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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 20, 2015
Yay! ...

Now I am waiting for my Krynn trilogy.

Don`t you dare sparing these superb games or I will "cast" a stinking cloud at your headquater! ;)

"Oh look - a spell to make the air go smelly!"
*murmurs something*
"Ouuuhh" "Argh!" "Woah!"
*several party members get ill and dizzy*
"Well - I need to practise my aim with this one ... definitely!"
Post edited August 20, 2015 by Kilmex
Posted August 20, 2015
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comradegarry: Also does anybody know if they have the rights to the Dragonlance Series?
If they were originally published by SSI, then I'd guess yes; otherwise, I doubt it.
Post edited August 20, 2015 by Grargar
Posted August 20, 2015
From what i have read on the web everyone is thrilled to see these games and i can see a lot of money going gog way which can only be great as more money means more chances older games will be published by gog. win win in my eye.
Posted August 20, 2015
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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.
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Slynt: Thanks a lot :)
Thats a nice tip, thanks, i did mis the solution out, i havent read all topics yet, assumed the default crsr keys would do the job by default or at least the WASD or ZX thats been used alot aswell.

Some games i never played , the eotb however are my favorites, its true after the mouse came i would always prefer games using a click and point system rather then having all my fingers wrapped up and entangled across the keyboard, i dont have a joypad/stick.
Posted August 20, 2015
Sorry if this was mentioned before, but why the "Forgotten Realms: The Archives" titles? I mean the first one especially, it is nothing but Eye of the Beholder, and yet I would never find it trough the search function if I type in "Eye of the Beholder", so why not just call it "Eye of the Beholder series"?
Post edited August 20, 2015 by Breja
Posted August 20, 2015
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aluinie: From what i have read on the web everyone is thrilled to see these games and i can see a lot of money going gog way which can only be great as more money means more chances older games will be published by gog. win win in my eye.
exactly my thinking aswell , plus my old system can run old stuff very well,i do have lots of newer games i like but 90% is casual (like bigfishgames has) and most people on the net keep thinking these games are only for women and girls, but they are not, they are for everyone and the plus is they dont absorb your life and attention, so you will get far less problems with your hubby/wife and or girl/boyfriend, or partners in general.

Jagged alliance took hours and hours and you would get absorbed in the game, it was full screen so no pc clock and you could easily loos track of time, with casual games that can run windowed you can see the real world , and the clock so thats a big plus.

Anyways, chance of me getting absorbed into a big fullscreen game are very small now, cause times change.
So its more like playing 5 - 10 small quick windowed games, and the ocasional browsergame(online, joined in a clan ofcourse ,(preferably top 20) cause fighting alone is sad)
Posted August 20, 2015
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Breja: Sorry if this was mentioned before, but why the "Forgotten Realms: The Archives" titles? I mean the first one especially, it is nothing but Eyey of the Beholder, and yet I would never find it trough the search function if I type in "Eye of the Befolder", so why not just call it "Eye of the Befolder series"?
You definitely won't find it if you search for "Eye of the Befolder".
Posted August 20, 2015
Wow , finally here on GOG, awesome ! :)
Posted August 20, 2015
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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.
I assume most other Westwood releases are in the hands of EA. I don't know if GOG had to negotiate with EA and/or buy from them at all for these releases, I assume not (I assume it was with Ubisoft but maybe far messier), but if GOG can gobble up the Dune games (post Dune 1, since that's Cryo/Virgin) and co. from EA, and negotiate with Herbert Properties for the trademark, or the Blade Runner game and negotiate with WB or whoevs, maybe more stuff can happen?

With the Blade Runner remake coming eventually, it seems like top-notch timing for GOG to leap on those rights or at least figure something out.
Posted August 20, 2015
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Slynt: Thanks a lot :)
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gamesfreak64: Thats a nice tip, thanks, i did mis the solution out, i havent read all topics yet, assumed the default crsr keys would do the job by default or at least the WASD or ZX thats been used alot aswell.

Some games i never played , the eotb however are my favorites, its true after the mouse came i would always prefer games using a click and point system rather then having all my fingers wrapped up and entangled across the keyboard, i dont have a joypad/stick.
Well, I tried everything but I still can't move up or down the character race selection list in Pool of Radiance :(
I did note that the arrow keys, on the ctrt+f1 mapper screen, have a "Disabled" icon over them.

I tried "W" + "Add" + "Up Key", "S"+"Add"+"Down Key" and vice versa ("Up Key + Add" + "W" etc.) but...nothing. I was so happy to see these old gold box games get a release, I'm a Forgotten Realms video game junkie and want to play them all (the Gold Box games are the only ones I haven't played and yes that includes Daggerdale).
Posted August 20, 2015
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jalister: You definitely won't find it if you search for "Eye of the Befolder".
Damn. Well, at least it's not "Lego wangs".
Post edited August 20, 2015 by Breja
Posted August 20, 2015
Sooo, GOG. These are flat priced. Is that by design, dare I hope? Or something that will change once all the hoopla dies down?
Posted August 20, 2015
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jalister: You definitely won't find it if you search for "Eye of the Befolder".
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Breja: Damn. Well, at least it's not "Lego wangs".
Valid point though. They named it after the retail CD collection they supposedly took the files from, but most people coming here to find the games will look for their actual titles, not some retail package name, and the basic GOG search function won't be able to understand their query and point them in the right direction ...
Post edited August 20, 2015 by Leroux
Posted August 20, 2015
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Breja: Sorry if this was mentioned before, but why the "Forgotten Realms: The Archives" titles? I mean the first one especially, it is nothing but Eye of the Beholder, and yet I would never find it trough the search function if I type in "Eye of the Beholder", so why not just call it "Eye of the Beholder series"?
because of logic


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So i guess thats why it has the name eventhough there are only 3 games EOTB in it.
Posted August 20, 2015
YES!!!!!
This is awesome! Thank you team gog!!! :-D
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