Gold Box SSI's Gold Box Series Thread

[HobGoblin42]

What's different about V1.3?

So far, I noticed, v1.3 doesn't have the classic MIDI title music.

 

[Jack Dandy]

Oh. Isn't having less music bad, though?

 

[Morblot]

PoR even includes someone's saved games :D

 

[HobGoblin42]

PoR even includes someone's saved games :D

Nope, that's the default party of the original PoR Save Game Disk

 

[Morblot]

Nope, that's the default party of the original PoR Save Game Disk

Oh, all right. I don't think the abandonware version I played before had those.

Now I'm torn between finishing my replay of BG2 and replaying PoR

 

[Infinitron]

Isn't that the box art for Bad Pools of Radiance

Step up your GIS game Gog

JudasIscariot

Also, release the bad Pool of Radiance for completeness sake. And Descent to Undermountain.

 

[rohand]

Incre-fucking-dible!

And I just realized I own every single one of those in this weekend DnD promo.

 

[Inspectah]

Holy shit it actually happened

 

[AbounI]

Why don't they sell the 3 Krynn titles (Champions, Death Knights & Dark Queen )?

 

[octavius]

Why don't they sell the 3 Krynn titles (Champions, Death Knights & Dark Queen )?

Dragonlance is owned by Weisman&Hicks, I think.
It was not part of the Forgotttrn Realms Archives in the first place either. And besides they are not even set in the FR.

 

[Goblino]

As cool as it is to see these games revived on the market, isn't 25 bucks a bit much for it all?

 

[Dorateen]

As cool as it is to see these games revived on the market, isn't 25 bucks a bit much for it all?

No.

 

[rohand]

As cool as it is to see these games revived on the market, isn't 25 bucks a bit much for it all?

The amount of playtime in these packs is absurd. 25 bucks will keep you (finely) occupied with turn-based goodness for a looooong time.

 

[Deuce Traveler]

The amount of playtime in these packs is absurd. 25 bucks will keep you (finely) occupied with turn-based goodness for a looooong time.

If I could make a suggestion, however, I would really recommend the Forgotten Realms Archives: Collection II. It only costs $10, and it has the Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades and Pools of Darkness quadrology along with the two Savage Frontier games and most of all the FR Unlimited Adventures kit where you can load and play tons of classic D&D modules made by fans. FRUA with the classic D&D fan modules will probably allow you to play hundreds of quality CRPGing by itself, and the quadrology is one of the most beloved CRPG series of all time. You really can't beat this deal for $10, in case you were too intimidated to attempt to play it when it was abandonware and you had to navigate through DOSBox and cracked versions of the game (of course, I wasn't ... ) .

 

[GarfunkeL]

But I have all those games already...

 

[Goblino]

My point is that nobody who knows about these already would feel too compelled to pay for them, and nobody new to gold box is going to pay money when these are literally some of the easiest games to get for free.

I should also mention that I'm not questioning their inherent value as far as quality and playtime.

 

[rohand]

GOG does a kind of good job in advertising old games in a "modern" way in their pages, so they may be able to pull off good sales for those packs.

But yeah, I share some of the price vs public willingness to buy it concern you have, but probably all that Digital Premiere stuff advertised in big banners will help - worst case upcoming dnd promos will help solidify their sales.

 

[GarfunkeL]

Considering how well the Shithanced editions sold, the fact that you can just click and play instead of fiddling with dosbox or mods or torrents is a big draw to a lot of people.

 

[mondblut]

Considering how well the Shithanced editions sold, the fact that you can just click and play instead of fiddling with dosbox or mods or torrents is a big draw to a lot of people.

BG and shit were overhyped as fuck. The 1997 newfags spammed the entire internets with "GOTY best gaem evar would buy every year" for a decade and half. Being "spiritual predecessors" to dragon age also didn't harm the sales.

These, OTOH, are only known to a hundred of old farts like ourselves, and we have already played them to death and are generally not inclined to suddenly pay some random guy for the privelege of doing it again.

 

[Mortmal]

These, OTOH, are only known to a hundred of old farts like ourselves, and we have already played them to death and are generally not inclined to suddenly pay some random guy for the privelege of doing it again.

Seems a few are, every time gog sells any classic title widely available , theres still people on the codex thread brofisting everything , happy to rebuy the same shit , they are beyond salvation.
It shows also those gold box games are not so complex deep and strategical as people remembers them to be as they can enjoy those just fine but "fiddling" with dosbox, is considered too hard .
Thats what cleve was talking about, manboons.

 

[octavius]

Dragonlance is owned by Weisman&Hicks, I think.

Seems I thought wrongly.

 

[Agesilaus]

I'm getting volume 2; back in the day I only played the Krynn series, so I am happy to see this.

I hate blobber combat, so screw volumes 1 and 3.

Anyone tried playing these on an android tablet? I'm going to be traveling until the end of September, so I'm going to load them on to my nexus 10.

 

[Joined on the 4th of July]

Does anyone play these without maxing out all the stats at character creation? I looked at couple of let's plays on youtube and they all seemed to have only 'everything 18' characters.

 

[octavius]

Does anyone play these without maxing out all the stats at character creation? I looked at couple of let's plays on youtube and they all seemed to have only 'everything 18' characters.

Not just max stats, but they also save scum to get max HP, and probably duplicate items as well, judging by the AC of some characters I've seen.
Personally I think that takes the challenge out of the games, but unfortunately the only game to punish you max-maxing is PoR, in which you'll meet larger groups of enemies.
But YouTubers are rarely experts in my experience; for example I watched a Let's Play by DOSBoxMom (cool nic, BTW) and it was painful to watch her move a character and then use the Aim command to attack, instead of just using the much quicker regular movement.

 

[Inspectah]

unfortunately the only game to punish you max-maxing is PoR, in which you'll meet larger groups of enemies

What makes that happen, getting above normal stats?