Saturday Morning Gaming: The Wizardry Overhaul Is a Home Run

Michael Siegel

Michael Siegel is an astronomer living in Pennsylvania. He blogs at his own site, and has written a novel.

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  1. Jaybird
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    “Lahalito”

    A whole bunch of basement flashes hit me just reading this word. Oh, yeah. Peter Gabriel playing on cassette. My party was made up of friends. Jay was always a wizard, Pete was always a fighter, Dave was always a thief. (When Dave played, his characters were always “asdf” or “dasf” or “fdsa” or something like that… it’s like character creation was his least favorite part of the game).

    I’m sorry to hear that Blade Cuisinart has had its name nerfed.

    I wonder if they reached out to Conair or if that was a box that they just didn’t want to open in the first place.Report

  2. KenB
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    It’s weird, I remember that I played this a lot in high school, and the pic of the splash screen definitely strikes a chord, but I have basically no memory of the actual game play at all. I couldn’t even tell you if I ever made it to the lowest floor or saw the final boss. I have a much clearer memory of Ultima.Report

  3. Jaybird
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    “Would you like to begin the game with a Starter Party of Level 2 characters or create all your own characters?”

    CREATE ALL CHARACTERS, PLEASE!!!

    Six stats. Strength, Intellect, Piety, Vitality, Agility, and Luck.
    Humans: Mostly 8s, 5 in piety, 9 in luck.
    Elf: 7 Strength, 10 in Intellect and Piety, 6 Vitality, 9 Agility, 6 Luck
    (A memory dredged up with this… If making Bishop, use Elf)
    Dwarf: 3 10s! Strenth, Piety, Vitality! 7 in Intellect, 5 in agility (oof), and 6 in luck.
    Gnome: 7 Strength, Intellect, and Luck, but 8 in Vitality and 10s in Piety and Agility!
    Halfling: 5 Strength (oof), 7 Intellect and Piety, 6 Vitality (oof), and 10(!) Agility and 15(!!!) Luck!!!

    It’s all coming back to me.Report

  4. Pinky
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    Steam Summer Sale!

    I picked up Warhammer 40K: Gladius – Relics of War for 90% off. It looks like Sid Meier’s Civilization for people who can identify a Leman Russ by its tread pattern.Report

  5. Reformed Republican
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    I played a little bit of Wizardy. I missed it in my younger days, but I tried it on emulators. I always kind of bounced off of the clunky bits related to playing and old game on an emulated Apple IIe (or whatever it was), though I enjoyed the core game. I was excited when I heard about the remake, though I wanted to hold off on reviews. It’s sitting on my wishlist, but I am actively working on clearing out some of my unfinished games before buying something like this.

    I would love for The Bard’s Tale to get the same treatment.Report

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