Decline Bored's Tale : Balls Deep

[Cleveland Mark Blakemore]

Seriously, no free saves? Can't be real.

I know I have a less than cutting edge machine, but the Nintendo 64 quality 3D and 8 fps just turned me off to this dreck.

I managed to get a decent frame rate by only looking at walls and I discovered the combat is awful. The dialogue is puerile and the story nonexistent. The music was pretty good but that's all I found bearable.

Original Bard's Tale trilogy is much, much better than this.

Remember, one man created Grimoire with his own money. This Kickstarter funded cash pit had a team of dozens of people with a million and a half dollars to burn and a huge legacy to draw upon.

The new TOMB OF DOOM in Grimoire V2 blows this entire game away.

 

[Jenkem]

I tried telling the people in the Bard's Tale 4 thread if they wanted a blobber to buy this. They laughed at me.

They're not laughing now.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

Bard's Tale 4 wasn't released, it escaped.

 

[Jinn]

How's the manual and improved inventory coming, Cleve? Would gladly be playing Grimoire right now with these two vital aspects delivered.

 

[Saxon1974]

I thought Cleve quit the codex? Lovers remorse?

 

[Stokowski]

Famous programmer unable to locate existing thread.

 

[Valky]

I'm sad that it seems to be shit but on the plus side, this makes me look forward a lot more to that bards tale remastered trilogy that came out on GOG.

 

[J_C]

I managed to get a decent frame rate by only looking at walls and I discovered the combat is awful. The dialogue is puerile and the story nonexistent. The music was pretty good but that's all I found bearable.

Original Bard's Tale trilogy is much, much better than this.

Would you for once stop talking about Grimoire?

 

[agentorange]

Remember, one man created Grimoire with his own money.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/grimoire-heralds-of-the-winged-exemplar#/

Are you saying you donated 10k of your own money to this campaign?

 

[Jinn]

Middle Fucking Finger

What's the problem man? Legitimate question. I'd like to know where the manual is to the game I bought about a year ago now for $50. Also, I need a functional inventory so I don't waste hours trying to organize a small bar at the bottom of my screen.

Seriously, Cleve. This is not a troll post. I just want a ballpark answer.

 

[Jenkem]

Middle Fucking Finger

What's the problem man? Legitimate question. I'd like to know where the manual is to the game I bought about a year ago now for $50. Also, I need a functional inventory so I don't waste hours trying to organize a small bar at the bottom of my screen.

Seriously, Cleve. This is not a troll post. I just want a ballpark answer.

UP YOURS because if you really were a Grimoire fan you'd know the manual will be out next Friday

 

[Darth Canoli]

UP YOURS because if you really were a Grimoire fan you'd know the manual will be out next Friday

Is that what kept you going for 20 years ?

 

[JarlFrank]

Honestly, I'd gladly have waited 10 years for the release of BT4 if the result had been a game half as good as Grimoire.

 

[aweigh]

Cleve, don't forget that they actually poured 10 million total into BT4. Those Nintendo 64 textures don't come cheap!

 

[Spiky]

Stop playing shit games and work on that V2, ffs

 

[Baxander]

Remember when everyone was excited for Grimoire? I do.
Remember when it came out and was greeted with glowing reviews, massive sales, and wuz da leetz crpgz? I don't.
Stop it papaw.

 

[Eddas]

Remember when everyone was excited for Grimoire? I do.
Remember when it came out and was greeted with glowing reviews, massive sales, and wuz da leetz crpgz? I don't.
Stop it papaw.

As the saying goes, good taste is like an arm. Some people don't have it.

 

[Bohr]

Remember when Baxander had that "Weary Adventurer" Youtube channel

 

[Bocian]

Remember when Baxander had that "Weary Adventurer" Youtube channel

He will forever be a bug chaser.

 

[Valky]

Remember when everyone was excited for Grimoire? I do.
Remember when it came out and was greeted with glowing reviews, massive sales, and wuz da leetz crpgz? I don't.
Stop it papaw.

As the saying goes, good taste is like an arm. Some people don't have it.

Most of the population is missing an arm?

 

[TemplarGR]

I wish idiots wouldn't use "Nintendo 64" graphics to criticize a game, it is beyond retarded. Does any of you actually remember how ugly N64 graphics really were? For all its faults, the new bard's tale is looking at least like an early PS3 game or even better. And if that makes you hate the game, then you are a graphics whore, which begs the question what the fuck you are doing here.

 

[Tigranes]

Does it really matter whether you call a butt fugly game "Nintendo 64" or "Sega Genesis" though

Fugly graphics are never a dealbreaker, but BT4 looks not only fugly but clunky, slow and laborious. Even that's not a dealbreaker, I stuck by Gothic 3 at v1.0, but the question is whether BT4 has enough gems to cover up the flaws.

 

[TemplarGR]

Does it really matter whether you call a butt fugly game "Nintendo 64" or "Sega Genesis" though

Fugly graphics are never a dealbreaker, but BT4 looks not only fugly but clunky, slow and laborious. Even that's not a dealbreaker, I stuck by Gothic 3 at v1.0, but the question is whether BT4 has enough gems to cover up the flaws.

BT4 looks much better than many so called "incline" unity shite people keep praising on the forums... Agree on clunky though.

 

[aweigh]

Calm down roqua. I also think most N64 games look better than BT4.

 

[thesheeep]

Calm down roqua. I also think most N64 games look better than BT4.

Yeah, wtf is this N64 bashing?

Many N64 games looked great and obviously had a lot of thought put into the art style.
Just recently played Turok again (the remake for PC). Just wonderful.

Of course it had low-res textures and models, but I don't care as long as the art is consistent.
I'd rather have a great new game with consistent Daggerfall graphics than a mediocre one with mediocre "modern" graphics. The latter also has the downside that many developers forgot what optimization is and thus runs like shit.