About to finish.....

[BadRaZoR]

First played this back in 1982 and it's the game that got me into gaming. This game will always hold a special place in my heart. I really enjoyed playing this new updated version.

That said, there are 2 things that definitely took away from the fun:

1) Menu bugs. The worst being the Gilgamesh tavern trying to add or remove party members and it locks the game up.

2) Combat text. Everything goes too fast and i don't know what's going on half the time. Trying to read it on the "old school" version at bottom right of screen is just as bad.

Get those two things fixed and this game would have been a 10/10 for me (it gets extra points for the nostalgia factor ;)

[Wizardsmana]

It looks like the menu bugs at the tavern were fixed with the new update. Please let me know if I'm wrong on that.

But the combat speed is still the same default speed with no way to slow it down or even speed it up like the original version. This is VERY maddening and keeping me from making a serious go at the game as it takes away from the original experience of enjoying combat and not having to scroll back through text to see what happened! Until the combat speed is fixed, I'll wait to play it through.

[Segovax]

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Wow.

Discovered this game this morning!

Read about the original 'Wizardry' for years and years. :)

From my point-of-view, 'Wizardry' is a continuation of 'Advance Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin' by Mattel Electronics/TSR.

If you are, indeed, a player from the original 'Wizardry', please keep us updated on the bug reports, Q&A and will definitely consider adding 'Wizardry' to my Steam library.

Wizardry came out several years before Treasure of Tarmin, I believe.

[BadRaZoR]

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Wizardry came out several years before Treasure of Tarmin, I believe.

Not several years. :)

Definitely remember purchasing 'Treasure of Tarmin' approximately around 1984-85 during Intellivision's last few years in activity.

'Tis no matter; what is important is that 3-D 1st person perspective cRPGs was something new and dangerous for gamers to explore.

Would love to try this version of 'Wizardry' for the same reasons as the Original Post,

"... for the nostalgia factor." :)

If you played the original back in the early 80's, you will definitely appreciate this version. It's the exact same core game but they have added a lot of QoL features. I have an Apple II emulator and tried to play Wizardry a few times but never made it to the end. With this game, it was easy to want to get there, so definitely try it. Every sign you see in the maze will spark memories of when you first played it.

If you have any questions, I'll try to keep my eye on this post for a bit. I just finished the game about an hour ago

[BadRaZoR]

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Retronaut lähetti viestin:

Wow.

Discovered this game this morning!

Read about the original 'Wizardry' for years and years. :)

From my point-of-view, 'Wizardry' is a continuation of 'Advance Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin' by Mattel Electronics/TSR.

If you are, indeed, a player from the original 'Wizardry', please keep us updated on the bug reports, Q&A and will definitely consider adding 'Wizardry' to my Steam library.

Wizardry came out several years before Treasure of Tarmin, I believe.

Wizardry came out in 1981 I believe

[BadRaZoR]

absolutely faithful

[Kensloth]

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Saw someone on Twitch today playing an adaptation of 'Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord' on the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Completely blown away!

Did not know this game existed on the NES.

An interesting version on the NES; looks like a Japanese version of 'Wizardry'.

There are several of the early titles on the NES actually. I own the physical NES Wizardry 1 that I bought wayyyy back in the day. It has lovely chiptune music and nice amber color graphics.

If you are into the emulation scene, you can find the Legacy of Llygamyn SNES collection, which was released on the Japanese Super Famicom only, but has since had an English translation hack added to the ROM.

I have that one on my SNES-Mini console that was sold a while back, (super easy to hack) - and with the inclusion of the quality of life things that come with the SNES Mini (like save-states, etc) and the vastly improved visuals and music of the Japanese title, it's a pretty great way to kick it on the couch and play the original 3 titles. Highly recommended.

You can even find English ROM-Hack translations of the D.W. Bradley Wizardry 6 and 7 titles on the Sega Saturn of all places. Another of my favorite consoles that I play to this day.

Digital Eclipse has done nothing short of an amazing job with this title, and if I had any real-life friends who had the #@!!%& sense to play dungeon crawler games, I would recommend it to them without hesitation! Alas.

Happy adventuring!

[Retronaut]

Kensloth lähetti viestin:

Retronaut lähetti viestin:

Saw someone on Twitch today playing an adaptation of 'Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord' on the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Completely blown away!

Did not know this game existed on the NES.

An interesting version on the NES; looks like a Japanese version of 'Wizardry'.

There are several of the early titles on the NES actually. I own the physical NES Wizardry 1 that I bought wayyyy back in the day. It has lovely chiptune music and nice amber color graphics.

If you are into the emulation scene, you can find the Legacy of Llygamyn SNES collection, which was released on the Japanese Super Famicom only, but has since had an English translation hack added to the ROM.

I have that one on my SNES-Mini console that was sold a while back, (super easy to hack) - and with the inclusion of the quality of life things that come with the SNES Mini (like save-states, etc) and the vastly improved visuals and music of the Japanese title, it's a pretty great way to kick it on the couch and play the original 3 titles. Highly recommended.

You can even find English ROM-Hack translations of the D.W. Bradley Wizardry 6 and 7 titles on the Sega Saturn of all places. Another of my favorite consoles that I play to this day.

Digital Eclipse has done nothing short of an amazing job with this title, and if I had any real-life friends who had the #@!!%& sense to play dungeon crawler games, I would recommend it to them without hesitation! Alas.

Happy adventuring!

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

:)

I just kept smiling and geeking out over this gamer on Twitch playing 'Wizardry' on the NES and he has no idea why. :)

The way 'Wizardry' is designed on the NES, one can clearly see the where the Final Fantasy games were strongly influenced by those early Western RPGs.

When the SNES Mini came out on my side of the monitor, the units sold completely through within 12 hours at all the Wal-Mart retail stores in the US; they were all gone.

Did manage to pick up SEGA Genesis Mini but that's about it. :)


Anyway, thanks for reading.