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Devil Whiskey - The Bard's Tale Resurrected?

Posted by simoniker on from the also-see-horrible-gin dept.

Tony Bybell writes "For the old school RPGamers, the 1980s Bard's Tale style of role playing is being unofficially resurrected as Bard's Legacy: Devil Whiskey. Check out the FAQ: a Linux port will be available immediately and they'll be releasing the code under an Open Source license after 50,000 copies of the full game have been sold." There's also a new downloadable demo available in both Windows and Linux flavors.

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  1. This is great. by Future+Man+3000 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Since the release of Final Fantasy VII and Diablo, the RPG genre has ramped up the glitz and glamour and ignored those of us that preferred a straightforward RPG experience.

    I enjoyed Bard's Tale and Wizardry, and hope that the simplistic style of the earlier Final Fantasies can be revisited at some point as well (although hopefully with deeper plot; Final Fantasy X was entirely over my head.)

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  2. Re:Open Source license by n0wak · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I agree.

    While I do wish such endeavours the best of luck, selling 50,000 copies sounds like wishful thinking. So I wouldn't go setting my watch for an open source release.

  3. I'm glad too by ErisCalmsme · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Pretty funny how this morning I had a dream about RPG's... actually I woke up wanting to be a dark elf in evercrack (which oddly enough I stopped playing on 9/11/01 when my DSL connection was lost in the rubble of the verizon building in downtown manhattan)... But anyway... I am downloading the demo now, in hopes that I can finally play an RPG that isnt "massively multiplayer online". I really just miss being able to save a game and continue it later... without the game changing while I'm gone...

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  4. Game Change? by kc78 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    "I really just miss being able to save a game and continue it later... without the game changing while I'm gone... " When did you ever log into EQ and find the game had changed. That's the main reason I quit the game. Nothing you did had any impact on anything other than you having more gear. Oh you could awake the sleeper, but that was it. That didn't even have any real impact on the world other than some different beasts in his lair and one quick slaughter of the world. Hmmmm, you'd have thought something that big would have made some significant game changes.

  5. Hardware requirements by NetDanzr · · Score: 2, Interesting
    I played the demo for two days and I liked very much what I saw. There were some minor balancing issues (the demo is much easier than the Bard's Tale games), but I guess that's because it's only a demo.

    What I really don't understand is why a game that tries to be a sequel to Bard's Tale (a game that ran on my 386-33) requires a Pentium III and 256MB of RAM?