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The Bard's Tale IV: Director's Cut

Plattform: PC Veröffentlicht: 27.08.2019

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Verborgen in den Schatten hat das Böse geduldig ausgeharrt. Bis jetzt. Wer stellt sich der Finsternis, wenn nicht Ihr? Ein heldenhaftes Abenteuer mit über 50 Stunden Spielzeit, 350 Sprechrollen, einem Legacy-Modus für wiederkehrende Abenteurer und über 100 fantastischen Musikstücken!

Der Director’s Cut bringt mehr Charakter-Optionen, neue Gegenstände, neue Gegner, eine optimierte Bedienung und ein kostenloses Erweiterungs-Verlies.

Bestimmt, wie Ihr spielt
Bestimmt, wie Ihr spielen wollt, mit Reglern für zahlreiche Optionen wie das Speichern (inklusive „Überall speichern“), die Minikarte, Wegpunkt-Markierungen und vieles mehr. Ganz gleich, ob Ihr eine bockschwere Herausforderung, eine leichte Spielerfahrung oder etwas dazwischen sucht – Ihr habt die Wahl.

Erschafft den Helden, der Ihr sein wollt
Spielt als Barde, Kämpfer, Magietreibender oder Gauner, die jeweils über 60-70 Fertigkeiten verfügen und 21 einzigartige Klassen freischalten. Erstellt eine Vielzahl von Charakteren, um jedes neue Abenteuer zu einer einzigartigen Erfahrung werden zu lassen.

Schafft eine Gruppe – auf Eure Art
Beginnt mit einem einzelnen Charakter und rekrutiert oder erstellt weitere Helden, um die Ränge zu füllen. Baut eine Gruppe auf, die eurem Spielstil entspricht!

Das Abenteuer wartet hinter jeder Ecke
Erkundet Städte und deren zahlreiche Aufgaben. Kämpft Euch durch finstere und tödliche Verliese und findet Euren Weg durch verzauberte Hügellandschaften, dichte Wälder und eisige Einöden.

Überlistet das Böse
Bekämpft Eure Gegner in dynamischen, intuitiven, rundenbasierten Taktik-Gefechten, in denen kluges Handeln belohnt wird. Setzt überlegene Strategien ein, vorteilhafte Aufstellungen und tödliche Kombinationen, um Eure Feinde zu Fall zu bringen!

Enthüllt die Geheimnisse der Vergangenheit
Bringt fordernde Geheimnisse ans Licht. Wenn Eure Gegner Euch nicht den Garaus bereiten, tun es vielleicht die teuflischen Rätsel und gefährlichen Fallen.

Elfen-Rätselwaffen
Erforschung und Entdeckungen hören mit der Umgebung nicht auf. Sammelt antike elfische Waffen, die mächtige Fähigkeiten bergen, die Ihr ihnen durch sorgsame Untersuchungen entlocken müsst.

Neue Erkungsungslied „Strugglers’ Lament“
Ganz gleich, ob Ihr nur erkunden und kämpfen möchtet, oder ob Ihr festhängt – spielt einfach dieses Lied, um Rätsel zu überspringen.

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CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K or equivalent
GFX: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or Radeon HD 7970
RAM: 8 GB RAM
Software: Windows 7/8/8.1/10 (64 bit)
HD: 29 GB verfügbarer Speicherplatz
LANG: Englisch

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Englisch (95)

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1508 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 15.03.22 09:30

The Bard‘s Tale IV - Directors Cut (v4.20.1)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2778008012

POSITIVES

+ sehr stimmiger gaelischer Gesang
+ auch die sonstige Vertonung in Form von Soundeffekten, Komplettvertonung der Gespräche und auch die Kommentare der Gegner ist sehr gut gelungen
+ 7 Rassen: davon 4 unterschiedliche Menschen, Zwerge, Elfen und Trow
+ unterschiedliche Stimmenwahl
+ neuerdings die Wahl zwischen freier Bewegung oder klassischem Bewegungsraster (Grid Based)
+ Kopfbewegungen deaktivierbar und auch das Field-of-View ist nun anpassbar (gut gegen Motion-Sickness)
+ vorherrschende Barden-Thematik und auch Spielmechanisch kommen bestimmte Melodien an vielen Stellen zum Einsatz um Geheimverstecke zu erreichen oder um Dinge sichtbar zu machen
+ Erstschlag-Initiative wenn man sich direkt auf gesichtete Gegner stürzt bzw. man ist überrascht, wenn man zu lange zögert und die Gegner einen dann entdecken
+ Rundentaktikkämpfe über Gelegenheitspunkte die durch Fähigkeitseinsatz verbraucht werden, letztere wirken meist nur auf begrenze Felder, so dass die eigene Position von großer Bedeutung ist
+ neben physikalischem gibt es auch mentalen Schaden mit dem man gegnerische Konzentration stören kann
+ optionale und nützliche Minikarte
+ Dungeonartige Unterstadt von Skara Brae, die man sogar vom Layout der Vorgänger her als alte Ruinenstadt wiederkennt, da die neue Oberstadt einfach darüber errichtet wurde
+ später ansehnliche Landschaften mit schroffen Ebenen mit entfernten Ruinen, und auch idyllische Wälder
+ Vielfalt der Rätsel in Form von klassischen Hebeln, verborgenen Schaltern, verschiebbaren Zahnrädern, drückbare Steinquader und Druckplatten, in Reimform sprechende Rätselmüder bei denen es die richtigen Gegenstände bedarf und dergleichen vieles mehr
+ Dietriche zum Schlösser knacken, Seil und Wurfharken um in erhöhte Bereiche zu kommen oder um sich abzuseilen, Feuerbomben um Holzbarrikaden wegzubrennen
+ klassische Fallen in Form von Fallbeilen, Geschossfallen, Bodenspeere die sich in Intervallen absenken oder hervorschießen, Feuerfallen, usw.
+ legendäres Feuerhorn das schon aus den Vorgängern bekannt ist (als Gratisbeigabe, das man leider umständlich per Code freischalten muss)
+ Gruppengespräche untereinander
+ endlich freies Speichern in der Director‘s Cut Version

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NEGATIVES

- furchtbares und kitschiges, buntes Artdesign
- halbstatisches Malbuch-Intro und ebensolche Zwischensequenzen
- grundsätzlich veraltete Grafik mit teils unfassbar matschigen Texturen wenn man mal näher an eine Wand rangeht
- Vertonung leider nur auf Englisch (aber gute deutsche Untertitel; hier hat sich seit Release viel verbessert)
- nur vier Archetypen (Klassen): Barde, Magietreibender, Kämpfer und Gauner
- nur 7 mögliche generische Charakterbilder, womit das Aussehen nicht wirklich individuell eingestellt werden kann und auch sonst gibt es kaum Einstellungsmöglichkeiten zur Charakteranpassung
- optische Darstellung der nichtmenschlichen Rassen: Zwerge sehen aus wie große grauhäutige Oger und Elfen eher wie grünhäutige Dryaden
- schlechtes Charaktersystem durch wenige und seltsam ausbalancierten Eigenschaften; z.B.: Stärke erhöht sowohl den Schaden der physischen Angriffe als auch der physischen Zauber und ist somit viel zu übergewichtet, wohingegen Intelligenz und Zauberpunkte ziemlich sinnlos sind zu steigern, da Intelligenz nur den Schaden mentaler Zauber erhöht; und Zauberpunkte erhöhen lediglich den maximalen Wert und nicht den, mit dem man bei Kampfbeginn startet, was man auch dadurch umgeht indem man den (durch Stärke!) eh immer stärker werdenden, schnellen Grundzauber einsetzt
- Zaubern über Zauperpunkte die sich erst Runde für Runde langsam aufbauen müssen, wenn der Kampf schon lange entschieden ist (s.o.)
- behämmerte Beschränkung auf maximal vier(!) einsetzbare Fähigkeiten pro Char was viele andere aktive Fähigkeiten uninteressant macht, da man sie ja doch nicht nutzen kann
- im Laufe des Spiels (über Stufe 25) erhält man so viele Fertigkeitspunkte, dass es unmöglich ist diese sinnvoll zu verteilen aufgrund der oben genannten Beschränkung
- überstarke Gegenstände, Waffen und Rüstungen, so dass das Balacing nach der Hälfte des Spiels völlig aus den Fugen gerät
- noch stärkere Elfenwaffen die nach lösen von kleinen Rätseln dann sogar absurd stark werden
- später nur noch identische Gegenstände in stärkerer Form, was Einfallslos und Unmotivierend ist
- im letzten Drittel des Spiels gibt es dann gefühlt meist nur noch Gold mit dem man sich dann eh nichts mehr sinnvolles kaufen kann
- unglaubwürdige Spielwelt (genau wie in jedem Bard‘s Tale Spiel)
- lineare Dialoge ohne jegliche Einflussmöglichkeiten in Gesprächen
- plump schon aus der Distanz schimmernde Kisten
- überflüssiges Handwerk, mit deren Materialien das Inventar vollgemüllt wird
- kaum benötigte, heilend wirkende Nahrung die ebenfalls das Inventar zumüllt
- Himmlisches Coderad soll eigentlich für Nostalgie sorgen, ist aber einfach nur umständlich da man es Outgame einsehen muss
- Spiel gaukelt vor dass es viele optionale Nebenquests gibt, die aber für viele Dutzend Stunden unlösbar sind
- seltene Bugs: in Form von schwebenden Mauersegmenten oder NSCs (andere Bugs sind mir aber keine aufgefallen, was vor der Director‘s Cut Version echt schlimm war)

