Originally posted by SharpKris

Originally posted by Vyeth

Originally posted by illmaculate
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I lol'd.. to each their own I suppose.. I'm looking forward to it..

 

Edit: Kinda reminds me of another game I am looking forward to called Dark Souls.. Supposed to be a very challenging game as well and coming to the PC soon..

its suposed to be really good and even better if you play online as players can come into your game and help you (or have fun helping your enemies)

They're good games, and brutal, but there's no Perma-death. That's why I liked it. You had to go back and retrieve your souls and suffered major death sickness after dying (which will happen a lot until you get to the higher levels) but you rarely if ever lose anything permanently. Wizardry works a bit diff, and I'm curious about whether it can succeed in the west or not. Should be an interesting little experiment.

Perma death seriously puts me off, but I'll give it a go. Absolutely everything else in the game needs to be 'perfect'... and I mean PERFECT... otherwise it won't be enough to hold me or hardly anyone else with permadeath lurking around every corner.

If it isn't perfect, expect the game itself to permadeath..

I hope you have a non perma death version ready for launch just in case SOE. Chances are you are going to need it.

This video for it shows that cash shop items can be used to increase the chances of resurrecting your character (1:40):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Rgn8Xa-uT7o

...terrible move.

Pretty sure that's the new definition of PTW. Pay.. or permadeath.

Originally posted by TarotMage

That's how it was in the original, folks. If your character died you only had so many chances to rez him. Good times playing this on my Apple II+ (and now I've just dated myself). Still remember seeing that dreaded "oops!" if the first attempt at a rez failed. If you lucked out on the second try, you'd get "Excelsior" on your screen. Blow the 2nd attempt and...dun Dun DUN!

 

"Ashes"   O_O

Er and then you would restore from your save game file........ 

Not quite the same thing here.

Originally posted by Adiaris

Originally posted by Margrave

Pass.

Lost me at perma-death. I don't play anything with that.

Heh, lost me at SoE ;)

lol im cool with perma-death, SOE not so much. xD

Perma death with a community aimed at 8-14 year old pvp'ers and lamers, and SOE...

May as well throw in a pay to win cash shop and the best equipment into there also.

Just to complete the "Oh god no, just no..."  reaction from this one..

Originally posted by dzoni87

Oh, look another Classic RPG franchize turned into MMO...

God forbid someone make Wizardry IX or Might and Magic X. Oh well, at least we got Fallout still... for now...

       Especially with Wizardry 8 being such a good game...Their games seemed to get better and better but unfortunately the company went under.

I've always loved the Wizardry series, but this just doesn't sound like Wizardry.

And since it sounds like anyone can attack anyone at any time, with lootable player corpses, cash shop, and permadeath, I am beginning to believe this will be a griefers paradise. At least until the other players get fed up with it and go play something else after a week or two.

There don't even seem to be the interesting Wizardry races, just the standard mmorpg ones, human, humans with pointy ears, err, elves, dwarves, and hobbits/gnomes/comedy relief.

It's too bad, I was looking forward to having some more Wizardry fun. (Earlier this year I got Wizardry 8 running on my box and was having a blast with that again.) 

And it's being put out by Sony. Not exactly a company I'd trust to do anything right anymore.

I really was excited to hear there was a Wizardry Online coming out, and now my hopes have been dashed.

Originally posted by Margrave

Pass.

Lost me at perma-death. I don't play anything with that.

I was looking forward to Wizardy On-Line until I saw this.  I picked up and played the entire series when they first came out and loved them but I'll not play any game that has perma-death in it.

There is nothing wrong with a perma-death game imo but a perma-death game should only be about the power of the gear, not player levels, similar to DayZ.

Losing good gear is okay because likelihood is you might get similar things from the next guy you've killed again. Losing character level is horrible - that's just plain time wasted for a player in an RPG. I don't mind losing something if another player can take advantage of it (the predatorial nature of this type of games) but I mind losing something that is not recoverable by anyone.

Originally posted by Vannor

This video for it shows that cash shop items can be used to increase the chances of resurrecting your character (1:40):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Rgn8Xa-uT7o

...terrible move.

Pretty sure that's the new definition of PTW. Pay.. or permadeath.

This takes Allod's cash shop to a new level.  Remember the exodus of people in Allods because you had to pay to keep your items from destroying.  That game could have actually done well if they hadn't messed up the cash shop.  I knew many P2P gamers that had started playing and quit after the cash shop debacle.  If that is how it is implemented here expect the same results.  Most westerners are not big on losing items, let alone their character.  Some will take the chance, but if a cash shop is what you need to keep it from happening that chances quickly diminishes.

sigh...Wizardry.

Used to break in to my High School and play it on the weekend on the sole Apple II+ they had. Nerd Criminal...hah

I will play just to see. I still have my original disks, and graph paper of the levels. If I can throw down a Tiltowait - I am in :)

At least for a while until some Pixie griefer makes me throw it out the window. I sure hope it does ok - but sometimes you cant go back to that old friend :)

Until then, my GW2 early access starts this weekend, so the non-sleeping fun can begin.

Originally posted by Margrave

Pass.

Lost me at perma-death. I don't play anything with that.

Funny, that's where they gained me. Something new? Yes please. The MMO Dark Ages have been long.