I'm … sort of with you guys in the sense that I also enjoyed the humour immensely but since I didn't play the original Bard's Tale games …
*dodges flying rotten vegetables*
Oy! So I got a late RPG start. Better late than never right?
Anyway, since I didn't play the original tales I probably didn't feel quite as "violated" as some of you may have felt… Still, it DID suffer from consolitis as do so many games these days