Posted June 25, 2014

Sachys
Woodie Guthrie's Guitar!
Registered: Dec 2011
From United Kingdom

stg83
Homo Ludens
Registered: Nov 2013
From Pakistan
Posted June 25, 2014
I was referring to the new Steam user defined tags which make for some hilarious reading for a lot of games there. ;)
http://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/Walking%20Simulator/
http://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/Walking%20Simulator/

Sachys
Woodie Guthrie's Guitar!
Registered: Dec 2011
From United Kingdom
Posted June 25, 2014

http://store.steampowered.com/tag/en/Walking%20Simulator/

stg83
Homo Ludens
Registered: Nov 2013
From Pakistan

Sachys
Woodie Guthrie's Guitar!
Registered: Dec 2011
From United Kingdom

real.geizterfahr
Grumpy Old Gamer
Registered: Apr 2010
From Spain
Posted June 26, 2014
That's one of the reasons why I suspended my weekly giveway this week. A "not featured in special sales and stil $4.99 during the sale" game got 17 entrants during one week... Clear case of SSFS :P

Sachys
Woodie Guthrie's Guitar!
Registered: Dec 2011
From United Kingdom
Posted June 26, 2014
anyone got an opinion of wizardry 6 and 7 that isnt tainted by nostalgia?

toxicTom
Big Daddy
Registered: Feb 2009
From Germany
Posted June 26, 2014
Hard. In case of 6, plain ugly. 7 is okay for it's time. Manual mapping is a must in 6 and preferable in 7. Turn based combat is the same that The Bard's Tale stole from the Wizardry series centuries ago.
But: Faery-Ninjas! What game offers something like thing? Now really, character progress is really satisfying in those games, with countless options (esp. for magic users). The stories are not bad, rather scarce - focus is more on exploration and combat. Dialog is parser based, and this can be a PITA, but that's what walkthroughs are for.
If you can cope with inconvenient hardcore retro a la The Bard's Tale 3, by all means those games are the pinnacle of the genre (esp. 7). Otherwise stay away.
But: Faery-Ninjas! What game offers something like thing? Now really, character progress is really satisfying in those games, with countless options (esp. for magic users). The stories are not bad, rather scarce - focus is more on exploration and combat. Dialog is parser based, and this can be a PITA, but that's what walkthroughs are for.
If you can cope with inconvenient hardcore retro a la The Bard's Tale 3, by all means those games are the pinnacle of the genre (esp. 7). Otherwise stay away.

Sachys
Woodie Guthrie's Guitar!
Registered: Dec 2011
From United Kingdom

toxicTom
Big Daddy
Registered: Feb 2009
From Germany
Posted June 26, 2014

main reason im interested is I've a hankering to play 8, yet from what ive read, to get the best experience of it (and options etc in the game), you really need to play 6/7 and import the characters...
But as I said - if you like oldschool they're among the best there are. Otherwise you might find them too clunky.
Only 12 min left to decide ;-)
Post edited June 26, 2014 by toxicTom

Sachys
Woodie Guthrie's Guitar!
Registered: Dec 2011
From United Kingdom

toxicTom
Big Daddy
Registered: Feb 2009
From Germany
Posted June 26, 2014

cheers for the info! :)
Decisions, decisions.

trentonlf
Easily amused
Registered: Apr 2014
From United States
Posted June 26, 2014

cheers for the info! :)

Decisions, decisions.

toxicTom
Big Daddy
Registered: Feb 2009
From Germany

trentonlf
Easily amused
Registered: Apr 2014
From United States