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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
Before i consider praising this, i have to wonder if and how the DRM was dealt with, and the exporting the contents of half the game to the manual went...

Back in 2001 or so, a bunch of these games were released on a Gold SSI bundle, however the DRM made it utterly impractical to play with any sanity, having not only code wheels, but a bunch of 'refer to manual, page 19, read rumors 8, 9, 11, and 18', which you'd refer to a pdf file on the CD almost requiring 2 monitors and unlikely to run fullscreen.

If both of these were handled (Pool of radiance, and the like) then i certainly wouldn't be mad at it...

Although i have games ranging from all 3 archives from that cd bundle (which i still have, minus the code-wheel)...
Posted August 20, 2015
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Slynt: 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 in the neighboring thread. You can press highlighted letters for direct selection (e.g. H for Human - have you read about demihuman level limits yet?), but you will need diagonal movement for combat, so remap your keyboard.
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?
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gamesfreak64: 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.
I am almost positive Judas posted an answer to this question somewhere in the past few hours, but it may have been in a different thread. Someone was asking about how remap around a dead Enter key....

Edit: ninja'd by Starmaker, who had the details.
Post edited August 20, 2015 by Luned
Posted August 20, 2015
GOG, thank you very much!
Posted August 20, 2015
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rtcvb32: If both of these were handled (Pool of radiance, and the like) then i certainly wouldn't be mad at it...
Code wheels were dealt with, except certain unspecified rare cases (I assume apart from repeated saving outside training halls), manuals weren't.
Posted August 20, 2015
GOG: Killing it in 2015
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!
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thejimz: 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.
We had Lands of Lore from Westwood already...
Posted August 20, 2015
Thank you so much, GOG!
What a great, great day!
Posted August 20, 2015
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rtcvb32: If both of these were handled (Pool of radiance, and the like) then i certainly wouldn't be mad at it...
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Starmaker: Code wheels were dealt with, except certain unspecified rare cases (I assume apart from repeated saving outside training halls), manuals weren't.
Yeah, glancing at the extras, i see manuals and code wheels... I would definitely see the code wheels being handled as best they could but constantly referring to a PDF is what would get to me, i'm not going to be hard-core enough to constantly be doing that, or to print out my own manuals... Although it's great they brought them here, it's not really going to get my seal of approval... old papercuts and all that jazz...
Posted August 20, 2015
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paladin181: We had Lands of Lore from Westwood already...
Oh, that's true. I forgot about that. Plus Nox, Kyrandia, etc. :P

In that case, I'll just take these games as confirmation that the Westwood well hasn't dried up since the last Kyrandia release.
Posted August 20, 2015
Press coverage of these releases:

http://news.cheatcc.com/396998
http://www.pcgamer.com/forgotten-realms-the-archives-brings-13-dd-classics-to-gog/
http://canadianonlinegamers.com/2015/08/20-years-worth-of-forgotten-realms-dd-games-now-on-gog/
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/142013-Dungeons-Dragons-Gold-Box-Classics-Land-on-GOG
Post edited August 20, 2015 by Barry_Woodward
Posted August 20, 2015
GOG you have done this to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlcqWQVVuU
Also does anybody know if they have the rights to the Dragonlance Series?
Posted August 20, 2015
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Slynt: 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?
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Starmaker: Posted in the neighboring thread. You can press highlighted letters for direct selection (e.g. H for Human - have you read about demihuman level limits yet?), but you will need diagonal movement for combat, so remap your keyboard.
Thanks a lot :)
Posted August 20, 2015
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Barry_Woodward: Press coverage of these releases:
Here's a few more for the list:

https://www.vg247.com/2015/08/20/dd-forgotten-realms-eye-of-the-beholder-gog/
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/08/20/classic-forgotten-realms-dungeons-dragons-games-remembered-again-on-gog-today.aspx
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-08-20-12-cult-classic-dungeons-and-dragons-video-games-hit-gog-com
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/gog-has-a-bunch-of-new-dungeons-and-dragons-games-/1100-6429914/
Posted August 20, 2015
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groze: So, this was "the big thing" you've been hinting at?! GOG, you seriously have to learn not to hype people's expectations too much like you tend to do, I was left hoping the NOLF games, or something high on the Community Wishlist was going to be released today, not yet another collection of Tolkienesque turn-based dungeon crawlers for "old school people" (i.e. guys who are really bad at anything that involves action and can only excel at these slow things).

More power to those who have been waiting for this, I guess... though we'd all welcome Konami bringing their games here more than this overhyped announcement.
To be fair to us "old school people", GOG stands for Good Old Games. The original purpose of GOG was to make us old school people happy and bring back the classics. As for your implication that old games are for lowly casuals, well... have you actually *tried* older action games? :) I challenge you to go through Contra or TMNT without throwing a controller or three in frustration.
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