Celebrate 15 Years Of TES With The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, FREE!
To celebrate fifteen years of Elder Scrolls swashbucklery and spellslingery, Bethesda has re-released The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall for free, available here. I hope 8MB of RAM isn't too demanding, and I sure do hope everybody's screens are capable of a blazing 256-color VGA experience, elsewise you're outta luck..
And for those whose cutting-edge PCs aren't running DOS version 6.0 or who lack the whopping 50MB install size, Bethesda still offers the original The Elder Scrolls: Arena for free, too, providing you can come up with a 25MHz processor and at least 4MBs of RAM.
Man, looking over system requirements from yesteryear is way too much fun.
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tiny dancer
Posted to Video Games on 9 July 2009
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For anyone who hasn't played this, I'd definitely recommend it. I can imagine the graphics are going to be REALLY hard to get past, but it's one of my more fondly remembered games. The sheer scope of the game is mind-boggling, though it does suffer from being a gigantic land essentially filled with 'nothing' because of this, but it's still amazing. It took me a few playthroughs to figure out there was a fast-travel option, and the game was practically nigh-unplayable without one.
One thing I enjoyed about the game that I wish the followups would reintroduce is the random quest generator. It was pretty broken back then #even some of the critical quests would direct you to an item that the game decided to spawn outside of the accessible portion of a dungeon#, but it allowed you to essentially play the game for infinity.
The only other real problem, and this is a matter of 'scope' again, is that it makes Cyrodiil, the capital province of this contient, seem, well, like Fallout. I think there are, what, seven towns throughout all of Cyrodiil? Daggerfall #which technically does encompass two provinces# has to have hundreds of cities, villages, and towns.
Good times.
It's funny to think of the minimum specs these days, but some of us with newer computers need to run virtual environments to play games like this. I need to install a virtual Windows XP client to get Windows 7 to run the original Diablo without making everything appear to be wrapped in Christmas lights. I'm unsure if DOS box runs higher than XP as well. (Since if I recall correctly, DOS went the way of the dodo after Windows 2000.)
So yes, the numbers are small and humorous by today's standards, but there may be trouble for those running newer machines.
I loved Daggerfall to pieces. Too bad it was one SERIOUSLY bugged game, but the spell creator and guild quests are in my opinion much better than Morrowind's or Oblivion's.
Hopefully the version of the game they're offering is the completely patched one. I could never beat Daggerfall because one the story-important dungeons was bugged.