All classic D&D games in GOG for a song

[pakoito]

https://www.gog.com/promo/20171026_halloween_dd_bundle

 

[Volourn]

I'm guessing that most everyone on the Codex who wants those likely already has them.

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

I was briefly interested, but I've now learned not to buy huge stacks of games in bundles like this as all it does is make my Gog library a complete mess. From now on I'd rather buy a game for £4.99 that I'm definitely gonna play rather than buy 10 for £10 and have 9 games clogging up my library for years on end. Imagining you have a backlog is very bad for your psychology, particularly for people with a completionist mindset.

 

[eric__s]

Wow, this is a really amazing deal. Just bought like 25 classic D&D games for $11.

 

[Sacibengala]

All that I want now is siege of dragonspear.

 

[eric__s]

Well, I fell for the bait. Came for the sale, ended up getting 2 games that weren't on sale. Looks like I'm the real rube here.

 

[Sneaky Seal]

This looks great, to be honest I was too young to paly those games back in the day, started of with Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale right away.

 

[Jaesun]

This looks great, to be honest I was too young to paly those games back in the day, started of with Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale right away.

I do hope, especially someone such as you, have however played a number of these older games, because many of those older games have some exceptionally well done gaming and design mechanics that many developers aren't even aware of. You can only enrich yourself by learning some great design from them.

 

[vivec]

Got'em! Thanks, OP. You a good boi.

 

[ShaggyMoose]

In the case of the Gold Box games, you can also learn how to make a physically painful user interface...

 

[Lilura]

This looks great, to be honest I was too young to paly those games back in the day, started of with Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale right away.

You should have started off with Fallout; now, you are incurable.

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

I have a hard time getting immersed in pre Pentium era graphics, but I hear great things about many of the gold box games and even in 1997 I had friends telling me to play the first Dark Sun game whenever I’d recommend Fallout. So are they worth it for someone who’s a bit of a graphics whore (admittedly only by late ‘90s standards)? If the gameplay and the writing is good enough then I think I’d be on board, but are they?

 

[Luckmann]

You must have a great singing voice.

This looks great, to be honest I was too young to paly those games back in the day, started of with Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale right away.

You should have started off with Fallout; now, you are incurable.

Not true. I played Fallout far, far, far later than I played Baldur's Gate. Somehow, Fallout flew under my radar at the time and I never got around to playing it until much later.

 

[almondblight]

I have a hard time getting immersed in pre Pentium era graphics, but I hear great things about many of the gold box games

There's also a lot of terrible stuff about the Goldbox games, but they usually get ignored. I bounced off PoR (generally considered to be one of the top Goldbox games) after 7-10 hours. There are some good things - the turn based DnD combat could be good, there was a decent amount of content spread around (so you'll come across bandit lairs and enemy church services), and the low level adventuring was kind of fun.

On the other hand - a lot of the combat was trash combat (the initial slums area, for instance, starts with you dealing with 10-20 mindless 1 hitpoint encounters). Some of the larger battles can really drag on, when you're waiting for, say, 35 orcs to take their turn in sequence. The navigation sucks (probably the thing that turned me off the most) - you're walking around in the first person perspective through map after map of empty mazes (there's a minimap, but it doesn't show doors). There's a lot of tedious stuff - having to select all your spells again when you want to re-memorize them, having to move the coins among your adventurers to get the weight right (coins have weight), different currencies, having to jump through a bunch of different screens to change to a missile weapon, etc. The puzzles aren't interesting - stuff like finding a scrap telling you to use map #37 in the included booklet to get through the maze in the left tower at the end of the game.

I don't know - I probably would have stuck with it if it's movement was like the overland map sections, and if it had fewer trash mob fights (I heard the later games are a lot worse with trash mobs). As it is, it seemed like an OK game but not really worth of the pedestal it gets put upon. I don't remember anything it did better than, say, KotC.

 

[Dorateen]

There's also a lot of terrible stuff about the Goldbox games.

Don't believe his lies.

 

[eric__s]

There's also a lot of terrible stuff about the Goldbox games.

Don't believe his lies.

 

[IncendiaryDevice]

There's also a lot of terrible stuff about the Goldbox games.

Don't believe his lies.

Its funny because I spent 2 minutes looking at all the stats trying to work out what was so interesting and meaningful about this screenshot :D