GOG.Com is bringing back Baldurs Gate!

[AZgreentea]

Instead of being dead, GOG.com went down to launch its newly revamped web site. In celebration of the new site, and the two year anniversary:

GOG.com has partnered with Hasbro and Atari to bring back the first Baldurs Gate and its expansion, Tales of the Sword Coast!

I have wanted to play this game for a while, and more things are promised ( I am hoping for System Shock and Syndicate personally). While I dont miss the Forgotten Realms, its hard to pass up a true Good old Game.

ooo, and now my download and update of Lamannia is finished....

[AZgreentea]

Wow! GoG.com is on a real D&D kick. they are releasing Planescape: Torment!

[Crazyfruit]

Yeah, those were some really nice surprises

And here I was worried that I wouldn't be able to download my old stuff anymore... it's almost like unopened christmas gifts with the next 5 they're teasing us with. Hard to top Torment though!

A couple weeks ago they put up Age of Wonders too. Much cheaper than $60 on ebay

[voodoogroves]

Wow! GoG.com is on a real D&D kick. they are releasing Planescape: Torment!

Torment rocked.

[AZgreentea]

I am loving the chance to pick up the D&D titles I never had a computer good enough to play (at the time). Well, or the $50.00 to invest in each one.

If they release the Syndicate or the System Shock titles, I may not have time to play any more DDO this year, lol.

[Monsoon28]

LoL, I still have my original copies of all the Baldur's Gate titles, Planescape:Torment, Syndicate, Arcanum, Fallout, Mechwarrior. All the real classics I just can't through away.

Personally I'd love to see Wasteland re-released and updated to deal with today's processors same with the old school D&D games like Pool of Radiance. You just can't beat 16-bit colour graphics!

[AZgreentea]

LoL, I still have my original copies of all the Baldur's Gate titles, Planescape:Torment, Syndicate, Arcanum, Fallout, Mechwarrior. All the real classics I just can't through away.

Personally I'd love to see Wasteland re-released and updated to deal with today's processors same with the old school D&D games like Pool of Radiance. You just can't beat 16-bit colour graphics!

I USED to have my original copies, but while I was on 365 day orders, my roommate moved out, put all of my stuff in storage, and didnt tell me. When I got back 6 months later all I owned was a car I got out of impound before they claimed salvage title and the stuff I took with me on the orders.

On the plus side, getting the title from GOG.com means I can get a version that works on a modern PC. I hadn't been able to get my copy of Syndicate or Syndicate Wars to play sound, since DOSBOX hadnt been written before I lost the titles.

[grodon9999]

Torment rocked.

The whole Planescape setting was AWESOME. That should be the DDO end-game.

[woundweaver]

atari got a piece of that action?

[JollySwagMan]

Cool, thanks for the link - already got Fallout from a similar website, but picked up Baldur's Gate, Riven (read the book but never played the game somehow) and Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura for a neat $20.

Bought NWN 2 shortly after starting DDO, and was disappointed by the excessive amount of cutscenes. Plus I enjoy the action-game control style of DDO, to which NWN2's control scheme does not compare favourably.

I'm still looking to pick up Neverwinter Nights 1 (my original copy is on another continent...still have the box though :s)

[Marupal]

Nice find. BTW the modding community for Baldur's Gate is still fairly active even after all this time. Check out Spellhold Studios under the TOC titled "Infinity Engine Mods" for some mods that are as solid as the original content. If you have BG1 &BG2 plus expansion packs you can grab "Baldur's Gate Trilogy" and combine it all into one seamless game using the BG2 engine plus some tweaks that really enhance the whole thing. Much, much more available there. You will also find links to more modding sites like Gibberlings 3, The PocketPlane Group, Chosen of Mystra and Blackwyrm Lair.

[Jiipster]

I'm still looking to pick up Neverwinter Nights 1 (my original copy is on another continent...still have the box though :s)

Those boxes have the CD keys? If so, you can download the game for free from the Bioware webpage.

[DANTEIL]

Wow! GoG.com is on a real D&D kick. they are releasing Planescape: Torment!

I was a big Baldur's Gate fan, so this is cool to see. I actually bought Planescape:Torment off of eBay and had barely started playing it last fall when I learned about DDO and F2P. DDO won out and I've been playing it ever since and Planescape is still waiting for my return. I only have so much time!

[EKKM]

Cool, thanks for the link - already got Fallout from a similar website, but picked up Baldur's Gate, Riven (read the book but never played the game somehow) and Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magick Obscura for a neat $20.

Bought NWN 2 shortly after starting DDO, and was disappointed by the excessive amount of cutscenes. Plus I enjoy the action-game control style of DDO, to which NWN2's control scheme does not compare favourably.

I'm still looking to pick up Neverwinter Nights 1 (my original copy is on another continent...still have the box though :s)

I loved NWN fairly wideopen world with all its sidequests and allowing you to more or less choose which way to complete the campaign. I did not like that I couldn't really control the companion or the fact that there was only one.

In NWN2 I loved the fact that competely controlled the entire party including levels ups, gear etc. It was more of a railroad though.

TBH, take the NWN2 engine and put it in BG and you would have the best DnD game ever. Wideopen world, lots of subquests, good combat engine and customizable characters.

[AZgreentea]

And the newest release is Icewind Dale Complete!

so if you like D&D 2nd Edition...

[Bolo_Grubb]

cool

[prng]

Wow! GoG.com is on a real D&D kick. they are releasing Planescape: Torment!

Planescape: Torment was and still is the best CRPG I have ever played. No other game I've tried has ever come close. Thank you so much for this find!

[AZgreentea]

And yet another D&D title at GOG.com. This one is a 1st ed game:
The Temple of Elemental Evil


This one was authored by Gygax. It has been ranked as the 4th greatest D&D adventure of all time. It has been called the grandfather of all huge dungeon crawls.

[honkuimushi]

And yet another D&D title at GOG.com. This one is a 1st ed game:
The Temple of Elemental Evil


This one was authored by Gygax. It has been ranked as the 4th greatest D&D adventure of all time. It has been called the grandfather of all huge dungeon crawls.

Actually, the computer game version was converted to 3.5. The original game was buggy as hell, but the modding community Co8 managed to fix it, improve it and put some deleted content back into the game. Hopefully this new release is compatable with the mods.

[biggin]

+1 for turning me onto this website. I work offshore and like to load up on some older games for the downtime. This is a goldmine of gaming fun. Looks like I'll be loading down the hard drive when I get home.