Discworld Noir - Act 1.01

So here's something I've been meaning to do for ages, and it'll be interesting to see how far I get before this becomes cumbersome and boring, but hopefully that shouldn't happen.

Discworld Noir is my all-time favourite video game, hands-down. It's a brilliant story that simultaneously created my love for both Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld series of books, as well as the Noir detective genre. It's quite an obscure game though, and I believe it's not widely available outside of Europe. Combined with the fact that not many PCs will run it properly these days, I thought I'd finally give in and upload a playthrough. I could probably play this thing with my eyes closed, since I've played it so much.

I'm running this game on Windows XP, using compatability mode: Windows NT 4.0 (service pack 5), in 256 colours and in 640x480 screen resolution, because the game usually complains if I use any other settings. There are minor glitches, but since there was never a patch these will sadly never be fixed.

Anyway, here's the introduction to the game. Hope you enjoy my playthrough - I try to get as many interactions on film as possible. By the way, it's impossible to game over in this, so you could argue that there's no actual "game" element, other than trying to complete it. I still love it though, whenever I sit down to play it I feel like I am watching one of my favourite films again.

Oh, and there will be annotations. You may want to turn those off if they annoy you.

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*HOW TO RUN DISCWORLD NOIR ON VISTA* (Thanks to MrKingElvis)

Using REGEDT32, locate the Discworld Noir registry key at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Perfect Entertainment\Discworld Noir". Under it there should be a value called "Start Windowed", which is set to "No" by default. Change it to "Yes". Now, when you start up the game it runs in a window and looks like crap (because it's expecting 16-bit color mode). Press Alt-Enter to change into full-screen mode. THEN THE GAME LOOKS FINE, AND IT NO LONGER CRASHES!!!
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Discworld is a registered trademark of Sir Terry Pratchett & Lyn Pratchett.
Discworld Noir (c) 1999 Perfect Entertainment Ltd.

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[wolfheart4000]

I have this game but it wont work on my computer >_< and i thought there was a lycan in it

[TheRussianGestapo]

@wolfheart4000 If it's Vista or XP that's the problem, check the video description. Windows 7, I'm afraid you're on your own!

There is indeed a lycan in it, I can guarantee that. Hope you can get it working.

[me1ne]

"women and seame-.." lulz

reminds me of the seaman prank on what was it, southpark?

BTW, hell of a game, there is so much humor in it, lots of golden lines, I might say it tops every Pratchett book. Maybe due to taking reference to a lot of them. Thoroughly enjoyed playing it, and again watching it. Thanks for your efforts mate!

BTW, who wrote the mono- and dialogs, the man himself?

[TheRussianGestapo]

@me1ne No problem, and FeedsNoSliesMusic is spot-on.

Saying that, a lot of the explanatory dialogue is lifted from the Discworld Companion, so I suppose Pratychett and Stephen Briggs *technically* wrote a lot of it.

[Zkytanni]

on deviantart I posted a bit of a started discworld noir comic I did about a year ago.

Youtube doesn't allow me to post a link, so try searching 'discworld noir' on the site, if you want to read it.

Hope you like it and I still enjoy watching bits of this walkthrough every now and then :)

[TheRussianGestapo]

@Zkytanni Apologies for my late reply, I got your message on DA but your message here didn't get to my inbox! Also I'm employed full time now, so I don't have as much internet time as I used to (I've got 600 messages on DeviantArt right now).

I liked your comic, it was a good start. Keep up the artistic aspirations, and thanks for sharing!

[RiFFxxx]

Lewton was voiced by Rob Brydon? i would never have guessed that.

[greencatsick]

I know it's Rob Brydon, but it really sounds like an American doing a Terry Wogan impression lol

[richsc21]

I just wanted to say, excellent work on all the bonus commentary you've written into the annotations. It's so nice to see someone put so much thought into their uploads! :D

[Toomnyusernae]

I watched this video a while back and favouited it before. Now I'm here to watch the whole thing. I'm glad I left the annotations on since there are so many little interesting facts I would have missed_^) What Greek Mythology is the intro referencing? Troy? And 3 goddesses fighting over a Golden Apple right? This is gonna bug me all day!

[feedthefire]

Where can I download this game legally (Steam does not have it) and does it work on Windows 7? I have PSone version but I'd really like to play this on pc.

[07pollee2ndtime]

Meant to add thanks 

[07pollee2ndtime]

How I loved this game! Hilarious! Now I can relive what I can't play anymore :( Brilliant music as well, particularly Saturnalia 

[AdamfMc]

Jesus Christ. Talk about irritating unnecessary unfunny annotations. Next time put all that bullshit in the description. Or leave it out entirely.

[kornrocktwistedfreak]

I can't believe I've found this. I love Discworld Noir and haven't played it for years. Watching this brings back some great memories.

[missopan]

Such a sweet fucking game!!!

[bluegrinder84]

i had this game but never completed it. just bought it from ebay now. the classics can never be beat