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

ArchAngel

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Eh, it's really not disappointing at all. Back during the Shaker and Deathfire days, there were lots of people on the Codex who said a blobber nostalgia project could never make big money on Kickstarter.

I replied that with a solid pitch and a company with an established reputation, one could make a million. Glad to see I was more than right.
It's really great that a first-person game with high-fidelity 3d graphics can make a quarter of the funding that a relatively-cheap-to-produce isometric RPG gets.

:lol: Well, if you put it that way.

It's not like first person shooters have much of a track record on KS. I wonder what would happen if John Romero and Tom Hall tried to crowdfund one, or something like that.
Another crappy Daikatana like game?
 
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theSavant

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That reminds me of an interview (approximately 1-1.5 years ago) in which John Romero talked about a new shooter in production. However, I've heard nothing about it anymore...
 

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Eh, it's really not disappointing at all. Back during the Shaker and Deathfire days, there were lots of people on the Codex who said a blobber nostalgia project could never make big money on Kickstarter.

I replied that with a solid pitch and a company with an established reputation, one could make a million. Glad to see I was more than right.
It's really great that a first-person game with high-fidelity 3d graphics can make a quarter of the funding that a relatively-cheap-to-produce isometric RPG gets.

:lol: Well, if you put it that way.

It's not like first person shooters have much of a track record on KS. I wonder what would happen if John Romero and Tom Hall tried to crowdfund one, or something like that.
Another crappy Daikatana like game?

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:thumbsup:
 

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Another relatively good day yesterday:

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Looks like the original trilogy was good PR. $70k to go.
 

ArchAngel

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Stretch goals is what is interesting, we all know they are going to reach the minimum.
 

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UPDATE: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/the-bards-tale-iv/posts/1261424

Heh, they're going for maximum gamification:

Let’s dust off those chairs in the Adventurer’s Guild and start exploring! We thought we’d do something fun, encouraging you to spread the word and giving you cool stuff to unlock by doing – including some bonus rewards as a thank-you to our backers! As we reach the milestones shared below, a story will unfold detailing our collective journey through the Enclave of the Fairy Host. Each time we complete an achievement, a new piece of story will appear, detailing the struggles and triumphs of the excursion. Along the way, we might even have some interactive decisions that will modify where we go. So here is what you can do to aid in our quest…

  • Facebook Likes: like The Bard’s Tale IV on Facebook and get your Facebook friends to do the same!
  • Twitter Followers: follow @Brianfargo on Twitter and encourage others to do the same!
  • Tumblr Followers: follow our brand new Tumblr page and reblog our posts to spread the word!
  • YouTube Subscriptions: subscribe to inXile’s youtube page and spread the word!
  • YouTube Video Views: spread the word on our in-engine video everywhere to rack up those views!
  • Retweet Brian’s Message: retweet this tweet and encourage others to do the same!
  • The Bard’s Tale Fan Art: send us your fan art drawing or sketch through a Kickstarter message or Facebook post/message.
  • A Bardic Song: record video or audio of you performing a bardic song, upload to YouTube or elsewhere and send us the link through a Kickstarter message or Facebook post/message.
  • Kilt Photos: take a photo of yourself or a group of people in a kilt with a sign that says #BardsTale4 and send it to us through a Kickstarter message or Facebook post/message.
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We will gather fan-made art, songs and photos and share them on Facebook and Kickstarter Updates. We'll be keeping a live tally of the amount of followers, likes, retweets and submissions we have and keep you updated as you unlock each of these achievements!

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That’s only half the fun! As you rack up achievement points, we’re unlocking rewards at every 4 points (represented as rooms in the dungeon above)! At the first 4 points: we add a physical code wheel to *all* physical tiers, including $65. Digital tiers will receive a digital representation of this code wheel. The code wheel will not be required to play the game, but using it will unlock additional lore and flavor throughout The Bard’s Tale IV world.

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The Bard's Tale III Code Wheel (image credit: mocagh.org)

Of course, we will reveal more rewards as you progress!

And stretch goals:

Crafting our Stretch Goals
We’ve got plans for some exciting stretch goals and even announced our first one: at $1.3 million we’ll add an Enhanced Companion NPC System and add 2 more CNPCs. What’s next after that one? At $1.35 million, we’ll add a Crafting System.

As we showed in the Kickstarter text, items are very much a part of our sense of discovery and mystery, and you can thoroughly study many weapons and unlock ways to enhance or modify them. When we hit the $1.35 million stretch goal, we’ll compliment the item interaction with a robust crafting system allowing you to find ingredients and components throughout the world that allow you to make all kinds of game modifying items and weapons. By tying this in with our magic system, you can influence the newly created item’s abilities directly through many of the various abilities. With this system, after unlocking an item’s potential you can imbue it with power from a certain school of magic, or a specific spell, or even a Bard’s song to give it a new, unique capability.

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Diablo169

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Not sure why they didnt do all the social media achievements when the campaign started. It obviously worked for Bloodstained.
 

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Huh, I gotta say I'm not doing backflips over those stretch goals. "Two more CNPCs" doesn't mean anything when we don't know how many CNPCs are already planned. As for crafting, inventory management in blobbers is already enough of a pain in the ass without adding a bunch of little ingredients to manage. But hey, I know that just saying the word crafting is a big turn-on for many RPG fans. Hope it works well for them.

As for making fan art and doing fan versions of bard songs, that actually sounds pretty fun. Will probably participate. Already thinking about how to talk my band into wasting a rehearsal session recording a track for this instead.
 
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Yeah... expected more details about the game, but I guess the social crap is necessary +M
 

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I want a bards tale iv vape pen
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