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I was obsessed with Wizardry and Ultima growing up… but I can’t stomach the node-based, turn-based conceit any more. I had a hard time finishing Wizardry 8 back in… ok, maybe I don’t want to know how long ago that was.

But I was spoiled by the real-time evolutions of the concept… stuff like Arena, Daggerfall, Battlespire, Ultima Underworld, Descent to Undermountain, and the like (also, shout-out to Arx Fatalis).

I would love more epic dungeon crawlers, with the soul of these classics but all the modern conveniences, graphics, and gameplay advances.

I like the classic graphics in the corner

Wizardry inspired a lot of games, but the three games listed have greater influences elsewhere. (FF and DQ in particular are more like Ultima.) Sadly the games that were most inspired by Wizardry, sometimes called "blobbers," have mostly died out: The classic Bard's Tale games, Might & Magic, Dungeon Master and Eye of the Beholder. Etrian Odyssey and the Japanese Wizardry games hold the torch but are pretty niche these days.

The demise of the original Wizardry series is one of the greatest injustices in the history of computer gaming, up there with the closing of the original Atari.

Here's a link to the developers website since i didnt see it in the article

https://www.digitaleclipse.com/games/wizardry

I've never had the drive to beat any of the Wizardry games.They are simply too difficult for this filthy casual.

High school. Wizardry and Ultima. I am so old

It inspired like, every Japanese game ever made, not only those listed.

And if Wizardry didn't inspire it, then Ultima did.