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FAZIT

The Bard‘s Tale IV Director‘s Cut von Mitte 2019, von den bekannten inXile-Entwicklern ist ein Old-School-RPG für Old-School-Liebhaber (was auf mich zutrifft) und Rätselfans (was nicht auf mich zutrifft).
Die Vorgänger stammen aus den 80ern von denen es mittlerweile auch eine Remake-Triology gibt, die aber nicht der Rede wert sind und die ich sogar zurückgegeben habe.
Dieser Teil 4 hat mir zunächst nicht wirklich gefallen, dann doch wieder recht gut, und ich dachte einige Zeit, dass es tatsächlich das erste Spiel dieser Reihe wird, das ich positiv bewerte, bis ich dann doch bemerkte was hier alles im Argen liegt. Woran liegt das? Nun das Spielerlebnis wandelt sich im Verlauf recht stark. Nach dem ersten Schock ist man doch sehr angetan von dem Dungeon der Unterstadt und von den augenscheinlich gut durchdachten vielen tollen Kämpfen. Dann aber wird es immer mehr zu einem Rätselspiel, das ich in der Intensität nicht von einem Dungeon-Crawler erwartet hätte. Sprich später wird tatsächlich länger gerätselt als gekämpft oder erkundet.
Im Vergleich zu den Vorgängern(Remakes) ist die Präsentation unendlich moderner und auch das Spieldesign hat sich stark verändert. Aber die Story, die Kulisse und auch die Technik ist leider eher ernüchternd. Gerade im Vergleich zu aktuellen RPGs fallen die Defizite sehr stark auf. Die Spielwelt wirkt spröde, statisch und künstlich und dadurch unglaubwürdig. Das Storytelling ist sogar irritierend bis verstörend. Als Beispiel: das Spiel beginnt mit dem düsteren Aufhängen von Fremdländern und Nicht-Menschen, die in Skara Brae wie Mörder und Abschaum behandelt werden und gleichzeitig wackeln in Kämpfen die Stadtwachen mit dem Hintern als wäre es voll lustig gleich zu sterben. Das passt einfach nicht zusammen.
Die grundsätzlich gut gemachten Taktikkämpfe und die vielfältigen Rätsel reißen den klapprigen Karren zunächst wieder aus dem Dreck, nur um ihn dann wieder hinein zu stoßen. Denn es werden später einfach zu viele Rätsel und die Kämpfe verlieren an Anspruch und entscheiden sich oft schon in 1-2 Runden.
Rätselfüchse können hier viele gute Rätsel finden, wer aber einen glaubwürdigen und gut durchdachten Dungeon-Crawler sucht, wird mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit Enttäuscht sein.

Wenn ihr an weiteren Reviews von mir interessiert seid, dann folgt meiner Gruppe.

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Verfasst: 12.03.22 11:06

Ich mag das Spiel, aber was mich reizt, kann ich noch nicht einmal vernünftig sagen. Das Spiel hat viele Rätsel und die Kämpfe sind taktisch, aber dafür sind die Wege manchmal lang und unübersichtlich.

In dem Spiel bestehen viele Bezüge zum alten Bard's Tale, obwohl es von System und Bewegung her nichts mehr damit zu tun hat. Die Steigerungen erfolgen über Fertigkeitsbäume. Das kann man mögen oder halt auch nicht.

Soweit ich bisher gespielt habe, könnte das Spiel von der Geschichte her auch außerhalb der Fantasy in jedem irdischen Kontext gespielt werden. Eine machtvolle Kirche sucht vermeintliche Bösewichte in fremdartigen Wesen - hier andere Rassen und Magier - und steckt wahrscheinlich selber hinter den Übeln, die sie als Ausrede nutzen.

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10135 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 05.02.22 08:08

Einfaches super geniales ADND mit rundenbasiertem Kampf.

Ich liebe die Vielfältigkeit an Kampfausprägungen der Helden.
Ob mit Barde oder ohne, wie klassisch mit Kämpfern, Dieben und Zauberern, dass Spiel ist vielseitig machbar und bietet immer Möglichkeiten durch Rücksetzen der Fertigkeiten.

Lies meine Guide für mehr Gold, um neue Token zum Rücksetzen zu bekommen(Schrein der Zwerge > 1000 Gold ofpern).

Hoffe, im nächsten Teil kommen wieder neue Klassen und Ausprägungen dazu.

Hf Credo

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7490 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 26.12.21 10:46

Fantastisches Rollenspiel liebevoll gemacht mit emotionaler Gänsehaut Musik. Für dieses Genres ein absolutes Muss.

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1292 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.05.21 19:57

Großartig! Ich liebe dieses Spieler, einer der besten Dungeon Crawler überhaupt! Hat alles was es braucht, Partymanagement, interessante Skillungen, gute Kämpfe, abwechselungsreiche Stories und Locations, Rätsel (ich stehe eigentlich nicht auf Puzzle, aber hier ziehe ich es durch)... und Hammermusik ;-)

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Verfasst: 21.05.21 20:42

Daumen hoch. ;-)

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Verfasst: 06.09.20 23:47

Wer The Bard's Tale 1-3 damals gern gespielt hat und nicht andere, aktuelle Spiele als Maßstab nehmen will, wird The Bard's Tale IV lieben. Es bietet genau das Spielerlebnis, wie es damals hätte sein sollen, aber technisch nicht möglich war. Anstatt pixeliger, sich immer wieder ähnelnden Dungeon-Dekorationen sieht man wunderschöne Welten in 3D. Und gleichzeitig fühlt man sich von vielen Elementen an das damalige Spiel erinnert. Sogar manches, was damals eigentlich unrealistisch war, wurde beibehalten, um dem original Gameplay treu zu bleiben - was man gut oder schlecht finden kann. Aber gleichzeitig wurde das Gameplay mit vielen Elementen erweitert, ohne dass man sich in Menüs und Optionen verzetteln würde. Mir gefällt es.

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5036 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 10.03.20 20:17

Top Musik
Top Rätsel
Top Kampfsystem
Okay Story
Okay Grafik
Hab ich die gute Musik und Rätsel schon erwähnt? :-)
Snow in Summer!!! :D

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1329 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 12.04.22 02:13

Really fantastic game. I was actually a backer for this game and it's clear they've put passion into this game. It has a great celtic atmosphere with the level design, the music, character design, the monster design and overall mythology, and the story is pretty good. The gameplay is also actually really good, the puzzles are eh.

I can't write a full review for this game, however because I hit a bugged puzzle(Magnar tower bell puzzle, so get ready to save like crazy) and I will die on the hill that the second a bug that requires me load and lose a ton of progress is just not something that should be tolerated and especially one that completely blocks progress in the game and isn't something that should be tolerated. There's several other bugs alongside this one, too.

I was super excited to finally play this game but honestly, the bugs really bring it down. There's also a lot of lag(no, my computer isn't the issue, it's the game) and jank, but that's really just a cherry on the top.

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Verfasst: 06.04.22 14:07

Dieser Beitrag hat noch keine Einträge.

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1376 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.04.22 10:04

So I actually reviewed this already and my review just vanished. I'm not going into the depth that I did with the original review, but I'll give a basic summary. I don't like this game. Even with the so-called Director's Cut, I've encountered bugs of all types from minor audio cut outs and volume inconsistencies, to hard crashes. The combat system is poorly designed, poorly implemented, clunky, and places limitations on the players party that it doesn't put on the enemies. For example, you can't move everyone in your party on each turn, the enemy very much can. The story is gibberish. Big evil guy being evil is joined by some other evil guys because evil's gonna evil. The world has no personality, it's just a mash up of word jumble names of places and people you won't remember five minutes later and that have nothing unique to contribute. The original series didn't do much in the way of story either and although slightly prettier, this continues the tradition. Generally I take pride in finishing a game before reviewing it. I don't have to 100% the game, but I want the complete experience from beginning to end at least once. I'm 22 hours into this game and I'm just done. The main reason is I'm not enjoying any aspect of it and I play games to experience new things, to be entertained, to be surprised, and all the other reasons we all enjoy gaming and this checks none of those boxes. I'm glad fans of the series got this for a little trip down nostalgia lane, but I also think this is a franchise best left in the past. I can't recommend this at any price.

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1372 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.03.22 03:47

I started playing the Bard's Tale series on an amber screen monitor. I loved seeing the series re-done for modern computers and this latest iteration... Just absolutely fantastic. The audio aspects, in particular (music and such), just blow me away. For being a labor of love the developers really did a fantastic job with this. Yes, it may not be like along the lines of an Elder Scrolls level of world play but it pays homage to the originals and plays well (and entertains) on it's own merit.

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4975 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 04.03.22 19:34

Cabbage, carrots, potatoes

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3369 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 26.02.22 13:40

I only played this because I loved Wasteland 3, I never heard of Bard's Tale. And I loved every single minute of it. This game is a hidden gem, a masterpiece. Riddles are very well balanced, combat is a blast, exploration is a delight, music is pure bliss... Seriously, just buy and play it, you will not regret it.

