![]() Though again, many of the character models look ugly and have lifeless animations, creating a juxtaposition between what the player sees and what they hear. The writing is witty and often funny, and the lines are delivered well. It seems small, and it is, but it’s just a constant frustrating oddity. Instead of giving the player their choices, they must hit Continue (which stops the NPC’s voice track), and then the choices show up, and then they choose the desired option. This isn’t an issue when they are speaking on their own, but it makes the back-and-forth feel so bizarre. For whatever reason, the player must hit “Continue” after everything an NPC says. Even the idle animations are poorly constructed, with poses not perfectly looping and jumping from one position to the next. Everyone just stands still in their NPC pose, waiting for the player to come up and speak with them. NPC models look like garbage and no NPC is ever moving around. While the combat and puzzles are interesting enough in their own right, starting in the dreary grey and brown town of Skara Brae is so…unimpressive. This is absolutely not true with The Bard’s Tale IV. Sure, I’d love to save the world from the biggest baddie who has come from somewhere to ruin everything, but you’re kidding yourself if you think it’s worth slogging through the muck and the mire of The Bard’s Tale IV to do so.Ī lot of games will put their best act up front, especially long RPGs. The framerate is all over the place, and bugs are constantly rearing their ugly head to impede or altogether halt progress. Well, I can’t say this is a tale worth hearing right now. So naturally, I became interested in this Kickstarted renaissance of a series based on bards and their tales. Man, I was really excited when Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn offered a bard class, even if it was just a singing archer. I’ve never played the previous Bard’s Tale games, but the bard class has always been my top choice whenever it presents itself. So let’s just call it The Bard’s Tale IV for now. Every time I go to type it out, I inevitably forget about that little subtitle. ![]() But in my Steam library, it’s just The Bard’s Tale IV. ![]() On the Steam store page, it lists “Barrows Deep” at the end. Hopefully the game will be at a stable point, because I don’t think players want a Director’s Cut Part 2: Electric Boogaloo in their near future.I’m confused as to the actual title of this game. And we still won’t disregard the possibility that there are even more problems to iron out. With an average score of “mixed,” it will still be a fight for The Bard’s Tale IV: Director’s Cut. Whether or not the update will address all the latest complaints remains uncertain. The patch addresses many known glitches in the game, such as character collision, environmental clipping, and possible events of the game crashing. In a message on the Steam Community site, the developer dropped some patch notes for an update that came out earlier today. Regardless, the persistence of bugs and glitches are one of the most common complaints.īut it seems that inXile Entertainment is aware of the complaints. The same bugs from the first release of are still present…” Granted, some low-scoring reviews panned repetitive puzzles and an inconsistent story. One reviewer wrote that the new version is “a downgrade straight across the board. ![]() Steam users have been vocal on the Director’s Cut. Coming with a host of changes, it would bring “thousands of fixes and improvements across the game.” Additionally, the Director’s Cut was supposed to rebalance combat, as well as improve the graphics after moving the game over to the Unreal Engine. The Bard’s Tale IV: Director’s Cut was meant to wipe the slate clean. Developer inXile, though, is trying to patch holes in this old, sinking ship. And as of today, its Steam user score matches that of its predecessor. To some surprise, the Director’s Cut still has a lot of technical problems. The Director’s Cut version, however, which launched on Aug. It quickly earned a mixed rating at Steam, as owners lambasted the game for all its faults. The Bard’s Tale IV: Barrows Deep was a buggy mess, marred by technical failings. For developer inXile Entertainment, the new version was to address many of the complaints held by fans of the original game, which came out last year. The Bard’s Tale IV: Director’s Cut launched on Steam two weeks ago today.
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