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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 22, 2015
Good job GoG!

Now if you guys would get Buck Rogers and Dark Sun my collection would finally be complete :)
Posted August 22, 2015
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GOG.com: 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
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DRM: Finally, legal copies of (most of) the "Gold Box" games that I can download, even to computers without built-in CD-ROM/DVD drives (instead of hunting up my 15-year-old Gamefest CD-ROM)! Now, if only GOG.com could also get the Dragonlance trilogy of "Gold Box" games, then I could finally retire my 20-year-old Wizardworks CD-ROM. (And if you guys could also get the 2 Buck Rogers games which used the Gold Box engine, I'd finally have a playable legal copy for the first time since we stopped buying computers with floppy drives! (Yes, the "Archives Collection 2" covered all of the D&D titles I was interested in.)
A quick question: are the Gold Box titles set up so that one still has to look up things on the codewheels/Adventurer's Journal every so often, or has that been hacked? (I've saved my original clue books from back in the day, and have printouts of the other stuff, but of course would appreciate minimizing having to look up stuff.)
Yes you still have to look up passages in the journals when prompted, sadly this was due to memory and space limitations and unlike what Inexile was able to do with Wasteland 1 since they probably still had the source code, GOG couldn't add those bits into the game. All that could of been done was remove the look up this passage and type in the X word in the X paragraph copy protection check at the start of the game.
Posted August 22, 2015
A great addition to your catalogue! I'd also love to see other titles join your offer: 1991 Neverwinter Nights and 2001 Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor.
Posted August 22, 2015
First Albion, now this? Awesome work GoG!
Posted August 22, 2015
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UthersonL: A great addition to your catalogue! I'd also love to see other titles join your offer: 1991 Neverwinter Nights and 2001 Pool of Radiance: Ruins of Myth Drannor.
Neverwinter Nights 1991 was a MMO, so it's extremely unlikely to ever be rereleased.
Posted August 22, 2015
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jackster79: First off: Thank you GOG for finally getting these collections here! My hat's off to you and all involved in making this happen!

Insta-bought all three sets. Been wanting legit copies for a long time.

On an unrelated somewhat off-topic note:

If I may ask, what is the name of that other "Myth" game? I recently came into a disc version of some compilation that includes Myth: The Fallen Lords and its sequel and wanted to check if that one was it...

(edited for grammar, additions, and stuff)
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LiquidOxygen80: Yeah, it was the third Myth game. Wolf's Age, I believe? I can't remember the entirety of it, but it involved uninstallation and hard drive shenanigans.
Whew! I think I am okay then as I do not believe that is part of the compilation (though if it is, I will only install it on a virtual machine).

Appreciate you getting back to me - thank you! :-)
Posted August 22, 2015
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Maxvorstadt: Meh. I`m a big fan of GOG and I love RPGs, but GOG managed it to release the only RPG series that I really don`t like: Dungeons & Dragons! Well, my wallet is safe now.
To all you people who like D&D: Don`t listen to the grumpy old man and enjoy the games. :-))

I don`t even know why I don`t like D&D. Maybe because when I played Pen and Paper RPGs, I started with games like "The Black Eye", "Traveller" and "Shadowrun". D&D was not even an option for us back then.
I started with D&D/AD&D but once I discovered RuneQuest, Call of Cthulhu and the FGU games I quickly realized that D&D was (at least back then) the absolute worst RPG design ever published. Logically inconsistent, unnecessarily complicated and cumbersome overall. Does not accurately represent the genre it seeks to emulate (especially it's 'Fire and forget' magic system).

Having said that, for the most part even a poorly designed RPG is a lot of fun, especially for CRPGs.
Posted August 22, 2015
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LiquidOxygen80: Yeah, it was the third Myth game. Wolf's Age, I believe? I can't remember the entirety of it, but it involved uninstallation and hard drive shenanigans.
No, it was the second one.
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jackster79: Whew! I think I am okay then as I do not believe that is part of the compilation (though if it is, I will only install it on a virtual machine).

Appreciate you getting back to me - thank you! :-)
Myth II: Soulblighter had the bug. You may want to be careful...
Post edited August 22, 2015 by Grargar
Posted August 22, 2015
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LiquidOxygen80: Yeah, it was the third Myth game. Wolf's Age, I believe? I can't remember the entirety of it, but it involved uninstallation and hard drive shenanigans.
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Grargar: No, it was the second one.
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Grargar: Myth II: Soulblighter had the bug. You may want to be careful...
:-(

That one is in the compilation (just looked it over and yeah it is included in the Myth: The Total Codex). Myth 3 is not so was happy there.

Appreciate the warning. With the backlog I have I am in no hurry to play it, but will have to make some kind of note about this for when the time comes.

Thanks again!
Posted August 22, 2015
IIRC, the uninstall bugs in PoR:RoMD and Myth II were only devastating if you did something really silly like install it to the root of your hard drive.

Instead of just removing the files it put there, it removes the folder it installed to, which in turn deletes everything in that folder and all subfolders, regardless of whether it relates to the game or not. Normally this shouldn't be a problem, but if you inexplicably decided to store the only copy of your dissertation there, or if that folder happened to be C:\Windows, because you shouldn't be allowed near a PC, then it all goes bye-bye.

Since GOG uses custom installers, neither game should have an issue if they turned up here. Although Ruins of Myth Drannor would still be rubbish, by most accounts.
Post edited August 22, 2015 by BlackMageJ
Posted August 22, 2015
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BlackMageJ: IIRC, the uninstall bugs in PoR:RoMD and Myth II were only devastating if you did something really silly like install it to the root of your hard drive.

Instead of just removing the files it put there, it removes the folder it installed to, which in turn deletes everything in that folder and all subfolders, regardless of whether it relates to the game or not. Normally this shouldn't be a problem, but if you inexplicably decided to store the only copy of your dissertation there, or if that folder happened to be C:\Windows, because you shouldn't be allowed near a PC, then it all goes bye-bye.

Since GOG uses custom installers, neither game should have an issue if they turned up here. Although Ruins of Myth Drannor would still be rubbish, by most accounts.
Even so, it is insane that a game would do that, it makes you wonder just how the programmers could of made such extreme errors.
Posted August 22, 2015
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BlackMageJ: Although Ruins of Myth Drannor would still be rubbish, by most accounts.
The book was passable, even though it had the whizzard in it. (And I usually hate fantasy books.)
Posted August 22, 2015
Well done GOG!
This really make may day. Too bad it is last day of my vacation.
Posted August 22, 2015
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LironD: Well done GOG!
This really make may day.
Mayday? GOG is in trouble? How can we help?
Posted August 22, 2015
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LiquidOxygen80: Yeah, it was the third Myth game. Wolf's Age, I believe? I can't remember the entirety of it, but it involved uninstallation and hard drive shenanigans.
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jackster79: Whew! I think I am okay then as I do not believe that is part of the compilation (though if it is, I will only install it on a virtual machine).

Appreciate you getting back to me - thank you! :-)
Just to confirm this, Myth: The Fallen Lords and Myth II: Soulblighter are excellent games, and I've never had any crash issues with either of them. It sounds like you have the Total Codex compilation (the first two games plus the Chimera expansion and some mods), which is also the version I have.

Edit: the version of Myth II that ships with the Codex is 1.3, which would have been well after the hard drive problem that apparently was present at initial release.
Post edited August 22, 2015 by NotJabba
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