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4099 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 20.02.22 20:53

The worst performing game I've ever played (worse than Cyberpunk, even worse than Cryostasis). Nothing I did stopped this terrible performance with its awful stuttering, I couldn't even seem to minimise the stutter. Judging by the forums I was not alone. It's also a fairly crash-happy game. Crashing for me on almost double-figure occasions.

However, it's still a very good and interesting RPG 'dungeon crawler'. Tonnes of puzzles to think your way though (maybe a few too many really, but you can always use the inbuilt 'cheat spell' to bypass them, something I only had to do about 3 times).

Fights are interesting too, turn-based and with quite a bit of variety.

Graphics, when not stuttering, are beautiful. Sounds are amazing and this game features one of the most stunning soundtracks, complete with dozens of actual songs, that I've ever heard.

Recommended.

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Verfasst: 16.01.22 11:27

I just completed this wonderful Game. It's is very rare for me to review any game on Steam, but Bard's Tale IV is so satisfying that I had to sing it's praise so that more people will know how lovely this game is and give it a try.

Gameplay 8/10 - This game is essentially a Puzzle Game. The Combat / Story / Dungeons are challenging enough to keep you hooked.

Story 7/10 - Nothing out of the ordinary with the story plot. Typical Heroic Adventures and you will encounter Standard NPC Characters you expect from a Fantasy Game. Carrots. Cabbages. Potatoes.

World Design 9/10 - I love the beautiful world magically crafted to have you feel so immersed in the game. The maze and dungeon can get confusing at times and alot of back tracking is required, but it's like taking a stroll in your favorite garden in a brezzy morning.

Music 10/10 - The songs and music in this game is sublime. It goes so well in each stage of the game that you will hum along with them.

I bought it during the Steam Sale, but it's worth the full price in my 70 hours of game play. I will probably play through it a second time to go for all the side quest I missed.

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Verfasst: 09.01.22 01:55

Picked this up because Wasteland 3 was so great. Same company, same quality, same great story telling and gameplay. Fairly deep combat system that looks simple at the start. Kind of like XCom and Diablo had a baby with an Adventure Puzzle game. The complexity can take a while to overcome, you'll have 4 to 6 different party members with an array of classes and skills that all feed off each other. The skill trees are very deep and choices are impactful, My only complaint is there are a limited number of respecs -- it's enough get your builds right as you learn, but it discourages a lot of experimenting.

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Verfasst: 09.12.21 18:12

Very frustrating with simple mechanics. If you miss a small thing, you end up having to walk around all over the shoppe trying to find what you need to progress. I'm sat here thinking 'sod this for a pile of b0llocks'.

I'd like to like this, but it doesn't help itself or help you to like it either.

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9543 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.12.21 20:16

Bard's Tale IV is a love letter to the original trilogy. So many call-backs that took me back 35 years to when I was slogging through the original Skara Brae. It even includes one of my all-time favorite battles with 396 berserkers. You can build your own party, but the companions who join you along the way have some really witty interactions that are fun to listen to. Not sure why dwarves don't look like dwarves, but whatever. You can opt for skipping puzzles which is great for replay. This game is a must have for old guys like me who spent hundreds of hours and used up reams of graph paper drawing maps of every dungeon back in 1985. Enjoy!

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Verfasst: 08.11.21 02:46

Love the game, one of the most underrated games on steam. But a BIG warning. Game relies too heavily on puzzles, which was my only complaint after completing. In some areas you can't advance a few minutes with puzzle after puzzle which was somewhat annoying. Having said that, the puzzles are original enough that keep the interest to continue up. I wish that the devs, if they release another game, would bring down a notch or two the number puzzles. I beat the NES version 30 years ago and have not played another version until now, so no biased fanboy opinion of the series here. What you get is a great dungeon crawler with outstanding music and ambiance sounds, charming and detailed graphics, nicely animated combat, decently acted and funny voice-overs from your characters and npcs, and fun combat. Playing on normal I had to go back respec party members in different occasions to advance in some encounters so the challenge is there, and can be adjusted in the options. There are also options to keep it old school with grid movement, maps off etc. A gem in a genre which lacks new and fresh entries, unfortunately. Definitely recommend, specially if you like a puzzle heavy dungeon crawler.

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587 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.11.21 00:44

First, yes, first oldschool RPG I liked. But I've committed the ultimate RPG sin - I've created my character as I wanted and not as it was intended by developers (huge issue in RPGs of all kinds), so I'm stuck in the first (or second?) chapter in combat with elves without any chance of defeating them except starting over again with different character I don't want to play with.

But it looks like a great game :D

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2157 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 24.10.21 06:34

For a game designed in the fashion of old school dungeon crawler games, this one is rather simple and easy to the point of being boring. Including a rather long forced tutorial section, forcing companions on you and not letting you play as you wish until much later on, a severely lacking diversity in equipment, an awfully designed inventory system and some terrible puzzles later I couldn't be bothered to continue.

It really is a shame as I enjoyed the gameplay in the early game, it just never progressed from there much at all.

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6826 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 04.10.21 18:29

I grew up playing the Bards tale series with my father. We had an Amiga 500 and the imagery and monsters are some of my fondest memories. Playing BT IV, at first I was hesitant to the differences, but now I find its an amazing journey down nostalgia lane. Loved the new game mechanics! I would love to see this new iteration blossom and introduce new legends and stories, while expanding on the new combat system.

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Verfasst: 03.10.21 16:25

*Stellar* first-person CRPG. A very modern take on the classic dungeon crawler that requires an open mind to fully appreciate. Have fun!

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1162 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 26.08.21 02:40

Best game sound track ever

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2268 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 12.08.21 22:35

Great game. I love the puzzles and humor. The atmosphere of the game is awesome! I highly recommend playing it!

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Verfasst: 12.08.21 19:49

Great game with amazing gaelic music

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Verfasst: 11.08.21 16:44

Great RPG featuring very well thought out combat and good visuals. Very nice.

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1403 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.08.21 16:26

Vamos ver se ele tem os 3 elementos que um RPG raiz precisa ter:

1 - Exploração sem linearidade, com abertura de caminhos após certo progresso, puzzles, etc. OK!
2 - Variedade de itens, magias, skills, etc. OK!
3 - Combate estratégico. OK!

Aprovado!

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5789 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.08.21 13:00

This game is phenomenal! The story, the music, the environment, the characters. I love everything about it, and now that I have finished it I am left with a big, gaping hole in my life. So I guess it's time to start another Skyrim playthrough...

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5446 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.07.21 07:37

This is a puzzle game (on steroids) masquerading as an RPG (even the combat feels like solving puzzles). And I hate puzzle games. Yet, for some reason, I can't stop playing it. That must mean there is something pretty awesome about it... If you enjoyed the previous Bard's Tale puzzle dungeon crawls (BT1, 2, and 3), then you will probably love this game (I played them--never finished them--but now I have the Internet to come to my rescue!). If you only ever played The Bard's Tale ARPG (which I really enjoyed), then you might not like this game. The music is awesome. The graphics are nice. The puzzles can be annoying (but you can go look up the solutions now, so...). I find the combat hard (so I decided to play on easy and am enjoying the game now, whereas before...).

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5728 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.07.21 04:23

This game has a lot going for it. Interesting graphics, an enjoyable turn-based tactical combat system, and a complete absence of the sad and pathetic art style where everyone is either a siliconized runway model or a Chippendale.

Then there's the puzzles. They start out fun and there's a nice balance between combat and stopping for puzzles. But as the game goes on the puzzles begin to outnumber the battles, and sadly they become increasingly obtuse to the point it's no longer fun.

Since I'm not inclined to spend my time looking up solutions on the Internet, or toggling on a song I'm going to have to button mash the rest of the game to solve them for me, I had to give it up and I just can't recommend the game to any but the most devoted puzzle spergs.

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3188 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.06.21 00:33

Make sure you enjoy puzzles because, like your classic dungeon crawler, this has plenty of them. I was taken aback by this when I first began playing it because I expected more of a traditional RPG-type game but this didn't stop me from enjoying the experience.

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4507 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 05.06.21 11:43

What you need to know:
- party based action point and tactical positioning combat system
- lots of puzzles (from easy to tough), sometimes too many actually
- some backtracking if you are a completionist
- more than 60h of gameplay

All in all its still quite enjoyable and unique RPG. I think it has not much in common with the original Bards Tale games, but that was not a problem for me.

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10706 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 29.05.21 22:08

Most of the puzzles were fun. Most I solved. A few were blah; and some pissed me off. Overall this was an epic game with an immense environment to explore. I spent 178 hours playing it. Definitely worth the money.

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2051 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 13.05.21 22:01

-Slow exploration.
-Combat gets taking used to.
-Too many puzzles.

+Really fun exploitable combat system.
+Great soundtrack.
+Great VO.
+Cool Setting.

Go for it

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5301 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 08.05.21 20:59

It's a good dungeon crawler with many areas to explore, secrets to find and puzzles to solve.
The variety in enemies and their abilities keeps the combat tactical and engaging for more than just the early game, sometimes requiring you to swap out equipment or skills.

