btw. I prefer the soundtrack from Diablo 1 in general. Dat electric guitars.

The original series has not really anything to do with the new release but the name :)
As a game itself, it is quite funny. At least the german localized version is really good as a well known comedy actor and producer (Oliver Kalkofe) did the translation and dubbed the bard (very well done) :)

The German version is awful. AWFUL! I felt like Kalkofe had no idea what character in what kind of game he was voicing. A well-known comedian managed to kill the majority of the humour in a game where the main appeal is the humour. And it's not just me, two buddies of mine who were huge fans of Kalkofes Mattscheibe and his movies were also absolutely devastated when they heard the German version Bard's Tale. It's the more surprising since Kalkofe did an absolutely brilliant job making the German version of OSS 117 ("Der Spion der sich liebte").

Surprisingly the Polish version is absolutely amazing, they even made Polish versions of the songs. You can really feel that the team cared about the game and their work: Piwo Piwo Piwo

Of course I do still prefer the original version but no, the German version is by no means a good one.

Yes, he did a really good job on OSS 117, but I do like the german version of Bards Tale :) I don't know why, but I like the german jokes much more than the english ones.

Well, jedem das seine. ;)

I don't actually recall them having translated the Beer Song in the German version. I think it just plays in English. Or am I mistaken?

No, the Songs were untouched.

Yes I agree, best diablo track out of all 3 games.

Heh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZXleREW38U

The Diablo II soundtrack is a masterpiece, the Diablo III one is mostly shit imo (I've completed DIII. Two times thus far).

Condor are the original team, the ones who became Blizzard North when Blizzard "adsorbed" them. They wanted to make a turn-based dungeon crawler with claymation graphics, like Clay Fighter. Blizzard liked their stuff, but thought it should be real-time and not have claymation graphics. Some of the people from Condor (Blizzard North) went on to create Torchlight. Blizzard North were tasked with developing Diablo 3, but what they came up with was seen as bad in some way (make of that what you will) so development was moved elsewhere.

Isn't Blizzard Irvine all the remains now? i.e. all of the various parts of Blizzard that made their wonderful products in the past (the original Warcraft series, the first two Diablo games, the first Starcraft game, and their early titles) have since been replaced by Blizzard Irvine (World of Warcraft, Diablo 3, Starcraft 2). I haven't played Starcraft 2, but the forced online thing really sucked about that. And same issue with Diablo 3 along with the RMAH (real money auction house). Kinda sad, really. They've 'WoWified' their product lines, and they probably have no plans of backing down from that 'everything should be an MMO' mentality. Oh well.

This thread makes me depressed because it makes me think of two amazing games(Diablo 1 and Diablo 2). Then it makes me think of Diablo 3.

I did not play Diablo 3 because I was kind of disappointed (not "omfg why is this not the best game evar!" disappointed, just disappointed) by Starcraft 2.

Maybe it was because I was younger, but Blizzard soundtracks pre-WoW were fairly memorable.