Voice acting is king in this game! I was thinking about doing a remake after being able to extract the voices and making them usable in Unity. But too bad licensing issues stand in the way. This game just deserves a sequel.
@@nathanielguggenheim5522 It deserves a remake, but the IP is in Japan now. Ironically, though, Japan is one of the only video game industries I would expect to slap on tons of voice-acted content on to a niche game like this today.
@@nathanielguggenheim5522 really? People care about lisencing for games this old so much that they'll actually pursue someone not making enough to pay what lawyers would cost them to pursue it? Disappointing. Went into the comments after watching the video to see if there's a remake as this game really seems to deserve it based on Seth's summary.
@@wachtwoord5796 yeah. I contacted the Lead Designer and she told me most voice actors licensed for this specific game only... so the voices are theirs. So if any money is involved at some point, people may come for it. And honestly, making a remake for free as a hobby is impossible even in these days. Game is just too big. So I would have to involve some crowd funding along the way.
The same thing happened for synthetik legion Rising, the devs were about to hang themselves and Seth basically came and not only cut the ropes but also converted the stools into golden chairs.
Try playing Wizardry 4. After beating and continuously exporting your party from Wiz 1->3. In 4 you play AGAINST the party you were developing for the past 3 games as a villain, and all the cards ever are stacked against you and the game hates your guts and wants you to kill yourself IRL.
@@SinaelDOverom Wizardry 4 is digital masochism. It's not even fully an RPG - you don't get combat XP, you only level up when you go to the next level. You have to rely on your summons to be your meatshield in combat. You need to be intimately familiar with Wizardry's spell effects to even escape the first chamber. And if you loiter around in the same place for too long, an instakill ghost might wander onto your tile and just kill you, no saves. Wizardry 4 is absolutely, unapologetically cruel.
@@JarlFrank that's not even scratching the surface either. the very first room you start in cannot as no door exists, has random encounters and tells you nothing about what to do. You can die before you figure out you need to summon monsters to help you using the symbol on the ground. After you figure that out, you realize you are trapped in the first room with no door, wandering in a circle aimlessly until you die from random encounters. Only by playing the previous titles would you realize you need to cast Milwa(light) to see invisible doors, but wait, you don't even have that spell? Turns out you need to summon the trash mob priests as one of your summons, and hope it uses light in a random encounter, and THEN you can see the door to exit the room. ALL of that just to leave room one. After which you can still just be absolutely destroyed if you picked bad mobs to summon, and then need to restart from step one. On top of that you have, instant kill crits that can end your game in the blink of an eye, the absolutely convoluted puzzles that require absurd knowledge of the first 3 games, enemies that can PERMANENTLY STEAL key items, a keypress counter that kills you if you reach a certain number of key strokes in a save file, the fact that enemy parties can just outright have the spell tiltowait(nuclear blast) and instagib your team in a random encounter, the fact that you need to remember each spell by name and type them in like an incantation to use them, and many more terrifyingly unfair things too. Wiz 4 killed the series in japan too, where it was extremely popular and still is considered influential to the game industry there, since the obtuse knowledge required combined with the poor translation went way over their heads and made the game actually impossible to complete. Though this did lead to some hilarious situations where the japanese players thought the goofy monster names and pop culture references were actually cool edgy foreign words that mean serious business, giving the whole game an entirely different feeling to the more lighthearted nature that is implied.
We do see them in the same party here in this game. And a party of characters modded to look and be called like several other RUclipsrs is definitely all the proof we need. :^)
Now that you mention it.. Ive never seen sseth and space hitler in one room. OH FUCK. Well, call me epstein, because we all know what the merchants guild will do to me now.
The voice acting in this game is so good! I don't believe I've ever played a RPG with more party banter. And it all feels very spontaneous. The personality system in this game has never been surpassed IMO. EDIT: I should clarify -> Wiz8 doesn't have long discussions between party members. They do make *a lot* of situational comments. It feels very free flow.
@@dsandoval9396 Certainly, party members respond to all manner of stuff, based on their personalities. They also sometimes react to each other. Sseth only customized the portraits. The sound design in Wiz8 is generally superb.
That optimized build guide is super legit. Wizardry is a game series that has always hyper-emphasized status conditions over direct damage in terms of party utility. I mean, your enemies will still blow you up just fine, but what's worse is when they drive most of you insane and then pick you to death. So do it to them.
I can personally vouch for his Space Station 13 videos. A friend and I played it because of his video and our escapades were quite entertaining. I killed a man while trying to attach his new robotic leg because I didn't know how to roboticist and because the vict...patient agreed to my inexperienced hands doing surgery, meanwhile my friend the clown was kidnapped by a mime, locked in a bathroom and swirlied to death.
Other than the fact that he is using comparisons to dragon ball, it's accurate. Just to get to the first town it also takes like 3-4 hours on your first...second... third.. well you'll be restarting a lot.
Its been about 14 years since I last played it, but from what I can recall, Sseth is pretty spot on. ESPECIALLY concerning the difficulty. Every monster levels one for one along with your party with no level caps and many (most?) start above first level so they will ALWAYS be higher level than your party.
Game was lead designed by Brenda Romero, wife of John Romero. Yup, that John Romero. The fact she could lead a project that could do this with effectively a dead studio that couldn’t even afford review copies and knew their doors would close upon release while her hubby did whatever Daikatana was with a bottomless pit of resources I think says a lot.
@@karry299 No it isn’t. Does her being married suddenly means she didn’t design and direct the game? Like…I’m asking this non-rhetorically: what is the difference? I know these comment sections bring out the worst because it’s Sseth and we’re not supposed to say it but this comment in particular makes no goddamn sense
@thefoxoflaurels3437 The point isn't saying she didn't make the game, the point was that she wasn't married to John when she made it. The married part was what was specifically redundant there. The rest of the tidbit was neat.
