The Bard's Tale IV Lute-All

I hopped in also at $20. I normally don't do Kickstarter, but at least there's a proven track record.

That video was pretty bad though!

I had legit copies of Bard's Tale II and III. I remember "staying home sick" from school the day Bard's Tale II showed up

Dreaded Gazebo wrote:

I had legit copies of Bard's Tale II and III. I remember "staying home sick" from school the day Bard's Tale II showed up :)

Yup. I remember begging my folks for copies from the one weird store in town that carried Apple II games, RPGs, Dragon Magazine, a small rack of SF/F paperbacks and stationary

PaladinTom wrote:

That video was pretty bad though!

Yeah. I was particularly surprised they were pretending a 10 year old can drive a car.

I'm very happy that they are having such a tremendously positive feedback. I actually do not have much interest in a first person dungeon crawler, but do wish to see inXile go on to make many more successful games through crowd publishing means. I am so happy for them. I can't wait to see what they choose to work on next.

MoonDragon wrote:

I'm very happy that they are having such a tremendously positive feedback. I actually do not have much interest in a first person dungeon crawler, but do wish to see inXile go on to make many more successful games through crowd publishing means. I am so happy for them. I can't wait to see what they choose to work on next.

That is where I am as well. Got not history with Bards Tale. But inXile and Obsidian, among others, are revitalizing genres I like, so think I will support this one just to show support for inXile. Maybe the game will even be good...

It looks like they're extending the first 24 hour promotion for another 24 hours, so if anybody wanted a bonus copy of Wasteland 2 (I assume everyone and their mother owns Witcher 1 & 2 by now) there's still time.

I jumped in at the $20 level, but I'm sort of wishing I'd ponied up at the cloth map tier, those things always look nice hanging on an office wall.

Running Man wrote:

It looks like they're extending the first 24 hour promotion for another 24 hours, so if anybody wanted a bonus copy of Wasteland 2 (I assume everyone and their mother owns Witcher 1 & 2 by now) there's still time.

I jumped in at the $20 level, but I'm sort of wishing I'd ponied up at the cloth map tier, those things always look nice hanging on an office wall.

I'm hoping that the Cloth Map will be an add-on at some point during or after launch. I want it, but I don't $95 want it

Tanglebones wrote:
Running Man wrote:

It looks like they're extending the first 24 hour promotion for another 24 hours, so if anybody wanted a bonus copy of Wasteland 2 (I assume everyone and their mother owns Witcher 1 & 2 by now) there's still time.

I jumped in at the $20 level, but I'm sort of wishing I'd ponied up at the cloth map tier, those things always look nice hanging on an office wall.

I'm hoping that the Cloth Map will be an add-on at some point during or after launch. I want it, but I don't $95 want it

Same here. If I could get the LP-style box and the cloth map, I'd be a happy man.

In-Engine footage. (I watched with the sound off, so I don't know if there is any VO.)

Songs in actual Gaelic eh? Should be popular on the Islands at least.

Shame about the accent of whoever was doing the spell casting...*shudder*

TheHarpoMarxist wrote:

(I watched with the sound off, so I don't know if there is any VO.)

Yeah, there is VO and a couple of different music tracks (written and performed by Julie Fowlis). According to the summary of the video, the lyrics are the poem from the original The Bard's Tale, translated into Scottish Gaelic.

Game definitely looks fine to me, but again I'm easily impressed

Backed

The environments look stunning to me. The enemies look good enough, and very reminiscent of the original baddies from BT1-3.

Yeah, not that I wasn't already sold, but I'm more sold than ever. (I'm generally hard to impress, but my impression difficulty drops to medium for RPGs, and easy-ish for old school styled RPGs. Throw in some nostalgia and you are pretty much playing story mode in terms of impressing me.)

I've never been on an acid trip, but I'm pretty sure that trailer comes close to one.

Acid trip would be appropriate for the Bards Tale. But a real Bard's tale story would be thrilling. At least we are not getting a "reimagining" that some unserious parties like to do. This looks legit.

edit:I still have my Bard's Tale 3 Game for Apple 2 at home.......

I really like the idea of elite classes opening up for more than just the caster ones this time around.

TheHarpoMarxist wrote:

I really like the idea of elite classes opening up for more than just the caster ones this time around.

BT3 had Geomancers; non-casters could dual-class into it.

That's true, but it sounds like they're going more all in with prestige classes in a general sense for IV. I'm getting (positive) D&D 3.5 flashbacks :).

3.5 ish would be good. I loved neverwinter nights 2. Geomancers and Chronomancers and the like would be awesome. More prestige classes!

Not bad. Also, it looks like they've got under $100,000 to go to reach the goal. Not bad at all.

Fantastic, I need 3 more games to add to the bloody pile. I actually do want to try replaying them though. I never get very far into these replays of old games but it's good for a few hours. I thought I had a playable version somewhere but it must have been on an old computer as I couldn't find it when I went searching.

Yeah, I need a refresher big time. I think the only one I ever beat was the first one.

Don't forget that he said that they are redoing the games! There will be updated graphics version of the games released later on.

MoonDragon wrote:

Don't forget that he said that they are redoing the games! There will be updated graphics version of the games released later on.

HE...SAID...THAT? So awesome!

Running Man wrote:
MoonDragon wrote:

Don't forget that he said that they are redoing the games! There will be updated graphics version of the games released later on.

HE...SAID...THAT? So awesome!

The original trilogy will be released to backers after the Kickstarter has successfully funded as emulated versions of the classic games. However, inXile Entertainment also has an agreement in place with the original The Bard’s Tale III programmer Rebecca “Burger” Heineman to work on updated versions of the three games based on their Apple IIGS versions, to run natively on modern Windows and Mac PCs. Once she delivers on the enhanced versions, they too will be given free to backers.

By the original programmer, no less.

So... that says nothing about updating the graphics... only that it'll run natively on Windows, without needing an emulator.

I'm still looking forward to it, though. I beat BT1 wayyyyy back in the day, never tried BT2, and fizzled out on BT3. I wonder if BT3 comes with a digital "code wheel" to simulate the original copy-protection.

merphle wrote:

I wonder if BT3 comes with a digital "code wheel" to simulate the original copy-protection. :)

I'd love it if BT4 came with that, as the only protection. It'd be such a quaint return to innocence.