Game News Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord Remake Released

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Tags: Digital Eclipse; Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (Digital Eclipse Remake)

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Review roundup:

Hardcore Gamer 3.5/5
Nintendo Life 8/10
NintendoWorldReport 8/10
Shacknews 8/10​

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2518960/Wizardry_Proving_Grounds_of_the_Mad_Overlord/
https://af.gog.com/en/game/wizardry_proving_grounds_of_the_mad_overlord?as=1649904300

 

[Major_Blackhart]

Might be good. I still love Wizardry 8.

 

[luj1]

Looks like it was made in a shack in Vietnam for 3 euros

 

[Socrates]

Looks.....very dated.

 

[roguefrog]

Japan's Dungeons & Dragons.

 

[Modron]

Japan's Dungeons & Dragons.

Record of Lodoss War?

 

[octavius]

May buy it if it's like five dollars or less on GOG.

 

[baba is you]

I bought it during early access and forgot about it, but it was released yesterday. Convenience has improved, but I remember there was no additional content. I think it's better to buy it when it's on sale.

 

[MicoSelva]

Not sure how successful this has a chance to be, but Digital Eclipse does good work.

 

[Mortmal]

You multiply the number of reviews by 40 to have an estimate of sales usually, so 18k copies for this. It's probably still popular in Japan. I guess they are doing okay but barely. I have little interest in those nowadays; they are far too primitive. That was good 43 years ago...

 

[luj1]

It really reminds me of those low effort generic games for slot machines that are dime a dozen

 

[His Dudeness]

Very nice but sometimes it bugs out and combat doesn't progress.

Also the dice rolls are weird, they jump from 7 to 28 and you can end up with some pretty op characters.

 

[MerchantKing]

Paying for a shitty texture pack seems like a rip off.

 

[Rincewind]

It seems to be true to the original, although a bit too hyperactive, perhaps. I'm happy to see remakes like this for "modern audiences". Although, I'd prefer a bit more desaturated and less cartoony aesthetics. Reminds me a bit of mobile games which is never a good thing...

Personally, I played the glorious Commodore version of Wizardry 1 on an emulated C128 + 512k RAM expansion a while ago, and that's how I intend to eventually finish the first 5 games.

 

[holla_cabezas_de_mierda]

You multiply the number of reviews by 40 to have an estimate of sales usually, so 18k copies for this. It's probably still popular in Japan. I guess they are doing okay but barely. I have little interest in those nowadays; they are far too primitive. That was good 43 years ago...

plus it seems like it is an exact copy of the original which I have played probably 1200+ hours. Yes most of that was in the 80's, but I still remember it too well for it to be that interesting.

Tiltowait.

 

[Tweed]

Absolutely soulless. What I really need is for someone to make a graphical wrapper for the OG PC game that lets me pick between the various ports and maybe a fix to the level up bug. That's it, that's all.

 

[lvl 2 Blue Slime]

So glad they got rid of the random element to level-ups, hated that shit in Elminage too.