Bethesda Reveals Elder Scrolls Anthology. Options

[Darkness Eternal]

Today at QuakeCon 2013, Bethesda revealed The Elder Scrolls Anthology, a complete PC compilation of every single Elder Scrolls game ever created.



The collection will be released at retail on September 10th, and it will cost $79.99. The Anthology includes the following:

•The Elder Scrolls Arena
•The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
•The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
•The Elder Scrolls III DLC: Tribunal
•The Elder Scrolls III DLC: Bloodmoon
•The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
•The Elder Scrolls IV DLC: Knights of the Nine
•The Elder Scrolls IV DLC: Shivering Isles
•The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
•The Elder Scrolls V DLC: Dawnguard
•The Elder Scrolls V DLC: Hearthfire
•The Elder Scrolls V DLC: Dragonborn

The boxed compilation will also come with five maps “detailing the lands of Tamriel, Iliac Bay, Morrowind, Cyrodiil, and Skyrim.

[jack cloudy]

Good question. Here is my entirely unsupported by actual researched opinion.

Skyrim: Definitely Steam.
Oblivion: Possibly Steam but not necessarily.
Morrowind: See Oblivion, but odds of Steam are getting lower.
Arena/Daggerfall: I very much doubt it will be Steamed. For one there is the free version and for another the two games aren't really worth much money. (Not that age seems to be much of a deterrent to digital publishers when it comes to pricing.)
That said, having one game require Steam and the others not would seem like a bit of an oddity so I wouldn't be surprised (but dissapointed) if Skyrim to Morrowind are all the Steam versions. In which case you are really buying a set of really expensive maps.



And on a sidenote, I'm guessing that the Arena and Daggerfall in the compilation will be the cd versions. The freeware ones were the floppydisk-edition. What does this mean? Games in the early nineties sometimes came out in floppydisk and cd versions. The cd version would have animated FMVs (prerendered movies which nowadays look like low-resolution youtube vids full of compression artefacts), and things like voiced audio or higher quality music.