Tips for playing Arena: Rule 1: Kill a rat, save the game. Rule 2: Before you open a door, save the game. Rule 3: Find goodies, save the game. Rule 4: Rest and recover on a raised platform, save the game.
@@muddyreefer I can understand why it can be hit or miss. I also picked it up and put it down a few times. I eventually gave it one last solid go around. It took about 30 hours and I was hooked, but 30 hours is alot to ask of any game to sink in. That is a huge commitment for something that may or may not click with an individual.
"Tamriel is like an arena".... On the yellow team we have the aldmeri dominion! On the blue team, whats this? The nords and imperials are fighting each other? The show must go on... OPEN THE GATES!
WunTu92 And on the.... orange? Side we have the dragons! *_whispering_* Why is it orange? It was supposed to be green! What do you mean it’s all on fire?!
*_"Final boss? You mean the 'Press X to Kill' enemy?"_* -Westile _-Hello Darkness my old friend plays in the background_ while flashbacks of "pressing X to kill" Lord Gywn, Nashandra, and Soul of Cinder begin to commence... -after about 10 mins of staring into space... "uhhh, yeah sure."
Agreed, bought it new and still have the box and floppies. at the time it was the most immersive experience my pc could play. very fond memories of this game. even with the crashes and dos edits to get the sound card working;.
Man, it's kind of surreal to think that when you made this review TEN FREAKING YEARS AGO, Skyrim had just come out and Arena was 'only' around 15 years in the past. Now, it's Oblivion that's about 15 years in the past. Would love a retrospective about that! Also would love it if the next Elder Scrolls game would come out before another decade passes, but who am I kidding.
When you said. "Screw it we're nerd, lets make a full blown RPG." I imagined one the employee at Bethesda sitting at his desk working on the game and yelling that out.
Most people tend to give up before even leaving the first dungeon. The key to this game and Daggerfall is a.) spending about an hour or two with it getting used to the controls and b.) picking a class and some stats that don't make every fight with a rat or goblin a struggle. When I first fired this us I choose a Spellblade (or Nightblade, can't remember) and the game is just brutally in the beginning on any character that isn't a warrior. Being able to use all the weapons you find in the first dungeon and actually wear your armor is like night and day. Warrior classes will have it easiest in the beginning, followed by pure casters (since they can do more) and then any thief type, who are very limited early on. The class and stat selection (like most good CRPGs) is actually it's own difficulty slider. I got through the first dungeon on my jump in the water blindfolded Spell (or Night) Blade, but it took days and it was a real honest to god challenge to stay alive. I made a Ranger and pumped all his beginning stats into Strength and Endurance and I walked through the place like a god. Some classes are just better at certain things in games like this. Some are really only there for flavor or a challenge. But this game is actually very underrated once you get the hang of it, and I can see why it became a cult classic. Daggerfall is the true start of things shaping up, this is more of a template, but as a historical RPG artifact it's hard to beat Arena.
@@kegans6296 Like he said, just needed to get used to the difficulty. I did eventually and found a good strategy to stay alive. And it honestly worked for me.
the cool thing about arena in this regard tho, is that while the warrior classes will have an easier time escaping in the earlier game, the magic user classes will be broken as all hell at the late game. so in a way, the difficulty curves are kind of flipped, where one starts out easy and ends hard, and another starts out hard and ends easy
better then fromsoft with a toxic community that just screams GIT GUD and make over-rated over-bloated games like Elden ring which fan boys scream in pure glee despite all the many many many flaws and what knock or CDPR who just flat out lies about eveything and had many many many fan boys scream in glee among other things....
@@SuperNintendawg Fair point, I saw the writing on the wall months out for this game, and I remember reading about people who felt the same. The fact that so many people walked headlong into that clusterfuck is surprising to say the least.
+Spoder Men Sarcasm. And actually, while people claim that Skyrim is unstable and CTDs a lot, Oblivion and Morrowind are worse. Bethesda is actually improving ever so slightly in terms of stability with each Fallout/TES game they put out. Hopefully TESVI will follow this trend, and hopefully they won't release a half-finished product like they did with Skyrim and then patch it to heck and back while breaking more than they fix. They released so many patches that I was anxious to see them release a 2.x patch for the first time ever for a TES game, but they denied me/us even that D:
To be honest, Arena kind of sucked, but while Daggerfall is still a buggy, clunky mess, it's still much more of an RPG than watered down Skyrim. I play both; Daggerfall if I want to play an RPG, and Skyrim if I just want some brainless, awesome action.
So far as i can tell Skyrim SE runs perfectly on console without any patches. I haven't had a chance to play the PC version yet, as my old pc was slain by a Saint Bernard, and now i have to build a new gaming pc out of an old crapy dell office computer. Though it is coming along ok so far, It'll at least play Doom 3 on Ultimate with only 2 Gbs of RAM.
Even though I'm a console gamer & pretty happy being one, sometimes these classic old PC games get my attension & I wish I would have played them in the past. For instanse these First Person RPGs are really interesting for me as an fan of different Fantasy RPGs. I love watching LPs & reviews of these games, because there's just something magical in them, that gives me enjoyment. Thank you for giving this old fantasy nerd some happy fun time. :)
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The bad thing is if you download Arena off Bethesda (They made it free on their website), it won't come with the manual. So I was stuck on my laptop without wifi and without hope of ever getting past the Copyright Test.
