Bard's Tale How do you guys feel about The Bard's Tale?

[theverybigslayer]

Nazi Germany??? :shock:
Will I meet JarlFrank there?

 

[Wyrmlord]

Bard's Tale went sci-fi!

Why don't you use just press Ctrl + F5, and go to the Capture Folder in the Start Menu DosBox 0.73 directory?

 

[theverybigslayer]

But this way the screenshot isn't so next-gen...

 

[theverybigslayer]

C&C in Bard's Tale.

Should I convert my monk to geomancer? I have converted my paladin already.

 

[mondblut]

http://burgerbecky.livejournal.com/18628.html

Apparently one of the Bard's Tale series authors is a tranny. And another a xtian fundie. I see their spirit lives on in fair Kkkodeksia!

 

[Luzur]

Nazi Germany??? :shock:
Will I meet JarlFrank there?

one of the dimensions you will travel to is the dimension of war (maloria? cant remember the name) where you will visit places like Rome,Hiroshima and Berlin.

 

[mondblut]

I want moar screens with swastikas and the party slaughtering "99 ruski soldier, 99 ruski soldier, 99 ruski soldier, 99 ruski soldier".

 

[theverybigslayer]

There is no swastika!

 

[Carlos' Bitch1]

There is more than the SS Majors I am sure of it. I cannot remember if there were any Swastika's though.

 

[theverybigslayer]

But there's red star! Red star wasn't forbidden symbol in the 80's.
My party is attacked by nazis, communists and some monks!

 

[Carlos' Bitch1]

But there's red star! My party is attacked by nazis, communists and some monks!

Memories....

 

[Wyrmlord]

This is why the Bard's Tale is a great rpg, look at the damage!

Saynt hits at Skeptic 9 times hitting him for 1354 points of damage killing him.

 

[theverybigslayer]

 

[theverybigslayer]

Bard's Tale is a strategic rpg.

 

[GarfunkeL]

Awesome.

 

[octavius]

That screenshot reminds me of one of the things Bard's Tale did right and most other RPGs didn't: death of a party is not final. It was actually possible to play Iron Man and generate a new party, and resurrect the old party members. I don't remember the excact mechanics, but I distinctly remember my whole party died the first we met Blue Dragons, but it was not Game Over. I really liked the idea about an Adventurer Guild.

 

[DemonKing]

The combat intro. text is hilarious..."Death n'Drek" still rings in my head sometimes.

 

[theverybigslayer]

What a great party!

 

[theverybigslayer]

And now something different...

 

[theverybigslayer]

The combat intro. text is hilarious..."Death n'Drek" still rings in my head sometimes.

:wink:

 

[theverybigslayer]

Its random encounter system was one where simply standing in the same place for a while could trigger an encounter.

Fortunately this is not true for Bard's Tale 3:Thief of Fate (DOS version).

Unfortunately this is TRUE for Bard's Tale 2: Destiny Knight Terrible.

Biggest lie of game history: you need a thief to finish BT3. NO, YOU DON'T!!!!
I killed Tarjan by using a Geomancer spell. Btw the thief was useful. Is there critical hit in BT2 also?

Do you know there are only 2 Bard's Tales? The title of the first episode was Tales of Unknown?

WTF???? How can I wait for a time?

 

[crufty]

Dragons Tale > BT

But, for a while there was only BT and Wizardry, and BT was the graphic whore's game of choice (bitmaps vs vector).

So not a lot of options.

Anyone remember that game Hell? I seem to remember battling a fair amount of nazis. No recollection of nazis in bt3 though. Too long ago perhaps.

I do remember killing lots of four groups of 99 bezerkers though.

as to complaining about random encounters while standing still all I can say is:

Thou art a pussy.

 

[Wyrmlord]

Don't you mean Dragon Wars?

 

[Carlos' Bitch1]

Its random encounter system was one where simply standing in the same place for a while could trigger an encounter.

Fortunately this is not true for Bard's Tale 3:Thief of Fate (DOS version).

Unfortunately this is TRUE for Bard's Tale 2: Destiny Knight Terrible.

Biggest lie of game history: you need a thief to finish BT3. NO, YOU DON'T!!!!
I killed Tarjan by using a Geomancer spell. Btw the thief was useful. Is there critical hit in BT2 also?

Do you know there are only 2 Bard's Tales? The title of the first episode was Tales of Unknown?

WTF???? How can I wait for a time?

Stand there. Or move about. Time passes in real time without movement, which is why monsters sometimes just attacked when you did nothing.

 

[crufty]

Don't you mean Dragon Wars?

indeed.