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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 21, 2015
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you so much for bringing this to gog.com, it almost brings a tear to my eye thinking how much time I sunk on them when I was a kid and how much I'll be spending re-playing them XD
Posted August 21, 2015
Thanks, GOG! You're awesome. I'm sure that your efforts mean a lot to many many people. We're certainly appreciated for your great work! :)
Posted August 21, 2015
Let's say I wanted to get somebody new in on this. What do you guys recommend they play first? Eye of the Beholder or Dungeon Hack? Also which EotB games to play/avoid? Thanks!
Posted August 21, 2015
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Dralel: Let's say I wanted to get somebody new in on this. What do you guys recommend they play first? Eye of the Beholder or Dungeon Hack? Also which EotB games to play/avoid? Thanks!
Eye of the Beholder 3 is actually the one I tend to avoid. It had a few game balance issues and a lot of it takes place outside in the open which is certainly a contrast from the previous games. Dungeon Hack is better than EOB3, but worse that EOB1 and 2.
Posted August 21, 2015
Eotb: play EOB1 (try not to starve...) and EOB2
Those games are the best of this entire series imo, but that opinion is heavily biased with childhood memories of the EOB series.
I could never get into EOB3: the story was weak and the mazes were vast.
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Posted August 21, 2015
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Barry_Woodward: In 2012 a single-player offline conversion of Neverwinter Nights was released for Unlimited Adventures after two years of development.

http://frua.rosedragon.org/pc/modules/n/neverwin.txt
I'm aware of that, but it's not an official product.
Posted August 21, 2015
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jorlin: Eotb: play EOB1 (try not to starve...) and EOB2
Those games are the best of this entire series imo, but that opinion is heavily biased with childhood memories of the EOB series.
I could never get into EOB3: the story was weak and the mazes were vast.
From the reviews I got the impression that EoB2 is the best of the bunch as it improved nearly on every aspect of EoB1.
Posted August 21, 2015
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jorlin: Eotb: play EOB1 (try not to starve...) and EOB2
Those games are the best of this entire series imo, but that opinion is heavily biased with childhood memories of the EOB series.
I could never get into EOB3: the story was weak and the mazes were vast.
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Charon121: From the reviews I got the impression that EoB2 is the best of the bunch as it improved nearly on every aspect of EoB1.
THats more or less true. The nearest comparison for me now is the Grimlock games. EOB 1 and 2 and 3 for that matter were known for moving in attack then stepping back to be missed
Posted August 21, 2015
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bloodwars: generally you run setup.exe (same directory as main game) for gold box games to set the sound card. soundblaster, 220, dma1, irq 5 or 7. in some of them adlib worked better back in the day, ymmv.
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Leroux: I see no setup.exe, but there is a "Launch Settings" shortcut that apparantly runs the setup program. I tried that before, you can set the soundcard there, but it also asks you for an installation path, and that causes path finding issues with Dosbox (see attached images).
Shooting blind here, but did you try running Dosbox as admin and/or removing the read-only flag from files in Windows (does it even exist on newer Windowses)?
Posted August 21, 2015
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lostwolfe: went and had a look. awesome channel :)

and nice recommends. aulddragon is awesome :)
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DoctorPirx: Thanks!
Yes, he is. One of the first Let's Players I ever wtached (and enjoyed).

(By the way: If anyone wants to cheat in their Forgotten Realms Games, google "aulddragon uge modules". He did some fantatsic work there.)
he's always pretty thorough, which is one of the reasons i like him. i don't remember which game it was, but i remember watching him set up systematic tests and was blown away by how much he knew about the game.
Posted August 21, 2015
I have to admit, I wasn't sure GOG would be able to get these, but here they are! Not that they hold much appeal for me. I might try Dungeon Hack at some point, but the rest don't interest me. It's an awesome set of releases for those who've been awaiting them, though. : )

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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?
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Classicor: 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
Dragonshard uses the Eberron campaign setting, and The Temple of Elemental Evil is set in Greyhawk (arguably even more "generic-fantasy" than Forgotten Realms!)

Also, for those interested:
<i>Dungeons & Dragons</i> campaign settings;
List of Dungeons & Dragons video games;
See also the 'Video games' section of the Dungeons & Dragons box "menu"-thing at the bottom of either of these pages.
Posted August 21, 2015
I remember playing Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds. And they were extremely fun at the time. But I'm not into graph paper anymore a long time ago.
Posted August 21, 2015
Well, you don't need graph paper to play any of these games, because Gold Box games have a map (with the exception of a few special areas), and I had no trouble in EoB without one even on the floors with teleporting traps. After a bit of playing it gets easier to remember where you are despite the mazes looking all the same.
Posted August 21, 2015
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Leroux: I see no setup.exe, but there is a "Launch Settings" shortcut that apparantly runs the setup program. I tried that before, you can set the soundcard there, but it also asks you for an installation path, and that causes path finding issues with Dosbox (see attached images).
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Starmaker: Shooting blind here, but did you try running Dosbox as admin and/or removing the read-only flag from files in Windows (does it even exist on newer Windowses)?
I suspect the problem is that I don't run it through Dosbox at all, I just click on GOG's Launch Settings shortcut. That shortcut might open an instance of Dosbox but I don't know how it's configured. It probably doesn't mount a drive C so the setup can't write to it. But I have no clue whether it mounts any drive at all, and what virtual drive to use in order for Dosbox to find the actual UA folder on my harddisk ...

I also wonder whether there's a chance that GOG's settings sound fine on other people's computers, but shouldn't they sound the same for everyone seeing that it's not about real soundcards but Dosbox soundcard emulation? If they do sound the same for everyone, then GOG chose a subpar setting and should pre-set a different soundcard in the package, so that everyone doesn't need to try and fix this on their own. The music sounds nothing like it's supposed to sound.
Posted August 21, 2015
.........

*SPLORTH*

Great now I have to change trousers. Now that's true gaming happiness.
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