Bethesda Gives Away The Elder Scrolls - Arena 37
Dan L writes "In celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the classic Elder Scrolls PC RPG series (Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind, yada, yada..), Bethesda has offered up the original DOS version of The Elder Scrolls: Arena for free download. Also, there is a rather cool contest to win some original game art, or some top of the line video cards and sound gear."
Top of the line video card? (Score:2, Funny)
Thanks anyways.
Well... (Score:5, Funny)
Way to go BethSoft (Score:5, Interesting)
if only.. (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:if only.. (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:if only.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Honestly, I'd sooner that they'd opened the source but kept the data files commercial.
Lucasarts enjoyed a bunch of people buying their old games after the ScummVM people implemented ScummVM and made the Lucasarts games run (with new features and goodies) on a modern platform. Lucasarts didn't have to pay a penny.
Bugs and balance issues (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Bugs and balance issues (Score:4, Interesting)
Ash Yam + Bloat = Increase Intelligence Potion
Increase Intelligence Potion + Ash Yam + Bloat = More Effective Increase Intelligence Potion
More Effective Increase Intelligence Potion + Ash Yam + Bloat = OMG I R TEH GENUIS Potion
Once you get int over lets say 2000 any potion you make is twinked.
Restore Health 324 points for 1399 seconds. Value 43523
Fortify Strength 577 points for 2424 seconds. Value 23999
Re:Bugs and balance issues (Score:2)
Re:Bugs and balance issues (Score:1, Offtopic)
I would say that that's not really true. There aren't a hell of a lot of OSes where it's as easy to work around [tldp.org] a big hole in your keyboard as Linux.
It takes a couple lines of text (none of which involves using the slash key, so you don't even have to cut and paste initially) to remap, say, your right-hand control key to slash/question mark.
Re:Bugs and balance issues (Score:1)
I wrote that sig after first installing linux.
My normal keyboard wouldn't work with it, because it was a usb device and that version of linux didn't support my board's USB.
The keyboard that replaced it was really sticky due to a long period of storage in a corner after some syrup had been spilled on it.
It was missing a number of keys; both due to them actually being gone, and due to the actual board being damaged.
The shift keys were missing as well, but a skillful
Re:Bugs and balance issues (Score:1)
Re:Bugs and balance issues (Score:2)
A. make blunt weapons a major skill - since if you're strict-RP, you'll be carrying a staff anyway - and rely on that early in the game.
B. make small blades a minor skill - it's based on speed, so you don't have to worry about strength; it's good for getting stat boosts for speed, which you need, or you'll be walking like a snail with arthritis for the whole game; and knives are cheap, abundant, and wo
Re:if only.. (Score:2)
Very Excited (Score:2)
This will give me the chance to catch up on the game that started the series.
Site Slashdotted, heres the program (Score:2, Funny)
Fun()
Goto 1
Free not Free Enough (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Free not Free Enough (Score:2)
Re:Free not Free Enough (Score:5, Insightful)
The inability to produce tenebrae-style variants is a shame, though.
Re:Free not Free Enough (Score:5, Insightful)
My usual response to games offered as free dnloads (Score:2, Interesting)
The bottom line is, they didn't have to do this. They don't have to release the source. Its their stuff, they decide to offer it for free, don't complain, or if you do, offer some form of thanks or positive feedback as well. As all your doing is slaping them in the face. If I worked for Bethesda, and read your comment (which I am sure they do read slashdot) I would feel in
This is pretty cool (Score:1)
Daggerfall (Score:1)
Re:Daggerfall (Score:1)
the combat system needed alot of work to be fun, and before the expansions, there was *rarely* enough to combat as a low level character just running around.
the work taht went into it looks massive, all the characters and quests and such, too bad it wasnt dynamic, the characters got stale eventually. one could still easily get dozens and dozens of hours of play out of it though, and the graphics were pretty good.
contest for USians only (Score:1)
Nostalgia hits (Score:1)
Walking around for hours, especially in the snowy towns, watching the flakes fall, enjoying the great music.
A game from the pre-cdrom era, installing it from a bunch of disks.
I love Bethesda games (even if some of them weren't quite that good, bugridden even).
Personally I think that giving this game away is a "good thing", tying in a contest to celebrate too.
But one thing pisses me off though, I can't enter the c
Yay... (Score:4, Funny)
Then again, I never did feel all that guilty.
Let's plug Morrowind once more (Score:2)
--trb
Re:Let's plug Morrowind once more (Score:2)
Is there any way to get around the fact that the landing from those scrolls always kills you?
Re:Let's plug Morrowind once more (Score:1)
--trb
Re:Let's plug Morrowind once more (Score:1)
Re:Let's plug Morrowind once more (Score:2)
Icarian Flight is fun, but a bit impractical. To survive the landing, cast a Levitate spell before you hit the ground - for some reason Levitate stops your fall instantly, but the jerk doesn't kill you.
If you want more control over your flight, try donating a potion of levitation at the shrine under the moon next time you're in Vivec - the bless
Re:Let's plug Morrowind once more (Score:2)
Bugs (Score:3, Insightful)
Still, this is a nice gift to the community of TES supporters from Bethesda.
Sweet! (Score:1)