Good Old Games: Baldur's Gate and Planescape Torment

[Phaezen]

It appears Good Old Games have signed a deal with Hasbro to release the old D&D games, the first releases being:

Baldur's Gate (packaged with Tales of the Sword Coast) and Planescape: Torment. As with all GOG games DRM free and Windows XP, Vista and 7 compatible.

 

[John Crichton]

Picked up Torment yesterday!

Worked on Win7 just fine.

Never played it before.

 

[Merkuri]

Aw man, Torment is one of the best games of all time. Definitely the best D&D game I ever played.

 

[CarlZog]

I still own both these games on disk, but I'll be grabbing them from gog just for the convenience of it.

While I'm certain Icewind Dale and BGII will be in the upcoming gog lineup, I'll really hoping for a cleaned up copy of ToEE, which I never played.

 

[Holy Bovine]

It appears Good Old Games have signed a deal with Hasbro to release the old D&D games, the first releases being:

Baldur's Gate (packaged with Tales of the Sword Coast) and Planescape: Torment. As with all GOG games DRM free and Windows XP, Vista and 7 compatible.

GOG has so many seriously awesome games that I missed back in the day (who could keep track of everything with minimal internet coverage?) that i could spend the next 5 paychecks there no problem.


Well except for the losing the house and starving to death thing of course

 

[Sutekh]

Yeah its a great site. They caused a lot of grief some days back though when they said they were shutting down. There was a lot of blood in the water for a couple of days.

As for Torment, it does rank up there on my list of great games, but Pool of Radiance GOLD BOX is still my top dog of D&D rpgs. Mainly because it was my true introduction to the world of gaming.

 

[MarkB]

I don't think I had too much trauma getting Planescape: Torment to run last time I played it, but if I do run into trouble when next I feel the need, I'll definitely check out this version.

On a similar note, Steam currently have the original X-COM games available in fully Windows-compatible versions for only £2.99 apiece. I bought UFO Defense today, and have spent a happy evening playing it.

 

[Croesus]

I don't think I had too much trauma getting Planescape: Torment to run last time I played it, but if I do run into trouble when next I feel the need, I'll definitely check out this version.

On a similar note, Steam currently have the original X-COM games available in fully Windows-compatible versions for only £2.99 apiece. I bought UFO Defense today, and have spent a happy evening playing it.

How's the speed of the game? Is it adjustable in your version?

I keep trying to run the original X-Com using DosBox, but no matter how I tweak things, the game runs too quickly when engaging ufo's with my fighters. I literally have a couple seconds to shoot before it pops back to the world map and the ufo pulls away. Very frustrating.

 

[MarkB]

How's the speed of the game? Is it adjustable in your version?

I keep trying to run the original X-Com using DosBox, but no matter how I tweak things, the game runs too quickly when engaging ufo's with my fighters. I literally have a couple seconds to shoot before it pops back to the world map and the ufo pulls away. Very frustrating.

It seems to run on my current 1GHz dual-core at about the speed it originally did on my 486 66MHz. If anything it's a mite on the slow and jerky side Geoscape mode but perfectly fine in tactical mode. Certainly entirely playable.

 

[Merkuri]

How's the speed of the game? Is it adjustable in your version?

I keep trying to run the original X-Com using DosBox, but no matter how I tweak things, the game runs too quickly when engaging ufo's with my fighters. I literally have a couple seconds to shoot before it pops back to the world map and the ufo pulls away. Very frustrating.

Do you have a dual-core system? Sometimes older games don't do well on dual core systems and they run too fast. You can fix this by bringing up the task manager while the game is running, going to the Processes tab, and finding the process that goes with your game. Right-click on it and select "affinity". Uncheck one of your two cores.

You have to do this each time you run the game, but that might make it run at a more normal speed.

Prince of Persia: Warrior Within (a game that's not THAT old) does this to me on occasion. Adjusting the affinity like this not only keeps the game from going into super-speed mode but also helps keep the voice and animation in synch during cutscenes.