Re: The Passing of the Mad Overlord

Am 01.09.24 um 20:16 schrieb Spalls Hurgenson:

Were the Wizardry games actually/harder/ than "Bards Tale" or "Ultima
I"? Maybe not. Like I said, I'm not enough of an expert on those games
to really say. But my subjective experience was that they felt a lot
less forgiving.

Well Bards Tale was at least unfair (the first title) it let you choose a party without a Bard and then you failed miserably without it in the last dungeon before finish...
But I think Bards Tale sold well due to its visuals, it simply had the best visuals for any RPG of its time back then. Wizardry until Bradley took over the series always had dated graphics. They were fine when part 1 came out, but they kept the same engine without significant visual improvements until including part 4. Part 5 was a bradley game renamed to wizardry, Part 6 was the first real wizardry under Bradleys rule!
Btw. hardly an expert myself never played any of the Wizardries, but thats what I gathered about those games on the net!
Btw Unlike Ultime which was killed by EA, Wizardry still lives, the series just went to japan over various really obscure paths, and new Wizardry games are developed there which now slowly make their way back to the West!