Curse of the Azure Bonds - Final battle

This video shows my party defeating Tyranthraxus and his many minions. Curse of the Azure Bonds was the 2nd title in the old SSI games.

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[ClunytheScourge1]

This game needs to get remade, maybe as a full co-op D&D experience.. It was too awesome for newer generations to be denied it.

[SivakD]

There was honestly a time when I wanted to try doing this myself. Maybe making it moreso in the style of a Final Fantasy battle system, but keeping the story elements the same. I wanted to combine the 4 Gold Box Forgotten Realms games into one large story. I even e-mailed one of the SSI programmers asking about rights to the game. It's kinda unknown though. Ubisoft maybe has them.

[Torlan47]

Good times.

[nexus1g]

Haha, I remember doing that with Falcon 3.0 back in the day.

[pigboykool]

Cool, thanks for the info. I will look for the CD collection for the old time seek. kind of miss the good old day of re-writing the autoexec.bat file to squeeze every bit of free RAM in the attempt of making games to run faster in the 286/386/486 era! LOL

[nexus1g]

OK, let me rephrase that. SSI didn't have the power to sell the rights.

[nexus1g]

Here's the information on the collection: mobygames(dot)com/game/dos/adv­anced-dungeons-dragons-collect­ors-edition

[nexus1g]

SSI doesn't have the rights to the game, TSR did. Now it's in the hands of Wizards of the Coast. If you want rights to do anything D&D related, you have to contact WotC.

[nexus1g]

You can get the entire Gold Box series on CD. From Pool of Radiance to Pools of Darkness and the Savage Frontier series. It was put together in a collection, though, I'm not sure where my copy has gotten off to. You'll want to use DOS Box (check sourceforge -- it's freeware) when you play them on new machines since these games depended on slow processors to run at a reasonable speed and with the sounds unerringly.

[pigboykool]

I love the Gold box series. I used to spent hours after hours with these games with my super "powerful" 386. It's been so long I lost all my games & the question cards already, and I double any new computer will have the advance floppy disks drive anymore. I really rwish they can re-make the D&D Golden series in the current generation system, I still think they are some of the best RPG I ever play and I really love the battle system even if it is turn based.

[DOSBoxMom]

I've recently completed the Mulmaster Beholder Corps battle -- only to get a game-crashing error message right after the victory screen! :( What's even weirder is that the last time I played Curse -- on the same computer -- I completed that battle without encountering the victory-screen bug. Maybe the program thought I was taking too long to finish the battle?