The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate (Commodore 64 intro)

The Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate - Commodore 64 title sequence animation.
Graphics: Todd J. Camasta.
Music: Kurt Heiden.
Programmer: "Burger" Bill Heineman.
Interplay Productions Inc., distributed by Electronic Arts, 1988.
Come hear the tale of Skara Brae-
A god returned to have his way.
Creatures of darkness, spawn of night,
The Mad One's kin destroyed the site.
Defenders fell, their bane come true,
Garth, Roscoe, Kylearan, too!
As doom approached, the helpless fled.
It did no good, the streets ran red.
Survivors few, they sit and mope,
with but one final ray of hope:
'Cross time and space, the legends say,
Heroes at last! To steal the day!
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[@Hawksendoom]

After all these years, shit still slaps - god bless sid chip!

[@DarkcowboyDK]

I remember hours, weeks, and months with drawing maps by hand, using the code wheel, bitching about Brilhasti and hunting for Stoneblades for the entire party.

[@Hawksendoom]

The graph paper! ZZGO

[@VeganCheeseburger]

Still a classic!

[@Shaewaros]

I just began playing this game again on Dosbox. =) Definitely one of the most memorable rpgs I've ever played.

[@BrigKline]

Ah, I remember playing this years and years ago on the old C64 after reading the lord of the rings for the first time, recreating the fellowship. Good times :)

[@heta007]

Wow, instant nostalgia, I thought Id never hear this again :) Thankyou uploader :)

[@Khanthiilas]

it took 6 months of solid gaming warm fuzzy memories are coming back to me just listening to that music

[@Hawksendoom]

Shit does slap still doe

[@Realmasterorder]

Those were the Years ! this is one of the Favourite Franchises of Classic RPG dungeon crawlers of all time Its Worth playing the Remake now that its out for some time,its on Steam and is also Free with Gamepass !

[@ravenhill_theAnglo-celt-1968]

the bard is treygard from 80s tv series knightmare.

[@VeganCheeseburger]

Wonderful, thank you

[@LetsNeverPlayAgain]

Fair enough.

[@DarianZG]

Sigh...back when games required you to think instead of handing the answers to you in the form of multiple choice answers. It's saddening how the quality of the games have degraded in the pursuit of the most epic graphics and multimedia presentation.

[@martinsen073]

I played so much, i still remember the secrets words to get into underground dungeons "chaos" and "tarjan" and a funny reply when you write "hamburger"

[@brucejones5962]

c64 had the best intro song by far! Much better than the PC version

[@LetsNeverPlayAgain]

Why were you drawing maps by hand? The game had an auto-map system, which is actually quite revolutionary for the time.

[@DarkcowboyDK]

Knowing locations of spinners, darkness, heath-damage areas ect. was nice, when coming back to the game from a longer break or a replay. As I recall the automap feature, it just placed walls and doors and had no specific information on locations.

[@SethGreeneSharkpreneur]

What is the order to release the gods in in Malefia in Bard’s Tale 3?

[@LetsNeverPlayAgain]

Uh, thanks for the subtitles for the subtitles. >_>

[@RobHuston]

Haha, I put them in for the sake of search engines. :)

[@LetsNeverPlayAgain]

I have a pretty distinct memory of the automapper and I'm pretty sure it shows detail and not just the spaces where you've traveled, though that was the main focus. I could be wrong, however.

[@jsrodman]

(Long after): The automap showed basically walls, doors, and where you'd stepped. It also showed one-way walls accurately, and maybe invisible walls distinctly. But even reading doors reliably was super difficult. I'd say the automap was mostly an assistant to drawing your own maps.

[@MrDasmaster]

@DarianZG dead right it was a hard one