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The Bard's Tale (Xbox): Review @ Eurogamer

(Xbox: Single-Player RPG) | Posted by Dhruin @ Thursday - May 05, 2005 - 09:10 -
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Eurogamer has handed out a tepid 6/10 for inXile's 'The Bard's Tale', in their review of the Xbox version:
For a genre that takes itself seriously to a fault, it's amazing that it's taken all this time for someone to poke fun at RPGs. In those bad old good old days when computers used to be steam powered [we really have come full circle -Ed] and required smacking like naughty children every now and then, Fergus McNeil and his Delta 4 gang were always taking the rise out of chin-stroking fantasy adventures, and for good reason. The comedy value in these mystical, dungeon-roaming, spell-casting epics is there for all to see. From the clichéd dim-witted yokel characters and hackneyed storylines of princesses stuck in towers to the faintly ridiculous game mechanics that see animals coughing up coins upon their death and the ritual destruction of barrels. RPGs may have gotten away with all manner of unselfconscious nonsense for the past quarter of a century, but no more.
 
 
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