Ok, I'm pretty excited about this. Ever since two years ago when I played a fair amount of D.W. Bradley's little-known PC RPG "Wizards & Warriors" (2000) I've been wanting to record a video of its charming old school party-based gameplay, but never found a way to get any kind of recording program to work with the game. As evidenced by the shocking scarcity of W&W videos on RU-vid, other uploaders have had more or less the same problems as I have.
As for the game itself (which I never had time to finish back when I played it the first time), Wizards & Warriors is an intentionally old-fashioned RPG with very little in the way of narrative development and instead a heavy focus on semi-realtime combat and the player's progression through a complex skill/class system. It's by no means an ideal modern follow-up to Bradley's earlier classics such as Wizardry 6 and 7, but given how the genre has developed since this game was released it's hard not to see W&W - along with better games such as Wizardry 8 and Temple of Elemental Evil - as representing the swansong of the traditional hardcore PC RPG.
8 сен 2024