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    Steve Watts posted a new article, Wizardry Online announced.

    Japanese publisher Gamepot announced Wizardry Online today, an MMO based on the classic RPG series and developed by the makers of Radiant Historia. It's due out this summer in Japan, and in 2012 in North America.
    Jun 14, 2011 12:30pm PDT
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    Steve Watts posted a new article, Wizardry Online announced.

    Japanese publisher Gamepot announced Wizardry Online today, an MMO based on the classic RPG series and developed by the makers of Radiant Historia. It's due out this summer in Japan, and in 2012 in North America. : ShacknewsThis person is cool!

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      Don't forget to put points into swimming. : capt trippsThis person is cool!
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        I really want to laugh at this, but I'm not confident I got the joke.. : ChunksThis person is cool!
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          Swimming was a skill. If you didn't have enough points in it, you would start to drown after covering to... : TheMongbat
          • And if you didn't put points into it you were fucked later in the game. : capt trippsThis person is cool!
    • I really like this trailer for some reason \m/ that guitar rift was pretty rockin by the way, loved it. : valcan_sThis person is cool!
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      I'd imagine the people that played any of the Wizardry games would have to be about 40 years old. The fir... : kingmofoThis person is cool!
      • I'm in my early 30s and played Wizardry I (though admittedly, it was on a Mac, and not the original versi... : be34269
      • Pretty much every year that goes by, the average age of gamers goes up by one, or at least has for the la... : TheMongbat
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        I was 13 when Ultima 7 was released and still to this day I remember how freaking awesome it was when I f... : chadg033This person is cool!
        • I still feel sorry for Christopher, the smith, to this very day. The sense of discovery that I felt in... : TheMongbat
      • Best market for them. Disposable income, less time to play so while they're still getting $15/mo they... : EbuThis person is cool!
      • It's not really for us I'd imagine. Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizardry#Series_in_Japan : Johnny LawThis person is cool!
      • Even though we don't really see games in the franchise anymore in the West, it's an oddly big franchise i... : Talonus.
      • Hah.. close. I'm 37 and Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord was pretty much my first game EVER... : GwyndionThis person is cool!
    • Yes pls. : Visceral MonkeyThis person is cool!
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      Please don't be azngrind please don't be azngrind, please don't be azngrind AZN : LoioshDwaggieThis person is cool!
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        the hell you talkin bout? : Xulu
        • AZN (asian) mmo's are usually just stat/item grinds...which can be boring... : captain hamptonThis person is cool!
    • Ok now I can hear the "roll the dice for stats" music from Crusaders of the Dark Savant running through m... : TheMongbat
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      Permadeath in a MMO will be really interesting. Developers have talked about doing this before, but they ... : Talonus.
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        That would suck on a PVP server. : capt trippsThis person is cool!
        • Actually, now that I think about it this was tried way back on a EQ PvP server. The experiment did not go... : Talonus.
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      Anyone know if Wizardry 8 is playable (and worth playing) on modern systems? I remember having fun with t... : MagitekThis person is cool!
      • I played it again a few years ago on my xp system. Haven't tried it on 7. One of my favorite RPG's from... : ricosapphireThis person is cool!
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        You can, but from what I remember, there's a lot of tweaking and some show stopper bugs. : happynoodleThis person is cool!
        • Somebody really needs to get that game up on GOG. Such a great game and not enough people have played it... : GwyndionThis person is cool!
    • looks super dungeony! i hope it's good :D : packav