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Originally posted by Oruboris:
Still, 8 is a great game, unfinished though it is. A good buy, all in all.
Much more fun with a small party, though.
Thinking about it, though, I could never have gotten through 7 without the strategy guide: having to ask the old rat in the city about 'archives', when there was nothing to indicate that particular word, or the complex pattern for the levers in the ratkin funhouse, etc. Glad the internet has largely freed us from having to buy a $20 book in order to play a game we'd already payed $40 bucks for...
Oru
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I agree that Wiz8 is a good buy, and also that it is more fun with a small party. I am running a solo faerie bishop now. Delicious.
However, I never used a strategy guide for Wiz7. In Wiz7, you often had to wait until later in the game to get the right clue. This happens also in Wiz8 but to a limited extent. I did keep a large notebook, with maps and remarks. (Don Barlone tells you about the archives, for example). The only puzzle which was realy tedious was the water slide in the fun house.
And also we didn't have WWW and browsers back then, there was usenet. There was an alt.games.rpg.ibmpc.wizardry7 news group. It was very active, and you could get a spoiler or a strategy hint any time.