Bard's Tale The Bard's Tale IV: Barrows Deep - Director's Cut

[Bohr]

 

[Infinitron]

John Walker is becoming worse by the month. I swear he must be doing it on purpose at this point.

Damn, he's taking this hard.

 

[Shadenuat]

And then the dungeon’s final battle was a ridiculously tiresome over-powered enemy who required multiple attempts, on the wrong side of a very long, very awful unskippable cutscene, until I got lucky enough for the baddy not to randomly slaughter my entire party in two hits.

That's the boss where you get (another, thankfully temporary) joinable NPC who has super skill that, if you last 6 turns, 500 damage shots everything to death and wins you combat, although if your party is really strong you can probably remove 200 boss hp yourself even. The helpful NPC has enough tankyness to survive for about 3 turns of channeling by himself even if your whole party is dead, by the way. That's on Hard.

The journalist TM might have missed that you have to actually manually activate the 500 dmg channeling skill by pressing a button, NPC doesn't act by himself. (although dialogue actually seems to incline as if he does)

 

[Scroo]

So I read the past 10 pages and what I learned is that Bard's Tale 4 is not an RPG, weapons are boring and all the same and it's ugly as sin.

Who was this game made for? Why did they use the name Bard's Tale? I don't get it

 

[agris]

So I read the past 10 pages and what I learned is that Bard's Tale 4 is not an RPG, weapons are boring and all the same and it's ugly as sin.

Who was this game made for? Why did they use the name Bard's Tale? I don't get it

The thing is, it's a bit of fun once you get past the bland and hamfisted introductory area.

 

[BEvers]

Fargo is sounding proper depressed today

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

 

[newtmonkey]

I'd feel bad for Fargo, but c'mon. He's making it sound like he personally designed this game, as though he is the Lord British or JVC of Bard's Tale. This is like the CEO of Maytag (is that even a company now) going on twitter and being depressed because their latest washing machine is getting poor reviews on amazon.

 

[Darth Roxor]

also another funny technical quirk

when i start the game, or after any loading screen, the game changes into "widescreen" mode, i.e. i get huge black bars on the top and bottom of my 5:4 screen, but when i go to settings, change "resolution scaling" to whatever and return to game, then the black bars disappear - and i can then bring resolution scaling back to 100% and keep on playing with full view

 

[Bohr]

I'd feel bad for Fargo, but c'mon. He's making it sound like he personally designed this game, as though he is the Lord British or JVC of Bard's Tale. This is like the CEO of Maytag (is that even a company now) going on twitter and being depressed because their latest washing machine is getting poor reviews on amazon.

The Twitterati are on it though, they'll soon cheer him up

 

[TT1]

Poor Wasteland 3 teams. They will have a hard tomorrow.

 

[newtmonkey]

LordJackass sounds like a rapist

 

[BEvers]

Poor Wasteland 3 teams. They will have a hard tomorrow.

 

[PEACH]

LordJackass sounds like a rapist

Her body language was she was asking for it

 

[Astral Rag]

Spoiler

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1516387462

 

[Gord]

So I read the past 10 pages and what I learned is that Bard's Tale 4 is not an RPG, weapons are boring and all the same and it's ugly as sin.

Who was this game made for? Why did they use the name Bard's Tale? I don't get it

Well, by those standards it's actually arguable whether BT1-3 were RPGs, so...

 

[Bohr]

Better late than never?

 

[Jenkem]

holy fuck... a game comes out, people talk about it in the thread that exists.. everything is fine, people are discussing things..

come back a day later, moved to a new thread, everything discombobulated

Infinitron if you are so anal retentive about having a release thread why dont you do the thread split the moment the game is out and people are discussing it? it's not like you weren't around when the game launched since you participated in that other thread which you then, 36 hours later, to move the last 20 pages to a new topic for no reason whatsoever than to sow discord and confusion while rubbing your wart covered hands together and grinning

every.fucking.time

 

[V_K]

Shillitron have tried, but no amount of thread splitting will stop the schadenfreude. Nothing can stop the schadenfreude!

 

[newtmonkey]

while rubbing your wart covered hands together and grinning

This was a good touch

 

[Covenant]

holy fuck... a game comes out, people talk about it in the thread that exists.. everything is fine, people are discussing things..

come back a day later, moved to a new thread, everything discombobulated

Infinitron if you are so anal retentive about having a release thread why dont you do the thread split the moment the game is out and people are discussing it? it's not like you weren't around when the game launched since you participated in that other thread which you then, 36 hours later, to move the last 20 pages to a new topic for no reason whatsoever than to sow discord and confusion while rubbing your wart covered hands together and grinning

every.fucking.time

He has to constantly stay on the move so Chris Avellone can't find him again.

 

[Shadenuat]

Better late than never?

did they "discover" life on Mars as well?

"promising discoveries" you even know whats inside your fucking code, dudes?? or only Rajesh from Mumbai knows?

 

[newtmonkey]

Didn't they outsource everything? Maybe that's why.

 

[Jenkem]

that RPS review was John Walker? and he trashed it?

fuck... maybe this game is actually good

 

[Infinitron]

inXile tried once not to use the Early Access model once and look what happened. Seems it's risky to rely on Kickstarter beta backers alone. Early Access buyers could have made it clear that the bad performance was a big deal.