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

[Jedi Master Radek]

Fryan Bargo said on twitter:

Kickstarter is dead.... blah blah. I expect this year to be big, I know lots of great games hitting in first half.

InXile 3rd and Obsidian 2nd kickstarter?

 

[Infinitron]

Let's see what this is about.

 

[Abu Antar]

https://twitter.com/llMETHUSELAHll/status/556215343979708416/photo/1

Let's see what this is about.

Gonna use my monocle to see what it says

 

[Infinitron]

Nothing about the next RPG, or even Torment, sorry.

 

[Abu Antar]

 

[Weirdstuffinspace]

even doors are fake in the kwan wtf

 

[PhantasmaNL]

Nah, maxxed out Brute Force i guess.

 

[Baxander]

I can only pray that it is Bard's Tale, or a direct descendant of the IP.

 

[Zed]

this was merged by a certain merge-friendly jew. my original thread title was "is Fargo announcing WL3 @ pax" (to put this post in context)

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Brian Fargo ‏@BrianFargo 19m19 minutes ago
There might be a big announcement during my panel. #tease

Chris Keenan ‏@rangerkeenan 53s53 seconds ago
Exciting news today!! “@BrianFargo: There might be a big announcement during my panel. #tease”

who knows? no-one cuz they won't bother to stream it lol

 

[Infinitron]

Brian Fargo ‏@BrianFargo 19m19 minutes ago
There might be a big announcement during my panel. #tease

Chris Keenan ‏@rangerkeenan 53s53 seconds ago
Exciting news today!! “@BrianFargo: There might be a big announcement during my panel. #tease”

who knows? no-one cuz they won't bother to stream it lol

Ah, so Ben Kuchera must be waiting with his super-secret interview until after this is announced at PAX.

 

[Bubbles]

Could they be announcing the results of the Codex GOTY poll?

 

[Athelas]

We're not that well-known.

Also, people don't like to talk openly about their failures.

 

[hiver]

There we go... the creator of Fallout...

For fuck sake...

 

[Infinitron]

A dude from Bohemia Interactive is also at that panel to talk about DayZ: http://www.bistudio.com/blog/dayz-at-pax-south-2015

This increases the chances that a recording of this will leak out.

 

[Bubbles]

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/01/24/the-bard-39-s-tale-4-announced.aspx

Brian Fargo and InXile Entertainment announced a new chapter to the classic RPG dungeon-crawler series at PAX South today. This single player PC-centric installment won't be a complete throwback-style game like Wasteland 2, and instead The Bard's Tale 4 will attempt to modernize and revitalize the genre - sort of like how Hearthstone approached the card game.

"This is a special game for me," says Fargo. "It was the first game that really put Interplay on the map, and it just happens that this will fall on the 30th anniversary."

The game will feature modern day approaches to graphics, sound, and design while revisiting all the locales and classes that players love from the early installments in the series like the town of Skara Brae. The game will be a dungeon crawler through and through, but don't expect to have to bust out the old-school tools. HUD elements will be kept to a minimum, there will be plenty of puzzles, and immersion will be the focus.

"I don't think in this day and age we can make you break out the graph paper," says Fargo. "We might have a hardcore mode for that."

There will be a crowdfunding push for The Bard's Tale 4, as well as funding coming from InXile.


Email the author Daniel Tack, or follow on Twitter, and Game Informer.

Filed under: News, PC, The Bard's Tale

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

The Bard's Tale 4 Announced
http://t.co/ccNhlmrPlJ

 

[Perkel]

ok i cue to pax stream and there is some GUild wars 2 bloke talking shit about new class.

where can i watch fargo / ?

 

[Perkel]

Well i hope he won't go with it to kickstarter because that will fail. People don't give a shit about bards tale neither do gronards.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Brian Fargo and InXile Entertainment announced a new chapter to the classic RPG dungeon-crawler series at PAX South today. This single player PC-centric installment won't be a complete throwback-style game like Wasteland 2, and instead The Bard's Tale 4 will attempt to modernize and revitalize the genre - sort of like how Hearthstone approached the card game.

Oy gevalt.

 

[Bubbles]

www.ign.com/articles/2015/01/24/brian-fargo-announces-first-bards-tale-sequel-in-27-years

Brian Fargo Announces First Bard's Tale Sequel in 27 YearsThe creator returns to reignite his franchise.
With Wasteland 2 released and Torment: Tides of Nemenera on the way, Brian Fargo is returning to yet another classic franchise for his team's next project: The Bard's Tale IV.

After creating his own studio in 2002, Fargo began work on The Bard's Tale, a comical reimagining of the franchise's tropes, that would release in 2004. The Bard's Tale IV is a proper sequel, though, marking the first since 1988's The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate.

"This project has always been really personal to me," Fargo told IGN. "It was a game that put both me and Interplay on the map, back in the day. And it's also the franchise that launched inXile."

InXile Entertainment is planning a Kickstarter for The Bard's Tale IV. Details about the game are still light, but Fargo did say the team will be pulling from the original as far as overarching ideas go. From a story perspective, players will be returning to Skara Brae, where it all began. But on the gameplay side of things, Fargo is planning a deviation.

"Traditional turn-based combat," as Fargo calls it, bases turns on varying factors, creating battles in which different characters attacked at different times, often alternating between opposing sides. But in The Bard's Tale IV, teams attack all at once. This increases the pace of the combat, and allows for a different set of tactics than the traditional system might allow.

"There will be plenty of combat diversity and depth," Fargo said. "You look at something like Hearthstone, for example. It's sort of that going back-and-forth process, and you see the complexity and detail and strategy and nuance that can happen. It's really an amazing system. I love those modern influences. I took a lot away from that, and see things we need to do with our combat system."





As for taking another project to Kickstarter, Fargo said crowdsourcing will allow him to make the games he wants to make, for an audience that wants them, without worrying about pleasing a mass market. Although it didn't release under the traditional publishing system, Wasteland 2 sold extremely well right out of the gate.

Faro used broadcast TV stations to illustrate his point. "I prefer to be on Showtime rather than NBC," he said. "That's the kind of entertainment I like to watch, and it's the same thing with these kind of games. I'm able to make something that caters to a crowd that really loves that experience."

Work continues on Torment: Tides of Numenera, and in IGN's Wasteland 2 review, we praised its excellent story and plethora of party design options. But after announcing the team's return to the franchise that put them on the map, Fargo is excited for yet another revival.

"It's the first property we worked with," he said. "The fact that it's the 30th anniversary of the original makes it all just seem perfect."

Breaking: Brian Fargo likes tits and ass. And phase based combat.

 

[imweasel]

So, Bard's Tale IV it is.

I am not surprised.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Oh my, oh my. They better not fuck this up!

The team vs team thing could be interesting. (I haven't played Hearthstone though.)

 

[Zed]

Let's hope it's not Unity garbage.

Hearthstone is very rarely back-and-forth, it's usually over within a minute.

 

[Vault Dweller]

Oh my, oh my. They better not fuck this up!

The team vs team thing could be interesting. (I haven't played Hearthstone though.)

You're missing out, Bee. It is the BEST dungeon crawler ever made. Bar none.

 

[Perkel]

huh W2 expansion and revisited UI ? Count me in