And the game has an excellent soundtrack.

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6603 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.05.21 15:47

This is the best RPG I played in a long time, the best grid based first person rpg hands down.

It is very faithfull to the source material, a worthy 4th entry to the series. There are things in this game that made me go, I always wanted to see this (since I played the first game back in 85).

The music is the best thing about it though, really worthy of a game called the BARDS tale.

Loved the game from start to finish. Thank you Brian Fargo for keeping at the Tale for all theese decades.

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4223 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 15.04.21 02:42

TL;DR: if you like dungeon crawlers, get it now, because it delivers.

Yes, the game was, is and probably still will be a buggy mess. But if you overlook some of it's shortcomings, you will enjoy it greatly. I nearly finished the original BT4 before the more polished and optimised DC came out and I replayed the game till the ending while having great deal of fun. The game has charming atmosphere and very enjoyable combat.

The combat starts somewhat bland but will only get better with new characters, skills, equipment and enemies. There is more than one way how to build your party members and exploit some of their abilities to create powerful combos.

Story was a bit on the weak side, but I never got to play the trilogy before...my loss.

Finally, puzzles. Let's just say that none of them made me ragequit the game and most of them were enjoyable enough, albeit unnecessary difficult. I had to look up for a solution for one or two near the endgame, but other than that, I usually got through them with trial and error.

Compared to other modern titles like Vaporum, Operencia, StarCrawlers, LoGII, M&MX, this game is on par, maybe slightly better value. Go get it.

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4130 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 11.04.21 04:07

What an awesome CRPG dungeon crawler hybrid. It was gutted at its original launch because of the god awful stability and performance issues, which have been largely fixed in the Director's Cut, largely. It has that feeling of classic RPGs that do not hold your hand and where death awaits around every corner if you don't plan properly. If the puzzles annoy just read a guide and skip them, you'll still get your money's worth from gameplay alone. Special mention goes to the awesome Gaelic and new age music that permeates the game and gives it its own unique atmosphere. 8.5/10

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3920 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 28.03.21 21:25

As frustrating as this game is I'll still recommend it. They honestly could have cut out an easy 20 hours of puzzles and made the game a lot more fluid and fun. I did not beat it. Made it really close to the end and decided that the puzzles were not worth my time. I imagine most people reach this conclusion. But getting to that point will probably yield hours of gameplay which is well worth the price tag of the game.

Another thing they could do is character class mastery expansions. It would help make the game worth beating, as you max out your class well before the end of the game.

That said, the story is good and there's lots of exploration to be had.

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468 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 18.03.21 05:40

I don't mind the RPG on rails, I don't mind the extremely simple puzzles but I just cannot stand the combat system. It's some kind of poor attempt at making some tactical turn based combat and it just falls flat because there are so few good options early on that it makes every battle a chore you just want to get over with. Maybe it gets better later but I have many other games that are actually interesting from the get go that I don't feel the need to endure through morass to get to the good parts.

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2853 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 17.03.21 22:34

Do you think to yourself when playing games, man I wish games would be more 'Alive' and give me the same feeling I had when I first played a meaningful game for the first time. Then this might be the game for you as it was for me. The story is very straight forward but while playing this game I did not mind one bit because it was the details in each characters personality that made it special. Not going to spoil and you shouldn't spoil yourself either don't look game-play or anything on youtube because if you do it won't look like much it's only if you play it yourself and 'feel it' for yourself that you will understand.

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5079 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 16.03.21 16:04

It is a suprising good game. Fun gameplay and storyrich.
Challenging at some parts.
Gameplay feels oldschool but not dated.
Alot of puzzels which does not hold your hand you have to figure alot out by yourself

Bigges Problem are in my opinion the grafics with look like from 2000.

Bugs are minior and in the whole playtime so gar only two crashes.
Overall your really get your money worth.

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2073 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 16.03.21 05:18

Do not buy this game if you like to just play a game, This game requires you do the exact things with these exact races and classes and powers, you fail/. It is literally on a RPG on rails, and if you don't make the IDEAL everything, you lose. I managed to take my non ideal team (ideal = 3 dwarves front, 3 outlanders back) all the way to the 2nd mangar fight, if you aren't running ideal, good luck. There is no fun to be had in a game that forces specific builds and such nonsense. Why bother with character creation and such if your game is designed to force everyone to use the same cookie cutter nonsense.

The game is simply designed to give people headaches and it works great in this regard.

Also the Mostly positive rating is BS, as they removed their older version of the game from the store to ditch is negative reviews.

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5084 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.03.21 11:20

It's a great puzzle-filled game.

I especially fell in love with exploration. Every area you go to is also like a little puzzle. You will not be able to explore it fully until you gain certain abilities, figure out some secrets, notice certain details. There are treasures waiting for you behind mysterious rune gates and all you need to do is figure out how to make them open for you. And the game does not hold your hand here at all - not everything is a quest in your journal or a marker on you map. But the world itself invites you to discover its secrets and be observant.

The various puzzles you meet are mostly not particularly challenging but quite enjoyable to solve nonetheless.

Combat is nice and tactical. And you can always mix it up by changing your party if you get bored with a particular set of skills and related strategies. Wanna try going around with six bards now and see what hell they can raise? You certainly can :). Your party members (even those you create yourself, not only the pre-made ones you meet) all have personalities, things to say. They interact with each other and comment on your travels. Crux is my personal favourite.

Story is quite nice and the many big and small references to the original trilogy are just lovely. I am still laughing at 99 waves of 4 Berserkers each. That said, it is NOT a story of player choice, you will not be shaping it and it will not react to your decisions. Because, well, you make practicaly no decisions in it.

And as we are talking about the 'Bard's Tale', let me comment on the music. It can get repetitive if you are staying in one spot for a very long time but that's my only complaint. Music is very cool, bardish, hummable, fitting to the general mood of each area and sometimes it gets stuck in your head.

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2895 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 05.03.21 20:25

If you`re person that can get very immersed in to a game or you are looking for a game to play while high420 - THIS IS A MUST.

To start off, for people who think of trying it out(buying it) I am here to tell you that you, YOU SHOULD NOT WORRY ABOUT BUYING IT AND NOT BEING ABLE GET A REFUND!!!!! It won`t take longer then 90 minutes for you to realize if its a game for you or not.

WHAT I LIKE:
-Combat system : simple, easy to understand
-Puzzles : super fun, always makes you feel awesome once you figure a harder puzzle. Also you cannot cheat in this game as finding guides for some of the optional puzzles are impossible as.... well yeah, they don`t exist as this game does not have a community(as in more then 10 people).
-Story : just a classic normal story with no bs.
-NOT SURE HOW TO CALL THIS BUT THE ART STYLE IS AWESOME( scenery, characters, the skill tree, the leaf that i saw in game... pretty much 10/10 in this)
-The voice acting : cannot add anything here but in this also perfect.
-music: oh boy...yeah... good

THINGS THAT I DON`T LIKE(more of things you should be aware of before buying)
- BUGS, LOTS OF THEM. Over the realese most of the huge bugs got fixed, but... that`s all you get, it`s buggy as shit, crashes often, the game is no longer supported as well, meaning no more fixes.
-Easily breakable,if you read the skills and items and all that bs, you`ll become op, and doing that would make combat practicly non existant, even if you`re playing on the hardest combat difficulty.
- fairly short, took me about around 22 hours to complete the whole game

To end off, i want to say, this game, totally not for everyone, only us retars ( if ya kno wha am sain).

This is a hidden gem for some, and for others - garbage.
To end off this review, that noone is gonna read, YEAH I PLAYED THIS GAME HIGH AND IT WAS FCKING AWESOME, AND THEN 1 YEAR LATER I FINISHED IT AGAIN HIGH AND IT WAS AWESOME AGAIN.
But take it with a grain of salt, as I was high
8/10
Life is meaningless... but also is death, so don`t die, no reason to ;D

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3356 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 23.02.21 05:24

Bard's tale 4 is a grid-based (sort of) turn-based dungeon crawler RPG.

PROS: Lots of gameplay (55 hours at the moment, with some quests and DLC unfinished).
Unique combat system with opportunity (total melee and skill actions per turn for a party, though it can be extended in many ways)
Lots of side quests, and while the main quest and opening of new areas is linear, there are several parts where you can do things in the order of your choice
Fair amount of lore, ~30 pages or so of books and notes to pick up (that I found, at least), dozens of NPCS that will tell you their life story, and dozens more ghosts you can bother for their life stories if inclined to do so.
Unique musical score*
Decent skill/build customization within individual classes
Many puzzles but also an ability (has to be enabled in gameplay options) to bypass most of them if they get tedious after a while. Which they do, at least for me, after the 4th or 5th round of fairy bird golf, 15th set of stones to push around in a certain order, and 30th cogwheel doorway.

NEUTRAL:
Hope you like the theme song, because the NPCs will sing it over and over.
Music files sometimes play in odd places...more than once I heard joyous chanting and Christmas caroling in and around a temple full of dead priests and undead.
Enemies do not respawn (though new encounters appear in certain areas as the story progresses), so there is a finite amount of xp/gold/loot to be gained. However, if you fully explore and do everything, it's far more than enough to complete most builds and get all the gold you need.
The overall storyline is average, not great, not horrible. The badd peopl are coming and only four arbitrarily selected people can stop them.
You'll probably have to look online to find where some things are or how to do certain quests. You'll definitely have to look online to find the item offerings for the zodiac codewheel, which explicitly requires the use of an online item codex and website to match the two pictures and the moon.

