Yeah just seen it, looks great. Backed it regardless
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Kickstarter: Bard's Tale IV (inXile, 1.25 mil, PC, Mac, Linux)
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Yeah just seen it, looks great. Backed it regardless
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Okay,THAT'S not what I expected. Holy Hell it looks far prettier than I anticipated, and more expensive honestly. I expected more like a Legend of Grimlock looking type game. Can they afford to make it this good looking???
Okay,THAT'S not what I expected. Holy Hell it looks far prettier than I anticipated, and more expensive honestly. I expected more like a Legend of Grimlock looking type game. Can they afford to make it this good looking???
Not if unreasonable Kickstarter haters have anything to say about it.
Elaugaufein
Member
Seems like they want to do some kind of 3rd person / top down / isometric view for combat but that they don't want to commit until they know how much money they have (which I can understand, first person dungeon crawler combat is a loooot cheaper)
*POW* [Graphic] *SMACK*
X Beats You for 57 Damage
*Blast* [Graphic] *BOOM*
You Cast Fireball at the Xs for 35 damage.
Wow, outstanding.
Lol! I believe that's The Bard's Song
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Those were amazing graphix.
dat lighting.
dat lighting.
autoduelist
Member
Kickstarter is, in many ways, the reason we're getting all these re-births of long dead franchises, homages, and other great games. I don't understand the kickstarter hate -- if you don't want to fund it, don't. If you don't want to play it, don't. If you want to wait till it's complete, do so. Kickstarter gets games created, many of which are dream projects to some of us (like Wasteland and Bard's Tale for me). Go kickstarter.
This thing really deserves to be going faster, but not much can be done. Really bad timing with 2 massive kickstarters that havent ended yet and just crazy new news every day with pre-E3 stuff. Plus sales all over the place and steam sale upcoming. If this was a dry month and they launched that gameplay video at the start im willing to bet it would be at 2 million right now.
Agreed
Looks pretty I guess, but I would have preferred actual gameplay footage...
Agreed
Yeah where is my downloadable demo? I wanna play the game before i help fund it so they can make it.
I was a big Bards Tale nerd about 30 years ago.
But the name recognition on this one doesn't seem that strong. For people like me who were kids in the 80s, the original Bards Tale games were huge. But for a whole lot of people, they are going to think of the average too-down action rpg that was more recent, or the name will mean nothing to them at all.
I'm really hoping this game gets made (and looks like the video) but we'll see.
But the name recognition on this one doesn't seem that strong. For people like me who were kids in the 80s, the original Bards Tale games were huge. But for a whole lot of people, they are going to think of the average too-down action rpg that was more recent, or the name will mean nothing to them at all.
I'm really hoping this game gets made (and looks like the video) but we'll see.
*POW* [Graphic] *SMACK*
X Beats You for 57 Damage
*Blast* [Graphic] *BOOM*
You Cast Fireball at the Xs for 35 damage.
I would actually prefer the old school menu driven combat to an isometric battle system. Truer to the originals.
It'll be fine Kickstarter-funding wise. I just wouldn't be optimistic about the stretch goals.
It actually kind of amazing the game hasnt gotten more backs. I mean for 48hrs they gave away free games, had a low 20$ tier and have released an amazing looking video. I think its all timing really.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Not to diminish your point, but it's not uncommon for gamestarters to have a demo.
Poor timing with the other two big game kickstarter going on right now, with not much advance leadup. Plus Bard's Tale has like no name recognition.
I would probably say it is uncommon actually, since its the minority of games.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I'm surprised today only netted $90k. I would have thought the in-engine video would have a much more major spike.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Yeah, makes me sad actually
I think they need to show at least a prototype of gameplay.
BrokenFiction
Member
It will help quite a bit if they can get the word out during E3. As soon as we see some stretch goals, it will pick back up.
Yeah sure that's always nice but i doubt it would make a difference. People will still cry downgrade incoming!
