Eye of the Beholder 3: Dark God (the Big DOS Battles Tour)

Beware the Dark God! What's the matter with you, do you hear me? - Dark God!! Waaait a minute, stop laughing! You're supposed to be trembling in fear before the Dark God, the darkest of 'em all!

Eye of the Beholder 3: Assault on Myth Drannor is a disgrace, to put it simply. The story is weak, video sequences ugly and empty, sound and music poor, plus the game is relatively CPU-time-demanding and most PCs of its time (released in 1993) couldn't keep up. That resulted in irritating pauses whenever something slightly out-of-ordinary happened (e.g., casting a spell).

This boss got some tuning in dexterity, probably to make him resistant to the obligatory hit'n'run strategy. On the other hand, he can be beaten face-to-face relatively easily.

Concluding the once-promising EOB family with this shameful piece of software, we're heading on to a legendary RPG which gave its genre a name.

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• dosbox
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• abandonware
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• eob3
• eob
• eye
• beholder
• assault
• myth
• drannor
• forgotten
• realms
• advanced
• dungeons
• dragons
• dnd

[CescoPisicoli]

was part 3 as good as parts 1 &2?

(just finished part 1 and halfway thru part 2)

[Feiwill]

@CescoPisicoli P3 is far behind p1 and p2 IMO, but I certainly am biased towards p1 and especially p2 for historical reasons. If you're new to the series, I suppose p3 could feel much like the early two parts, in theory.

[GaixLee1992]

if you left-click on your characters names, you can do the "ALL ATTCK" feature which will kill enemies faster.

[Feiwill]

Heh, seems I've become quite a lame EOB3 player.:) When I recently returned to that old savegame to make this vid I kept wondering what was it I was missing on the screen...

[Alpha3KV]

The thing that really makes this boss a joke is the fact that, despite supposedly being a god, he is vulnerable to Time Stop. If you saved up your scrolls, you can use them to freeze time, waltz past all his cronies, and slash him without any retribution. Not to mention that with Protection From Fire and the sword that instantly destroys undead, his death knights pose absolutely no threat to you whatsoever.

[dyb81446]

I always though that the "Dark God" was Tharizdun. He apparently tried to gain a foothold in Faerun and he is sometimes referred to as the "Dark God". Plus Lathander says he and other gods will ensure he never returns to this plane. Maybe I've spent too much time on this.....

[1xWertzui]

Oh man imagine that Westwood had created the EOB3 too, then it would be as good as Lands of Lore, or LoL would be EOB3 with a few minor changes. Too shame that almost the same thing happened with the LoL trilogy.

That's one weak boss. Where did he forgot his god-powers, he's just doing mortal c(k)ombat...

[Nickthebassist01]

This one was nowhere near the epic, epic standard of EOB2. That game is still the hardest, most puzzle-riddled game I've ever played.

[shadywalker]

Mmm I first began playing dungeon master before I was ten, played that game off and on over the years just for kicks.. This looks a lot like it. Shame, you would think this would be better than the very first one pretty much..

[fvgotch]

...and after all the hard work, they get a membership....

[ISWolf]

Dark God.. Eh, could've been a Banelich I suppose. They did seem to think that they were Bane incarnate for a while, after the latter had kicked the bucket for a while.

Would explain the ease with which he could be defeated. Also explains why Lathander might get worried, considering Bane was one of his enemies. If Bane were to return, which he later did, then it means more work for Lathander.