CONS:
Only four classes, and the opportunity system further restricts available builds (can't be melee-heavy). Sub-classes alleviate this somewhat, though they are limited as well, both in number and by the four-skill combat limit (also a major gripe--each character can only ever have four skills (+1 from trinket and movement) loaded for use in combat at one time. It's more of an annoyance than a gameplay challenge. Only a couple bosses or enemy types really require a change in strategy to necessitate switching skills.

Turning off the music is insufficient to stop the singing in a lot of areas.

Relatively few enemy types--mainly Fatherite cultists or skeletons of various class/levels. Several unique boss encounters, though.

While there's an option to switch between grid-based movement and free movement, grid-based is much faster but difficult to control since it's not a simple flat square grid. Changing to grid-based gives an advantage in getting through some traps due to the speed. Standard movement is much slower, and also gets stuck somewhat easily on anything--there's no jumping, falling, or climbing over the smallest of obstacles without specifically a ladder or grappling hook node.

Inventory space is limited and bothersome to maneuver. It's not a problem in the beginning, where you don't get much loot, but for whatever reason, most higher level encounters drop 2-3 weapons or armor per fight, resulting in enough extra crap to fill not only your own inventory but deplete the gold from every merchant in the game.

Overall it's a good game and the pros outweigh the cons. I got the Director's Cut on sale for $15, which was more than worth it's cost. I'm not sure how much it differs from the standard version, though. It does come with the Haernhold DLC.

*Hope you like yodeling

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140 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 13.02.21 03:33

I expected this to be like the original Bard's Tale games, where you create a party of characters for some good old-fashioned first-person dungeon crawling.

This... isn't quite that.

There's the first-person dungeon crawling, but it's more akin to modern RPGs where sure, you create your starter character who is permanently a member of your party, but then you have to team up with pre-generated characters along the way, who leave when their business with you is done. What, you were expecting to create a half-dozen custom characters with the classes YOU want and develop them into a crew of ultimate asskickers as you conquer one dungeon after another? Hahahaha... no.

To be fair, this game isn't horrible at what it does, laboring to be a more story-oriented first-person dungeon crawl than usual. (It needs less trap options, though, like when it lets you buy a weapon in a store, only for you to find a chest with a superior version of that weapon literally two minutes later.)

But it's not a Bard's Tale game as I remember them, and that's what I was in the mood for when I bought it.

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21138 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 29.01.21 02:22

i definitely scratched the 80s bards tale itch.. really enjoyed those titles when they came out.. this game does a masterful job of recapturing that feel, with modern graphics and mechanics.. puzzles can be hard, but, makes it all that more enjoyable when the light goes on.. and thankfully they installed the option to skip puzzles in directors cut.. makes replay much more fun.. finding the right combination of troops/spells/weapons is definitely a must.. or you will suffer.. luckily have found multiple mixes that work (amazingly practitioner seemed at best a light/spell support troop for instance, maxed str w/ 2 daggers(1 the soul dagger)does more dmg than frontline).. dwarven fighters seemed nice, cant be moved, w/ axes deadly.. altho my favorite is human/einar fighters.. almost impossible to win a couple battles without them.. the bard was hard to like, becomes indispensable later on tho(wine pairing a must).. trow thief is a must(they coulda had a lot more fun with wringneck tho.. left a lot on the table)

the game can be won multiple ways.. this game is a thinkers game, how to best draw the enemies towards me, what to hit and with what, taking out enemies correctly is crucial.. strongest armor is not always the best, weapons matching to skills is critical.. the strategy layers are deep and thought-provoking.. every battle is just a bit different, skeletons can be hell(just wont stay dead).. kill the necro fast

what makes this game is the combat.. it has a good story/not great.. the music and voice acting is nice/ everything goes well with the atmosphere.. the game is very linear, not a bad thing, just not a open world.. that being said i have 300+ hours as of this review.. and will go higher

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2759 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 26.01.21 21:26

If you're in the mood for some 80's fun, with updated graphics and great music, you could probably not do better than this.

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2575 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 18.01.21 14:12

A solid piece of a game. The main story with a couple side quests will take ya 30-40 hours, it gets buggy sometimes, got a couple crashes and annoying bugs but nothing too major. Overall the game gets pretty repetative half way through, stale combat, and typical RPG-esque story don't help. The music is extremally awesome, a lot of character and tons of love in the atmosphere kept me engaged. There are puzzles, some stupid but most of them are pleasant. The VO is superbly executed. I loved it but it is a chore and sore sometimes to play through. Nontheless it is a great game and if the bugs were fixed and a couple of thigns changed it would be perfect.

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3751 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 13.01.21 04:46

The saddest part about this game is that it could have been really great. I encountered so many bugs playing through this, from minor graphical/cinematic/text and spelling problems to major game play issues that lost me significant progress in multiple parts of the game. If the creators decide to give the game a very thorough bug sweep and patch it then definitely give it a go, otherwise don't waste your time.

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5491 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.01.21 21:32

I never played I-III, but I enjoyed the XBox spinoff when I was a kid, and expected an action RPG with lots of satire. This isn't that. It is a dungeon-crawling tactical RPG with puzzles. Lots of puzzles. I treated the combat like a puzzle too, trying to finish each fight in a minimum number of turns. The music is fine but songs are repetitive. Scenery/graphics are modern. The story is generic, which makes the overall game drag on once combat becomes too easy. It was still an enjoyable experience.

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2437 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.12.20 08:35

Don't buy into the negative rep of this game. The bugs have largely been resolved and it cleverly introduces both classic and modern RPG elements while providing a 'fresh' new take on tactical party combat. The puzzles can be fun and add an interesting twist. There is an option to make them fully skippable as well if its not your thing. In fact you can customise your playthrough to play like an old school 80s grid dungeon crawler, or experience the more modern traditional camera and movement. There is in fact so many ways you customise your playthrough I was actually blown away by the features you can turn on and off to give each player the experience they want to enjoy.

I'm a fan of many RPGs from old school BG, to Modern games like the Witcher ,and tactical games like Wastleland 2. IF you want something that shakes up the formula don't be turned off to try this. First game that has hooked me in for some time. The teething issues like many other games upon release have largely been resolved.

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3024 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.11.20 21:33

Excellent for old time gamer. Not recommended for casual player.

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3112 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 28.10.20 03:16

Bards Tale 4 is something special. 20 hours in, zero crashes, zero bugs and tons of fun. Interesting puzzles, solid combat system, great voice acting, varied and interesting locations, loads of loot, puzzle weapons, unique items. The list goes on. The writing in this game is fantastically quirky and there is some down right hilarious banter between the companions.

If you're a fan of turn based RPG's with an old school approach to design I think Bards Tale 4 is worth your time and money, it's been a while since I've had this much fun in a video game.

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3687 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 23.10.20 20:28

I thoroughly enjoyed Bard's tale 4. Fun combat, multiple classes and ways to build a party just for you and plenty of explorable zones and multiple optional dungeons and quests. And that soundtrack? oooh it's full of bangers!

Not a perfect game by all means it had its issues. Sometimes the targeting in combat could be a bit wonky and sometimes if you try to cast too many abilities in a row the game would take a little while to think things through.

But all in all if you enjoy turn-based combat, exploration and some damn fine music, I would recommend the game. Good stuff.

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5765 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 12.10.20 03:04

The plain truth is this game has been excessively maligned. Take careful note, though, that I've said excessively and not unfairly. It's not a bad game. In fact, it's something of a great game. Combat is fun and strategic, the writing is strong, the puzzles are generally interesting, and the music/sound design is probably the best of any game I've ever played.

But it has a number of dire flaws -- too tight inventory, needlessly restrictive in-combat skill selection, arduous travel on confusing maps -- that are stupefyingly incongruous within a (as I must insist) great game. What bizarre combination of choices, blunders, and internal architecture could have led to such a thing? It's akin to a magnificent house... with a garage on its roof. A woman with a lovely pair of breasts... on the soles of her feet. A brilliant surgeon... who loves to use PCP.

I'm amusing myself with the metaphors, so I could go on, but readers both patient and impatient surely get my point: buy at a steep discount, and then enjoy thoroughly.

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84 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 11.10.20 07:25

I may come back to this now and again, but man, I waited 30 years for a sequel, and with all the innovations made in computer gaming, this is what we get in 2019? I would say I was disappointed, but I've learned not to get my hopes up with these resurrected franchises. I don't know what I expected, but a mouse-driven RPG where hitting escape doesn't even get you out of dialogue windows is really, really bad design. There's way too much to get into with a review... suffice to say unless it's on supersale, I wouldn't bother.

The only thing nostalgic about this game is the load times.

