guards! Guards! Is good too.

>>717108309
It's been a long time since I read Colour of Magic/Light Fantastic but I'm pretty sure I recall the barbarian guy Rincewind encounters fucking some ultra hot queen whose tits and thighs are described in detail

>>717103702
People from outside of Lancs will never appreciate the characters of weatherwax or ogg fully

>>717110873
Yeah the first two books are pretty inoffensive, but whatever book I think it's 3 or maybe it's number 4 where the characters are all ebin witches who school all the dumb wizards is a pretty obvious wokefest

>>717104828
Amazing Maurice is really good IMO. You can tell Terry put a lot of work in how to write a compelling book for a younger audience. I still think about those rats.

>>717111430
Is this the series with the guy named Gepetto who can body-control people to shoot themselves?

>>717111595
Could you keep your obsession with mind-control to yourself?

>>717111702
You're thinking of >>717107527.

I'm >>717108186.

>>717110374
Terry was a huge Thief nerd and even played fan missions so he probably would've liked that

>>717108113
None of that is true. Why talk about something you know so little about?

>>717111993
What games did Terry like?

>>717111771
Anyway I don't recall such character.

>>717108113
>you see, if I just make things up, I get make people mad!

Silence, real literature has appeared

>>717112079
I'm almost willing to bet he hated Sim City at least
Bet he liked Sim Tower though

>>717103072
>Valve
They definitely have the artists for it.

ENOUGH!
kneel before the king of middleschooler books

>>717112079
He really liked modding Oblivion and just chilling in his player home living as a farmer. He also helped write some dialogue for a modded companion he really liked.

>>717112571
The last person I talked about this series with was a fucking cunt.

>>717112669
Like a sick (good) cunt or a sick (bad) cunt?

>>717112726
Bad.

>>717101976
She's a woman, she'll fuck it up somehow or get greedy and they'll butcher it just like they butchered Tolkien with Ring Of Power

>>717108113
This is the exact opposite of discworld
The humour is either built on ideas laid out across the book or based on existing ideas within the genre of fantasy
its messages on the value of life are very much positive, uplifting ones
there is an afterlife in discworld

you may now pretend that you were baiting to try and save face, but we all know you were actually just retarded

>>717105680
between this and styxx, and chronicles of nick, this lady fucked my perception up as a kid. Can barely remember some of it, probably wont like it on a re-read so ill leave it as a hazy memory.

>>717104828
>Wizards : the worst series BY FAR
Glad I'm not alone in thinking this. The Last Continent felt like the most pointless book ever, you're better off watching "Bart vs. Australia".

>>717105680
Not a series, but this book fucking rocks. Tired old hedge knight and his loli daughterfu making their way through Plague-era Europe, and demons are invading. The Lesser Dead by the same guy was also very good.

>>717105680
Not favorite, but anyone else read this? Basically a reverse Harry Potter, wizards openly rule the world and they're evil and corrupt.

>>717109917
>disliking Carrot
How?

The Discworld books are in complete honesty my favorite books and series. There are other things I've read I'd say were better written, there are definitely things that have had more impact on the world at large, but when it comes down to Anon A. Anonymous' money they've had the biggest impact on my life and they're all great for just grabbing a book and reading. Even played the MUD for fucking years

I don't even remember middle school except ewilan.