Elder Scrolls Anthology

[Gathomas88]

I was shopping around for printer ink at Walmart the other day when the following happened to catch my eye in the PC game aisle.



Needless to say, I pretty much had to buy it right then and there. :mrgreen:

It's comes with all five games in the series (going back to 1994) with all of their expansion packs, maps for each, and some pretty swanky box art.



I don't know about any of you guys, but that's what I call $70.00 well spent. I'm just about having a full on nerdgasm over here. :lol:

 

[Lutherf]

I was shopping around for printer ink at Walmart the other day when the following caught my eye in the PC game aisle.


Needless to say, I pretty much had to buy it right then and there. :mrgreen:

It's comes with all five games in the series (going back to 1994) with all of their expansion packs, maps for each, and some pretty swanky box art.



I don't know about any of you guys, but that's what I call $70.00 well spent. I'm just about having a full on nerdgasm over here. :lol:

How do you get Arena and Daggerfall to run? I can't get any of that DOS stuff to run on W7.

 

[The Mark]

WANT.

But I already own oblivion and skyrim on steam, so....

 

[The Mark]

How do you get Arena and Daggerfall to run? I can't get any of that DOS stuff to run on W7.

I would bet there is an emulator somewhere for it.


OTOH, I did encounter an odd issue with an older game I tried to play about a year ago...apparently my graphics card is too advanced - it no longer has the software/hardware that supports the game, so the FPS would drop to single digits when I opened multiple windows in the game...

 

[Gathomas88]

How do you get Arena and Daggerfall to run? I can't get any of that DOS stuff to run on W7.

I haven't tried installing them yet. Hopefully, they're optimized for modern systems. It'd be pretty massive BS to release them like this if they weren't. lol

WANT.

But I already own oblivion and skyrim on steam, so....

Same here. I mostly just bought it for the maps and the first two games in the series.

Thing's like a damn heirloom as far as I'm concerned. :lol:

 

[Lutherf]

I DL'd "DosBox" and can get Daggerfall to run but it's a pain in the ass because you need to remount the game every time you close it and I can only get it to run in a window.

 

[Gathomas88]

How do you get Arena and Daggerfall to run? I can't get any of that DOS stuff to run on W7.

I DL'd "DosBox" and can get Daggerfall to run but it's a pain in the ass because you need to remount the game every time you close it and I can only get it to run in a window.

I just installed Arena. It looks like it's been designed to open automatically through a built-in Dosbox emulator without needing any manual input whatsoever.

Sweeeeeet... :mrgreen:

 

[Redress]

How do you get Arena and Daggerfall to run? I can't get any of that DOS stuff to run on W7.

Both come with "pre-configured version is DOSbox". Take that for what it is worth.

 

[Morality Games]

I was shopping around for printer ink at Walmart the other day when the following happened to catch my eye in the PC game aisle.

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Needless to say, I pretty much had to buy it right then and there. :mrgreen:

It's comes with all five games in the series (going back to 1994) with all of their expansion packs, maps for each, and some pretty swanky box art.

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I don't know about any of you guys, but that's what I call $70.00 well spent. I'm just about having a full on nerdgasm over here. :lol:

??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm surprised I didn't know about this.

 

[Gathomas88]

??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm surprised I didn't know about this.

I think I vaguely remember seeing something about it on Facebook a couple of days ago. It didn't really click until I saw the box itself in the store though.

 

[Gathomas88]

Incidentally, Arena, on first impression, strikes me as probably being a bit too primitive to really be enjoyable. It's plays a lot more like a first person version of Diablo than an Elder Scrolls game.

Warriors, for instance, can't use magic at all from what I've seen, and mages and rogues can't wear armor.

Daggerfall, on the other hand, seems to be a lot more promising. It has the punishing learning curve and difficulty one would expect of a more retro game, but there's a lot more freedom in character customization and behavior. It definitely feels like where the series probably hit its stride in terms of overall formula.

 

[tacomancer]

Incidentally, Arena, on first impression, strikes me as probably being a bit too primitive to really be enjoyable. It's plays a lot more like a first person version of Diablo than an Elder Scrolls game.

Warriors, for instance, can't use magic at all from what I've seen, and mages and rogues can't wear armor.

Daggerfall, on the other hand, seems to be a lot more promising. It has the punishing learning curve and difficulty one would expect of a more retro game, but there's a lot more freedom in character customization and behavior. It definitely feels like where the series probably hit its stride in terms of overall formula.

Daggerfall is great ... until you fall through the dungeon floor

seriously, save often or learn a teleport spell.

 

[Gathomas88]

Daggerfall is great ... until you fall through the dungeon floor

seriously, save often or learn a teleport spell.

I'm kind of catching on to that.

I think I've died like five or six times in the tutorial level alone. :lamo

Not being able to look up or down makes it kind of hard to fight things enemies that like to loiter in either the top or the bottom of the screen (i.e. rats or bats), it turns out. lol

 

[tacomancer]

I'm kind of catching on to that.

I think I've died like five or six times in the tutorial level alone. :lamo

Not being able to look up or down makes it kind of hard to fight things enemies that like to loiter in either the top or the bottom of the screen (i.e. rats or bats), it turns out. lol

whatever you do, don't wait in a shop until after midnight and just take everything without a thief penalty .

buggiest game ever, which makes it so much fun

 

[Gathomas88]

Hate to admit it, but the actor they got to play Uriel Septium in Daggerfall is a lot better than Patrick Stewart from Oblivion.



Then again, however; I suppose an actor can only be expected to emote so well through a poorly CGIed sack of lumpy potatoes. :lol: