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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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Post edited August 20, 2015 by Klumpen0815
Posted August 20, 2015
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Maxvorstadt: 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!
-laughing hard- It was a joke. From the comments about the games being readily available, to including a link to a pachinko game that promises "erotic violence" while wearing the corpse mask of Castlevania, to the mention of no wishlist entries when there's more than 20,000 for the games, it was me laughing at others.

And yeah, tell me about it. Think I have almost all of the time annihilators GOG sells here.
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.
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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.
Must be a troll. Here is just a sample of the wishlists.

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/eye_of_the_beholder_series_and_dark_sun_series
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/menzoberranzan_ssi
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/all_the_original_ssi_dungeons_and_dragons_games
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/advanced_dungeons_and_dragons_eye_of_the_beholder_i_ii_iii
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/dungeons_dragons_anthology_the_master_collection
Posted August 20, 2015
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moonshineshadow: +1
But I am not sure if people are able to get you are joking ;-)
Damn...I thought putting a link to a frigging Castlevania pachinko game in would confirm the absurdity of the writing beyond a shadow of a doubt. ;)
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...
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Leroux: 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.
WotC started doing six monthly storylines to promote their story and convention play programs.

The latest of these is Elemental Evil, which is where WotC decided to take the idea of the Temple of Elemental Evil, and place it in the Foggy Realms instead. It's the content covered in the Princes of the Apocalypse campaign release.

I saw the huge list of old modules converted - including some of the BECMI content from D&D. Quite an archive there, I see...
Posted August 20, 2015
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Don't forget there is a great tool for mapping older games:

http://www.davidwaltersdevelopment.com/tools/gridcart/

and the gold box companion

http://personal.inet.fi/koti/jhirvonen/gbc/
Posted August 20, 2015
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moonshineshadow: +1
But I am not sure if people are able to get you are joking ;-)
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CarrionCrow: Damn...I thought putting a link to a frigging Castlevania pachinko game in would confirm the absurdity of the writing beyond a shadow of a doubt. ;)
This is the internet, nothing can be too absurd :P
Posted August 20, 2015
Thanks to all who made these three bundle releases possible and happen. Nice to see all these classics on GOG. They've been on my top requested to see on GOG list.
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.
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jalister: Must be a troll. Here is just a sample of the wishlists.

http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/eye_of_the_beholder_series_and_dark_sun_series
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/menzoberranzan_ssi
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/all_the_original_ssi_dungeons_and_dragons_games
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/advanced_dungeons_and_dragons_eye_of_the_beholder_i_ii_iii
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/dungeons_dragons_anthology_the_master_collection
Plus the game she/she/whatever listed is some erotica version of some shitty game, I don't even know where to start.

Anyway, I'm over the moon about these new releases. Gog is getting better and better. Let's have more of everything, old and new, gog <3
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.
But those three games for $9.99 is the EotB series, and they are friggin' huge and AWESOME!
Posted August 20, 2015
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warwon: Don't forget there is a great tool for mapping older games:

http://www.davidwaltersdevelopment.com/tools/gridcart/
Here is another great tool for mapping those games:

http://www.portablegaming.de/attachments/retro/1434d1158443855-unterwegs-zocken-ohne-nintendo-diverse-gameboy-konkurrenten-vorgestellt-heft-stift.jpg
Post edited August 20, 2015 by PaterAlf
Posted August 20, 2015
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moonshineshadow: +1
But I am not sure if people are able to get you are joking ;-)
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CarrionCrow: Damn...I thought putting a link to a frigging Castlevania pachinko game in would confirm the absurdity of the writing beyond a shadow of a doubt. ;)
I suspected you were, but I generally don't follow links in posts.
Posted August 20, 2015
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CarrionCrow: Damn...I thought putting a link to a frigging Castlevania pachinko game in would confirm the absurdity of the writing beyond a shadow of a doubt. ;)
Poe's law can be a bitch.
Posted August 20, 2015
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Maxvorstadt: 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!
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CarrionCrow: -laughing hard- It was a joke. From the comments about the games being readily available, to including a link to a pachinko game that promises "erotic violence" while wearing the corpse mask of Castlevania, to the mention of no wishlist entries when there's more than 20,000 for the games, it was me laughing at others.

And yeah, tell me about it. Think I have almost all of the time annihilators GOG sells here.
Well, I should have known that a character with intelligence 3 is not good enuff for the GOG Forum R%PG. :-))
Posted August 20, 2015
Wait what what what holy flippity floo!!!!!
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