To be clear, it's not a re-make or reboot of the first Bard's Tale, it's a completely different game in a different universe and a different genre. You could say it's inspired by the original games, but that's about it.

It was one of a series of PS2/XBOX console games using variations of the same game engine, which I refer to as the BGDA engine. They were all "inspired" by PC originals (Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance 1+2, EverQuest: Champions of Norath 1+2, Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel), but were not really anything like the PC games they were named after (actually, I can't vouch for CoN, since I never played EverQuest). I thought most were pretty decent games, but some hard-core fans were upset by the name association (and I, too was upset by the "Fallout" game, so much so that it was the first game I ever brought back to the store because it sucked).

Nice, more new information. Could it be that the main developer was unable to use the universe because of rights issues? I wonder, either way, I've heard good things about it from the GOG reviews. Usually, I avoid this genre unless they have something very unique to offer. This game has humor and that's what appealed to me about it, though, I have yet to play it.

So it was on console first, got it. That totally makes sense. I've heard of a lot of those games since coming to GOG but otherwise, I have yet to play them. It's interesting to know that this game was inspired by a lot of different games that seems to span different genres as well.

Anyone know who the developers are (individuals, not the company)?

Links to social media accounts would be welcome.

Nope, has Italian language added and modern compatibility fixes at the very least. Missing indeed.

I guess they aren't counting the 2004 version.

The 2004 game isn't a different version of one of the others; it's an entirely different game that isn't even in the same genre.

Not really, why? Isn't that good? :o

The original Bard's Tale trilogy is a classic series of dungeon crawling first person RPGs, and it is one that I remember fondly. The way I see it, the games are like Wizardry, but without the harshest elements (in partucilar, no auto-saving or permadeath, even if many versions of BT1 would punish quitting without saving, and there's no permanent stat losses or resurrection failure), and with better graphics (though keep in mind the age of the games). Also, if your Bard plays a song, you can actually hear that sound through the computer's speakers.

In any case, if you're going to play these games, for BT1 and BT2 I recommend either the Apple 2gs versions (if you want the most advanced versions of these games) or the DOS versions (if you want one that's easy to set up and that lacks loading times). For BT3, on the other hand, the DOS version is one of the bad buggy versions, so I recommend playing either the Apple 2 or Commodore 64 version. (Note that the versions contained as extras within the 2004 game are 2gs versions for 1 and 2, and Apple 2 for BT3.)

Looks like a hard game. Thanks for the info ^_^

There are official remasters on the works of BT 1-3. The main coder of the games is slowly tinkering with them and has released a few beta versions of the first game. No idea of the release date though.

I've just done a quick comparison at xe.com. The CDN price of KC: D converts to £41.4337 GBP, so not much different to the price I see here. The GBP price of BT4 in CDN is... wait for it... $122.996!

I think people should be voting with theit wallets to stop this kind of gouging at launch.

Much as I loved the original game and really want this one, there's NO WAY I'm paying that much!

And another thing, if the developers of 'The Bards Tale' couldn't get permission to make the game in the original universe, why are the three original games now bundled with it? I dislike this practice of bundling old games with remakes, but the 2004 version isn't even a remake so they need to be unbundled immediately!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXRD-8JH-Rc

Looks good.

Remastered & Resnarked is sort of an update. It's the PC version for consoles, more or less; the original PC version had higher res textures and whatnot than the PS2 version.

So they did 'Remastered & Resnarked' for the PS4/XB1 which brings it up to the PC version's level. There weren't any real changes to the PC release - some bugfixes, Steam cheevos, and another language or two. But they retitled it so it would match the new console version, since they're essentially the same.

Okay, those system requirements certainly aren't final.

According to this post, those requirements are for the alpha test version.

The system requirements for the final version are not yet set.

Alpha game performance is usually worse than the finished game, or betas (sometimes a LOT worse) so those requirements make more sense in that light.

They probably put them here because they didn't have anything else to list, and it's better to list too-high and lower them later than the other way around.

I remember that. In general, T:ToN was somewhat badly managed from their side - I think it has to do with all the compromises they had to do in order to get the game released, and subsequent backlash of supporters, since they didn´t communicated those changes up until short before release.

But it seems they learned their lessons - Bard´s Tale and Wasteland 3 all had less variable stretchgoals than T:ToN, which makes them easier to fulfill.

Having said that, I also expect Deluxe keys for Bard´s Tale ultimate digital edition backers.