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Review So Hyped, So Mediocre: The Bard's Tale Review
- Thread starter Diogo Ribeiro
- Start date
Seboss
Liturgist
- Joined
- Jan 27, 2006
- Messages
- 947
I thought the game was rather entertaining and I had quite a good laugh now and then.
English is my 2nd language so maybe I'm more forgiving with the 'in your face' and self-aware jokes of the game.
I agree that the game itself is a mediocre action romp but despite of that I felt the urge to go on to see the next joke/cliché.
It's not as bad as this review claims it is IMO.
Note that I played it on the XBox and got it for $5 or something.
English is my 2nd language so maybe I'm more forgiving with the 'in your face' and self-aware jokes of the game.
I agree that the game itself is a mediocre action romp but despite of that I felt the urge to go on to see the next joke/cliché.
It's not as bad as this review claims it is IMO.
Note that I played it on the XBox and got it for $5 or something.
Diogo Ribeiro
Erudite
So you agree that it is mediocre but do not agree with my claim that it is mediocre? The Force is flipflopping in this one 
I was hoping the humor at least managed to aleviate some of the boredom but it's definitely not worth it to slog through samey levels and hack samey enemies for long periods of time just to see the next attempt at humor, especially when said humor is just a sarcastic remark about some cliche you have to play through anyway. If every other cliche that came along the way provided some twist on the genre then I believe it wouldn't be as bad, but the only difference between this game and others of its kind is that the Bard will break the fourth wall just to let you know he knows how and why it's a cliche - yet you still have to play through it.
And that's not really turning RPG cliches on their heads.
I was hoping the humor at least managed to aleviate some of the boredom but it's definitely not worth it to slog through samey levels and hack samey enemies for long periods of time just to see the next attempt at humor, especially when said humor is just a sarcastic remark about some cliche you have to play through anyway. If every other cliche that came along the way provided some twist on the genre then I believe it wouldn't be as bad, but the only difference between this game and others of its kind is that the Bard will break the fourth wall just to let you know he knows how and why it's a cliche - yet you still have to play through it.
And that's not really turning RPG cliches on their heads.
Texas Red
Whiner
- Joined
- Sep 9, 2006
- Messages
- 7,044
Correct me if Im wrong but didnt Brian Fargo, founder of Interplay, leave the company when it was clear that it was screwed? Only to find a new company, Inxile, which, despite Interplays death due to its mainstream policies, continues the legacy of Interplay by making a shitty action crawl for consoles as their first order of business.
Thank you for relieving me of the fear that I might be missing something by not playing this game.
FrancoTAU
Cipher
Return to Krondor? Never got around to playing that or Betrayal at Antara even though I own both of them and enjoyed Betrayal at Krondor.
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