Interview Bard's Tale tit for tat at IGN

[Saint_Proverbius]

Tags: Bard's Tale (2005); Brian Fargo; InXile Entertainment

<A href="http://pc.ign.com/articles/536/536598p1.html">Big interview</A> with <b>Brian Fargo</b> over at <A href="http://pc.ign.com/">IGN</a> about <A href="http://www.inxile-entertainment.com/">Bard's Tale</a>. Damned thing is four pages long, in fact. Anyway, here's one of them:
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<blockquote><b>IGN: Why did you decide to revisit this franchise?
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Brian Fargo:</b> The Bard's Tale was my first real big RPG hit so it seemed appropriate to launch inXile around a game by the same name. I have a long history with RPGs, having produced or been involved with everything from Bard's Tale, Wasteland, Fallout and Baldur's Gate. I was anxious to get back to my roots and work on another RPG. There is also a significant fan base out there, excited for a revival of the property, so it seemed like the perfect vehicle for inXile to make a cutting edge RPG title.</blockquote>
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I dunno, I'd say something more like a remake of <b>Bard's Tale Construction Set</b> would have been a better way to do it than an action CRPG that automates item selling. I would have settled for a two word answer over that answer, <i>NAME RECOGNITION</i>.
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[Kamaz]

Why do I allways thrill when hear words *we* {variable pointing at gameDEv company} "to make a cutting edge RPG title". What's so cutting about that allways?

 

[DamnElfGirl]

Name recognition is all well and good, but this is much closer to "swindling the fan base for a few quick bucks." It's like that crappy movie where this one dude gets himself elected senator because he has the same name as a recently deceased senator, and runs on "The Name You Know."

But I'm just a bitter BT fan.

 

[StraitLacedDeviant]

there are lots of two words that would apply some far fouler than the ones you used. This game is going to be terrible I read somewhere that the bards constant bitching made it almost impossible to play without going insane.

 

[space captain]

damn... how many of you even played the original Bards Tale, or Wasteland??? those games were practically revolutionary... except I always wondered why the default party in bards tale was so overpowered... and wasteland... that game rocked my non-animating EGA world

fuck! how the mighty have fallen....

 

[Second Chance]

"The Bard's Tale was my first real big RPG"

The Bard's Tale is Michael Crawford's game, not Brian's. What's he on about?!