Hey gang,

Got Wiz 8 from my wife for Christmas, and we've both been playing it non-stop since then (thank you Sir-Tech for letting us take the CD out while playing it so we can each play it simultaneously on our respective 'puters).

First-time poster here, followed some of the threads from over at Vault Network, but didn't feel comfortable registering there with all the e-vertising. Hopefully this board will catch on as well.

I haven't completed the game yet, got what I guess is about 2/3rds through the game (got up to 17th level, got the CM and HoS and had enough to buy the AD (hopefully acronyms are enough of a spoiler protection ;) , and was about to have another go at slaying the big N) before I started reading posts about party makeup and those great class spotlights. Since I felt I was getting close to the end, and frankly I don't want this great game to end yet, I decided to start over with a bit more power-gaming in mind (using a single Bishop, fleshing out my samurai more, not to mention experience other personalities...it's fun having a mentally-unstable samurai ;) .

But I can get into my thoughts on party makeup and whatnot later. For my inaugural post, I wanted to relay how much my cat absolutely LOVES this game. She'll be laying in my lap while I'm playing like she always does, and occasionally she'll look up at the screen while I'm fighting a monster. Being the mighty huntress that she is (NOT - all our cats are indoor-only ;) , she'll get up on my desk to investigate the strange critter closer. Highwaymen are no big deal, but if it's a rat or a hogar or anything like that, she'll get up there and check it out. She REALLY gets interested if it's animation includes lots of movement. Wasps will do the trick, and she always likes bats as well.

But the single-most hated monsters by my cat, without a doubt, are plants like Crimson poppies and Acidvines. When a Crimson poppy gets up close and gets that head and that tail swinging back and forth in oppositte directions, my cat goes absolutely NUTS! I swear to gawd, it's like cat-nip. She'll get up on her haunches and start attacking that demon-spawn with all her might. Sometimes I get worried she'll push my monitor off the back of my desk she's pawing at it so much. Although my wife and I couldn't stop laughing for 10 minutes when we first saw this, I'm sorry to say that it has made my game unplayable at times when my cat is in the vicinity. I'm sure it's just as funny a sight watching me trying to peer around the cat and push her out of the way long enough to complete my battle orders. Sadly, I usually have to throw her out of the room until the battle's over.

So to any people out there that say that Wizardry 8's graphics don't measure up, I'd just like to give my props to the developers for making VERY realistic monsters. None of our cats have ever cared less what has happened on a computer monitor, but Wizardry 8 is the first game I can honestly say that they enjoy just as much as I do. =)

My little kitten does the same...I made a basket for her and she lays in it, mesmorized by the game.

Bizarre! My cats are jealous of the time I spending playing... maybe I just need to set them up some spectator seating!

One of my cats (Pixel) loves it too! According to her, this is the best game I ever played - her first computer game was Tetris, which I still play occasionally just for her amusement.

Sometimes, though, I don't know whether she's on my side or the monsters'. The first time she tromped across the keyboard and stepped on the backslash key ... I thought the baddies would slit me from my guggle to my zatch before I figured out what was happening!

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try to get thru a battle with a kitty sitting on top of the monitor.

she flicks her tail into my eyes, and always when i am totally engrossed on getting off that killing strike!! (her tail is very fluffy so it acts very effectively as a blinder!)

however, she works from both ends. while the tail is getting me, she has one paw reached down to slap at whatever i am currently fighting!! at times, half her body is draped across the monitor, becuase, i swear, she wants to enact some keyboard commands! ::winks, smiling::

frisky little warrioress! bout as freaky as her owner. ;)

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Hehe. That's strange! My cats could care less about what I'm doing on the computer. Although, having a giant, catnip-laden kitty on your side would certainly make the road to Arnika easier! :D

I have two, one (Boo) that lays in my lap and watches and another (Sweety Pie) that sits on the desk staring and occasionally swatting at a wasp.
Sweety's big beef with me on my PC though is that it cuts into "his" time, so when he's ready for me to stop playing, he'll sit right in front of the monitor and stare at ME!
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I am registered at the RPG vault as TheONLYMoni...junk mail is pretty scarce in my mailbox...no more than before I signed up anyway. [img]smile.gif[/img]

P.S. Welcome to Ironworks! I am sure you will enjoy this place...its kinda like The Hotel California LOL

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My cat's bed is on a woolly rug next to my PC's monitor. On the other side of the rug is a PC speaker. She's a old puss now (12) and sleeps peacefully thru the most hair raising battle noises, clangs, explosions, bangs, from whatever game I might be playing - except for one sound.

If there is any cat or cat-like sound from the game, she leaps to her feet to track down the "intruder" !!

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P.S. Welcome to Ironworks, Fantasm !!!

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We have a parrot (a nanday conure), Gabriel, who LOVES the music in the game. She'll sit in my lap or on my shoulder while I play and she sways majestically to the music. When the battle music starts, her eyes get really wide and she lifts her wings up and starts to sway back and forth.

She does this with TV themes, too, especially Star Trek. The Voyager theme was her favorite; she'd climb to the highest perch and start dancing. Too funny.

She doesn't really get close enough to the monitor to be really interested. She taps on the screen with her beak and tries to bite the moving cursor, but I haven't gotten further than that because she took a big bite out of my mouse pad and I don't think that's healthy for her.

Dan

That is just too funny, Fantasm! Perhaps you have Felpurrs disguised as common house cats? :D

I agree, the graphics in this game are superb; I can't get over some people dissing them. What on earth do they want, holographic images in their living rooms? Sheesh!

-Saz