Experience the events that led to The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep and The Mage's Tale! The Bard's Tale Trilogy is a remastering of the classic 1980's series, one of the godfathers of the RPG genre. Create an adventuring party in the first volume and play it across all three, creating a heroic story...
Experience the events that led to The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep and The Mage's Tale! The Bard's Tale Trilogy is a remastering of the classic 1980's series, one of the godfathers of the RPG genre. Create an adventuring party in the first volume and play it across all three, creating a heroic story all your own!
The Bard's Tale Trilogy contains remastered versions of all three classic games: The Bard's Tale: Tales of the Unknown, The Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight, and The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate! Rescue a city trapped by a wizard, reforge the legendary Destiny Wand, and travel across time and space to confront a Mad God! Enjoy a uniform playing experience across all three titles without the need for emulation or compatibility concerns. For the first time, play as male or female across all three games! Also includes other quality of life changes such as automapping for all three games, spell access, and updated equipment/inventory management. Go old school with Legacy Mode, a suite of features which will allow veteran players to experience the games similarly to how they first played them, and will be released free of charge for owners when complete.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy is a chance for old fans to be young once again and for a new generation of roleplaying and dungeon crawler fans to discover why these games matter so much all these years later. Pick up the game and start your epic adventure today!
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Turns out to be this game is just frustrating. Night time is a pain in the neck, you simply can't skip it and all the stores are closed while your characters fail to renew energy. At the same time the monsters get harder, causing you to spend all your money healing at the temple.
Second, while leveling up there is no way to reroll your level up, so if you get crappy hit points and a useless stat for your character get ready to waste time reloading. Did I mention you have to reload a bunch of times for each of your 6 characters? Or that you will level up loads of times in this game?
I like old school CRPGs but I guess I should not have wasted my money on this. I wish I could return it and I never say that of games.
I really tried to like this game. I spent 3 hours just for the creation of a perfect party.
But, the remake sadly does nothing else, than adding an automap, and a little comfort.
You will still play one of the most unfair, frustrating, annoying game of all time. You will die A LOT, without any possibility to prevent it, and you will need to grind like you have never before, because the whole game is designed around being a pain in the ass, and prevent you from proceeding as much as possible...
As somebody who hasnt played the original back then, this simply feels like a stress simulator, and i dont recommend it, at all...
The game comes without a manual and without any sort of documentation explaining the ingame mechanics and how the various stats influence the gameplay. I find this very sloppy and totally unacceptable, and would refund the game if it was possible. If you want to milk the nostalgia crowd, at least do it right - the original game came with a book that containted vast amount of information.
Game itself might be great but now I will never know
When I bought the game, it was exactly what I wanted and what was advertised. Didnt have the time to play though, but always looked forward to having the time for it.
Now I have the time but latest version removed the ability to choose the language of the game, so it defauts to the OS language. Unplayble for me, destroys all nostalgia, really kills the point of it for me.
But mostly its just a really offensive and harmful practice to not allow you to choose your installation language, something that is beyond my understanding of the human mind to fathom why anyone would consciously program something like that.
Maybe at some point in time someone will invent a technology that will allow you to just choose the language you want to play the game in, during installation or even within the game itself. But apparantly such a technology is beyond our time :/
Third game I bought on GoG I cannot play :( This is not the part of the past I want to relive really. (also GoG now leads 3:2 against Steam on that account)
I have to say, I am somewhat disappointed.
I bought this game as soon as I saw it on GOG. I have fond memories of playing the originals back in the day, but have largely avoided them since then because of the old graphics, awful sound and old-school interface just make playing the game such a chore. A remastered version of the game should be a slam dunk. Unfortunately, what I got was anything but.
First of all, although it is currently being sold as "The Bard's Tale Trilogy", right now only the first game is available (Bards Tale II and III are due in Fall 2018 and Winter 2018 respectively). I found that a bit disingenuous (yes, it's mentioned in the description, but it wasn't made at all obvious and I missed it. It should have been made much more clear this is a game still under development). Even the "Legacy Mode" for the original Bards Tale isn't available yet.
No goodies included with the release, not even a manual. Or, for that matter, the map of Skara Brae that came with the original game, which is almost essential for navigating the city.
The 3D view is ridiculously small. I know this is true to the original, but it could have been made larger, especially since they re-did all the graphics in proper 3D. Optionally, a "full-screen" toggle might have been a nice addition.
The interface - while making some nods to the mouse - is largely unchanged from the original, much to its detriment. You have to do a lot of niggling extra steps even for simplest thing.
On the plus side, the addition of the automap is a really nice feature, and I expect my adventures into the dungeons - with all those awful spinner traps - will be less of an annoyance. The modernized graphics nicely capture the old-school feel without being too much of an eyestrain. There's a journal too, but - let's face it - the story and quests of the Bards Tale aren't so complex that a journal is really needed. The intro is a bit poor, though (largely because I prefer the tune from the Apple II version), but it's a nice addition. And the core gameplay is absolutely the same as the original 1985 edition, in all its brutal difficulty. InXile didn't compromise on that in the least.
Essentially, this is a graphical patch laid on top of the original game (I'm half-surprised they didn't have a toggle allowing you to switch between the two game modes, that's how similar it is). It's not a bad game - I mean, it is the original Bard's Tale - but it definitely doesn't feel worth the $15 I paid. The additions are too minor and the lack of Bards Tale II and III borders on dishonest. Die-hard fans may enjoy it, but everyone else should wait until the other two games are included in this package.
