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Free? I might just check it out then. | |
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. | |
I am getting this. :D | |
Free=Good. I shall download, cos' i've never played older than Morrowind. | |
Ah this is a classic. | |
Ah, freakin' sweet. | |
I didn't know Elder Scrolls had been around this long, downloading now. | |
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. | |
Awesome. Going to download right now. | |
...Bless you, Bethesda. | |
I figured this was abandonware already because it was no longer sold or supported. | |
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. | |
Hooray! Now all you young punks can have the fun of dealing with this buggy POS game! | |
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. | |
Downloading both of them now. | |
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~ | |
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) | |
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 | |
Yippee! I've been wanting to get this for ages but I don't trust Amazon. Kudos to Bethesda! | |
Ditto. ...Is it still called Buggerfall or Daggerfail? | |
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. | |
5 hours 10 minutes to go! | |
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. | |
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. | |
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. | |
Why the hell not, if it's free. I'll wait till the servers are running a bit more smoothly though, first. | |
I never played an elder scrolls game, but I guess I'll try this one. | |
Damn...I used to have this! Also, first post in three weeks!!! | |
[slogan voice] | |
If only there was a place where all old games were stored... | |
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. | |
same here | |
Game? Free? I'm in! | |
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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