GOG.Com is bringing back Baldurs Gate!

[JollySwagMan]

And yet another D&D title at GOG.com.
The Temple of Elemental Evil

I was just about to post this

I seem to recall an AD&D first-person version of this game (might be confusing it with..Eye of the Beholder perhaps?)

Anyway, it looks interesting...

[Tom318]

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.

Bleh, take BG's storyline, put it in the early DDO engine, add a few people who are always online and don't make you facepalm a lot, and you would have the best DnD game ever

[Tom318]

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.

Bleh, take BG/BG II's storyline, put it in the early DDO engine, add a few people who are always online and don't make you facepalm a lot, and you would have the best DnD game ever

[Marupal]

Bleh, take BG/BG II's storyline, put it in the early DDO engine, add a few people who are always online and don't make you facepalm a lot, and you would have the best DnD game ever

/agree

[Dylvish]

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

/Joygasm

System Shock to this day is in my opinion the best single player FPS ever made (remember the elevator incident? With 'girl from Iponema' playing?). Syndicate was a ton of fun for its time as well. Would love to see them just update the graphics and smooth them out a bit, then release them instead of trying for whole new builds.

[AZgreentea]

ok, now this sucks, because I still have my copy (and I think three modules I purchased online)

GOG.Com is releasing NWN Diamond Edition.

[Crazyfruit]

I played the original NWN, but thought the story was garbage & couldn't even finish it due to bad design for the last chapter.

Is the diamond one much better & worth it for the extra campaigns and fan made stuff?

[JollySwagMan]

Oddly enough, last week I received my original NWN cds in the mail .

After much scrabbling I found the box and rolled up an Evil Gnome Druid.

and then wondered where the Tumble skill was at, doh. still, the interface/non-intrusive dialogue is much more preferable to that of nwn2 for me.

[Drona]

I still have the BG packs, compete with maps and all! luv it luv it luv it!!!

[Timber]

This is great news! BG2 is my favourite game and to get to play BG is going to be awesome!

[chaos_master]

Baldur's Gate 2, my first ever non PnP RPG. Sweet sweet memories of space hamsters, trash talking swords and most importantly - lack of access to the internet, so no walkthrough spoilers! To this day, Kangaxx must be the game boss I've spent the longest time and most (non-lag related) nerves trying to kill. How disappointed I was when after a spell protected, black blade of disaster wielding, ultra geared sorceress failed to last 10 seconds, only to have my main char charge in with Slayer form and killed the demi-lich in 5 swings ...

[Grizzie]

Great find - thanks for sharing with us !!

Will mail you the funeral bill when wife finds out I will be downloading more games

[Theboz]

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.

The true Grandfather of Dungeon crawls is "The Dungeon Master" the first 3d roleplaying game on the computer 1985

Its one of my favorite games of all Time and its one of the first games into the Hall of fame for computer games.

One of the hardest of the old RPGs is " Wizardry VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant" 1992

As a series Wizardry was one of the hardest to complete. my favorite was "Bane of the cosmic Forge" still play form time to time

[LeslieWest_GuitarGod]

Minsc and Boo approve!!

[LeslieWest_GuitarGod]

The true Grandfather of Dungeon crawls is "The Dungeon Master" the first 3d roleplaying game on the computer 1985

R E T R O

You did NOT just bring up Dungeon Master. I spent many hundreds of hours as a kid playing that on my Commodore Amiga computer!!!! +1 rep and wish I could give more!





Wobbling on stubby quadrupedal legs like an Imperial beetle bot, the Amiga Walker was Commodore's last ditch attempt at popularizing their flagging line of personal computers before pulling them off the market. Many of the Walker's features — a fun, mainstream, internet-ready computer with a unique design — were later applied with great success by companies like Apple:

An innovative feature that folks seem to have forgotten about was that the top section of the Walker was designed to lift off, so an end user could easily sandwich in hardware expansion modules for things like hard drives, advanced graphics boards, and whatever other magic the Amiga's vibrant 3rd party community could dream up. Fun computing and easy end-user experience weren't mainstream ideas in 1996. Only a few years later these ideas wouldn't seem so ridiculous when Apple launched the first iMac. The Mac Mini also has some of the Walker spirit in that many of its hardware accessories are available in the same miniature case style and footprint, so you can stack up components on your desk in a neat and compact package. It's a shame that while Mac's design departures earn Apple magazine covers and financial rewards, it seems that the history of the Walker will forever be relegated to the trashcan that people said it resembled.

