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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&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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dick1982: 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, control keys 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.
Did you ever get to the spiders? They were wonderful in that "I'm going to destroy this computer with my anger" sorta way.
Posted August 20, 2015
What i can say... THANK YOU! I will instant buy all collections after i go back from work. :)
Posted August 20, 2015
Woohoo...I think, I just creamed my jeans. ;)

Instantly bought!

Now, please excuse me, while I change my pants...
Posted August 20, 2015
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psadler: An automap for EOB: is this for real?

http://www.indieretronews.com/2012/12/hot-news-eye-of-beholder-1-dos-version.html
Yes.
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.
100% true, but see it this way:

Digital Premieres
23.67 euros for 13 old games, i had eotb1-2-3 on amiga disk and eotb1 on cd
i also had the cluebook for eotb 2, also had some of the older games on amiga aswell, these costed me more than 70 guilders, so considering all that i will enjoy the nostalgia trip, even if i only play eotb 1,2,3 cause the cash was already spend in the past and even with currency that does not even exist anymore.

Thats why its way easier for me to buy old games that i either played a lot in the past and or had on cdrom/floppy
i know these games and what to expect, with latest games i have to do research.
Except for casualgames these go 3 for 15 euros (retail cd drm free)

And finally my old pc cant keep up with nowadays games cause its build with stuff from 3 tot 5 years ago, so quite old. Thats why i collect mainly old games with low requirements.

On my list of old nostalgia are left:

Touche: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer
Bermuda Syndrome

Santa Fe Mysteries: The Elk Moon Murder
Initial release date: 1996
Developer: Activision Blizzard
Platforms: Microsoft Windows, DOS, Mac OS

riddle of master lu
nightlong

tunguska files (kinda like syberia but syberia is better)

and a lot more, but this post will grow to long then.
Posted August 20, 2015
Amazing release. All bought. Thanks GOG!!
Posted August 20, 2015
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Finally, six years after joining GOG, the thing I have waited for all these years has arrived: Archives Collection 2!!!

Thank you, GOG!

Next stop, Krynn.
Post edited August 20, 2015 by mrkgnao
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...
Overall the Amiga versions were slightly better, due to superior graphics and sound, and (in some game) nice custom character icons.
But in the Amiga version (at least the copy I bought back in the days) of Silver Blades the Cloaks of Displacement were bugged; they made you totally immune to physcial damage.
OTOH, in the DOS version of Pools of Darkness the Ring of Lightning Immunity does not work, thus making the final battles of the DOS version quite a bit harder than the Amiga version.

But playing the DOS versions is swifter (no emulating disk swapping) and more convenient.

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Russonc: hummm, real time and not turn based... Makes me pause. Maybe that's why I didn't get into these when they originally were out... Still, I may check them out.
Most of the games are turn based. The Eye of the Beholder games (and maybe a few others) are real time.
Post edited August 20, 2015 by PetrusOctavianus
Posted August 20, 2015
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CarrionCrow: 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?
Go for the rose-tinted contact lenses. You can wear them under anything, even sunglasses of pure black despair.
Posted August 20, 2015
I dont have any knowledge of these games but I am intrigued with the second collection because of the Pool of Radience, (I played Myth Drannor and enjoyed it) Do these games have anything to offer a modern gamer or is it more of a nostalgia fest (not offence intended) for fans?

Serous question.
Posted August 20, 2015
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IAmSinistar: Go for the rose-tinted contact lenses. You can wear them under anything, even sunglasses of pure black despair.
Good idea. Should be able to shove those under the crow mask with little to no trouble.
Posted August 20, 2015
Damn didn't see this coming! Will be expensive
Posted August 20, 2015
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psadler: An automap for EOB: is this for real?

http://www.indieretronews.com/2012/12/hot-news-eye-of-beholder-1-dos-version.html
Just checked this out, great find! Will give it a spin when I play EOTB next. Cheers!
Posted August 20, 2015
I was just about to leave work, but before I turned off the computer, I checked GOG on a whim.

I have tears of happiness streaming down my eyes.

This. This is what I wanted when I decided to join GOG. All these old treasures from a bygone age, digitally preserved & available for everyone once again.

Now all we need are the Dragonlance & Ravenloft games. Please. Please? Please!
Posted August 20, 2015
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NoNewTaleToTell: Major release! I've never played them but they look quite good, especially for their age!

A bit of a side question: I'm completely uninformed with Dungeons and Dragons, but the Forgotten Realms is the same Plane that Baldur's Gate and most of the other Infinity Engine DnD games are set in, right? Are there any other games set in the same Plane as Planescape: Torment, or others that are completely different than the "This Really Isn't Ye Olde England, We Swear!...Just Don't Look Too Closely Please" Planes?
Not sure if this has already been answered (many pages to go throgu), buuut:

Most of the D&D games on GOG are, in fact, basen in the Forgotten Realms setting. That´s because most games were made for that, as it was a classic fantasy setting and thus most easily approachable for the mainstream.

There are other games based in different settings (such as Dark Sun, Ravenloft, Spelljammer) bot those are not on GOG, sadly, so Planescape Torment is so far the only more exotic one I believe
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