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News Room Contributor  Posts: 2410 Joined: 11 Sep 2008     | |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 415 Joined: 1 Jan 2009     | Free? I might just check it out then. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 357 Joined: 13 Aug 2008     | I remember when they released Arena, though I never downloaded it. Now I can download both and just relish in the fantastic games of yore. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2877 Joined: 10 Apr 2009     | I am getting this. :D |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1386 Joined: 3 Nov 2008    | Free=Good. I shall download, cos' i've never played older than Morrowind. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2486 Joined: 6 Apr 2009     | Ah this is a classic. |
On the Record  Posts: 5740 Joined: 7 Jan 2009    | Ah, freakin' sweet. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 4229 Joined: 27 Apr 2008   | I didn't know Elder Scrolls had been around this long, downloading now. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3518 Joined: 14 Jan 2009   | This is one of the best RPGs I have ever played. Definitely the largest scale I've ever seen. I'm serious. You can go to pretty much every region, and each region has hundreds of specific areas to go to. Towns, dungeons, etc.
Like this. Each dot on this picture represents a place you can go on the map. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2760 Joined: 20 Feb 2009   | Awesome. Going to download right now. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1139 Joined: 25 Dec 2008    | ...Bless you, Bethesda. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 799 Joined: 3 Mar 2009  | I figured this was abandonware already because it was no longer sold or supported. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1387 Joined: 26 Jan 2009  | dear god, I was about to nerd rage "YOU LIE!" but.........wow........... Im skipping work now to re-play it from my child hood, thank you Keane......thank you. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 537 Joined: 12 Mar 2008   | Hooray! Now all you young punks can have the fun of dealing with this buggy POS game! |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 767 Joined: 30 Nov 2007  | I remember this game having an epic install time. And because it was 148mb it took up 1/10th of my 1G hard drive. Good times. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1229 Joined: 7 Feb 2009   | Downloading both of them now. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1433 Joined: 18 Mar 2009   | I don't know how to work DOSBox D: EDIT: Figured out how to work it. Won't let me run Arena. (Daggerfall didn't download right so I went with Arena.) Oh yeah, I have a Mac. Help would be appreciated~ |
Beat Writer Posts: 210 Joined: 25 Nov 2006  | That's one character creation tool that I really miss. Some perks that I hadn't seen before: And each negative "perk" would give you extra points to pick positive perks such as: -Acute hearing (I love that one) |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2040 Joined: 28 Apr 2008    |
I think someone walked from one end of the game world to the other, and it ended up taking about 1 week, not in game, 1 real life week. Not sure if thats nonestop or off and on, but still, its a big ass game world |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 437 Joined: 8 Sep 2008  | Yippee! I've been wanting to get this for ages but I don't trust Amazon. Kudos to Bethesda! |
On the Record  Posts: 5560 Joined: 14 Sep 2008  |
Ditto. ...Is it still called Buggerfall or Daggerfail? |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2283 Joined: 28 May 2008  | I had to move a bunch of stuff to a portable drive in order to fit the game on this computer. Lets hope it's worth it. |
Time Lord  Posts: 9929 Joined: 13 Feb 2008    | 5 hours 10 minutes to go! |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 475 Joined: 3 May 2009   | If you patch the game to the latest version, the bugs are minor (especially compared to the original release). It has a pretty good FMV intro, and one of the best character creation methods available ever. I liked Arena because it was a fun dungeon crawler, but Daggerfall added so much more. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 434 Joined: 29 May 2008  | Wow... I know I'll be a douchebag for complaining about something that's being given out for free, especially since I'm willing to pay for several similar games at goodoldgames.com, but... holy crap, that installation manual is a freaking bible. At any rate I'll wait until the cheer around this dies down so the download will go faster. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 406 Joined: 12 Aug 2008   |
Good luck with that, servers have been down at least 3 times now. I wonder if any other publishers/developers are going to give out free old games. Had this and mechwarrior 4 so far. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 368 Joined: 29 May 2009   | Why the hell not, if it's free. I'll wait till the servers are running a bit more smoothly though, first. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 659 Joined: 29 Jun 2009  | I never played an elder scrolls game, but I guess I'll try this one. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2465 Joined: 14 Jan 2009 | Damn...I used to have this! Also, first post in three weeks!!! |
Paperboy  Posts: 42 Joined: 24 Nov 2008    |
[slogan voice] |
Time Lord Posts: 9929 Joined: 13 Feb 2008 |
If only there was a place where all old games were stored... |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1195 Joined: 19 Jan 2009    | This game holds the record for largest land-based game map, 63125 square miles, 163492 square kilometers. Think Great Britain doubled. In fact, after it was released, they realized that it was TOO big. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 70 Joined: 29 Mar 2009   |
same here |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3770 Joined: 1 Mar 2009 | Game? Free? I'm in! |
News Room Contributor Posts: 2410 Joined: 11 Sep 2008 | Wow their servers really are getting hammered, I still haven't been able to finish a download. |
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Bethesda Releases Daggerfall For Free
To celebrate the 15th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls franchise, Bethesda is releasing the second game in the series, Daggerfall, for free.
If you've never tried any of the Elder Scrolls games before Morrowind or - you can admit it, I won't revoke your gamer cred - before Oblivion, today's your lucky day to experience some Bethesda history in the free and legal way. To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the series and "despite saying we'd never do it," the company has released a free version of The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall to download.
There are no strings attached here, and Bethesda's only being consistent: the developer did the same thing five years ago for The Elder Scrolls' 10th anniversary when they released The Elder Scrolls: Arena for free. But Daggerfall does come with a few warnings.
This game came out in 1996, which means that it's not exactly the prettiest looking thing out there, though it's certainly not without its retro charm. That's not really the issue, though. Bethesda is releasing the game as it is, and they're not going to tinker with the game to make sure it runs compatibly with modern operating systems. They don't have plans to support the release with any customer support either (though I'm sure you'll find people in the Elder Scrolls community to be helpful if you need it).
So, you need to run the game in DOSBox in order to get it to work. It's really not all that hard, but you should definitely read through the detailed instructions Bethesda's Mike Mazzuca put together for installing and running the game. So yeah, if you're new to this kind of thing, you'll have to put in a little work to get Daggerfall to run (you might also have to wait, because for some reason Bethesda's servers are being awful slow coughing out the 150 MB download). But if all those curmudgeonly old school Elder Scrolls fans are right, it should be worth it.
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