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3844 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 17.09.20 00:28

A lovely journey of a game. Somewhat niche dungeon crawler with turn-based combat. It has its issues (like bugs and ugly human models), but the environments, the humour and the songs really make up for them. My mind boggles to think how much time the devs spent on the songs. I found them sublime. The game has puzzles; secrets; crafting; drinking; crafting stuff to drink; battles and cheese; cabbage, carrots and potatoes; and, again, so many wonderful songs. I mean, this is the Bard's tale. So I'm off to drink some cold ale, dance a hearty jig, hum a lively tune and carouse with the maidens! Pip-pip!

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4154 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 06.09.20 13:43

If you want to complete this game - please understand that it's a chore.

Why? I'll be honest - I really liked The Bard's Tale IV during the first ~20 hours. Turn combat system was exactly what I wanted and expected, story was decent enough, character progression still existed, puzzles were new, there wasn't much backtracking and many bugs.
But this game is 65 hours long.

And those positive feelings I had were quickly replaced by a sense of doing actual work to progress. The biggest issue for me were the puzzles. There are few types of them, but the problem is that they're being thrown at the player literally every few minutes. For 65 hours! In a turn based combat rpg! And it's even worse during the last dungeon which consists only of puzzles.

Speaking of the last dungeon - fight with the final boss of the game is a joke. I had dozens (seriously) of way harder fights with random groups of enemies, even right before this boss. Such a disappointment after all this [strike]time[/strike] work put into the game.

The third major problem with this title is a repetitive combat. You stop getting any new enemies halfway through the game, and unfortunately the more powerful your characters are - the longer the combat tends to be. Why? Because the game has huge problems calculating all the effects applied on the enemies by your party. With few poison/fire/stun effects you're gonna get around 10 seconds freezes in combat, during which engine tries to catch up with what you've just done to the enemy. So it makes the boring fights in the second half of the game even longer - wonderful isn't it?

This would be good 30-35 hours title, especially that quaility of quests absolutely doesn't justify making it any longer. Unfortunately devs chose the route of artificially extending it by reusing assets and incorporating tons of backtracking. I can't agree with this kind of practice.

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5937 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 04.09.20 16:25

I REALLY enjoyed the hell out of this!!

never had any crash issues, ran smooth.

the one thing i did come across is there are a few places to get hung up on the terrain, but always wiggled free, sometimes took a bit of doing to find the sweet spot to escape it, but never made me reload.

NEED MORE!

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4245 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 28.08.20 20:36

I don't understand these negative reviews. This game is AWESOME and was clearly made with love. Is it perfect? No, of course not, but I played the original Bard's tale games when they first came out and this game really feels like a successor to the originals. Hightly recommended.

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5264 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 20.08.20 22:12

Whoa What an experience it was. I am so happy that I got to buy and play this game. Mesmerising experience. The developers really did their best to make this game feel authentic and entertaining in every possible way. The only complaint that I have with me is they could have optimised certain parts of the game better. Nonetheless an overall epic fantasy experience. After giving it 80+ hours I am still asking for more and I hope in future there is gonna be a sequel or spin-off to this game but hey don't do it cash-in the franchise but develop it only when you have something awesome just like this one.
Hands down an awesome game with sweet and heart touching music.

LOVED IT and I highly recommend it.

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2366 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 18.08.20 18:09

This game is made for old school RPG fans that tire of the modern fast paced reaction time style FPSs that have flooded the market for the past decade, but still want to use a controller to play for maximum couch comfy.
The controls and gameplay are very relax and not overly complicated. All of the negative reviews I read for this game basically convinced me BT4 is something I’d like, and I wasn’t disappointed. Yes you can’t jump, Yes it’s turnbased, Yes the crafting system is simple, Yes I will buy your game.
My only complaint is the weak story. The events aren’t held together very well and the voice acting doesn’t help its cause. However, most of the humor is spot on and I still get attached to the characters.
Overall this is a great game for the older generation that doesn’t take itself too seriously and is very relaxing to play. *Bonus points for the game’s incredible music!*

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11360 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.08.20 16:42

I've won this game through Steamgifts website.
Finally a solid turn(hex)-based RPG. The game can also be played within real-time, but it is nice to have the option. After Legend of Grimrock I've lost hope I'll see any title that could have at least some climate like Ultima Underworld, Realms of Arkania or old Might&Magic series. Fortunately this game has it. The content is quite large , with nice story and melodies, interesting combat and quite large spectrum of skills. The graphic is somewhat disputing. On one had the world itself is wonderful, as well as cut-scenes, on the other the models are quite clunky, especially the females. It looked like the creator hasn't met any beautiful human in his life. I'm also having some problems with the lore. Sure every game can think for itself, but this purple hairless thing is a dwarf? And this ugly, greenskin is an elf?
Also be warned that although any true RPG usually has some puzzles, here that becomes extreme. Almost everything here is a puzzle, even combat in some way. Fortunately there is a melody that resolves most of those.
Well it is nice to have the Linux port, but either the port or game itself suffers from problems. The player can get stuck sometimes, some cut-scenes glitch, some quests can not trigger events, and so on. Fortunately that can usually be resolved by coming back to previous save slot.
Anyway the game is unique and worth playing.

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950 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 08.08.20 19:02

everything great except from the freaking stuttering

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11415 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.08.20 06:12

This game is the best dungeon crawler in years. If you played, better than Legend of Grimrock, this is updated og dungeon crawling action, with inventive turn based gameplay, buy this game and be amazed how much you have playing a game with puzzles, gun combat, and catchy soundtrack. It reminds me of Legend Of Zelda almost at how it manages to combine all three seamlessly in its gameplay.

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6752 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 18.07.20 22:05

Easily one of the best reimaginings of RPGs that you could actually complete and see all that is there. The music is fantastic and the puzzles are fun and just the right challenge (and can be skipped if you don't want them). Combat is round-based and varied (due to different loadouts you can build).
Best 112 Hours I spent lately.

Are there still bugs? Yeah, a few. The only one that really is obnoxious though is if your controller switches off during play you will not be able to resume using it (thumbstick click menus don't work anymore.) This breaks all your savegames from that point on. So I suggest reloading from a point before that happened and of course: Save often, save early...

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434 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 04.07.20 02:46

I was looking forward to a good old RPG and was mildly dissapointed when the game is really just a big puzzle simulator. Every room, every corner you turn, every step you take - another puzzle. In the end I bored with it and uninstalled. Good thing I bought this on sale, otherwise I would want a refund. Probably good for people with obsessive compulsive disorder who like puzzles.

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77 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.07.20 20:47

Poor optimization, poor selection of character portraits, wonky gameplay.
Could have been made so much better.

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15 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.07.20 11:58

I picked up the original version of Bard's Tale on launch day and it was an insane mess. I feel like the gameplay and all would be fun if it wasn't such a technical mishap on PC. Even after months of updates, it never got any better, and then I heard a Director's Cut was coming. It boasted gameplay tweaks and performance tweaks that should make it all a much better experience.

Well, I'm here to say that this is still insanely disappointing. It's a shame, because inXile has done some incredible work in the past, but this game is a monster to get to run without technical issues, and don't even bother if you play games at higher than than 60hz refresh rate. I've got a 9900k and 1080ti and get like 50fps in the very first area when the game starts (with a 144hz monitor, it just looks absolutely horrid). I have the Xbox Game Pass, so I'm thinking I may give it a look on console, since I'm sure it's locked to 30fps and would probably look just fine on a TV. But as a PC game, this is one of the most shockingly disappointing releases I've had the misfortune of buying in the last few years.

Mileage may vary; if you're a die-hard dungeon crawler fan, I say grab it on sale and hope that it works for you. As I said, gameplay seems fun, but it's a graphical and technical mess for me personally. Hard to enjoy the gameplay when the game doesn't play.

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423 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.07.20 00:33

First part of the game was fun. Classic RPG actions. Wondering around fighting monsters and solving quests. I liked it. Then I got to the mage tower and that game I was playing was gone. Now it's just wondering around solving arbitrary and random puzzles. Not even the fun well designed puzzles either. Just randomly thrown out there just to have puzzles it seemed. I was going to push through hoping it got back to the earlier style after this, but according to the game guide I looked at, this is it. This boring thrown together puzzles with a battle thrown in once in a while to break up the boredom is the entire game.

I feel cheated. I've played too long to get a refund and then spent 12 hours downloading this monstrosity. There are other, better classic style RPGs. Some of them even have puzzles that are fun. Play those instead.

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50 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.06.20 20:46

Game runs with constant 60FPS when shadows are set to low (no shadows) - but FPS drops down to 35FPS and stuttering when shadows are one step above low. I have a Geforce 2060RTX and my rig runs other, more graphically intensive games perferctly on high / ultra. Reading a few threads this game is poorly optimized. Requested a refund.

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2209 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 29.06.20 07:59

Fantastic! I don't find myself writing many reviews but I felt inclined on this one. With this being my intro into the Bard's Tale franchise, I will go back and try the others even knowing they are not the same style game play. I have been waiting for a long time for a game with a good balance of puzzle, combat, mild comedy, and story intrigue. I tend to play a game for a bit then lose interest. Many many games. This one I can see myself finishing. It looks beautiful and the music (I usually turn off) is mostly wonderful. Thank you developers for the nostalgia I thought was once lost from my rpg video games

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255 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 27.06.20 20:53

I logged many, many hours in the original Bard's Tale games so I was quite excited when this Kickstarter was announced. Excited to the tune of a $100 pledge to get my name in the credits. But now that it has been released and I've spent six hours playing it, I am bitterly disappointed. I've had no real technical issues, but this game plays absolutely nothing like the originals. They abandoned every single mechanic and left us with a mediocre, dumbed down RPG on rails. I'll wait for the next three patches and try to play it again, but my expectations are buried in the dirt. At this point, the only redeeming thing from this whole ordeal is the Bard's Tale 1-3 remastering effort by Krome that inXile commissioned.

