![]() The bard has a long and storied history as part of the fantasy RPG tradition, but rarely do they actually serve the purpose that real bards ever did. ![]() ![]() It’s a huge missed opportunity in my opinion, but a few recent games have attempted it to varying degrees of success, most particularly Skyrim and Dragon Age: Inquisition. Even fantasy RPGs, where the bard is literally a combat class a large proportion of the time, rarely have original music with lyrics. Noire was surprisingly good at this, so many of the songs on the radio in that game are very catchy happy sounding songs about murder), but it’s a rare event when fully lyrical original songs to make their way into a game world. The best of the latter curate their playlists carefully to make sure that they fit the theme of the game ( L.A. Music is a major part of any video game, but confines itself to either sweeping orchestral harmonies that accompany you on your grand video game journeys, electronic music, and occasionally the hits of days gone by (like the radio in Fallout) or random pop or rock hits.
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