Played the original on the Apple IIe also.

Bring it on.

Originally posted by asmkm22
Why the hell does it have an anime style?

Becasue its an Asian game company doing it.  Which automatically another turn off for me.  I only play Western games as I am not a fan of all the, what I consider sill and immerion breaking things that Asians put into their games.

I didn't hear about this game before the article. However I loved the old Wizrdry games, especially Crusaders of the Dark Savat. To concept sounds interessting and I might give it a try.

Someone mentioned Dark Souls as comparison, it's my favorite PS3 game for pushing the risk vs. reward concept as its main gameplay mechanic. However, there is no perma-death in Dark Souls. You die, you revieve at the last campfire in a weakened state and all the enemies respawn (except the bosses). You loose all the Souls you are carrying and if you fail to fight back to your body they will be gone forever, however, aquired gear and distributed skills are save and whatever Boss you managed to kill will stay dead for the rest of the playthrough...

Anime..I like anime.  Perma-death..yeah okay I can handle that.  Cash Shop with a way to decrease chance of perma-death...um, no.  SOE...Oh, HELL NO!

It sounds interesting, and there should be room for those who wish the truly hardcore experience as well.

But this immediately makes me wonder about level 40-50 characters perma-slaughtering newbies and whether you'll be able to buy your way out of trouble in the cash shop.

If the latter is so, that immediately undermines the entire concept imo.

Originally posted by Fdzzaigl

It sounds interesting, and there should be room for those who wish the truly hardcore experience as well.

But this immediately makes me wonder about level 40-50 characters perma-slaughtering newbies and whether you'll be able to buy your way out of trouble in the cash shop.

If the latter is so, that immediately undermines the entire concept imo.

Except that people will group together and kill the 40-50s and cause them some perma-death. Then theyre a newbie again just like you. This is the beauty of perma-death. The bigger you get the harder you fall.

good on them to try perma-death, Dayz does it.....maybe there is a niche for it. there sure isn't a lot of competition in that particular niche.

i personally wont play it unless dieing is a very rare accurence....but good on them for trying something new.

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.

That -IS- the new defintion of pay-to-win Agree 100%!

Originally posted by LoganKonlan

Lost me at anime.

As a member of the mid 40's crowd, I played alll of the Wizardy series - anticipating  the next release just as we savor the upcoming GW2 release.  It's amazing how I've been doing this for over 20 years.

My favorite Wizardry release was, "Bane of the Cosmic Forge" and I can assure you that anime was NO part of it!

Yuck and buh-bye.

Wow a little biased huh? Wizard is mostly a JP franchise now since the people support it more in JP than in NA.

Originally posted by Margrave

Pass.

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

       For the majority of us, Permadeath in a MMO is FTL......No one wants to put in much time then lose everything, including your character.....Permadeath works fine in a single player game because you have saves and control your destiny...In a mMO it only takes one jerk and your game is ruined (and there are alot of jerks usually).

Originally posted by Theocritus

Originally posted by Margrave

Pass.

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

       For the majority of us, Permadeath in a MMO is FTL......No one wants to put in much time then lose everything, including your character.....Permadeath works fine in a single player game because you have saves and control your destiny...In a mMO it only takes one jerk and your game is ruined (and there are alot of jerks usually).

I don't get attached to 1's and 0's. I enjoy a game that is challenging, and the sense of Risk VS Reward is far greater than finally catching that carrot on a string. Also if I can make some moron cry over these things then that will be a nice little bonus. 

I'm not thrilled that it's Anime style, or done by SOE, but at least SOMEONE is doing something DIFFERENT.

Something else the Japanese understand: baseball.

Strike One: overly-cutesy pedophile-style graphics

Strike Two: P2W cash shop (that they are not even trying to hide)

Strike Three: SOE

You're out, Wizardry MMO.

No Thanks.

Originally posted by Theocritus

Originally posted by Margrave

Pass.

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

       For the majority of us, Permadeath in a MMO is FTL......No one wants to put in much time then lose everything

You don't lose everything, if you'd read the article you'd know that.

And yes, there's quite a lot of people who want that. Hell, even Minecraft does it.

Originally posted by Tibernicus

Originally posted by Theocritus

Originally posted by Margrave

Pass.

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

       For the majority of us, Permadeath in a MMO is FTL......No one wants to put in much time then lose everything

You don't lose everything, if you'd read the article you'd know that.

And yes, there's quite a lot of people who want that. Hell, even Minecraft does it.

Yeah, quite a few until they experience their first time being ganked.  There are a lot of reasons permadeath does not work in a MMO:

1.  The cheaters will do everything they can to stay alive and make sure you are the gankee.

2.  Having to pay to get your avatar resurrected everytime will get very old very fast.

3.  If they have any support staff, they will be overwhelmed with the complaints about dropped connections and the cheaters.

4.  Pretty hard to make friends in a game where you or your friends are constantly cloning new personas.

5. Personally there is little difference of the thrill of pvp in a perma death game and one that is just ffa-pvp.  The vast majority will avoid the permadeath game as a result.

This game is just a loser from the start, they are doing just about everything wrong you can do in a MMO.