The chick on the box looks like something right out of Heavy Metal. Man, I miss games with fat manuals & maps you can pin to the wall. Call me nuts, but the entire time I was playing Skyrim, I wanted to stop & play modded Morrowind instead. I didn't dislike Skyrim or anything. It's just that the nostalgia part of my brain is a nag that never shuts up.
The Elder Scrolls Anthology box has this really neat manual/cd case hybrid. It doesn't offer much information, but it has a bunch of maps. It's kind of a neat callback, but I agree that more games need manuals.. They just expect you to search everything on the internet now. Which... Is more than doable, but it's kind of nice having that on hand.
Lieutenant BaconWaffles - Besides you having the coolest name I've ever seen on the internet, I also agree with you and miss the days of the big fat manuals. Shit even the Nintendo Entertainment System games had them. They were like fore play is to sex. You're sitting there reading them knowing what comes next will be something great (usually) getting more and more excited as you turn each page. I used to be walking home from the Mall or Shopping Center reading the manuals not paying attention to anything. Then when you get home you can't get the game to play fast enough. Even if it is nostalgia that sh*t was awesome.
Brooke Christian Manuals weren’t phased out because you can search things online, they were phased out because developers learned how to use their time and space to make a user friendly game.
lmao! They ask you for the CD key AFTER you beat the first dungeon! That's great! I can only imagine how many frustrated nerds this created who pirated the game lol.
I had a much different experience with Arena. For starters, the game crashed only twice on me, and the enemies moved at an acceptable speed. And the main questline, its basically ask where dungeon X is->go to continent where dungeon is and ask again->go to town near dungeon and do quest to receive dungeon location-> repeat. Now that I finished Arena, I admit I am having a rough transition to Daggerfall. Will take some getting used to.
Same here. A friend of mine got me into the Elder Scrolls series just a few weeks ago and Arena was my first stop. Yes, it's pretty rough, it has a fair amount of flaws, but I am enjoying it. I am having fun. I am even doing some role-playing, robbing peopel on the streets or breaking into buildings at night, looking for loot (since I am playing as a Thief). It's a game very suitable for an oldschool veteran like myself. I definitely like Arena more than Daggerfall, which feels very confusing and vague... plus, the UI is way too complicated.
This game had the BEST spell ever. You could use it in dungeons and it let you dissolve walls. Dissolve walls. It didn’t work on all of them but most of the dungeon, with the help of the spell, you could just make your own route through. It was loads of fun.
I remember my aunt getting this in 94. I didn't understand the point of playing a broken game. She must have installed 50 times in a vane attempt to stop the crashing and speed issue. Then in 96 she got Daggerfall and I loved it... Now look at Bethesda. Fallout 4 no brightness setting or FOV slider, a bunch of bugs. But at least it doesn't run at 4x speed and i have not had a CTD.
+Abi Rizky yeah, bethesda "least buggy game" is missing a standard setting. (that even Unity & arkham knight had at launch) So when anyone says it wasn't rushed I like to ask them to ajust the brightness. So yeah... Thry are releasing DLC and are still missing a key setting. lol. It's not a bad game (it's really good with mods) though I prefer Elder Scrolls.
Essentials for playing Arena: F4 - toggles pixellation. Meaning, you'll get those info boxes instantly instead of having them fading in and out. Notes on map: useful for reminding yourself where those shops are that have the best gear (which is not random but fixed for all eternity and is the same in all games) Right-click on the doors of shops/mages guilds/temples/inns: auto-inscribes the names of those places on the map. Useful for those gofer-missions. Also, I always used the arrow keys to move. Found that much easier than mousing all over the place. I also never had the game crash on me for any reason. One of the most stable games I've ever played, both on my 486 back in the day as well as modern rigs (with Dosbox). This is also the only Elder Scrolls game I have actually finished. AND - and this is important to me personally - this is the only game in the Elder Scroll series which has changing seasons. Well, maybe Daggerfall did, too, I don't know. But Arena also let you explore all of tamriel, and different regions have different climates. Entirely cosmetic, of course, but it adds to the atmosphere to see the effect of the calendar year - and to see people dressing appropriately for the season.
Watching this in 2020 for the first time, I'm sorry but this is absolutely hilarious, all of the different references you mentioned during the intro of the game had me in tears. 10/10, thanks LGR.
Hey Clint, have you tried Arena Remapped and Intuitive UI from ModDB? Because they make the game a breeze to play, and it is really fun with those simple fixes applied. I suggest you replay the game with those, it's a game changer
@@bushmg1061 I went looking just now to see if the famous Bethesda modding community has had their way with this game, and sure enough it has its own category on Nexus. The only one that improves the controls appears to just be an add-on for DOSBox, basically a Steam Input style middleware, so I'm guessing there are still going to be some quirks. Here's hoping someone can crack the code and find a way to genuinely mod it.
