Now includes original classic games The Bard’s Tale 1, 2 & 3!
You are the Bard, a selfish rogue weary of pointless sub-quests and rat-infested cellars. Through magical song you summon characters to join your quest for coin and cleavage!
Prepare to immerse yourself in over 20-30 hours of adventure, featuring:
- 50 enemy types (not counting bosses!)
- A vast world to explore with towns, wild forests, rivers, castles, towers, secret dungeons, snowy mountains, caverns, haunted tombs and more
- A full cast of bizarre NPC’s
- Over a dozen special boss enemies to defeat
- 16 magical characters to discover and then summon at will to aid you
- Over 150 unique items of weaponry, armor, instruments, tokens, artifacts and loot!
- More Song & Dance numbers than any other game, including a zombie dance-off!
- Over 14 hours of outstanding voice-acting from top Hollywood talent, including Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride) as the Bard, and the inimitable Tony Jay as the Narrator
- Classics Games—includes original classic games The Bard’s Tale 1, 2 & 3.
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What Was I Thinking When I Bought This
It's funny. The last self-purchased game I play for the blog is also the one that I most clearly remember picking out. This was while I was playing Bastion, and I remember making an offhand comment about how the narrator reminded me of the one in The Bard's Tale. At the time, I wanted to compare the two, but I couldn't remember the xbox game well enough to say anything cogent about it. I subsequently picked up cheap in a sale in the hopes of illuminating my Bastion experience.
Ironically, it has now been so long since I played Bastion that I probably won't be able to make the comparison from the other direction, either.
Expectations and Prior Experience
I played this game on the xbox, many years back, but it's all a fog.
. . .I remember it being funny? I definitely remember that I didn't finish it, but I can't recall why. Either it was too difficult or I got distracted by something else. I think it was standard ARPG fare, so I'm sure it was the latter.
Anyway, I don't anticipate any particular difficulties with this game. The reviews are good. The haze of my memory is vaguely positive. The genre is practically can't miss (hell, I almost enjoyed Two Worlds, for crying out loud). It would take an unforeseen catastrophe to make this anything less than tolerable (and who knows, it might even be great).
The 2004 Bard's Tale? I hope the humor works for you. I got it for free from some Kickstarter, and I feel like I overpaid for it. I found it an example of how not to do humor in a video game. It's trying too hard, too proud of itself, and too eager to make sure I know that it's proud of itself. I bailed after only an hour or two.
ReplyDeleteI can see how it would come across that way. It's certainly very conscious of what it's doing. I found, however, that in the later sections it's not trying so hard to impress and is much more interested in being catty to The Bard at every opportunity. I'd put it below Fable in the humor department, but above, say Half-Minute Hero 2.
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