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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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