InXile Entertainment has announced that the first three classic The Bard’s Tale games will receive a remaster treatment. As the developer noted, these remasters will be developed by Krome Studios and you can find below the first screenshot comparisons between the vanilla and the remastered versions.
The Bard’s Tale Trilogy Remasters will up-res the original art, but keep the art in theme with the originals (the original examples are from the Amiga version of Tales of the Unknown), will pack various audio throughout the games for attacks, spells, and more, and will feature some quality of life improvements, such as the automap, tooltip popups in the UI, etc.
Lindsay Parmenter, Head of Development of Krome, said:
“After some casual conversations with the inXile team, the opportunity came up to put something together that we think will be really great for the Trilogy remaster. Not only are we updating the games to work natively on modern systems, but we’re also putting on a fresh coat of paint, to give a new generation of role-playing and dungeon-crawling fans an easier opportunity to experience these classic games.”
Enjoy!
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Hell yeah! I can’t wait for these to come out, and the new A Bard’s Tale game. It looks absolutely amazing, and these games were some of my favorites when I was a little kid.
Looks great, very faithful to the original. Day one for me.
My first real RPG was Bards Tale 3 .I was a wee lad of about 7. Yes ,I beat the game. Took me a summer (I played alot outside riding dirt bikes,bicycles etc unlike kids today) to beat it. I was hooked and been an avid RPG fan ever since!
Amazing how time and imagination distorts perception. The remastered ones look exactly like I remembered seeing them in the first place. Until I saw the unremastered ones. I can already hear the adventurer’s guild theme playing in my head. Here we go again…
I sometimes look back on old games with rose colored glasses but usually not about the graphics quality. We have come an incredibly long way in that respect. Back then if you had an IBM you had CGA graphics with 16 colors available and 320X200 resolution. I had a C-64 when the first Bards Tale game came out and I don’t remember ever hearing about it but I played other games and they were all pixelated like this one whether on the C-64 or IBM.
So when can we expect these? Will they be packaged with Bard’s Tale IV, which is what I heard originally?