Elder Scrolls, Fallout and other Bethesda Classics on GOG.

[raydeen]

https://www.gog.com/promo/bethesda_launch_the_elder_scrolls_bundle_260815

Battlespire, Redguard and Morrowind GOTY ed. along with free Arena and Daggerfall if any or all are purchased. Yeah, I know, Battlespire was pretty awful, but I did enjoy Redguard for what it was.

Also Doom and Quake.

It's good to see them get the Fallout games back as well.

Now hopefully I haven't screwed up and re-posted this like I did with the GOG D&D classic packs.

[Kail]

Sweeeeet.  I never got a chance to see Redguard and Battlespire, and Daggerfall is my favorite in the series.

Though whole "get Arena and Daggerfall FREE" thing seems weird, they've been giving those games away free for years now.  Are they newer / more stable versions or something?

[ajax34i]

Redguard and Battlespire were console games, no?

[raydeen]

Redguard and Battlespire were console games, no?

No, I *believe* they were both PC exclusive. At least I'm pretty sure Battlespire was. Redguard plays more like Tomb Raider so it might have had a console release.

[raydeen]

Sweeeeet.  I never got a chance to see Redguard and Battlespire, and Daggerfall is my favorite in the series.

Though whole "get Arena and Daggerfall FREE" thing seems weird, they've been giving those games away free for years now.  Are they newer / more stable versions or something?

Seems that Arena and Daggerfall simply have nicer installers in these versions. I can't see any real difference otherwise.

edit: I'm with you. DF was/is my favorite of the series hands down.

[Kail]

Redguard and Battlespire were console games, no?

I don't think so, Battlespire at least was supposed to be a Daggerfall xpac originally if I'm remembering right.  They just weren't pushed very hard as far as I saw.  I only saw a single copy of Battlespire at one store once, and never saw Redguard, and the coverage of both games was really slim (to the point that I wasn't even sure if Redguard had actually launched or been cancelled for years, until the Internet came along).  But that was kind of normal for Bethesda back then, they weren't super huge yet.

[koro]

It's notable that the free version of Daggerfall available through Bethsoft's website for years was the floppy version, which meant shittier music and no voice. I would imagine GOG uses the installer for the CD version, like what came with the TES Anthology a few years back.

It's a shame Arena is borderline unplayable, though, simply due to how insanely buggy and crash-prone it is; even more so than Daggerfall.

[Yegolev]

I'm thinking about getting one of these if I get CDROM Daggerfall that works on Win7.

[raydeen]

It's notable that the free version of Daggerfall available through Bethsoft's website for years was the floppy version, which meant shittier music and no voice. I would imagine GOG uses the installer for the CD version, like what came with the TES Anthology a few years back.

It's a shame Arena is borderline unplayable, though, simply due to how insanely buggy and crash-prone it is; even more so than Daggerfall.

I've actually never had any problems running the free version of Arena that Bethesda had out there. I can't recall even one crash whatsoever. Back in the day I had the CD version which ran 'ok', and my wife's brother had the floppy version which crashed every 30 seconds. Whatever they did to the now free version fixed a lot of the bugs (memory list blown, etc.) that I used to see. Either that or Dosbox just ran it better than an actual PC ever did.

[Yegolev]

I didn't play Arena, but bugs in Daggerfall didn't usually involve crashes.  I remember a lot of dungeons where I could not actually reach the end, and I took many trips into The Void.  In fact, last time I tried to play Daggerfall, I hopped over the log in front of you in the first room after character creation (and the movie) and immediately clipped through the cave ceiling... never to return.

[rattran]

Falling through dungeon floors due to bad clipping, major plot quests being horribly broken, crashes... Daggerfall had it all. Arena was buggy as shit at launch on cd as well, there were a slew of patches pretty early on.

[Lantyssa]

I remember never being able to finish Daggerfall because something in the final dungeon wouldn't trigger.

Though I miss the completely random dungeons and really, really miss the climb skill and having to kill someone to shift out of werewolf form.  I couldn't make it past the graphics when I tried to play it again though.

[Sky]

The painfully dated controls are what did me in the last time I tried to play Daggerfall.

I, too, miss the massive procedural dungeons.