The Bard's Tale ARPG: Remastered and Resnarkled

Its a unique experience and not bad for a quick playthrough. The combat is the weakest part, its always a grind, never all that fun. The story is alright, but the humor gets a bit one note. The final tower is a slog, the game slows down a lot towards the end.

The writing is the best part about the game, but the combat is full of cheese and not very deep.

I so hate to give one of my favorite games of all time a bad review. But I bought the game to play bards tale, tales of the unknown. But the only thing that was unknown was what inxile was thinking when they made this port. They chose the worst possible version of the original bards tale to port over, it doesnt run in dosbox, it runs in some weird emulator that doesnt work well. The graphics manage to look even worse than the dos version. It randomly locks up. The character creation tool is clunkier than the dos or commodore 64 version. Oh and what happened to the construction set? Ohh you also cant run it in windowed mode, which is essential when dealing with games that ran originally in 640x480 Really what were they thinking, now none of this applies to the bards tale remake game which I never played and really have no interest in playing . This is about the original. This is coming from someone who has played many classic dos games, including pool of radiance and Ultima 4, so its not like Ive never played a classic game before. Gog really needs to release a version seperate from this horrible disaster. Especially since this is the only legal way to get the original bards tale. To quote Angry Joe, you done messed it up!

It's fun, it's funny, you will definitely get a good laugh. The combat is pretty much on par with great PS2 games. You play a bard, so it's a bit different than most builds you have probably played in other games, but still the combat is smooth, it's fun, and makes sense. Again, you will laugh. This game is under 10 dollars, and it gives you fun and laughter. Ignore the naysayers that complain about versions and technical details that don't matter when what you actually care about is the game itself. I owned it on PS2 and I own it on PC and oh buy is it fun.

as it stands right now, i can't recommend getting this because of the performance issues. tried everything i could to make it work ( i did get to start playing the game but the character looks like it's running through a stick of thick butter so it barely moves ) until they fix this performance issue i can't recommend this game.