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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
Oh wow.
Posted August 20, 2015
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Unfortunately GOG just seem to have dumped the Gold Box versions provided on the previous CD releases (Gamefest/Wizworks), which include two flawed versions.

Pool of Radiance 1.3 removed the introduction music, which is played at the start of game, and before combat, when using Tandy mode.

Curse of the Azure Bonds 1.3 broke the introduction music for PC Speaker & Tandy, which works in all previous versions.

Any chance of these issues been fixed? by using older releases of those two games?
Posted August 20, 2015
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So these are the SSI Gold Box games? If so another game off the list:

Armies of Exigo
Bohemia Library
Blade of Darkness
SSI Gold Box games (Confirmed and Released on GOG :D)
Elder Scrolls Arena, Daggerfall, and Morrowind
Diablo 1 and 2
Starcraft 1
Warcraft Trilogy
Black and White 1 and 2
Full Throttle
Day fo the Tenticle series
Westwood's Command and Conquer games
Monkey Island 3 and 4
Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines
Age of Empires serires
Civilization series
Half-Life 1 and 2
Counter Strike 1 and Condition Zero
Doom 1,2,and 3
Wolfenstien 3D
Quake 1,2,and 3 Arena
Dungeon Siege 1 and 2
Mechwarrior series
System Shock 1
SimCity 1 and 3000
The Sims 1 and 2
Battlefield 1942, Vietnam, 2, and 2142
Call of Duty 1+United Offensive
SWAT 4
Commander Keen
Hexen series
Heretic Games
Total War Rome 1, Shogun 1, Medieval 1 and 2
Marathon series
Myth seires
Wizardry 1 to 5
X-COM seires
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six 2 and 3+Expansions
Tom Clacny's Splineter Cell Pandora Tomorrow and Chaos Theory
Brother's in Arms Road to Hill 30 and Earned in Blood
Tron 2.0
Fallout 1,2, and Tactics
Grand Theft Auto 1, 2, 3, Vice City, San Andreas
Red Orchestra 1
Rise of Nations Gold
Throne of Darkness
Shadowcaster
Post edited August 20, 2015 by Elmofongo
Posted August 20, 2015
I wonder if I could enjoy any of these. I never could get into the pre-Baldur's Gate RPGs...
Posted August 20, 2015
Do the games have the character transfer utilities that were included in other releases? Also, how is the included code wheel going to work with the Pool of Radiance games? Will the answers be highlighted, or are we going to have to piece it together and make it exactly like the original code wheel?

Also just saw that gog is the publisher, does that mean they own the Forgotten Realms series forever?
Post edited August 20, 2015 by jcoa
Posted August 20, 2015
Do want... but wont play, too much text for me these days
Posted August 20, 2015
The day has arrived! See you guys in a couple of years once I have played through each of these :o)
Posted August 20, 2015
The full Eye of the Beholder collection, now I know what to buy tomorrow :-)

Thank you GOG! I hope you can get some more of the lesser known SSI games in the future.
Posted August 20, 2015
*goes crazy* I can't believe they're finally here!
Now I know what to buy and play for the next months.
Posted August 20, 2015
I've been waiting for these for so long and never thought a gog release would happen. My eternal thanks to all parties involved. God damn amazing.
Posted August 20, 2015
No Ravenloft - no buy from me.
Posted August 20, 2015
I'm speechless.
Here, have my money!
Posted August 20, 2015
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KainXVIII: No Ravenloft - no buy from me.
Now, now, there's no need to be hasty. :)
Post edited August 20, 2015 by Venita
Posted August 20, 2015
Now this sure is a pile of releases, long desired and wishlisted by a fair chunk of those who came to GOG when it was still Good Old Games. Rather too old for today's crowd, likely for me too, but definitely a huge piece of gaming history that absolutely needed to be here. And now it finally is.

One note though, apparently collection three should have included Blood &amp; Magic too? Issues with getting it to work or rights problems? Will that be added into it later?
Posted August 20, 2015
Hey Guys!
Nice to see these old games here. Honestly i never played one of this, my childhood RPG gaming experience started with Might and Magic 6. Which of these 3 Bundles would you recommend? Maybe someone familiar with these can sum up the 3 bundles with like 1-2 sentences :)

Best Regards!
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