@Pocket Fluff Productions I used that mod. It did not help. The nexus Bethesda scene got the way it is with oblivion, older ES games on the nexus have few, if any mods
Ah, this game! I remember obsessively re-creating all my spells every time I leveled in order to take maximum advantage of the rounding errors produced by the caster level and intelligence based spell cost and spell effect formulas. Good times! Also: Watching my experience like a hawk so that I could save right before killing an enemy that would make me level up and then re-load my game again and again until I finally got 6 stat points and a good HP bonus roll. Good times! :p
***** no they are different the cities are placed where there supposed to be and it wasn't generated it was created each town you see in the games where specifically placed there by the developers
***** Considering technology back then, it would be impossible to make it like morrowind, as DOS was very poor in the technology department, so these games were revolutionary.
muhammad mohamed No, that is completely false. The only things that were handcrafted by the developers were the dungeons where you could find the parts of the staff of chaos, the rest was never the same from one playthrough to the other. Randomly generated might be nice for dungeon delvers, but it ruins the exploration part unless there are a lot of variables like in modern games.
I am playing this through for the first time on dosbox. I’ve upped the cycles to 12,000 as I’ve read online. But my game runs NOTHING compared to yours in the video. How did you get it to run so smooth? Original Hardware? DOS magic? Help!
"a text box will ask you to do something, like deliver a piece of paper to a text box on the other side of town." This is why I love your channel. Glad I found you!
I bought this with my first computer in 1994. It was a Packard Bell Pentium 90mHz processor with 350MB hard drive space, 4MB RAM and a 15in Super VGA CRT monitor. $2500.
I got this game in the Elder Scrolls box containing all the games from Arena through Skyrim. I hadn't heard of Arena until getting that box set. This review is spot on. Arena is nearly impossible from the outset and I've been a hard core RPG gamer since the original NES releases of Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy.
A Creep. That's a good question and yes, that was a stupid comment. I start to walk across the map and after two hours I found out nothing changed. The same trees and that same house over and over again. And when I looked at the map I was still in the same town I started in. So I would never reach the end of the complete map. In the game Daggerfall, it is possible!
@@HowBigistheMap Arena is just way too bugged IMHO to be enjoyable, Daggerfall is the only DOS Elder Scrolls game that's worth imo. Especially with the (currently in beta) Unity mod.
Steve Weiner *genesis does!* Shitty controls and inferior graphics! *You can't do this on Nintendo; Genesis does!* Difficulty that makes you want to pull out your ducking liver! *GENESIS* *DOES!* *GENESIS* *DOES* *GENESIS* *DOES* Genesis does what Nintendon't
You know, I get that this game really doesn't hold up nowadays, but your criticisms really don't seem to take its age into consideration; back then, it was pretty common for games to put all the necessary information in the manual.
I remember being confused by the name of the game and kept passing up buying it. Eventually, one of my friends bought it and lent me his floppies. It was good but not as good as the SSI gold box games.
Best way to get this game is the Elder Scrolls Anthology for the PC. Comes with all 5 games, and all the addons, and is only like...$40 at Wal-Mart now days, so for less than the price of Skyrim's DLC on XBox, you can have ALL the games.
It's insane how PC game developers were able to survive in those times, imagine the cost of producing 8 floppies, a box plus the manual, plus the retailer would be taking their cut, it's a wonder they made any money at all. Thank god we have digital distribution now.
Loved the humor, but I found it irksome that all of your criticism is based on that you didn't read the manual, don't know anything about cRPGs, and that you're not taking into account the fashions in the RPG scene when it came out.
Ehh...he's a little hard on it. I got all the way to the end without much trouble(okay alot of trouble)but found it enjoyable and i actually like the UI...in some ways better than Skyrim. The crazy speed can be slowed down by running it in a dos box with turbo enabled(seems counterintuitive). Running around breaking into banks at night, and all those juicy titties make it worth while. The ability to delete spells from your spellbook is nice. The world is huge & somewhat repetitive, but saving often and saving smart, & making backup saves helps...in fact you can exploit the heck out of loot piles & chests, in fact from the very start you should save BEFORE clicking on the lootpile to the left of your starting cell-if you want to survive the first part of the game. Keep reloading until you get a decent weapon, even if it's not identified you can still use it & it's effects. As for spellmaking, make a spell that does a low amount of base dmg, but increases more per lvl, this will make it cheap to cast & keep it valid as you level up as it will do tons of damage by level 10. Also, don't let gouls hit you, they permanently afflict your strength it seems. The riddles are cute. Okay i'll shut up now.
You are absolutely right in this review... I remember this game when it was new. There was one "nerd" schoolmate which I knew, who played this game. And I was completely fascinated by the "open world" game. But it was COMPLETELY un-accesible for me. I could not speak english, I basically did not understand anything in this game. But I was fascinated. This guy had like tons of papers printed in english which again - none of us could understand... some walkthroughs etc. Well.. it was different time. The time of bloody difficult game which often people were not able to finish. But also, it was a time when - if you really liked some game, you've become a master, skiller.. I remember myself when playing Quake I - at some point, I reached the point when I played the whole game on 1 visit... Took me app. 1 hour - all chapters + Boss fight (using rocket jumps, cuts, going like a crazy). The world record was like 15 minutes?? :) Well... somehow, I am happy that I remember those basics of gaming. I am 1983 so I do NOT remember really "pre-historic" times of gaming, but from early 90s...., I have some nice memories.
Huh, this is the most sincere review of this game I have seen. I actually played this a long time ago, got about 6 parts of the Chaos staff and then just stopped playing - it was just too much to deal with it any longer. I then tried to play it once more, but now, I just could not..
This video has aged... _quite_ poorly. My opinions have changed almost entirely and I feel Arena deserves more credit than I gave it!
I just watched it again, and I love it! Hilarious :D But go ahead, make another one!
