The Bard's Tale IV (PC, Mac, Linux Oct 2017)semi-open world RPG gameplay video looks visually amazing photogrammetry UE4

Honestly though they need to get rid of those portraits but they are just placeholders according to the developers. Finally UE4 is put to good use. The game will be a focus on dungeon crawling but will allow you explore open areas and towns. Some what open world but not like Skyrim in a sense,

Enjoyed the legend of grimrock. When is this going to release?

Combat looks great... but there is already a thread on this

http://www.gamespot.com/forums/system-wars-314159282/the-bards-tale-iv-new-gameplay-footage-33380023/#10

I haven't played a bard game for ages didn't even know there was a new one

@enzyme36: lol someone beat me to it didn't notice

lofl, well they won't have to worry about lip synching in this game. That is just hilarious. 'visually amazing' lmao.

This is looking pretty cool, actually. I love these types of games, but I just hate how much of a grind they eventually become.

Place holders they are already working on character models said by developers. Everything else looks great

My Dad has all the older Bard games pretty cool there making a sequel after all these years. I believe a few games have tried to bring back the old school rpg with Might and Magic X coming to mind which was horrible in my experience. This actually looks far better than I would imagine, they need to get rid of those grids looks way too modern looking for a Bard game, 2D popping portrait is hell out of place what they should do is replace with a 3D model of that character with only the upper body showing and have it react to damage and script it for scenes where they talk. I heard they were placeholders or something not sure why they made the portrait pop up and have there back turn when in battle looks weird.

@deathlordcrime: it's a wip from the developer

I know a least according to what the dev said but it was pretty bad decision from the start to use those 2d pop in

Glad they were able to pull through with the game, its been close to two years since we heard news about it

Man, I go on some long rant every time Photogrammetry gets name dropped. Not gonna go all out this time lol. But to be blunt, it's the "blast processing" of the modern age. Or it's like the first few years that games were using normal maps and everybody would rave about it, not knowing what they really were, not even knowing that almost every game was using them lol. But if a developer mentioned normal maps? Forums would be lit up with nonsense lol.

Same thing here. Photogrammetry has been in use in game development as far back as GEN 6. And these days? It's used in pretty much every single 3d game you play in some capacity. It's just another extremely common tool used in asset development. And the funny thing about it? It's actually one of the weakest forms of 3d scanning lol. It just happens to be cost effective and simple. Any idiot with a camera can do it. Just watch a few tutorials on Agisoft or the much better alternative, Reality Capture, and you're ready to go.

Blame Dice for having pp hyping the whole thing up lol

Yeah I know a lot of it is the industries fault. The guys behind The Vanishing of Ethan Carter as well as Dice are probably the biggest offenders lol.

But yeah, it's just funny every time I see it mentioned on a game forum as something special. It's almost like saying "Uses 3d Studio Max/Maya/Photoshop!" as if it's some big thing, when almost every game being made uses those tools.

From what i read the guys from the studio who developed Ethan Carter said their game could have been close to 1 TB if they were to fully use photo realistic texture

Wow I'm glad the series is still around. well off to pledge, I want to this game made. If any one else care to join me, heres the link. https://bardstale.inxile-entertainment.com/

Not really related but kind of related...

you see beer commercials, when they say "cold filtered and triple hopped for exceptional taste!" like its some big deal? Every beer that is filtered is filtered cold, and just about every American beer is triple hopped (if not more) these days. Also, you don't filter for taste (it actually can take away taste), you filter for shelf stability and clarity.

I filter beer almost every day at my job and every time I hear Coors or Miller talk about how awesome their beer is because its cold I think "Oh gee golly how FREAKING SPECIALS YOU GUYS ARE!" and roll my eyes.

Gotta educate the consumers.

@mrbojangles25: what kind of beer

It's such a shame that indie developers can do 100x better graphics than 95% of AAA Japanese games.

@zeeshanhaider: my friend 95 is too low

@zeeshanhaider: 95% is actually far too generous lol I can't think of five games that were amazing looking

@deathlordcrime: 99.1% is a good number my friend

@godspellwh:

True dat but I was being generous otherwise the weeaboos will start attacking me. You know the funny thing the Japanese games that do look okay is either designed or programmed by western studios or some key western people looking over their engine.

@zeeshanhaider: I believe if given a decade they will eventually cat h up to current gen

lol

@blueinheaven: it's in first person and pretty sure they showed goblins talking perfectly in the combat. And looks damn good so I hope your not trying to downplay the visuals because its gorgeous.

@godspellwh said:

@DarthRamms said:

@blueinheaven: it's in first person and pretty sure they showed goblins talking perfectly in the combat

nuff said

The art style is pretty neat they should turn the saturation down just a bit thou. I hope its a least enjoyable like legend of grimrock

Going to wait and see how they show off the rest of the features they talked about. Maybe it will be worth a pre order.

You can get it as low as 25 dollars not sure if the deal is still there thou

I love the arts type the scenery is just gorgeous

That look fantastic. Dunno why people give a shit about the potrait so much, not only is it WIP but they dont even look half bad.

Awesome times to be in, boatload of games across all genres with even long dead ones thriving and having an audience.

@rollermint: they are a bit odd the ui could use work but everything else is pretty good looking

1000x better than your hentai Persona 5 with underage girls, lel.

lol

@zeeshanhaider: lol weaboo games