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Dungeons & Dragons Anthology: The Master Collection $6 - DRM Free @ Gamers Gate (70% off)

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Awesome RPG Collection for Fans of this Game

DRM FREE

Can be added Manually to your Steam Library (Google is your friend)

Rated 4.9/5 with 1266 votes

Includes:

  • Baldur's Gate
  • Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast
  • Baldur's Gate II
  • Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal
  • Icewind Dale
  • Icewind Dale 2
  • Planescape Torment
  • The Temple of Elemental Evil

Edit 1: Useful guide thanks to _ bruce_
Enhance the gameplay in your edition of Baldur's Gate from GOG.com

Edit 2: Planescape: Torment - Best Mods/Increase Resolution Guide Thanks to Forgot69
http://thunderpeel2001.blogspot.com.au/2009/01/planescape-to…

The Dungeons & Dragons Anthology: The Master Collection packages 6 of the most beloved classic RPG video games of the Dungeons & Dragons franchise and their expansions into a single edition – the ultimate RPG package for the ultimate D&D fan.

Features:
1. The Richest Collection Ever: Some of the greatest D&D titles ever published in a single package.
2. Phenomenal Value: 6 GOTY winners and average metacritic score of 90%, all for a low price.
3. What’s Old is New: A collector’s item for RPG fans old and young.

Bundle Includes:

Baldur’s Gate 1 & 2 + Expansions [Average Metacritic: 91%] “…reigns supreme over every RPG currently available, and sets new standards for those to come“ – PC Gamer Developer: Bioware

Icewind Dale 1 & 2 + Expansions [Average Metacritic 85%] “Once in a while, a game comes along that completely takes over your life. “ – IGN

Planescape: Torment [Metacritic 91%] “Is it possible for a computer game to have the intellectual heft and emotional impact of a good book while remaining as captivating as a well-paced film? If so, the first candidate may well be Planescape: Torment. . “ – New York Times

The Temple of Elemental Evil [Metacritic 71%] “A rock-solid RPG that faithfully re-creates a classic adventure.“ – Gamespy

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  • lostn on 28/08/2013 - 03:32
    +2

    That's about 700 hours of gameplay there. Great deal.

    • imcold on 29/08/2013 - 06:58

      Yeah thats the problem. Life is short.. wont have time to enjoy newer stuff.

  • spiritek on 28/08/2013 - 06:26
    +7

    picked this up a while ago when it was around this price, great deal.

    Can be added Manually to your Steam Library

    This is slightly misleading, in theory you can add any program (game, application whatever) to your Steam library, but it is merely a shortcut and is not really part of you Steam library.

  • _Bruce_ on 28/08/2013 - 07:26
    +3

    This is a useful guide:

    http://www.gog.com/news/enhance_the_gameplay_in_your_edition…

  • bchliu on 28/08/2013 - 07:57
    -1

    Neverwinter Nights and its expansions/sequels was the best outside of the old Gold Box sets for DOS.. Baldurs gate series tried too hard to keep it faithful but failed bad with execution.

    • _Bruce_ on 28/08/2013 - 08:32

      Really? The expansions were good but base NWN was a great engine looking for a game that just wasn't there.

      Also the Gold Box sets were really hack and slash (as I recall) and almost no roleplaying. More like Ice Wind Dale.

      • carlscott1982 on 28/08/2013 - 12:42

        Seriously? The Gold Box games had zero hack and slash and were straight up old-skool ad&d strategy and roleplaying. I would still count them as the best games I've ever played.

        I think you're thinking of something else.

        • _Bruce_ on 28/08/2013 - 13:08

          http://www.joystiq.com/2012/08/24/gold-boxes-for-a-golden-ag…

          All of the Gold Box games look and play in essentially the same fashion. You roll a party of six characters. Most of the games have overland maps, on which the party is merely a square traveling between cities and dungeons, but the bulk of the game's exploration takes place in dungeons in a first-person perspective. The bulk of a Gold Box game takes place in combat, on a tactical grid. More than most other RPGs of the era, the Gold Box games focus on the details of their tactical combat. A single battle can be quick, or larger battles can take up to an hour.

