“The Bard’s Tale 4: Barrows Deep” (“BT4”) is one of those sequels nobody ever expected to happen. While the original trilogy wrapped itself up during the Reagan/Bush era, it apparently didn’t have the staying power to be beaten like a dead horse, as more modern IPs are. Instead, ‘The Bard’s Tale’ went into a deep slumber, rarely spoken of amongst PC gaming grognards who spent the 1980’s playing terrible games and covering their walls with pages of notes and graph paper maps. That is until Brian Fargo, the exiled CEO of InterPlay started fishing for some IPs that his new startup, inExile Entertainment, could use as a stepping stone to get off the ground, back around 2002. He lit on ‘The Bard’s Tale’ IP and, through some legal tiptoeing and lack of direct referenci... |
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