Dungeons, and Caves, and Towns - Oh My!

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I saw that earlier today. I could never bring myself to buy something like this knowing that the anthology will be obsolete sooner or later when they release another one, so might as well buy them individually.

I agree - but for retail Box Buyers and the Maps Would look great Mounted on the Wall ;-)

For someone who has only none or 1 of the games its a good buy but most of us have morrowind up so for 2 games that are free it is expensive.

Looks pretty nice. Fancy box, maps, four games worth playing? Sounds good to me, even if two of them are free. Do the discs for Arena and Daggerfall have an installer on them that sets it up with DosBox or something?

Is Steam required?

For Skyrim, probably.

Nice looking collection, shame I have no intentions of playing the older ones again. Elder Scrolls hasn't aged well. Morrowwind is not as playable as it use to be.

I'm disappointed that the anthology only collects these games. What about Battlespire and Redguard? What about the mobile games (TES Travels) which are doomed to oblivion? I'd really love to see a collection which makes all the Elder Scrolls games available, with emulators when needed.

Edit: I also think that Arena, Daggerfall and Shadowkey could use remakes, or at least open sourcing them and letting the fans do it.

That is rather expensive, and ET3D has correctly stated, also incomplete.

Arena is likely to be the CD edition with the FMV video and full speech, although that doesn't bring a great deal to the table. Daggerfall is available free in the same form it will be here.

Oblivion is fairly cheap nowadays, you can get the GOTY edition on disc for €10.

Morrowind is the outlier here as Bethesda have seen fit to only offer it as a Steam key packaged in boxes of late, which has made retail secondhand DRM-free copies a bit expensive.

And Skyrim is very likely to require Steam, which basically makes this collector's box worthless anyway. Of course, if I'm wrong, and Bethesda puts a DRM-free version of Skyrim in here, then the box will doubtless be worth its weight in gold, but I doubt it.

It's certainly better than that joke of a Mass Effect Trilogy box though...

Lol, are Bethsoft pretending Battlespire and Redguard never happened?

Also, no one in their right mind would play Daggerfall vanilla, without fan patches.

Is it bad that I didn't dislike Redguard?

Probably, I don't think anyone liked Redguard at the time, not even Bethesda themselves

I think Redguard is what made Kirkbride leave Bethsoft to..

Package looks nice, but uninformative. Looks like there will be no soundtracks included (?), maps are printed (is it so expensive to print on a piece of cloth?) and yes, no Redguard or Battlespire (you can't call it a Complete collection without those).