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Posted August 21, 2015
We're casting True Resurrection on Eye of the Beholder and twelve more D&D GoldBox classics.

You are sitting in a tavern. The mighty Wizards of the Coast bestow upon you their greatest treasures: Forgotten Realms: The Archives - long lost relics of an RPG renaissance that changed the face of gaming forever. Today, one of the forgotten grails of gaming history is within your grasp, should you travel to a magical, DRM-free realm known as GOG.com

Eye of the Beholder, Pool of Radiance, Menzoberranzan - the list of groundbreaking RPG classics goes on. We set out on the quest for Forgotten Realms: The Archives a long time ago, and though it was a perilous journey - after years of searching, huge help from our friends at Hasbro and Wizards of The Coast, as well as months of technical work - we get to be freaking excited to sit here and say:
Forgotten Realms: The Archives are available now, DRM-free on GOG.com





The Archives are a set of thirteen D&D GoldBox classics packaged across three collections:
--<span class="bold">Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One</span> features Eye of the Beholder I, II, and III. It's the three and only, the gold-standard in classic RPG dungeon crawling.

--<span class="bold">Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Two</span> features more gameplay hours and secrets than we could ever count - with Pool of Radiance, Hillsfar, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Gateway to the Savage Frontier, Pools of Darkness, Secret of the Silver Blades, Treasures of the Savage Frontier, and D&D: Unlimited Adventures.

--<span class="bold">Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Three</span> features near-infinite replay value and and an important chunk of RPG history with Dungeon Hack and Menzoberranzan.





We are now home to precisely 20 years of digital D&D RPG history - from Pool of Radiance (1988) to Neverwinter Nights 2: Storm of Zehir (2008). You can also complete your personal collection with all the remaining D&D titles on sale at up to 80% off in our early D&amp;D Weekend Promo! Planescape Torment, Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights - they're all here, so head straight to the promo page, or read more about it.






Stream watch:

We'll be featuring lots of D&D classics at Twitch.tv/GOGcom - follow us to not miss 'em or read on for the full Dungeon-and-Dragon-filled schedule below!

THURSDAY, August 20th:
2pm GMT / 4pm CEST / 10am EDT / 7am PDT: Pool of Radiance with Classicor
4pm GMT / 6pm CEST / 12pm EDT / 9am PDT: Eye of the Beholder II with MegapiemanPHD
6pm GMT / 8pm CEST / 2pm EDT / 11am PDT: Eye of the Beholder with Outstar
10pm GMT / 12am CEST / 6pm EDT / 3pm PDT: Menzoberranzan with Classicor

FRIDAY, August 21st:
6pm GMT / 8pm CEST / 2pm EDT / 11am PDT: Curse of the Azure Bonds with Piranjade

SUNDAY, August 23rd:
10pm GMT / 12am CEST / 6pm EDT / 3pm PDT: Dungeon Hack with Classicor
Posted August 20, 2015
The gold box games !!!!!! Thank-you gog !!!!!!. Now where are the dragonlance and buck rogers' gold box games :) .

This is pretty fantastic. Does these games appearing have anything (however tangetially) to do with the D&D film rights being sorted out. Probably not but it is interesting that the gold box games finally appear as the morass of licenses appears to be sorting itself out.
Posted August 20, 2015
When I think of FR and D&D I think of these massive 60+ hours open world RTS extravaganzas but these don't seem quite on that scale. Exactly how were these games originally released? Is there the Baldurs Gate/Icewind epic vibe in all of them?
Posted August 20, 2015
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timppu: Question about the Goldbox games: which are considered as the best versions? PC? Commodore 64? Something else? Or no clear winner? Did Amiga have any of the games? I guess Mobygames knows...
I played most of these on the Amiga. The versions aren't too different, though the graphics and sound are incrementally better as you might expect. EOTB was my favourite of these on the Miggy, even if one did have to have a pad of graph paper at hand. :)
Posted August 20, 2015
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IAmSinistar: Since GOG is the publisher, I wonder how far their ownership rights now extend. Is it conceivable that CDPR could make Eye Of The Beholder 4, for example?
If they (CDPR) had the least inclination to do so, I can't imagine why Hasbro, Wizards, SSI remnants, Gary Gygax's ghost etc wouldn't jump at the opportunity to let them do so, right? I mean, unless they hate money. They could hate money.

