Hi all,
first of all: Without the tech help compartement in this forum I would not have been able to play this great game. I had all problems one can have since I played Wiz & War on two WinXP desktops and a Win2000 notebook, and none of them wanted to run the game without greater adjustments. So I'm deeply greatful for both the helpful posters and the forum who organized their help so well.
About the game: I've been playing Wizardry 7 for many month in the early 90s, and Wizardry 8 several times about a year ago and loved them both. Actually, I think Wizards & Warriors is more a follow-up to Wiz 7 than Wiz8 was. Anyway: My first walk through W&W with a very intuitive and unspoiled knowledge about skills & parties was quite easy. I generally think that fighting is quite easy here. Easier as in Wiz7 or Wiz8. Except of course for the mantraps/lillies who seem to be buggy to me. At least their damage is too high compared to all the other monsters.
I really liked the riddles, the speech, the story as a whole - here Wizardry is clearly the best game around.
What I disliked: I started the game with an axe warrior/barbarian. (I always to that - no matter what game I play
) But there are no axes in the game. Just swords, swords and more swords. And later on: Mighty daggers. But no axes, no spears, no clubs/maces, who could compete against the swords. This is - IMHO - quite dissapointing.
In my first party I had exactly one role change for each char. And everyone was just member of one - some of two - guild. This is - as I know now - not perfect. So my second party - that will only consist of 4 chars - will do quite different. I will change roles much more often, be member of all guilds and so on. I don't have to tell you - the forum - what I mean. [img]smile.gif[/img]
So: Thanks to all of you who helped me out. This is a very friendly and mature community - much like the one for Wizardry 8 on vgnboards where I've been posting before.
CU
Yonder