The Bard's Tale Sequel Announced

InXile Entertainment announced The Bard's Tale IV at PAX South.

The developer that recently released Wasteland 2, InXile Entertainment has revealed that it will be resurrecting another classic franchise, The Bard's Tale IV.

Brian Fargo created his own studio in 2002, and began work on The Bard's Tale, a comical remaining of the franchise's tropes, that would release in 2004.

"This project has always been really personal to me," Fargo told IGN. "It was a game that put both me and Interplay on the map, back in the day. And it's also the franchise that launched inXile."

InXile Entertainment plans to fund the project via Kickstarter, but there aren't many details regarding the game.

"Traditional turn-based combat," as Fargo calls it, bases turns on varying factors, creating battles in which different characters attacked at different times, often alternating between opposing sides.

"There will be plenty of combat diversity and depth," Fargo said. "You look at something like Hearthstone, for example. It's sort of that going back-and-forth process, and you see the complexity and detail and strategy and nuance that can happen. It's really an amazing system. I love those modern influences. I took a lot away from that, and see things we need to do with our combat system."