I'm sure this has probably been said a billion times, but I would love to see Nightdive do a remastered version of Wiz8.

As much fun as it is to get everything to run as best as it can on my 4k screen, I would much rather pay $15 to $20 for a remaster that fixes boat loads of bugs, issues, and having modern resolution support without jumping through hoops and downloading mods. I know everyone on here(including myself) is probably used to downloading mods and adjusting gamefiles but sometimes it is just nice to startup a game without having to take hours or days to get it running smoothly.

Along with Wizards & Warriors (2000), i would fully support Nightdive, or another team, to get Wiz8 remastered. If they can get a game like Shadow Man remastered, than Wiz 8 should be a cinch

This is one of my favorite games of all time, this and Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction. I'm old school, 80s baby, 90s teen, 2000s young adult (Millennial). I love the older games, I don't mind bad graphics, I think most of the newer games coming out have better graphics, but suck, and are cash cows for big corporations (Diablo: Immortal, Command and Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight).
Wizardry 8 could use a few tweaks, but overall, I play vanilla 1.2.4. I'm afraid of mods messing up my computer, or the game itself, somehow. I would probably add Magic Nectar and/or Mana Stones to Burz's inventory, because I believe that Magic Damage Parties get an unfair disadvantage early on, before Arnika (no way to restore spell points besides resting). Resting causes more respawns, so it's a never ending slug fest just to get to Arnika.
DTGreene believes that Fairies have too many disadvantages, and I don't entirely disagree. Maybe they should get faster spell point regeneration and/or better armor class to offset the lack of good Fairy equipment and low carry capacity. Overall, though, the races are pretty well balanced. I'm biased towards Humans, because, well, I am a Human, and they get the most total attribute points, only missing out on random resistances, which can be easily fixed with Magic Screen, Element Shield, and Soul Shield.
Maybe enemies leveling with you should be heavily restricted, so that monsters on the Arnika Road can only spawn at level 6 or 7, and grinding in the Monastery would allow you to stomp them.
I'm not holding my breath though, unfortunately. W8 is like a cult classic, there aren't enough of us old school gamers anymore, and it's a new generation of Zoomers that want their good graphics. I'm just grateful to be able to download the game, and play it without a CD.

Wizardry has a remaster already... it's called Labyrinth of Lost Souls and is on Gog so i own it but personally like the old Wiz8 better

each to their own of course

That game isn't a remaster of Wizardry 8. It's a translated port of a Japanese Wizardry game that was originally released for the PlayStation 3, and that originally had microtransactions. The game is rather unlike the Dark Savant trilogy, and instead plays more like Wizardry 1.

Incidentally, I think that Elminage Gothic is a better game than Wizardry: LoLS, and I'd also give Stranger of Sword City Revisited a look if you're into these sorts of games, but they're still nothing like Wizardry 8. I think the benefits the fairy gets in Wizardry 8 are fine, at least before other races get equipment that makes them surpass fairies in what they're supposed to be good it. It's just that, once robes of rejuvenation show up, fairies no longer have anything left going for them, as other races can now regen SP much faster than fairies can.

Also, I'd prefer it if you wouldn't capitalize my username that way.

Edit: Also, there's actually a sequel to Labyrinth of Lost Souls, and it features many improvements including some new classes, one of which has an ability that makes offensive spells viable later in the game. Unfortunately, said sequel only got released in Japan and has no English version, and no PC version. (It might be possible to emulate it these days, due to emulation improvements, but I think that might not have been feasible at the time of LoLS's PC release.)

1)Fan patch 1.28 full support not only widescreen but different monitor aspect ratio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW00BGlPCkM

Fan patch 1.28 also not only fixes a huge original bug and does not start Windows, but new features
***17.4.2022***
***Build 4850***
The innovations are: 19+1+1+10+75+3+20=129
Fixed bugs: 25+3+4+18+37+6+(21)=114
Simplifications and modifications of the game: 9+2+7+3+17+0+(27)=65
Stability & Performance: 25+0+0+2+12+0+(3)=42
Total: 350+53 Fan patch 1.28 build 4404 new system "Parallel world" - watch the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCBkEu3D2_k

