I like the classic graphics in the corner
High school. Wizardry and Ultima. I am so old
You are older than me, I suppose. I was playing it at 11 years old or so. My first CRPG, although my dad had run a D&D game for the family a few years prior so I had a reference point.
I remember my cousin telling us about the Creeping Coins and my imagination went wild, assuming you could loot them and they’d attack you later from your inventory.
Nope. Just normal randomly spawning encounter.
It inspired like, every Japanese game ever made, not only those listed.
And if Wizardry didn’t inspire it, then Ultima did.
Here’s a link to the developers website since i didnt see it in the article
Man, I fucking hate articles like that.
"This Steam/GOG game on sale at lowest price ever!”
And then refuses to actually link to it at the store.
Wizardry inspired a lot of games, but the three games listed have greater influences elsewhere. (FF and DQ in particular are more like Ultima.) Sadly the games that were most inspired by Wizardry, sometimes called “blobbers,” have mostly died out: The classic Bard’s Tale games, Might & Magic, Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder. Etrian Odyssey and the Japanese Wizardry games hold the torch but are pretty niche these days.
The demise of the original Wizardry series is one of the greatest injustices in the history of computer gaming, up there with the closing of the original Atari.
