The humour of "Bard's Tale" series gone ?

[Chunky Moe]

I've watched a few vids of gameplay.
Where's the self-deprecating humour and tongue-in-cheek 4th wall breaking?

From what I've seen so far, this looks like a standard dungeon crawler that happens to have the Bard's Tale name thrown on, or am I completely off base here?

[Themadcow]

The original Bards Tale games (1-3) had humour in the character designs and some names (e.g. Dork ring) but broadly speaking were not known for it. The 2004 game on the other hand had plenty of humour but I don't think most people felt it was a 'proper' Bards Tale game.

[starkmaddness]

This game is Bards Tale IV. A sequel to Bards Tale III. A game that is 30 years old. The Bards Tale you reference was a spin-off. This isn't a sequel to that game.

That said, this game is nothing like Bards Tale III either.

[Cutlass Jack]

Well there was a soup nazi joke on the first map. And a couple of jokes on signage. But not the over the top humor of the spin off.

[SeaKnight]

The humor is there.

[Hex: Onii-Chan]

You see a glimpse of it at some points, but it's like 0,5% of The Bard's Tale from 2004. Immensely disappointed, because that was the thing that many people including me really wanted from this game.