The Elder Scrolls Arena: Hunting the Fire Daemon

[TheSkyLordCrafters]

Why the hell do you say minecraft minecraft has better grafics

[HaruGloryr]

kinda reminds me of minecraft

[awsomesupervideyos]

songs of runescape

[awsomesupervideyos]

minecraft but more manly!!!

[darekrusaderBacklive]

This is the worst TES of all lack of creativity in the main quest secondary quest and dungeons and lack of variety of weapons and armors. And the main story is the same mission eight times i stop playin for that but anyway long live to TES

[Ninja1Ninja2]

As good as the procedural system of Arena and Daggerfall is, it could never be remade with presentable graphics (by modern standards) without it being a buggy nightmare.

Not to mention, the immersive atmosphere still remains in games past Daggerfall and Arena, it's just that the NPC's are no longer cardboard cutouts, but bland-skinned manequins.

[jackoneill45]

@Ninja1Ninja2 yeah but they lack the atmospheric music of the early TES games. MW, OBL and Skyrim have good music, but it's more like something you'd hear in a movie, whereas these games had music to scare you and change your mood more - but they wouldn't fit in a movie either

Oh and here's a fun fact, did you know OBL's world WAS mostly procedurally generated

[bartas2075]

Skyrim 20 years ago!

[Sporevideomaker]

@bartas2075 Actually Arena came out in 1994, which was 18 years ago, so I guess you are close.

[J0SlAH]

wait a minute WHAT? THIS FUCKING SONG IS IN ARENA TOO!? FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF­UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[infinitexpmax]

this is where the 200 hours game begin

[angrywhitebird22]

why are you guys comparing minecraft to arena arena is made in the 1990's minecraft made in 20 first get me both diffrent games both good and fun but they are totally difren

nt and if it's graphics guess which is newer

[oOSignalzOo]

Holy Fuck thats more Ghetto then GTA 1 and 2

[DEVIRUSMAKER]

This racist it like blurs his nigg** characters face on like the cop shows xD

[multishorts]

I was having an argument with my friend which is better RuneScape or Elder Scrolls 1 (Not knowing what Elder Scrolls 1 was like) I think i'm right in saying RS is a hell of a lot better lmao

[Thelittlepumpkins]

Holy fuck this music is incredible

[OlAdam7]

just started playing this game. so fun.

[ElectricCyanide]

I've always wondered what Skyrim looked like on the PS3

[666GrizzlyBeast]

whats the story of this game?

[666GrizzlyBeast]

can you pop out the map in this game or you jjust know where to go. also is the map actually all of tamriel. like can you walk that big or only certain spaces in each country?

[soaponaroapDG]

Just imagine Skyrim, but all over Tamriel like this...

[BigFreakingCacodemon]

The dungeons in this game scared and still do scare the heck out of me. Literally, more so than DooM 3.

[xorn95]

@gregisfreestyle I have a Ps3 and personally believe its the more powerful system and even I laughed at that XD

[DVSPython]

Why did you bother bringing consoles into this?

[MarioWars]

Anyone know how much space this game takes up?

[babychrisbreezy]

Minecraft version of Skyrim 

[LegionOfSekhmet]

Skyrim, anyone?

[TrollingSince1992]

elder scrolls owning all of rpg games since 1994

[TrcyMcgrdy1]

@TrollingSince1992 cept final fantasy. but elder scrolls getting better while FF is losing the story and amzing gameplay for graphics. Shame on Square Enix those bastards.

[TrollingSince1992]

@TrcyMcgrdy1 i dont know i play a lots of rpg and i love both ff and elder scrolls but the way of play game and feeling elder scrolls is my type ff is kinda limited but the story line is epic but you have a point.

[Legendarykid911]

....the streets of the citys at night are.....dangerous

[davden90925]

whats sad is that in almost 10 years we haven't advanced in technology (hence minecraft)....

[ParkourCalico]

The Elder scrolls Runescape

[patrickdgregg]

How do you play it, i cant understand the DOSBox thing?

[PirateMonkeyFilmz]

i tried playing this on every computer i have, but it lags horribly on each. what do i do?

