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Re: I installed an emulated version of this. by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/08/2009, 10:48am PST
Fullofkittens wrote:

Kids these days who complain about video games having fucked up learning curves (*cough*) have no concept of just how punishingly tough a game can be. The manual for The Bard's Tale states that you shouldn't get attached to lvl 1 and 2 characters, and they're not kidding. "You face certain death in the form of 3 spiders and 2 nomads!" is not a joke.


Especially since the only place you can save is in the goddamn guild (although I would guess your emulator can do save states). I also remember that on the C64 and Apple versions, you could import characters from Ultima and Wizardry, which would be like letting me import Tidus and my Fallout 3 geek girl into Persona 4 these days.

The line in the manual about using "your favorite disk-copy utility" to backup your characters is also great. The only time I cheated in the game is involving that eyeball you need to get to a certain tower - I did the thing where you give the item to a character, save that character to disk, bring him back, give the eye to a second character, save that character to disk, and then turn the power off on your computer, so the state of all six characters is with that item. Even the MGS guy didn't have the balls to ask you to turn your computer off.

I also had a theory that the three Bard's Tale games are the only franchise in history to get the concept of sequels correct, but Fallout may have joined them.


the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey!
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I enjoyed this RPS article about the Bard's Tale by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/23/2008, 3:51pm PDT NEW
    I bought the map book for Bard's Tale. Was he crazy or something? NT by FoK 08/23/2008, 5:41pm PDT NEW
    I installed an emulated version of this. by Fullofkittens 01/07/2009, 9:59am PST NEW
        Re: I installed an emulated version of this. by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/08/2009, 10:48am PST NEW
            The AD&D Gold Box games let you import/export characters. NT by Mischief Maker 01/08/2009, 11:46am PST NEW
                I still haven't given up on my Dark Queen of Krynn campaign. by Last 01/08/2009, 12:02pm PST NEW
                    I still have my Curse of the Azure Bonds savegame somewhere. NT by McMoo 01/08/2009, 1:25pm PST NEW
                        That was the best of them all. ONE GOLD BOX TO RULE THEM NT by laudablepuss 01/09/2009, 3:53pm PST NEW
            Another cheat remembered from childhood: by Fullofkittens 01/08/2009, 7:43pm PST NEW
        I am also doing this! by Bunyip 01/21/2009, 9:00pm PST NEW
    Re: I enjoyed this RPS article about the Bard's Tale by Mischief Maker 01/21/2009, 5:54am PST NEW
        Re: I enjoyed this RPS article about the Bard's Tale by Ice Cream Jonsey 01/21/2009, 9:33am PST NEW
            Protip: by Mischief Maker 01/21/2009, 6:56pm PST NEW
 
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