Let's play - Wizardry 4: Return of Werdna

[Occasionally Fatal]

Damned moving walls! Feck off!

ouch. diggin this thread dude.

 

[thesheeep]

How can anyone have fun playing this game? o.O

Is there good music?...

 

[JarlFrank]

Music? Hahahahaha, good one.

It's fun if you're an utter masochist, or when you enjoy a really challenging dungeon crawl. No, not Wizardry 7 challenging. Even harder. But it's fun, this feeling when you successfully reach the next level... oh it's so satisfying!

 

[theverybigslayer]

There's no music and there's no sound only one beep sound
I have only one problem with this game: the lack of automap.


Oracle's hint

These mages always use Suffocation spells and I always die.

Oracle's hint. Hop again?

The Oracle knows I went trolling to the codex's forum!

Another party on level 7. Mages are using Suffocation

I know about this Cosmic Cube from the other forum members Do you read this? Beware the Cosmic Cube! Why did you go there?

At last I found this mask on a dead body, no more suffocation!

Here' my black box:

Now I can use teleport spell, but I can teleport to the lower levels only

Found something on level 7

 

[Jaesun]

Can you possibly use the Oxygen Mask to survive the suffocation Spells?

Also, can't you just cast silence on them? Or use and item that can silence the monsters?

 

[theverybigslayer]

End of Level 7! Have I forgotten something? I think I should go back to the gates of hell and to the altar.

I can fly equipping the winged boots, so at the ziggurat I found this.

The orange rod was the Hopalong Carrot. Do you remember the hop east sign? The oracle always mumbling about hopping? So I hopped across the wall.

And killed the dreampainter

Another sign in the sky. Do you remember Boltac's Trading Post in Wizardry 1?

I am using 3 stones at the altar

I am going to choose a sword

Here I am melting down the gates of the hell.

What I found in hell

This game is mocking me

Oracle's hints

 

[theverybigslayer]

Can you possibly use the Oxygen Mask to survive the suffocation Spells?

Also, can't you just cast silence on them? Or use and item that can silence the monsters?

Yes, if I equip the mask and invoke it, I survive the suffocation spells.
The silence spell is a Priest spell so only my priests can cast it. They are trying hard

 

[theverybigslayer]

So here is the Cosmic Cube

The first puzzle

I confess I didn't figure out the solution. What is it? Anyway I found the right door try and error.

Enemies in the Cosmic Cube, I am in big trouble

Oracle tell about egress, so I will follow this sign

I found a pentagram! WTF? Is it a level 1 pentagram? LOL

At the previous pentagram I became Level 10! Last time I was Level 7. I hope these are not program bugs.

 

[Relien]

Do you still count your deaths? You could also count the playing time, I'd be quite interested how long an average level can take.

And:

MULTILAYERED ROCKS

That was close.

 

[callehe]

Lady is in the center. Only statement 1) true and other false works.

 

[darm]

A great thread, please go on.

Some questions I had while reading:

- Is Werdna male or female? The name sounds female to me, but the witch called you "fellow"
- You don't have any experience and level up upon ascending to the next level of the dungeon?
- What about the monsters, how is the size of your army limited? Do you level them up, or they are disposable, you let them die and summon new ones?

Thanks

 

[theverybigslayer]

Werdna is male, I think, they always call him evil old wizard.
There is no exp, I have to reach the next level pentagram.
I can summon 3 monster types and yes they are disposable, they don't level up.
Death count: approx 34, I always forget to write it down.
The truth is, somehow I can run away 90% from a battle if I am going to lose.
Thx for the lady solution, so only one tiger answer is good.


Yooohooo I've found a new pentagram and this one looks better!

Oracle's hint

And this is a more better pentagram! I am still Level 10.

Oracle's hint

Icecream I am going to buy some.

 

[Binary]

- Is Werdna male or female? The name sounds female to me, but the witch called you "fellow"

Werdna is Andrew backwards. It was named after one of the game's two creators. Guess why the Mad Overlord of Wizardry 1 is called Trebor?

 

[theverybigslayer]

Oracle's hint

Battle in the Cosmic Cube

Another do-gooder party in CC

A new pentagram! Demon Lord and Greater Demons are great! Greater Demons calls for help and so they multiply Demon Lord casts Tiltowait!

New merchant in CC

It will be drug.

No more Trebor's ghost , anyway I very rarely was slayed by him.

This is the strongest enemy party in CC

Oracle's hint

I've used this Muramasa Blade in some Wizardry

Oracle's hint

 

[theverybigslayer]

I am out of the dungeon!

Before me is a castle

Drink! I love alcohol

I went back to the witch, I had everything

If this game would be the Witcher, I could ...

:shock:

I went to the castle, may I come in?

 

[ghostdog]

Great LP man, I'm currently playing Wiz8 thanks to this thread. Keep it up.

 

[theverybigslayer]

Oracle's hint

Ahhh this is very nice sight (after the black&white lines)

The training grounds in the castle, full of rookie adventures

I am going to kill them

Boltac's

I've found something interesting at Boltac's I try to steal it

Battle with Boltac's anti-thief group

I slay everybody in the castle, lot of soldiers, but they are weak

The innKEYper

And the adventures inn

There's a lot of wounded soilder in the inn, they aren't very happy to see me again

 

[theverybigslayer]

Fighting the Order of Rose ladies, they can't stand my stench

The Dukes of the Castle

Oracle's hint

I found the Temple of Cant

The last enemy in the temple

is killed

The end

Werdna became a god, I am a Wizardry Master Adventurer

 

[Binary]

Nice one, congratz!

Hmmm I wonder about this obsession with the name "Hawkwind" in classic RPGs? Wasn't there one in Bard's Tale as well?

 

[Edward_R_Murrow]

I thinks it rather funny that the first Let's Play Thread actually finished at the Codex is arguably the hardest RPG ever made. Go figure.

 

[Jasede]

Now do the Grandmaster ending.

 

[Binary]

I thinks it rather funny that the first Let's Play Thread actually finished at the Codex is arguably the hardest RPG ever made. Go figure.

Did you notice his 999999 keys etc?

 

[Elwro]

Congratulations!

 

[Lord Chambers]

Did you notice his 999999 keys etc?

I still don't understand. The game saves the number of times you make a keystroke and kills you when you make 1,000,000 so that you can't "map out" the "minefield?"

 

[Fat Dragon]

Congrats on finishing this LP. I came close to finishing the game, but the Cosmic Cube was just too big of an ass pain and I just gave up. I might go back and finish it one of these days.