Thread 723679831

>Almost 2026
>Still no new Discworld game

>>723679831 (OP)
I wonder how big the junk is on those elephants

>>723679926
Umm... How do you know they are male?

>>723679831 (OP)
A new Discworld game would be ass; let the canon rest with PTerry.

Now post your favourite novel: Mine's Hogfather.

>>723680368
I got about halfway through reading chronologically. Magrat Garlick was my waifu, so something with her.

>>723680275
>>723680351
Based. I still love the games.

>>723680105
females can't support anything

>>723680368
For me it's Night Watch.

>>723680726
lol

>>723680726
Great A'tuin is female[/female].

>>723680752
Absolutely stellar choice. I do really love those bits where the history of Ankh-Morpork is touched on.

>>723680368
This. They will give the ip to some nepo baby that graduated from a liberal college, has blue hair and use pronouns, and then proceed to destroy the setting to pander her twitter viewpoint. I seen this happen way too many times now.

>>723680368
How much did he write for any of the games anyway? I don't recall him being credited as an actual writer for them, was he?

I absolutely love Monstrous Regiment, and Thief of Time. And all of the Lipwig books. Those are probably my most reread books.
>>723680752
I do think Night Watch is probably the absolute best DiscWorld book.

I wish I'd known about and participated in the kickstarter for the tabletop game though. I don't have anyone to play with, but it would be nice to have been able to add it to the collection.

Redditworld

>>723681074
I'm currently reading through the series again and I'm about to read Pyramids.

>>723681248
>wish I'd known about and participated in the kickstarter for the tabletop game though. I don't have anyone to play with, but it would be nice to have been able to add it to the collection.
I donated to that and I believe but not 100% sure that you can still pledge. Although I think it's shipping in around 2 months so you'll have to be quick if you still want to pick them up.

>>723679831 (OP)
>Almost 2026
>Still no Beyond the Ice Wall game.

>>723681475
I don't know what this is.

>>723680275
>>723680351
>playing point-and-click adventures on Playstation
Must've been a nightmare.

>>723681595
It's fine. I still have my copies of the games.

>>723679831 (OP)
What about a massive resurgence into Discworld MUD. People like them there World of Warcraft classics and their Everquest shards or whatever, surely it's time for Discworld MUD to be retro-cool.

My fav is Going Postal.
I dont really like the older stuff, i think he got a lot better at writing complete books as he got older

>>723681454
pretty sure they were set to ship in like june, but gamefound does have a thing for a late pledge, might have to see if that's still working, thanks.

>>723679831 (OP)
the thought of Discworld not written by Pratchett makes my skin crawl
>>723680368
Small Gods a best

>>723679831 (OP)
Discord players at at least 40 years old by now, retard. The true fans are almost 60.

>>723682843
>Discworld

>>723681595
I played RTS games on Playstation. It was tolerable....for the time.

>>723679831 (OP)
Globertards instantly seethe anyone even attempts to question their narrative, even in a lighthearted jest like this.
And by globetards I mean leftoids.

>>723682843
>True fans

T. 16 year old

I guess a Telltale style game could work, but given that his daughter's already a pretty big figure in the game industry and nothing's come of it I doubt anything ever will, she seems to take stewardship of it relatively seriously.

>>723681859
I dunno, he started to fall off after Monstrous Regiment. The earlier books (pre-Reaper Man) are a bit rougher but they're still good.

>>723683053
what the hell are you talking about

>>723683075
Show me a 16 yo, that knows about Discworld or even played the OG games. Thats almost impossible.

>>723683257
He thinks "Discworld" is talking about the flat earth, not an actual series of novels.

>>723681859
Up until his health deteriorated and they started being ghost written you mean. It's been said a million times, but Thud and Night Watch were his best.

>>723680368
I really can't choose between Mort, Going Postal, Hogfather.

>>723680752
>>723681248
It's definitely the best but you lose out on some of the best bits if you haven't read the previous books on the Watch.

>>723681248
Dunno about the games but for the movies he was well known to only sign off if he had the power to veto anything and would constantly use it to keep them accurate to his books.
That's why that Watch TV Series was so fucked. The moment he died, they refused to let anyone else have that veto power and rewrote the whole story.

>>723683205
Nah, Post-Thud! is downhill but stuff like Going Postal is peak. And honestly even more relevant today with like the subplot of the corporate interests buying up the clacks, ousting the original engineers that made it, and making all the service and quality for it go downhill so badly that the post office is able to succeed.

Pratchett predicted enshittification

>>723683053
That's got nothing to do with anything going on in this thread retard.

>>723680368
Thud.

Koom Valley pretty unfortunately named in the modern lexicon though.

