Thread 11971347

zoomer here, which ones are the good ones?

millennial here
played Pool of Radiance and Azure Bonds with Gold Box Companion
It was alright

>>11971347 (OP)
skip hillsfar if it's in the pack

pool of radiance is a special game, but you can play the rest of the forgotten realms ones if it doesn't feel like enough (curse of the azure bonds, secret of the silver blades, and pools of darkness)

the first dragonlance game is fucking terrible (champions of krynn) but the rest are good.

savage frontier games were later and made by the developer that would end up making the original America Online neverwinter nights MMORPG. I played them many years after the others and have no memory of them but they're probably fine.

eye of the beholder 1-2 are great Dungeon Master clones with AD&D rules. You could also just play Lands of Lore 1.

Al-Qadim is a bad legend of zelda thing IIRC. Just not enough frames of animation and such.

The first Dark Sun game is pretty good. The second one was terrible. I've never played the later SSI stuff they stick in these collections like the Ravenloft games.

>Alright you old fat fucks
Sadly this retarded board is 99% zoomer /v/ermin nowadays

>>11971414
Gen 6 is totally retro guys. There's no problem with letting it and letting the entry for PC games to be so broad that it also leaks into gen 7, guys.

they're not that good, especially the Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms stuff. Shitty, sloppy, overrated settings.

>>11971404
Champions of Krynn, man. That game actually demands fully maxxed out stats, or at least completely min maxed ones. Failure to roll at least two 18's per character is treated as contemptible proof of a character's pesant non-hero status.

>>11971347 (OP)
There are good ones??

Pool of Radiance series:
Pool of Radiance - 9/10. I've played this game twice and will play it again. The low level actually helps the game massively as resources are very scarce.
Curse of the Azure Bonds - 6/10. I got really annoyed by the save or die in this game. It felt like you had to alpha strike every encounter or it was over. This is annoying because this requires slinging a lot of spells and thus resource management is very tight. I could have just been doing it wrong and I'll give this one another go as well.
Secret of the Silver Blades - 7.5/10. A lot less bullshit than Curse, but also kind of dull. You must bring graph paper for this one because although it uses the same square map as the others, it cleverly seamlessly teleports you around it to give the impression of long passages. So the auto mapper essentially does not work.
Pool of Darkness - haven't beaten. I got really annoyed in the Dark Elf area and gave up. I'll come back later. Appreciate the VGA graphics though.
This is based on recent-ish play. I did have access to these games when I was a kid on a CD with every D&D game, but I thought they were old and busted then and never got past character creation.

Misc games:
Shattered Lands - 9/10. Only downside of this one is the length. It is like 5 hours long. Great graphics, captures the Dark Sun setting perfectly, good replay value.
Wake of the Ravager - 4/10. Yuck. Hideous graphics. Captures the Dark Sun setting poorly. Terrible VA.
Strahd's Possesion - 8/10. Very cool cross between adventure game and dungeon crawler. Excellent mood, cool puzzles. The corpse golem things you fight later are kind of bullshit though, not sure what the intended strategy is. Also there's pixel hunting.
Stone Prophet - 9/10. Same concept as previously except in Egypt and now with high res graphics. Hidden passages are now logical and don't require pixel hunting.
I have the Dragonlance games on my radar, and will get to them some day.

>>11971347 (OP)
All of them, except Unlimited Adventures, which is just a toolkit. The Savage Frontier games are also kind of meh.

>>11971404
>>11971535
I have no idea what these cock-smokers are talking about, Champions of Krynn is GOAT. It was the game that signaled that 2 more games afterwards would be made it was so successful.

Overall, the Gold Box games were the PC's answer to the JRPG phenomenon going on on consoles at the time. While not directly competing or inspired by them, relatively speaking, they were hugely influential in the PC-gaming sphere, and filled the same cultural role as them, as they were lacking on said PC platforms of the time, outside of Japan at least.

>>11973002
And then there's this obviously oblivious retard who just wandered into the thread off the street.

>>11973041
And when I say "as they were lacking on said PC platforms of the time", I'm referring to JRPG's.

>>11971404
>the first dragonlance game is fucking terrible (champions of krynn) but the rest are good.

Boy you have no idea how much that depressed me as a kid. Loved those books. When I saw there was a game I damn near lost my shit. And it was terrible. It was one of the first times I ever realized how bad a game could be.

>>11971347 (OP)
Pool of Radiance is pretty good, eye of the beholder too

>>11973108
Why are you samefagging yourself, LARP'ing as a boomer, trying to push this bizarre narrative? It was a commercial and critical success.

>>11973507
>critical and commercial success
NTA, but I don't recall either of those things happening. I do recall people saying the Gold Box series was all downhill after the first one and to get EotB instead.

>>11973523
>I don't recall either of those things happening
Of course not, because you're just making shit up. It sold around the same amount that the first Eye of the Beholder sold. Even Scorpia, who was known for scathing reviews, called it a pretty good game, and she would probably have a much better eye for quality RPG's than you do.

>>11973539
>it sold around the same as eye of the beholder
Yet I didn't know anybody who bought that game and was angry and disappointed, and can't say the same for Champions.
The Dragonlance name sold a lot of copies, I'm sure.

>>11973548
>that thicc manual
Buckets of cum.

dungeonhack is my goat
>>11972969
these too

>>11973548
I won't even look up what it goes for because my day just started and I don't want to ruin it so early

>>11973041
There was no JRPG phenomenon yet in 1988. Even in 1989 when Dragon Warrior came out non-Japs hardly gave a shit, and Final Fantasy 1 didn't get localized until 1990. Gold Box was just about delivering CRPGs to AD&D tabletop fans.

>>11973870
90% of the game text was offloaded into it, presumably to save space for smaller program sizes for the games that were originally on floppies. Got that set when I was a kid and honestly just spent more time reading that than actually playing most of those games.

Loved me some Eye of the Beholder though and even somehow beat Menzoberranzan.

>>11973507
You got brain problems

>>11973041
>All of them, except Unlimited Adventures, which is just a toolkit. The Savage Frontier games are also kind of meh.
It has a campaign.

>>11971347 (OP)
Play them all or don't touch any of them with your zoomer filth. If we had to suffer through Hillsfar, so can you.

>>11975473
Hillsfar was a gem compared to Heroes of the Lance, make them play that shit