The dialogue of the party makes it feel like playing D&D with a whole group of Chaotic/Neutral & Evil characters. About the only time this seems awesome.
There's a lawful/good voice for males that I'm absolutely in love with and if I ever got into animating/game design I'd love to use him. "By my honor I swear I'll protect you!" Such a precious boy he is.
I can imagine a trillion better timelines. One of them is everyone being dead. Sseth is the one thing that keeps this from being one of the darkest timelines. When do the government lizard aliens reset the simulation? Its been like 80 years or something since the last time.
The party dialogue sounds absolutely phenomenal. I’m shocked at how well done some aspects of the game appear to be, especially given it was released in the early 2000s. There are triple A games coming out now that don’t hold a candle to some aspects of this game.
Things have deteriorated so drastically in the past 2 decades since this was released that your shock at its manifest and bespoke quality saddens me. This wasn't even that top tier of a game back then but I still got it on release anyway.
@@ciscornBIG I have discovered a really cool old gane called Drakengard and since then I want to play more old games, you seem to know a lot about it so please recommend me some good ones!
Speaking as somebody who's best friend is trans, both she and I found that shit fucking hilarious - as with the rest of the video, too! Sseth always knows how to master comedic timing and being offensive to everyone equally.
I love the idea of Ken being a hyper-aggressive healer who lost her mind trying to keep the party alive because they consistently fail horribly at staying alive.
Imagine making a bunch of stock photos for some side cash but since you're not a professional model or anything they come out awkward because keeping a smile for hours on end, turns out it's hard. This leads to you becoming a meme and later on people just associate your likeness not to you but to an Australian archiver of the world wide area network. If that doesn't make Harold's nickname accurate, I don't know what does.
@@MrLCGO There is a ted talk with the guy on youtube somewhere. I think he is a retired engineer from hungary. Its not a bad shot, he pretty much looks like that all the time. He is pretty cool about being a meme though.
Two things I remember from playing it upon release: The merchants "Thank you" line upon sale was played for each sold item. Queued. So if you sold 100 items he would say it 100 times in a row. And the sound followed you, there was no running from it. And enemies spawned even when the game was paused. So when you paused and went to have lunch and came back you were surrounded by hundreds of enemies. Edit: misremembered, it was Dungeon Lords, not this game.
@@eduardojose981Even cooler, you could also import Wizardry characters to Bard's Tale. The HD version nixed that though. My favourite import is Mass Effect 2 though - compatible with both Mass Effect 3 and Frog Fractions.
@@KopperNeoman The best part is that you can transport. Bard's Tale 1-3, Wizardry 1-3, Ultima and Might and Magic to centauri Alliance. Even if the latter takes place in a sci-fi setting. BTW, every single game are done by different companies
Me, somewhere on the second half of the video: "The background music sounds very familiar" *Brain short circuits while a neuron that hasn't fired in ages sets a decrepit synapse on fire* Ah yes, Sseth has played Shadowrun returns.
"Gadgeteering is essentially the art of duct-taping random pieces of junk together and using it to give your enemies brain cancer" Macgyver, and my Dnd Goblin artificer has never been more represented in a single sentence. Makes me proud.
So basically you can get guest party members into locations they don't want to go, by using the same tactics that the A-Team use on BA Baracus to get him to fly. I'm sold.
@@mrscrump380 Gnomes, despite enthusiastically using their overwhelming monetary and media monopoly to support opening the borders of the Unified Kingdom for diversifying the demographics with ogres and orcs, are not shy in their gentrification of any and all gnome neighborhoods they populate. They are also known for funding almost every "isolated incident" of terrorism that plagues the kingdom's population. Most damning, however, is that while they openly champion diversity and the erasure of the kingdom's native population, they will use the media to slander, demonize and assassinate any human or elf that notices this pattern and repeats it openly. In fact, gnomes are the single most oppressed people that ever lived or ever will live, and we know this because they use their disproportionate and omnipresent political power to crush anyone who would say otherwise or bring attention to any of the plights of the other races, who deserve their poor treatment for their historical (and never-ending) debt towards the gnome race.
I've been playing this game for two weeks now and it has been hard to stop. I never got into this kind of games but I think the voice acting is what sold me. Also, thanks Sseth for the build. It has been most helpful. One major critique would be to not play it with headphones without lowering the sound effects volume because if an enemy casts Crush on your entire party you'll go deaf.
I remember picking this game up on a whim so long ago. It's been years but yeah, if I could sum up the game in one word it would be unforgettable. I tried to play through but the setting, characters and the quests were so out-there and downright bizarre that I had to give up. It's like someone poured a thousand RPG tropes and conventions into a fantastical sci-fi bowl, mashed them up and then cooked them into the strongest gaming edible you ever might have.
@@allhailthecartlord7256 Ah, I don't follow social media stuff, just listened to his music and assumed feminine boy because of Touch Fluffy Tail having her take the place of the protag from MGQ.
For those who want to make a party exactly like Sseth's Harold: Male Mook Fighter, Chaotic Voice 1 Mandalore: Male Hobbit Fighter, Loner Voice 2 Uber: Male Hobbit Rogue, Cunning Voice 1 Knudsen: Female Mook Psionic, Loner Voice 2 Sseth: Male Elf Alchemist, Chaotic Voice 2 Ken: Female Elf Priest, Chaotic Voice 2 Ask Sseth for the portraits
Especially with how "Choose your own Adventure"-ish the game is, he didn't spoil anything. I Still always wanted to walk a group from Wizardry 6... through 7... and on through 8 ... haven't though.