You've definitely improved over the years!
Tbh I'm just really happy you put subtitles. Good subs are underappreciated.
thank you
it's still one of my faves lol
Tips for playing Arena:
Rule 1: Kill a rat, save the game.
Rule 2: Before you open a door, save the game.
Rule 3: Find goodies, save the game.
Rule 4: Rest and recover on a raised platform, save the game.
5: Before you save the game, save the game. And then save it again.
Crash to DOS?
so, like any elder scrolls game?
Was about to say that.
But first of all. you have to get that thing that fixes the terrible controls, to make it playable at all.
It's weird seeing a video talking about Skyrim as a new game. It feels like an old classic already.
Considering next year makes it ten years old, that descriptor isn't far off
Skyrim is now as old as Morrowind when Skyrim first came out. Think about that
its still bugging me how people manage to "play" these things back in those day, it looks like torture to me.
@@TG-wg4tw aaaaawwwww
@@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933 holy cow. perspective
I miss text like that in games "you pick up the sword, it feels cold yet warm because of its magic blablablablajabjabjab"
Try Divinity Original Sin II
That’s why we play elder scrolls :D because it never ends and we all love mythology
@@josephc.3192 the greatest rpg i have ever played. They are making Bauldurs Gate 3. Get hyped my friend.
@@eoghancallaghy9254 dos2 is really a hit or miss. I tried playing at least a dozen different times. Something about it is off.
@@muddyreefer I can understand why it can be hit or miss. I also picked it up and put it down a few times. I eventually gave it one last solid go around. It took about 30 hours and I was hooked, but 30 hours is alot to ask of any game to sink in. That is a huge commitment for something that may or may not click with an individual.
"Tamriel is like an arena".... On the yellow team we have the aldmeri dominion! On the blue team, whats this? The nords and imperials are fighting each other? The show must go on... OPEN THE GATES!
WunTu92 And on the.... orange? Side we have the dragons! *_whispering_* Why is it orange? It was supposed to be green! What do you mean it’s all on fire?!
BY AZURA, BY AZURA!
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I remember exiting the first dungeon to be greeted by a dire wolf several tens of levels above me.
Good times.
Yes, good old times of difficult games, not like today, when first challanging monster in the game is final boss.
yea, and you can kill that final boss on a 1st try
the starks of winterfell hate you, apparently.
warrax111
Final boss? You mean the 'Press X to Kill' enemy?
*_"Final boss? You mean the 'Press X to Kill' enemy?"_* -Westile
_-Hello Darkness my old friend plays in the background_ while flashbacks of "pressing X to kill" Lord Gywn, Nashandra, and Soul of Cinder begin to commence...
-after about 10 mins of staring into space... "uhhh, yeah sure."
I was one of the original buyers of this game in 1994. The speed you are playing it at is in fact cpu related. Play it on a 486 as intended.
you and people like you literally made the future games possible 👍
Agreed, bought it new and still have the box and floppies. at the time it was the most immersive experience my pc could play. very fond memories of this game. even with the crashes and dos edits to get the sound card working;.
What other tips do you give?
Man, it's kind of surreal to think that when you made this review TEN FREAKING YEARS AGO, Skyrim had just come out and Arena was 'only' around 15 years in the past.
Now, it's Oblivion that's about 15 years in the past. Would love a retrospective about that! Also would love it if the next Elder Scrolls game would come out before another decade passes, but who am I kidding.
He has a video on oblivion:)
When you said. "Screw it we're nerd, lets make a full blown RPG." I imagined one the employee at Bethesda sitting at his desk working on the game and yelling that out.
And that lowly employee was god Howard and the rest is history
He was then lifted to the heavens as a 10th divine.
@@JReigndown lmao im pretty sure he wasn't even part of the company at the time
@@JReigndown that's cringe af. Especially considering it doesn't even make sense
*W E R E N E R D
"So just pick something and see how fast you die."
Sounds like a game for me!
Sounds more like ARK or any survival sim with permadeath nowadays lol
I first watched this video when I was 14…now I’m 25. LGR is amazing…and Skyrim is 10 years old - and probably still selling good !
I first watched this video when I was 13, now I'm 13.
Well, is not like another TES is out yet...
Most people tend to give up before even leaving the first dungeon. The key to this game and Daggerfall is a.) spending about an hour or two with it getting used to the controls and b.) picking a class and some stats that don't make every fight with a rat or goblin a struggle.
When I first fired this us I choose a Spellblade (or Nightblade, can't remember) and the game is just brutally in the beginning on any character that isn't a warrior. Being able to use all the weapons you find in the first dungeon and actually wear your armor is like night and day. Warrior classes will have it easiest in the beginning, followed by pure casters (since they can do more) and then any thief type, who are very limited early on.
The class and stat selection (like most good CRPGs) is actually it's own difficulty slider. I got through the first dungeon on my jump in the water blindfolded Spell (or Night) Blade, but it took days and it was a real honest to god challenge to stay alive. I made a Ranger and pumped all his beginning stats into Strength and Endurance and I walked through the place like a god. Some classes are just better at certain things in games like this. Some are really only there for flavor or a challenge. But this game is actually very underrated once you get the hang of it, and I can see why it became a cult classic. Daggerfall is the true start of things shaping up, this is more of a template, but as a historical RPG artifact it's hard to beat Arena.
