I haven't been able to get my hands on Wizardry 8. But I have the earlier wizardry games so might try the 6th or 7th one sometime.

Guess I should keep trying to obtain number 8 too, huh?

Yep - and a very cool feature of Wizardry 6,7 and 8 is:
You can export your final save and use your party in the next game.