No, D&D magic can do real damage, whereas magic in Wiz 8 is mostly about the 30 or so status effects that can be applied. There really are only a small number of special cases where damage spells are good for anything but clearing underlevelled mobs
@@Magbiy If anything D&D 5e's magic got some steroids compared to previous editions. For example, Cleric gets amazing Guiding Bolt spell right off the bat - which is good enough to curbstomp most 1-st/2-nd level bosses.
@@talltroll7092 Damage spells are great in the early game and decent in the middle game. Most of all AOE makes combat go faster. Unfortunately only the mage have many good AOE damage spells.
@@toomanyaccounts pickpocket victims don't vanish when reloading from the save, I checked many times. In this particular case the victim is an NPC that can be hired. The save just doesn't contain it exact location, thus NPC is placed to it home location where it can be hired again. If you fire Vi, leave a location and quickly return back the same will happen. If you fire Vi, save and reload from the save, again the same will happen.
its good to see Mandalore and Sseth sneaking into each other vids more and more often as time goes on. The two personalities will soon merge and God will finally be born!
Damn man, can't get away from Chaos these past months
Oh shit waddup
fuckin' Sock Accounts!
Nice! Now we only need for uber and IH to comment and we have the whole party together!
How do you feel about your voice actor?
Oh no, more people, they just keep coming.. and coming.
I'm getting stressed.
Sseth's multiple personalities are merging "On the meds Mandalore" is leading the charge on the conscious mind
You are mum
Ah yes i love a spoon of insanity in the morning
Hello uberdonger i always thought you and sseth have a lot in common great to see you here
@@KeanoMUFC1 They know each other for like 6 years
@@Rhis2137 cool
Kenny's voice actress in Wizardry is now canon to my girl.
She didn't come a million miles to get all soggy at this video.
BUT I DID.
Time to redo your channel intro
Thank you for making the Adam Warski song. You did a great service to mankind, ser.
It’s so perfect.
XD
You? Here? What.
This studio legit poured all their budget into voice acting.
I respect them so much
Voice acting is king in this game! I was thinking about doing a remake after being able to extract the voices and making them usable in Unity. But too bad licensing issues stand in the way. This game just deserves a sequel.
@@nathanielguggenheim5522 It deserves a remake, but the IP is in Japan now. Ironically, though, Japan is one of the only video game industries I would expect to slap on tons of voice-acted content on to a niche game like this today.
@@nathanielguggenheim5522 just do it, and release it, but don't tell anyone about it. That is what gets people, is them talking about it online.
@@nathanielguggenheim5522 really? People care about lisencing for games this old so much that they'll actually pursue someone not making enough to pay what lawyers would cost them to pursue it?
Disappointing. Went into the comments after watching the video to see if there's a remake as this game really seems to deserve it based on Seth's summary.
@@wachtwoord5796 yeah. I contacted the Lead Designer and she told me most voice actors licensed for this specific game only... so the voices are theirs. So if any money is involved at some point, people may come for it. And honestly, making a remake for free as a hobby is impossible even in these days. Game is just too big. So I would have to involve some crowd funding along the way.
Sseth is so self-absorbed he put himself in the game _twice._
And that's beautiful...
three.times some would say
With an ego so large, only one entity cannot do
You mean thrice
DudeWat
Are you saying he has an ego?
You're about to hit everyone with the reverse trap card, Sseth. I don't know if they're ready for this.
How are you not verified? I had to go check to make sure it was you.
I assumed you fell off the earth, but youtube just stopped putting your songs in my sub box 3 years ago.. Good to know, thanks YT.
What is this video!? We are not supposed to have heaven and hell on earth for another 4 months!
wtf you're my waifu
Ken! How do you feel about Sseth making you unhinged in his party?
Your party constantly thinks about dying and complains when they are revived. The writing really was ahead of its time.
ImpishCreations It's like having a bunch of doomers playing D&D xD
Basically of Thanos and Adam Warlock played D&D.
@@gamerito100 Doomers and Dormrooms
"Ah, a trap." Harold exclaimed. "I wonder what would happen if I just pulled this thing here..."
Harold was arrested later that day...
Thanks. I am now unable to hear that in any other way, shape, or form.
Admiral Akbar has been notified.
Astolfo 👀
pretending it wouldn't like that
Thanks for being the funniest comment I've seen on yt. What a laugh.
"Mandalore goes insane"
HEY HEY PEOPLE
f for good boy mandalore
Sseth's in-game Mandalore is just Brick Haus.
The strange case of Doctor Mandalore and Mr. Sseth.
@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 which is kind of amazing, because Sseth apparently is a doctor or some shit? Medical professional at the very least
I can't believe Sseth gave us a glimpse of his DnD Fridays with his youtube buddies.
I didn't know i needed a Sseth Friday DnD game in my life
I am autistic like the rest of us but does he play dnd with Ken Ashcorp or is that just a meme?
@@a_thunderous_hound if he do, I sure as shit didn't knew about it, an would love a link to it ^^
@@a_thunderous_hound Sseth doesnt, but Mandy does.
@@StrikeWarlock not with Ashcorp tho, with the PST
I like how Mandalore got SSeth to do some voiceover in his warhammer video in exchange for voice acting an entire character in a 2001 blobber RPG.
Which warhammer video?
@@matthewboan616 total war 2, dark elves
Wait that's not one of the voices you can pick from the game?
@@T0mN7 You found the joke :)
Sseth has been in a few episodes actually.
"Ken Ashcorp (Ken)
Level 1 Priest
Female Elf
*Chaotic*"
yeah sounds about right
My fucking sides are in orbit
@They Live! Again. Well Ken's love for futanari elves is well-documented.
Well this got much more popular than I expected it would lmao
@@Ritokure what a based lad
Ken Ashcorp is a cleric of Cyric.