Jonathan Straka this game was just unplayable. Daggerfall was way better.
@@kegans6296 Like he said, just needed to get used to the difficulty. I did eventually and found a good strategy to stay alive. And it honestly worked for me.
the cool thing about arena in this regard tho, is that while the warrior classes will have an easier time escaping in the earlier game, the magic user classes will be broken as all hell at the late game. so in a way, the difficulty curves are kind of flipped, where one starts out easy and ends hard, and another starts out hard and ends easy
Now you can just download the arenasetup and use the dosbox to remap the controls to the modern controls
Currently on an LGR marathon please help me
There is no help, only more DOS games.
Lazy Game Reviews
Ok just one more...or two...ah i'll just roll with it
I'm reprising this marathon. It's too late.
Domi Kat
It's never too late
I just discovered his channel, I'm in the same boat you are. XD
3:00 Even in the beginning, with different developers, Bethesda still re-released the same game several times.
I noticed that too lmao
better then fromsoft with a toxic community that just screams GIT GUD and make over-rated over-bloated games like Elden ring which fan boys scream in pure glee despite all the many many many flaws and what knock
or CDPR who just flat out lies about eveything and had many many many fan boys scream in glee among other things....
@@user-fv8le2ib2r I Agree the game itself needs to git gud.
My girlfriend just got me the Elder Scrolls box set for Xmas, thanks for letting me know what I was in for. Great Review! :D
Combat with no sense of contact where you just flail around? Some things never change
123 456 The combat is garbage. Deal with it.
Goddamn people are sensitive. Who plays Bethesda games for the combat? Relax.
@@SuperNintendawg
The people who got Fallout 76 apparently, lmao.
@@thisismyname5657
>game looks like trash
>buy game
>it's trash
TODD HOWARD SCAMMED ME #GAMERSRISEUP
@@SuperNintendawg Fair point, I saw the writing on the wall months out for this game, and I remember reading about people who felt the same. The fact that so many people walked headlong into that clusterfuck is surprising to say the least.
nice to see that buggy games by bethesda are a long standing tradition
+Hunter Rodrigez Why the heck is that nice?
+Spoder Men Sarcasm.
And actually, while people claim that Skyrim is unstable and CTDs a lot, Oblivion and Morrowind are worse. Bethesda is actually improving ever so slightly in terms of stability with each Fallout/TES game they put out. Hopefully TESVI will follow this trend, and hopefully they won't release a half-finished product like they did with Skyrim and then patch it to heck and back while breaking more than they fix. They released so many patches that I was anxious to see them release a 2.x patch for the first time ever for a TES game, but they denied me/us even that D:
Where Bethesda drops the ball, the community picks it up.
İ don't think this tradition of Bethesda is going away anytime soon.
To be honest, Arena kind of sucked, but while Daggerfall is still a buggy, clunky mess, it's still much more of an RPG than watered down Skyrim. I play both; Daggerfall if I want to play an RPG, and Skyrim if I just want some brainless, awesome action.
So far as i can tell Skyrim SE runs perfectly on console without any patches. I haven't had a chance to play the PC version yet, as my old pc was slain by a Saint Bernard, and now i have to build a new gaming pc out of an old crapy dell office computer. Though it is coming along ok so far, It'll at least play Doom 3 on Ultimate with only 2 Gbs of RAM.
Even though I'm a console gamer & pretty happy being one, sometimes these classic old PC games get my attension & I wish I would have played them in the past.
For instanse these First Person RPGs are really interesting for me as an fan of different Fantasy RPGs. I love watching LPs & reviews of these games, because there's just something magical in them, that gives me enjoyment.
Thank you for giving this old fantasy nerd some happy fun time.
:)
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"Emperor Uterus Rectum."
Words cannot express how many shit's were lost that day.
Absolutely love the style of your reviewing !
You sir just gained another subscriber, awesome stuff.
Thank you, I hope you continue to enjoy!
Lmao emperor urethra rectum is the greatest thing I've ever heard about an elder scrolls game character
+Nick Appleby *Narrows eyes, stares vacantly, and unamused.
Nick Appleby Valen Meth
Biggus Dickus.
Fargoth forgives your sins
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*+5 INTERNETS*?
*stares at fingers upon the keyboard*
_"Such power..."_
That's a whopping four more than I have :D
@Rainbow Dash I see what you did there, what with you being a pony with hooves after all. 😋
I miss the days when Skyrim was new
Yeah, because back then it could be considered good
Horizon Fade Except Morrowind I think.It was the best of them.
waspy wasp it’s still good
i miss the ydays when skyrim wasnt even planned yet
@@GRA2itous if you enjoy a supremely dumbed down concept of an rpg that is
skyrim is a poorly executed rpg with boring sidequests and a poor engine
It's been 10 years and I still refer the emperor as Uterus Rectum and forgot it was from this video
A great reminder of how long LGR has been going now. May he continue on for decades to come.
The bad thing is if you download Arena off Bethesda (They made it free on their website), it won't come with the manual. So I was stuck on my laptop without wifi and without hope of ever getting past the Copyright Test.
You can get the manuals from Bethesda's website at manuals.bethsoft.com/
Actually it does come with a PDF that contains all possible questions and answers to the copy protection.
Oh wow, I didn't see that. Thanks, guys!
+ it's not really a hard thing to find a list of the spells with costs :P
When you have Time Warner, it is.
