RPGs may have gotten away with all manner of unselfconscious nonsense for the past quarter of a century, but no more.Īnd who better to point a mirror to the ridiculousness of our gaming conventions than one of the men who is largely responsible for perpetuating all this nonsense, Brian Fargo, head of The Bard's Tale developer inXile, responsible for the original classic mid-80s trilogy that - for many of us - got us into the genre in the first place. From the clichéd dim-witted yokel characters and hackneyed storylines of princesses stuck in towers to the faintly ridiculous game mechanics that see animals coughing up coins upon their death and the ritual destruction of barrels. The comedy value in these mystical, dungeon-roaming, spell-casting epics is there for all to see. In those bad old good old days when computers used to be steam powered and required smacking like naughty children every now and then, Fergus McNeil and his Delta 4 gang were always taking the rise out of chin-stroking fantasy adventures, and for good reason. For a genre that takes itself seriously to a fault, it's amazing that it's taken all this time for someone to poke fun at RPGs.
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