Wizards & Warriors

[Anonymous No.7019286]

Do you guys remember these? I never played the second game, but the box art sure got worse.

[Anonymous No.7019291]

>>7019286
I like the series a lot. 3 is the best game for me personally. Not a huge fan of 2, but 1 takes some getting used to but is ultimately quality.

[Anonymous No.7019292]

>box art
That's Fabio and I would love for him to be in me.

[Anonymous No.7019346]

>>7019292
I know, it's Fabio, but why the fuck is he on my video game cover? He should stick to women's romance novel covers and margarine commercials. (Also, don't be a fag. It's really gay.)

>>7019291
Oh, damn, I forgot there was a third one. I only ever played the first, but it was a classic to me as a kid.

[Anonymous No.7019391]

>>7019346
>but why the fuck is he on my video game cover?
Come on, Fabio was designed to be on a video game covers. In an ideal world all video game covers feature Fabio.
This is now a Fabio thread desu.

[Anonymous No.7019628]

>>7019286
>>7019346
>>7019391
Fabio is a manly man. Definitely worthy of being on video game covers.

[Anonymous No.7019679]

First game: Good relentless arcade shit. Infinite continues so there's no excuse to be unable to beat this game

Second game: Dick flatteningly hard. Limited continues, music isn't as good, sword range sucks.

Third game: Arguably the worst gameplay seeing as fighting mooks is pointless and can be completely bypassed by wearing the right outfit. Cool art style, fucking fantastic music. Cliffhanger ending sucks but I would love a game set in what happened after the end.

[Anonymous No.7019867]

>>7019679
>Dick flatteningly hard.
I beat it when I was a child. How can you not beat it? It sounds like you suck at games.

[Anonymous No.7020056]

>>7019867
I might, I never claimed to be good.

[Anonymous No.7021316]

>>7019286
>>7019292
>Conan-esque barbarian with huge sword on the cover
>play dorky-looking knight with a dinky knife, bunny hopping all over the place in game

Reminds me of pic related. I'm curious, they they just do this to box art for American ports?

[Anonymous No.7021373]

>>7019867
>>Dick flatteningly hard.
>I beat it when I was a child.
The game or your dick

[Anonymous No.7021394]

>>7019391
He was designed ro be on romance novel covers, that's where he got famous and was on shit tons of them.

[Anonymous No.7021492]

>>7019291
3 could have been a classic with a proper save system -passwords at least- . It wouid be one of them hidden gem metroidvanias

[Anonymous No.7021593]

>>7021492
Just emulate it

[Anonymous No.7021636]

[Anonymous No.7022257]

I bought this thing on GOG and like the vibe of it but find it nearly impossible to figure out. Why do 90 percent of melee attacks miss? Why is my partly always "away on an adventure" when I load a save? Has anybody played this? am I just being a boomer

[Anonymous No.7022806]

Great games; some of the best music on the nes across the three titles.

[Anonymous No.7022881]

>>7022257
Just name one of your characters Fabio.

[Anonymous No.7023017]

>>7019286
Fuck yeah. Wizards and Warriors 2 on NES was awesome and hard as fuck when I was ten.

[Anonymous No.7023020]

>>7023017
I mean 3

[Anonymous No.7023442]

What happened to 4-9? There is a fourth game for Gameboy with a 10 in it's title

[Anonymous No.7023458]

>>7022257
oh man they make a pretty shitty game look so fucking good in those tinsy screenshots. i wanted to like that game cuz of dw bradley, but the fact that it got unbearable dark for 12 hours and there was, as far as i could find, no way to camp until sunrise made it unplayable. got sick of running around in the dark with like a three foot visual range.

[Anonymous No.7023528]

>>7019286
>The virgin Fabio
>The chad Wolf from Gladiators

[Anonymous No.7024115]

>>7019286
Isn’t the main character in these games a knight? If so, they shouldn’t have a barbarian on the cover as they’re two different hero archetypes.

[Anonymous No.7025602]

>>7019286
1st was really interesting to me. Hard but not impossible. 2 is okay. As I recall I felt like they tried to do too much with it and it lost the nice simplicity

[Anonymous No.7025793]

For years I dismissed this series because I only saw II and the cover always looked stupid.
It's actually surprisingly well.

[Anonymous No.7026053]

>>7023528
Hair not long enough.

[Anonymous No.7027829]

>>7019286
>everybody's fawning over Fabio
>nobody's pointed out the thick dick on my man to the left
ishygddt

[Anonymons No.7027847]

>>7021316
If they switched the girl with the tits with the screaming guy near the front, it would've sold more

[Anonymous No.7027912]

>>7027829
Well, he's not Fabio.

[Anonymous No.7027954]

I thought that this was a thread for Bradley's Wizards & Warriors and now I'm disappointed.

[Anonymous No.7027968]

BACK, FIREBEAST!

