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[theclaw135]

Unexpectedly, this is something more than emulation from Digital Eclipse. It applies full 3D visuals and other refinements on top of the Apple II base.

On a side note, the page states a company has adopted the Sirtech name. Make of that what you will.
"Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord has been licensed to Digital Eclipse Entertainment Partners Co. by SirTech Entertainment Corp. All rights reserved."

 

[Darkmakaimura]

Poor DRM free gets no love.

Anyways, it's also Early Access on GOG.

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord

Check our Digital Eclipse Bundle! Purchase The Making of Karateka together with Wizard

www.gog.com

 

[shoplifter]

ITSHAPPENING.GIF

I'm irrationally excited about this

 

[Hudo]

That's neat.

 

[theclaw135]

Poor DRM free gets no love.

Anyways, it's also Early Access on GOG.

Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord

Check our Digital Eclipse Bundle! Purchase The Making of Karateka together with Wizard

www.gog.com

Hm, thank you. (I don't have the ability to edit topic titles)

 

[Hudo]

I wonder if they will also end up remaking Wizardry 4...

 

[BennyBlanco]

Sick. I wonder if they will do the documentary treatment they gave Karateka and Atari. These games are so tight.

 

[Hudo]

Sick. I wonder if they will do the documentary treatment they gave Karateka and Atari. These games are so tight.

Man, I hadn't even considered that possibility. That would be really cool. And at least Robert Woodhead seems like a guy who likes to talk about the old times. That would be really awesome if they could make a documentary for that game.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Never played these super old wiz games. I started playing at wiz 6 (got stuck) and 7 (beat it!). All I remember my bro playing the early Wiz games is they were super hard. I dont know which games exactly had these features as he played all of them, but those games could have no automap, darkness, spinners in darkness, pits to drop a level below etc.... Really grindy with unavoidable monster encounters. Unlike real time games you can use your skill and reflexes to beat or bypass monsters, those old games are turnbased. So it comes down to leveled up stats and items and spells.

who knows if they'll have QoL features like auto-map, but he'd get out the graph paper to map levels.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

The best Wizardry games were the Japanese ones on the PlayStation 2.

 

[Hudo]

7 (beat it!)

Much like Ultima 7, I think Wiz 7 is the one to play, if you ever gonna play any of the Wizardry games. Some say Wiz 7 is one of the best RPGs of all time (again, much like Ultima 7)

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

This is Unreal Engine right?

Those blinding particle effects give it away.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

The best Wizardry games were the Japanese ones on the PlayStation 2.

There is more than one?

 

[Hudo]

Also, check out the OST from the FM Towns version of Wizardry V, composed by none other than Kohei Tanaka himself:

 

[Darkmakaimura]

There is more than one?

There were two. One of them was Japanese only. Funny enough it was a prequel to the one that was released in America, Tale of the Forsaken Land.

 

[a multicultural team of v]

I have a lot of love and nostalgia for Wizardry. A few weeks ago I fired up the first game (PSX version) and played for a couple hours. Grinded Murphy's Ghost a bit and made it to the second floor, and after a single encounter two party members were dead and 2 others had status ailments. The rest of the party never made it back to the steps.

I stopped playing after that lmao

Still a great series though, I just wasn't feeling up for that level of grind/old school mechanics that day.

 

[Vyse]

That looks awesome!

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

There were two. One of them was Japanese only. Funny enough it was a prequel to the one that was released in America, Tale of the Forsaken Land.

Hmm, still have to play these two

 

[SmokedMeat]

Saw this earlier. Looks sweet!

 

[Comandr]

Holy shit this looks awesome? Still waiting for a proper sequel to Wizardry 8. Free movement, great voice acting, fairly robust create a character. God I loved Wiz 8.

 

[Catphish]

Looks awesome. Cautiously optimistic. Early access can get bent, however.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

Some japanese dude played a little bit of it

 

[StreetsofBeige]

If this game is very true to its roots, mae sure to gun for those more unique classes like Lords and Ninjas and shit like that. It takes the right race/class/dice rolls during character creation to get them.

 

[IAmRei]

Uugh, this is quite hardcore game...

 

[StereoVsn]

Holy shit this looks awesome? Still waiting for a proper sequel to Wizardry 8. Free movement, great voice acting, fairly robust create a character. God I loved Wiz 8.

I liked 7 better overall but 8 was very respectable. Wizardry 6-8 remade would be pretty awesome.

 

[lefty1117]

someone tell the bard's tale guys about this

 

[Wildebeest]

They are playing this on the gog twitch channel and Robert Sirotek is in the chat, chilling.

 

[shoplifter]

Bumping since I don't see a newer thread and the console release is tomorrow (two-ish hours for Kiwis). Hopefully it does well and gets us further remakes maybe including Forsaken Land and the other Japan developed installments.

 

[shoplifter]

Finally fired it up. First chest drops from a party of kobolds. Thief searches for traps, finds one. 95% certain it's a teleporter trap. Disarm the trap. Nope, blade trap kills half the party instantly.

Perfection.

 

[Diseased Yak]

I need to get this, too much to play right now, but it's on my wishlist.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

Hopefully it does well and gets us further remakes maybe including Forsaken Land and the other Japan developed installments.

This so much especially the prequel to Forsaken Land.

 

[shoplifter]

Now on two full party wipes, one of which while rescuing the original party fucking werebears

I really hope the big outlets review it, because I'm gonna need a laugh from the gamez jurnalists complaining it's too hard

 

[Slaylock]

So much nostalgia for this game. I don't know if I can play it without being able to pop open the floppy disk drive so the disaster that just destroyed my party doesn't get saved.

I'm tempted to buy it but I'm not sure how the gameplay will hold up after all these decades. I'll probably wait for a sale.

 

[Spukc]

I need to get this, too much to play right now, but it's on my wishlist.

^

 

[Evil Calvin]

Got this on Steam and ordered the physical Switch version from Amazon JP (English options). Very pricey ($50 shipping for some stupid reason) and was about $120 total. Ships end of October. Apparently an English NA version is coming later but I didn't want to chance it (especially if it comes from that shit company Limited Run Games).

 

[StereoVsn]

I would love Wizardry 6,7,8 trilogy remake in the style of Wiz 1. It would be pretty epic.

 

[shoplifter]

Now on my third full party lost to

Spoiler

those fucking werebears

while trying to rescue all 10 characters dead in the same room

 

[xrnzaaas]

Oof, they're not going to get many new fans with that pricing.

 

[Hudo]

I would love Wizardry 6,7,8 trilogy remake in the style of Wiz 1. It would be pretty epic.

I dunno, man. Wizardry 7's awesome pixel art is something worth keeping.

 

[StereoVsn]

I dunno, man. Wizardry 7's awesome pixel art is something worth keeping.

they could have an option as with this game to keep OG graphics.

 

[Hudo]

they could have an option as with this game to keep OG graphics.

that'll be dope.