Wizardry The Wizardry Series Thread

[pippin]

Not that out of topic, but did you guys knew there is an Ultima manga?

IIRC it features a baby and its destiny and some shit. Not really related to the game per se, but more to the "feel" of adventuring in the game.

 

[Viata]

Also, I was wondering - is there any connection between Wiz 1-5 and 6-8, like the way the M&M series is all connected with a superconvoluted "metaplot", or is it only the title and nothing else?

Nope, Thundergod Bradley changed everything for VI:

I love that interview.
"How did you get interested in programming?"
It was an accident.
"How did you get interested in RPG?"
It was an accident, too.
"How did you get the idea for Bane's plot?"
In a flash.
"Do you remember the first line of code you typed for Bane?"
Hello World.

 

[octavius]

Nope, Thundergod Bradley changed everything for VI:

I decided that I would never touch the old Wizardry system again.

Aweigh's mortal enemy

I wonder what else aweigh and CRPG Addict have in common?

 

[AArmanFV]

At least aweigh have some important reason to hate him.

PS: I forgot that Samurais can't be evil, so I have to restart my Fighters

 

[Ent]

So all the shit posting in the Grimoire thread inspired me to actually give Wizardry 6-8 a try. I'm close to the end of 6 and I only really have one character that trained up ninjutsu - how necessary is that skill in Wizardry 7?

 

[AArmanFV]

Hahaha, stupid phantom piece of shit.

Spoiler

I tried the mugwump first, damn that sun of a duck

 

[Lady_Error]

I'm close to the end of 6 and I only really have one character that trained up ninjutsu - how necessary is that skill in Wizardry 7?

It's not necesasry, but helpful, especially for front-line characters. The same as in 6 really.

 

[Jason Liang]

Now that I have all this free time, I should put up that Bradley interview from VG&CE.

 

[felipepepe]

BTW, last weekend I bought this:

It's a fan-made booklet on the 30th anniversary of the Wizardry games for the Famicom. The highlights are the huge interviews with Jap Wizardry devs, including one with Robert Woodhead.

Wish I could easily translate them, but Takeshi Kaneda's interview alone is 20 pages long.

 

[TigerKnee]

Start calling in favors now.

 

[Eggs is eggs]

I don't understand how the NES versions of Wizardry were so popular in Japan. By that time there was Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy and other games like that which blow away the bland graphics and 1981 gameplay of Wizardry 1. The game was revolutionary when it first came out...but 6 years later?

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

I don't understand how the NES versions of Wizardry were so popular in Japan. By that time there was Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy and other games like that which blow away the bland graphics and 1981 gameplay of Wizardry 1. The game was revolutionary when it first came out...but 6 years later?

Final fantasy is nothing like Wizardry and it certainly isn't better let alone 'blow it away'.

 

[AArmanFV]

Spoiler

 

[AArmanFV]

I don't understand how the NES versions of Wizardry were so popular in Japan. By that time there was Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy and other games like that which blow away the bland graphics and 1981 gameplay of Wizardry 1. The game was revolutionary when it first came out...but 6 years later?

In japan those who finished Wizardry got interviewed, anyone can beat DQ (Yes, it has nothing to do with the topic, but I don't care). The first DQ was garbage, that's why Enix did the remake of the first 2 for the SNES.

PS: By the time was just DQ to "blow it away", the famicom Wizardry I came out in 1987.

 

[felipepepe]

From my interview with Motoya Ataka:

Finally, the RPG Codex interviewed Robert Woodhead, creator of Wizardry, and he said he has no idea why Wizardry is so popular in Japan. What would you tell him?

I remember when I played Wizardry as a child, the game was so intellectual – and the people who played it seemed so cool – that it completely blew away the stereotypical image of the video game otaku. During the genesis of the Japanese RPG (the Famicom’s prime), such an awe-inspiring game coming from the West shook up the Japanese RPG genre and would captivate gamers’ hearts for years to come.

 

[Darth Roxor]

O hey a locate person spell, wonder what that does

*casts at max power level*

HALF THE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD ARE DEAD

lol

 

[Darth Roxor]

Also, perhaps a dumb question, but is there any easy way to stumble into someone you're looking for? I have all the flowers for Xen Xheng, locate person tells me he's at New City. Am I now supposed to run around the whole map like a retard in the hope that I run into him by accident?

 

[Darth Roxor]

yo whaddup homie, i learnt the holy sacrament

good, go in and git yer loot

*the chest contains naught but dust*

 

[Jason Liang]

O hey a locate person spell, wonder what that does

*casts at max power level*

HALF THE INHABITANTS OF THE WORLD ARE DEAD

lol

Those T'Rang assholes!

yo whaddup homie, i learnt the holy sacrament

good, go in and git yer loot

*the chest contains naught but dust*

At least now you know the shortcut for your next playthrough.

 

[Lady_Error]

Also, perhaps a dumb question, but is there any easy way to stumble into someone you're looking for? I have all the flowers for Xen Xheng, locate person tells me he's at New City. Am I now supposed to run around the whole map like a retard in the hope that I run into him by accident?

I think there is something in the code that makes it more likely for them to stumble across you when you're on the same map.

 

[AArmanFV]

Wizardry V gets complicated at level 3, I want my fighters to be with 100 hit points or more before change them to samurais. So the question is: ¿Should I do it now?

 

[Jason Liang]

Wizardry V gets complicated at level 3, I want my fighters to be with 100 hit points or more before change them to samurais. So the question is: ¿Should I do it now?

Yes. There's no point in waiting. You probably should have started them off as Samurai in the first place...

The way HP works in Wizardy 1-3, 5 is based on the current class, level and vitality. Basically when you level, the game rolls a percentile die based on your maximum possible hp based on class, level and vitality. If the result is > your current max hp, that becomes you new max. If it is <, then you get +1 hp. So what happens if you class change at a high level is you'll get +1 hp for a while and then suddenly you'll get like +105 hp or something. Iirc the highest I've gotten was +231 for a mage -> lord.

I actually like this system since it defeats save scumming.

 

[octavius]

Also, perhaps a dumb question, but is there any easy way to stumble into someone you're looking for? I have all the flowers for Xen Xheng, locate person tells me he's at New City. Am I now supposed to run around the whole map like a retard in the hope that I run into him by accident?

You'll meet all of the wandering ones is due time in my experience.

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

Never finished 6 and now I am going to see about finishing it using Grid Cartographer.

I have the GoG versions of 6 & 7. Do I need anything from Cosmic Forge? I don't want to cheat but wondering if there are essential patches that I need. Mad god's FAQ mentions that there are patches that GoG applied to fix bugs but I am not clear on what.

 

[TigerKnee]

I think the Cosmic Forge can increase the minimum stats on the character creation roll, in case you don't want to die of Old Age trying to create good characters to beat the game with.