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Hakkesshu posted:It's too bad we'll probably never get the best version of EotB, which was on the SegaCD with a soundtrack by Yuzo Koshiro Wow, that's the version I played (and loved to hell) back in the day. Are you telling me the PC one doesn't have (good) music? Because, dang, can't imagine exploring those floors without it.
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I am so happy that the Gold Box games are finally on GOG.
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Huh, I thought this sounded familiar - I have the Forgotten Realms D&D Silver Archives thing on CDROM, and Menzoberranzan and Dungeon Hack were included with the Gold Box games in that set. Guess they had to negotiate separately for those.
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Saoshyant posted:Wow, that's the version I played (and loved to hell) back in the day. Are you telling me the PC one doesn't have (good) music? Because, dang, can't imagine exploring those floors without it. Nah, IIRC the PC version doesn't have any music, so you could theoretically have this track running in the background and achieve the same effect.
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Aug 20, 2015 16:01
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I laughed way too hard at that screenshot for the EotB collection that features "imaqtpie" the warrior. Edit: Haha, I just noticed the "Fat Lb" too. Whoever took that screenshot must be into League of Legends. Mierenneuker fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Aug 20, 2015 |
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Aug 20, 2015 16:09
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If they bring out ravenloft and dragonlance packs I can die a happy man. Are there any classic rpg titles left I am missing?
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Eulisker posted:If they bring out ravenloft and dragonlance packs I can die a happy man. The Magic Candle series and generally everything by Mindcraft.
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Eulisker posted:If they bring out ravenloft and dragonlance packs I can die a happy man. The Dark Sun games. Technically I think they aren't part of the Gold Box collection even if they're made on the same (or at least a similar) engine. I think they made a Spelljammer game in that same vein, too. Also Al-Qadim
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Aug 20, 2015 16:29
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There is also a game from the same era called Prophecy of the Shadow we may see soon if they've secured all these. Plus Spelljammer. Also, the Mega Traveler and Battletech games have never been rereleased anywhere, right?
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Aug 20, 2015 16:35
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There's also two Buck Rogers gold box games. As far as non-SSI games go, I have fond memories of Planet's Edge (although I really don't know how that would hold up today).
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BadAstronaut posted:There is also a game from the same era called Prophecy of the Shadow we may see soon if they've secured all these. Plus Spelljammer. The Battletech ones are in license hell (though probably not as bad as NOLF) - Half were Activision (now Activision-Blizzard) and half were Microprose (which went to Infogrames/Atari via Hasbro, then sold to Legacy Engineering, then to someone called Cybergun). All were licensed from FASA (which shut down in 2001, properties sold to WizKids, who are owned by Topps; the licenses were subcontracted out to FanPro and then Catalyst Game Labs) but most of the non-board games were done through FASA Interactive (which was bought by Microsoft, shut down and the IPs sold off to Smith & Tinker, who sold it to Piranha Games). Sony might be involved as well (MW3 was by Zipper Interactive, one of theirs). Oh, and Electronic Arts, since the Crescent Hawk games were by Westwood.
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Tempest_56 posted:The Battletech ones are in license hell (though probably not as bad as NOLF) - Half were Activision (now Activision-Blizzard) and half were Microprose (which went to Infogrames/Atari via Hasbro, then sold to Legacy Engineering, then to someone called Cybergun). All were licensed from FASA (which shut down in 2001, properties sold to WizKids, who are owned by Topps; the licenses were subcontracted out to FanPro and then Catalyst Game Labs) but most of the non-board games were done through FASA Interactive (which was bought by Microsoft, shut down and the IPs sold off to Smith & Tinker, who sold it to Piranha Games). Sony might be involved as well (MW3 was by Zipper Interactive, one of theirs). Oh, and Electronic Arts, since the Crescent Hawk games were by Westwood. Jesus. Are you an IP lawyer? How would you keep track of all that mess?
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Doesn't Harmony Gold also own some of the mech designs as well?
