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The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut - Deluxe Edition

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    The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut - Deluxe Edition
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    All current owners of The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep will receive the Director's Cut for free upon release. Hidden in the shadows, an evil has waited patiently. Until now. Who will face the darkness if not you? A heroic adventure featuring 50+ hours of gameplay, 350 speaking parts, a Legacy M...
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    All current owners of The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep will receive the Director's Cut for free upon release.




    Hidden in the shadows, an evil has waited patiently. Until now. Who will face the darkness if not you? A heroic adventure featuring 50+ hours of gameplay, 350 speaking parts, a Legacy Mode for returning fans, and over 100 pieces of incredible music!

    The Director’s Cut brings more character customization options, new items, new enemies, revised UI, and a free expansion dungeon.
     

    Customize How You Play

    Define the way you play, using sliders on numerous options such as saving (including “save anywhere”), the mini-map, waypoint markers and many more. Whether you seek a hardcore challenge, a lighter experience, or something in-between, the choice is yours.
     

    Create the Hero You Want To Be

    Play as Bard, Fighter, Practitioner, and Rogue, each featuring 60-70 skills and collectively unlocking 21 unique classes. Build an array of characters to make every playthrough a unique experience.

    Craft your Party, Your Way

    Start your party with a single character, recruiting or creating new heroes to bolster your ranks. Build a party that suits your play style!
    An Adventure Around Every Corner
    Explore towns full of quest givers, fight your way through dark and deadly dungeons, and navigate beautiful rolling hills, dense forests, and icy wastes.

    Outsmart Evil

    Battle your enemies in dynamic, intuitive turn-based tactical combat,that rewards clever thinking. Use superior strategies, thoughtful positioning, and deadly combos to bring down your foes!

    Unlock the Secrets of the Past

    Unravel challenging mysteries. If your enemies don’t get you, the devious riddles and dangerous traps just might.

    The Blade’s Tale

    The sense of discovery and mystery doesn’t stop with the environment. Gain ancient Elven weapons containing secrets which you’ll need to uncover by carefully examining them.

    New Song of Exploration “Strugglers’ Lament”

    Whether you just want to explore and fight or if you get stuck, simply play this song to skip mandatory puzzles.

     
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    The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut - Standard Edition
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    The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut - Deluxe Edition
    Digital Code Wheel
    Digital Guidebook
    Manual
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    Upgrade from Standard to Deluxe Edition
    Digital Code Wheel
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    HI-Res Map
    HI-Res Wallpapers
    Digital Novellas
    Digital Art Book
    Digital Songbook
    Digital Soundtrack
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    Why buy on GOG.COM?
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    Windows (10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04), Mac OS X (12+)
    Release date:
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    Posted on: December 1, 2019

    mkmt7

    Games: 269 Reviews: 5

    When is a directors cut really a 'cut'?

    Where do you start, it was puzzle simulator extreme version when it was first released with its poor design choices (no inventory sorting, no manual save) matching its level to crash randomly. These problems have been largely ironed out. The problem is they are selling you an expensive 'enhanced' version, which in reality means it can run on a console now, because of a massive graphics downgrade. Solves those pesky crashes, sells on the console, but makes it look like something from 10 years ago. This game is one of my most dissapointing purchases


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    Posted on: December 1, 2019

    stuartalexcain

    Games: 266 Reviews: 1

    A huge disapointment

    As a backer of this in the hopes of a worthy sequel to the outstanding Bard's Tale trilogy I am hugely disapointed. Poor story telling, low quality and boring puzzles that frequently make little sense coupled with an unstable engine and poor graphics. A lot of the design decisions were obviously rushed through without a clear idea of the what the final game would be. If you want a real time game go with the excellent Legends of Grimrock, if you want a turn based game go with the good (but not great) Might and Magic X. You could also purchase The Bard's Tale Trilogy which has been remastered and is excellent and well worth playing. Just avoid this one.


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    Posted on: August 29, 2019

    PhoncibleP

    Games: Reviews: 1

    Avoid the Mac version

    While I have some heard good things about the PC release of the Director's Cut, the current Mac version should be avoided until significant fixes have been implemented. Even though the Mac version was released months after the original PC version (which itself was massively delayed and plagued by technical difficulties), the product is definitly in no way finished or polished. Attempting to run it on an iMac with 4,2 GHz i7 / 32 Gb RAM / Radeon Pro 580 8Gb (incidentally the top of the line model in 2017 - the year this game was originally scheduled to be released) results in a jerky and blurry display, that will occasionally freeze for a few seconds when just turning around. The problem is exacerbated by a large number of NPCs, but even the first glance of a fairly unspectacular city view will bring it to a crawl. This performance remains unchanged, even after switching the graphics from a recommended setting of "High" to "Low" and turning off all effects, such as reflections, motion blur, anti-aliasing, etc. It is very distracting and removes all pleasure from exploring Scara Brae. In the state this game is in and especially if you are running similar or worse hardware, I would highly recommend waiting until the publisher gets around to finishing the product instead of purchasing this obvious work-in-progress.


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    Posted on: December 15, 2019

    jesterofortune

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    Games: 139 Reviews: 3

    I wanted to love this game but...

    I've been a long time fan of the series and was really trying to give this game a shot to prove all the reviews wrong. Unfortunately, the reviews are correct. The game is still riddled with bugs, most of which are somewhat forgiveable. The one issue that broke the game for me is the horrible lack of balance in combat... not just class/skill balance but enemy balance is broken too. It's almost as if the devs didn't actually play test the game. I was looking forward to difficult battles,etc like the old games, not having non-tanks instantly one-shotted the moment a fight starts every time...even after farming the max XP available to insure I wasn't just under level. This is one game I can't force myself to see through to the end sadly.


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    Posted on: January 13, 2020

    Xelasarg

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    Games: 188 Reviews: 6

    So disappointing!

    First off: despite all its flaws, I gave the originally released Standard Edition a positive review. because I was intrigued by the gameplay, art style, and music. Sadly, you can't edit GoG reviews. 🤷‍♂️ Problem is that as soon as I left Skara Brae, perfomance (which was never good to start with) became so bad, I had to stop playing (5 fps, not kidding). So, when I realized that I had received the improved Director's Cut version for free, I figured now might be the time to give it another shot. Tweaks and improvements were made, so now it should run better, right? Turns out that was further from the truth than I could've ever imagined. You see, these "optimizations" are so poor, the game still runs like crap. But to make things worse, while the graphics had been kinda pretty, yet overall mediocre at best even in the standard release, inXile have ruined them completely now. The DC version looks like a game from 2001 (and I'm not exaggerating!)! Half-Life 2 for example has far superior facial and character animations, prettier textures, yet >10x as many fps while playing. Seriously, performance is still atrocious, but now the whole game also looks terrible even when you take a screenshot. It's plain ugly, and I feel absolutely zero inclined to continue playing. How is that supposed to be an improvement!? I am aware that my laptop is below the minimum specs (i5 8250U, Geforce MX150), but for comparison: Even at its low 1366x768 resolution, BT4 degenerates to a slideshow (5-20 fps on low/medium settings). On the other hand, I can run Witcher 3 at 45 fps (medium(high settings), Star Wars Fallen Order at 35-40 fps (medium/high settings), and even a PvP-game like Fortnite at 50-60 fps (medium/high settings). I'm using both Jedi FO and Fortnite as reference here, because they're built on the same engine as BT4 (Unreal Engine 4). So the graphics engine is no excuse, on the contrary. What a shame. Never again will I touch this "game", thank you very much, inXile. 💩


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