/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6643195
All great series. Wizardry, however, is my favorite series and I'm glad Japan still makes new Wizardry games.

Ultima

Simple as.

IMO it's between wizardry 1 and M&M3. I really like M&M2 and Bard's Tale too, but they're not as memorable.

>>6643195
Wizardry took 6 games to become playable and another two to become good, Ultima took four games to become good until it shat the bed with 9, Bard's Tale is always shit, Might & magic took two games to get good, another two to get REALLY FUCKING good, and shat the bed with 9

playing through wizardry 1 for the first time now on SNES.

original party was fighters PORK, BEEF, MEAT, cleric CLER, mage MAGE, and thief LEON. MAGE died after falling into a pit and was buried after a botched DI and resurrection. SAGE dropped out of a closet to replace MAGE.

after getting to floor 10, i decided to create an extra player called MULE to hold shit, like an unidentified item i had just found that drained life away quickly

upon first exploring floor 10, i almost immediately triggered a chest teleporter which put my party into solid rock. party wipe.

luckily MULE recalled them from Cant, and restored them to life.

went in again and got to *W E R D N A*, but he blew his tiltowait load before i blew mine. 5/6 members died in the conflagration, but PORK managed to heroically run away dragging everyone's bodies in tow. now he is trapped on 10.

MULE formed a rescue party with fighters DORF, BALS, cleric POOP, and thief WOOD. as MULE was trained on Murphy's Ghost, so he trains his new party... and then proceeds to almost immediately die to a gorgon's breath on 9, gets turned to ash and then buried after paying Cant 10000 gold.

DEED replaces MULE, but this time she comes preloaded with vitality and luck. Injected pure Murphy's Ghost into her veins until she could tiltowait without having killed a single kobold.

Going into the maze for the rescue, ran into trouble eariler and my cleric POOP dies. Trigger another teleporter on 4 on the way out. End up in a dummied out portion of the level with no escape, and don't have malor to fix things.

Crap. Now I have to make a new Lv 1 party and grind up again. Also how does my original party know to look for my two lost groups and the layout of the maze. I feel like I lost on a spiritual level.

>>6643356
Why are the thieves named LEON and WOOD? I understand the rest but these decisions mystify me.

>>6643859
leon was the name of my dnd rogue. wood is short for woodchuck, the thief from record of lodoss war

How does anon like the psx wizardry trilogy? Is this a good entry point to the series?

>>6644215
Llylgamyn Saga is by far the best version of the trilogy.

>>6644370
For the PS1. SNES also has a Llylgamyn Saga, but it's not that good.

>>6643195
Ultima for world interactivity
Wizardry for combat depth
Might and Magic for item complexity

Bard's Tale for the trash can.

>people prefering Wiz1 to 5 over Wiz6 and 7

Step aside sapes.

>>6644626
>wizardry
>combat depth
Nigga what the fuck?

>>6644675
wizardry's class system isn't too shaby.
better than in the other ones for certain.

bump

Wiz 4 because I like SMT

>>6643195
>Three shit series and Ultima
How is this a debate?

>>6643195
with the answer being Gold Box

>>6645340
Ask me how I know you never mastered Humility.

>>6644202
Ah, now I see. Cool.

>>6644646
based

>>6643195
Isn't Wizardry the only one that's still going?

>>6645605
The latest Wizardry game is Wizrogue from 2014. The last non-mobile game was from 2011.
Ultima had Ultima Forever in 2013.
Might and Magic had X in 2014.
Bard's Tale 4 came out in 2018.

bump

>>6643251
This.

>>6643356
>playing Wizardry 1-3 on anything but the Apple ][

It should be just Wizardry and Ultima.
M&M and BT came later and were less relevant.

>>6645557

>>6645615
Shows you how out of touch I am with modern gaming. Thanks.

>>6643356
Why are you still bothering with chests?