Bard's Tale The Bard's Tale IV Pre-Release Thread [RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

I'm not sure how much cheaper Newport Beach is compared to SF bay area. It's still California and a suburb of LA

 

If Schafer would work with his employees in a trailer park, then certainly all his games would be finished way before the money would run out. Simply for the fact that he would do everything in his power, to get out of this shit.

They may look like crap, but they can cost much money. Look this is not a good place for work:


This is a place for a nice easy life. Newport Beach is one of the richest cities in USA measured on the avg. income per person.
I would certainly think there the whole day in the office, how i will surf in the evening and eat a steak on the barbecue.

 

You can see Fargo's house from there.

 

Living near the ocean is the only way to live.

 

I prefer the mountains.

 

Why is everyone saying that it's going to be a blobber and talking about mm7? Is there any official info that it won't be top down?

 

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...ale-iv-from-inxile.95694/page-21#post-3821833

 

It won't be a blobber, it is going to be Fargo's answer to Skyrim.

Sorry, I can't reveal my super serious source that is definitely very correct.

It is much easier to sell a dream than a product, so if they do show something then it will have to look amazing.

Better than look at me and my super expensive gold chains and my lavish gold rings and my extravagent Rolex and my nicely groomed chest and I was in space for 30 million dollars because "i'm rich biiiatch!" Richard Garriott during the SotA Kickstarter.

 

I would bet 1 million dollars it won't be top down. Not sure it will be a blobber, but I do expect it.

I'm not expecting grid based or turn based from their announcements so far.

 

Well you need to clarify this I think.

In the sense that he wants a big commercial hit?
In the sense that he wants a first person game that's not necessarily story-driven, but more like explore and bang your wife with a waifu mod?
Or just in the sense that he wants a first person rpg (but also story-driven, with a thought-out combat system, etc as a bonus)?

 

I wasn't being serious.

Fargo is a huge fan of party based tactical gameplay and he also wants to make a true sequel to the orginal games, so I am pretty sure it will be a first person blobber, although I am not expecting it to be gridlocked.

 

Since he is talking about grid-based movement vs. free movement it will definitely be first person. I'm still hoping that they implement something like in Realms of Arkania 2 where you could switch between blobber and free movement = best of both worlds.

 

Thought they already said for sure it isn't grid-based.

My interest level is currently sitting near to absolute zero on this one. Too bad, I'm a big blobber fan, but Fargo seems determined to make a game not grog enough for grogs, and not mainstream enough for cashmere casuals.

 

From what he is saying, it won't be purely grid-based (which I would have preferred) but since they may try to do "the best of both worlds", there is a chance that grid-based will be implemented as an option:

"Fargo: We are going to experiment with a couple of new techniques so I hesitate to reveal too much now but I would say that locking someone onto a grid would take away from the immersion I want to get across. There are ways to have the best of both worlds. I wouldn't want people to read too much into this answer since I have some ideas that I want to see played out first."

 

What makes you say that?

 

"real bards tale sequel" that isn't grid-based? Might as well just call it another game at that point, it would be like if they had Kickstarted Wasteland 2 as an Infinity Engine style game instead of turn-based.

 

I know man, Wizardry 8 sucked - oh wait

 

No, wait, grid grid-based games sucked, right? Is that the correct conclusion?

 

W7>W6>W8

 

Yeah, but in that case he was pandering to another grog audience that was basically the evolution of what Wasteland started.

By the way, I'm not saying pandering to casuals is bad (CDProjekt does this, and I like their games), or that not pandering to grogs is bad, either. Just that I don't think he's going to do a good job of either. I want to be wrong about this, though. I would love to see another playable (i.e, not real time dancefest ala Grimrock) blobber on the horizon.

 

The grid doesn't automatically make any game suck, but it isn't central or necessary to any game as some people insist. Wizardry is a good example of a series that wasn't ruined by the advent of analog movement. (If you disagree, let's hear it: what was lost exactly?) Bard's Tale will survive it too.