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Remastering Bard's Tale 1, 2 & 3
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 10:45 am
by Brian the Fist
Bob K. just sent me this via E-mail - really sounds very interesting:
Re: Remastering Bard's Tale 1, 2 & 3
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 2:36 pm
by ZeroZero
Very interesting!
I use my spare time to continue my reverse enginieering BT1 for C64. As a next step I will soon come up with a disk version in German language
It will merely be a translation with some German characters added to the font and some graphic exchanged.
Dunno how Becky and the others will see that fan project, I hope they do not understand it as a copyright infringement....
Re: Remastering Bard's Tale 1, 2 & 3
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 5:43 pm
by TechnoWolf
Hopefully this is completed and released. They stand to make a large profit if released on distribution platforms like GOG.com and Steam. Preferably GOG as I personally can't stand Steam's DRM. I for one would pay $40-$50 to have the finished BT 1,2,3 Remastered. The biggest feature to me would be the auto-mapping. The cleaner graphics would be a bonus, but not at the expense of GPU if made to be too demanding.
Re: Remastering Bard's Tale 1, 2 & 3
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 5:46 pm
by Brian the Fist
Absolutely agree to that. Especially to your preference for GOG as they do not use DRM with their distributions.
Re: Remastering Bard's Tale 1, 2 & 3
Posted: Fri Aug 24, 2018 8:09 pm
by Mordred
I think it is available now at GOG.com.
I haven't tried it yet.
https://www.gog.com/game/the_bards_tale_trilogy
Re: Remastering Bard's Tale 1, 2 & 3
Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2018 6:15 pm
by Methuselas
Yeah, I just picked up Volume 1. It's gorgeous.
Re: Remastering Bard's Tale 1, 2 & 3
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2018 5:49 am
by caars
Methuselas wrote:Yeah, I just picked up Volume 1. It's gorgeous.
Picked it up about three (?) weeks ago. Playing it quite a bit. It's very well done (IMO).
On the 3rd level of Harkyn's. My Wizards just topped out, so they're about to do their "final" class change (at least until BT2 remastered is complete and I can switch to Archmage).
By the way, a few "key" things that most of us used to exploit for grinding simply aren't available. The most noteworthy is the famous Berserker fight. Only get to do it once (have a "start a totally new game" to "reactivate it"). But since the old "cap" to XP you could get from a single fight is gone, you *do* get the true reward (the full ~180,000 XP, not the capped to 65,535 XP amount). Take into account the halved level requirements, and you "effectively" get the equivalent of doing the fight six times (but only have to actually do it once), and then no more...