Sir-tech Canada Releases Wizardry 8

NichG writes "Sir-tech Canada has finally released Wizardry 8. This has been long awaited by fans of Wizardry 7 (1992) and the series of games which precluded it. It should be available at Electronic Boutique. For those not familiar with the Wizardry series, they are first person, turn-based (more precisely, phased) RPGs, which grew from pure dungeon crawl to RPGs with plot and characters with whom to interact." This, the Bard's Tale series, and the first four Ultimas together were where most of the late 1980s went for me.

Comments

Sweet

[Anonymous Coward]

Now everyone will finally understand why I named my kid Werdna

Re:Sweet

[Pathetic Coward]

So, when this kid grows up, he'll create a game that includes an evil wizard named ... Andrew??

Re:What a blast from the past.

[yatest5]

Punching holes in floppy disks to make them double-sided was where its at (was?). Any others got cool examples of technology that's screwed that you can improve with dodgy methods? (no overclocking stories, boooorrring!)

Best thing I ever did was at my Amiga game piracy club - there was a fervour waiting for Speedball 2 to come out. We modified a floppy disk with a melted chocolate mouse under the disk cover and scribbled 'speedball 2' on the front. Much amusement when some poor bastard put it into his computer. Even better, you should have seen the excitement on the poor bastard's face when he 'found' a copy of Speedball 2 on the floor. Swwweeeet. Jesus, children are evil!!

There's only one thing I can say.

[Mr.roboto]

Hell yeah. I've played 7 since '95 and I still haven't beaten it! I got around to beating Wizardry 6 though ;0. It's great to see that one of the greatest games ever is up to 8. I had the baddest party too, untill my drive got formatted. Level 35 characters who could kill fiereos, demons and such in one shot! Never quite got around to beting the game though :( I need to see if I've got an old savegame SOMEWHERE to import into 8, which is way overdue by the way. On my CD, I have a Preview for Wizardry 8 that says it's out in summer of 99! I sure hope the extra time means they did things right. Man, I think I'll have to play 7 tonight.

Re:Post Wizardry 5

[Anonymous Coward]

4+5 imo are the best of the trilogy

This word "trilogy" -- I do not think it means what you think it means.

another memorable Wizardry cheat

[call -151]

Anyone know the blank-disc level advancement stunt?

It worked like this- when you were in the tavern resting up, the program went to the drive to read the level advancement tables. If you pulled out the normal Wizardry disk and put in a newly formatted blank disk at that time, it would read that the experience points needed to advance to the next level were 0, so of course you would advance. Repeatedly. Of course, when you put the right disk back in, you would need a ton of points to advance to the next level, but that could be fixed by getting intentionally "level drained" by a vampire or somesuch undead to get you down one level= to the midpoint of one level below your current one, which would actually add tons of experience instead of draing it (if you had done the "advance with nothing" strategy above.) Those were the days... Contra-dextra avenue, tiltowait, oh boy!

Does anyone know where Andy Greenberg and Robert Woodhead are these days? Wizardry was truly revolutionary... Andy was a student at Cornell in the early 80s but I don't know what happened to him after that...

Re:voice? uh oh...

[PCM2]

From the website: Hear your characters come alive with the revolutionary new Personality system.

Q: "How many Hit Points do you have left?"

A: "Life... don't talk to me about life."