Let's Play Wizardry 7, Part #1 - Chest Pains

A short clip a few minutes into my very first gaming session ever with "Wizardry VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant". Here the party finds a very important Journey Map Kit and defeats two low-level enemies.

Please note that I'm not going to keep all those pathetic Base classes (fighters, thief) for the rest of the game. Since switching classes helped me acquire an abundance of new spells and skill points in W6, this is also supposed to be a very "dual class"-heavy party in which every character is going to switch professions more than once during the course of the game. The plan is to eventually end up with only Elite classes such as Valkyries, Ninjas, Samurais and Bishops.

If anyone wants great walkthroughs and maps for Wizardry 7, check out the following links:

Tom Needham's (1994) Walkthrough:
http://www.tk421.net/wizardry/wiz7walk.shtml

Leo Wang's (2000) Walkthrough:
http://www.the-spoiler.com/RPG/Sir-Tech/wizardry.7.1.html

Wizardry 7 Forum (amazing resource!):
http://www.softwarespecialties.com/cgi-bin/rpgforum/dcboard.cgi?az=list&f...

Kitten's Tips & Tricks:
http://home.pacific.net.au/~kitten/Wizardry7/index.html

A great combined world map and dungeon map is available (as a .zip archive) at:
http://www.straland.com/download/wizardry7.zip


Also, Feiwill and ramenandsleep have some excellent Wizardry VII videos here on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ramenandsleep
http://www.youtube.com/user/Feiwill

Category:

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• Wizardry
• Sir-Tech
• RPG
• Crusaders
• Dark
• Savant

[dragames]

I've only played wizardry 8... wanted to get the other predecessors but now... I still want it but I wasn't expecting THIS difference in gameplay/graphics.

[Demiath]

@dragames Well, keep in mind that Wizardry 7 was released in 1992 and Wizardry 8 in 2001. Nine years is an eternity in gaming history, and it's amazing that you can import characters from W7 to W8.

I likewise didn't enjoy the dated graphics at first. After a few hours of playing, however, you don't even notice them anymore since the gameplay is so engrossing. If you liked Wizardry 8, chances are you'll love Wizardry 7 if you give it some time to grow on you.

[0NoName9]

Is there a way to "reroll" the bonus points you get at the beginning or to go a step back instead of finishing the character and not saving it?

[Templayer]

@leopower7

Yeah, the only developers that do good/mediocre RPGs today are the people from Bioware ... but in some of their newest games (Dragon Age 2, Mass Effect) you cann't even choose a NAME DAMMIT. I know it's because of the dialogue problem, that they couldn't dubb it properly without hardcoded name, but for god's sake, they could invest like 2 000 USD for a sound system programing that would convert a letter into audio sound AND half sink it into the next letter+make some special cases.

[heirihunziker]

of all the games i've ever played and never finished, this is the one that i wish to complete most one day...it just nags me in a weird way that i didn't dominate this game in the early 90s. maybe i'll wait a couple decades till i'm retired and too old to leave the house and really get back into this.

[Wappen1000]

I've played W7 on Play Station many years ago. But the story is awful, combat is too tough and unbalanced.

I hate this game ... :( This is NOT "Wizardry".

I love W1-5(except for W4) , "Wizardry Gaiden" and "Etrian Odyssey" than W6,7.

[sholto8]

The music: so sweet and so annoying :D

[leopower7]

wow, looks like shit... but probably not shittier than todays "RPGs"

[OBSysteme]

@Moraja2 you go in the character menue where you see the picture of the character in a fram and you see all his inventory and the spell elements, with the song playing, where you see the age of the caracter etc...

you will see a body armor on the right, anything you want to equip one one of your giuy, you take the peice of equipment and drag it to that armor silouette.

that's how I remember it.

[DarkXXecutioner]

Man I remember playing this game back in 1992 when it first came out, took me close to 4 months to defeating it due to all of the riddles and finding every single map in the game. Note, however, you can get one of the maps (forgot which one it was) early on in the rat sewers located on the eastern edge of town before Shritis T'Rang gets his hand on it.

I have a question though, is this game compatible with Windows Vista if I download DosBox? Or would I have to get Windows 7??