If we talk to you about the biggest game in Bethesda’s history, you probably rub your hands thinking about ‘Starfield’ or ‘Skyrim’ with all its expansions. But, however, they pale in comparison to the true behemoth of the developer, a title that time has forgotten and that you can now recover for the modest cost of zero euros. It’s a good deal, isn’t it?
Sequels were always good
On August 31, 1996, Bethesda Softworks, specialized in all kinds of games for MS-DOS (from “Where’s Wally?” to “The Terminator: Future Shock”), released the second part of one of their titles, “The Elder Scrolls: Arena”. It was “Daggerfall”, an open-world role-playing game that at that time was an absolute innovation.
And if in ‘Starfield’ we have a thousand planets to explore, in ‘Daggerfall’ there were 15,000 dungeons, towns, villages, and cities to visit, an overwhelming number that has not been surpassed by Bethesda itself yet. It is estimated that four years after its release, it had already sold 800,000 units worldwide, but the arrival of the third installment, ‘Morrowind’, caused it to be forgotten.
Until now. And it is that a community of fans has recreated ‘Daggerfall’ exactly as it is, but adapted to Unity. It has been almost four years of pain since August 2014, but this remake has come to a good end, being playable from start to finish. ‘Daggerfall Unity’ is finally considered officially finished, and its project leaders can finally move on to something else. It was about time.
It’s absolutely free, but you have to be willing to explore a map of 209,000 square kilometers, which is the same size as the United Kingdom. Bethesda wanted people to never stop playing ‘Daggerfall’ (similar to what they have said about ‘Starfield’). 27 years later, it can be said that they have achieved it.
