Monday, October 20, 2008

Back to the Basics

So I FINALLY got my hands on a copy of TESI Arena. This was great as I have been playing through The Elder Scrolls series for some time now (Morrowind GOTY first, then Oblivion GOTY then Daggerfall and finally Arena, Redguard to come soon). A while back Bethesda hosted a free copy of Daggerfall on their site as a celebratory gift. So I tried to unzip and install Arena just to be completely confused by the breakdown of the file structures. The game was contained in 8 separate zip files which all contained some files of the same name but slightly different sizes. After pondering this for a bit and trying to run the .exe which did not work I realized something. Each zip corresponds to what would have been a floppy disk as each one is about 1.5 megs. So now its on to find a floppy disk so that I can properly install this thing... From what Ive seen it is something like Daggerfall (which both bear a haunting resemblance to the first Wolfenstein 3d game) which is frustrating since in that game I could rarely survive the tutorial and if I did manage to escape the smugglers hold I could not for the life of me navigate towns....

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