The chick on the box looks like something right out of Heavy Metal.
Man, I miss games with fat manuals & maps you can pin to the wall.
Call me nuts, but the entire time I was playing Skyrim, I wanted to stop & play modded Morrowind instead. I didn't dislike Skyrim or anything. It's just that the nostalgia part of my brain is a nag that never shuts up.
General OFG I've got all those ES maps on my office wall right now ^.^
The Elder Scrolls Anthology box has this really neat manual/cd case hybrid. It doesn't offer much information, but it has a bunch of maps. It's kind of a neat callback, but I agree that more games need manuals.. They just expect you to search everything on the internet now. Which... Is more than doable, but it's kind of nice having that on hand.
Lieutenant BaconWaffles - Besides you having the coolest name I've ever seen on the internet, I also agree with you and miss the days of the big fat manuals. Shit even the Nintendo Entertainment System games had them. They were like fore play is to sex. You're sitting there reading them knowing what comes next will be something great (usually) getting more and more excited as you turn each page. I used to be walking home from the Mall or Shopping Center reading the manuals not paying attention to anything. Then when you get home you can't get the game to play fast enough. Even if it is nostalgia that sh*t was awesome.
Brooke Christian Manuals weren’t phased out because you can search things online, they were phased out because developers learned how to use their time and space to make a user friendly game.
same...sigh
"this game has so much potential" basically every bethesda game
anyone else digging their old logo? i like it.
I was born in March of 1994 and in the state of Maryland! I don't live that far away from Rockville either.
So...whens your birthday?
Kellmachine so Ur an arena baby?
ah, so the capital wasteland!
Yay another March baby like me.
February 94 here! Didn’t know girls liked OG Elder Scrolls
lmao! They ask you for the CD key AFTER you beat the first dungeon! That's great! I can only imagine how many frustrated nerds this created who pirated the game lol.
I had a much different experience with Arena. For starters, the game crashed only twice on me, and the enemies moved at an acceptable speed. And the main questline, its basically ask where dungeon X is->go to continent where dungeon is and ask again->go to town near dungeon and do quest to receive dungeon location-> repeat.
Now that I finished Arena, I admit I am having a rough transition to Daggerfall. Will take some getting used to.
Same here. A friend of mine got me into the Elder Scrolls series just a few weeks ago and Arena was my first stop.
Yes, it's pretty rough, it has a fair amount of flaws, but I am enjoying it. I am having fun. I am even doing some role-playing, robbing peopel on the streets or breaking into buildings at night, looking for loot (since I am playing as a Thief). It's a game very suitable for an oldschool veteran like myself.
I definitely like Arena more than Daggerfall, which feels very confusing and vague... plus, the UI is way too complicated.
It seems most people don't know there is some frame setting you have to tweak if you want the game to run at the proper speed.
This game had the BEST spell ever. You could use it in dungeons and it let you dissolve walls. Dissolve walls. It didn’t work on all of them but most of the dungeon, with the help of the spell, you could just make your own route through. It was loads of fun.
I dont think these reviews are lazy at all. Theyre really funny and helpful. Subbed.
I remember my aunt getting this in 94. I didn't understand the point of playing a broken game. She must have installed 50 times in a vane attempt to stop the crashing and speed issue. Then in 96 she got Daggerfall and I loved it... Now look at Bethesda. Fallout 4 no brightness setting or FOV slider, a bunch of bugs. But at least it doesn't run at 4x speed and i have not had a CTD.
Fallout 4 has no brightness setting? Really?
+Abi Rizky yup. I can't even find it in the ini. The only way I know to fix it is with mods like reshape or sweet fx.
+Jason Ciafre no fGamma value like Skyrim? I don't really play fallout games (just because those types of games aren't my cup of tea), but seriously?!
+Abi Rizky yeah, bethesda "least buggy game" is missing a standard setting. (that even Unity & arkham knight had at launch) So when anyone says it wasn't rushed I like to ask them to ajust the brightness. So yeah... Thry are releasing DLC and are still missing a key setting. lol. It's not a bad game (it's really good with mods) though I prefer Elder Scrolls.
+Jason Ciafre right... Well let's just hope TESVI would be awesome
I walked across the map in Daggerfall, it took me 69 hours. I want to walk across the map in Arena too but unfortunately that's impossible.
Essentials for playing Arena:
F4 - toggles pixellation. Meaning, you'll get those info boxes instantly instead of having them fading in and out.
Notes on map: useful for reminding yourself where those shops are that have the best gear (which is not random but fixed for all eternity and is the same in all games)
Right-click on the doors of shops/mages guilds/temples/inns: auto-inscribes the names of those places on the map. Useful for those gofer-missions.
Also, I always used the arrow keys to move. Found that much easier than mousing all over the place. I also never had the game crash on me for any reason. One of the most stable games I've ever played, both on my 486 back in the day as well as modern rigs (with Dosbox). This is also the only Elder Scrolls game I have actually finished.
AND - and this is important to me personally - this is the only game in the Elder Scroll series which has changing seasons. Well, maybe Daggerfall did, too, I don't know. But Arena also let you explore all of tamriel, and different regions have different climates. Entirely cosmetic, of course, but it adds to the atmosphere to see the effect of the calendar year - and to see people dressing appropriately for the season.
Did you know?
Minecraft strongholds are inspired from The Elder Scrolls games.
TheLazyWanderer nah.