Update: after three patches, it's still not Bard's Tale. AND the thread I created to talk about why I was unhappy got locked by paul_inxile after he called me passive aggressive and said I had an attitude. I backed BT4, Wasteland 2, and Torment all at very high dollar values (>$100). I won't be backing anything else these guys do. Do you want to lose your biggest fans? This is how you do it, fellas.

InXile you have failed this city and you have failed me.

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3232 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 23.06.20 19:59

If you love dungeon crawling wth turn based combat and solving puzzles, you will love the game! Otherwise I think you better play something else.

Bar's Tale IV does some things really well, and some things are unbelievably bad. I'll list only the ones that really impressed me in a good or a bad way.

Pros:
- Great visual style and graphics overall, despite the game being a rather budget product
- Amazing music/songs and pretty good voice-overs
- Atmosphere is definitely there thanks to visuals and sound
- Many puzzles are really cleverly done and fun to solve
- Nobody is holding your hand (you can even chose to disable quest markers and whatnot)

Cons:
- Horrible UI, especially in battles (at time it's really hard to select a character you want - clickable area doesn't correspond to the character's model)
- Battles with common enemies quickly become repetitive
- The same goes with some puzzles
- Loot is rather limited: later in the game you find the same items, but with better stats

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5693 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 16.06.20 03:07

Have to say this has been one of the buggiest games I've played and didn't finish due to a bug where I've lost the steel key to continue the adventure. Sadly, I won't get the 75 hours back and the constant pain of going back and repec my characters just to win one battle was nuts. Sorry but this would be a 2 out of 10 scale type game.

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3473 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.05.20 06:20

A solid entry in the Bard's tale series, spruced up for the modern era. Solid turn based strategy mixed with real time movement, think D&D or Persona. Also, love the music.

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3504 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 18.05.20 19:32

I love these types of games. This one keeps me entertained very well. The difficulty is... serviceable. I guess its as hard as you can get for being a turn based game with optional perma death. It also has far too few of classes. You only have 4 classes with the option of getting a limited amount of uses of a single sub class. The subclass is the same no matter what main class you apply it to.

That being said. The game has a pretty interesting story. Lots of exploration and beautiful views. while combat does not have much variety and depth in options, it keeps you entertained by being so approachable and fast. It is worth the full price tag in my opinion.

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3025 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 07.05.20 01:26

Fell through the map 3 minutes into the game. Thought I’d give it another try, ends up I might be the most fun I have had in a game this year.
The voice acting is so odd and hilarious. Could not stop laughing anytime the main character would say “we are all going to die!.” On top of that the rest of the game is so full of charm and goofy ness. Game play is pretty fun once you get a hang of it and I really liked the blend of puzzles in it.
I am very glad I have this game a second chance even though it is a bit buggy and ugly at times. Underneath is a charming RPG that is full of fun.

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6665 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.05.20 23:39

If you're looking for an update to the old-school RPG, this isn't it.

First the good. The graphics and sound on this are amazing, some of the best music/visuals I've ever heard or seen. The voice acting is well done, as is the integration of songs throughout the game.

Now the bad. This game is FULL of bugs. I've had numerous crashed to desktops, glitches, pauses, etc. I've had skills on my hot-bar just disappear for no reason. If that isn't bad enough, I've had actual enemies disappear in combat, which left me sitting there trying to figure out why the battle wasn't over yet. During combat, I've had long pauses where nothing happens for several seconds, without any obvious reason. There were graphical glitches where things from combat, like special powers, carried over to exploration, and the only way to remove them was to reload the game.

My biggest complaint however, is the sheer amount of riddles/puzzles/mazes in this game. The entire game world, including towns, are laid out like mazes. I understand this might harken back to the original Bard's Tale games, but after a while, it just gets way too tedious. Every town, every area, is like a maze you have to explore. On top of that, you will constantly be returning to areas over and over to unlock something that you find earlier in the game, but will not be able to solve until much later in the game. It really interrupts the flow. If i had to put a number on it, I'd say this game is 80% puzzles/riddles, and about 20% combat. Some of the puzzles are enjoyable the first few times, but when you're on the same type of puzzle for the thousandths time, it's just way too much.

I had high hopes for this game, and the first few hours of play are enjoyable and a bit nostalgic, but after a while the game just gets to be more of a chore than fun.

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3581 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 02.05.20 22:54

But of course the best InXile game is the one I did not back on Kickstarter... It's 1/3 story + exploration, 1/3 combat + party management, 1/3 puzzles + riddles. In short: the perfect combination! And I even had the pleasure to fight Tarjan again, just 30 years after I killed him on the Commodore 64 in The Bard's Tale 3. If only the inventory wasn't broken in _every_ possible way... Still one of the most enjoyable RPGs recently. And for my old pal, who asked me, whether you can import your party from an 1988 floppy disk - no, you cannot.

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56 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 02.05.20 10:52

This game is zero optimized. With an AMD Ryzen x3800 and an RX5700XT I got an out of video memory error on the exact same passage of the game. Cant recommend it.

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4832 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 29.04.20 15:54

Bard's Tale IV is honestly one of the best RPGs I've played in a thousand years. Its story is rich and beautifully told; the levelling system is complex and powerful; the combat system is -- well, I'm not expert on combat; the puzzles -- that's what this game is at its heart, a puzzle game with environments and levelling. And it does not disappoint. Combat is done strategically, which makes it a puzzle with advancement. There are tile rotation puzzles; circuitry puzzles; pressure plate puzzles; clockwork puzzles. The maps are varied, and come off as mazes. And the environments are rich with colour and ambience.

Bard's Tale IV is essentially a reboot of a trilogy of games for the Apple Lisa, with a port to the Commodore 64. I've played a little bit of a remaster of the first game, and it's so mind-boggling the difference in what was thought to be a game then, and what is now. Not just in technology, but in the very idea of what a game is.

This game tells the tale of a band of heroes saving the world -- standard fare. It's not a nuanced story, but it is a lovingly told one. The developers of this game really had a care for this world they were working in.

And the music! The music, friends! I have seldom loved videogame music this much. Live singers singing Gaelic songs of old. What a mood!

Well, that's all well and good, but now for the downsides.

The controls are wonky, especially in combat. You'll get used to them, but it's pretty annoying, especially when you mess up.

The 3D models are lacking in liveliness, approaching the uncanny valley close-up. Just don't look, and you'll be fine.

The game froze a number of times for unknown reasons.

And most importantly, there is a game-breaking bug in one dungeon that allows you to use a key on an a door that takes you upstairs. But you need that key to get further in, and it doesn't respawn. Beware.

Still, I would recommend this game to anyone interested in a exploring a beautifully crafted world with gorgeous music and friendly NPCs. I poured 80 easy hours into this game.

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1707 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 16.04.20 00:33

So. This isn't a hard No. But I won't recommend. There is a moderately entertaining game hidden in here... but it is hidden under trash, bugs, bad design and frustration upon frustration.

There are stones that relate to a physical code wheel you get with the game. The digital copy has a printable construction kit for making the code wheel and there is a link to an online, automated version - which makes the whole copy protection style endeavour pointless. What none of these resources even mention is what the numbers this code wheel kicks out refer to. Normally it would be manual or hard copy lore book. The stones take objects, not numbers or words.

You meet your first puzzle statue before it is possible to find the IN GAME book that lists items and their corresponding number. So, unless you ignore the glowing, singing interactable statue when you first pass it - you have no chance of solving the puzzle and no indication you are not just being dumb.

In other annoyances... it is DISTURBINGLY EASY to get stuck in bits of scenery. There is a point where you first return from the sewers and can sneak passed the guards by hugging the wall. Hug it too closely and you get locked in place. This has happened about two dozen times to me in just shy of 30 hours of play.

The dialogue is of the 'select the top option and work through the list' variety. No options (so far) to change your direction in the story other than choosing the composition of your party.

Which is another issue. You can make mercenaries to compliment your team and fill in the holes. However, you only get extra lots as you get new NPC companions. These companions are, for the most part, LOCKED into your party. I didn't want to play a bard, the default, because fuck bards. SO I made a tank fighter.

You GET a tank character early on. And a thief and a mage. I wanted to swap out my second fighter for a bard to round out my party. You can't. You can only swap out your main character. Honestly it was just an exercise in frustration and the entire mercenary system should be scrapped given how pointless it is.

Skill progression is both limited and frustrating as all hell. You must routinely track back to the adventurers guild to unlock the next tier of skills for each character, but the 'board' who permit you to advance will bitch at you for not completing enough tasks... even though you need to go talk to them to unlock the next tier for the character who is trailing XP.

There simply is no need for this added faff. It's busy work that just gets in the way of advancing your character.

