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This just got released on Steam today. It's only the first game, but buying it guarantees you all three titles, and I believe they're planning Bard's Tale IV as well.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/843260/The_Bards_Tale_Trilogy/
I was never an Apple IIE owner, so back in those heady days of early computer RPGs, I couldn't play Wizardry at my leisure. I had twin cousins that owned one and I spent a lot of weekends over there playing Dungeons and Dragons with them (I was the DM, of course) and watching sword and sorcery movies on VHS that we were way too young to be watching. Our parents were loving providers but weren't very responsible with our media consumption. I don't fucking care, though. I got to see cool shit that other kids my age couldn't.
Anyway, the point is that after everyone else went to sleep, I'd fire up the Apple 2E and play Wizardry all night long. And then when everyone else woke up, we'd have a completely unhealthy breakfast (Mr. T cereal or Pop Tarts) and go back to playing D&D and movies all over again. A little Robotech was mixed into it as well.
So when The Bard's Tale came out for the Commodore 64 (my teenage gaming machine of choice), I was super excited. It was essentially the same type of game with better graphics and legit sound. It also had these charming monster animations where the enemy on the screen would open and shut its mouth, breath a lick of fire or clench and unclench its fists. It was all rather quaint but back in the 80s, that was the good shit. In fact, the game Wasteland that everyone remembers so well is a direct descendant of The Bard's Tale and the similarities are obvious.
This had been released as a legacy trilogy in the past in various forms but it always sucked and didn't run well on modern PCs. So Inixile, those glorious bastards, went and decided to remaster the games. And I am super pumped for this. I've been wanting to revisit these games for years and now I can just by opening up my Steam client.
Anyway, there's my nostalgia trip. In case you care, the game is out.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/843260/The_Bards_Tale_Trilogy/
I was never an Apple IIE owner, so back in those heady days of early computer RPGs, I couldn't play Wizardry at my leisure. I had twin cousins that owned one and I spent a lot of weekends over there playing Dungeons and Dragons with them (I was the DM, of course) and watching sword and sorcery movies on VHS that we were way too young to be watching. Our parents were loving providers but weren't very responsible with our media consumption. I don't fucking care, though. I got to see cool shit that other kids my age couldn't.
Anyway, the point is that after everyone else went to sleep, I'd fire up the Apple 2E and play Wizardry all night long. And then when everyone else woke up, we'd have a completely unhealthy breakfast (Mr. T cereal or Pop Tarts) and go back to playing D&D and movies all over again. A little Robotech was mixed into it as well.
So when The Bard's Tale came out for the Commodore 64 (my teenage gaming machine of choice), I was super excited. It was essentially the same type of game with better graphics and legit sound. It also had these charming monster animations where the enemy on the screen would open and shut its mouth, breath a lick of fire or clench and unclench its fists. It was all rather quaint but back in the 80s, that was the good shit. In fact, the game Wasteland that everyone remembers so well is a direct descendant of The Bard's Tale and the similarities are obvious.
This had been released as a legacy trilogy in the past in various forms but it always sucked and didn't run well on modern PCs. So Inixile, those glorious bastards, went and decided to remaster the games. And I am super pumped for this. I've been wanting to revisit these games for years and now I can just by opening up my Steam client.
Anyway, there's my nostalgia trip. In case you care, the game is out.