It Never Said That On The Minecraft Wiki
Watching this in 2020 for the first time, I'm sorry but this is absolutely hilarious, all of the different references you mentioned during the intro of the game had me in tears.
10/10, thanks LGR.
At 4:49...Emperor Urethra Septim The Fourth.This video is pure gold.
Hey Clint, have you tried Arena Remapped and Intuitive UI from ModDB? Because they make the game a breeze to play, and it is really fun with those simple fixes applied. I suggest you replay the game with those, it's a game changer
"What is the cost of Heal?"
"boob"
: D
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Visually still very charming. I would love to see a "HD remake" with updated controls, etc..
I'd like to see someone update the controls on the original game. They're god awful
@@bushmg1061 I went looking just now to see if the famous Bethesda modding community has had their way with this game, and sure enough it has its own category on Nexus. The only one that improves the controls appears to just be an add-on for DOSBox, basically a Steam Input style middleware, so I'm guessing there are still going to be some quirks. Here's hoping someone can crack the code and find a way to genuinely mod it.
@Pocket Fluff Productions I used that mod. It did not help. The nexus Bethesda scene got the way it is with oblivion, older ES games on the nexus have few, if any mods
So Elder Scrolls games have been re-released since the beginning?
You say this video has aged poorly, but since my sense of humor and IQ haven't aged well either, Emperor Urethra Rectum really got me.
This is still my number one, all-time favorite CRPG.
Ah, this game! I remember obsessively re-creating all my spells every time I leveled in order to take maximum advantage of the rounding errors produced by the caster level and intelligence based spell cost and spell effect formulas. Good times!
Also: Watching my experience like a hawk so that I could save right before killing an enemy that would make me level up and then re-load my game again and again until I finally got 6 stat points and a good HP bonus roll. Good times! :p
How DO you tweak the transitions and map issues? I can't find a single thing online about it
Don’t know how I didn’t discover your channel sooner. I really enjoy the videos, and the content is great. Keep up the good work. 👍
the thing is you can explore all of tamriel
***** you must be talking about the wrong game or something
***** no they are different the cities are placed where there supposed to be and it wasn't generated it was created each town you see in the games where specifically placed there by the developers
***** Considering technology back then, it would be impossible to make it like morrowind, as DOS was very poor in the technology department, so these games were revolutionary.
muhammad mohamed No, that is completely false. The only things that were handcrafted by the developers were the dungeons where you could find the parts of the staff of chaos, the rest was never the same from one playthrough to the other. Randomly generated might be nice for dungeon delvers, but it ruins the exploration part unless there are a lot of variables like in modern games.
***** so you mean all those towns are generated too?
Nice to know that even in the 90 Bethesda was keeping true to their nature of releasing the same game 3-4 times before the next installment
I believe the design of this place was a result of Sheagorath after Molag Bal ordered him to build a deadly arena.
I love how you paraphrased the beginning. At first I wasn't sure if you were then I was rolling with laughter.
The rain effect was cool. You can see the building's reflections in the puddles. The snow looked COLD.
0:43 The guy on the left is Ritchie Blackmore
"You have a kindly face, dark elf, and I need a friend."
5:59 spice girls reference
Tell me what you mean, what you really really mean
I remember using multiple floppy disks to install a game. Crazy. I was thinking about replaying Elder Scrolls Arena. Thank you for making this video!
I am playing this through for the first time on dosbox. I’ve upped the cycles to 12,000 as I’ve read online. But my game runs NOTHING compared to yours in the video. How did you get it to run so smooth? Original Hardware? DOS magic? Help!
I guess I have _+5 Internets_ now.
I loved the cover as a teen, wonder why.
One day they said:"Screw it we're nerds!" No shit
I enjoy your voice, narration and sense of humor very, very much.
Wonderful content, Sir.
"a text box will ask you to do something, like deliver a piece of paper to a text box on the other side of town." This is why I love your channel. Glad I found you!
when will you review morrowind?
And at long last, LGR has done his Skyrim video.
13:04 "Main quest and side quests" mouse movements... lol
You start off in a prison cell.. With a key to open the door to the cell? I'm sold.
Long time fan of your content. Not sure how I never saw this video before but ty for all the content you make.
Bethesda gives arena for free on their site I think but u need a dos thingy. For an original might bea lot
So it's better than Elder Scrools online then?
Scrolls* and yes.
Aslak Christensen
I prefer Scrools. I wouldn't call ESO an Elder *Scrolls* game
Fair enough
Everything is better than ESO..
eso is pretty good now
Do daggerfall Next!
You can also get that for free from the elder scrolls website.
Yes, please do Daggerfall. I've never played it and now I want to and I'm interested in your opinion, Clint.
I bought this with my first computer in 1994. It was a Packard Bell Pentium 90mHz processor with 350MB hard drive space, 4MB RAM and a 15in Super VGA CRT monitor. $2500.
I got this game in the Elder Scrolls box containing all the games from Arena through Skyrim. I hadn't heard of Arena until getting that box set. This review is spot on. Arena is nearly impossible from the outset and I've been a hard core RPG gamer since the original NES releases of Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy.
I walked across the map of The Elder Scrolls: Arena. It was impossible.
How Big is the Map? then how did you do it.
