Games In 2005-2006: Greg Costikyan

The interesting (i.e. Bard's Tale) part...

"Well, I think it was actually an 04 release, but I played it this year... Bard's Tale. Loved the earlier games, was looking forward to it, same "ass cam" over-the-head view as everything else with the result that you spend all your time looking at the ground, which may be nicely textured ground, but is still just dirt, somewhat boring repetitive hack-n-slash gameplay with, to be sure, occasional nice humorous touches."

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