Posted on: December 28, 2024
spacecowgoesmoo
Verified ownerGames: 98 Reviews: 23
Bad
Although the writing and tavern songs are great, the rest of this game is truly awful. I have no idea why they bothered to make a remaster.
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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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Isometric, Medieval, Hack and Slash, Parody
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User reviews
Posted on: February 1, 2013
ThE_MarD
Games: 458 Reviews: 14
Loved The Bard's Tale
Heyyo, This is a great RPG. The classics are also really fun I remember those back in computer class my bud's would fire them up for fun lol. inXile Entertainment have made a lot of great games in the past and this is definitely one of them. The combat system takes a bit of getting used to but it works well, even on the iOS version of this game. The way the summons work, the winter environments sapping your life and the humor is well done. Tony Jay as the Narrator is my favorite part since he has one of the most interesting voices I've ever heard.. and WHO DOESN'T LOVE HIS WORK IN TALESPIN THE TV SHOW!? :)
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Posted on: October 3, 2013
Greywolf2001ca
Games: 40 Reviews: 60
Funny, but ehhh!
It is a funny game, but I didn't get hooked much by it. Guess I'm not a fan of adventure games.
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Posted on: June 19, 2015
jerjoe
Games: 12 Reviews: 1
One Of the First and Best!
Before this, it was window-to-window dungeon opening, like most of you can't imagine. All text but a quarter of the screen was a changing window so far ahead as you moved. This game was on of the first I played that was both, and the bard is a great character now because of all this. Highly recommended for history buffs and old-time fun-ers!!
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Posted on: April 2, 2018
cgr37712
Verified ownerGames: 1274 Reviews: 46
fun over 9000
there are no words to make this game justice, I have never met such an incredible playable character like this bard, he literally thinks and says everything that is going thorough my head when I play RPG games that try so hard to impress the, only to fall flat on their intent and deliver a generic adventure game with nothing special. The bards tale is different, this bard character grows on you and you will end up loving him. neither the game nor the bard take the story or the game seriously but instead ridicule and make jokes about the overused elements that make up %99 of today's adventure games and that is what makes this game so good and so different. would love to have more games like this.
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