The Bard's Tale Trilogy

Loved them on the c64. Not being able to have a separate save for each game in the 2020's is annoying.

Save anywhere/anytime, minimap, full automap, support for 3840x2160, mouse support, built-in manual, and more--these remasters (Volume 1 now, the remaining two games later this year--but *included* in this purchase!--so, $5 ea is the tally) have it all--games are completely rebuilt around the Unity engine, with new sounds & all new graphics. Very, very nice. If you thought the Amiga upgrades to the original x86 releases were a terrific step up--you ain't seen nothin' yet..;) I got my GOG key today in the original BTIV Kickstarter so the Remastered originals don't cost me a dime--but trust me when I say that if I hadn't gone that route I'd have chunked down this change in a heartbeat. What a deal!

I appreciate that we hae all three games in a concise format that are all playable from beginning to end. Previously, there were no perfect ways to play the trilogy, given the numerous systems and various graphics and ability to transfer parties. QOL features arfe present, the price is decent, and I support keeping the classics alive, and thisremastered trilogy has all of these things. I can sit back with my Xbox One controller and play one of my favorite franchises on my big screen television, and I have enjoyed it so far. I take away one star because we didn't get The Bard's Tale Construction Set and there are no mod tools. My biggest gripe, aside from the lack of TBTCS (which would make this release complete,) is that I would rather replace the graphics with 256 color, pixelated versions as I prefer that style and I am frankly sick of modern games (I keep revisting my 486, or DosBox, and will be looking at 86Box.) The graphics of the BTTR are okay, but that are upscaled and smoothed versioins of the original graphics of certain versions of the games. We can play VGA versions of the first two games via emulatators, but then we don;t have the option to play a VGA version of The Thief of Fate. See the conundrum? I have contacted Krome studios and others have asked in various forums, and Krome has ignored the mod questions, and inXile has skirted around it. If we had some way to mod the game, or if they release TBTCS, this would be five stars, easily. However, without those things, this feels incomplete - to me, anyway. I am sure that there are people who could care less about modding/TBTCS, and probably prefer these cartoony graphics over the earlier versions, and would probbaly love this remastered trilogy.

game is well written and easy to play

Old game, good for its period