Posted on: June 9, 2019
Blizgar
Games: 1167 Reviews: 30
From an Old Gamer.
If you got the humor and the time this one helluwa adventure :D
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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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14 hMain
18.5 h Main + Sides
28 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: May 5, 2020
thundergod9
Verified ownerGames: 276 Reviews: 9
Not all it's cracked up to be
I was honestly looking forward to finally playing this game. I'd heard about it's great humor and fun combat, and I was sorely disappointed. Maybe 4 hours in and I already regret the time and money I've spent. The humor is almost exclusively the lowest common denominator -- it's all cheap weak and I think I chuckled maybe twice, just a little. On top of that, the gameplay is basic and not very engaging, while the boss fights so far have been awful. First there's the profoundly annoying bugbear, then you get the trow/goblin boss in the park -- the one who you can't attack in melee, your ranged minion will never target, and who always summons help much faster than you can. After almost ten minutes of fighting him and barely making any headway, I realized that this game bites and uninstalled it. Save your time, you're probably better off getting Bard's Tale 4 -- it's look much better than this. Oh, and also the songs are mostly just annoying and you will get *sick to death* of killing hundreds of trow, especially in the aforementioned park.
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Posted on: March 10, 2021
bladerunner01
Verified ownerGames: 756 Reviews: 115
FEAR THE TROW
what a great game very funny in places if you like monty python then this game is for you the only bug i have found in this game is when trying to free dolyn from behind an ice wall the fire elemental is supposed to melt the ice but for some strange reason it did not work but i have a work round go as close to the ice wall as you can then summon herne the boss from the first tower who you defeated and he should smash the ice wall well thats what worked for me but with any luck inXile entertainment will release the bard's tale remastered and resnarkled that they released on steam and from what i have read online they said that they would also release the new updated version on gog.com so come on inXile release the new version on gog.com so the fans of the bard's tale on here can also enjoy the new updated version that steam owners are enjoying
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Posted on: January 13, 2019
GregT_314
Verified ownerGames: 1132 Reviews: 45
Ignore the name, enjoy the game
There's really only three relevant questions about this game. (1) Is it a Bard's Tale game? No, not in any meaningful sense. It's a click-to-kill action RPG in the vein of Diablo, with more story progression and less loot grind. (2) Is it funny? Yes, mostly - it frequently made me chuckle, and you probably will too, although even the fairly generous amount of narration isn't quite enough to sustain the game's run time. (3) Is it fun? Yes, mostly. I doubt it's anyone's favourite game, but It got my money's worth and enjoyed my time with it, and if a humorous click-to-kill RPG sounds at all interesting to you, then you probably will too.
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Posted on: April 21, 2018
GameZard
Games: 1053 Reviews: 52
A RPG that is more funny than an RPG.
The Bard's Tale is a great comedy but a bad RPG. This game is like RPG lite. Usual staples of rpgs like inventory, companions, and quests are all simplified. Their is not inventory system as you have only one item for each section. When ever you pick up a stronger item the weaker one is automatically sold. Not that much side quest and the ones they have are simple and straightforward. The companions are all summons so they can't permanently die. The saving grace of this game is the characters and writing. The story is the only good thing in the game. You will find yourself wanting to see the bard succeed because he is such a likeable character. For the price I recommend this game for people that want a funny game.
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