Bard's Tale The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep - Director's Cut

that RPS review was John Walker? and he trashed it?

fuck... maybe this game is actually good

 

kickstarters beta backers are immune to bad performance? To be honest I have the impression the more devs listen to people while developing the more likely it is to becoming a turd. I have the feeling this is what happened in Numenera. I may be wrong, but I believe this is the reason the kickstarter era failed to deliver 1 single fucking decent game.

 

I thought they didn't go Early Access so they could keep selling the beta at a premium on their homepage

 

Yep, these days betas in KS games seem more like token efforts to sell higher tier packages than full scale tests. I guess some people have misgivings about early access games but it's surely better than a launch like this - particularly given inXile's obvious shortcomings in terms of in-house QA.

 

Nevermind, I forgot that their pre-orders were sold exclusively through Xsolla. Steam takes 30% of revenue, but Xsolla only takes a stunning 5%! (and has truly awful customer service in return) If they had gone EA, they would have been forced to sell through Steam and lose 25% of their pre-order revenue.

 

Darth Roxor ,mate do you know the bell combination for the tower in the forest after you leave the city for first time? The fucking retard that is coward was supposed to tell me but he doesn't and the door is magically locked.

 

How do we not have a smug Fargo face rating tag yet????

 

I don't pretend to know anything about managing projects or developing RPGs (Fallen Gods has been five years of wrong turns and false starts), but it does seem to me that inXile might have fared better had their three games in some way used similar pipelines or engines or design approaches, such that lessons from Wasteland could be utilized in TTON, lesson in TTON used in BTIV, etc.

 

They did have Mage's Tale to prepare them for Bard's Tale 4. Same engine, many of the same assets, and both made in the New Orleans studio. MT is at 75% positive on Steam, reviews say it feels "polished".



They must have gained a number of helpful insights from that, but it clearly wasn't enough to deliver a technically polished BT4.

 

VR aficionados rate any shit VR game with a positive rating. You can't trust the reviews on VR products yet, not until everyone is using the technology and honest reviews begin showing up; for now it is just early-adopters justifying their purchases.

 

Nah. The performance issues were brought up numerous times by beta testers, but Inxile did nothing to address them. Just read some of the reviews on Steam.

The engine programmer(s) were delivering very shoddy work and should have been replaced, but they were given a free pass instead. That said, Inxile seems to have some pretty serious management problems.

 

I've never been more ashamed to belong to such a lowbrow, short sighted community of retarded children.

At least if this was some sort of cult like Jone's Jonestown cult I could at least take solace knowing you would all die soon from drinking Kool Aid. This is just a retard cult that destroys the companies that make the things we claim to like.

All the nonsense being said is the same shit people said when ToEE and Bllodlines came out. Good thing Troika closed down, right guys? Also the same shit that was said when MMX came out. Good thing there won't be an MMXI, right guys? The crpg world is much richer and well off that shit developers making shitty rpgs close down, like Troika and the MMX team.

Thumbs up kids - you are all doing God's work, protecting us from the evil crpg makers.

 

What a shit game, even by InXile standards.

 

Fixed.

 

The same type of people like you were saying the exact same shit to me when ToEE and Bloodlines came out. Its funny how history repeats itself. I bet you claim to love Troika now, right?

 

It's not like the beta discussions were private, you can read them right here: https://forums.inxile-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=18993

All from mid-July.

 

Troika is alright. Not one of my favourite devs, but yeah, they made CRPGs at a time when no one else did.
All snark aside, if you enjoy these games I hope InXile survives to make more. However, with all due respect I don't really know you well enough to pay $35 just so you get to play fun videogames. If you need me, I'll be over here playing the kind of CRPGs that you find mindless and boring.

 

I for one always loved Troika's games, to the point that it's probably the only other company I will admit being a fanboy of (besides Black Isle, obviously), but never even really liked an inXile game.

You're trying too hard. Not saying there aren't plenty of idiots here and a lot of retarded newfags and Bethesdards, but inXile are just incompetent on all levels.
And while I actually believe their intentions were good with W2 (though I guess that's an optimistic view) and were held back by their incompetence, I don't think they even have those good intentions anymore. Now they're essentially trying to peddle the usual garbage: durr old-schol gaem but ready for the modern audience. And if not even their heart is in the right place, that means they can just fuck off.

 

There is a huge difference between people ignoring games that don't interest them, and people going out of their way to sabotage companies that make games that don't interest them. Have fun playing your Pokeman and Metal Gear games.

 

I'm not going out of my way to sabotage InXile. I don't owe them any money.

 

I'm not sure what Roque is raging about.

Yes, it's better off not to have more piles of shit like MMX. Yes, it's better not to have clusterfucks like ToEE. I'd much rather play a fucking animu JRPG like DQ XI if it's done right and is sufficiently polished instead of more Unity garbage.

The RPG world is not richer, it's just dead as a doornail and will remain that way. Everyone had a go at resurrecting it and everyone failed. Pillars 1 was barely passable, Numenera was abysmal, BT4 shat the bed just now, Underworld Ascendant is about to do it again in two months. Everyone who was at some point known for making good RPGs is obviously no longer able to.

I'm not sure why people should put up with garbage just to somehow "keep RPGs alive" in their imagination, when in reality those games are long dead and gone. Good thing you fucking neckbeards can still go and replay Wizardry 7 for the sixteenth time and bask in your superiority.

 

I replayed Wizardry 8 twice this year, it was good both times.

 

When I made the same arguments when people were actively sabotaging Troika I used Sir-Tek and SSI as examples, and people said the same thing - they were fans of SSI and Sir-tek but Troika didn't make ToEE enough like BG2 and had bugs/wasn't optomized, and Bloodlines wasn't enough like Gothic and had bugs/wasn't optimized.

History repeats itself. You don't like the best non-indie crpgs developers we have during this time. Great. That doesn't ean I should not try hard to defend them in hopes sane people realize what they are doing. If your kind didn't do this to Troika, and if people supported SSI and Sir-Tek when they needed sales, it is inarguable we would all have tons more crpgs now that made the world of crpgs better, richer, and with more options for those with particular and quality taste.

But, short sighted savages gonna savage so I any effort on my part is probably trying to hard.

 

If this community didn't suck so bad and supported crpg devs you would probably be able to also replay Wizardry 9-14 this year too if you wanted. And JA 3-7. Etc.