{"id":2404,"date":"2017-02-24T15:04:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T22:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/torment-tides-of-numenera-developers-first-vr-game-returns-to-the-bards-tale-universe\/"},"modified":"2017-02-24T15:04:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T22:04:46","slug":"torment-tides-of-numenera-developers-first-vr-game-returns-to-the-bards-tale-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taterboy.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/torment-tides-of-numenera-developers-first-vr-game-returns-to-the-bards-tale-universe\/","title":{"rendered":"Torment: Tides of Numenera developer\u2019s first VR game returns to The Bard\u2019s Tale universe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Welcome to virtual reality, InExile.<\/p>\n

The long-time independent\u00a0studio announced The Mage\u2019s Tale today. It\u2019s an action-RPG for the Oculus Rift and its Touch controllers, and it should come out later this year. Its setting is in the world of The Bard\u2019s Tale, and it\u2019s InExile\u2019s first foray into virtual reality software \u2014\u00a0which market researcher SuperData predict could hit a possible $14 billion in sales by 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You play as a\u00a0conjuror out to rescue your kidnapped master, Alguin, from the corrupted wizard Gaufroi. You explore 11 dungeons, such as the infamous sewers of The Bard\u2019s Tale Skara Brae, fighting monsters and dealing with puzzles and traps. You use elemental magic, learning more lore to make stronger magic to take on monsters and the evil Gaufroi.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of three RPGs in production right now at InExile, joining Wasteland 3 and The Bard\u2019s Tale IV.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was a kid, our dungeons consisted of playing Dungeons &\u00a0Dragons<\/em> on graph paper. From there I graduated to playing classic computer games in black-and-white like Wizardry, which inspired me to create a full-color dungeon crawl with\u00a0Bard\u2019s Tale,\u201d InExile CEO and longtime RPG designer Brian Fargo said. \u201cThe window for the players kept getting bigger, the graphics more advanced, and now with The Mage\u2019s Tale, we are inside the dungeon.\u201d<\/p>\n

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