Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection Three

Both of these games are amazingly addictive. There's so much to collect and you can spend hours just making the perfect character let along traversing huge dungeons and fighting tons of diverse creatures! Menoberanzan is a free ranging story-based game with pretty decent graphics and tons to do by itself but I find Dungeon Hack to be my go-to. It's a full customizable dungeon-in-a-box from your character to the type of dungeon you want to explore (how many floors, what level of monsters, the amount of keys and doors and traps...etc) and if you enjoy the kind of game with fast paced tense battles while gathering equipment, improving stats, and finding out how to open the next doorway this is the game for you. Neither game is easy but they're not unfair, they just come from the early days of D&D where you rested for days to heal your paltry health and when you might be able to kill a goblin in a sword stroke but they're just as capable of getting in a lucky hit themselves. Exciting, beautifully paced, vastly customizable and the dated graphics are no obstacle to two terrific games!

Menzoberanzan to me was pure magic. Was little later, coming down from my Eye of the Beholder and Dark Sun high, new style Dungeon Crawl was just coming out.. Menzoberanzan! I really enjoyed the updated graphics, destroying enemies (hearing the way they scream and poof into green/purple clouds of smoke, was satisfying. The Ravenloft games also used the same engine. Those games are also excellent. Hopefully those are in the next pack. Those are a no-brainer buy, as is this and the eye of the beholder series just came out.

If the game doesn’t accept your save name, just add a space to the start of the name. Someone posted about this in the forum years ago. I tried it just now and it worked. It is said that the game seems to block certain words from being used in the start of save names, so adding a space before it will solve the problem. Hope this will help :)

I bought this game when it first came out on CD. Though at the time, I got only partially through, but either bugs or hardware issues prevented me from continuing the game. I am almost in shock to see all these old SSI games being brought back on GOG. I am like others, please if possible bring us the Dark Sun's and Ravenloft games.