Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!xanthian From: xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: Bard's Tale III (Ugh!) Keywords: Bard, Tale, Thief of Fate Message-ID: <1991Apr9.171036.17118@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> Date: 9 Apr 91 17:10:36 GMT References: <56@taloa.unice.fr> Organization: SF-Bay Public-Access Unix Lines: 38 beust@mimosa.unice.fr (Cedric Beust) writes: > swildner@channelz.gun.de (Sascha Wildner) writes: >> Has anybody already played Bard's Tale III on the Amiga? Seems that >> we have another ugly conversion here. The graphics is C64-Standard >> and it's awfully slow. Ugh! > Well, at first sight, I wouldn't be so negative. The Wizardry VI > debate has shown appearances can be misleading. I agree that "Thief of > Fate"'s graphics have some EGA flavor that is hardly bearable for > Amigamen. Nevertheless, I'm ready to give this game a chance, > especially because the scenario seems to be quite different from the > other two. > We can expect it will be far less complex than Wizardry VI, though, > since it fits on two disks... > More on this when I've played longer with it. All of the usual questions, please: 1) Does "crufty EGA graphics" mean "just like I & II", or "worse than I & II"? 2) The usual questions on politically correct copy protection, HD installation, etc. I really enjoyed B.T. I, and somehow have never found time to go back and finish BT II (a real life intruded for almost a year, and at the end of that, other things had my attention), but someday I will; if BT III is of acceptable (not "super") quality, I'd like to pick it up now even if I don't unwrap it for a couple of years. 3) I'm especially interested to know if it runs OK on an A3000, since that might well be the house machine by the time I get around to it. Kent, the man from xanth.