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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 - Standard Edition
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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 cust...
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3.6/5

( 49 Reviews )

3.6

49 Reviews

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2019, inXile Entertainment, ...
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Windows 7/8/8.1/10 (64 bit), Intel Core i5-2500K (4 * 3300) or equivalent, 8 GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce...
Description


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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Contents
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut - Deluxe Edition
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut - Standard Edition
Digital Code Wheel
Digital Guidebook
Manual
PDF POSTCARD FOR 4x item
HI-Res Map
HI-Res Wallpapers
Digital Novellas
Digital Art Book
Digital Songbook
Digital Soundtrack
Digital Code Wheel
PDF POSTCARD FOR 1x item
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Windows (7, 8, 10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 18.04), Mac OS X (10.13+)
Release date:
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Posted on: March 10, 2023

Liquid54Game

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Games: 79 Reviews: 5

Surprisingly good RPG

I am still playing the game, 58 hours into it, and I am really enjoying the game. I love the combat. It is turn based with a grid. You will find that different skills have synergy, and when you combine them you can maximize your use of opportunities during combat (number of actions you can take). Its not just about what skill is better, its what skill will work well with the skills your other party members have. I also love the puzzles. There are some standard ones that require you to do certain things in a certain order, but others are much more involved and more fun. You have lots of flexibility in your party since you can swap different members in and out of the active party, and also have the ability to reset skills which is very nice. Great game!!! I highly recommend it.


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Posted on: October 11, 2019

necrosis666

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Games: 188 Reviews: 28

LOAD TIMES FROM HELL...

Got the DC since critics said it fixed the "problems" it had upon it's first release. Got playing and found it was nice, nothing special though. Then yesterday there was a mega update 30+ GB. Since then load times are atrocious. My old saves are gone. After the intro loading took more than 10 minutes(!). I had to abort. Deleteing this for good. 10+ minutes loading??? The Witcher 3 doesn't take that long and that is technically FAR superior.


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Posted on: January 23, 2020

jlo1116

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Games: 118 Reviews: 3

Game crashes

Upgrade to director's cut and now game crashes at startup. Original ran fine. Uninstalled reinstalled and exhausted all other suggetions on support page. A game that might not run for you is not worth buying.


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Posted on: December 12, 2020

schwungsau

Verified owner

Games: 180 Reviews: 10

the good, the bad and the old school

Directors cut is great ! no bugs so far, diffculty settings are flexible from easy to ultra hard to 80 style or mixed. it has classic grid based navigation option for same retro flair. ok, the art director totally mess-up with dwarf or elven design but still its great CRPG !


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Posted on: March 18, 2022

acodeninja

Verified owner

Games: 128 Reviews: 7

It's ok, some enjoyment some frustration

Once I fixed my FOV the game was playable for me. I don't typically get motion sickness, but this game was giving me a slight headache after about 20 to 30 minutes of play until I fixed the FOV. Thankfully, this is now in the options. As for gameplay, it is ok. There are some fun interactions and some fun exploration that happens, but there are also a decent number of frustrations. I don't mind returning to an already explored area, but this game takes that to a new level, at least for those that want to solve all the side quests they've picked up. It's not a matter of being able to handle the side quests due to difficulty -- you just flat out can't get to a side quest objective until you've progressed further in the game. Again, that's not horrible, but this game does this a LOT. I did like a lot of the puzzles, but some of them were just too obtuse and difficult to where it really wasn't that fun anymore. And this game is full of puzzles to solve. In fact, I'd say this is more of a puzzle game than anything else, which wouldn't be a problem if some of the puzzles made more sense. The level of difficulty for battles starts out really hard, but then gets easier in the middle of the game, but the last fight is REALLY hard. Honestly, it's really unbalanced. There are periods of super difficult battles and those that are really easy. Overall, pretty unbalanced play in my opinion. You can (and sometimes have to) reconfigure your skills to deal with some of the tougher fights, including the final boss fight. I picked this up on sale and as long as you can get it on sale, then I'd say it's ok and worth playing. But at normal price, I'd stay away.


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