*LOL edit for a funny mess up ;)
Post edited August 20, 2015 by Ixamyakxim
Posted August 20, 2015
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timppu: Very nice to see these games here, and that GOG went the extra mile and self-published them.
I didn't even realize GOG published these. Maybe GOG can work some magic and get Enemy Infestation self published. That would be an impressive trick.
Posted August 20, 2015
Hell yeah!!!
Posted August 20, 2015
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timppu: Albeit, for myself I have to admit I'd buy them for historical reasons, more than actually wanting to play them.
Give the Gold Box classics a try. Their still quite fun to play, even after all these years.

I mostly played the Amiga versions. In those days, PC versions of most games typically had worse graphics and especially sounds than the Amiga ones.

EDIT: Silly GOG forum, messing up posts...
Post edited August 20, 2015 by Turjake
Posted August 20, 2015
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Now I can start using Vampiric Touch in Dungeon Hack! I distinctly remember using it repeatedly and getting so many temporary HP that it would take hours real-time to use them all up. (The game's implementation gave you temporary hit points that stacked and never wore off if you never took damage.)

Does any of these games have an accurate implementation of that spell?
Posted August 20, 2015
Whoops, double post, forum is acting weird again. See blow.
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Posted August 20, 2015
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Ixamyakxim: If they (CDPR) had the least inclination to do so, I can't imagine why Hasbro, Wizards, SSI remnants, Gary Gygax's ghost etc wouldn't jump at the opportunity to let them do so, right? I mean, unless they hate money. They could hate money.
The main reason I would guess for CDPR not doing it is that they seem to be devoted to their own properties. And they aren't the fastest devs out there. Still waiting for further word on Cyberpunk 2077.
Posted August 20, 2015
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DoctorPirx: Great! Now I have to add "available on gog.com" to all my Let's Play videos of the series... :)
Anyway, thanks for pulling these great games out of the shadows!
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lostwolfe: this is not a bad problem to have :)

in case you don't want to give it out in public, could i ask for your youtube username, please, so i can check out your work?
Not at all: Same as my user name here. DoctorPirx. https://www.youtube.com/user/DoctorPirx
Commentaries are in German. ;)
Posted August 20, 2015
I'd like to point out that Pool of Radiance seems to have a wrong cover pic used.

The one GOG is using now comes from PoR: Ruins of Myth Drannor, which was the horrible 2001 version, http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/pool-of-radiance-ruins-of-myth-drannor/cover-art/gameCoverId,126972/

The original POR has this as a box cover
http://www.mobygames.com/game/pool-of-radiance/cover-art/gameCoverId,169651/
Posted August 20, 2015
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timppu: Question about the Goldbox games: which are considered as the best versions? PC? Commodore 64? Something else? Or no clear winner? Did Amiga have any of the games? I guess Mobygames knows...
The Amiga versions of the following titles offered the best graphics, more music, and much better sound:
Pool of Radiance
Hillsfar
Curse of the Azure Bonds
Secret of the Silver Blades

The PC versions of those titles suffered from EGA graphics, and only PC Speaker or Tandy sound effects. Only Pools of Darkness offers the advantages of VGA and decent sound, but you need to play through earlier titles first.

The Savage Frontier series was best on the PC, due to VGA graphics, and offering decent sound. The other ports of Gateway to the Savage Frontier in particular were really bad.
Posted August 20, 2015
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groze: So, this was "the big thing" you've been hinting at?! GOG, you seriously have to learn not to hype people's expectations too much like you tend to do, I was left hoping the NOLF games, or something high on the Community Wishlist was going to be released today, not yet another collection of Tolkienesque turn-based dungeon crawlers for "old school people" (i.e. guys who are really bad at anything that involves action and can only excel at these slow things).

More power to those who have been waiting for this, I guess... though we'd all welcome Konami bringing their games here more than this overhyped announcement.
My dear tuga friend,
I know exactly how you feel about being """let down""". Don't worry. There are things that take time to happen.
Look at how far GOG went, and how far they've accomplished! Publishing games, Galaxy, lots of cool folks playing their games on Twitch and a whole lot more.
There are tons of phenomenal games in here already. I suggest you pick one, by heart, beat 'till the end and then tell us what you think of it. There's nothing more satisfying than it, if you ask me.

Cheers!
Posted August 20, 2015
WOW GOG!!! Revenant, Pool of Radiance 1+2+3+4, Eye of the Beholder 1+2+3, Savage Frontier 1+2, Dungeon Hack and Menzoberranzan. This has to be your largest release of GOOD OLD GAMES to date!

And NO, I'm not forgetting Hillsfar, I just refuse to add it to the list. Some of you know what I'm talking about. :)
Post edited August 20, 2015 by MadalinStroe
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