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Bard's Tale I - Launched the Second Wave

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by RPGWatch, Aug 15, 2018.

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    [​IMG]US Gamer continues its series on RPG history by looking at The Bard's Tale: Tales of the Unknown.

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    Cranford (along with his collaborators on The Bard's Tale, which included such future video game luminaries as Brian Fargo and Lawrence Holland) put together a game that looked a lot prettier than Wizardry, as well. The wire frame dungeons and crude monster illustrations of earlier dungeon crawlers here solidified into more concrete imagery. Labyrinths now consisted of colored walls with unique "event" spaces rendered in even greater detail. Above ground, Skara Brae's brick walls gave way to meticulously illustrated shop and pub interiors. Even the randomly encountered monsters didn't simply look nicer than in previous RPGs, they actually displayed simple animations.

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