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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
Well all right! This has been a long time coming, and it is a welcome addition to the GOG world. I can't wait to play EOB again, as well as games like Dungeon Hack (I love the cross between EOB and Nethack.) For the past few weeks, though, it was more a matter of "when" than "if" if you look at this basic equation:
GOG.com acquisitions of SSI classics + very good relationship with Hasbro who owns D&D = this. I have been a fan of SSI for many years, so this brings even more hope of a large SSI collection here.

For those who are new to the Gold Box series (the one that influenced so many different RPG series from Vogel's Spiderweb games to the Infinity Engine games, even to Elder Scrolls, these games are classic turn-based games. The only inconvenience is you will either have to play split-screen with a pdf reader to get the Adventure Journals which you need to read as you play, or you need to use a lot of paper to print them all out and use them. You see, many of the room descriptions are in the book as opposed to being within the game itself.

This really gives the games more of a classic paper-and-pencil feel. As for the EOB games, those are the spiritual successors to Dungeon Master and the predecessors to the excellent Legend of Grimrock games.
Definitely if you are a D&D fan or someone who wants to see some of the living history of CRPGs, this is a good set to get.
Posted August 20, 2015
Nice collection of old games. But probably not my kind of games, too much text to read, too many dungeons to crawl and, most of all, too hard to play for my taste. :P

Or are there any games in these collections which are somewhat easier and more beginner friendly?
Posted August 20, 2015
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eiii: Nice collection of old games. But probably not my kind of games, too much text to read, too many dungeons to crawl and, most of all, too hard to play for my taste. :P

Or are there any games in these collections which are somewhat easier and more beginner friendly?
Dungeon Hack is pretty simple, a first person D&D roguelike, basically. You can choose how difficult things are and stuff. Eye of the Beholder is a little more difficult, so go to that after, I'd say. The collection in Volume 2 is... let's say very classic. I was never really able to get into them.
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"?
Yup. I agree that could be a serious problem for future gamers who will use search bar. GOG do something about it!
Posted August 20, 2015
Now if we could just get all the Premium Modules for the first Neverwinter Nights, including the final three that got removed from sale.
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"?
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pykman: Yup. I agree that could be a serious problem for future gamers who will use search bar. GOG do something about it!
They could name it something like this instead:

The Forgotten Realms Archives 1 - Eye of the Beholder 1-3
The Forgotten Realms Archives 2 - Pool of Radiance & Savage Frontier Collection
The Forgotten Realms Archives 3 - Dungeon Hack & Menzoberranzan

Or even drop the first part and numbers. But of course, the second collection will always pose a problem, due to the high count and wide variety of games contained within. A better solution would be a more flexible search function. ;)
Posted August 20, 2015
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doccarnby: Dungeon Hack is pretty simple, a first person D&D roguelike, basically. You can choose how difficult things are and stuff. Eye of the Beholder is a little more difficult, so go to that after, I'd say. The collection in Volume 2 is... let's say very classic. I was never really able to get into them.
Thank you, will note that. I may try the 3rd bundle later, but probably will wait for a sale to not risk too much money on a game which I may never play. There are some nice looking pictures (for a more than 20 years old game) on the card for the 3rd bundle, like the castle with the bridge, but unfortunately we still cannot see on GOG which pictures belong to which game in a bundle.

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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"?
That's what I was asking me too. GOG likes it complicated, obviously.
Posted August 20, 2015
So many people mentioned wanting the Dark Sun and Ravenloft games here.
I'm all for that.
But I'll add Al Qadim: Genie's Curse to the mix, too.

l8r!
Posted August 20, 2015
I tried to play Pool of Radiance.
But the game has problems to show all text letters.
Often single letters are missing, and i can't move the cursor where i should be able to move it to choose, like which race or hero type i want to create.
:(
Posted August 20, 2015
I'm impressed
Now I have a chance to play Eye of the Beholder trilogy made by Westwood Studious again and legally this time! ;)
Posted August 20, 2015
This looks awesome. i have one quick question. If I buy these is my money going to EA? Since Westwood is no longer? If not who is it going to?
Posted August 21, 2015
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rustinpeace91: This looks awesome. i have one quick question. If I buy these is my money going to EA? Since Westwood is no longer? If not who is it going to?
Your money goes to GOG and the current license-holder of anything D&D; Hasbro.
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Posted August 21, 2015
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rustinpeace91: This looks awesome. i have one quick question. If I buy these is my money going to EA? Since Westwood is no longer? If not who is it going to?
GOG is the official publisher, so I suppose a lot of the money should go to them... also, the licence from Hasbro/WotC probably costs GOG. Apart from that... NO idea ^^
Posted August 21, 2015
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Telika: EMOTION !!!
Does this collection include the 1991 Neverwinter Nights?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-zQWEp_IvY
Posted August 21, 2015
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Leroux: A better solution would be a more flexible search function. ;)
It would be great if it could search for separate titles within various bundles, but I can hardly see that happening, seeing how after all this time bringing back the option to block users and delete messages in chat still hasn't happened, and they have their "top men working on it".
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