Daggerfall Unity Special GOG Cut FREE on GOG

[Paul Rudd]

Daggerfall Unity GOG Cut is FREE right now on GOG.

This heavily modded version of the game is enhanced for modern gamers.

[Zodiark1593]

Per-pixel lighting and high-res textures are the most prominent of the enhancements that stick out. It looks like the old version uses a fake bloom effect that utilized transparent textures to simulate the effect. This was the way to do it before you had programmable pixel shaders for full-screen effects. (I'd have to see it in motion to know for sure, but it looks quite mild here). In the newer version, it looks like a pretty standard, modern-ish bloom effect.

 

Also, though the low res screenshots don't do a great job of showing it, there's also bump mapping in effect, which also indicates the use of multitexturing.

 

I bet that this game is old enough where a ray tracer could be utilized to good effect. Could probably even have shadows for most of the objects, sans characters.