The game industry seems to be prone to long spells of humorless content. The fact is, a funny game can be as entertaining as the best sit-com or movie. Lucas made a living selling funny adventure games like Sam & max Hit the Road and Full Throttle. But for some reason this kid of title has been rare recently. Sure, you have titles like Once Upon a Knight out there, but most games are unintentionally funny. Just in time to make us smile again, Bard's Tale is percolating to the surface. The title will offer us the chance to walk the land in a Bard's shoes, looking for cash and tail. Your sing-song skills are your magic power, and it looks like that will be the source of a lot of the humor. "The Bard himself is not any kind of normal hero," Brian Fargo, the designer explains. "He's more like Han Solo in that he is really only interested in doing something if it is somehow good for him. His real focus is on the pursuit of coin and cleavage. The Bard's abilities come from his music and the learning of new songs which are the basis of the magic system. When he learns certain songs it gives him the ability to summon creatures or people into the party."
