Why is it so tough for games to capture the feel of being a wizard? Can't think of a single game with good adventure, gameplay, and magic. Just wanna be Gandalf
>>732302073Some retard is gonna name some TES shit
>>732302073I don't believe you, you'd still create a female character in skimpy outfits if there was a good wizard game.
>>732302073Magicka
>>732302073Try Elden Ring.
>>732302073Master of Magic is the closest you can get.
Because being a wizard isn't about conjuring fireballs or floating objects or other cheap parlour tricks. It's about being steady of spirit and about the quiet contemplation of a mind honed by wisdom. It's not really a good fit for games. Try read a book instead.
>>732302073Gandalf is more like a priest than a wizard, but then you don't have the wizard aesthetics.
My Sims Kingdom
>>732302425>read a book about odin, the greatest PVRE ARYAN wizard>being a wizard it's about drinking dead man's semenGuess I'll stick to vidya.
The manchild's obsession with the magical and fantastical is paradoxically also what robs things of their magic, a person who rejects nature can never understand the supernatural, because they are two sides of the same coin. Want to capture the feeling of being a wizard? Go take a walk.
>>732302073just play modded skyrim, oblivion or morrowind retard
>>732302073there are tons of games like that, you are just a little bitch who prefers crying on 4chan instead of looking for them.
>>732302261>Elden Ringthis is never gonna stop being funny
>>732302261Elden Ring's magic "system" makes Skyrim look like Noita.
>>732303010How about games that don't suck ass?
>>732302209Magicka gets the most important part of wizarddom right: Trolling your allies with friendly fire beams
Divine Divinity has great adventure and gameplay, and mages rape anything that melee plebs struggle with
>>732302073Oh my god. Ive had this same feeling for so long. If we could get more games like Harry Potter (but not Harry potter its just too millennial-coded).Forspoken had magic but Frey is a bit too agile to be a regular wizard.Dragons Dogma 1 and 2 really give a weighty magic feel. A real masterclass in the rpg feel.Dragon age, Skyrim, CP2077 (technomancer feel), Divinity original sin 2, Pathfinder games (especially the lich path), And some mmos.EXCEPT guild wars 2. Fuck that game, All i wanted to be was a staff wizard but NO!
>>732303554Fates of Ort has great magic
>>732302195A good wizard game would just let you polymorph into a girl at will, like Ultima Online.
>>732302073You can come up with a bunch of "if Gandalf is so powerful, why didn't he just do X" scenarios in LOTR. But in a game you want to be able to just blast your way through everything with magic which is fundamentally a different narrative.
>>732303624Wishlisted. Thanks fellow wizard.
>>732303870>if Gandalf is so powerful, why didn't he just do XHe's an angel basically, and God doesn't want angels to just directly influence the fate of earth
>>732303954Well yeah but are you going to accept that in a game?>yes you're powerful but uh... you can't use your power because (story reasons)No one wants that
>>732302425>It's about being steady of spirit and about the quiet contemplation of a mind honed by wisdomYou completely misunderstand. It’s not about anything WE would call “wisdom” or “contemplation.”Think about it: wizards FEEL magic. Humans have no idea what it means to feel magic.So there’s no conceptual framework or point of reference to even begin to notion about what a wizard is. Anything you try to pin down becomes superficial (wave stick, make rock float, or fireball shoot from stick).
>>732304121Don't make a game about literally being Gandalf in LOTR then, faggot
>>732303954So that's why he sent the wizards to influence the fate of middle earth?
>>732302682That's kind of what you get for reading a book by a jewish faggot that desperately tries to twist everything to fit his faggot agenda.
>>732304180Yeah it's the same way God doesn't directly interfere with mortals except when he drowns an entire continent. Catholics do be like that
>>732304121Everybody loved that in Other M.
>>732303113Yet you haven't posted one (1) example
>>732302484I like when there's not much difference between priests and wizards. The Lord of the Rings/Wheel of Time style where magic is something divine is just more interesting than splitting it into divine and whatever magic is in the setting.
I think there are plenty of cRPGs and things like that that have what I consider a fun progression curve for a wizard (the classic start out weak, become a demigod later) but they all fail in the aspect of specifically being a wizard adventure, you just happen to be a wizard playing the main story
>>732304430I like Conan stories in which priests with magical powers are just wizards bamboozling retards to get a cult of useful idiots.
Just touch grass, hoooooly shit
>>732304595Even so that would be fine if the story/writing is good and the gameplay fun
>>732304724Then I'm gonna nominate Shadowrun Dragonfall and Hong Kong, the latter even has a muscle wizard
>>732304285Other m is way better than prime 4
>>732302073>Why is it so tough for games to capture the feel of being a wizard?morrowind and divinity OS/2 made me feel wizard as fuck
>>732304768>turn based combat BORING
>>732302073Gandalf? Gandalf barely acts like a wizard in the traditional sense.He is old and wise but rarely actually uses magic.
>>732304617Based and Rasputinpilled
>>732302195i am a biological straight male without gender dysphoria so no i do not do this.
>>732302073Dragon's Dogma is the only one.
>>732302484Then how about some priest games
>>732305370Its a shame about the writing though
>>732302073Dragons Dogma, even the second one. Games that let you be a full on wizard onreally really work when you dont have to worry about enemies getting into melee and shit and so dont ahve to worry about doing melee combat.
A wizard is typically just an expert that arrives when he means to and sorts a complex issue due to their supernatural connections. They look like unassuming old dudes just passing by and you have no idea they did solved the entire situation that was unfolding behind them.He doesnt need to give you a reason for what he does, so he's unfit for video games. On the contrary the young people around the wizard are more important, without aiding them there's not much ambiance other than wood creaking and birds chirping.
>>732302073Tom Bombadil > Gandalf. Gandalf didn't have any bitches.
>>732306172Reminds me of the Wizard in Death Road to Canada. If you can convince him to help you at the point of the game you encounter him, he 'will' carry you to the end of the game.That guy is a bro.
>>732305445The dialogue and the basic plot can be great at times. The problem is that the main story ends abruptly. Also people put too much stock in the cycles aspect of it. That wasn't that great, and the best part was characters like Julien and Grigori.
>>732302073morrowind is still the best that i know of.if you liked skyrim but thought it was kinda crap, tainted grail's magic system is similar enough but much better. however i'm lategame and disappointed by the lack of new spells, they did great early on.there's a decent amount of summons and support spells but i play spellsword. if i wasn't playing on hard i'd breeze every enemy and i'm still using combat spells i found early act 2.this game desperately needs a sequel to expand on it's systems but what's there is pretty good. highly recommend
>>732306482Bombadil isn't a wizard, he's an oversized gnome.
>>732307068He's the most Wizard of Wizard Hes actually God
>>732307064I love Morrowind, Skyrim with mods is ok but I really wish developers would take more from the classics, its a shame that originality is dying out. Almost makes me want to learn how to make vidya
I thought Nightcaster was fun.
>>732302073Two Worlds 2 has a surprisingly great magic system
>>732302073Nuh..nnn..Gandalfff?
>>732302073I thought Skyrim was pretty good to play a wandering magician
gee-golly
