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Review Bard's Tale enjoyable per TechConnect

Saint_Proverbius

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Tags: Bard's Tale (2005)

There's <A href="http://www.tcmagazine.info/articles.php?action=show&showarticle=157">a review</a> of <A href="http://www.thebardstale.com/">Bard's Tale</a> over at <a href="http://www.tcmagazine.com">TechConnect</a>. The scores range from <b>7.5</b> on gameplay to <b>8</b> on presentation, value, and over all score. It seems to fault a lot of the dumbing down of the game but says the story and writing make up for that. See here:
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<blockquote>It is in fact the storyline and the script that make this game, and lift it far enough above gameplay mediocrity to be noticed. The interactions between the criminally sex-obsessed Bard and the narrator are priceless, and the game's many stabs and slashes at just about everything from gameplay conventions to movie cliches are well worth the price of purchase by themselves. It will be hard at first to identify with such a shady character, who really is only interested in coins and cleavage, and who really does not hide a soft heart beneath his crusty exterior (only more crust, inside), but eventually half the fun will be in sitting back and seeing just how far he'll go next, in his quest for debauchery. Interactions with other characters are limited to choosing between a 'nice' and 'snarky' reply, though sometimes the 'nice' responses are bad enough to make one wonder what the other would have been... and to go back to try.</blockquote>
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If the writing is that good, hopefully we'll get to see <a href="http://www.inxile-entertainment.com/">inXile</a> talent in that area shine through in a more proper CRPG.
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Sol Invictus

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Yeah, the writing's pretty neat and there's some hilarious moments, at least in the demo. The gameplay's too dumbed down, though.
 

Shagnak

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Yeah, I have that feeling from the demo too, Sol.
The wrting seems vaguely Pythonesque at times, and the gameplay is kinda fun - but of the simple sort. There is some interest to be had from the different summons and how they affect your gameplay, but other than that I couldn't see a lot.
It's the type of game I could hire for a weekend and get some fun out of it that way, but given that I don't own a console I guess I'll just wait for a future appearnance in the PC bargain bin.
 

Saint_Proverbius

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Honestly, they lost me when they did away with the inventory stuff. I can overlook a lot, but the auto-upgrade/sell loot thing just killed any hope I had for the game.
 

Shagnak

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Yeah, I'm not big on the auto-gold-conversion-loot thingy either.
I like to fuck around with my inventory.
What's wrong with us?
Are we just big old anal backpack-managing fiends or something?
 

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