A Creep. That's a good question and yes, that was a stupid comment. I start to walk across the map and after two hours I found out nothing changed. The same trees and that same house over and over again. And when I looked at the map I was still in the same town I started in. So I would never reach the end of the complete map. In the game Daggerfall, it is possible!
How Big is the Map? Haha lol yeah arena is huge. I hope to play on my PC soon.
@@HowBigistheMap
Arena is just way too bugged IMHO to be enjoyable, Daggerfall is the only DOS Elder Scrolls game that's worth imo. Especially with the (currently in beta) Unity mod.
Yeah, Daggerfall was very good. I manage to walk across that map
Aladdin on SNES was pretty good.
+Steve Weiner true.
Steve Weiner *genesis does!*
Shitty controls and inferior graphics!
*You can't do this on Nintendo;
Genesis does!*
Difficulty that makes you want to pull out your ducking liver!
*GENESIS* *DOES!*
*GENESIS* *DOES*
*GENESIS* *DOES*
Genesis does what Nintendon't
You know, I get that this game really doesn't hold up nowadays, but your criticisms really don't seem to take its age into consideration; back then, it was pretty common for games to put all the necessary information in the manual.
"Uterus Rectum" OMG I fucking laughed my Uterus Rectum off
Every second of your commentary on the games intro is gold
I remember being confused by the name of the game and kept passing up buying it. Eventually, one of my friends bought it and lent me his floppies. It was good but not as good as the SSI gold box games.
Sounds about right… lol
Holy shit :O skyrim is almost 7 years old
I feel old
Still gooooood
Copy protection question: "What is the cost of Heal?"
LGR: "boob."
LMAO
Okay, can somebody please tell me how in the name of Akatosh do you change the reflex speed and turn off the menu transitions?
Did you edit this video? There seem to be cuts that weren't there before.
Best way to get this game is the Elder Scrolls Anthology for the PC. Comes with all 5 games, and all the addons, and is only like...$40 at Wal-Mart now days, so for less than the price of Skyrim's DLC on XBox, you can have ALL the games.
haha
"choose your reproductive organs"
If they had time to change the name, it could've been named The Elder Scrolls: Tamerial.
they probably also would have called the imperial province cyrodiil.
You managed to incorporate 2 of my obsessions into one video: Elder Scrolls and MBTI. Have my thumbs up.
This is my all time favorite video of yours LGR, it's so full of small witty jokes I love it.
It's insane how PC game developers were able to survive in those times, imagine the cost of producing 8 floppies, a box plus the manual, plus the retailer would be taking their cut, it's a wonder they made any money at all. Thank god we have digital distribution now.
Well I personally really miss game boxes and manuals.
Jagermeister LOL
Loved the humor, but I found it irksome that all of your criticism is based on that you didn't read the manual, don't know anything about cRPGs, and that you're not taking into account the fashions in the RPG scene when it came out.
Great Video! But I don’t really like the first The Elders scrolls :/ Which font do you use on your thumbnails? I want to know that haha
I saw this review when it was brand new
Now it's almost 10 years old...
Jesus...
Ehh...he's a little hard on it. I got all the way to the end without much trouble(okay alot of trouble)but found it enjoyable and i actually like the UI...in some ways better than Skyrim. The crazy speed can be slowed down by running it in a dos box with turbo enabled(seems counterintuitive). Running around breaking into banks at night, and all those juicy titties make it worth while. The ability to delete spells from your spellbook is nice. The world is huge & somewhat repetitive, but saving often and saving smart, & making backup saves helps...in fact you can exploit the heck out of loot piles & chests, in fact from the very start you should save BEFORE clicking on the lootpile to the left of your starting cell-if you want to survive the first part of the game. Keep reloading until you get a decent weapon, even if it's not identified you can still use it & it's effects. As for spellmaking, make a spell that does a low amount of base dmg, but increases more per lvl, this will make it cheap to cast & keep it valid as you level up as it will do tons of damage by level 10. Also, don't let gouls hit you, they permanently afflict your strength it seems. The riddles are cute.
Okay i'll shut up now.
Pretty sure the lowered Strength effects from Ghoul attacks are simply a Disease and can be cured
I may be alone on this, but I thought Arena was better than Daggerfall.
And later came Oblivion that killed 80% of the Es gameplay, while repairing 20% of the inherant bugs
Xavier Bordas What are you even trying to say?
You are absolutely right in this review... I remember this game when it was new. There was one "nerd" schoolmate which I knew, who played this game. And I was completely fascinated by the "open world" game. But it was COMPLETELY un-accesible for me. I could not speak english, I basically did not understand anything in this game. But I was fascinated. This guy had like tons of papers printed in english which again - none of us could understand... some walkthroughs etc.
Well.. it was different time. The time of bloody difficult game which often people were not able to finish. But also, it was a time when - if you really liked some game, you've become a master, skiller.. I remember myself when playing Quake I - at some point, I reached the point when I played the whole game on 1 visit... Took me app. 1 hour - all chapters + Boss fight (using rocket jumps, cuts, going like a crazy). The world record was like 15 minutes?? :)
Well... somehow, I am happy that I remember those basics of gaming. I am 1983 so I do NOT remember really "pre-historic" times of gaming, but from early 90s...., I have some nice memories.
Huh, this is the most sincere review of this game I have seen. I actually played this a long time ago, got about 6 parts of the Chaos staff and then just stopped playing - it was just too much to deal with it any longer. I then tried to play it once more, but now, I just could not..