Wizardry 8

It took me over 200 hours and almost a decade but I've finally completed the Dark Savant trilogy with the same party. I resisted starting Wizardry 8 for a long time because the 100+ hour length that people list online was intimidating, but in reality the game took me about the same as Wizardry 7. Not everything you read online is true, who would've thought? The game itself is a big departure from the last title, now being fully 3D and dropping grid based movement in favor of free movement. Also, enemies no longer show up as random encounters but as roaming monster parties in the 3D world instead. On that note, you can't talk about Wizardry 8 without touching on the combat because there is a lot of it, and it's one of the most polarizing aspects of the game. In one hand, it's extremely deep and involved. A single fight can take over 10 minutes, and enemies are as varied as they are dangerous. Combat is methodical as well as high risk because a single turn without a specific buff can mean the difference between life and death, although recovering becomes easier as the party levels up. The problem is that everything is incredibly slow. It's no exaggeration to say that Wizardry 8 is u…

I dont regret buying this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ass game, it was worth every penny. 8/10 combat is slow as ♥♥♥♥, otherwise it would be 10/10.

It's a classic. It's something you don't really get in the modern age, a party RPG, meaning that their faces are in the UI frame surrounding the view of the world -- no individual toons. It's mostly tactics and occasional comments; no romance or histrionics or backstory angst. It suffers from the Daggerfall flaw -- in Daggerfall, the character builder offers a plethora of options, most of which are not viable. Wizardry 8 is similar, but applied to party membership: it's easy to gimp your party. This is a design flaw. On top of that, the mechanics of the game are incessant fights -- think Dragon Quest 8. So weaknesses in your party show up pretty quickly. But the early game is different from the late game, so you may regret your design... Despite that, and a now ancient "3-D" (not really) world, it can be a lot of fun if you are in the right mood. I find that I burn out on the fighting. Despite that, I'd give it a qualified thumbs-up. On Windows, Alt-Tab should be avoided, and, at least on my Windows 11 machine, Windows interposes UAC when you try to open it, despite the fact that it isn't installed in program files. If you copy and rename the executable, you can launch it withou…

Spider and rhino people in the middle of a space war and Buzz lightyears dad wants to become God. Some troll Marten stole the one true ring and gave it to the chipmunks. Get the bubonic plague from monastary rats. Do a bank heist for some furry Italians. Scam the Wookees. Fight a giant frog. Be mind ♥♥♥♥♥♥ by some fish ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on the beach. Make bugs, robots and cowpeople go insane and fight each other. 100/10 would become space God again

i bet this is what skyrim feels like for poeple who played it when they were 10

Old school party rpg. Pretty sure this game can run on a toaster. I play it on a work computer with dookie intel graphics.