"Why deal with a crowd when you can make the crowd insane?"
He's on to us boys.
Every time a new movie or video game gets announced
Prepare the flamethrower, just in case things get... spicy.
George: Let's get out of here.
Mandalore: I'm going to make a nice collab between multiple gaming personalities.
Sseth: I'm going to make a nice collab with blackjack and hookers.
Where have u heard that before
@@crookedginger Can't tell if you're serious, but Futurama
“Female girl.”
Very... accurately put, Seth.
I too, like to refer to my fellow men as “male boys.”
these days it couldn't hurt.
@@Killibum yeah.
This aged poorly
There are 214 forms of girls now sooo
@@Иван-ч8н1о
Indeed.
Seeing as how I only posted this 1 year and 4 months ago, I’d say it *barely aged… at all.*
Every review on the Steam store page is beginning to be: "Hey hey people."
The power of the merchant guild in action.
@StewieCman
You can take the shekels, but can you please not do another 9/11?
The same thing happened for synthetik legion Rising, the devs were about to hang themselves and Seth basically came and not only cut the ropes but also converted the stools into golden chairs.
It should be the GOG screen since most of the games he reviews are old as dirt.
@@mr2octavio wtf, what was happening?
That is unironicly some of the best voice acting ive ever heard
Dennis Lief it’s like they were passionate enough and willing to put enough effort into it to hire more than 4 people!
It really is. These guys did Jagged Alliance 2, too. Another example of tons of personality and love poured into a product.
It sounds like the VAs were allowed to have fun with their lines to. Gives it that extra oomph.
"Obscure, long, frustrating and dehumanizing"? You didn't even have to say it was fun, I'm IN
Try playing Wizardry 4. After beating and continuously exporting your party from Wiz 1->3. In 4 you play AGAINST the party you were developing for the past 3 games as a villain, and all the cards ever are stacked against you and the game hates your guts and wants you to kill yourself IRL.
@@SinaelDOverom Wizardry 4 is digital masochism. It's not even fully an RPG - you don't get combat XP, you only level up when you go to the next level. You have to rely on your summons to be your meatshield in combat. You need to be intimately familiar with Wizardry's spell effects to even escape the first chamber. And if you loiter around in the same place for too long, an instakill ghost might wander onto your tile and just kill you, no saves.
Wizardry 4 is absolutely, unapologetically cruel.
Fun is a buzzword
Personally I was sold on the Jiggle physics
@@JarlFrank that's not even scratching the surface either. the very first room you start in cannot as no door exists, has random encounters and tells you nothing about what to do. You can die before you figure out you need to summon monsters to help you using the symbol on the ground. After you figure that out, you realize you are trapped in the first room with no door, wandering in a circle aimlessly until you die from random encounters. Only by playing the previous titles would you realize you need to cast Milwa(light) to see invisible doors, but wait, you don't even have that spell? Turns out you need to summon the trash mob priests as one of your summons, and hope it uses light in a random encounter, and THEN you can see the door to exit the room. ALL of that just to leave room one. After which you can still just be absolutely destroyed if you picked bad mobs to summon, and then need to restart from step one.
On top of that you have, instant kill crits that can end your game in the blink of an eye, the absolutely convoluted puzzles that require absurd knowledge of the first 3 games, enemies that can PERMANENTLY STEAL key items, a keypress counter that kills you if you reach a certain number of key strokes in a save file, the fact that enemy parties can just outright have the spell tiltowait(nuclear blast) and instagib your team in a random encounter, the fact that you need to remember each spell by name and type them in like an incantation to use them, and many more terrifyingly unfair things too.
Wiz 4 killed the series in japan too, where it was extremely popular and still is considered influential to the game industry there, since the obtuse knowledge required combined with the poor translation went way over their heads and made the game actually impossible to complete. Though this did lead to some hilarious situations where the japanese players thought the goofy monster names and pop culture references were actually cool edgy foreign words that mean serious business, giving the whole game an entirely different feeling to the more lighthearted nature that is implied.
The party members grew on me. I'd watch a sitcom with all 6 of them.
Fun fact, we've never actually seen sseth and mandalore in the same room before. Makes you think
We do see them in the same party here in this game. And a party of characters modded to look and be called like several other RUclipsrs is definitely all the proof we need. :^)
My guess is that they are Siamese twins..that take turns chloroforming each other
There's also the fact their videos never overlaps
symbal of the dank godz secondary channel you say that but even worse, everyone uses shadowrun Returns music yet no one has reviews
Now that you mention it.. Ive never seen sseth and space hitler in one room. OH FUCK. Well, call me epstein, because we all know what the merchants guild will do to me now.
The voice acting in this game is so good! I don't believe I've ever played a RPG with more party banter. And it all feels very spontaneous. The personality system in this game has never been surpassed IMO.
EDIT: I should clarify -> Wiz8 doesn't have long discussions between party members. They do make *a lot* of situational comments. It feels very free flow.
Is that really the game voice acting!?! I wasn't sure because but holy 💩 it's pretty damn good!
@@dsandoval9396 Certainly, party members respond to all manner of stuff, based on their personalities. They also sometimes react to each other. Sseth only customized the portraits. The sound design in Wiz8 is generally superb.
Sirtech way of handling banter is awesomesauce.I have played heck out of JA2 and still do, the merc banter is just so expansive.
dragon's dogma
The "Tales of" games have a lot of fun party banter too.
The voice for Ken Ashcorp is amazing holy shit
I love that the singer is the one with the most abrasive voice.
That optimized build guide is super legit. Wizardry is a game series that has always hyper-emphasized status conditions over direct damage in terms of party utility. I mean, your enemies will still blow you up just fine, but what's worse is when they drive most of you insane and then pick you to death.
So do it to them.
