The Challenge? To finish the game (other than the boffo ending) in as few days and hours as possible. This is a true challenge of your role playing ability since it puts everyone on a level playing field.

It is challenging to do since the quicker you finish the less experience points you have THUS the lower level your characters are when they have to take on certain set battles etc.

Play on Easy difficultly so everyone has the same set of circumstances.

Please reply with how fast you did it whether you beat everyone who has responded or not and include just the very basics of what your party consisted of as far as race and professions. You can include levels you were when finished if you want but please exclude stats, weapons etc. in the interest of brevity.

So far I my fastest completion time is

8 DAYS
1 HOUR
3 MINUTES

• RE: I challenge everyone who can read this!,Boralex (Guest), 06:01 AM, Mar-10-02
  • My sentiments exactly,Llevram, 09:19 AM, Mar-10-02
    • RE: My sentiments exactly,Jem, 09:57 AM, Mar-10-02
    • RE: My sentiments exactly,Big Daddy (Guest), 11:53 AM, Mar-12-02
  • RE: I challenge everyone who can read this!,Big Daddy (Guest), 11:39 AM, Mar-12-02
• RE: I challenge everyone who can read this!,Nordoki (Guest), 10:50 AM, Mar-10-02
• RE: I challenge everyone who can read this!,Whatsup (Guest), 02:56 PM, Mar-10-02
• The Wiz 7 record is ...,rbrown, 01:31 PM, Mar-11-02
  • RE: The Wiz 7 record is ...,Big Daddy (Guest), 11:55 AM, Mar-12-02
• RE: I challenge everyone who can read this!,laserbeam (Guest), 03:24 AM, Mar-13-02
• bor-ing,analander, 07:24 AM, Mar-13-02
  • Who? Pixar? You mean Adrexia? n/t,Llevram, 07:47 AM, Mar-13-02
    • Lady Pixar,analander, 11:29 AM, Mar-13-02
  • RE: Well, to be fair...,Kasia, 03:35 PM, Mar-13-02
  • RE: bor-ing,Big Daddy (Guest), 06:40 PM, Mar-25-02
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• RE: I challenge everyone who can read this!,Shivan (Guest), 02:43 PM, Mar-17-02
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• Oh Yah ???,rbrown, 11:26 AM, Jul-16-02

Big Daddy, You confuse platform games and 1st person hack and slash with true role-playing and I bet you missed a lot of the expert level upgrades and fun this way. Just an opinion!!

Really, just about the opposite would be the true test of your role playing ability ... see who could make it through the game with the fewest kills.

Tools for Wizardry(r) 7

Same here.

Besides, it's not clear from the challenge whether he is talking gametime or realtime. Even if I wanted to take up this challenge, I know I couldn't complete in 8 days realtime because I have other commitments to my time.

As for gametime, sure I could do it in that time if I wanted to but you miss so much of the game in doing so -- all of the neat quests for armor items, the T'Rang/Umpani quests (other than the minimum required to complete the game) and so on. What's the fun in that? And having fun is much more important, IMO, than beating someone else's time.

Why would that be the opposite? In finishing the game so quickly I had much fewer kills than I did the first time I played.

First Game around 2743 Kills
8 day game around 1056 Kills

The quicker you try to finish the game the lower your levels are when you finish (mine were 17-20) and the less "awesome" weapons, armor, items you have.

THUS it is more of a challenge to actually finish the game. I do agree however that trying to finish with as few as kills ALSO poses an interesting challenge. One would have to try to do all the experience point quests and run from many Higardi bandit battles. Hmmmm.

Boralex, you confuse my challenge with a hack and slash type of playing.

I did this challenge for the very fact that I did indeed complete the game three other times with various characters and went just about everywhere I could and got everything I could. Since I find Wizardry 8 to be about the funnest (not sure that is really a word) role playing game I have every played, I was trying to find new ways to play and enjoy the game over and over. The first time I completed the game about 58 game days had passed and I had done everything except the retro dungeons. I could have taken much, much longer in game days if I wanted a totally "elite" party that rested after every battle but I don't see the fun in that. No challenge, you see?

I was just exploring other ways to still enjoy the game after completing it and going everywhere. I had fun doing it and I suggest you try the method with at least one party.

Big Daddy

If the challenge is to read it, I did. Otherwise as to the content of the post I have but one question: Why?

I accept the challenge and I will post my accomplishments here again.

something like 31 minutes.

Of course, that person started with a hacked team that had all the items necessary to get the boat and onlock the Astral Dominae.

Do you mean hacked or unhacked teams?

Oh, certainly unhacked. "What fun is a hacked game?" he said.\

I wonder what the record is (in game time of course.)

Big Daddy

I finished the game in 1day, 3hours, and approx 23min.
Thats how long it took me to sell the game which in my opinion is another stupid idea.

Some of us work, you know, like a job, and have a real life ....

And besides, this isn't a race. As mentioned, RPGs are more 'smell the roses' games than 'escape the Nazi castle' shooters.

Playing with a solo faerie ninja, on the other hand....

Has anyone here seen Lady Pixar?

- John
Prepare Yourself for the Ultimate in Fantasy Games

Tools for Wizardry(r) 7

No not her. If you haven't heard the name before, you haven't fully explored my site.

- John
Prepare Yourself for the Ultimate in Fantasy Games

it is just a challenge, and no more silly than re-loading for the *light* *sword* (or even the CoC ). After you "smelled the roses" a few times, what's wrong with beating it on the game time? It is the time as counted in the game that Big Daddy's suggesting, so you don't actually have to be glued to the computer for eight days & nights
Off topic, I decided that one thing that Wiz 8 is missing, is the lack of that one puzzle, one game that you'd kill yourself trying to accomplish, and failing a hundredth time, you'd still want to try again. Like the gorrors battles in CoDS. And looking for those missing gadgeteer items does not count, BTW. For me, no game ever will be as addictive, compulsive and satisfying at the same time as CoDS/Wiz Gold. Oh, well...
Best, Kasia

>Some of us work, you know,
>like a job, and have
>a real life ....
>
>And besides, this isn't a race.
>As mentioned, RPGs are more
>'smell the roses' games than
>'escape the Nazi castle' shooters.
>
>
>Playing with a solo faerie ninja,
>on the other hand....
>
>Has anyone here seen Lady Pixar?
>
Yes I know, I happen to be someone who work a job and has a "real" life. How could you even assume I was speaking of real time instead of game time. And as mentioned, I already "stopped to smell the roses" with several other parties before I decided to challenge myself (and others) with this scenario. Hope that clears things up for you.

Big Daddy
>
>- John
>Prepare Yourself for the Ultimate in >Fantasy Games>