Discworld Noir and Under A Killing Moon

[MetalCraze]

worthy?

 

[Fez]

Discworld Noir is worth playing, especially if you are a fan of the Discworld series. Not bad.

 

[Truth]

Tex Murphy was the shit. Sadly, all I remember from Under a Killing Moon right now was some guy's head getting warped in your water cooler bottle early on and a cinematic of Tex emptying said bottle outside a window. Worth playing I suppose.

 

[MetalCraze]

I already got it (Discworld Noir) though didn't install it yet. I just want something like a game stylized as noir detective story with in an unordinary setting for usual noir.
so I decided to look into both game as the first one is about noir detective guy in a fantasy world while the other one is about noir detective guy in a post-apoc san francisco

 

[ghostdog]

Diskworld Noir was pretty good as far as I can remember. The Tex Murphy adventures are very good also, though they're a pain to get them run in winXP, at least pandora directive was. Anyway, get them both.

 

[MetalCraze]

iirc UAKM is 1994 game or something. I doubt this will cause problems running the game in dosbox. the cd swapping could be pain in the ass though (using 4 cds in dosbox - wicked shit).

 

[ghostdog]

if you can run run it with dosbox, you could just set a folder as your cd-rom and copy the contents of the cd's there, to save you the trouble of swapping disks. With newer games this may no work, but I've done this with Dig, Police Quest 4 and SWOS. successfully.

 

[IlkuWarrior]

Noir is excellent, I highly recommend it.

One common problem with it is that you cant load games, but there's a quite painless way to solve that: just start a new game and than load from the in-game menu, instead of from the main menu, if this problem comes up.

 

[MetalCraze]

already figured it out. that isn't a problem. the only problem I have is CTD when trying to access options from the main menu.

I like the atmosphere of the game.
sarcastic noir-style remarks of Lewton, the noir-must-have femme fatale, constant night with rain and jazz. the voice-acting is good too. though some secondary characters could've used some better voice-actors.

@ghostdog: thanks, will try that.

 

[psycojester]

Twoconkers really could have used a less stereotypical Asian guy.

 

[PWSteal.Ldpinch.D]

Are there any major differences between the PSX and PC versions of Discworld Noir?

 

[visions]

I liked Noir when I played it but I got stuck somewhere and never finished it. I was younger and dumber then though.

Great atmosphere. Should try it again sometime in the future.

 

[Ulminati]

I already got it (Discworld Noir) though didn't install it yet. I just want something like a game stylized as noir detective story with in an unordinary setting for usual noir.

Grim Fandango.

Westwoods Blade Runner adventure game.

Discworld noir was ok too

Avoid the tex murphy games.

 

[Sceptic]

Avoid the tex murphy games.

You have successfully removed Ulminati from your BRO list

Martian Memorandum and TPD are awesome. The others not as much, but none of them is bad, even though UKM is probably the weakest. Why the hate Ulminati?

 

[Unkillable Cat]

sarcastic noir-style remarks of Lewton, the noir-must-have femme fatale, constant night with rain and jazz. the voice-acting is good too. though some secondary characters could've used some better voice-actors.

You don't say. Discworld Noir is the only Discworld game that has an appearance by Sam Vimes, and he sounds like a whiny little twat in it.

But then again, the original Discworld suffered from the same problem: Eric Idle voiced Rincewind, and about 2 voice actors voiced everybody else.