What is the main enemy called in Black & White (2001)?

King Mustard · 12 Jul 2019 at 08:15

I am trying to register on the bwfiles forums, in order to respond to their guide to get it running on Windows 10, which isn't working for me.

There's a security question, which is:

"What is the main enemy called in Black and White 1?"

Well I am on the forum in the first place in order to get the game running, so how am I supposed to know that? How are people who didn't play it back then (or don't remember) supposed to know?

Anyway, a quick search using Google didn't bring much up. I've tried Evil and Devil but they did not work.

Any ideas?

Thekwango · 12 Jul 2019 at 08:18

5 seconds on google =Nemesis

King Mustard · 12 Jul 2019 at 08:20

Thekwango said:
5 seconds on google =Nemesis

I Googled "Black & White" "game" "enemy" and that word does not appear anywhere on the first page of results.

Thekwango · 12 Jul 2019 at 08:23

Googled ‘Black and white 1 game’ - first result was the wiki page. Couple of lines down was the answer. Wasn’t being sarcy?! Just answered your question. Seems you got out the wrong side of bed good sir!

King Mustard · 12 Jul 2019 at 08:25

Thekwango said:
Googled ‘Black and white 1 game’ - first result was the wiki page. Couple of lines down was the answer. Wasn’t being sarcy?! Just answered your question. Seems you got out the wrong side of bed good sir!

Thank you; I created my post.

GBRusty · 12 Jul 2019 at 08:33

Thekwango said:
Wasn’t being sarcy?! Just answered your question. Seems you got out the wrong side of bed good sir!

Im not sure, I read it as being quite sarky

. But luckily I got out the correct side of bed today (Never did understand that phrase's origin) even though I've had my first near death cycling experience on the way to work (I say near death, a driver pulled out in front of me but I'd seen that he hadn't seen me so had stopped)

EDIT: And I've now spent far too long reading that wiki. Ah, the good old days

Thekwango · 12 Jul 2019 at 08:38

King Mustard said:
Thank you; I created my post.

Tried googling for an answer

Thekwango · 12 Jul 2019 at 09:12

@King Mustard might be interested in the link below
and from the link

Black and White uses a copy protection scheme that is incompatible with Windows 10 (and Windows 7 and 8 with Windows update 3086255 installed). See the troubleshooting notes for more information.

https://www.play-old-pc-games.com/2013/03/08/black-and-white/

robfosters · 12 Jul 2019 at 09:20

GBRusty said:
Im not sure, I read it as being quite sarky . But luckily I got out the correct side of bed today (Never did understand that phrase's origin) even though I've had my first near death cycling experience on the way to work (I say near death, a driver pulled out in front of me but I'd seen that he hadn't seen me so had stopped)

EDIT: And I've now spent far too long reading that wiki. Ah, the good old days

If you sleep on a cliff edge, that phrase can be quite profound.

GBRusty · 12 Jul 2019 at 16:36

I googled it. Goes back to Roman times superstition about getting out of bed on the left side was unlucky.

@King_Mustard Since you've got the game can you download 'ahem' another copy somewhere without any DRM? It may not exist though.

EDIT: How do you do that @ thing correctly?

Ninco! · 12 Jul 2019 at 23:00

Is this one of the most requested games to be released on Good Old Games (GOG).

Hopefully it will happen!

Unseul · 13 Jul 2019 at 00:06

Loved it. Loved the creatures. Used to run one of the big creature fighting clubs on one of the forums.

Loved the eccentricities you could get training the creatures. Had a near perfect one. Used to water my crops, loved my villagers, impressed and converted neutral villages with stories etc. Only part of his training i apparently didn't quite get right was a bit awkward though... Turns out all the fireballs i threw at the enemy village, teaching him the spell and the best use... Well he thought i apparently was throwing them at the pigs. There was never a single pig left on any island with that creature, he'd even snipe them across the map.

Another used to attack enemy villages with the basic, useless, lightening spell. But if one villager ran off on their own, that one got the super mega bolt spell that drained all the creatures energy.

Kelt · 13 Jul 2019 at 16:53

I remember being frustrated with the amount of micro-management required in this game.

I don't think I got very far and I ended up giving the game to a mate.

dragonslayer · 13 Jul 2019 at 18:14

I loved black&white it's a shame I no longer have the CD and you can't get it anymore

MrWhippy · 17 Jul 2019 at 17:11

dragonslayer said:
I loved black&white it's a shame I no longer have the CD and you can't get it anymore

Ebay
£1.79
Free postage
Right now

Loads of other copies for not much more.

FloppyPoppy · 17 Jul 2019 at 17:51

GBRusty said:
even though I've had my first near death cycling experience on the way to work (I say near death, a driver pulled out in front of me but I'd seen that he hadn't seen me so had stopped)

i will just leave this here

GBRusty · 18 Jul 2019 at 07:20

harry5522 said:
i will just leave this here

Lol. I've had my mid life crysis a while back when I bought a mahoosive 4.6 litre V8 jeep grand cherokee (it's gone now, nearly a hundred quid to fill the tank that would last for just over 7 days)

I think I'm having another one where I need to cycle everywhere.