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The RPG that inspired Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, and Demon’s Souls is now more playable than ever - Wizardry! (www.polygon.com)

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[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It inspired like, every Japanese game ever made, not only those listed.

And if Wizardry didn't inspire it, then Ultima did.

[-] Cybersteel@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I remember playing Xanadu and was like hey this is just Ultima but jap.

[-] moshankey@lemmy.world 19 points 4 months ago

High school. Wizardry and Ultima. I am so old

[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

And good old Bard's Tale. :)

[-] Pronell@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

You are older than me, I suppose. I was playing it at 11 years old or so. My first CRPG, although my dad had run a D&D game for the family a few years prior so I had a reference point.

I remember my cousin telling us about the Creeping Coins and my imagination went wild, assuming you could loot them and they'd attack you later from your inventory.

Nope. Just normal randomly spawning encounter.

[-] theRealBassist@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Awesome idea for a D&D monster though. A coin mimic which only attacks when you try to spend it lol

[-] Pronell@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I will have to try and use it. I am running Curse of Strahd now so cursed money would be spectacular!

[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 15 points 4 months ago

Here's a link to the developers website since i didnt see it in the article

https://www.digitaleclipse.com/games/wizardry

[-] ObsidianZed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 months ago

Man, I fucking hate articles like that.

"This Steam/GOG game on sale at lowest price ever!”

And then refuses to actually link to it at the store.

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 12 points 4 months ago

I like the classic graphics in the corner

[-] rodneylives@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Wizardry inspired a lot of games, but the three games listed have greater influences elsewhere. (FF and DQ in particular are more like Ultima.) Sadly the games that were most inspired by Wizardry, sometimes called "blobbers," have mostly died out: The classic Bard's Tale games, Might & Magic, Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder. Etrian Odyssey and the Japanese Wizardry games hold the torch but are pretty niche these days.

The demise of the original Wizardry series is one of the greatest injustices in the history of computer gaming, up there with the closing of the original Atari.

[-] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 months ago

I've never had the drive to beat any of the Wizardry games.They are simply too difficult for this filthy casual.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

You might enjoy CRPG Addict's blog posts about his adventure in Wizardry for DOS.

I beat it through emulation and save scumming, but his playthrough was a lot more tactical, and now Im starting to understand I'm not support to just hit the attack button over and over again!

[-] rodneylives@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

DOS Wizardry has a significant bug that makes it one of the worst versions.

[-] Veraxus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

I was obsessed with Wizardry and Ultima growing up… but I can’t stomach the node-based, turn-based conceit any more. I had a hard time finishing Wizardry 8 back in… ok, maybe I don’t want to know how long ago that was.

But I was spoiled by the real-time evolutions of the concept… stuff like Arena, Daggerfall, Battlespire, Ultima Underworld, Descent to Undermountain, and the like (also, shout-out to Arx Fatalis).

I would love more epic dungeon crawlers, with the soul of these classics but all the modern conveniences, graphics, and gameplay advances.