Bethesda celebrates Elder Scrolls' 15th anniversary with free Daggerfall
Plus: a retrospective with designer Todd Howard
There was a time, young ones, when games didn't have "textures", "Dolby Digital sound" or any of that fancy stuff. But damn did they have great atmosphere and stories. The Elder Scrolls Chapter II: Daggerfall comes from that era, and having just hit its 15th anniversary, Bethesda Softworks, the game's creator, despite saying previously it would not happen, has re-released the game, and for free!
You can download it here, along with The Elder Scrolls: Arena too, if you wish (this was put out previously). Note DOSBox and some technical know-how will be required to get it to run on any recent operating system, though there is a detailed guide (PDF) to help -- shouldn't be too bad.
Further on that, designer Todd Howard has written up a Daggerfall retrospective for Gamespy -- have a look here.
And if you have no idea what we're talking about, but happen to like Oblivion, Fallout 3, or anything remotely related, check out the trailer below and get to know your roots!
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Daggerfall doesn't look bad, and I would want to play it, if I hadn't heard about all of the crappy glitches. Have they fixed any of the bugs in Daggerfall yet?
I remember referring 40 people to Morrowind and only 5 played it for more than a week, the other 35 couldn't get past the 2002 style graphics, so to see them play a game from 94-98 won't be happening