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Bruteman posted:Huh, I thought this sounded familiar - I have the Forgotten Realms D&D Silver Archives thing on CDROM, and Menzoberranzan and Dungeon Hack were included with the Gold Box games in that set. Guess they had to negotiate separately for those. I basically have the physical collection that had all of these games in it. It was a small foldable series of silvery cardboard pouches, and I believe that it was just called "Forgotten Realms Archives". I looked at 13 games that came out today and they are the exact ones - no more, no less - that came in that collection, which can't be a coincidence. Now I really want to see the other two games in the Menzoberranzan collection (Strahd's Possession and Stone Prophet) as well as the three Dragonlance games in the Gold Box engine, not to mention all of the other ones mentioned in the last page or so.
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I wish they released HeroQuest (1989) on GOG with all the expansions and ready to play. You can get it as "abandonware" or "freeware" but GOG Galaxy support and some goodies would own. Is there anything like that on GOG? Something really close to a tabletop game.
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Aug 20, 2015 19:19
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Oh hey, Eye of the Beholder. I remember playing the SNES version. Still have nightmares about those spiders.
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Guillermus posted:I wish they released HeroQuest (1989) on GOG with all the expansions and ready to play. You can get it as "abandonware" or "freeware" but GOG Galaxy support and some goodies would own. Is there anything like that on GOG? Something really close to a tabletop game. Could you link a screenshot or two of that? I'm not 100% sure to which game you are referring.
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Cemetry Gator posted:Doesn't Harmony Gold also own some of the mech designs as well? Just the ones that are stolen from animes.
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First: Does this include all the Gold Box games, or are any missing? Second: I thought those games were tangled up in rights issues because Atari holds sole publishing rights to D&D until 2017 unless they renew them. Edit: Apparently, the rights to Buck Rogers are owned by an individual - Lorraine Williams, former owner of TSR, Inc. RadicalR posted:Alright, sell me on this series. What makes it so good? The Cartmanland effect. Years of unavailability and apparent rights issues made them look better and better over time. THeir actual quality, which I cannot speak for, became irrelevant. BiggerJ fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Aug 21, 2015 |
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Aug 21, 2015 02:38
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BiggerJ posted:First: Does this include all the Gold Box games, or are any missing? It's missing the Dragonlance games and a couple of non-D&D games.
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Luigi Thirty posted:Just the ones that are stolen from animes. That will probably be enough to keep the game from seeing the digital light of day then, with how much of a stranglehold Harmony has on Macross over here.
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http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Unseen Yeah, your favorite '90s mechs? They're all stolen from Macross so good luck releasing those games ever. Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Aug 21, 2015 |
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Aug 21, 2015 02:53
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Testekill posted:It's missing the Dragonlance games and a couple of non-D&D games. Dragonlance was a different setting to Forgotten Realms so there might still be hope for it, and for the later Dark Sun and Ravenloft games. Here's a list of SSI wishlist links.
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BiggerJ posted:Dragonlance was a different setting to Forgotten Realms so there might still be hope for it, and for the later Dark Sun and Ravenloft games. Yeah, it looks like this might be in waves or they were just able to get the rights to the Forgotten Realms games.
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Testekill posted:Yeah, it looks like this might be in waves or they were just able to get the rights to the Forgotten Realms games. If Wizards of the Coast only let them have one setting and not trhe others then that's insane. Also, a GOG.com team member hinted that that's not the case.
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BiggerJ posted:If Wizards of the Coast only let them have one setting and not trhe others then that's insane. Also, a GOG.com team member hinted that that's not the case. Based on what that one staff member said, it sounds like they're releasing them in waves instead of being one gigantic release.
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Luigi Thirty posted:http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Unseen It's also what got Mechwarrior V strangled in the crib, because some idiot used one of the forbidden designs in the trailer. And in came Harmony Gold with their favourite toy - Lawyers.
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I'm just so glad the Gold Box games are out there where you can buy them legitimately. So many dodgy copies floating around out there. Only just finished Curse of the Azure Bonds for the first time ever the other day. That last dungeon/area was a load of bullshit let me tell you.
