Trilogy or Bard's Tale 'Remastered and Resnarkled'

[FLAMANAR]

Man, this is so confusing. Is the Trilogy the best to get in regards to the Bard's games?? I also noticed another product, claiming to me 'The Bard's Tale Remastered and Resnarkled'. Not a clue. ITAD isn't helpful with this, either. I already had Bard's tale (original) on GOG.com. Getting a bit ridiculous. Anyone have a few minutes to help me untangle this ball of Christmas lights?? Thanks in advance.

[kaypy]

There are two different products involved.

The trilogy is a remaster of the original 1980's pseudo-3d RPG
https://store.steampowered.com/app/843260/The_Bards_Tale_Trilogy

R&R is an updated version of the 2004 ARPG
https://store.steampowered.com/app/41900/The_Bards_Tale

They are quite different things, so "best" gets kinda subjective. What sort of game are you after?

The screenshots in the store pages should give you a pretty good idea what you are looking at for each

[FLAMANAR]

I was looking for the best rendition of the old Bard's Tale games. It looks like both the above are trilogies. Is the 'Remasterd and Resnarkled' version providing anything new to the game -content-? Besides an update? Basically, wanting the best experience (visually and content-wise) for the trilogies. I'm going back to take a look at both of them as we speak. The titles are just confusing me, but I'm older and more confusable than ever, lol. Thanks

ETA: the way they have these games for sale is maddening. The Trilogy is a slam/dunk. But I was wondering what I'm missing if I didn't also buy 'The Bard's Tale' (which on GOG doesn't mention being updated, even in the title...but Steam shows the 'Remastered and Resnarkled' part of the logo. Even the minimum specs on Gog and Steam differ. In the end, I bought both on GOG. Not a clue which is what, but it didn't break the bank. Thanks again for your help.

[Marcycle]

Originally posted by FLAMANAR:

I was looking for the best rendition of the old Bard's Tale games. It looks like both the above are trilogies. Is the 'Remasterd and Resnarkled' version providing anything new to the game -content-? Besides an update?

If you follow the link that kaypy provided, you can see that "Remastered and Resnarkled" is a completely different game than the original trilogy. It's a one-player, top-down experience, with combat that is more similar to a real-time combat engine than turn-based, and the main character talks to himself a lot. The "Remastered and Resnarkled" version *does* come with a version of the original Trilogy in its bonus content though, which I guess is "more true" to the original in terms of the graphics and all of the cludgy controls.

[FLAMANAR]

Ok, what was tripping me up was GOG's description. Apparently Steam has the updated (Remastered and Resnarkled) version of The Bard's Tale. GOG does NOT have it. For whatever reason, and looking there in the forums...it's been some years that people have been waiting for it to happen. The game company that created the game keeps saying they're looking into it. Years later. Fyi and I can sleep at night now. Except that means I have the old version on GOG, and will have to wait for a sale on the Steam version. Unreal. Thanks for the assist, though guys