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General: The Bard's Tale IV -- It's Real
SBFord
Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
According to a Tweet from Brian Fargo, The Bard's Tale IV is a reality.
It's official.. And I'm very personally excited to be working on this. More details to follow. pic.twitter.com/OegeiAU28B
— Brian Fargo (@BrianFargo) January 24, 2015
InXile Entertainment is planning a Kickstarter for The Bard's Tale IV. Details about the game are still light, but Fargo did say the team will be pulling from the original as far as overarching ideas go. From a story perspective, players will be returning to Skara Brae, where it all began. But on the gameplay side of things, Fargo is planning a deviation.
"Traditional turn-based combat," as Fargo calls it, bases turns on varying factors, creating battles in which different characters attacked at different times, often alternating between opposing sides. But in The Bard's Tale IV, teams attack all at once. This increases the pace of the combat, and allows for a different set of tactics than the traditional system might allow.
"There will be plenty of combat diversity and depth," Fargo said. "You look at something like Hearthstone, for example. It's sort of that going back-and-forth process, and you see the complexity and detail and strategy and nuance that can happen. It's really an amazing system. I love those modern influences. I took a lot away from that, and see things we need to do with our combat system."
Source for quote: IGN.com
Comments
if its like the original 3 that would be awesome, if its like that god awful attempt of a Bard's Tale game they did some what recently they shouldnt waste their or our time
i agree
EA = wont even bother im anti EA
anybody else = ill deff. give it a shot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7rAnaKId3E
Oh god I loved this game
My only contact with the series was part 1 which I got for free on the amazon app shop for my android cell phone.
The combat is mediocre at best but I love the humor - always a reason to tease my British friends.
To say it differently: The only game on my cell where I invested over 20 hours.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/7300033012
I think someone should start a kickstarter with the goal of buying the rights to absolutely everything from EA.
They can keep Battlefield and Madden. With all the free time on their hands they can make like 12 of each a year. The sheep would still buy them.
Coming next month! Battlefield 5.3! Regular sad sack edition - $59.99, Cool People edition - $199.99
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worst Bard's Tale of the lot....