          Narrative and character, on the other hand, are quite unimportant in a Gold Box game. You virtually never have any choice in the game that means anything beyond where to explore next. The plot is conveyed partially within the game, and partially via a journal which comes included with the game box. The journal is divided into roughly a hundred entries, and every so often the game says "Read Journal Entry 23." (Many of the journal entries were fakes, to prevent players from reading the entire thing and knowing the plot entirely). Likewise, there's virtually no character interaction, either within the party or with other characters. While the game doesn't necessarily give you any reason to become attached to any characters, it's hard not to build that some form of attachment since you roll them yourself, edit their looks, and can transfer them from one game to the next.

          Perhaps you are confused by the concepts of 'having a story' and actually… playing a role? We also seem to have differing ideas on 'hack and slash'.

        • lostn on 28/08/2013 - 13:44

          There is a limited amount of role playing in the Gold Box games, but nothing too meaningful. Your characters don't even have dialog.

        • SteveNG on 28/08/2013 - 19:45

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack_and_slash

          Hack and slash has a different meaning in the contexts of table-top role-playing and videogames. I guess that makes it ambiguous in the context of a videogame adaptation of a table-top RPG, but I'm with calscott in that I interpreted it as the videogame definition.

          It's true that these games were constrained in terms of the decisions that you could make and how much you could the influence the story (like most videogame RPGs), but I felt that I had enough influence on the character development and how the party could complement each other that it felt like role-playing to me. Best of all, they were great fun.

    • save my dollarydoos on 28/08/2013 - 11:30
      +2

      NWN and BG games can not be compared - two very different games.

      That said the Baldur's Gate Series is a magnum opus of D&D gaming and anyone who thinks otherwise is kidding themselves.

  • Gnostikos on 28/08/2013 - 10:30

    Very good price, GOG had a similar D&D Anthology going for $26.40 (plus the Neverwinter Nights series, Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone & Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard):
    http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/113526

    Though I don't know if the GOG editions are enhanced or tweaked to run on Windows 7.

  • acersaurus on 28/08/2013 - 11:00
    +1

    Good deal, Baldurs Gate 2 is the greatest game of all time in my opinion. I've held that opinion for over 10 years. Baldurs Gate 1 is not on an equal footing, never even finished it.

    • save my dollarydoos on 28/08/2013 - 11:51

      always considered the series one very long game myself ;) - I play BG 1 every now and then with the BG2 engine imported into it.

    • lostn on 28/08/2013 - 13:45

      BG1 is pretty good, but leveling up is slow and you don't get all the cool and fun spells that you get as a higher level character in BG2.

      • _Bruce_ on 28/08/2013 - 13:50

        This is actually why I like it more, it doesn't have the sequel scale problem that BG2 has.

        Not that BG2 is bad, but even at the start of the game you are a power house. Sometimes the things thrown at you are a bit contrived to make them challenging.

  • justtoreply on 28/08/2013 - 11:05
    +1

    Planescape Torment is worth it alone. By far the best game in the set.

  • Forgot69 on 28/08/2013 - 11:16
    +2

    I can confirm that the HD mods for Planetscape Torment work well with this version.

    • Yarkin on 28/08/2013 - 12:09

      Thanks for the link. I've always wanted to play it but couldn't get over the 640x480 resolution.

      • SmokeandMirrors on 30/08/2013 - 01:03

        Planescape Torment is the best game I have played. I'm sure you won't be disappointed :)

  • blinker on 28/08/2013 - 18:55
    +1

    Looks like the offer has expired, price is now $19.95

  • Lucky Luke on 28/08/2013 - 21:00

    Its showing up as $19.95 now, I'm assuming the offer has expired?

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