Posted on: January 16, 2024

merkavro

Gry: 225 Opinie: 9

a total diassapointment

I loved playing the original Bard's Tale on my Commodore 64 in the 1980s so I figured that this would be enjoyable but it is completely unplayable due to buggy combat mechanics. Playing for a while and I am doing well against challenging mobs. I fight 3 waves of 4 mages and clerics and don't loose a guy even though the difficulty is red and my party says "oooh I dunno if we can win this". The next battle is just 2 fighters and an archer indicating easy 'green' difficulty and my party says "this isn't even a fair fight" and they are correct because by whole party gets wiped out with 1-hit kills and I don't even get a hit on them because for some reason I have 'insufficient opportunity' to have an ac tion even though I initiated combate while hidden in shaddows thgat should give me the initiative and first attack. Sure I get first attack with no action points on any team member and the 3 weak and under-leveled opponents kill me in a turn. I reload save game and try again and again and again.... about 8 times with the exact same result. So I give up and uninstall and warn you that this game is complete garbage

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Posted on: May 23, 2020

liquidkoshman

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Gry: 383 Opinie: 3

New meets old

I haven't played a deep CRPG in a long time. I didn't even know this existed but based on the trailers liked it immediately. I am aware of the original trilogy but never played it extensively. World - this style of fantasy is so much fun - a kind of epic heroic bardic culture of adventure and camaraderie, the music that is not only simply great but more importantly fitting elevates the whole experience. The game draws a fine line between epic adventure and satire, it never takes itself too seriously and it just works. Gameplay - battle system is deep and fun. It manages to make turn based battles well paced and dynamic - no easy task. Every type of character is useful. Even a tank-less party made up of practitioners, bard and rogue (archer) turned out to be very effective. - character development system is enjoyable, I look forward to every level up. Each ability has tangible effect on your party effectiveness. - puzzles - I was surprised by how big role puzzles have in the game - when you're in a dungeon you're ~50% fighting enemies and 50% solving puzzles. It works great - I feel this has been sorely missing in lots of new games which are often mindless romps. This is old school dungeon of the DM or EOB kind and it's paradoxically such a breath of fresh air. Technical - as already said the music is incredible as is the voice acting. Once again to drive the point home - I really love the music:) - graphically I like it - I'm sure there are prettier games but it still looks good. I'm playing on Intel IGP so everything low and it is barely playable, but enough to enjoy it. - one potential criticism - I had to get used to the fact that unlike a game like say Deus Ex this is limited in where you can go and explore, you can't even jump down from a safe height there are invisible barriers everywhere. In time I got used to it and I think it helps the gameplay stay focused on quests and puzzles - kind of a RPG/adventure hybrid. Give it a try you just might love it!

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Posted on: September 17, 2020

blorincz

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Gry: 318 Opinie: 1

Fun game with great music and balance

Bard's Tale 4: Director's Cut is the most fun I've had in a RPG for quite some time. Personally, I love the combat system and the "theatre" representation. I appreciate the thought put into many aspects of the game such as re-spec'ing or saving. Regarding saves, you can either choose at the beginning to allow ad hoc Saves (save scumming) or play more hard core and only save at specific locations (these are fairly numerous too). For re-specing, if you could just do it anytime you wanted, it would cheapen the experience and make the game less meaningful/immersive. Instead, they grant you mercenary tokens after completing major quests. You can use these to either re-spec a character or to buy a new mercenary that will be leveled up to whatever you are currently at (i.e. he/she will be useful). I found the classes, races, and skills to be well-balanced and not at all overwhelming. By the end of the game, you will have been able to choose most of skills you wanted to or you can always re-spec. I forgot to mention that if you have the DLC, you will be able to buy mercenary tokens and you will have a lot of money by then so basically you will be able to re-spec at will. The DLC by the way is by far the hardest bosses and best loot in the game but also a lot of fun. Lastly, the music, as mentioned by others is outstanding - just great songs sung by very talented artists from Scotland. There is also a lot of humour in the game. Anyway, I found the game to be very fun and enjoyable and really appreciate the thought put into the design.

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Posted on: November 16, 2024

lbonia

Gry: 374 Opinie: 21

A twist on turn-based

"First-person" turn-based gameplay as opposed to third-person or top-down. I am, personally, not a fan of turn-based tactics so did not play this for long. The game looks nicely done, however. I do like the art style and playability of this game, but, it is still turn-based. If you like that then you will undoubtedly enjoy this game. I prefer using a controller these days so that was an obstacle as the game is not exactly suited for it, in spite of allegedly being compatible. The keyboard/mouse work perfectly well.

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Posted on: December 18, 2024

Kirillius57

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Gry: 478 Opinie: 2

Intriguing at first - then gets annoying

I was a backer but waited to play the Director’s Cut version. The good: - they tried to make the first few locations feel alive - Combat mechanics are good and deep - Invested into some good music (even if some of it is not 100% to my liking) - Good character level progression and builds The bad: - Poorly optimised performance clog - Game breaking save bugs, crashes, even in the Directors Cut version - Save system is overly complicated and worst of all, often doesn’t work, losing saves and having to retrace your progress - Quits without saving every time computer goes to sleep - story is meh and incoherent - Characters are meh - Dialogues are cringey - Inventory is bad - Gear puzzles are annoying not because they are difficult but because it’s really hard to click on the correct gear via the UI - Other puzzles are nothing to get excited about - Combat music is same same and gets annoying - Combat animations are long and annoying when you are seeing them for a hundredth time - Talking mouths are annoying as you can’t hear them clearly half the time - Some weapon puzzles are not solvable on lower detail settings - Dungeons scenery is not very coherent - lots of same looking recycled statues for whatever reason and can you never distinguish secret buttons - Weird difficulty spikes, often you’ll progress a level just fine and then meet a totally overpowering mob realising you need to go back and level up before you can continue here - A lot of enemies are just placed in locations without any discernible purpose other than for you to fight them - why does every dungeon have same goblins and acolytes?!? What are they doing there? Overall you’ll be completing the game because of your character level progression and somewhat interesting combat and be annoyed with everything else. After struggling for awhile you’ll start asking: is there a purpose to all this?!? Am I enjoying this?!? And realise that there are a lot better games you could be playing.

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