Auto leveling and slow-ass combat killed the game.Every time you want to go back to the beautiful world of Wizardry 8 you don't do it because of these two things.What a shame.
>>725954003It was actually leveling scaling.
>>725954108yea you're right
>>725954003This game is amazing and has the permadeath mode but I died before getting teleport and haven't booted it up again yet desu.
Wizards & Warriors is the real Wiz8.
>>725954290>Wizards & Warriorslet's make a Might & Magic cloneHmmmm but how do we name it?
>>725954003Just get wiz8fast
>>725954508doesn't help with the level scaling
mogged by llylgamyn boomer japs
>>725954003>wizardry 8jesus. western rpg series would never again go beyond a trilogy.
>>725954681It's not Oblivion though, areas have level brackets. And levels do mean more for you than they do for the monsters.
god-tier voice actingprobably the best in the whole gaming history
What is the actual problem with level scaling? Just sounds like cope that you don’t have any crowd control in your party.
>>725955257the battles get really old very soon and you can't really skip them.you can sneak past some groups but you have to spend so much time fighting bullshit mobs when you're backtracking it's not even funny
>>725954804>can't make a muscular lizardwoman amazon with a southern belle accentnah
>>725954003>>725954108>leveling scalingThis filtered me hard
>>725954003wrong.Wizardry 8 still is the best blobber that has a party with actual personality.the real issue was the balancing.like a lot of old CRPGs, there are gimped character options that basically only exist to be the wrong choice. Psionics could have used a big bump.
what actually killed Wizardry 8 was Morrowind coming out less than 6 months later, and everyone deciding that was the direction RPGs needed to go from that point forward.
>>725954003Just download the Wizardry 8 extender (it’s totally not a virus I checked) and you can speed up combat by like 800%. Made the opening areas a lot faster to play which is all I’ve played so far.
>>725955257Level scaling with pretty high encounter rate becomes a slog you can't avoid.
>>725954804This game was too slow for me. Is actual Wiz faster?
The thing I hate about blobbers is being given an encyclopedia's worth of shit to sift through during character creation before you even understand what the game consists of.The manual only goes so far to explain what you are looking at, it's not going to tell you X/Y/Z is worthless past hour 2.
>>725958225>it's not going to tell you X/Y/Z is worthless past hour 2.this is WRPGs greatest sin.
>>725954003real-time combat like Grimrock/Eye Of the Beholder/Lands of Lore is far superior
>>725958225If you play enough RPGs you'll know which skills are worthwhile and which ones are gonna get nerfed because the dev thinks it's too overpowered.
>>725960654that's a pretty wild take>rogues were terrible in Strahd's Possession so of course they're going to be bad in BG2 and NWNs!>magic users were so underpowered in Pool of Radiance so of course technology is the superior choice in Arcanum!no, you do not know which classes or options the dev of a game will decide to gimp just by playing a bunch of other RPGs they didn't make.
>>725954003Just download the mods to make things fast. In reality you still have horrendous encounter designs with 50 wasps moving independently. I don't know how this was even considered playable on release with the original speed.
>>725954003It's not just the slowness it's the sheer amount of fights too
>>725958521The dancing you have to do in grimrock makes the combat really bad.
