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Posted February 14, 2014
Complete your collection of D&D games on GOG.com up to 80% off!

By popular demand, one of the highest value offer on GOG.com makes a comeback on Valentine's Day, because we love you, and we know you love D&D! In the [url=http://www.gog.com/promo/hasbro_weekend_promo_140214]Destination: Dungeons and Dragons promo you will find the following titles: Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate 2, Icewind Dale, Icewind Dale 2, Planescape: Torment, Dragonshard, Neverwinter Nights, Neverwinter Nights 2, Temple of Elemental Evil, and Demon Stone--all of them DRM-free, complete with the expansions, and delivered with a generous selection of bonus goodies. All that, with up to 80% discount. That mean getting your hands on the entire collection of ten classic Dungeons and Dragons games on GOG.com will cost you only $21.10. Let's have a little taste of what you'll be getting, shall we?

Neverwinter Nights 2: Complete revisits many of the iconic locations known from previous D&D computer RPGs, and adds even more--all in a beautifully rendered environment. The game has been praised for faithfully executing the D&D 3.5 ruleset, delivering a captivating story and vivid characters, and vastly improving the visuals in comparison to its predecessor. With four full campaigns and adventure sets to embark upon, a set of tools to create your own adventures, and fully patched and ready to go, this is the version you just can't afford to miss, especially when it can be your's for as little as $3.99!

Planescape: Torment is another one of those games that every RPG player needs to have on his or her shelf. Winner of multiple RPG and Game of the Year awards in 1999, it is widely considered as one of the best storytelling RPGs in gaming history. With a gentler gameplay difficulty than some of the other AD&D-licensed games Planescape: Torment makes an excellent entry into the Hasbro D&D games for someone who’s new to the genre, especially with a price as low as $1.99!

Destination: Dungeons and Dragons is a stacking promo, and the discount begins at 40% when you're getting a single game, and ends at 80% when you get them all. As usual, the games you already own on GOG.com count towards the discount rate. The promo lasts until Tuesday, February 18, 4:59AM GMT GMT. Tell your loved ones friends who also enjoy Dungeons and Dragons and spread the classic cRPG love across the Internet on the Valentine's Day!
Posted February 14, 2014
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NoNewTaleToTell: I'm a big fan of Troika Games' games, mostly because of Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines, and how they handle dialogue in general. Is the dialogue system in Temple Of Elemental Evil similar to Troika Games' other games?
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VanishedOne: I don't think anyone plays ToEE for the dialogue, though it has some nice moments. (Well, the named characters' dialogue trees do. Nameless bystanders talk like exiles from an 8-bit JRPG.)

Edit: in fact, here it is from Tim Cain himself:

My goal was to recreate the Temple of Elemental Evil module in a 3.5 game engine, and at that, I think we succeeded. But I like I said, I wish we had created our own source material. The engine was so good, and I think we re-created the 3.5 rules and tabletop experience very faithfully. That was not the problem with that game. The storyline, characters and dialog that I wrote were simply not up to the level that Troika had set with Arcanum.​
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VanishedOne:
Well, considering that (in my opinion) Troika Games' games has some of the best video game dialogue ever, I'm willing to take a chance on it, besides bugs, I've heard decent things about the game overall and I might as well go ahead and complete my Troika Games collection.

Thanks for the response!
Posted February 14, 2014
Already downed Dungeon keepers, already owned the D&D titles in the promo... Got a couple items from the multi-player side though.
Posted February 14, 2014
Which games in this promo do you all recommend the most?
Posted February 14, 2014
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BillyMaysFan59: Now is my chance to try Baldur's Gate! Haven't even played any of the D&D games yet, so is BG a good first game if I were to start playing them?
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zaine-h: Which games in this promo do you all recommend the most?
Baldur's Gate is hard to get into. The UI and gameplay are starting to show their age. I'd suggest starting with the Icewind Dale games. I think the story is more interesting and the game more polished. Then play BG when you're more familiar with how the Infinity Engine games work. Beware, BG doesn't let you pause in the inventory screen. That was the final straw for me. I'm going to install the mod that lets you use the BG game with the BG2 engine to finish it after I finish Overlord.