I love when Sseth summarizing the plot of any game he's reviewing, because I'm never sure if it's real or just pure fanfiction.
It's kind of like how Hunter S. Thompson used to do it: nothing factual, nothing even resembling it, but the spirit of it is spot on
And the answer is YES!
I can personally vouch for his Space Station 13 videos.
A friend and I played it because of his video and our escapades were quite entertaining. I killed a man while trying to attach his new robotic leg because I didn't know how to roboticist and because the vict...patient agreed to my inexperienced hands doing surgery, meanwhile my friend the clown was kidnapped by a mime, locked in a bathroom and swirlied to death.
Other than the fact that he is using comparisons to dragon ball, it's accurate.
Just to get to the first town it also takes like 3-4 hours on your first...second... third.. well you'll be restarting a lot.
Its been about 14 years since I last played it, but from what I can recall, Sseth is pretty spot on. ESPECIALLY concerning the difficulty. Every monster levels one for one along with your party with no level caps and many (most?) start above first level so they will ALWAYS be higher level than your party.
Sseth's got a fetish for fine art. A pair of knee-socks and an oversized sweatshirt
...
Fuck me for knowing that line and knowing exactly what song it's from, FUUUUUUCK
@@anonymousbloke1 Where it is from?
Maybe he can help me get what I want...
@@TheStupidwolf1 ken ashcorp - absolute territory
don't ask why I know that.
@@ClayWar237 why shouldn't we ask? :^). Why do i even fucking ask? am i brain damaged? (ofc i am)
"chaos? woohoo"
Mandalore 2020
I can feel the warp overtaking me...
Did somebody say *CHAOS* ?
The elector counts won't like this. More importantly, neither would the inquisition.
Perry Pougins it is a good pain
@@inquisitorgunnar3451 UH OOOOH
SMASH IT
Game was lead designed by Brenda Romero, wife of John Romero. Yup, that John Romero.
The fact she could lead a project that could do this with effectively a dead studio that couldn’t even afford review copies and knew their doors would close upon release while her hubby did whatever Daikatana was with a bottomless pit of resources I think says a lot.
Married in 2012. Irrelevant.
@@karry299 No it isn’t. Does her being married suddenly means she didn’t design and direct the game? Like…I’m asking this non-rhetorically: what is the difference?
I know these comment sections bring out the worst because it’s Sseth and we’re not supposed to say it but this comment in particular makes no goddamn sense
@thefoxoflaurels3437 The point isn't saying she didn't make the game, the point was that she wasn't married to John when she made it. The married part was what was specifically redundant there.
The rest of the tidbit was neat.
@@thefoxoflaurels3437 It really does bring out the worst: people like you. Getting butthurt after misinterpreting comments.
Limitations breed creativity. John was a superstar and not given enough of them.
Scope creep made him its bitch.
>mandalore goes insane
zooms in on picture of sseth
I've never been happier to see a reference in a video.
"You can be anything you want to be!"
*Furiously clicks between two genders*
The humor is so rapid fire and subtle it's great.
As it should be
All two of them! imagine!
@@HardCoreTea the posibilities!
``is there a link between race and i"
Seth: "[The game] is two decades old."
Me: "Oh wow, it was released in the 90's?"
Brain: "2000 was 20 years ago"
Me: "Please stop"
It just hit me...
But the 80s were just two decades ago...
@@Jay-ln1co Big mood.
Are you telling your brain, or the universe?
FUCK! FUUUUCK!!
The dialogue of the party makes it feel like playing D&D with a whole group of Chaotic/Neutral & Evil characters.
About the only time this seems awesome.
There's a lawful/good voice for males that I'm absolutely in love with and if I ever got into animating/game design I'd love to use him. "By my honor I swear I'll protect you!" Such a precious boy he is.
Boooooooooo
"Mandalore goes insane" - portrait of Sseth.
Makes sense.
My favourite easter egg in this video by far
@eagle PHD we know, its an in-joke
timestamp?
I feel blessed to be in this timeline, just because of Sseth.
I can imagine a trillion better timelines. One of them is everyone being dead. Sseth is the one thing that keeps this from being one of the darkest timelines. When do the government lizard aliens reset the simulation? Its been like 80 years or something since the last time.
Where is their stream of the game?
i don't think it's possible for sseth to exist in anything but the worst possible timeline.
"Ken, female elf chaotic" accurate
Probably futa too
@@night1952 even better
@@night1952 Kenny ( the panda character of Ken) is always just female, but usually matched with futas or other females
Serious question, what or who is "Ken"?
@@TheMetalfreak360 a singer he has a youtube channel called "Ken Ashcorp"
The party dialogue sounds absolutely phenomenal. I’m shocked at how well done some aspects of the game appear to be, especially given it was released in the early 2000s. There are triple A games coming out now that don’t hold a candle to some aspects of this game.
I mean this is the thing Wizardy was famous for. And it bleed to their other famous game series, Jagged Alliance
@@Myrth1 Yeah, but the idea was brilliant. Pre-generated personalities for player generated characters.
Things have deteriorated so drastically in the past 2 decades since this was released that your shock at its manifest and bespoke quality saddens me. This wasn't even that top tier of a game back then but I still got it on release anyway.
@@ciscornBIG I have discovered a really cool old gane called Drakengard and since then I want to play more old games, you seem to know a lot about it so please recommend me some good ones!
@@Myrth1 Jagged Alliance 2's merc banter will forever go down as probably the best in all gaming for me.
Unironically, Sseth's party is just a compilation of actually good channels
That’s the reason Pyro was scrapped
@@D7C98 pyrocynical is shit
ok zoomer
@@D7C98 Yeah, if he doesn't just hold it ransom for "le ebic funny irony of people actually liking thing I put time into and not continuing"
@@t.kenneth5697 he made fat cry 3 instead and it should bide us until petscop 2
This is what portrait features were made for.