But the point is, I was playing Dungeon Master on a multitasking Commodore Amiga in 1988, years before Bill Gates had a clue how to sell a computer, non the less a multitasking one!!

[Theboz]

R E T R O

You did NOT just bring up Dungeon Master. I spent many hundreds of hours as a kid playing that on my Commodore Amiga computer!!!! +1 rep and wish I could give more!





Wobbling on stubby quadrupedal legs like an Imperial beetle bot, the Amiga Walker was Commodore's last ditch attempt at popularizing their flagging line of personal computers before pulling them off the market. Many of the Walker's features — a fun, mainstream, internet-ready computer with a unique design — were later applied with great success by companies like Apple:

An innovative feature that folks seem to have forgotten about was that the top section of the Walker was designed to lift off, so an end user could easily sandwich in hardware expansion modules for things like hard drives, advanced graphics boards, and whatever other magic the Amiga's vibrant 3rd party community could dream up. Fun computing and easy end-user experience weren't mainstream ideas in 1996. Only a few years later these ideas wouldn't seem so ridiculous when Apple launched the first iMac. The Mac Mini also has some of the Walker spirit in that many of its hardware accessories are available in the same miniature case style and footprint, so you can stack up components on your desk in a neat and compact package. It's a shame that while Mac's design departures earn Apple magazine covers and financial rewards, it seems that the history of the Walker will forever be relegated to the trashcan that people said it resembled.

But the point is, I was playing Dungeon Master on a multitasking Commodore Amiga in 1988, years before Bill Gates had a clue how to sell a computer, non the less a multitasking one!!

my first real computer was the Amiga 500 computer, way ahead of its time when it came out. To bad comadore did not marketed it very well. It had a windows(kickstart) like operating system before Windows. They used Amiga computers for Babylon 5 tv show]

I played and still play DM on a java platform now, along with Chaos strikes back.

My favorite games were
Shadow of the Beast-some of the best composed music I have ever heard in any game, ever. And to make it even better it some of the best graphics, that even look good now.

Faery tale(1987)- The game's gameplay resembles this of Ultima VII (1992). At the time of its release the game featured the largest game world yet (over 17,000 computer screens) with no loadings

Phantasie-RPG

Eye of the beholder and sequels-very similiar to DM but had better game play and story

Another world

[LeslieWest_GuitarGod]

I played and still play DM on a java platform now, along with Chaos strikes back.

My favorite games were
Shadow of the Beast-some of the best composed music I have ever heard in any game, ever. And to make it even better it some of the best graphics, that even look good now.

Faery tale(1987)- The game's gameplay resembles this of Ultima VII (1992). At the time of its release the game featured the largest game world yet (over 17,000 computer screens) with no loadings

Phantasie-RPG

Eye of the beholder and sequels-very similiar to DM but had better game play and story

Another world

Impressive list of games. My first computer was a Commodore 64. Graduated to a 128, then an Amiga 500. I played the gold box SSI Greymoon series. Pool of Radiance, Dark Queen of Krynn, Curse of Asure Bonds.

Played some others: Bard's Tale, Menace (Sci-fi shootem up by Psygnosis), Earl Weaver Baseball by Electronic Arts, Kings Quest series, Maniac Mansion, the great Defender of the Crown which set the gold standard for ALL game graphics that followed it for years, Shadow of the Beast, Bop N Wrestle, Paperboy, Gauntlet.

Daymed it! who got me on this nostalgia kick anyway!?

[fluffi]

Dungeon Master - when you were sleeping and then getting suddenly woken up by then stupid purple worms.

Prince of Persia for the animation which was followed by Another world (great story) then the sequel flashback??

Halequin for platforms as it was such fun an HUGE.

Then the eye of beholder... power leveling the group from 1 respawn point when eye 2 was released.

Total downside was the crashing while swapping disks.. bye bye save.

Good times, but I'm not going back

[Chunkyal]

For those of you looking for System Shock and System Shock 2, they can be downloaded for free (and legally):
http://www.dosgamesonline.com/index/...m_Shock_2.html
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/24...tem+Shock.html

Hope this helps...

[Murricath]

All this talk has given me the wanting to play Baldurs gate 2 again. This time however i've downloaded a program called Tunngle, I will be playing it over a virtual LAN on the internet. Now I just have to convince a bunch of my friends that "old games are still cool, even without the fancy graphics".