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The Bard's Tale Trilogy is a complete remaster of the iconic series that helped define the RPG genre. Featuring updated graphics and optional quality of life gameplay features, this is the ideal way to experience the dungeon crawling challenge that made the original games beloved classics.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy is a rpg, dungeon crawler and classic game
developed by Krome Studios and inXile Entertainment
and published by inXile Entertainment.
Released on August 14th 2018 is available on Windows and MacOS
in 6 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish and Russian.
It has received 1,423 reviews of which 1,355 were positive and 68 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.0 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: 64bit OS, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8 / 8.1, Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core2 Quad Q9300 / AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ / Intel Core i5-2500K or higher if using integrated Intel GPU
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Graphics card with DX10 (shader model 4.0) capabilities
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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MacOS
- OS: OS X (10.14)
- Processor: 1.4 GHz Intel Core i5
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated Intel HD Graphics 5000
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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I wrote a negative review, but am changing that to a positive. What changed? These games are extremely imbalanced (in terms of overall quality) and I wrote my review at what is probably the lowest point of the trilogy. Part 1 of this series is quite decent. Part 2 is just a bad game. It's grossly imbalanced - you become effectively invincible relatively shortly into the game, has boring items, boring dungeons, and is just a bad game. But part 3 is, by an overwhelmingly wide margin, the best in the series. In part 3 the entire game seems to have been reworked - there's a ton of new and interesting items, gone are the massive sprawling dungeons replaced by lots of smaller dungeons. Gone are the "puzzles" like 'I've placed the exit on a random tile of the 400 you've already explored on this floor - go find it!' The riddles are no longer tedious, and combat is full of small numbers of actually threatening enemies instead of hoards of pointless enemies whose biggest threat is making you die of boredom. Part 3 even seems to kind of retcon the entire series. The entire storyline is a follow-up from part 1. You even get to visit the ruins of the original game's setting. Maybe stuff from part 2 shows up at some point, but for now it seems like Part 2 is the sequel that must not be spoken of. So do yourself a favor, skip part 2. If you're an achievement ♥♥♥♥♥ then just use a walkthrough and skip the suffering. Some of the riddles are a bit interesting, but the game in general is just quite unpleasant. However, part 3 is more than good enough to make up for everything. Begin Old Review ------------------- I will be playing this game through to completion, but wouldn't recommend it. What's changed? The Bard's Tale is your typical combat driven dungeon crawler. In the original combat was brutally difficult, made even more challenging by the massive labyrinth style design of every single dungeon. In this remake, they have made combat trivial to the point of it serving no purpose except wasting your time. An auto-mapper means you will never be lost, you can quick-save anywhere, and they've increased the rate at which character's level, without rebalancing other factors. So for instance by the time you're facing dangerous spell-casters you'll be shrugging off literally 100% of their spells thanks to level-based saving throws. Similarly they also seem to have substantially increased your base accuracy and substantially reduced the enemies. So enemies pose 0 risk and only serve to waste your time. They also offer 0 reward because it's not like you need the XP or items to get even stronger. You are literally invincible. This also makes about 90% of the spells in the game pointless. There's no real need to buff your party during combat when the enemy literally cannot even hit you, and the damage spells are also pointless. Why waste mana? Just summon a demon or something to blast your enemies away and then spend every turn defending while it finishes off everybody for you. But Bard's Tale is a riddle solving game! The riddles and puzzles in the game are still great, but they're spaced between endless hours of combat that is now just pointless. So the game just doesn't move along fast enough unless you're absolutely drunk in nostalgia. I've started fleeing from every fight simply because they serve no purpose. And the new art direction is horrific and completely disparate. It looks like AI generated slop, except this game was released before AI image gen really took off, so that's even worse in some ways. Legacy mode!? Legacy mode exists and it can, in some way, mitigate these complaints. For instance you can disable the auto-mapper, or disable the new xp multiplier. But I feel that's lazy. It's easy to make a game that's too hard. And it's easy to make a game that's too easy. It's on the developers to create a game with a default experience that offers a nice balance in between the extremes, and in this case they have completely failed to do so. A game where you end up practically invincible relatively shortly after starting (unless you intentionally cripple yourself) is simply broken, and that is this game. It's just you, you masochist. By achievements, 10% of people beat the first game which is fairly typical for the genre. Fewer than 3% of players complete the second game in the trilogy, where you become practically invincible almost immediately. I also have not completed it yet, so there remains the possibility that the game somehow starts throwing challenges at me again, but it really doesn't seem likely. And if not for some serious nostalgia for this game, I would also have quit by now.
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This is a great port, with nice quality of life improvements. You can play the legacy version if you want to suffer needlessly, but I wish you could see the hilariously weird original character art instead. I'd only recommend it for people who want to relive the original game, though. For new players, the bland and grindy gameplay will compare badly to modern games' variety, storytelling and characterisation.
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Cool dungeon crawler game. I played when i was 14. Now playing it again. Simple dungeon progressive game, not too hard, which fits my pace. Just trying to finish the same game i started 40 years ago. Yeah, back when we had commodore 64's.
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I loved this when I was a kid, and I love it now. The quality of life adjustments are really appreciated. I play with a lot of them turned off, but I like that they're there. I'd pay more for a "toggle the old pixel art" option.
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OK, it's old-school, but I had a lot of fun playing these back in the '90's, and I'm playing in Legacy mode, so some of the characteristics that other people might find frustrating (the Save Game mechanic, for example) are nostalgic for me. So, it's primitive by 2020's standards, but so am I.
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The Bard's Tale Trilogy is currently priced at 12.49€ on Steam.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 12.49€ on Steam.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy received 1,355 positive votes out of a total of 1,423 achieving an impressive rating of 9.01.
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The Bard's Tale Trilogy was developed by Krome Studios and inXile Entertainment and published by inXile Entertainment.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy is playable and fully supported on Windows.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy is not playable on Linux.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy is a single-player game.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy does not currently offer any DLC.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy does not support Steam Remote Play.
The Bard's Tale Trilogy is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Online players
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Developer
Krome Studios,
inXile Entertainment
Publisher
inXile Entertainment
Release
14 Aug 2018
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