Sorry!


Ooh, I so look forward to the box alone!! But now when my initial excitement has worn off I´m getting more irritated that every single one of the DLCs aren´t included. Is there a reason like keeping them exclusive or something? Is it about the prize? Because that is not an excuse; we who´re buying it would still buy it even if it cost a little bit more!
I already have every DLC to Oblivion (except Stronghold) but in a "complete" collection such as this, as a dev I´d make darn sure they were included!

Best as I can tell, it is laziness. No retail edition of Oblivion ever came with the DLC (apart from KOTN that was treated as a full expansion). Instead of making a new version that includes them, they've simply hauled the old manufacturing hardware out of storage I think. Not that I actually know how installation programs and disc-burners are made or operate.

A better example is morrowind perhaps. I've only seen the promo-image of the box, but I remember mentioning in one of the threads about the anthology that Morrowind apparantly comes on multiple discs. For clarification, Morrowind came before the dvd era and came on cds, as well as its expansions. Now a cd (man, this makes me feel old, I remember the floppy disk that held ~1 megabyte) holds only ~700 megabytes. The first time I bought Morrowind it came on two cds, one for the game and another for the construction kit. Disc-swapping was required during the installation process.

When Morrowind was later rereleased on dvd as GOTY, it and its expansions easily fit on one disc.

So there is no reason for Morrowind to need multiple discs for the anthology, unless the promo-image showed multiple discs solely as an easy visual for the expansions.



As for the poll, I am waving back and forth on it. On the one hand, shiny box and everything nice and tidy in one place (minus Oblivion DLC). Also, maps. On the other hand, I already have the three I would play.




And a question to those who did buy it. About the maps, does it show anything about the continents beyond Tamriel?

Nope. On the eastern map edge it says "The Padomaic Ocean," and on the western edge it says "The Eltheric Ocean."

One thing I´d also really like is paper manuls for each game. I know they have them for Morrowind onwards, but do they come with Arena and Daggerfall, Grits?

Nope. No manuals at all.

*weeps*

I've been playing laptop Skyrim with the Controls wiki page open on my phone. It's... not ideal.

Admittedly it would be better if the letters weren't worn off so many keys. I have to close my eyes and pretend to type in order to remember where some of the letters are.

Aren't there even PDFs for the manuals? Hard to believe

Goddammit! When will they ever release a complete collection!??

There’ a little slip of paper that tells you where to get the manuals online. So eventually I'll get around to making my own manuals. Still.

Also there’s a sticker promoting TES Online.

But I’d rather have manuals.


ETA: Oh!! There may be PDFs of the manuals on the Arena and Daggerfall discs. I haven’t checked.

This post has been edited by Grits: Sep 25 2013, 03:44 PM

Oh no not my precious information!

HOW DO I WALK!?!?!?!/

The Anthology is here!!!

It came in the mail this very day and I have now taken a few pixies to show anyone interested what it all looks like I must say though, I was very reluctant about breaking the plastic cover and ruining the mint. But then I thought, if I don´t open it up and appreciate it all, who will? Besides, I already have other unopened stuff in my collection so at least I have that
Besides not getting a full manual for each game plus all the DLCs I was a little bummed out about a chip in the lower right corner on the plastic box. Not too much of a biggie, but still.

Anyway, pixie time! Apologies if they´re not perfect

Front cover (with the chip)
Back cover
Box and booklet
Arena
Daggerfall
Morrowind + CS
Tribunal and Bloodmoon
Oblivion
Skyrim
Map of Tamriel
Map of Iliac Bay
Map cover + notes

You're probably right, either that or they had lots of extra copies laying around and figured out a way to sell them easily.

It does look very nice though going by the pics just posted by Mirocu.

mirocu! Congrats, my friend! I know how much you've been looking forward to getting that. What a collection you must now have! You'll have to get busy crafting new custom wooden display cases for it all now.

Thanks, Acadian! I really like my collection of Beth games And to think, you are to blame for it when you wiggled your KotN retail disc in front of me over at Bethsoft. You owe me some money, buddy!


Yeah, I want the same type of display cases they have in Oblivion!

Buuuut! Do you also have Redguard and Battlespire? No collection could be complete without those!

That´s exactly my point earlier! When will they ever release a complete collection!?? And I mean every DLC and full manuals for each game!!

-pouts-

This post has been edited by mirocu: Sep 27 2013, 06:29 PM

I'm just messing with you. Both of these games were pretty crappy, and even I finished neither.

It doesn´t matter. They should be in a complete collection.

Of course I knew you were messing with me

Just got it. I'll be installing Morrowind as long as it's not Steamed, and then I'll look at whether Skyrim can be persuaded into permanent offline mode once it's registered. I'm not sure if I'll put KotN into my game, but that's a possibility, too.

My two septims on KOTN is to start without it so the Anvil chapel is pristine and fully functional until you are (if ever) ready to commence the KOTN quest. Then simply add it in to the existing game. Buffy's been walking past that prophet and trashed chapel years and may or may not ever do that quest. Once you start a game with KOTN installed, you can't 'undo' it without starting a new game (at least I couldn't figure out, within reason, how to).

Yeah I think that Bethsoft would just like to forget that they existed.