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Happy to announce part 1 of my 5 part Let’s Play of Wizardry: The Five Ordeals. I look at the tutorial scenario, “The Price of Deception” and talk about how The Five Ordeals, a wonderful game and toolbox, is being misunderstood in the US.

https://youtu.be/sLnjTavGXeo?si=ptT8z_S-Z6K6AFDl

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DJT stock not being in the toilet when they lost $327 million on less than $1m revenue is such a perfect example of "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."

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Someone who has played the Grandia games, please sell me on the re-masters. Worth my time?

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Coming next Friday: the one you've all been asking for.

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In fact, since I'm going to be taking a vacation, I'm trying to get a few weeks ahead of myself again, so expect...a few weeks of Five Ordeals content.

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@mcc This question doesn't horrify me. In fact I recently made a video about "Which version of Wiz 1 should you play?" Honestly, most people probably only need to ever play one of these - if you play it and love it, you'll know how to find more. If you don't love it, you don't need to play more.

I will give you an unexpected answer, and I hope you'll forgive me if I take a while to get there.

The fundamental problem with the whole series is: the earliest games lacked quality of life features (because 1981) and most of the latter games assume that anyone who is playing is familiar with all the mechanics from the early games. This is a conundrum! So I think there are 2 answers, depending on why you want to play it.

For people interested in "game archeology" my recommendation is depending on what platforms you have to either play the Digital Eclipse remake of Wiz 1 on Windows, or the Playstation or SNES versions of same (PS and SNES are nearly identical, just slightly different art styles.)

For people who want to try only one game as a game qua game, I'd say the PS2 game Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land, which has a really nice synthesis of the disparate Wizardry vibes from the US and Japanese lineages, and lots of quality of life and organic tutorials. Only drawback is the animations make the combat a bit slow.

There's a lot of love out there for the 5/6/7/8 games, but I never liked them. They just feel neither fish nor fowl to me. Wiz 8 has a certain 2001-era charm but it's quite quirky, in bad ways.

I hope this helps!

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I remember getting into a huge argument with some beardo at CMU CS because they were upset that people were sending mail with MIME attachments such as images "because they don't work in MH" even though it was in fact trivial to get MH to view graphical attachments and really what they meant was "i configured my email client in 1981 and i would rather inconvenience the entire world and reduce your functionality than learn a new trick".

Nonzero chance that @goob actually remembers this argument as a bystander.

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