Best SP RPG of the Year?

[vesselle]

gamespot thinks so! the votes are in, folks.

our favortie game, wizardry 8.

Three Cheers for SirTech!!

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[nekoshippo]

WIZARDY8 is old fushioned game, I think.
Mght and Magic 6,7,and8 are much better than this WIZARDRY8.

[Merkin]

Well, most of us really like the game's return to the things that made crpg's so great in the first place, and doing them better than they've ever been done before. But each to his own.

[spoon]

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Originally posted by nekoshippo:
Mght and Magic 6,7,and8 are much better than this WIZARDRY8.

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AHHHH EVIL!!!!

Well... maybe not 6. Or maybe 7 on a good (fully patched) day. But 8 is damn bad.

I'm just hoping that 9 will -finally- do away with the almost identical storyline.

IMHO wiz8 is less old-fashioned than mm6-8 (and better too )

[fable]

quote:

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Originally posted by nekoshippo:
WIZARDY8 is old fushioned game, I think.
Mght and Magic 6,7,and8 are much better than this WIZARDRY8.

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Rather than debate this, I would only point out that none of the above fit into Year 2001. If it's a matter of determining the best CRPG for the past year, we have to compare Wizardry 8 to whatever has been released during that time; and I honestly can't think of much reasonable competition, once you get passed the endless series of multiplayer clones.

[Jerry Austin]

High V,
Ive been doing alot of reading up on the game....Gothic and im quessing that if you can get past the controls gothic is suppossed to be really good..though i do hear its a sytem cruncher,I quess its a new trend really graphical more so than whats commonly available.Im thinking about buying it,been downloading the demo for 3 days now usually when i go to sleep

[fable]

quote:

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Originally posted by Jerry Austin:
High V,
Ive been doing alot of reading up on the game....Gothic and im quessing that if you can get past the controls gothic is suppossed to be really good..though i do hear its a sytem cruncher,I quess its a new trend really graphical more so than whats commonly available.Im thinking about buying it,been downloading the demo for 3 days now usually when i go to sleep

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I've got Gothic, and it requires 128 MB RAM. The game is very good, but it's not like Wiz 8, and it has some real drawbacks: 1) The manual is the worst I've ever read. It even leaves out some important commands, and forgets to mention some significant in-game features. 2) The interface was designed to be keyboard-only. It's no longer so, but it's awkward--particularly the inventory screen, which only displays one of eight elements of inventory at a time, along the right hand side of the screen. (The game won't pause while you're in inventory, so the developers probably displayed it that way, transparently, so you could see anything creeping up on you.) 3) You can jump into situations where your body is half-stuck through tables or in cliffs. It doesn't happen often, but it does occur.

The game is really more of an action-RPG hybrid. If you're good on twitch games, you'll like it, but you really need to be into swimming, jumping and killing things swiftly to play it well. And there's no choice of difficulty levels.

[Jerry Austin]

Hey fable,
whats your sytem stats i have an:
Athlon 600
Vodoo 3 16 mb
256 ram

from what ive been reading its a sytem cruncher big time will i even be able to play it at an enjoyable level.I know the vodoo 3 aint supported but have seen people playing it with the vodoo3 card and i downloaded cachemad and 3rd party drivers for my card.so what you think?

[slowtrain]

Wiz 8 is great!

But I also enjoyed Arcanum which is also great in a lot of different ways.

I'd be hard pressed to choose between them.

How about a first-place tie! [img]smile.gif[/img]

Edit: Sorta a slow year for single player RPGS now that I think about it. Gothic and the BG2 add-on are about the only others I can think of.

[ 01-07-2002: Message edited by: slowtrain ]

[fable]

@Jerry, I'm running a 1.33 GB Athalon, with 256 MB RAM, and a 64 MB Radeon card. If you're only running a 600 (not to disparage that), I don't think you'll be able to enjoy Gothic. It truly needs the speed and memory.