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The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut is the triumphant return of one of the most iconic RPG series of all-time. Delve into a tactically rich combat system that rewards creativity, solve puzzles to gain treasure and advantages, and discover a beautifully crafted world.
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut is a rpg, turn-based and dungeon crawler game
developed by inXile Entertainment
and published by inXile Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios.
Released on August 27th 2019 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It has received 1,235 reviews of which 954 were positive and 281 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 34.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 2.06€ on G2A.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64 bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5 2500K or equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or Radeon HD 7970
- Storage: 29 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: OS X (10.13)
- Processor: Intel Core i5 3.7Ghz or equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or Radeon HD 7970
- Storage: 60 GB available space
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 18.04 or equivalent
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2500K or equivalent
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or Radeon HD 7970
- Storage: 43 GB available space
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Sounds like music to my ears. I did not rightly know what awaited me when I started out with this game. Having watched CohhCarnage play this back on release I did not really remember much of anything of the story or the world. I mostly remembered scenes and a bit of the combat. So when I bought the game the title very much put me in the mood of a poppy, light hearted adventure like the bards like to tell it. Colour me surprised when the story starts with a religious riot and what amounts to a lynching. Now don´t get me wrong, Bard´s Tale 4 is by no means a grimdark story of misery and woe but it also does not pull its punches when it comes to the plot. The world is very much typical medieval fantasy but with some good twists to the formula and a nice seasoning of Irish folklore to set it apart from a lot of the other games in its genre. And one major part of its style is of course the music. Everywhere you music will be your companion, may it be raucous battle themes with chanting warriors or women and children singng together. This gives it a very alive feeling and encourages you to just sit a minute and listen. The game is not especially pretty but offers some lovely scens and vistas. The cast of characters I encountered is quirky and lovable with some good inter-party dialogue between the members as some will argue and even clash over their idiologies while others joke together and get to know each other better. Gameplay has a low skill floor but encourages you to experiment with party composition, different builds, positioning and synergies that you can mix together. I did not look up a guide and still was very easily able to put together a party that never felt underpowered. Enemy encounters are colour coded from Green to Red but with enough gusto and know how even Red will not scare you too much. At least on Normal difficulty. Though I will admit that I did tweak difficulty for two fights. Outside of combat you are offered a nice combination of exploration and dungeon crawling with puzzles to solve and traps to be avoided or disabled. There is a good deal of optional content that rewards you for paying attention and turning over every stone. Though I felt like the amount of side quests is more front loaded than spread out. I did not have any crashes or game breaking bugs but performance did suffer a bit at times despite my hardware being more than up for the task. There are rare chances of getting stuck but a reload usually gets you out of there no problem. Bards Tale 4 is a fun entry for fans of classic dungeon crawling experiences and newbies alike. (As suaul this reivew has been written without the use of AI of any kind)
I'm not exactly someone who plays tons of classic dungeon crawlers. This is one of the first ones I'm trying out. That said, I think this game is really cool. First off you can play it with 3d movement instead of the blocky movement normal for dungeon crawlers. Maybe thats good for you or not but you can choose which way to play. The world is really quite stunning, although the graphics are somewhat dated they just look great. The voice acting in this game is also really good. What I like most is that this is just a good old fashioned high fantasy story. Combat is engaging, though the skills and masteries do take some getting used to. The enemies have various abilities for you to consider, and the grid based combat does keep the battles interesting as well. You get a party of adventurers and you can actually hire others and keep a bench roster and swap them out depending on what you need for a given quest. As I understand it, the story here is really quite long and I'm looking forward to it. I actually really recommend this one to anyone interested in this style of game.
Cabbage? Carrots? Potatoes? Well, it seems they burned all their money on the soundtrack and voice acting. It’s a solid piece, reasonably well put together for what it sets out to be, but it doesn’t surprise me at all that—even carrying the name of a classic IP—the game remained buried among the handful of Kickstarter titles that spearheaded the modern CRPG revival. The game has nothing particularly remarkable about it. It offers a passable experience, but without much personality or sense of humor (which I believe is an important detail for fans of this franchise). Don’t expect a highly customizable RPG with interesting interactions and a gripping story full of choices and charismatic characters. At best, the writing is just very dry and incapable of making you care about anything (even if it comes with decent full dubbing), much less feel like you're visiting a well-realized and efficiently presented fictional universe. And your agency is completely superficial. What we have here is a very simple, on-rails adventure. A game that boils down to a repetitive and not very immersive dungeon crawler with a questionable sense of pacing, packed with abstract and tedious puzzles that grow increasingly intrusive, and poorly developed quests that exist mostly as an excuse for you to navigate badly designed maps—which would be a nightmare to traverse if not for the guidance systems. The low production values scream at you the moment you leave the main menu. A weak presentation, terrible graphics and animations, amateurish and disjointed art direction, and a world that feels practically lifeless and impossible to take seriously, doing a poor job of hiding its artificiality. Performance is also terrible—something that was very common in indie RPGs at the time, including the console ports. Modern machines can brute-force their way through the game without much trouble, but I’m sure the hardware of the time struggled to maintain 30 FPS with visuals that were already below average. It feels extremely dated, especially when compared to modern iterations of the genre. But, ironically, what saves the experience is precisely the fact that the game is simple. Because everything is so shallow and straightforward in its goals, there’s little room to get frustrated by the lack of polish. The execution is practically that of an ’90s dungeon crawler, with the addition of a very solid and well-balanced combat system (by far the best part of the game), in which you easily fall into a satisfying and easy-to-digest progression loop. The tactical challenges the game offers—within its very limited character and equipment customization—are more than adequate. And it genuinely pains me that this system wasn’t further refined and applied to another franchise. Even the combat interface feels more appropriate to the game’s budget and manages to do much more with less, streamlining things in smart ways, emphasizing what actually matters. The exploration is quite unengaging, as are the stories the game presents, but you can kind of just keep going without caring. It's not bad enough to be a deal-breaker. I wouldn’t say it’s worth the investment—especially in terms of time—but I can safely say that the ease with which you get pulled into the game’s core activities, combined with the addition of a song that lets you skip the more irritating puzzles, makes it hard to lose focus. It’s a mediocre game, but one that delivers what it sets out to do in large quantity and without too much unnecessary time-wasting. Now, whether what it delivers is actually good enough, I honestly can’t say. This is technically my second run, now on a more appropriate platform, but after putting in a few hours, I’m not sure I feel like continuing, because my overall impression has been kinda neutral. Not good enough, not bad enough. It seems like the kind of game I could play a little bit at a time until the end, and then I wouldn't remember anything about it. Except for the music, of course. It almost seems like a crime to waste such a good soundtrack on a game like this. But I’ll say one thing: those hours flew by. And for a franchise that has never been known for having good games, this one isn't far from its peak.
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The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut is currently priced at 34.99€ on Steam.
No, The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 34.99€ on Steam.
Yes, The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut received 954 positive votes out of a total of 1,235 achieving a rating of 7.41.
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The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut was developed by inXile Entertainment and published by inXile Entertainment and Xbox Game Studios.
Yes, The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
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No, The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut does not support VR.
The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut is a single-player game.
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