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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

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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: December 27, 2019

cmjones1984

Games: 331 Reviews: 20

Did Digital Homicide make this crap?

"Create the hero you want to be... so long as your hero looks like one of four ugly portraits and has one or two abilities" badly optimized, even with the director's cut. ugly graphics. almost zero customization options. Way too easy, simplistic gameplay. Seriously, I would not be surprised at all if they outsourced this to Digital Homicide. This is actually the worst RPG I've ever played from a "professional" studio.


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Posted on: August 9, 2021

Belsirk

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Games: Reviews: 25

A worth experience that loves its past

Some games deliveries great visual and become remembered due them. Well, this game delivers a superb musical experience. And some goofy jokes with the touch of InXile. This is a game born from crowdfunding and, thus, is more inclined to remind us of the ancient trilogy that preceded it. Although at simple glance it seems to be an FPS, it is not. It is more akin to Grimrock: Your map has grids where you can move (an advanced option will let you see the grid). As a consequence, you have simple interactions with the environment. The game excels with its audio work, on particular the songs. There is even a lore reason for listen to them all the time. On graphics, at the ultra settings, the game did a decent job. While doing exploration if you see a building at the distance probably you will be able to get there at some point. The game has puzzles that are fun and diverse. Yet, for the last dungeons they could become tedious. The combat is fun, easy, but hard to master. There are four classes and three attributes. Each class has a tree skill that lets you take different paths. Items will boost one or more of your attributes, and thus they become crucial. Finally, you can create customs NPC companions that will have interactions with the others! The UI for the combats has some serious problem once your party is full. At least for playing solely with the keyboard. You will find that sometimes is hard to force the character to move to the space you want. There is also a problem with the IA, which from time to time it will hang before taking all its turns. Exploration, and sneak, is key, but like old games, you can end facing too powerful enemies. Yet, you will get a fair warning. And you can be sure the enemies will mock you each time they can. Finally, you can play with keyboard and controller at the same time, in my case an X-Box controller. But for using the menus I had to make use of the keyboard. Still, the exploration is more friendly with the controller.


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Posted on: September 3, 2019

JoJoDancer

Verified owner

Games: 30 Reviews: 3

I would buy again just for the music

And the game is great too!


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Posted on: December 27, 2021

Michael.473

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Games: 165 Reviews: 3

Best game for me for many years

I am playing now for more then 30 years and this game is one of the best I ever played! And this game is the reason that I am writing my first review in this long time period. It has really great graphics, a fantastic sound, interesting characters and a deep strategy component. I had no problems with the performance or stability, everything goes smooth. Some riddles were a little bit to difficult, but there are many walkthroughs availible, so this was not a problem. If you love role-playing games or stragetic games just get this diamond and enjoy it!


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Posted on: August 28, 2020

jvenstra

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Games: 286 Reviews: 6

I mean, yes... it is a game.

I have recently (well not too recently) purchased Bad's Tale Trilogy Remastered, and have had a wonderfully nostalgic time playing them. Sadly, or oddly, the game that I found in B4 has very little to do with the old series. The first and most obvious thing is that you do not get hit points when you level. There is a tier based leveling system wherein you can choose to buy "con" with your skill points. Second, combat is neither simple nor repetitive. This might not be important for new players, but the old grind is part of what made the old games fun! And finally combat; seriously! You have to move your characters around the grid offensively and defensively during combat. All in all, this is a pretty well made game, but it, other than the wealth of references to the older game plots, is not the old school Bard's Tale! Not upset!, just... Huh?


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