JacksonSteve
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- Aug 16, 2018
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So, let me start saying that I admit that I'm a popamole.
My whole life I've been playing the "press X to win" games and have been fine with it.
Lately, I've got some interest in dungeon crawling games, after I saw some guy playing Labyrinth of Touhou on Twitch. Needless to say, I tried playing it but it seemed EXTREMELY COMPLEX from someone like me who doesn't have experience in the genre.
So, with that in mind, I decided to go back and start with the basics, and for what I understand, the Wizardry series is one good place to start since it is one that is here forever and was always well received.
I started playing the first scenario of the SNES version (is that a good one to start with?), and, again, I was DILACERATED by almost every enemy I found in my way. Even though I was liking the experience, I thought it was time to go and find help with the wise men from the internet.
I have a few questions about how getting along with the game (so far I got to the second floor having a lot of trouble):
1) I understand that there is a spell that tells your position in the dungeon, but I think that this is not OK and since one of my interests in the game is the exploration part, I'm sticking with drawing my maps now. But I won't do all of this if later I get a spell that will simply give me a full map, so, what should I do? Keep drawing my maps or wait for a good-mapping-spell?
2) I created a very retarded party (well, at least I think this is how I should rank it since I died like 300 times so far). 3 human fighters on the front row, a bishop, a wizard and a cleric on the back row. I understand that this must be far from ideal, so, for a beginner, what would be a "semi-op" party? (mind you, I plan on replaying the game later, so I don't mind if I finish for the first time on "easy mode" just to get along and know more about the genre).
3) Is it normal to die so much in this game? I mean, I had my share of "OMG DARK SOULS IS THE HARDEST THING EVER" with my games, but this seems a bit...unusual. Is not uncommon for me to have 2 or 3 characters dying right on the first floor and having to reset things all over again. Which leads me to my final question (so far)..
4) What is the "norm" about reseting, keep going forward with dead members in this kind of games? I'm asking these because I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and every fucking time a char dies or gets some fucked up status like poison, I feel like reseting (even more if you consider that you have to sell a kidney to resurrect a dead member). So, how to deal with this? SHould I just accept my losses and keep creating a new party member every time one dies or should I just keep resetting?
Any help in this matter will be extremely appreciated. I know that it sounds like I'm just complaining, but for the few parts I could see of the game (as I said, floor one and two), I'm already loving it and really happy to know that there is another 7 games in the series for me to play!
My whole life I've been playing the "press X to win" games and have been fine with it.
Lately, I've got some interest in dungeon crawling games, after I saw some guy playing Labyrinth of Touhou on Twitch. Needless to say, I tried playing it but it seemed EXTREMELY COMPLEX from someone like me who doesn't have experience in the genre.
So, with that in mind, I decided to go back and start with the basics, and for what I understand, the Wizardry series is one good place to start since it is one that is here forever and was always well received.
I started playing the first scenario of the SNES version (is that a good one to start with?), and, again, I was DILACERATED by almost every enemy I found in my way. Even though I was liking the experience, I thought it was time to go and find help with the wise men from the internet.
I have a few questions about how getting along with the game (so far I got to the second floor having a lot of trouble):
1) I understand that there is a spell that tells your position in the dungeon, but I think that this is not OK and since one of my interests in the game is the exploration part, I'm sticking with drawing my maps now. But I won't do all of this if later I get a spell that will simply give me a full map, so, what should I do? Keep drawing my maps or wait for a good-mapping-spell?
2) I created a very retarded party (well, at least I think this is how I should rank it since I died like 300 times so far). 3 human fighters on the front row, a bishop, a wizard and a cleric on the back row. I understand that this must be far from ideal, so, for a beginner, what would be a "semi-op" party? (mind you, I plan on replaying the game later, so I don't mind if I finish for the first time on "easy mode" just to get along and know more about the genre).
3) Is it normal to die so much in this game? I mean, I had my share of "OMG DARK SOULS IS THE HARDEST THING EVER" with my games, but this seems a bit...unusual. Is not uncommon for me to have 2 or 3 characters dying right on the first floor and having to reset things all over again. Which leads me to my final question (so far)..
4) What is the "norm" about reseting, keep going forward with dead members in this kind of games? I'm asking these because I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and every fucking time a char dies or gets some fucked up status like poison, I feel like reseting (even more if you consider that you have to sell a kidney to resurrect a dead member). So, how to deal with this? SHould I just accept my losses and keep creating a new party member every time one dies or should I just keep resetting?
Any help in this matter will be extremely appreciated. I know that it sounds like I'm just complaining, but for the few parts I could see of the game (as I said, floor one and two), I'm already loving it and really happy to know that there is another 7 games in the series for me to play!