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JustJeff88 posted:Could you link a screenshot or two of that? I'm not 100% sure to which game you are referring. This one: http://postimg.org/image/4bramc6z9/ (sorry for the lovely image uploader but imgurl and others aren't accesible due to the office's firewall) Edit: looks like I was wrong, the one I linked you (1989) is the tabletop, I was refering to the 1991 by Gremlim Interactive one shown first on this site http://www.heroquest.es/index.php?topic=7984.0 Guillermus fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Aug 21, 2015 |
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MysticalMachineGun posted:I'm just so glad the Gold Box games are out there where you can buy them legitimately. So many dodgy copies floating around out there. I've already bought the second pack. I never played Treasures of the Savage Frontier, any of the pool of radiance games past the original and I haven't even had a chance to try out Hillsfar. My dad used to have Unlimited Adventures, the first two Eye of the Beholder games and a couple of the gold box rpgs so this is a massive blast of nostalgia for me since I grew up playing the ones he had.
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BiggerJ posted:The Cartmanland effect. Years of unavailability and apparent rights issues made them look better and better over time. THeir actual quality, which I cannot speak for, became irrelevant. I mean not really. They were THE D&D games before Baldur's Gate came out, they aren't being built up into something more than that. They were good adaptations of the license using the tech that was around at the time, and they probably still play well outside of general UI stuff which can always be hard to go back to.
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Hakkesshu posted:I mean not really. They were THE D&D games before Baldur's Gate came out, they aren't being built up into something more than that. They were good adaptations of the license using the tech that was around at the time, and they probably still play well outside of general UI stuff which can always be hard to go back to. There is this mod/tool that looks helpful: http://personal.inet.fi/koti/jhirvonen/gbc/
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Guillermus posted:This one: I actually had both of those in my head. The 1991 one I did not play, but I remember it. The '89 one, I remember trying it and, as I recall, I found out that it was an adaptation that was not a complete game, and buggy as hell? If the full game from '89 is out there, I'd love to know about it. HeroQuest was the type of board game that adapts very well to a video game. Testekill posted:Based on what that one staff member said, it sounds like they're releasing them in waves instead of being one gigantic release. I read that link; nice tease. This made me very happy, with Ravenloft being not-mentioned specifically as Strahd's Possession, Menzoberranzan, and Stone Prophet are personal favourites of mine that I feel hold up well even today.
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Hakkesshu posted:The Dark Sun games. Technically I think they aren't part of the Gold Box collection even if they're made on the same (or at least a similar) engine. I think they made a Spelljammer game in that same vein, too. Also Al-Qadim The Ravenloft games (especially Strahd's Possession, the other one less so) had the best atmosphere ever. The Spelljammer game was awesome but I don't believe it was even the same engine as the Gold Box games.
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saucerman posted:There is this mod/tool that looks helpful: Wow, thanks. I might actually be able to tolerate Pool of Radiance again.
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MysticalMachineGun posted:I'm just so glad the Gold Box games are out there where you can buy them legitimately. So many dodgy copies floating around out there.
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Saoshyant posted:Jesus. Are you an IP lawyer? How would you keep track of all that mess? I keep track because I'm a slightly obsessive twenty-plus year BT fan. But yeah, any one of the games being released is tough because some or all of the IP/code could be in the hands of three to eight different entities, half of which don't exist anymore and the others may not even be aware that they own it. There is hope, though - MechCommander was released into the wild as freeware by Microsoft a couple of years ago. Cemetry Gator posted:Doesn't Harmony Gold also own some of the mech designs as well? Yep. As Luigi Thirty notes, there's the Unseen - most of the original mechs had their artwork taken from anime of the time. (Stolen isn't the right word - it's a complicated issue where there was confusion about who had the right to license use overseas, but it isn't worth going into in depth here.) This mostly affects Mechwarrior 1 and the Crescent Hawk games, since the court case was resolved in 1994, prior to the release of Mechwarrior 2. Later games don't use the Unseen, so it's a non-issue.
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Daler Mehndi posted:Somehow I don't remember the last area very well. I thought it was the battle featuring Bits of Moander, but apparently not. I remember an optional area that led to an encounter featuring a ton of beholders. That, too, was bullshit. Both times I heavily abused the cloud spells. It's the Mulmaster Beholder Corps, I think in Zentil Keep? It's been a long, long time since I've played Curse. The cheesiest way to beat it is to use the Dust of Disappearance just before you go through the secret door. Nothing attacks you, since the invisibility doesn't go away when you attack or cast a spell.
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Is there a mega mod/module pack or something for neverwinter nights 1?
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