Not sure I'm on board with the idea of no urgency or tension as being a good thing tbh ^^ĭNACowboy wrote: ↑ October 4th, 2018, 10:15 am A game for puzzle fans rather than the traditional dungeon crawl crowd. If you don't like puzzles, I hope I've made it clear you should probably avoid The Bard's Tale 4, but if you do - if you take pleasure in a mental stretch - then there's an awful lot here for you. And being different in a world of so many spectacular role-playing games means everything. I don't mean it detrimentally, because although it's scruffy, it has bags of charisma, and by not trying to please everybody it revels in being different. If there's such thing as a B-movie game, The Bard's Tale 4: Barrows Deep is it. This, mingled with the game's easy-going fantasy and pretty scenery, makes The Bard's Tale 4 exactly the game to play in the evening to unwind. A whole album was specially commissioned for The Bard's Tale 4 and it is enchanting, from melancholic air to jaunty jig.

There's no urgency, no tension it's peaceful and relaxing, and accompanied by the most beautiful Gaelic soundtrack I've ever heard in a game. It is an ideal place to return to puzzle in. imagine if I substituted her for another archmage. my bard hasn't done anything but watch for days.

This one's combat was growing stale until I forced myself to change up my tactics that were also already winning against everything, and I then stumbled upon an even greater nuking rotation wherein I only bother using my 2 fighters to taunt to position everything, and maybe my rogue to trigger a mark. it's not a good argument, as you guys are saying. I can't say I'm not having fun completely outsmarting and overwhelming opponents, but to say that the original was less/more, etc. The challenge now is whether I'll destroy the enemies in the first round, which I do 9/10 times, with the 1/10 feeling like a letdown that I let them get an attack in. Put multiple practitioners in your party, and it becomes OP. And, given that combat system ends up being gamed by a couple of winning tactics, it just seems more painful overall.Īt a certain point in this game, you probably find a specific rotation revolving around Conjurer's Mark and vampirism, and combat becomes less strategic and more a predetermined destruction of anything that you face. Also, a lot of people who remember the original BT games well have called out how much slower combat resolution is compared to the Barrows Deep game.

Needless to say, I called that out: more complex repetition != tactically deeper. I remember one person making the bad assumption that the originals were all about 'AAADDD' and therefore 'tactically shallow' and then in the very next sentence mentioning that the 'deeper' combat of Barrows Deep meant that you had a more complex routine for the first two rounds and then you repeated it after that. I've also mentioned this a number of times previously, as well. Of course, I've been shouted down by certain people when I made such assesments, but it's nice to see that others are starting to see the same patterns. that in spite of all the flashy looks the end result is combat that in practice is equally 'deep' but where the difference is that instead of hitting keys and seeing the result fast, you have to click on icons and wait for animations (not to mention waves). Winning requires at least some thought, though once I discovered a winning strategy, battles played out essentially the same no matter what.Īt least it's not the 'AAADDD' that everyone allegedly had to do in the originals.

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