Starting build 4850 - screenshot of "Parallel peace" dialog as mod selection
https://sun9-28.userapi.com/impg/OZD1k87CRMOgcTRji-raTx7o_40JylQeCYGHmg/UNGkU6Kkj4Q.jpg?size=773x576&quality=96&sign=454000f177052a61097718aa2f887426&type=album

What about a remaster? this is not needed because there is redrawing of high quality texture graphics - mod called https://www.moddb.com/mods/wizardry-8-expanded or mod Reforge 1.1

Fan patch video review https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY_HPSQhx6voetfYcz_egNpcnlRNmTcty
Review video tool https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY_HPSQhx6vrdl-Kd7ZN4rAaVeFheX-OX

Official site about "Fan patch 1.28 build 4922" [url=http://www.postcount.net/forum/showthread.php?243014-Wizardry-8-Fan-Patch-1-28-(20th-anniversary)&p=4010732&viewfull=1#post4010732]http://www.postcount.net/forum/showthread.php?243014-Wizardry-8-Fan-Patch-1-28-(20th-anniversary)&p=4010732&viewfull=1#post4010732[/url]

Feature:
It is possible to add new portraits without replacing the originals
The possibility of expanding the packages of votes and adding "ticks" 3,4,5
A lot of settings in Win8.ini and ModInfo.ini
Added hotkeys to inventory, spell panel, as well as for some other game functions
Added support for BIK video setup for windowed mode
The ability to expand the limit of spells studied by the character from 114 to 456
Increased the limit of monsters in 1 group from 9 to 45
Improved work with Windows 10
In battles with a large number of monsters, freezes became approximately 2 times less
Many other optimizations of the game
Added the ability for an RPC to put his favorite item in the "Squad Stuff". When the mercenary is fired, he will take away his favorite item.
Added automatic checking for content mods cfagent.dll ,cfagent.lua, *.cfdat.
Support of negative elemental resistances for characters, as well as the removal of restrictions on the maximum value of resistances.
Monsters are now affected by the magic screen spell.
The weapon with the "Seize" effect now works correctly (it did not work in the original, but there was no corresponding weapon).
The function of calculating the average level of the party has been changed - finally, mercenaries are taken into account. Also, the level corresponds to the maximum level of the party, not the average.
Fixed a memory leak bug
Added support for playing with 7 mercenaries!
Added localization support for all *dbs
Added support for the "Parallel World" function, which allows you to conveniently switch mods.
Added automatic calculation of FOV in the real world, now the image will not stretch at widescreen resolution.
Added 4 pages of settings to "general"
Added the ability to instantly launch the game
The ability to include an alternative StringData (from Orachin) - without typos
Implemented the option of "Transparent radar and plotting"
Added hotkey CTRL+F10 to view FPS
Added 4-bit support in NPC.
Removing the restriction from Fact.dbs
The render per second for the main menu is cut to reduce the load on old video cards.
The optimization of the assortment of goods from merchants has been implemented, now only 3 of one type of goods are displayed.
Fixed an original bug related to the spell "return to the portal": with several teleports in a row, incorrect coordinates were recorded and the party could fall into the floor.
LUA - new features: 45
LUA - new events: 17 + 1
Modders new parameters: 52
Optimization implemented: reducing the load from 0% to 1% on the processor, except for the real world.
The "Parallel World" form is implemented, where when selecting a fashion from the folder list, information about the fashion is displayed.
Added support for displaying Russian text for the versions "English disk", "GoG", "Steam".

I'll definitely give some of these badboys a try,

but it is what im saying when I sometimes just want to install a game without having to constantly find patches, fixes, and mods to make it run smooth. There is also the area where remasters add back in cut content, fix controls, add controls, add QoL improvements, HD cutscenes, optimize code, etc etc. Don't get me wrong, I do also enjoy at times finding and tinkering with games, mods, finding source ports and such.

I've often thought this as well for Wizardry 8. I'd definitely pay up to $25 for a proper well done remaster/port. If it's too niche to make money I'd love to see it get the treatment like we've seen done with Doom/GZDoom. The amount of mods and fun we could have once it's on a newer engine could be endless.