Planescape: Torment is one of the greatest RPGs ever, definitely play that. It's weird and interesting and is probably the game I got the most into since Morrowind. I didn't realize how much it had drawn me in until something creeped me out so badly that I actually uninstalled it before I calmed down. Masterpiece of game design, just don't play it in the dark late at night. :D

If you like mods, NWN and NWN2 have many excellent mods. They can also be played like an MMO. Many servers are still up, although they aren't as full as they once were.
Post edited February 14, 2014 by HGiles
Posted February 14, 2014
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zaine-h: Which games in this promo do you all recommend the most?
Planescape: Torment, if you love an original setting and a good story, at the expense of subpar combat and you having to read through a lot of (well written) dialogues. It's my favorite of the bunch, but probably not for everyone.

Baldur's Gate 2, if you want a perfect mix of action, strategy, story and dialogues. This is probably the best of the Infinity Engine games in terms of balance and general appeal.

Neverwinter Nights Diamond, if you're into user made content and an endless supply of free high quality adventures to play through. The official campaign isn't that good and the default AI is pretty weak, but Hordes of the Underdark is worth playing, and so are many community modules, and the game can be a lot of fun, also in multiplayer mode.
Posted February 14, 2014
Time to ignore Demon Stone and Dragonshard for the thousandth time. =P Man, I bought the rest in the very first promo of this kind... and I still haven't finished one of them. Heh.
Post edited February 14, 2014 by mistermumbles
Posted February 14, 2014
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HGiles: snip
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Leroux: snip
Thank you both for the feedback!
Posted February 14, 2014
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HGiles: snip
Thank you too for the advice.
Posted February 14, 2014
PLAY TEMPLE OF ELEMENTAL EVIL!!!!

I loved TOEE the most as I was growing up. Whilst BG was my first experience of D&D it was the way TOEE told the story that brought me in, and I loved it.
Posted February 14, 2014
Well, I guess my wallet will cry and I'll buy them all. The only ones I ever played are NWN (without mods) and BG2 (and just, like, one eight of it), and I LOVED them (I wasn't patient enough for BG2, though XD)!
SOOO thanks, GOG.com!!!

(Also, I was thinking just this morning about SSI, though my mind was pointing towards Veil of Darkness).
Posted February 14, 2014
The only games in the D&D pack I'm all too interested in acquiring are Neverwinter Nights 1 & 2, Icewind Dale 1 & 2, and Planescape, with minor interest towards Baldur's Gate. Is it worth adding the originals and the sequels, or for those is the first or second better than the other? I'm not so concerned about money (though it kills me to see the price go up when I take games off) so much as worried about cluttering the library with too much stuff (not too mention time commitment).

Edit: Excusing my rudeness, thank you very much GoG for this fantastic sale and maintaining such a diverse and wonderful catalog.
Post edited February 14, 2014 by AnimalMother117
Posted February 14, 2014
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TheEnigmaticT: I *do* wish the SSI games rights weren't so borked. I loved those games. ;__;
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G-Doc: [*]

I refuse to stop hoping!

Some day, Eye of the Beholder, some day...
If there's one company that can bring Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast and Ubisoft together, surely it's GOG.

(unless maybe the rights are even more borked than that)
Posted February 14, 2014
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TheEnigmaticT: I *do* wish the SSI games rights weren't so borked. I loved those games. ;__;
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BreOl72: If the SSI titles ever turn up here on GOG - I'm instabuying them.
Hell Yes.
Posted February 14, 2014
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JMich: You did check the other promo, right? With the ~30 games in it.

Alt-3 (on numpad). You should have both alt and 3 on ye olde keyboarde ♥
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JudasIscariot: I have an excess of eeeeeee :P
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Posted February 14, 2014
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zaine-h: Which games in this promo do you all recommend the most?
Planescape: Torment is a must-buy, no negociations .
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