Posted on: August 26, 2024

OGBunnyPuncher

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Wizardy 8 - the best crunch rpg of all

Wizardy 8 is the greatest CRPG of all time. The story is kind of lame, the number of NPCs laughable and the villain a bit one note. So why is this game the greatest? Because of the rich and magnificient character creation and development system. I have been playing this game for 24 years, ascended and finished the game inumerable times and I still play and get excited about starting a new party of 6 and either focus on optimization of a powermonger build, a silly build that can finish the game despite ther silliness, or anything in between. Becoming intimate with the game and knowing all the tricks and traps is the first level. After that it is creativity and developing your party that allows you to compose rhapsodic melodies of slaughter and magical mayhem. The game will kill you, and rarely love you, but will thrive with death and learn to love the game.

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Posted on: October 30, 2017

GKekes

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First I hated it, then fell in love

I played this last year, it had been a free gift from a magazine some years prior. It had been sitting in the "to be played some time in the future" pile of games. It had been ditting there for years, because I was put off, not so much from the dated graphics, but from the minor sci-fi elements. I decided to give it a second chance after the rave reviews I'd been reading all over the internet, old and new. I was on my Xmas holidays and I said to myself "I'll give it 1-2 days of playing, if I'm not hooked by then, it's uninstall time" The thing that initially kept me playing was the frequent level-ups on the early stage of the game (they get less frequent as you gain, more levels, and rightfully so). With six characters on the team (they later become eight) you has a level up every 45min or so. After that, I'd become accustomed to the gameplay mechanics, my eyes got used to the graphics, and it was sheer joy to play for days on end! Never did I get bored, or lost any enthusiasm until the end. What a delight!

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Posted on: May 25, 2013

RonAFGreve

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Great RPG very versatile

I played this many years ago (when it actually was already a bit dated). However even so I really enjoyed it. The only thing were the very long fights (which I found more annoying in the beginning). Very nice RPG. Lots of very different items you can find use and I believe you could combine together. You have a group of very different characters which make the occasional comments and have different skills. I like RPG's where you can do a bit more than fight/fetch and bring item.

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Posted on: May 28, 2013

fool1977

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Awwww YEAH!

Oh man! This game is key. I just started a new party for Wizardry 7: Crusaders of the Dark Savant and will use Wizardry 8 on GOG as motivation to finally finish a game I've loved, but haven't managed to complete since 1992! Anyway, Wizardry 8 is a fine RPG. Very hard-core. If you're not into hand-holding, and want a challenge, get it!

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Posted on: August 4, 2015

evild4ve

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Brilliantly written and acted, but...

I didn't pay much attention to the Wizardry series at the time and having played this through to the end, I feel people are over-rating it due to nostalgia. Remember: this came out in the same year as Throne of Bhaal. Wizardry 8's writing is excellent, plot so-so. I liked the jokey 70s sci-fi opera feel. The voice-acting is a labour of love and I almost gave the game a 4 rather than a 3 because of it. My party was: Dragon Psionic, Canine Lord, Lizardman Fighter, Cat Ninja, Human Alchemist, Human Priest. This isn't an optimal build but was luckily OK. The character-customisation and stats and the actual RPG engine are pretty good but some of the stats work in such odd ways that I ended up cheating and looking it up in faqs. The puzzles are a bit poorly implemented (it seemed there are 2 different ways of "using" an item" which makes some of the point-and-click type puzzles a nightmare). Nearly every fight is a narrowly-winnable hitpoint-grind of attrition against 8 of the same enemy - the combat is balanced and challenging but not fun or tactical by comparison with other games of the time. The combat and puzzle drawbacks combined mean that if you need to get from one side of the map to the other to try "using the metal sphere on the computer console" it takes half an hour to fight through the mobs, only for it not to work. I ended up using walkthroughs. Lots of people hate level-scaling but this game does it better than any other game I have played that had level-scaling in it. The fights are impossible at the start and easy at the end but for about 40-50 hours in the middle they are consistently challenging. The way the items and loot and the in-game economy all work feels very unpolished - to the extent that you have to build your party round the items that are available. The gameworld is small - and the monsters in some areas are so annoying that you avoid revisting them. It is well worth the $6, but remember to quit if you start to find it boring.

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