>>723683264
His books still sell well. Sure, not as well as when he was alive but I've been to the Discworld Con in Australia, plenty of kids/teens there in costume.

>>723683205
*After* Monstrous Regiment? The book that falls apart halfway through when it becomes clear all it has is just a premise of 'what if they all turn out to be girls?' ? That book?

Cmon, man. That story was halfbaked as hell.

>>723683567
maybe then he doubles and triples down on the joke and it loops back around to being funny again

>>723683512
The last few book stores i visited didnt have any pratchett except maybe his autobiography. The shelves are filled with tiktok fiction as far as i can tell

>>723683567
I like it because it's largely just a book full of gags.

>>723680368
MORT

>>723683803
That's every Discworld book though.

>‘That’s a harp he’s playing, Nobby,’ said one of them, after watching Imp for a while.
>'Lyre.’
>'No, it’s the honest truth, I’m-’ The fat guard frowned and looked down.

>>723683567
If it came out today it'd be grumbled about for being tranny shit, sadly.

>>723683738
I feel like most people buy these kinds books online at this point. I know I've had to because my local has finally finished it's two year long transformation into being one half of non-fiction like biographies and cook books and the fiction is all manga, graphic novels, and a couple non-Marvel/DC comics. The actual fiction books are left to two bottom selves. And it's just some of those old penguin orange cover classics like Don Quiote.

>>723683898
>You have been given a geas.
>Is that like a duck?

>>723681565
You should look up information about Antarctica, who controls it, and who is, and isn't allowed to come and go.

>>723680368
I loved Mort.

>>723683898
>>723684051
"Gilt by association" lives in my head without necessity of a lease payment.

>>723680516
>Magrat Garlick was my waifu, so something with her
I know she's the quiet girl in the back of the class, but she's a dumb slut.

>>723680368
Small gods, but hogfather is second for me

>>723683953
I think the whole line just got a new edition somewhat recently, so it's not like it's fallen into obscurity

>>723680368
Sourcery for Rincewind and general magic
Feet of Clay for Watch (and because I just really like golems)
Wyrd Sister for witches
I wasn't a big fan of Tiffany Aching, Eskarina was better.

>>723684168
MEDS

>>723679831 (OP)
>turtle makes a turn
>switch goes flying out the window

>>723680368
hogbros all up in here
>>723683264
i saw some young library nerds pick it up not too long ago, it's not too obscure for those types i would say even if here's less of them now

>>723684316
>Sourcery for Rincewind and general magic
I also loved Sourcery because of how much it shows us about Wizards and how they roll, the nature of magic, and being probably the only time Rincewind could uncontroversially be said to have done something heroic. Also I liked Coin from what little we really saw of him as he actually was.

>>723680368
I like the Nightwatch stuff mostly but Going Postal is a favorite.

>>723684878
>Cohen the Barbarian front and center

>>723680368
Probably Men at Arms. I hate hate HAAAAATE what they did to the watch series after this and the golem book, turning it into the Vymes Mary Sue show.

>>723683898
oh, I'm finishing up Soul Music now

>>723679831 (OP)
I decided to go back and try to finish first game and already I had to give up. There's serious bug involving unclickable, uncloseable inventory at the part where I tried to get flipping pancake from kitchen. Also the whole thing is slow af in dosbox.

>>723681859
Completely disagree. His books start out interesting and gradually become dumber as they progress. First Mort book, Death takes on an apprentice. Interesting. Last Death book, Death goes Marvel hero and beats up the four apocalyptic horsemen. Dumb. Pretty much every series just becomes Marvel at some point. If Guards Guards had been the last book, Vymes wouldn't wrestled the dragon to the ground while that his rich wife's stupid butler assassin killed the entire assassin's guild.

>>723683567
I mean, as far as "this book is about one thing and one thing only" goes it's not a bad hook.

>>723685341
>Last Death book, Death goes Marvel hero and beats up the four apocalyptic horsemen
That's... Literally not what happens at all.

>>723683567
it also has themes of nationalism, the effects of an impending technological revolution on a less-advanced society, and the meaning of patriotism, gender, and duty

and also lots of jokes about how everyone is actually a girl

>>723680726
your mom supports you stinky neet

>>723685209
>Also the whole thing is slow af in dosbox
You're this old yet you've never heard of ScummVM?

>>723685476
The Duchess' fate is kind of horrifying if you think about it.

Being ascended to godhood but not being powerful enough to really do anything except hear a bunch of prayers as your country slides into total insanity for decades.

>>723683287
the novels are in reference to the flat earth thats why its called that and thats why it is old timey fantasy IE the times when people literally all accepted the 'diskworld' cosmogony its not just randomly called that for no reason.

>>723685341
>>723685016
>Vymes

>>723683053
THIS