Pool of Radiance
Grayhorse
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HI all, I am new to the forums. I have purchased everyone of Beamdogs new games they have loaded to steam and am loving playing these games that I played way back when.
I was just curious, has anyone heard if Beamdog is looking into possibly redoing this title? I loved playing it and used to play it with my old disks on an emulator until the disks went bad. Would love to be able to play this game again.
Anyone know?
I was just curious, has anyone heard if Beamdog is looking into possibly redoing this title? I loved playing it and used to play it with my old disks on an emulator until the disks went bad. Would love to be able to play this game again.
Anyone know?
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Either way, Beamdog has only been working on the Infinity Engine games, so no, not yet. They still have the option to do Icewind Dale 2 and possibly resurrect Baldur's Gate 3 that never happened (or do their own iteration rather than the one that was canceled).
At some point they are going to have to stop remaking IE games and move on to another engine or start making their own IE games. So Ruins of Myth Drannor is always a possibility. However, it had its own engine so they would have to learn a whole new game without any benefit of reusing that knowledge. That and the game wasn't very successful. So there isn't a lot of business smarts in resurrecting it.
It would be amazing to re-imagine the Gold Box games in the Infinity Engine. I'd buy those in a heartbeat.
https://www.gog.com/game/forgotten_realms_the_archives_collection_two
Some people have remade some of the games in Neverwinter Nights, but I'm not sure how good they are.
https://gog.com/mix/dungeons_dragons_2
It looks like it has a couple of big bugs, but it it still well-loved and better than the other Pool of Radiance remakes made for the original Neverwinter Nights.
@Zaghoul Apparently somebody has made a Krynn persistent world for the original Neverwinter Nights. The server status says it is down right now, but you may want to watch for it to come back up. I might be trying it myself. nwn.starfire3d.com/
There also lots of persistent worlds for the Forgotten Realms, a Ravenloft one, a Planescape one, and somebody is working on a Dark Sun one. So you can do a search to find what setting you want. Depending on what you find you will need either NWN 1 or 2, and they may need to be modded.
If your looking at playing these, I recommend grabbing hold of the Goldbox Companion as well. It works well playing the game in a window as the companion map sits beside DOSBOX and keeps track of your movemnets. It does all the automapping as well as giving you a headsup on your characters (like a char sheet). It also allows for cheating so strong willpower is required
Gus
Given how I have come to like and play BG, as much as I loved the old games and my C64/Amiga, I am not sure I would enjoy the old games quite as much now (man, mapping done for one alone, is a major step up). Glad they added mapping. I would really like to see these updated or a new adventure on Krynn or something (none of that 5th age mess either).
Still though, maybe for the sake of nostalgia, and to have good ol mages classified into their three towers.
Love all this in game mapping now. Only problem with it is when you take a break from the game to play another, you have to try and recall what was going on rather than having your notes all open in front of you (not that I am complaining...)
I must thank @Grayhorse for the use of his discussion for this little side bar.
https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn2/module/pool-radiance-remastered