
The Forgotten Realm Archives - Collection Two brings a healthy mix of “Gold Box” and nostalgia goodness to your PC, along with a combination of adventure builders, turn-based and real-time role-playing gameplay.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0.71/day in the week to Sep 7 → 0/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
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A classic!
Nostalgia It is so great to visit my childhood games. It is even better to see that my memories of them were justified. Sure games have progressed a LOT since the 80's but Pool of Radiance is awesome even today.
just for the fun of old school gaming but D&D in paper form .
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One of the first games I ever played and I still come back to it...I'm old but its still fun.
still great
u need a full keyboard to play this gem
It scratches an itch. Truly, the Gold Box games were great turn-based tactical fun. But sadly, the UI is littered with anti-patterns that were common at the time. You have to get into that mode and accept the awkwardness of the UI to have fun bouncing lightning bolts off stone walls. There is some truly great game design in these games. Admittedly, Pool of Radiance is the best.
Forgotten Realms Collection Vol.2 includes a bunch of the classic goldbox RPGs from the late 80s and early 90s. I played through the Pool of Radiance series which includes four games up until Pools of Darkness. These games use 1st edition AD&D rules so if you're unfamiliar with this edition of D&D, there is a bit of a learning curve to learn the rules. If you are familiar with 2nd edition from later D&D games, then it should be pretty easy to get the hang of 1st edition. [u]Comparing The Tetralogy:[/u] Pool of Radiance has a surprisingly large world to explore. In addition to the town of Phlan and its surrounding city districts, you have an entire wilderness environment to explore. This area is full of its own locations that you can find which are hidden until you actually get close enough to discover it. The world of Pool of Radiance is set in the Moonsea region of Faerun. The surrounding areas of Phlan span from Zhentil Keep to the West, to the Dragonspine Mountains in the North, and all the way to the Galena Mountains to the East. Pool of Radiance was definitely an ambitious game for its time. The later games in the series however, did scale things back compared to Pool. Curse of The Azure Bonds still has an open wilderness to explore, once you leave the starting town by traveling through the sewers, but it’s not quite as big or non linear as Pool was. The world has more of a structure however, with a clear path that circles around the perimeter of the map. Following this road will naturally lead you to each location. Many of these are just basic menu towns that all look the same, but sometimes they have an optional dungeon on the outskirts that you can explore if you wish. Secret of The Silver Blades ditches the overworld map and instead connects its main locations within a massive cavern that must be traversed. It is not quite as tedious as it could have been thanks to the convenient teleport system which connects all locations in one area surrounding the well of knowledge. Pools of Darkness has a much grander scale, even more so than Pool of Radiance. You have practically the entire Moonsea region to explore with additional realms that you visit by use of the various “pools” that you come across. These pools take you to new realms where you have even more to explore such as Kaliste’s realm which is home of the Drow and Moander’s realm which is the god of Moander himself. Pools of Darkness also has the highest level cap, reaching up to level 40. I may be mistaken, but I believe that's the highest level of any D&D CRPG ever. Pools of Darkness is definitely the biggest and most ambitious of the series, but it's not without its own fair share of problems. A quick run down of them being; lacking good gear to acquire over the course of the game, due to the limitations of 1st edition there isn’t much of a feeling of progression in your characters once you reach past level 20. [u]Conclusion and Tips:[/u] These games may be tough, but try to not let a bit of a learning curve and old fashioned AD&D rules scare you away. You have to realize that playing these older RPGs requires patience and learning. If you expect the game to be easy right away just because you played Baldur’s Gate or Dragon Age, think again. The goldbox companion app, which is included in this re-release, can help alleviate some of the old mechanics. It provides some quality of life features such as an automap which you can annotate as you go, the ability to level up immediately without needing to visit a trainer, automatically identify magic items, automatically heal and cure negative status effects for all party members, and more if you download the complete version on the website. Some of these features kind of trivialize aspects of the game and straight up feel like cheating, but don’t be afraid to use some of these features as a last resort. It’s better than giving up on the game entirely.
This was a great ride (despite missing out on a small piece of the story because of a bug I encountered late game) and I'm glad I finally played Pool of Radiance. Took me 52 hours, and I did resort to the cluebook here and there. The automapper also helped of course, that definitely shaved off a chunk of hours which I would have otherwise spent traversing in the wrong direction. Other than the archaic inventory management, not much to complain on, and I'm not considering the fact this is 38 years old. It holds up very well IMO. I'll eventually get around to COTAB and would also like to try the Krynn games.
great game's they take time to play i love it
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