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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 agree, I think the dragon lance ones were the best in the series. As well as the Buck Rogers games. Finished them all, but wouldn't mind going through them again!
Posted August 20, 2015
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paladin181: Yes yes yes yes! I've been waiting for this. I have my silver archives collection, and this is the same thing (plus FA unlimited) so I will definitely be buying these! AWESOMENESS!
I've got the silver archives collection as well (thank you for reminding me what that thing was called!), and I'm similarly pumped. That Collection Two bundle... 8 classics for $10. Absolute madness. And they even scanned the code wheels. :P

Also, the fact that we've got Hillsfar and Eye of the Beholder 1-3 means that future Westwood releases aren't an impossibility. That is very exciting.
Posted August 20, 2015
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Kardwill: Edit : Ninja'ed by classicor. ^^ And he reminded me of Spelljammer, which I had forgotten
It´s what I do... :p
Posted August 20, 2015
Let the nerdgasms commence! Like an RKO, this release came from outta nowhere!
Posted August 20, 2015
Great opportunity to get some old gems into a digital library, but imo the The Archives - Collection Two is much too big. Bundle the close connected games in smaller packs and release them cheaper. I'm not planning on (re-)playing all of those and I'd hate adding games to my library for no reason other than GOG's sales strategy. No buy for me atm.
Posted August 20, 2015
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l0rdtr3k: Anyway,I'll buy them tomorrow but damn,all I want now is the rest of the old Gold Box games and more Warhammer games.
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Classicor: That would be Dark Sun: Shattered Lands, the first Dark Sun game :D
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l0rdtr3k: Dark Sun is such a underrated setting.
The irst D&D setting I GMed back in AD&D days. To this day my fav setting ever! :D
Posted August 20, 2015
Great job. But where are the Dragonlance titles? I want the Krynn games too!
Posted August 20, 2015
Now that they are still flat-priced: Is this a return to your old values, at least with your "own" games, or still a bug?
Posted August 20, 2015
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Beelzebubb: I wish I didnt grow up on the amiga versions. Im not sure If I could tolerate the dos versions of the goldbox games.
i grew up with c64 and amiga 500/cd32 afterwards, lateron my first p100 mhz and 4 mb (or 8) ram and small Hdisk
yup that was the first pc i got , only because there was almost nothing available for the amiga but the pc had tons of tools and games so i had to join 'the dark side' , the windows pc.

70s and 80s pc had crappy graphics compared to the amiga, you can run the game in a dosbox window this will make the pixels look less large :D, i always do that.

As for the codec wheels : that will take a while, looking through all the pdf wheels...
lucky for us google is our 'friend' i googled and there was an online wheel , thats way faster and easier, theres also a simple rune click and match site online using js i guess.

if you save the complete page to the pc you can run it locally on the pc

i was looking for either a wheeltool (programmed in vb or so) or a flash (swf) with a wheel that will work much faster.
Post edited August 20, 2015 by gamesfreak64
Posted August 20, 2015
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I hate how GOG doesn't release any classics anymore.
Posted August 20, 2015
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Alright... when I started reading these comments there were 12 pages - by the time I caught up there were 18! :D

As someone who is obviously biased (for so many reasons), I´d still add my own comments as a fan and gamer:

I have been *unspeakably* excited for this release ever since we heard about it behind the scenes. Yes, that stems from hype and nostalgia, but not just.

Reading these pages was a great experience, I love to see how many people share my love and excitement for these games.

Still, please do keep in mind that a few people raised very valid points, some of these games have not aged all that well... but really, if you have any interest in these games, don´t let yourself be scared away by old control schemes (hell, I streamed Pol of Radiance earlier, and I still can´t remember how everything controls ;) ).

For those of you who can´t get excited for this release, fair enough. But there have been other awesome releaes today, both Trine 3 and Shadowrun Hong Kong should offer something for many fo you out there. If there´s still nothing that atches you´re interest, fair enough. GOG has been releasing likemad recently, I am sure there will be something that catches your eye soon enough.

Just my 2 cents. Keep enjoying the releases, and catch oyu on the GOG Twitch channel! :D
Posted August 20, 2015
My first fall-in-love (as opposed to "oh cool") moment in videogaming was with Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon. It also introduced me to AD&D and the Forgotten Realms. Little did I know that the pull this game had on me would change my life forever. I went from promising to nerd :p

BUT.
Could anyone tell me if there's a way I can solve the following problem:

I want to start with Pools of Radiance, but I have a laptop and no numlock pad. Is there a way I can select anything else but whatever's on the top of a list? In character creation, since I can't move up and down (I do have arrow keys on the laptop, but nothing happens) I can only choose "Dwarf"->"Fighter". I thought, oh well, I'll play the game with one character then. Six identical dwarf fighters didn't sound appealling. One goblin and a kobold later I was dead.

Anyone?
Posted August 20, 2015
wow so good to finaly see these again good job
Posted August 20, 2015
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mangamuscle: 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.
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Classicor: I believe even as publisher, GOG doesn´t actually have access to the source code (not legally anyway) - if they did, they could fix some lingering problems with other reeleases (suh as the Chaos gate multiplayer being broken beause 3rd party online tech was hard coded into the game)
They *might* have access to the source code but refrain from recompiling (and even modernizing) the game because people will start to ask gog to give such treatment to every single good old game (and time *is* money), that is why I ask them to release the code to public domain instead so true fans do the hard work for free :)

Of course gog might not have the source code, but since they are the publisher they can ask nicely. if that does not work they can pull of a dogeza and if that does not work ... you get the idea ^^;
Posted August 20, 2015
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Slynt: My first fall-in-love (as opposed to "oh cool") moment in videogaming was with Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon. It also introduced me to AD&D and the Forgotten Realms. Little did I know that the pull this game had on me would change my life forever. I went from promising to nerd :p

BUT.
Could anyone tell me if there's a way I can solve the following problem:

I want to start with Pools of Radiance, but I have a laptop and no numlock pad. Is there a way I can select anything else but whatever's on the top of a list? In character creation, since I can't move up and down (I do have arrow keys on the laptop, but nothing happens) I can only choose "Dwarf"->"Fighter". I thought, oh well, I'll play the game with one character then. Six identical dwarf fighters didn't sound appealling. One goblin and a kobold later I was dead.

Anyone?
same here, full keyboard ,but i been looking for the keys to select my character, been looking 10 minutes, then i just closed the game :D
gonna play eotb , this one accepts a mouse :D, at least the amiga version i had did so i assume all controls
will be the same.


3 minutes and i already met the old woman in the woods/forest (whatever i am walking through)
she guided me to the castle... then you meet these 2 clercs, they are dirt, i whacked these many times in the past

look at those 'innocent' faces :D

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anyways i am gonna do away with them :D
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Post edited August 20, 2015 by gamesfreak64
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