D&D fans fix Temple of Elemental Evil
A group of dedicated Dungeons & Dragons role-playing fans have managed to accomplish something Atari and Troika failed to do three years ago -- fix most of the bugs in The Temple of Elemental Evil. Circle of Eight's labor of love has resulted in a consolidated patch that greatly enhances what many consider to be the best electronic interpretation of true D&D turn-based gaming. The Co8 updates even provide some extra content, such as additional quests, and new character portraits and voices.
Team Troika consisted of Interplay veterans who had worked on the Fallout series, and the company's other two releases, Arcanum and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, also had bug problems, despite garnering praise for their general gameplay. Even though Troika has disbanded, you should still be able to find ToEE for between $10-20, either online or at your local game store.
[via PC Gamer #154]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
jball @ Oct 6th 2006 5:45PM
how about a link to the patch?
bugbear @ Oct 6th 2006 5:48PM
The link is there, jball. You just need to click the Download link under ToEE Modding at the bottom of the page. I'm psyched about this!
WizarDru @ Oct 6th 2006 5:55PM
I picked this game up at my local Five Below for...$5.
CJC @ Oct 6th 2006 6:03PM
Very cool. Between this and the guy that spruced up Breath of Fire 2 a week ago, I'm starting to think companies should hire their own fans to work for them.
GoPodular @ Oct 6th 2006 7:32PM
Call me blind... where is the link? Is it the "Official Mod Pack Release" from this past summer on this page:
http://www.co8.org/forum/showthread.php?s=3b0051ae7bcd716c8c9c3b58e0ccd964&t=3404
charlene @ Oct 6th 2006 8:12PM
If only they'd do this for KOTOR2 - more on the additional quests end, at least.
NoHitHair @ Oct 6th 2006 8:14PM
Yet more examples of companies' devotion to greed, laziness and consumer abuse. The public is forced to rely upon ourselves to fix the glaring flaws that developers and publishers otherwise couldn't care less about as long as it can fit in a pretty box and be faced on mall shelves in time for the holidays. Remember KoTOR II anyone? Remember the devotion fans went through to unearth the unused code and attempt to rebuild what should have been a masterpiece? This is a depressing trend that's only accelerating. It's doubtful that these companies view rogue individual programmers as a free solution to the amount of funding and time required to craft an epic game, rather they probably couldn't care less either way - they already bled their releases for all they're worth at launch. So who gets screwed? Us. This has to change.
insane_cobra @ Oct 6th 2006 8:19PM
Great news, though I finished it several months ago and don't feel like replaying yet. Bugs in that game were really terrible, one prevented me from entering an optional area near the end which resulted in the final boss being harder to beat. Still, apart from bugs, I had wonderful time with it.
scott @ Oct 6th 2006 9:58PM
Masquerade:Bloodlines just may be the best RPG I have ever played over and over again. The player-made mods out there really enhanced (as well as undressed) things as well.
I think I want to try TOEE.
bazald @ Oct 7th 2006 3:19AM
Uh... charlene: http://www.team-gizka.org/
Surefoot @ Oct 7th 2006 6:27AM
ToEE had fans?
Mabui @ Oct 7th 2006 9:42AM
Man was that game hard.. after playing the super dumbed down versions of D&D onto screen.. this game hit me like a brick wall the first few times.. Good to know someone went out and fixed the more glaring bugs.
Lutraphobic @ Oct 7th 2006 9:43AM
I agree Scott, that was a really great game, despite the bugs.
dave @ Dec 1st 2006 10:50PM
Speaking of bugs, my copy wouldn't even install in the first place. I don't think any patch is going to fix that.