[Anonymous No.7027979]

>>7027954
it can be if you make it one

[Anonymous No.7029207]

>>7027954
I was hoping that people were going to talk about the video games, but everybody's talking about Fabio. Pretty much anything would be an improvement at this rate.

[Anonymous No.7029357]

>came in thread to talk about video games
>suddenly faggots started hijacking it and posting how much they wanted to suck off Fabio ad infinitium
nice thread

>>7027954
how was that game btw? was it an improvement over Wizardry 7 as he envisioned it or was it disappointing?

[Anonymous No.7029940]

>>7029357
My bad I just never played the second game and was interested in people's thoughts on it. I didn't realize that since Fabio was on the cover that would become the main focus. I really liked the first game and it's art so I just found it disappointing.

[Anonymous No.7030336]

>>7029207
>>7029357
>>7029940

[Anonymous No.7030673]

>>7029940

All three are weird, clumsy-feeling games that somehow transcend their European origin and their weirdo mechanics and turn out to be fun and good. David Wise does a lot of heavy lifting of course, but the graphics are also pretty charming, which is odd considering that Europe normally likes to make cartoon characters as ugly and unlikable as possible for some reason I have never understood.

Personally I find it strange that anybody would like the first game more than the second, but whatever, they're both roughly the same thing I guess and they're both fine. The second one does have various weirdnesses in it, but it's more varied than the first which is a big step up in my opinion. The first game spends too much time in samey-looking caves followed by samey-looking castle areas. It's more of a spelunking game than anything else.

The third one is the least accessible and the most interesting, and although I agree with anon above saying it probably ought to have a progress-recording system, I personally like it better without one, because thanks to that it ends up being actually kinda hard. You can't even continue, as I recall? That's crazily harsh for an NES game. I mean Mario 3 is probably longer, but in that game you can easily get extra lives faster than you lose them if you're not completely incompetent, and on top of that there are warp whistles. It's such a weird game. The world feels very big and it's a little too easy to get lost, the swordfighting mechanics are as goofy as ever, and a couple of those guild tests are stupidly difficult. It's not an entirely pleasant game to play, but it really should be more popular than it is. People suck at games too much for that though. People actually think Dark Souls, a game with infinite continues that lets you grind to improve stats, is hard!

Fabio is good-looking yes, but I don't really understand why he is THE famously good-looking guy from his time. I guess he's just not my type? Oh well.

[Anonymous No.7030961]

>>7029207
Can you blame them? Fabio is built like a Greek god. He is the epitome of what every male dreams of being. It's not even sexual, it's just about looking super cool. He's like the suavest mofo in existence and everyone loves him.

[Anonymous No.7031128]

>>7030673
>THE famously good-looking guy from his time
Was he? He was on the covers of trashy romantic novels and a couple of perfumes.
>>7030961
Nah, his target have always been women, he's always the "mysterious" type, not the cool/badass one. You wouldn't see Van Damme advertising a perfume.

[Anonymous No.7031274]

>>7031128
He's not "cool" in the sense that he's an action star like Van Damme, he's cool in that he's the rich sophisticated guy who lives in the mansion on the hill. Of course women love him, that's why men want to be him. Not to fuck him themselves, but to be the guy all the women want to fuck.

[Anonymous No.7032881]

I want to fuck Fabio

[Anonymous No.7033202]

>>7019286

[Anonymous No.7033203]

>>7019286
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[Anonymous No.7033314]

>>7023020
3 is underrated as fuck. its my favourite NES game, and i really dont understand all the hate it gets

[Anonymous No.7033351]

>>7033202
It's weird how much I remember all this stuff even though I haven't played the game for over 25 years. Maybe it's just because I was really young, but there was just always something creepy about it to me. I think I might give these a playthrough for Halloween. it might not be a horror game or anything, but it is about as dark as games got back then anyway.

[Anonymous No.7034058]

>>7033314

I think it's because it's so uncompromising... the first two at least reward you with cool treasures here and there, and if you play for a little while then you'll probably get to the next area even if you don't entirely know what you're doing. The third game is just like, "Here's your drab town that seems to go on forever. You probably have a quest somewhere, maybe. Well, good luck." And then it's more of that for like two hours straight (or however long it lasts). And you never do find out exactly why those bearded midgets want to punch you to death...

It's kinda like with ActRaiser. You expect a sequel to be like the last game, but it's something harsher, and then if you're a dumb kid or a casual player you probably feel alienated and give up. That's what happened to me anyway. I never learned to like this game until I revisited it as an adult.

[Anonymous No.7034078]

>>7033351
>Maybe it's just because I was really young, but there was just always something creepy about it to me.
Have to agree... the enemy/mayor designs were all pretty spooky, and the soundtrack is sort of subtly sad all the time. The sequels kinda lost that.

>>7033314
Everybody (including me) got filtered by the lack of saves