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I must say I disagree about M&M9, sure it has some annoyances, like West being North on the maps in towns, what the hell is that all about?. ID monster being seemingly useless, some missing spells and not much "padding" like arcomage, reputation, paper dolls, openable cupboards etc but I really love the game.
I've been up til 4am the last 3 nights, yawn!.
I like how you choose your chatracters path from fighter or initiate to any of loads of other classes, I like the spell system how duration and power is determined by your ability in each spell skill.
I like the spell effects, I love the music. Sure it could've been better if they'd had more time and money to finish it, but it is a great game. Incidentally, with the patch installed I've had not one single problem with it.

As for Wizardry 8, don't get me started, that game "Sucked Ass" to borrow from Eric Cartman. It had the most awful combat system I've ever used, 20 minute battles with a bunch of garden weeds, how dreary. In the end it was "run away, run away" as soon as anything vaguely hostile appeared. "Ironweed one moves, wiggle, wiggle, ironweed 12 moves (10 minutes later) wiggle, wiggle"
Also it had too much of a Sci Fi feel, I like my RPGs medieval. Avoid!.