Posted on: April 28, 2025
meninz
Verified ownerGames: 193 Reviews: 4
A lot of fun
If you liked the original Bard's Tale, this is GREAT!
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The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkled
Description
“The Bard’s Tale is easily the funniest game I’ve ever played, and I’ve played all the funny games out there.”
– IGN
“Ready your weapon and bladder as you embark on this ridiculously addicting quest and the funniest adventure of the year, The Bard’s Tale”
– Game Chronicles
“This game is satire in its sharpest form”
– Cheat Code Central
You play as the titular Bard, a roguish, manipulative and lewd songster whose priorities in life are the acquisition of material wealth and carnal pleasures. The Bard's pretty sarcastic by nature, but you get to decide just how scathing he is by selecting 'Nice' or 'Sarky' responses. Watch out you don't get too cocky though; folk you've upset may come back to haunt you.
During his raucous adventures, the Bard recruits a motley band of eccentrics and misfits to help in his ignoble cause. Enemies can be defeated using traditional or magical weapons and you can also use the Bard's dulcet tones to summon creatures. If you're tired of saving humankind or bored of games that take themselves a bit too seriously, The Bard's Tale could very well be for you.
FEATURES
– IGN
“Ready your weapon and bladder as you embark on this ridiculously addicting quest and the funniest adventure of the year, The Bard’s Tale”
– Game Chronicles
“This game is satire in its sharpest form”
– Cheat Code Central
You play as the titular Bard, a roguish, manipulative and lewd songster whose priorities in life are the acquisition of material wealth and carnal pleasures. The Bard's pretty sarcastic by nature, but you get to decide just how scathing he is by selecting 'Nice' or 'Sarky' responses. Watch out you don't get too cocky though; folk you've upset may come back to haunt you.
During his raucous adventures, the Bard recruits a motley band of eccentrics and misfits to help in his ignoble cause. Enemies can be defeated using traditional or magical weapons and you can also use the Bard's dulcet tones to summon creatures. If you're tired of saving humankind or bored of games that take themselves a bit too seriously, The Bard's Tale could very well be for you.
FEATURES
- Includes Original Classic Trilogy! Experience the legendary games that started it all!
- Full keyboard & mouse controls, as well as controller support.
- Supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Polish and Russian languages.
- German voice-over (accessible under Sound Options when game language is set to German)!
- High-resolution and widescreen support!
- Performance enhancements.
- External URLs links on main menu for support pages and related media.
- Bug fixes to original console release.
- 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.
© 2005 inXile entertainment. All rights reserved. The Bard's Tale is a trademark or registered trademark of inXile entertainment in certain countries; and is a trademark or registered trademark of Electronic Arts Inc. in certain other countries where it is used under license. inXile entertainment and the inXile logo are trademarks of inXile entertainment.
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Time to beat
14 hMain
18.5 h Main + Sides
27.5 h Completionist
18.5 h All Styles
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Action, Fantasy, Role-playing, Classic, Funny,
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Isometric, Medieval, Hack and Slash, Parody
Languages
English
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Deutsch
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español
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français
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italiano
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polski
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русский
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User reviews
Posted on: June 2, 2025
unketknyte
Verified ownerGames: 300 Reviews: 3
It's unplayable
Controller button icons are messed up. Very annoying because I cant press the right prompt in menus and spells and weapons. Sad
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Posted on: June 7, 2025
samuraisnake89
Games: 107 Reviews: 2
Love this game
Love this game. reminds me of my youth when i played games similar with same art style. Wonderful use of a Bard's skills. love the sarcastic responses.
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Posted on: March 5, 2014
hornbyglass
Verified ownerGames: 12 Reviews: 2
original trilogy still great
The original 3 BT's play well on dosbox and I have yet to experience any kind of technical issue with these games. I've been looking to play the original bards tale games for a long time. At first I was worried that nostalgia would give way to disappointment once I started playing the old games BUT it turns out that bards tale 2 and 3 are still super fun to play (haven't gotten to the first yet). The new bards tale is very different than the original three but it's a pretty fun game too (as long as you're not expecting it be resemble the originals in any way).
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Posted on: December 17, 2014
zegweg
Games: 194 Reviews: 1
It's bad luck to be you...
"Oh, it's bad luck to be you, A Chosen One of many isn't new, When you think you're full of luck In the bullocks you'll get struck, Oh, it's bad luck to be, really bad luck to be, Nobody could disagree, it's a freaking guarantee, It's bad luck to be you ! Diddly doo !" Though the gameplay has its flaws (in the "Baldur's Gate : Dark Alliance" style, for the connoisseurs...), this game is really unique for its ambiance, humour and memorable songs ! Now, I didn't play the "originals" which look kind of outdated to me (though they might be great, I'm not saying...) but the "2004 reboot" is definitely worth the try for all RPG's fans...
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