Apart from having Hitler, Jesus and DIO in your Baldur's Gate party.
But aren't Hitler and Jesus the same person?
@@einzelfeuer_2855 we don't tell the humans that
@@srgforge2993 Oh yes of course. Sorry. Still it's so obvious...some of them will figure it out anyway.
@OldGerard Ronny James or Brando?
All of them
Potionseller, I am going into BATTLE and I require the need of your potions.
My potions are too strong for you, traveller
Deus Vult potionseller, I tell you I am going into battle, and I want only your STRONGEST potions
You better go to a seller with weaker potions.
Potionseller, enough of these games. I’m going into battle and I need your strongest potions.
You need vodka 40% Vodka and some herbs.to make your own potion.
The voice acting is way too good holy shit.
If it WALKS ... I can CHANGE THAT.
You can be, anything you want to be.
*Cycles through 2 genders*
This is the kind of comedy I came for.
There is a timestamp?
@@alilweeb7684 4:45
Speaking as somebody who's best friend is trans, both she and I found that shit fucking hilarious - as with the rest of the video, too! Sseth always knows how to master comedic timing and being offensive to everyone equally.
Boyd the Reaver
I don’t think that joke was meant to be transphobic or offensive in the slightest but... Glad you weren’t offended.
Plugged In
Wow so edgy. Good for you here’s your gold star and cookie.
Uberdanger : "lets rifle their pockets when they're not looking."
Relatable 10/10
16:14 Hold on... it shows us that Mandalore has went insane... but displays Sseth going insane instead? This is a sign.
...He doesn't know...
"The droning of the bard's bagpipe brings pandemonium."
That's not just Wizardry 8, that's real life too
I love the idea of Ken being a hyper-aggressive healer who lost her mind trying to keep the party alive because they consistently fail horribly at staying alive.
That's what happens when people keep standing in the fucking fire
Gonna mellow out when the straightest shota comes out
@@intuendaecivilization9365 it's a guy Kenny the panda girl is just his mascot he makes music. The name to look for is Ken Ashcorp.
you either die the parties healpet or see yourself become a god of kill to pretect your squad of dumm ducklings that some dare call "teammates"
What happened to Ken's comment saying this is now her canon voice?
Those animated portraits are fantastic and make the dialogue hilarious.
I accept this as canon for Mandalore and Ken.
7:04
"H.P. Lovecraft's cat"
My god, Sseth you absolute king
Didn't realize ole Lovecraft was a gamer
Grant Keller he was so redpiled even hitler can't get that good
@@penetrationexpert3241 The story of Innsmouth was a allegory about the dangers of racemixing.
@@ghoul4748 *perceived dangers. Lovecraft was also scared of non-visible light and air conditioning.
@@marciamakesmusic the dangers still there though
He's not even harold at this point, we just call him Internet Historian.
Imagine making a bunch of stock photos for some side cash but since you're not a professional model or anything they come out awkward because keeping a smile for hours on end, turns out it's hard. This leads to you becoming a meme and later on people just associate your likeness not to you but to an Australian archiver of the world wide area network.
If that doesn't make Harold's nickname accurate, I don't know what does.
@@MrLCGO There is a ted talk with the guy on youtube somewhere. I think he is a retired engineer from hungary. Its not a bad shot, he pretty much looks like that all the time. He is pretty cool about being a meme though.
"Mandalore has gone insane"
even the game is aware of the meme
"Explaining is difficult, and we don't have time."
*video is 23 minuites long*
There are entire half hour long videos dedicated to explaining skills.
Can you upload the portraits?
That is pretty short when it comes to modern game youtubers
The good ones I mean.
zoomer considers 23 minutes long
k
Two things I remember from playing it upon release: The merchants "Thank you" line upon sale was played for each sold item. Queued. So if you sold 100 items he would say it 100 times in a row. And the sound followed you, there was no running from it. And enemies spawned even when the game was paused. So when you paused and went to have lunch and came back you were surrounded by hundreds of enemies.
Edit: misremembered, it was Dungeon Lords, not this game.
This sounds amazing 🤣🤣
@@geoffdb8118 this sounds horrible ;
Thats just plain bs. Nothing of this ever happend to me in 99999 runs.
@@nathanielguggenheim5522 You are right. Mixed it up. The game I meant was "Dungeon Lords" by David Bradley (Wizardry series). Sorry.
@@dwargrim then, uhh edit or delete your original comment ?
If Wizardry 8 is one of the finest torture devices, 1-3 are "getting ran over by a train" simulators.
And 4 is the equivalent performing of Unit 731 experiments on yourself.
@@magusofthenorth6834 true.
@@magusofthenorth6834 4 is literally about breaking out of the hell you kind of deserve.
The voice acting is so orgassmic and dope, holly shit i wanna play this game now. It has so so much character to it!
Benjy Huburt feels very early fallout-y
Seth really has lost it in quarantine. Starting to call gnomes people smh
Little Kings ;)
Diminuitive Ｌｏｒｄｓ
G'nomed
Dwarfs and halflings are ok, gnomes are the scourge.
THE ONLY GOOD GNOME IS A DEAD GNOME
*Sseth dies*
Harold: "I got dibs on his stuff"
Perfect
If you start with Wizardry 6, you can transfer your character to wizardry 7 and later to wizardry 8 to have a tri-game experience with your party.
:O pog
That’s insane for such an old game :O
You could also do it in the first Wizardry games
@@eduardojose981Even cooler, you could also import Wizardry characters to Bard's Tale. The HD version nixed that though.
My favourite import is Mass Effect 2 though - compatible with both Mass Effect 3 and Frog Fractions.
