“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.
In my opinion, The Bard´s Tale is a mediocre game - I appreciate nice and well optimized graphics (playable on Intel HD Graphics smoothly) and well designed controls. But the core is not that good with average (too long locations, dull fights) gameplay and poor story. Do not expect too much of a humor too - Bard is more arrogant than witty and so are the dialogs - I found the goblin song the most enjoyable. For example, you will laugh more often playing Divinity 2 and its addon.
My reccomendation - nice game for 4$ in sale, but rather get the Android version.
Credit where it's due, this game has some good humour but even then it kind of gets old from trying to give too much of a good thing and the fading away of the quality of dialogue. This game had to be funny and had to keep it up, but failed profoundly. The gameplay is lackluster, very repetitive and it just isn't interesting outside of summons.
Many praise this game for it's satire, and I will agree that satire is definitely a real reason to play it. Unfortunately, it is also the only reason. It's not laugh-out-loud funny and often not even terribly inventive, yet it manages to amuse most of the time. The story is really just the backdrop to the Bard's snide comments and is (intentionally) a tongue-in-cheek version of the common save-the-world RPG theme.
The gameplay itself, not to put too fine a point on it, is just plain boring though. Summon a tank and shoot with your bow, or summon a ranged unit and be the tank instead - this is about the only choice that you will have to make throughout the whole game until the very end. The repetitiveness of combat is only made worse by the fact that everything respawns the moment you leave that particular part of the map (something that I never minded in games like Diablo) and the enemies only come in two or three basic flavors. There is no inventory management, no real companions, only a hadfull of abilities that you will end up getting most of anyway even if half of them are useless for any particular style of play, no meaningful conversations... I could go on and on but I guess I'm making my point. This game is funny and can be kind of fun in a weird, boring way but it has very few of the things that make RPGs enjoyable for me. I went through the game once and I'm glad I did but I can't really see much value in replaying. If you have nothing much to do, for a few bucks, this game is worth it. If you're looking for a more serious RPG experience, look elsewhere...
Contrary to what GOG says, it's apparently not working on Windows 7.
See the forum page for other users' input.
https://www.gog.com/forum/the_bards_tale_series/the_bards_tale_remastered_and_resnarkled/page4
I cannot share the enthusiams most of the other reviews describe when handling this game. I was so disappointed when I got this game on it's release: the graphics were mediocre at best, the hero was a loud moud of the worst kind and I could not laugh about anything he came up with. The engine was bad and no, its was no serious RPG which I expected from my genre defining experince with it's "predecessors". It was everything I did not wanted it to be, if it utilizes the Bard's Tale name.
For me it ist much more a silly spinoff than something I want to spend time on.
High praised writing? First class voice actors? Seems I missed these top notch features alltogether. Bad stereotypes and voice actors that actually did their job - wow, if that's top notch, then I would not want to play a mediocre or even bad game -.-
Maybe I am spoiled by the expectation of another Bard's Tale episode, but I wouldn't even take this one for free.
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