Bethesda Softworks is celebrating the fifteen-year anniversary of the Elder Scrolls franchise in a delicious way: starting today the second title in the Elder Scrolls series (subtitled “Daggerfall”) is available as a free download through the studios’ Web site. Yep. This isn’t an illegal download from a garbage abandonware site. This is the real thing in all its dated and buggy glory.
As Bethesda notes on their development blog, this sort of fan service isn’t exactly new. Five years ago, the studio released Elder Scrolls: Arena in much this same fashion. (Do we get Morrowind in 2014?) Also noted is that in order to run Daggerfall, you’ll need to use a program like DOSBox. It's a tricky bit of software, but a Bethesda QA is making our lives a lot easier: He's created a walkthrough for the process.
So, Daggerfall: are you guys going to give this a spin?
[Thanks, King3vbo and wheeliedude]
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1:00 AM on 07.10.2009
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It was my first PC I bought and had to install it to a hidden directory on my Dads PC. Hes an old school programmer but his 13 year old son knew more about the OS then he did... mUWAHAHAHA good times.
^5 Bethesda!
I have the fondest memories of being at my friends house while we waited for the game to install off of the multiple 3.5"s disks (that's right! DISKS!).
Talk about a memory hog.
After a couple hardware upgrades we were finally able to play the shiat out of this game.
Up-hill! Both ways! Barefoot! With the Commies spying on our every move!
(J/K, I'm not THAT old.)
This is very, VERY cool of them to do. Daggerfall was my first experience with a massively huge RPG. You guys should become vampires. It's the SHIAT!
This game was too buggy to be believed, but I loved it none the less. (not enough to replay it now though)
Damn kids, get off mah lawn!
I got to the point where I could afford a ship and a house, by visiting a small town, murdering citizens, then the guards, dumping their stuff onto the horse and cart, then heading back to a nice city to sell. Rinse and repeat. Gods I was evil when I was younger.
Congrats on missing the joke.
Man, with these games and with Mechwarrior 4 coming out for free later on, this is looking to be a good month for freebie old games.
An' I totally sent a tip on this too. *pouty face*