@@KopperNeoman The best part is that you can transport. Bard's Tale 1-3, Wizardry 1-3, Ultima and Might and Magic to centauri Alliance. Even if the latter takes place in a sci-fi setting. BTW, every single game are done by different companies
Me, somewhere on the second half of the video: "The background music sounds very familiar"
*Brain short circuits while a neuron that hasn't fired in ages sets a decrepit synapse on fire*
Ah yes, Sseth has played Shadowrun returns.
He's also played Brigador...
Which desperately needs some attention from someone with his power.
He also played and reviewed Might & Magic 9. Which has at least two of its music tracks put in.
When? Is there a video?
@@pauloaraujo5156 there is a review video on Might & Magic 9, but not on any of the other games mentioned in this comment chain.
No way, a shadowrun review? Where TF is it....
Mandalore's voice sounds surprisingly like Mandalore...
"Gadgeteering is essentially the art of duct-taping random pieces of junk together and using it to give your enemies brain cancer"
Macgyver, and my Dnd Goblin artificer has never been more represented in a single sentence.
Makes me proud.
Tumormancer
I can't believe he got Mandalore to voice act for him, too. Wow.
Makes sense, he did it for mandalore's total war video
He only imported the face, voice lines are same.
I see the humor is subtle on this one
That Total War Warhammer 2 review really hit Mandalore hard, he quit taking his meds and his alter-ego took over
SSeth- "The Mafia is made up of rats with Italian American accents."
Me- I thought this was a fantasy world not the real thing!
Is like:Richard Pryor-Mafia joke.
Italian American?
Bruh, they sound oddly russian
"not just ratkin, RAZUKA, pal!"
@@iforgotmydamnname6325 russian? They sound french italian more than anything, russian have deeper accents its like italians x100
Italian Skaven.
“Ordinary men fear the power of darkness. I revel in it!” -yep, that’s Sseth for you
So basically you can get guest party members into locations they don't want to go, by using the same tactics that the A-Team use on BA Baracus to get him to fly.
I'm sold.
9:20 - I adore Ken's voice. Combined with his avatar, he sounds like a hyper-aggressive cartoonish character.
What character is "Ken" some sort of furry?
@@raymondbero6879 Yeah, his character is an anthro panda named 'Kenny'.
@@raymondbero6879 lesbian panda so I think? his music is alright though
@@raymondbero6879 It's a guys mascot for his music channel but the character is one of many furry porn oc's.
the line from that timestamp, plus the weird nasally tone of it, remind me of Abridged Kirito.
Gotta say, I think I love the party personalities. I wish other games where you build a team came with personalities like that.
Dark Savant looks like Edgelord Mysterio.
Yes.
"is there a link between race and i-"
And he was showing gnomes at the time he said that. Hmm. Gets the good ol' noggin' joggin'. Timestamp is like 5:09
Timestamp it
I dont get it.
DELET
@@mrscrump380 Gnomes, despite enthusiastically using their overwhelming monetary and media monopoly to support opening the borders of the Unified Kingdom for diversifying the demographics with ogres and orcs, are not shy in their gentrification of any and all gnome neighborhoods they populate. They are also known for funding almost every "isolated incident" of terrorism that plagues the kingdom's population. Most damning, however, is that while they openly champion diversity and the erasure of the kingdom's native population, they will use the media to slander, demonize and assassinate any human or elf that notices this pattern and repeats it openly. In fact, gnomes are the single most oppressed people that ever lived or ever will live, and we know this because they use their disproportionate and omnipresent political power to crush anyone who would say otherwise or bring attention to any of the plights of the other races, who deserve their poor treatment for their historical (and never-ending) debt towards the gnome race.
So the Mandalore/Sseth meme is far beyond aware at this point, so when are we going to get the fusion dance to create Ssethalore?
When will this shit meme die.
AudiosurfDocumentor When you make better content.
@@turnburn26 Ebin. XD
Someone should write a song, "Ssethalore and Woozles" sounds appropriate..
Ssethalore.
I've been playing this game for two weeks now and it has been hard to stop. I never got into this kind of games but I think the voice acting is what sold me. Also, thanks Sseth for the build. It has been most helpful. One major critique would be to not play it with headphones without lowering the sound effects volume because if an enemy casts Crush on your entire party you'll go deaf.
I remember picking this game up on a whim so long ago. It's been years but yeah, if I could sum up the game in one word it would be unforgettable. I tried to play through but the setting, characters and the quests were so out-there and downright bizarre that I had to give up. It's like someone poured a thousand RPG tropes and conventions into a fantastical sci-fi bowl, mashed them up and then cooked them into the strongest gaming edible you ever might have.
Enemies get visibly more wounded as you attack them more. Doom Eternal’s “destructible demons” system copied Wizardry 8 confirmed.
John Romero's wife worked on Wizardry 8.
It was also in Quake II, which came out four years prior.
@@poppers7317 You mean his bitch?
@@G-Mastah-Fash we're all his bitch.
I refuse to believe this game is real.
Stop trying to trick everyone and admit it, Sseth, you made this game
Chaircheck nah man, it's real. It's a really cool RPG, I used to play it all of the time as a kid. You should try it out, no joke.
5:17
Two whole years of foreshadowing.
"Hey hey Sseth, people here!"
Ah sorry, wrong dimension.
"Ken" "Female Elf Priest" *image is of KenAshcorp's OC *
"Female"
My Astolfo senses are tingling.
bruv, femboys are gonna save us all
I fucking cracked up when I noticed Kenny, SsethTzeentach is the gift that keeps on giving
Surprisingly no, the panda is dick free.
I mean Ken has stated the OC is a female
@@allhailthecartlord7256 Ah, I don't follow social media stuff, just listened to his music and assumed feminine boy because of Touch Fluffy Tail having her take the place of the protag from MGQ.
