Incline Anyone beat Grimoire? Have you divined its systems?

[howlingFantods]

Grimoire on the codex is analogous to Finnegan's Wake on /lit/.
A lot of people talk about it, but almost nobody has finished it.

Prove me wrong; I could use some pointers

Edit: Crispy has some good pointers actually so ignore that part if you want, but I'd like to hear from someone who beat the game as well. (Not sure if Crispy did or not; wouldn't be surprised)

 

[Swampy_Merkin]

I beat it by not playing it.

 

[Boddler]

Choose a start that makes you overpowered for the content.

Accept an NPC into the party that makes you overpowered for the content.

Roleplay a pleasurable feeling of being a powerful fantasy party in a magical fantasy land.

Clean up with tissues.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Grimoire on the codex is analogous to Finnegan's Wake on /lit/.
A lot of people talk about it, but almost nobody has finished it.

Prove me wrong; I could use some pointers

Edit: Crispy has some good pointers actually so ignore that part if you want, but I'd like to hear from someone who beat the game as well. (Not sure if Crispy did or not; wouldn't be surprised)

Many are called to Grimoire, but only a select few are fit enough to be chosen. All according to the thals' plan.

 

[octavius]

"Hawkeye" looks like Cleve?

 

[Safav Hamon]

Is Grimoire better than Wizardry VII?

 

[howlingFantods]

Well Zed, this is a sight I never thought I'd see.
You basically transcended the whole blobber genre by...
I'm at a loss. Only on the codex could you find someone who has beaten Grimoire.

Out of curiosity have you beaten Wizardry iv as well?

 

[Lacrymas]

"Your party will be saved here in a special format that can be imported into the next game." You better hold onto your saves for the next 25 years.

 

[Morblot]

Multiple people here have beaten it, my endgame screencap is buried somewhere in the megathread. You don't need the overpowered NPCs to do it.

What do you need pointers with? Not sure my knowledge is up to date, though, as it's been about a year since I played it.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Well Zed, this is a sight I never thought I'd see.
You basically transcended the whole blobber genre by...
I'm at a loss. Only on the codex could you find someone who has beaten Grimoire.

Viata was the first person on the Codex --- possibly the world --- to complete Grimoire, followed by felipepepe, myself, and others. If you have any questions, you can post them here or in the Grimoire gameplay and hints thread.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

When will gay romances be added?

 

[Dorateen]

According to Grimoire's Adventure Statistics, I've completed 72% of the global map. I have seven of the nine tablets. So I figure our party is almost there. Since I play mostly on the weekends (like running a good old D&D campaign) it will probably take me another month to finish.

The highest single class character in the party is a 12th level cleric, but he is just about ready to switch to Templar. The others have varying amounts of multi-classes, some triple or even quadruple classed.

I had to backtrack a bit and right now I'm in the Ruins of Gideon fighting star spawn-like cosmic aberrations.

The game, if not better than Wizardry 7, at least compares favorably. And I can think of no greater praise than that.

 

[Luckmann]

Have you divined your mom?

 

[Morblot]

According to Grimoire's Adventure Statistics, I've completed 72% of the global map. I have seven of the nine tablets. So I figure our party is almost there. Since I play mostly on the weekends (like running a good old D&D campaign) it will probably take me another month to finish.

The highest single class character in the party is a 12th level cleric, but he is just about ready to switch to Templar. The others have varying amounts of multi-classes, some triple or even quadruple classed.

I had to backtrack a bit and right now I'm in the Ruins of Gideon fighting star spawn-like cosmic aberrations.

The game, if not better than Wizardry 7, at least compares favorably. And I can think of no greater praise than that.

Ok I'm drunk as shyt so I'm sorry

But

MULTICLASSING

BACK WHEN I PLAYED GRIMOIRE THERE WAS NO MULTICLASSING

You picked one class and you goddamn stuck with that class till the end

So I'm sorry my berserker isn't ad hip or cool as your wgatever-class-combo

but damn if he wasn't OG as fuck

So yeah

 

[mondblut]

Multiple people here have beaten it, my endgame screencap is buried somewhere in the megathread. You don't need the overpowered NPCs to do it.

Why settle for overpowered NPCs when you can have overpowered PCs?

 

[mondblut]

Viata was the first person on the Codex --- possibly the world --- to complete Grimoire, followed by felipepepe, myself, and others.

Some people have completed it a decade before release... twice.

 

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Grimoire on the codex is analogous to Finnegan's Wake on /lit/.
A lot of people talk about it, but almost nobody has finished it.

Prove me wrong; I could use some pointers

Edit: Crispy has some good pointers actually so ignore that part if you want, but I'd like to hear from someone who beat the game as well. (Not sure if Crispy did or not; wouldn't be surprised)

At least 1000+ people have completed Grimoire, including piracy of the game. Most people average more than 100 hours finishing it and some are still playing it after 300 hours reporting much left to explore.

That 100 hours is not just hack and slash Roguelike filler ... very rich in discovery and narrative until the bitter end ... easily making Grimoire one the biggest RPGs to ever be released other than Wizardry 7. If you take your time, 600 hours of play is in there for sure or soon will be with V2.

 

[Spiky]

 

[Invictus]

"Hawkeye" looks like Cleve?

The Thal towers over all lesser mensch AND magical races

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Tks for the answer, Zed.

Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar is the greatest CRPG of all time, without exception, until the release of Cleve's second masterpiece, Armoire: Heralds of the Eldritch Abomination.

 

[Valky]

If you take your time, 600 hours of play is in there for sure or soon will be with V2.

Dare I ask when V2 will be released?

 

[RNGsus]

Took over 20 years to develop, it will take 20 more to understand.

 

[LootSeeker]

If you take your time, 600 hours of play is in there for sure or soon will be with V2.

Dare I ask when V2 will be released?

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/v2-full-throttle-manual.123227/