“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 it...
“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
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.
Worked once, had a blast......game hasn't worked since. Crashes, freezes, my screen goes nuts with a spectrum of colours, and the buzzing sound, omg.....I am finding that more and more often, GOG Games are crashing, and I am now starting to transition back to physical media, even going as far as buying a retro computer for older games, because at least I know that they will work.
This game is a great comedy and a great game all in one. The story is a great satire on modern games as well as classics. The gameplay is solid and works for it. Cary Elwes and Tony Jay have great chemistry with each other and work off each other so well. I highly recommend it.
i played the newer bards tale on playstation 2, and found it to be an awsome game! then i tried to buy it on direct 2 drive before they went under(and took my games with them too) but it wasn't win 7 compatible! i don't know how Gog managed to do it, but it is deffinetly worth the price!
plus, you get the classic bards tale games! to be honest, i will probblay buy this and play the newer one for a grand total of 1 minute, before moving on to what i really want to play, the originals! i have waited so long for wizardry, bards tale, stuff like that to come to gog, and now its finally here! YES!
Buying this game is actually all about the three classic titles included. I'm not very much into "funny" games, especially not RPGs, but the old honeys which come as an extra in this pack are worth their bucks all the time. Of course, as in several other RPGs of this time, you'll have to copy your saves every time - because a death is a death ...
The game itself is one of my absolute favorites, I played it through more than once since I bought it some years ago. But on recent Linux systems graphics rendering errors spoil the whole fun: A huge black 'shadow' cast by the bard extending towards the lower right. And this happens both with integrated (Intel) and dedicated (nvidia) graphics cards. (This is the same hardware I had been playing it on before).
So make sure it works on your system. If it does, it's worth every single cent :)
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