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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
I wonder if this means we'll be seeing more D&D Gold Box games. I hope so. The Dragonlance ones are surely a must, and I'd like to see the Dark Sun ones make a comeback too. It does make me wonder if the Dark Sun games were ever patched enough to be releasable, though. I never managed to complete either due to game-breaking bugs, although I got so far though the first before hitting a bug that made my team unable to fight any enemies that I would have rage-quit if there'd been enough of a game left to rage-quit from... I believe there were patches, and possibly rereleases, so maybe I need to update my memories.
Posted August 20, 2015
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IAmSinistar: I think CDPR should acquire the devs behind the Legend of Grimrock games, rebrand them as CD Project Blue or somesuch, and have them make EOTB 4. It would be a marriage made in heaven.
Damn it...I hate when someone says something that is a frigging amazing idea, but rationality says the odds of it happening are very low. Just let me dream for a bit!
Posted August 20, 2015
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freelancewolf: Hi guys.

Does Dungeon Hack (or that other game that comes with it) use Enter key at all? That key is busted on this laptop so I can't use it in games.
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JudasIscariot: You should be able to get along just fine with a mouse as it uses the same engine as the Eye of the Beholder games IIRC or you can just remap your keys since it's a DOSBox game and all :)
Well that was a fast response. Thanks. I've actually never played EoB (and any of the other games too in case you're wondering) so I dunno the control scheme to that game. Also, I'm stupid so please enlighten me. How do I remap the keys in DOSBox? I have used the program before but I never actually had to remap keys.
Posted August 20, 2015
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JudasIscariot: You should be able to get along just fine with a mouse as it uses the same engine as the Eye of the Beholder games IIRC or you can just remap your keys since it's a DOSBox game and all :)
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freelancewolf: Well that was a fast response. Thanks. I've actually never played EoB (and any of the other games too in case you're wondering) so I dunno the control scheme to that game. Also, I'm stupid so please enlighten me. How do I remap the keys in DOSBox? I have used the program before but I never actually had to remap keys.
If you want to read up on remapping keys in DOSBox, you can try here.

I do know that the EOB games could be played completely with a mouse, at least that's my recollection from back in the day :)
Posted August 20, 2015
Great releases, wish I could pick up Eye of the Beholder right now but I'm totally broke. Anyone willing to trade? Got a bunch of GOG games:
http://www.gog.com/forum/general/gogs_general_trading_thread/post7706
Posted August 20, 2015
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freelancewolf: Well that was a fast response. Thanks. I've actually never played EoB (and any of the other games too in case you're wondering) so I dunno the control scheme to that game. Also, I'm stupid so please enlighten me. How do I remap the keys in DOSBox? I have used the program before but I never actually had to remap keys.
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JudasIscariot: If you want to read up on remapping keys in DOSBox, you can try here.

I do know that the EOB games could be played completely with a mouse, at least that's my recollection from back in the day :)
Handy. Thanks a lot for your help. If I could play it all with mouse, then I probably won't need to remap. That's good to hear.
Posted August 20, 2015
An automap for EOB: is this for real?

http://www.indieretronews.com/2012/12/hot-news-eye-of-beholder-1-dos-version.html
Posted August 20, 2015
If you remove the nostalgia glasses you have one very good classic game in the SSI Gold Box, Pool of Radiance, and one really good at the Beholder trilogy, the second one. The first one was basically a fun Dungeon Master exploit with that wonderful Westwood touch at graphics, and the third one, made by a completely different team, was buggy and clunky as hell, a very different experience from the sweetly designed EOB2.

Dungeon Hack was just a pretty roguelike. Menzoberranzan was not interesting even at release date.

Enjoy your nostalgia trip.
Posted August 20, 2015
Hmm .
Posted August 20, 2015
must...resist...noooooo! save failed|! instabuy activated!
TAKE MY MONEY!

LOVE YOU GOG!
Posted August 20, 2015
I'm scared, and should probably up my life insurance.

I used to say that I could die happy if GOG ever released the Gold Box and X-Wing games.
Posted August 20, 2015
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Risingson: If you remove the nostalgia glasses you have one very good classic game in the SSI Gold Box, Pool of Radiance, and one really good at the Beholder trilogy, the second one. The first one was basically a fun Dungeon Master exploit with that wonderful Westwood touch at graphics, and the third one, made by a completely different team, was buggy and clunky as hell, a very different experience from the sweetly designed EOB2.

Dungeon Hack was just a pretty roguelike. Menzoberranzan was not interesting even at release date.

Enjoy your nostalgia trip.
Will do, have wanted a chance at these games for years. (And years, and years, and frigging years.) Not sure if my nostalgia glasses will fit over my normal ones, though. Maybe I can get nostalgia glass clip-ons?
Post edited August 20, 2015 by CarrionCrow
Posted August 20, 2015
Congratulations to GOG for finally getting (most of) the Gold Box games. IMO the best CRPGs from the DOS era.

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Telika: Biased (very), but Eye of the Beholder are awesome extraordinary great memories, and I would urge anyone to play it urgently. It's a game from a genre that I don't like a lot, yet it had completely seduced and obsessed me. Great gameplay, great interface, great graphics, a really smooth feel of everything. I never really grasped why some people preferred Dungeon Master (did they really?).
Some of us prefer substance over style.
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Posted August 20, 2015
i'm sure these games were a big deal back then, but i'm not interested. don't have the patience for them thesedays.

tried EotB 1(i think) many years back because some peeps said it was like Ulima Underworld... it wasn't. died real fast, keyboard controls were wtf, and enemies attack in real time while i have to manage a team? fuck that. i barely beat lands of lore 1 , a couple of years ago,and that game seriously pissed me off in many ways. EotB series is supposedly guilty of the same problems these goldbox clones had, and more.
Post edited August 20, 2015 by dick1982
Posted August 20, 2015
Well, a lot of people wanted these, so I'm happy for you guys. Can't say I have much tolerance for late '80s/early '90s CRPG design myself, though.
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