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The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkled

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3.8/5

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3.8

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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 it...
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3.8/5

( 116 Reviews )

3.8

116 Reviews

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Product details
2004, inXile Entertainment, ESRB Rating: Teen...
System requirements
Windows 7 / 8 / 10, Pentium 4 2Ghz / AMD AthlonXP 2400, 512 MB RAM, GeForce FX5700 or better / ATI R...
Time to beat
14 hMain
18.5 h Main + Sides
28 h Completionist
18.5 h All Styles
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
  • 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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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
14 hMain
18.5 h Main + Sides
28 h Completionist
18.5 h All Styles
Game details
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
{{'2004-10-28T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Size:
3.4 GB
Rating:
ESRB Rating: Teen (Violence, Blood, Suggestive Themes, Language, Use of Alcohol)

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Languages
English
audio
text
Deutsch
audio
text
español
audio
text
français
audio
text
italiano
audio
text
polski
audio
text
русский
audio
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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 owner

Games: 1285 Reviews: 48

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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Posted on: January 30, 2013

SirEyeball

Games: 570 Reviews: 3

Fantastic Idea

I love that the original Trio of games are included. I have yet to pick this gem up nut I have the Play-station edition of the new Bard's tales and the old abandonware editions of the Trilogy. I love them all. I would pick this up because the dos version very hard to set up yourself and it either gets very fast or very slow. I hope the EMU is done well for this but why shouldn't it every other game I have tried is. The old Trilogy took up way too much time for me in the late 80s start 90s on the commodore 64 and I remember all the songs vividly. Can't wait to play them again in the proper setting.


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Posted on: February 3, 2013

Harrkev

Games: 699 Reviews: 11

Pretty good.

Overall, this game is a lot of fun. The gameplay is definitely linear and somewhat un-original. However, the comedic elements make it worth playing.


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