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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
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Hillsy_: Nice release and a good surprise. To those who recommend the Amiga versions, the PC versions were the full releases with added difficulty. An example, Gateway to the Savage Frontier and Treasures of the Savage Frontier have Vampires and Wights included unlike the Amiga versions which were cut from their release.
No, there were usually no major gameplay differences between the various ports of the goldbox series, unless for technical limitations (i.e. Commodore 64 ports).

Gateway to the Savage Frontier was unique situation, the game seemed to have major development issues with the ports, and was based off older game engine (Curse of the Azure Bonds). The Commodore 64 port was literately incomplete, missing features, and even re-using art work from older games. While the Amiga version lacked the usual hard disk install option, and included note to save often, due to be unstable!

You can actually import characters from Curse of the Azure Bonds into Gateway to the Savage Frontier, and have fun with extra power and magical items (especially the dust of disappearance).
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Posted August 20, 2015
One (three?) word(s): omg.

EotB was the game (series) which probably I joined GOG for with a hope for it.
Posted August 20, 2015
Which of those three releases would you recommend for someone who haven't played any of those?
Posted August 20, 2015
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damien: thank you, this was very helpful. how about the rest of the games released today?
Dungeon Hack and Menzoberranzan were PC only, other ports were dropped by that point.

Eye of the Beholder offered a better ending on the Amiga.
Posted August 20, 2015
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tinyE: 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?
The best Gold Box games (excluding FRUA) are Curse, Gateway, EotB 2, and the currently missing Death Knights of Krynn. EotB 2 is a dungeon crawler with horror elements done right. Curse, Gateway and DKK have that epic vibe: there's the main quest, but parts of it can be handled in any order, and a reasonably big map to explore. In these three, dungeons are bare-bones mazes (unlike EotB, there are no dungeon features to be spotted and interacted with in the first-person view window), encounters are trigger- an text-based. And none of the four have any roleplaying choices.
Posted August 20, 2015
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CarrionCrow: Dear GOG,

Unfortunately, as much as I'd like to be excited for today's releases, I'm afraid I can't get behind it.

I mean, sure, you've managed to summon up memories from 20 years ago when I saw such titles in their original boxes at the local game store but had no way to run them, but is that good enough? These games are widely available in a number of venues to this day, they run flawlessly on any modern operating system with no work required whatsoever, and they were never very good anyway, so what was all the hype about?

Here I am, getting my hopes up about such titles as this one, and what do you offer instead? More roleplaying games? Don't you carry enough of those already?

Seriously, it's getting harder and harder to be supportive of the company when all you have to offer are all these old titles.
For crying out loud, these things didn't even have listings on the community wishlist. It's like no one was interested in them at all!

All right, going to cut this short since these arthritic hands can't handle too much typing. Downside of old age, I guess, the ability to type slowly going away, and right after I lost the ability to play anything fast-paced. Bit of a double whammy right there. Maybe if the games were better, I could buy them. I hear they're just right for an elderly person such as myself.
Well, although I don`t like D&D, I appreciate the fact that GOG brings Good Old Games back. As you can see, there are many people who have been waiting for these games, so GOG must do something right.
And hey, there can NEVER be too much RPGs. RPGs are the salt in the soup of gaming!
Posted August 20, 2015
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GOG.com: snip
I was hoping to see Pool of Radiance here someday and now it is here, even with a Linux port, awesome!

Edit: Oh wait, it's not this "Pool of Radiance" here as it seems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p32Rh98sxRs

I'm still waiting for that one.

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Gyrocoptor: Though I'm curious as to why Collections One and Two have Linux versions but Collection Three doesn't seem to have that same support.
I wonder about this too.
Post edited August 20, 2015 by Klumpen0815
Posted August 20, 2015
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CarrionCrow: Dear GOG,

Unfortunately, as much as I'd like to be excited for today's releases, I'm afraid I can't get behind it.

I mean, sure, you've managed to summon up memories from 20 years ago when I saw such titles in their original boxes at the local game store but had no way to run them, but is that good enough? These games are widely available in a number of venues to this day, they run flawlessly on any modern operating system with no work required whatsoever, and they were never very good anyway, so what was all the hype about?

Here I am, getting my hopes up about such titles as this one, and what do you offer instead? More roleplaying games? Don't you carry enough of those already?

Seriously, it's getting harder and harder to be supportive of the company when all you have to offer are all these old titles.
For crying out loud, these things didn't even have listings on the community wishlist. It's like no one was interested in them at all!

All right, going to cut this short since these arthritic hands can't handle too much typing. Downside of old age, I guess, the ability to type slowly going away, and right after I lost the ability to play anything fast-paced. Bit of a double whammy right there. Maybe if the games were better, I could buy them. I hear they're just right for an elderly person such as myself.
You're a troll, right? Right?

Honestly, I haven't been this excited about a title on gog in a very long time as I was when I spotted Eye of the Beholder series on the front page. It was an instant buy for me.
Posted August 20, 2015
I remember years ago I bought a 3 pack, I believe it was this one, but it wouldn't work on my computer for some reason, so I returned it. Looking forward to finally checking these out - or at least the 1 game available so far!
Posted August 20, 2015
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Zoidberg: Wow... a bit steep, no?
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Luned: Collection 1 is 3 games for $9.99, Collection 2 is 8 games for $9.99, and Collection 3 is 2 games for $5.99.

Considered in that light, it's not too bad.
Meh, still a bit steep for good old games like these... I guess collection 2 is OK...

Bah, I guess I'm not client for this. :P
Posted August 20, 2015
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Davane: Out of interest, the FRUA looks awesome - how long do you reckon before we start seeing the Tyranny of Dragons, Elemental Evil, and Rage of Demons storylines appearing? It might be interesting to see this mesh of old and new content...
Not sure if I understand you correctly, but there are at least two different variations of the old Temple of Elemental Evil module available for Forgotten Realms Unlimted Adventures already, possibly more, but these two are of high quality. As for new modules being released in the future, I guess that mostly comes down to whether this re-release will bring an influx of new talents to the FRUA community. The latter is still active but in dire need of fresh blood, either as module creators or at least as audience for the veterans, encouraging them to become more active again, so I really hope more people will discover FRUA now. It's a real underdog, the best value-for-money offering in this package, but sadly the least talked about.
Post edited August 20, 2015 by Leroux
Posted August 20, 2015
Since GOG is publishing this games is there any chance that they might release the source code of Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures? Of course, the data files would still be copyrighted (so you still need to buy the game), but releasing the source code would not only allow for a native executable, but would allow updates that would invigorate the mod scene.
Posted August 20, 2015
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Crosmando: Hmmm, so "GOG Ltd" is publishing all these, that's good news, at least it means they'll never disappear.
Well, I'd never say never. I've no doubt that GOG is having to pay a licensing fee to Hasbro to sell these games. Any time there's a licensing agreement, there's always the chance for it to end or expire or for negotiations to go wrong in attempts to extend it.

But, don't let me crap on everyone's joy. Tomorrow is a time for worry. Today is a day to celebrate! :)
Posted August 20, 2015
GOG/Judas/whoever: Yesterday the game count at http://www.gog.com/games showed 1191 games IIRC and today it shows 1193 games although you just added a billion games today. Might want to triple-check your game counter there. :)
Posted August 20, 2015
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Jinxtah: You're a troll, right? Right?

Honestly, I haven't been this excited about a title on gog in a very long time as I was when I spotted Eye of the Beholder series on the front page. It was an instant buy for me.
In that case, most definitely. I've got a long-overdue date with a very large dungeon and a tablet full of graph paper in my near future. =)
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