After many years, the port of Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls 2: Daggerfall titled Daggerfall Unity has been completed and released as version 1.0.0.
The Elder Scrolls Daggerfall's awesome box art is one of gaming's best, but bringing it to life was a massive hassle for Bethesda.
Ted Peterson, the co-creator of The Elder Scrolls, adores Daggerfall Unity, but it proves games can't be preserved like movies and books.
The fact there is so much passion from the community to preserve and enhance the original work speaks a lot to just how fantastic it already was. I wouldn’t call that “mediocre”.
Passion doesn't equal excellence. The moddding started by fixing the game first, because the game wasn't made up to standards even for the time it was released. Then the creativity emerged from the others that were fixing the game. At this moment, the game became the modders creative project and Bethesda just leached off of it. In no way does this imply that the ones who built the game did anything above average.
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall is important for any number of reasons: Its pioneering place in a series that would go on to include Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim, to the fact it was a Game of the Year winner in its own right. The thing is, the game is a 3D adventure from 1996, and trying to play it in 2022 sucks.
