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Originally posted by Azred:
The Bard's Tale wasn't the first computer-based role-playing game I ever had, but it was definitely the best until the Gold Box series came out. If you can find them, whether in a compilation like I have or from a free game website, then add these classics to your collection.
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I actually still liked the Bard's Tale series the best, even after the Gold Box series. Gold Box games were good, but the problem, for me, was the length of the fights. I think the first game to beat Bard's Tale, in my mind, was "Alternate Reality: The Dungeon." It was an extremely underrated game, but it was so advanced for its time. There was the ability to form alliances with different groups, to join guilds, and to have morality issues. On top of that, the game took into account tons of things like how drunk you were, how burdened you were, etc. And then there was the music and the smooth scrolling 3D... there was just a LOT of stuff in this game. A shame the series never got finished.
The other Bard's Tale beater at that time was Dragon Wars. It took everything that was good about BT, and added a far more developed story, better graphics, and maps that made some sort of logical sense (using Scry Site every five seconds in BT got a little tedious.)