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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
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Gyrocoptor: Niiice. I'll probably pick up Collection Two for now (unless if Eye of the Beholder is really that good!)
Though I'm curious as to why Collections One and Two have Linux versions but Collection Three doesn't seem to have that same support.
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JudasIscariot: We'll be adding Linux support to the third collection as soon as we work out some technical issues that came up at the last minute with those games on Linux :)
This is the kind of post I like seeing. If the Linux version can't be released at the same time, at least let us know if it's being worked on or not. I don't mind waiting, but I don't like not knowing. Even if the answer is no there will not be a Linux version, it's still better than not knowing.
Posted August 20, 2015
On a related note, Azure Bonds the book, along with its sequels, is excellent.
Posted August 20, 2015
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jkiiskinen: Pool of Radiance shelf graphic is from Ruins of Myth Drannor, not the original PoR.

[/pedant]
Oh god, if they bring that one, please tell them to make sure it's patched. It, much like another game with Myth in the title, would delete your hard drive if you attempted to uninstall it unpatched. I had hard copies of both games. :|
Posted August 20, 2015
Finally games I originally joined GoG for are here. Notable exceptions though (Death Knights of Krynn?). I did raise an eyebrow over $9.99 for archive 1 but archive 2 seems about right.
Posted August 20, 2015
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Hillsy_: Nice release and a good surprise. To those who recommend the Amiga versions, the PC versions were the full releases with added difficulty. An example, Gateway to the Savage Frontier and Treasures of the Savage Frontier have Vampires and Wights included unlike the Amiga versions which were cut from their release.
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Kirben: No, there were usually no major gameplay differences between the various ports of the goldbox series, unless for technical limitations (i.e. Commodore 64 ports).

Gateway to the Savage Frontier was unique situation, the game seemed to have major development issues with the ports, and was based off older game engine (Curse of the Azure Bonds). The Commodore 64 port was literately incomplete, missing features, and even re-using art work from older games. While the Amiga version lacked the usual hard disk install option, and included note to save often, due to be unstable!

You can actually import characters from Curse of the Azure Bonds into Gateway to the Savage Frontier, and have fun with extra power and magical items (especially the dust of disappearance).
Interesting about the C64 version. The Amiga version did lack vampires which could drain levels, made those games I mentioned more difficult on the PC releases.
Posted August 20, 2015
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skeletonbow: GOG/Judas/whoever: Yesterday the game count at http://www.gog.com/games showed 1191 games IIRC and today it shows 1193 games although you just added a billion games today. Might want to triple-check your game counter there. :)
Maybe because of the removal of Mob Rule?
Posted August 20, 2015
Beholder trilogy + Radiance quadrilogy .

I love u GOG !

Instabuy .
Posted August 20, 2015
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skeletonbow: GOG/Judas/whoever: Yesterday the game count at http://www.gog.com/games showed 1191 games IIRC and today it shows 1193 games although you just added a billion games today. Might want to triple-check your game counter there. :)
It counts the number of available products. Mob Rule was removed, three new products were released.
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?
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JudasIscariot: Most of them *should* be set within Faerun, which is the setting that Baldur's Gate uses :) Planescape: Torment's world is another setting entirely within the Forgotten Realms :)
Planescape: Torment is actually based on the D&D generic "Great Wheel" Cosmology, that is actually most commonly used in standard fantasy settings, including Greyhawk (Oerth) and most home campaigns.

IIRC, Faerun actually has a different cosmology that isn't the same as the "Great Wheel" - but that has changed so many times it's hard to keep track of it all.

Not to mention, the cosmology got really screwed up when Spelljammer came along, and decided that all the settings were actually spheres within the same universe, regardless of all the different cosmologies.

God forbid anyone decides to run a "everything from D&D is canon" campaign...
Posted August 20, 2015
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GOG.com: snip
GoG, please correct this NOT completed wishlist entry:
http://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/pool_of_radiance_ruins_of_myth_drannor_1

We're still waiting for this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p32Rh98sxRs
Posted August 20, 2015
Edit: double post, GOG boards freaking out.
Post edited August 20, 2015 by yyahoo
Posted August 20, 2015
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CarrionCrow: Dear GOG,

Unfortunately, as much as I'd like to be excited for today's releases, I'm afraid I can't get behind it.

I mean, sure, you've managed to summon up memories from 20 years ago when I saw such titles in their original boxes at the local game store but had no way to run them, but is that good enough? These games are widely available in a number of venues to this day, they run flawlessly on any modern operating system with no work required whatsoever, and they were never very good anyway, so what was all the hype about?

Here I am, getting my hopes up about such titles as this one, and what do you offer instead? More roleplaying games? Don't you carry enough of those already?

Seriously, it's getting harder and harder to be supportive of the company when all you have to offer are all these old titles.
For crying out loud, these things didn't even have listings on the community wishlist. It's like no one was interested in them at all!

All right, going to cut this short since these arthritic hands can't handle too much typing. Downside of old age, I guess, the ability to type slowly going away, and right after I lost the ability to play anything fast-paced. Bit of a double whammy right there. Maybe if the games were better, I could buy them. I hear they're just right for an elderly person such as myself.
+1
But I am not sure if people are able to get you are joking ;-)
Posted August 20, 2015
Beholder trilogy + goldbox !

What a nice surprise !

I love you GOG !

Instabuy .
Posted August 20, 2015
Release the Dark Sun games as well and I will be in heaven.

Also Hillsy_, love the Turrican avatar.
Posted August 20, 2015
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Ixamyakxim: If they (CDPR) had the least inclination to do so, I can't imagine why Hasbro, Wizards, SSI remnants, Gary Gygax's ghost etc wouldn't jump at the opportunity to let them do so, right? I mean, unless they hate money. They could hate money.
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IAmSinistar: The main reason I would guess for CDPR not doing it is that they seem to be devoted to their own properties. And they aren't the fastest devs out there. Still waiting for further word on Cyberpunk 2077.
*sighs* Me too, man. Me too. I guess Shadowrun: Hong Kong will have to tide me over until then.
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