For those who want to make a party exactly like Sseth's
Harold: Male Mook Fighter, Chaotic Voice 1
Mandalore: Male Hobbit Fighter, Loner Voice 2
Uber: Male Hobbit Rogue, Cunning Voice 1
Knudsen: Female Mook Psionic, Loner Voice 2
Sseth: Male Elf Alchemist, Chaotic Voice 2
Ken: Female Elf Priest, Chaotic Voice 2
Ask Sseth for the portraits
I find myself constantly returning to this vid more than any of the other vids. I think this is definitely my favorite vid on the channel.
*_”Literal bugmen that reproduce faster than India.”_*
That’s it, I’m definitely smashing that subscribe button right now.
Check out his "I'm sorry, T-series" video. It got deleted but there are reuploads
Ahhhh I'm posting like a soyjak!!! Ahhhhhh!!!!
He did racism words!!!! So epic dude!!!!!
@@nvizible yes
@@cibo889
I guess it depends on the
context/intent behind the words
"Breaking away from tradition" You've succumb to the merchant guild's ultimate desire.
"Let me review obscure and ancient video games
I shall return to tradition later"
Whenever Seth explains the plot. I never know what is his memes and what is the truth? That's the beauty of his reviews.
He spoils without spoiling, which is an art of itself.
Especially with how "Choose your own Adventure"-ish the game is, he didn't spoil anything. I Still always wanted to walk a group from Wizardry 6... through 7... and on through 8 ... haven't though.
Seth has ascended to godhood and now is spreading discounts on GOG? Truly a benevolent deity!
Even the Bogdanoffs fear him.
The character creation and varied voice lines of the party members seems like the only selling point needed.
The Mouse Mafia is a just a bonus.
Internet Historian saying "I got dibs on his stuff" was prescient.
he is a fighter not a thief like Hbomberguy
Internet historian, robbing the living and the dead
@@godofwatermelons1404 he is a fighter not a rogue.
"Race! Is there a link between Race and I- THERE'S ELEVEN RACES AND THAT'S ONLY INCLUDING ONES YOU CAN PICK""
Lmao
"A gun..."
I should have expected it.
I did not.
And yes I did laugh like an idiot.
Oh hi, Mark.
This is the absolute best review of this game I've ever read/seen. It's amazing, and I too love this game.
10 seconds in and MANDALORE is already here
What do you mean?
*He's always been here*
@@Epiclyspeaking Yeah it's pretty haughty of Sseth to put himself as a character two times!
"Chaos, woohoo"
I have ascended. Wait is that Joe Rogan?
"Have you ever done ĐMŤ"
"A new soul? Jamie pull up the new soul guide"
what is dmt?
@@hbcdhapamzmdfnsdiufnsduifhsopa dimethyltriptamine, a psychedelic drug.
@@hbcdhapamzmdfnsdiufnsduifhsopa It is a hallucinogenic like LSD
Who is Joe Rogan?
"I forgot to quicksave."
I can feel the pain in his voice.
i love sseth because he has the magic to release a video everytime i'm going to eat.
and thats one of the most beautiful pleasures on earth imo.
you only eat 3 times a year?
@@IceFire1800 He's a fucking python or something.
@@lagrangepoint9386 The secret is he rarely stops eating; his meals last for months at a time.
i, in fact, do...
i live in africa.
The voice acting at 20:48 is so perfect and goes from 0-100 so quick. I love it
Amazing how a voice actor for 20 odd years ago was able to capture Mandalore`s voice perfectly
17:40 "It is not based, it is cringe" is my favorite quote ever im gonna use it so much
It was not kek, it was CRINGE Father
@@chiefkeef74"cringe-based Cringe..."
20:47 "He didn't let a little thing like being DEAD slow him down ONE BIT!" is hands down my new favorite dub of all time
He says that with the exact same cadence and energy as GTAV's Trevor. It's incredible.
"Constant battle of overwhelming odds versus your own capacity to game the system"
Ah so, just like actual D&D then?
No, D&D magic can do real damage, whereas magic in Wiz 8 is mostly about the 30 or so status effects that can be applied. There really are only a small number of special cases where damage spells are good for anything but clearing underlevelled mobs
@@talltroll7092 So, just like actual D&D then?
@@Magbiy If anything D&D 5e's magic got some steroids compared to previous editions. For example, Cleric gets amazing Guiding Bolt spell right off the bat - which is good enough to curbstomp most 1-st/2-nd level bosses.
@@talltroll7092 Damage spells are great in the early game and decent in the middle game. Most of all AOE makes combat go faster. Unfortunately only the mage have many good AOE damage spells.
>average playthrough can take from 100 to 150 hours
>he mentions he finished it twice
So thats why this video took so long to come out huh
The fired NPC didn't disappear. It returns home, in this particular case Vi returns to Arnika and can be hired again in Helli's tavern.
that was a pickpocket failed and then when reloaded from the save the would be pickpoket victim vanished
@@toomanyaccounts pickpocket victims don't vanish when reloading from the save, I checked many times. In this particular case the victim is an NPC that can be hired. The save just doesn't contain it exact location, thus NPC is placed to it home location where it can be hired again. If you fire Vi, leave a location and quickly return back the same will happen. If you fire Vi, save and reload from the save, again the same will happen.
@@R2AUK look how old vid is. Learn what save scumming is. Learn different versions exist
The voice acting feels like someone put the cast of Seinfeld in a late 90s RPG
its good to see Mandalore and Sseth sneaking into each other vids more and more often as time goes on. The two personalities will soon merge and God will finally be born!
Frederik Knudsen is my favorite female psionic RUclipsr.
Fred truly is the best girl