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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
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.
Posted August 20, 2015
Great additions to the catalogue, Gog. Simply brilliant.
Posted August 20, 2015
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RadonGOG: There is much unjustified disrespect in your comment, something you simply have to punished for! -1 for you!
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groze: How about the unjustified disrespect anytime GOG releases an adventure game? And you don't see me downvoting every single person that goes into *every* adventure game release thread complaining about the games.
Do you believe I´d approve these comments? Hopefully you don´t, course I don´t do!
Posted August 20, 2015
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wolfsrain: Hell yeah!!!
This is great news!
Posted August 20, 2015
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timppu: Question about the Goldbox games: which are considered as the best versions? PC? Commodore 64? Something else? Or no clear winner? Did Amiga have any of the games? I guess Mobygames knows...
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Kirben: The Amiga versions of the following titles offered the best graphics, more music, and much better sound:
Pool of Radiance
Hillsfar
Curse of the Azure Bonds
Secret of the Silver Blades

The PC versions of those titles suffered from EGA graphics, and only PC Speaker or Tandy sound effects. Only Pools of Darkness offers the advantages of VGA and decent sound, but you need to play through earlier titles first.

The Savage Frontier series was best on the PC, due to VGA graphics, and offering decent sound. The other ports of Gateway to the Savage Frontier in particular were really bad.
thank you, this was very helpful. how about the rest of the games released today?
Posted August 20, 2015
Great releases!
So many hours spent on EOB back in the day...

Any word about why 3rd archive is not supported (yet?) under Linux?
Posted August 20, 2015
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timppu: Question about the Goldbox games: which are considered as the best versions? PC? Commodore 64? Something else? Or no clear winner? Did Amiga have any of the games? I guess Mobygames knows...
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Kirben: The Amiga versions of the following titles offered the best graphics, more music, and much better sound:
Pool of Radiance
Hillsfar
Curse of the Azure Bonds
Secret of the Silver Blades

The PC versions of those titles suffered from EGA graphics, and only PC Speaker or Tandy sound effects. Only Pools of Darkness offers the advantages of VGA and decent sound, but you need to play through earlier titles first.

The Savage Frontier series was best on the PC, due to VGA graphics, and offering decent sound. The other ports of Gateway to the Savage Frontier in particular were really bad.
thank you. this was very helpful. how about the rest of the games released today?
Posted August 20, 2015
Thanks especially for the EOB series and for Menzoberranzan. I enjoy playing those. Again and again. It would be awesome if you could get both Ravenloft games as well. I really love this engine.
Posted August 20, 2015
Very exciting, much enjoyed some of these 'gold box' games in my mis-spent youth, looking forward to trying to play them again! Also hoping for others like the Death Knights of Krynn which was a personal favorite alongside the EoB games.
Posted August 20, 2015
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lostwolfe: this is not a bad problem to have :)

in case you don't want to give it out in public, could i ask for your youtube username, please, so i can check out your work?
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DoctorPirx: Not at all: Same as my user name here. DoctorPirx. https://www.youtube.com/user/DoctorPirx
Commentaries are in German. ;)
awesome, thanks.

i don't understand german, but i will at least check it out :)
Posted August 20, 2015
Yes! You did it! You guys are amazing!
Posted August 20, 2015
Dammit, GOG!

WHY OH WHY did you have to release these THREE Foggy Realms collections on the day I am due to go away on holiday!?!

Do you think my fiancé will appreciate these collections as her birthday gift? ;)

Oh well, something to look forward too when I get back...

Out of interest, the FRUA looks awesome - how long do you reckon before we start seeing the Tyranny of Dragons, Elemental Evil, and Rage of Demons storylines appearing? It might be interesting to see this mesh of old and new content...

Something to cut my teeth on, perhaps?

Oh, and hopefully, we'll see the Dark Sun games coming soon - those SSI classics are sheer AWESOMENESS, but the Dark Sun series was my favourite. Especially the one that I can't remember the name of, but you start out as gladiators in an arena before breaking free...
Post edited August 20, 2015 by Davane
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.
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 :)
Posted August 20, 2015
Always nice to see new games on GOG, but I was expecting better (Microsoft, Bethesda, More EA or More Ubi.). These old games aren't really my kind of thing, as I don't play pre late 90s games. I suppose they are some people's kind of thing so this is good for them though and I hope they enjoy playing these classics. At least the weekend promo is decent as I don't have most of the D&D games so I might get something.
Posted August 20, 2015
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.

(Adding quick disclaimer here to prevent further confusion. This is me being a smartass rather than getting angry on a video game store forum. Aside from whatever cursing I engage in while Eye of the Beholder drives me insane, I have no problem whatsoever with the titles presented and applaud GOG on their efforts to bring these titles here.)
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