Bard's Tale, the DVD version, worth it?

I somewhat enjoyed it and did finish it. It's somewhat humorous at
times (in a light-hearted way, not uproariously funny) and somewhat
well-done even without the humor. For $9.90 I'd give it a thumbs up.
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Neil Cerutti a écrit :

> On 2006-04-28, Justisaur <justisaur DeleteThis @gmail.com> wrote:

> > (They really should
> > have had a 10x10 room with 999 barbarians cramed in it
> > somewhere just to make fun of the original).
>
> 396, actually.
>
> Your party halts as you are confronted by...
>
> 99 Barbarians
> 99 Barbarians
> 99 Barbarians
> 99 Barbarians
>
> Sweet, sweet XP grinding! That battle was worth something like
> 65,324 XP. The only way to gain levels faster was to kill Mangar
> over and over, but there wasn't much point in *that*.
>

Moo?
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Zaghadka wrote:
> It's on sale at go gamer for $9.90, and Cary Elwes plays "The Bard,"
> but I dearly hated the demo.
>
> Anyone played this game that could give a short review?

I fooled around with the PS2 version my son borrowed from a friend for a
bit. There's some mildly entertaining adolescent humor associated with a
rather straitforward, boring, linear game. Both my son and I quickly tired
of both the "humor" and the game. I didn't see the demo, but odds are you
saw everything in the demo, at least style-wise that you'll see in the game.

If you think it's worth $9.90 to dig through the mess of a game for a few
entertaining dialogue moments, then go for it, because IMO that's all there
is that's worthwhile in it.

--
chainbreaker
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Zaghadka <zaghadka.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote in
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> It's on sale at go gamer for $9.90, and Cary Elwes plays "The Bard,"
> but I dearly hated the demo.
>
> Anyone played this game that could give a short review?

As an action RPG...eh. It was better than, say, Demon Stone, but not as
good as the console Baldur Gates.

Funny as hell, though. The humor reminded me a lot of an old Legend
adventure game called Eric the Unready. Any individual bit was funny
enough, but the sum was greater than its parts somehow.

If you like spoof humor, it's worth grinding through the game to experience
it. If you don't, give it a pass.

Geo
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"Neil Cerutti" <leadvoice.DeleteThis@email.com> wrote in message
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> On 2006-04-28, George Mealer <geo.DeleteThis@snarksoft.invalid> wrote:
> Keep in mind, when deciding on this, that what passes for humor
> in the game are things like finding a Halberd of Hemmhoroids.

Does it give them or excise them?
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"Neil Cerutti" <leadvoice.DeleteThis@email.com> wrote in message
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> On 2006-04-28, George Mealer <geo.DeleteThis@snarksoft.invalid> wrote:
> > Zaghadka <zaghadka.DeleteThis@hotmail.com> wrote in
> > news:rkd452tlhlt373tojas9uqdp53kqr1dvk1@4ax.com:
> >
> >> It's on sale at go gamer for $9.90, and Cary Elwes plays "The Bard,"
> >> but I dearly hated the demo.
> >>
> >> Anyone played this game that could give a short review?
> >
> > As an action RPG...eh. It was better than, say, Demon Stone, but not as
> > good as the console Baldur Gates.
> >
> > Funny as hell, though. The humor reminded me a lot of an old Legend
> > adventure game called Eric the Unready. Any individual bit was funny
> > enough, but the sum was greater than its parts somehow.
> >
> > If you like spoof humor, it's worth grinding through the game
> > to experience it. If you don't, give it a pass.
>
> Keep in mind, when deciding on this, that what passes for humor
> in the game are things like finding a Halberd of Hemmhoroids.

That was why I never went for it.

All the reviews and what was put out by the company seemed to really be
pushing the whole Monty Python/Immature Gamer humor that I really got sick
of about 10 years when I last played pen and paper Dungeons and Dragons
RPGs.

I played the old Bard's Tale games when they were new and any other gamer
from that era is going to be in his/her 30s now (late 20s to early 40s for
the most part) and really that just seemed like a step away from the classic
Bard's Tale games and ignoring the old school gamers who won't find that
sort of thing funny any more.

I liked what Sir-Tech did with Wizardry 8 when that finally came out and how
it was "new and improved" and yet still was an obvious extension of the
original games and not just a case where they were reusing and old name with
an entirely new product targetted at an entirely different audience than the
originals.
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