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

Well I now have Witcher, Witcher 2, Ultima Underworld I & II and Wasteland 2 keys to give away to my Codexian bros...

Also, I had no idea my reward tier included writing an Item description. I'm so not creative so I have no idea what to make...

 

Poem about a tranny is always safe bet!

 

I'd just make a useless item to troll people. Maybe a ring with a description along the lines of "when in doubt, equip the ring!".

 

(Cock) Ring with tranny poem as description!

 

What investors? You are still one of the retarded people that does not understand the difference between a donor and an investor when it comes to Kickstarter?

 

Besides, they did tell their backers several times in the comment section of the kickstarter. It's only the official update that took a while longer.
If they made a mistake, it's not communicating clearly during the KS how long the whole process might take.

 

Do a mini contest, best item descriptions get a key.

 

Some:
"Cithara of O'glaien, once in possession of a would be bard, his skills were so atrocious and the sound of the instrument so jarring that invariably the listeners were thrown in a rabid frenzy."(party gains an extra turn).

"Dagger of Cernussos, carved out from a stag's horn wields the power of the underworld."(summons a demonic animal for one turn, +1 backstabbing, +1 vitality.)

"Bow of the wild hunt, fabled elven bow used to hunt humans in ancient days."(+1 bow skills, +1 accuracy, +10 damage against humans.)

 

Plenty of time for mindx2 to try and secure some product placement deal.

 

Meh, the great save game debate rolls on. It would be really good now if the devs could clarify what's happening because it pretty much underpins the game design, and is probably holding up constructive debate on other issues.

People seem awfully hung up on the idea that it is a 'difficulty' thing, when it's really just about the experience you want to give the gamer. In many ways, a game where you can't just reload from the last quicksave is actually easier because the encounters have to be tuned around giving the player a fighting chance to 'get in, achieve objective, get out' of each dungeon. In many modern games the 'achieve objective' part is getting to the end of the dungeon, killing whatever 'boss' might be there and then moving to the next one. In old-school blobbers the objectives build over time - first dungeon visit it might just be "explore the first floor", or "find the stairs down" or "get some better gear" before you have to exit. Sure, sometimes you die and have to accept loss of some gear or in-game experience, but you gain actual experience of the dungeon and encounters which should be of equal value. I hate the attitude that just because you died in-game, your time spent between that and your last save was wasted. I'm a 40yr old guy with 5 hours gaming time a week but if two hours of XP gain and items were wiped out because I pushed my luck too much inside a dungeon then so be it. Entitlement sucks.

While it might lead to some repetition (some would suggest grinding), the idea that you can't simply reload to <3m ago drives different emotions, experiences and actually makes people appreciate the dungeon more rather than it just being somewhere you journey through on your way to THE END. I'd love to see that idea make a comeback.

 

DOSBox? That's their special "emulated" version for modern machines? So much for getting Burger to program a native windows version. Hell the versions included in the 2004 reboot run natively in windows.

 

Bro do you even read?

 

I liked Stonekeep - many people forget that Fargo was behind it.

 

Well, with Keenan working on Torment I'm guessing the project has been shifted over to New Orleans, so we're going to have to wait for that to all get set up first.

 

Not surprised they are leaving Cali. Its gone full socialist and taxes are through the roof. I hope the next update we get actual game details.

 

I worked in New Orleans for a year. It's got some decent food, but the weather is awful (compared to California) and it's basically America's third world. I'll take the high taxes, thanks.

 

I lived in NOLA for a while. Truly a shithole with some great food and cockroaches as big as your fist. I fucking hate cockroaches.

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Striking similarity to Bobby Jindal...