The Bard's Tale IV

Mossed Neuronn

Hey folks!
I'm sure this project deserves a thread here.

Brian Fargo with inXile studio is currently running a Kickstarter campaign for their new game: The Bard's Tale IV, which is going to be a direct sequel to the trilogy that began with Tales of the Unknown, Volume I: The Bard's Tale in 1985.



Link to the Kickstarter page:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/the-bards-tale-iv

In-engine footage:
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVB6dSckvJI[/ame]


Kickstarter Pitch Video:
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffaI-nqAE_I[/ame]


The game will be made in traditional dungeon crawl style using Unreal Engine 4, for PC, Mac and Linux.
For now the project has $1,061,695 pledges of $1,250,000 goal with 24,411 backers and 34 days to go. If the game hits the goal, inXile will put in at least $1.25 million of its own money to the budget of the game.

For those who don't know Brian Fargo, he's a founder of Interplay, a company mostly known for RPGs, such as Fallout, Baldur's Gate, Planescape: Torment, Icewind Dale, The Bard's Tale and Wasteland (I'm sure you can name a lot of titles developed or published by Interplay outside of RPG genre). Brian with his team already have two successful crowdfunding campaigns in their portfolio, with Wasteland 2 (~$3 million pledges) and Torment: Tides of Numenera (~5 million pledges from PayPal and Kickstarter).







I'm not related with inXile Entertainment by any means, I just think that there are more people who want to support such a project.

My English is broken, point me on mistakes, I'll edit the post.

CrackRockSteady

Hey man! Glad to see some people interested in this I'm currently working on Torment, so I didn't have any involvement in the KS pitch/video, but it looks like the project will fund soon and I'm pretty excited to see this thing develop. Hopefully I'll have a chance to contribute at some point in the future

kanga

Great kick-starter vid. Not bad acting. Acting is hard

conte

Looks very promising so far. I just hope they'll save the humour of the previous game.
[ame=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSP1XXIpeuw]Bodb quest[/ame]
[ame=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNqxUFmI1K4]The chosen one'song[/ame]

Mossed Neuronn

conte, sorry to say, but it looks like BT4 is not going to have that much of humor as spin-off version. From here.

GameWatcher: You mentioned the 2005 Bard’s Tale there, which was very much a comedy game. Are you bringing anything from that interpretation across to this new project, or is that very much a spin-off that you’re not taking into account?

Brian Fargo: No, you really have to look at it as a separate spin-off that has nothing to do with it. It’s funny, there’s a group of people that really love that comedy version. In the beginning we did it, and the people more familiar with the old games said “hey guys, this wasn’t exactly what we were expecting”, but since it came out, and especially once we put it onto mobile, it’s sold a tonne of units and people love it. So there’s people who want a sequel to the comedy now! But no, you’ve got to look at that game as a product in its own right.

CrackRockSteady, wow that's fortunate to found somebody from inXile here. Btw, I really like the visuals of Torment, considering what was shown so far (latest footage had lots of WIPs and placeholders, if I'm not mistaken). Glad that it uses Obsidian technology, would love to see more projects with same kind of approach for environments. Another game that comes to mind is The Temple of Elemental Evil (that is already time-proven visually for my taste).

BlvdNights

As a former employee of inXile it's always blown my mind that people give them this much money.