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Seth
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I’m playing right now the original “Commandos – behind the enemy lines” (to get ready for third installment ), and in my opinion - this is one tough cookie. On the scale 1 to 10 I would give at least hard 8. Of course I would also give IWD 7.5. I know that sometimes the way you play or character you choose has impact of the overall performance, but I mean the games that no matter what you have, it is pain in the a** just to go by.

So what other games are difficult out there? And did the frustration take better of you?
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Post Thu Aug 28, 2003 4:12 pm
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stanthony
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Heh! Wizardry 7 It's hard to beat this baby in terms of being hard. But finishing it was so satisfactory... From recent non-RPGs I found "Hearts of Iron" to be pretty challenging.
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Post Thu Aug 28, 2003 4:29 pm
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Nukester
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Im finding Arx Fatalis to be pretty hard
Post Thu Aug 28, 2003 7:28 pm
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Sir Markus
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Beat me to it with Wizardry 7, that's my nomination as well.
Post Fri Aug 29, 2003 5:49 am
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corwin
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Wish I could get my original Wiz7 disks to work on my current XP system!!
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Post Fri Aug 29, 2003 6:32 am
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stanthony
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quote:
Originally posted by corwin
Wish I could get my original Wiz7 disks to work on my current XP system!!


Have you tried the thing I adviced you in this thread: http://www.rpgdot.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=36230 ? It should work, I think.
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Post Fri Aug 29, 2003 6:46 am
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the mighty stamar
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As I said in another thread the recent game Galactic civilizations is extremely hard. To beat it on its third highest setting has been impossible for me. Its hardest setting is just abuse.

Wizardry 8 is a hard rpg especially if you were to try iron man. Lionheart is also very hard so far from my experience.
Post Fri Aug 29, 2003 7:35 am
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corwin
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quote:
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quote:
Originally posted by corwin
Wish I could get my original Wiz7 disks to work on my current XP system!!


Have you tried the thing I adviced you in this thread: http://www.rpgdot.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=36230 ? It should work, I think.


I downloaded the dosbox program at the time, but I still couldn't get Wiz7 to run from the original disks. I haven't seen Wiz gold in years.
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Post Fri Aug 29, 2003 7:50 am
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stanthony
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eBay had three entries for Wizardry Gold today. The problem is that you may find it more hard to make WizGold run on XP than original Wiz7 It is Windows program, so if compatibility problem will occur there is no emulator of any sort.

With regard to Wiz7 original disks I think your problem is that you cannot install game in the first place? Installation just won't run, or won't run correctly? I had the same problem on Win2K, and I cheated DOSBox or similar emulators do not do well with installation of DOS games. There is a problem with virtual/logical drives there. So I installed Wiz7 on another PC running Win98 (or even Win95? I'd prefer DOS 6.22 though ) and simply copied files to my Win2K PC. Now I could run it with DOSBox with few minor problems. 30 mins of tuning and voila! Then I simply put Wiz7 folder as it was in a ZIP archive, and made my own install package That's how you run old games in the XXI century
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Post Fri Aug 29, 2003 8:05 am
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elkston
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Yep, I certainly spent plenty of time on Wizardry 7 (I played it as "Wizadry Gold").

Regarding more recent games, I think Baldur's Gate 2 could be difficult at times from the combat aspect. For many of the major battles, you couldn't just turn your brain off and go .."ok, another combat". You actually had to plan out good strategies as to what spells to cast, and even which weapons to use. I think the designers did a good job of keeping the combat interesting throughout the entire game.

Wiz8 was good at this too, but only through the middle stages of the game. In the latter part of the game there is little to fear (save for a few notable exceptions on Ascension Peak ) provided you designed the "right" party.
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