The speaker is discussing a game called Wizardry 8, released in 2001 by the Canadian government. The game is set in the Dragon Ball Z extended universe, where the player and their party are space traveling aliens hired by the Wookies to retrieve all three remaining dragon balls. The goal is to ascend as literal gods and reshape the universe. However, the process is complicated by the involvement of a dark savant, who sets up an interplanetary anti-Semitic blockade around the planet of Dominus. The player's ship is quickly shot down, forcing a crash landing on Dominus.
The game is known for its complexity and challenge. It has a large range of options for character creation, with a variety of races, classes, and attributes to choose from. The combat system is turn-based, which the speaker finds to be both a strength and a weakness. The game also features a variety of voice dialogues, with 18 different personalities for each gender and 36 fully voiced personalities in total.
The speaker also discusses the game's sound design, praising it as "crispy," and the game's tendency to break the keyboard when alt-tabbing out of the game. However, they find a workaround by hitting the alt key once more.
Despite its many challenges and quirks, the speaker is clearly enamored of Wizardry 8, describing it as "absolutely fantastic." They also note that the game is almost two decades old and was released in less than ideal circumstances, which they believe adds to its charm.
Here are some possible facts extracted from the text:
1. The text is a transcript of a video about the game Wizardry 8, released in 2001 by the Canadian company Sir-Tech.
2. The game is a turn-based role-playing game set in a fantasy/sci-fi world where the player's party has to collect three artifacts and ascend as gods.
3. The game features 11 playable races, 15 character classes, 36 voiced personalities, and a dialogue system that requires typing keywords.
4. The game has a lot of combat, which is challenging, rewarding, and sometimes frustrating due to the high frequency of random encounters and the slow animations.
5. The game also has many quests, traps, puzzles, and secrets that require exploration, experimentation, and strategy.
6. The text includes humor, sarcasm, exaggeration, and references to other media and personalities.