Actually i have an inkling from some posts they have made they might be targeting VR for this, which makes perfect sense. Strap fargo into a chair and record him in VR world and i think that might actually be entertaining enough for some 'wow!'
Also posts on the kickstarter page are depressing as crap.Half the people dont even know what the first Bards Tale games even were.
BrokenFiction
Member
Well, there's the $1 million mark!
autoduelist
Member
Posts like this reaffirm that I'm old.
Elaugaufein
Member
Yeah, makes me sad actually
I was actually just thinking that Bard's Tale is probably just a touch to old to be inside the Kickstarter sweet spot (and it doesn't have a Fallout equivalent like Wasteland did). 87-90 mean that the people it would most appeal to probably have concerns like family and major career commitments. Kind of a shame since these first person dungeon crawl games are almost unknown in western development these days. Might & Magic is the only real contender that I can think of and it spent over a decade taking a dirt nap.
Definitely been more frontloaded than most big kickstarters.
Mengy
wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
No name recognition?
Now I feel terribly old. The Bards Tale series was one of my earliest game addictions.
It was worth it for PoE.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Lol! I believe that's The Bard's Song
If gamespot is to be believed, The Bard's Song was inspired by The Bard's Tale: http://www.gamespot.com/articles/qanda-blind-guardian-on-music-in-games/1100-6190306/
This.
No matter what happens after this, it's really successful already, no need to spin some sort of weird disappointed narrative.
No name recognition?
Now I feel terribly old. The Bards Tale series was one of my earliest game addictions.
It has name recognition but let's be real here, if you ignore the reboot BT game it's been 27 years since Bard's Tale 3. A good portion of GAF isn't even 27 years old.
Yeah, as I posted earlier in the thread, this is doing better than I expected.
I was right thinking they would have a much harder time funding this one. I think the problem is the series is too old. Most of us don't know how it's actually going to work from a gameplay perspective (apparentely they don't know either if they can't say if combat is in isometric view or not). It worked with Wasteland because they basically sold it as 'party-based old school Fallout'. With this one they haven't said something like that, so I bet most people don't know how it will be.
I wish they would have made a futuristic IP using the same tech as PoE and Torment. Oh, well.
I wish they would have made a futuristic IP using the same tech as PoE and Torment. Oh, well.
Elaugaufein
Member
I can understand why they are reluctant to say one way or another. FP Dungeon Crawler combat is about as cheap as you can get outside of being a text based MUD, once you pull back and begin to need to animate models and have them interact with other models the costs are going to go waaay up.
It probably would have helped if they'd decided what they could do with base funding and what it is they'd want to do that's more visually impressive and how much it'd cost and then put it up as a stretch goal (preferably with a Proof of Concept trailer or sketch) since that way at least people would know what they'd like to do and what may be possible.
I wonder if a study has been done on what limiting the platforms does to the speed/success of kickstarters. For instance, I would totally back this if there was a tier that let me get it for a console. I can't be alone (and based on skimming the posts here I know I'm not).
I say this even more so now that we're starting to see kickstarted games turn around and announce console versions anyway. If they did this out of the gate, I wonder if they would have an easier time getting funded/hitting goals.
I say this even more so now that we're starting to see kickstarted games turn around and announce console versions anyway. If they did this out of the gate, I wonder if they would have an easier time getting funded/hitting goals.
I'm absolutely convinced that Wasteland 2 wouldn't have benefited at all from announcing console versions during the campaign, and might well have ended up with less funding (by losing out on part of the "old-school RPG" appeal, and making potential backers concerned about the ramifications). When that campaign was running, console gamers by and large didn't know who inXile was, who Brian Fargo was, who Interplay was, what Wasteland was and what Kickstarter was.
I don't know what the situation would be like now, for Bard's Tale, but considering the funding rate I doubt they are missing out on much.
MightyHedgehog
Member
For a CRPG game, I think it's just better to stick to the PC platforms for the initial project. Once that's been taken care of with post-release support and such, they can then figure out if a console version can work and how. That way, you're not shortchanging either types of platforms or their players upfront with some kind of universal compromise.