I wish GOG would get ahold of the Discworld games. I would love to play those.

I only played the first one, and it's basically Guards! Guards! with Rincewind in the leading part. But it's also absolutely torturous to play; I have never seen an inventory in an adventure game get this ridiculously big.

I think EA should own this one, as I believe it was Psygnosis who published it back then. But you'd also need permission from Pratchett, I suppose, and that might complicate things.

I thought Psygnosis was owned by Sony, am I mixing the name with another company?
As for Pratchett, I guess one could just ask him.

I actually LOVED the Discworld games. While the bazilisek is correct; it was still a rediciously fun game to play. Missing Presumed?!?... was pretty fun as well. Noir, now Noir was friggin awesome, and I love the fact it WAS done in a Noir style; which was a big attraction to other games for me, such as Tex Murphy titles and Grim Fandango.

No, Psygnosis was bought by Sony in '93 and became SCE Studio Liverpool in '01.

Yeah, you're right, Sony. I think I got Psygnosis somehow mixed up with Westwood, can't really imagine why.

I've got DW2 on the Playstation and those controls prevent me from getting more than five minutes in the game. Horrible, horrible control scheme.

He's dead, Jim.

The first Diskworld was awful Funny in parts, with some memorable lines, but holy crap the puzzles were unintuitive, and the inventory system was obnoxious. By contrast, I thought the second one was a lot more player-friendly. Haven't tried Diskworld Noir.

I remember playing a demo of the original on the PlayStation, and I have Discworld Noir for PC on disc, but it's a bitch to get running under Windows 7.

Would definitely be in favour of the first two especially on here, but as others have indicated, it's likely to be a rights clusterfuck.

Well the game was developed by Teeny Weeny Games and
Perfect 10 Productions and Psygnosis did the publishing so depending on how the deal was done Psygnosis, who is now defunct, could of owned the rights to the actual game content which would of been passed on to Sony after they were purchased so to get the game you would need Sony to sign off to get the actual game and then Sir Terry to sign off as well which given his Alzheimers if GOG has to do that I would recomend doing it as swiftly as possible or it could also be that Teeny Weeny and Perfect 10 both kept part of the rights so then GOG would need them to be on board and of course Terry. Another possibility is that the rights are split four ways with Teeny Weeny, Perfect 10, Pysgonosis/Sony, and finally Terry all needing to sign off on it.

Either way it's one of those messy liscences of course anything based on a liscenced IP is going to be messy such as Dune or Blade Runner which is even more messier since that was based on a film which was based on a book so you may need not only EA but the studio that currently has the rights to Blade Runner the film but Phillip K. Dick's estate pending of course on if his work hasn't entered public domain yet.

First one was utterly evil. The puzzles didn't make any sense in some parts. Ok they could be twisted in Discworld 2 but there was always an underlying logic to them and I didn't have too much trouble beating it without any walkthroughs.

Noir (3) was my personal favourite because it was something a bit different and well written but Discworld 2 was gorgeous and colourful and drew sources from a number of the books. First 2 work quite happily on ScummVM if you can find them, 3rd is an absolute bugger due to it's DRM. Easiest way I know of to play it is the Playstation One version, though it's got some compression so it's lower quality.

Perfect topic.

I am about to get into the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. He wrote ALOT of the universe, I know, but what should I read, what should I avoid? Is there even a "Complete collection" edition?

Don't avoid any of them, they are all great.
What I can recommend to begin with is: Rincewind der Zauberer
http://www.amazon.de/Rincewind-Zauberer-Farben-Phantasie-Zauberhut/dp/3492285007/ref=pd_sim_b_64

This one includes: Farben der Magie, Das Licht der Phantasie, Der Zauberhut and Eric

One continuous Storyline you will enjoy :)