This is pretty much as good as Morrowind and Kotoryou should play it anon
>>3907260None of these 3 games are meaningfully comparable
>>3907260Morrowind? Yes.KOTOR? Not really, the level of polish and cutscene direction is completely different. Still, it's an awesome game (unless you're GhostLP).
>>3907263what games are then?
>>3907270Wizardry 6Wizardry 7
Is it one of those games where you have to write a doctorate on the ruleset and play it 90% to completion twice before you can create a functional party?
>>3907260I dont believe you.
i got filtered by the endless combat spam. seemed like every three steps i got dropped into another boring glacially paced encounter. apparently there's a hak to speed up combat but i didn't like the game enough to bother trying it out.
>>3907487Yes that's how it is.
>>3907487That's how I played it, actually. Though on a third try I decided to do a solo psionic run and managed to actually finish it.
>>3907260>This is pretty much as good as Morrowind and Kotor>you should play it anonThis wizardry fanboy is retarded
>>3907520>morrowind. An action games with quests>KOTOR. A literal moviegame>Wizardry 8. True party-based CRPG with blobber view as was always intendednot OP but just saying maybe this isn't the board for you
>heyheypeopleslopPass
>>3907601"It's almost as good as these different games""Please play it please please please"
>morrowindCan I play this game as a solo character? I don't like making parties
>>3907637Yes. But it's going to be more difficult at the beginning when you don't have many ways to deal with bundles of enemies.
>>3907487my eastern european sister finished wizardry 8 a few times while still in highschool, this board is just brown and retarded
>>3907656is your sister hot? a girl that plays wizardry 8 sounds like a keeper
>>3907260>This is pretty much as good as [vastly different and unrelated games]But is it as good as FC 26?
>Make a step>Combat against 5 slimes>Make another step>Combat against 5 crabs>Make a step>5 bandits appear
>>3908007>can't use chameleon>can't rape encounters with hypnotic lureSad.
>>3908064Chameleon is unreliable. You need to cast it at max power to have a real chance at avoidance, and early on your casters will often flub a max power cast. Plus, some mobs will focus you before you cast it, meaning they'll still come at you even with it active. Sticking your ass into a corner + hypnotic lure + crowd control spells (web, fear, sleep, insanity, heck, even the basic itching skin) are the way to go.
>>3908064Forgot to add, you should powergame by making your Bard and Gadgeteer female, so they can use those +stamina regen medallions. Those two classes are basically stamina casters, and having double the regen is very handy.
I only played W8, what's it like to play W6-8 back to back as it's intended?
>>3907612You didn’t know about wizardry before sseth’s video?
Morrowind is dogshit so that is not saying much, Wiz 8 shares its dogshit leveling mechanics too but at least its a much better game in all other regards.
>>3908092Not Necessary. Amulet Regen works outside of combat, but in combat the regen is minimal even with 2 necklaces, you'll still need potions/stamina/rest all to keep up the casting.
>>3908212I was thinking more about having to fight multiple battles in succession. The medallions help there.
I can't play wizardry after playing grimoire. Cleve broke me.
>>3908253Elaborate
>>3907269I find it hilarious that you think KOTOR is a better game than Morrowind and Wizardry 8. Like this might be the funniest comment I've seen all week.
>>3907487It's not that bad, but if you have no experience with the past Wizardry games and don't build your party logically you are going to have a really bad time.A party comp guide is enough to set you on the right path.
>>3908316Why spoil the surprise? Try grimoire.
>>3909732Wizardry 8 is the least obtuse of all classic Wizardry series games. Though, in fairness, this says more about how obtuse the others are.
>>3907260it's pretty fucking amazing. I played it for like three months almost exclusively when I got it, and still have six game folders for different runs. you can even import wiz 6 and 7 saves for slightly higher starting stats + instant level 5 and/or stupid shit like multiple godrings because some guy (probably bought a strategy guide) and read that he had to tell a big-tittied dragon in wiz6 that he loved her at some point in the last three decades and decided to be a bro and upload his rigged saves. I have one with fucking SIX. warning: don't roll four polearm fighters and beeline it to marten's bluff asap to buy stun rods if you want the game to be an actual challenge. it's still hard even with that but you will roll the shit out of everyone if you don't die to gay instant death spells or all those faggot monks at gayjin. enjoy, boys o7
>>3907260Beat it for the first time a couple years back >>3907487 this is true to some extentI used 4 primary casters plus bard and gadgeteer, it's often said that offensive casters do not scale well into late game and it's true if you have 1-2 of them, but a full party of them destroys fights in a couple of turns with huge aoe spells.
>>3907260It's better than Morrowind or Kotor and it isn't even the best game in the series.
Wizardry 8 is one of the best games ever made but ONLY if you take a party all the way there from 6 and go into every game blind as a bat.
>>3913601Nah, that would take two forevers, and almost assuredly make you miss a bunch of stuff which carries over.
>>3913643It takes three weeks playing on 40-something boomer hours.
>>3907260Is it similar to Morrowind at all?
>>3914706no it's turn based but it's fire tho if u played 7 it kinda rehashes the factions, but if u never played 7 then it will be even better
Is this game some autistic combat simulator or is it actually immersive? Any recommended mods for a beginner to the series?I hate JRPGs so I always assumed I'd hate a turn based series like Wizardry
>>3907260Why would you compare an actually good game like Wiz 8 to dogshit like that in order to incentivize people to play it?
>>3907487no, it's basically just d&d with slightly different number scaling.
>>3915063It's one of the relatively rare attempts at making a modernized version of an old-school game. It's pretty straightforward in terms of mechanics, not much sweatlording involved (the combats themselves are brutal, but that's because of that shit difficulty scaling everybody was jerking off to in the early-mid-00s). As for mods, IIRC there was a missing item fixpack, which added the Demon Doll, and components for the Watchdog Alarm. And the combat speedup mod is pretty useful.
>>3915063who's the hottie with the beard
>>3913201i find this is often the case in rpgs.either you stack mages and clear encounters with a big alpha strike or only use 1/2 for utility/buffs
>>3908007you're just talking about early game. It gets WAY worse later on.
I'm playing right now but are non-fighters meant to be low damage? I have a level 19 fighter who does 100+ damage per round but my rangers and spellcasters don't come close to those numbers.
>>3916090Fighters tend to have the most straightforward progression. >rangers (and auxiliary ranged chars like bards/gadgeteers) Raise the stat (Dex, I think? Been over 15 years since last I played it) which increases number of attacks per combat round, have the gadgeteer craft a tripleshot crossbow for the ranger, boost the gadgeteer's Engineering skill (upgrades the Omnigun), use ranged weapons with secondary effects (slow, stun, kill etc). >spellcasters Direct damage spells are kinda shit once you move past early trash mobs (crabs, rats, ants). Spellcasters are better used for crowd control (paralyze, sleep, insanity, that sort of thing) and buffs. You can give them wrist rockets (I think that's the highest tier sling weapon), in fact it's recommended, but they'll never get super-high damage.
