No idea what the game is about, but you got me at the title.

For those of you who have played the game:

does it have auto-mapping?

Yeah... I'm one of those guys who loved Eye of the Beholder, but quit the game at level 4 when I took notice I was spending more time drawing the maps than playing the game itself. :P

instabuy!!!

It does.

"AUTOMAPPING:
Dragon Wars includes an automapping feature which can be viewed by
pressing "?". While this is intended to remove the need of the players to
map the game areas on graph paper and is wonderfully useful, I still mapped
the game out on paper. The deficiency of automaps is that you can take no
notes on them, nor mark spots that have a particular importance. While it
was time consuming for me to draw out the maps it was time well spent. I
advise you to do the same. If nothing else, the automap feature will ensure
that your drawn maps are accurate."

I'm happy to announce that I'll stream Dragon Wars tomorrow on GOG's twitch channel

FRIDAY, May 29th:
8 pm CEST / 2pm EDT / 11am PDT: RELEASE STREAM with Piranjade = Dragon Wars!

So if you're not sure about the game yet maybe come and have a look with me tomorrow. :-)

Thanks, Grargar

I must admit I really like the recent trend with Dragon Wars, Prehistorik 2, Cyberia 1-2, Zak McKracken and other truly classic games. GOG keeps surprising in a positive way!

Nice release. Wishlisted.

Will wish list it also for those interested

Bard's Tale 4 Kickstarter starts on June 2nd

http://bardstale.inxile-entertainment.com/

I checked their forum topic on what they expect to be in the reward tiers and this game isn't there so I guess because they don't own the rights. Thought for a minute it might have been a release timed in with the kickstarter and could be a bonus for backing, oh well.

https://forums.inxile-entertainment.com/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=12985

Please please tell me that they included the Apple2gs version...

If I remember right this is the game that let you import parties from other games such as The Bard's Tale and Wizardry correct?

I would guess it must be running in DOS(box).


Also, yes to the character importing.

Yeah, I was thinking there must be an Amiga version that looks better. Those screenshots made my eyes bleed, almost turning me blind. EGA, I guess. Does it even support any sound cards, or is the beep-do-be-doop? By 1990 sound card support was already quite common, but you never know for sure...

Maybe too old (aged) for my taste at this point. Might get it with some super-cheap discount, but not really seeing myself playing it. Being a spiritual successor to Bard's Tale series is not a compliment either, I always disliked BT2. :)

Maybe this release works for some others.

By the way, what was the music (remixed) in the beginning? I think it was originally from some Commodore 64 game, but I heard it first time on Amiga, re-created for some intro (I don't think there was an Amiga version of that particular game?).

I loved the song (at least the Amiga version), unfortunately I haven't been able to find that particular Amiga intro ever since.

Only game I ever mail ordered only to find some of the disks were broken/corrupted. Sent it back for replacement and never heard back from the company nor ever received a replacement. Such bad memories...