They went and did it, republishing the SSI Gold Box games, including Forgotten Realms Unlimited Adventures! It seems to be missing at least one SSI D&D game, though, like Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse, but maybe that's not considered a "gold box" game? They have Menzoberranzan and the Eye of the Beholder games, though, so why wouldn't it be?
Anyway, they put them in 3 collections, and their collection 2 has the best of the bunch in my opinion.
I replayed some of those a few years back when I was in a retro gaming mood. They proved a lot less fun than they once did. I suppose I've been spoiled by modern gaming technology. Some of them would be nice to have ported to NWN2 though (as per PoRR).
I just tried them out a couple of years ago, and I quite liked Gateway to the Savage Frontier. Porting them would lose the turn-based nature, which is a fundamental reason for me to play them.
I just tried them out a couple of years ago, and I quite liked Gateway to the Savage Frontier. Porting them would lose the turn-based nature, which is a fundamental reason for me to play them.
I've seen the mod. It doesn't look like it would be fun at all to play a turn-based mod with that as its basis. Movement and combat is done through conversations, which is a bit more awkward than the Gold Box's arrow keys.
I still have several of these on a CD,
4 from the Pools/Bonds/Blades series.
3 from Krynn series.
2 from Frontier series.
Problem is I last tried them on Vista, they went way too fast to keep track of anything.
Well, the GOG versions run them through DOSbox, which emulates the older computers' clock speeds so they should run at the right speed. But DOSbox is free, so you could just set your existing copies up to run through DOSbox.
I've played some of those GoldBox games using D-Fend Reloaded, which is a graphical front end for DOSbox. It doesn't play precisely like the original, but in most cases it's good enough.
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