Your path is constantly blocked by a few barrels or crates... stuff you smash in other parts of the world, meaning navigation is horrible. Also.... who takes out a cabbage from a crate by exploding the crate?

There is a vast array of recipes for food, but the only variation is the amount of health they replenish, making most pointless.

You need to unlock skills to put on new boots.

Bows are offhand weapons. Knives are not.

Sometimes bad guys spot you around corners and attack you. Other times you can sneak within a few feet. Sometimes you charge the bad guys, but the game stalls and then they just attack you as if you walked up casually singing at the top of your lungs.

There is an option to consume luck stones (save points) for xp. I tried it once. The icon for the consumed luckstone remains on your map. Later in the game you are hunting for a save point only to find the map is no longer reliable.

Some of these seem minor, but these are just the ones still floating in my head. There are many, many more that are just as frustrating, and whilst most are minor they all build up so that you are no longer playing the game. You are fighting it. My game crashed about 10 minutes after my last save point but I'd done a fair bit in that time and...

I'm done. I have no desire to reload and play anymore. You might have a greater tolerance for the game... but I personallly can't recommend it.

And all the characters look like they are carved out of a breed of potato genetically modified to be extra ugly.

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66 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.04.20 08:21

After the first hour:

This game is really impressive. I think you could say this is almost like Elder Scrolls in that they took a concept from the 80s, updated it for the 2000s, and did a great job. You have a vibrant world with a lot to do in the first hour, a ton of quests, battles that appear but you have to consider each one and avoid a couple of them, and you start to get the idea.

The combat here is tactical and turn-based. There’s a decent amount of puzzles already in that first hour. I loved my time with this one. I like the feeling that there’s a ton to do in the world and exploration pays off. There’s a few nitpicks like a code wheel you have to go to a website to get, which is odd, but overall… Yeah, I like this.

This is great for fans of old school games, and people who want to get that immersive feeling into a fantasy game. Fans of Elder Scrolls will want to check this out if you like the combat on screen. And a special bonus, at least for me, I got Bards Tale Trilogy as well. Note though, that’s an updated version of 80s games, which is still… going to be a bit rough. But additional content is never a bad thing, and this is a series where you don’t have to play the previous game, but it’s nice to have that too.

Video review:
https://youtu.be/6o4O35CD768

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2978 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 08.04.20 16:39

I ended up getting this game cause of the humble bundle and was more interested in hitman 2 but I never expected to get sucked into this game as much as I have. I totally recommend it if you are a fan of RPGs.

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386 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 05.04.20 23:45

Fun at first until you realize that the majority of the game are endless puzzless and traps. I am continuing to play the game but if you dont like puzzles (i dont) and prefer roleplay elements and combat, stay away from this one. its 80% puzzles and 20% rpg. stay away if thats not for you.

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4463 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 05.04.20 05:27

Definitely recommended for fans of dungeon crawlers. It varies from awe-inspiring to frustrating but there is enough content and enjoyment to make it worthwhile.

+Visuals and environments are well done
+Excellent soundtrack and song variety
+Fully voice dialogue and party banter
+Combat is fun and a decent challenge
+Great variety of skills and items to use, craft, and upgrade
+Good custom options for characters, difficulty, saving, and old-school if desired
+Bards are actually useful

-Mediocre story
-Some obscure puzzles interfere with pacing
-Loot is often not rewarding for monsters or major puzzles
-Very infrequent fast travel, lots of backtracking

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4403 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 29.03.20 21:58

Great game, if you enjoyed Lords of Xulima you will probably really like this title.

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3960 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 29.03.20 02:02

This could have been a truly great game of it wasn't so heavily obtuse puzzle centric. The story is good, the characters are good, as is the combat, art, and voice acting. But make no mistake-first and foremost this is a puzzle game. I'm not very fond of puzzle games and if that fact had been made clear in the promos and ads for this I would never have bought this, not even for the sale price I got it for. The puzzles range from fairly obvious, to very obtuse and confusing, a lot of them are what I like to call moonbeam logic puzzles. That is, not very logical to figure out, and hard to see what relevance they have to the game or anything else. And there are literally hundreds in the game. There is an in game option that lets you skip a lot of them, but there is plenty left that have to be muddled thru.
And then there is the terrible map design. The icons in the map don't always display properly and are too small to always see clearly. The passages just end without any graphic indication on the map so you are constantly going down the same passages. Most games have an indication of where the boundries are but not here. And for a game so heavily dependent on going back and forth there is no way to mark your map so its very difficult to make your back to an area you have been to before. Very hard to find it. And you just get so tired of wandering around the same places over and over and over again. I finally gave up about half way thru. There are plenty other titles vying for my attention.

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6284 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 24.03.20 20:10

Solid old school in spirit RPG that also looks nice. Gets a bit dull near the end, but it wasn't that bad for me as for some other reviewers.

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3755 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.03.20 21:57

Still learning the ropes of this game, but I like it a lot. The look and feel is great and the quests are fun.

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995 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 23.02.20 01:15

I progressed about one quarter the way through the main quest before I decided to call it quits. The bones of a good RPG are here, as combat can be fun and tactical, but the game is undone by some baffling design decisions.

The primary offense is that, while you can learn new active abilities as you level up, you can only have 4 readied at any given time, severely limiting the actions available to your characters during combat. What's worse, if you have an item that grants you an ability, that ability takes up one of your 4 precious ability slots, meaning that's one fewer of your character's abilities that is available. Shockingly poor design, seemingly deliberately designed to make the game less fun. The only justification I can see for it is to limit the number of on-screen options available so that the interface is streamlined for console users, but c'mon.

Secondarily, the Bard class specifically is poorly designed, because they are are reliant on crafted items (alcohol) to be able to use their bard-song abilities. I'm someone who doesn't particularly enjoy crafting in RPGs, and requiring this class to use these items means having a bard requires a lot more grinding to make sure you have enough booze stocked. What's more, the bard has to have a special item equipped in their trinket slot to be able to use alcohol (i.e. use their basic class abilities), further limiting their options in combat.

A lot of work obviously went into this, and there are a number of things to like, but I can't remember the last time a game with such good fundamentals and potential committed such grievous own-goals in its implementation.

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2489 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.02.20 09:15

This is a wonderfully engaging game with quite a steep learning curve, highly reminiscent of CRPG's of the late 80's & early 90's. Definitely a must buy for any nostalgia lovers out there :).

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5629 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.02.20 01:31

beautiful visuals and music. definitely a must have for old Bard's Tale lovers like me.

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1113 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.02.20 01:20

I have loved the bard's tale since the first one and I really wanted to love this game. I waited for the director's cut because of the problems it had at release. It started off pretty good but after a few hours it became a drag. The battle were no fun and the puzzles were a pain just to be a tedious pain. I was still determined to finish. I lowered the combat level and slugged on. I have finally given up. It crashed and a lost an hour of playing time and I don't have it in me to play that hour again.

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1386 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 18.02.20 22:08

Pros:
Very engaging story
Creative riddles
Nice atmosphere
Cons:
Some really bad graphics glitches, peoples hair looks real weird

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511 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 16.02.20 16:57

All in all, the game is not that bad - but yes it is. The soundtrack is fantastic. I love gaelic music, so this is all right for the money, however, it is too buggy for my taste. Items disappearing, you have to repeat quests and so on.
This is quite frustrating, so I prefer to play other games instead.

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32 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 16.02.20 14:58

One day I will muster the tolerance to play this game for what it is and not for what it was supposed to be.

This is not Bard's Tale, it is a Scottish themed Might & Magic clone with paper dolls that bounce around in an annoying fashion.

The good news is the originals + remasters were included when I backed Scott's Tale.

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573 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 06.02.20 07:15

This is not a good game. I enjoyed the previous Bard's Tales (and highly enjoyed Wasteland 2) and looked forward to this one, but this game seems like it was designed in 2006 and released in 2019.

Graphics - Bad. Looks about the same as Morrowind, which came out almost 2 decades earlier.

Performance - Bad. And I really don't understand why (see graphics above). Why does the game lag when I enter each room? Why does it sometimes take 5s for my actions to register? Crashed 3 times in 10hrs (~ every 3hrs)

UI - Bad. Very clunky. Sometimes it will take multiple clicks for to select the correct item. Definitely feels like it was designed 20 years ago. Inventory management is a pain. Selecting items is a pain. The map doesn't even zoom out all the way.

Game play - Bad. It's just not fun. The balance and tuning is downright perplexing. Sometimes the best option for a fight is for one of your characters to sit there and do nothing? Why doesn't each character get a turn? Why is the AI so bad? Playing on higher difficulties it mostly just becomes a RNG of whether the AI will focus fire or not.

Story - Bad. I've been playing for 10hrs and I'm still not quite sure what the plot is. But at least they put in a lot of corny joke banter.

Music - Good. Each region has an excellent soundtrack.

Overall - I think I would have enjoyed this more if I'd just bought the soundtrack. This game feels like it was made 15 years ago, scrapped as not good enough, and then brought back to life and sold at full price with no changes.

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Release:27.08.2019 Genre: Strategie-Rollenspiel Entwickler: inXile Entertainment Vertrieb:keine Infos Engine:keine Infos Kopierschutz:keine Infos Franchise:keine Infos

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