I'm a huge fan of the Bard's Tale series. I still have Bard's Tale I through III on floppy disk in my attic, and I still fondly remember using graph paper to map out on the towns and dungeons of those Commodore 64-era originals. So, I'm among the handful of gamers who actually got excited when I heard that a new Bard's Tale game was in the work. And, I wasn't even disappointed when I found out it was to be a dungeon-crawl as opposed to a full-featured RPG. Heck, I've loved dungeon crawls from Rogue through Champions of Norrath, so I was actually stoked to hear the game was supposed to be both a dungeon crawl and a parody of dungeon crawls and RPG's that had come before it. Unfortunately, now that I've played through the game, I have to say I'm a bit disappointed.