[2277fallout]

@PirateMonkeyFilmz well if your using the DOSbox the open it then just hit ctrl + f12 till it dosent lag

[PirateMonkeyFilmz]

@2277fallout I have gotten it to work since three months ago, thank though :)

[2277fallout]

@PirateMonkeyFilmz yeah i had already hit ok before i noticed it was from 3 months ago

[puck10114]

ist ist simpel, es sieht scheisse aus, trotzdem saugeil!

[sutibun21]

The Elder Scrolls is one of my top rpg games of all time just because there not scared to try something

[donvito4221]

Wow. I love how such a fantastic start can grow to Skyrim. I can't wait for Skyrim decades later.

[atomicX557]

where could i buy this and Daggerfall? I really want to play the classics.

[darklol261]

@atomicX557 go on the elder scrolls website, its free there.

[ghostrj]

Aaaaahhhh how did you get your damn view distance up? I've been trawling ini tweaks and stuff for arena for ages now and havn't found anything but normalising fps and such, can only see about 20ft in front of me :(

[213Gremlin]

this game looks so freakin stupid yet awesome at the same time!!!

[tr763]

i remember this game. about 15 years ago. it was epic

[Verthel123]

@tr763

Have you played Might & Magic VII? The first 2 TES games looks vaguely similar to MM7, does it have the same level of entertainment? if so, i'm so gonna play it!

[tr763]

@Verthel123 i havent

[lordzilu1584]

@Verthel123

In my opnion, TES 2 is better than Might and Magic 7, TES 1 not. But TES 2 has more bugs than any other RPG games



[leatherdust]

This is proof that graphics dont make the game

[ArchibaldBumstead]

@leatherdust Rather, this game has amazing graphics for 1994

[S0ryiu]

@leatherdust But the do, the 2D pixelated sprites add as much to the charm and feel as the midi music and stat elements do.

[esh325]

@leatherdust This is true, but would you pay 60$ for a game that looks like Arena in 2011?

[Mr324paul]

@esh325 minecraft

[hundredand3]

@Mr324paul Minecraft is $30, and the graphics are quite a bit cleaner and better.

[Co0kieMonst4r]

@esh325 I'd pay 78 dollars to play Arena with Skyrim graphics.

[esh325]

@Co0kieMonst4r You might, but not the vast majority of people out there.

[3dMatth]

@esh325 Perhaps not, but I would pay €19.95, which is the price of Mincecraft. Since, well, it got the same graphic as Minecraft. It's generally how I get people to try this game; "Think of a real adventure mode for Minecraft". Since, well, how many today have played it? I know of none nearby me.

[smeagol1414]

@3dMatth this game's graphics are way worst than minecraft, minecraft's graphics are beautiful, just not very realisting, and anyways this game looks very cool but its actually really boring, and gets extremely repetitive after a very short time. You can try it for free if you want though, just look it up on bethesda website, its freeware now

[3dMatth]

@smeagol1414 1) The graphic of minecraft is better because it is made todyish, but it gets the point over. 2) Daggerfall is quite fun if you actually know how to play it. Min/maxing and RPGing through it. You can't streamline it, at which it becomes repetive. And yes, I've played every TES game.

[smeagol1414]

@3dMatth yes but this isn't daggerfall, its arena, the horrible young brother of daggerfall =P, and I've played ( but not completed) all tes game as well

[D4NKBROA20]

@esh325 I wouldn't pay $60 for skyrim lol

[Malaikat31]

@esh325 Game that would look like this would never cost 60 bucks. But yes, I would buy this if they re-release it: put some spell system redesign, some dedicated DOS-emulator, and I'm in. Besides, I think that Minecraft recently taught us not to judge a game by it's graphic, but rather by it's Gameplay and Immersion. PS - Minecraft doesn't cost 60 bucks.

[MexiFrie666]

@esh325 If it is more fun than the other 60$ games sure.

[ivel48]

@esh325 Minecraft

[BishopS]

@leatherdust Weren't these considered good graphics in its time?

[TheBnishan12345]

@leatherdust This was mind blowing graphics back in the day, the same would be said for skyrim in 30 years time.

[qcenaman]

omfg THE WATER! lol

[Muffinfordinner]

I believe you're using fire on the fire daemon. hello? yeah hello? Haaaa HAAAAA

[joezzzify]

it looks like old runescape

[oskulock]

@joezzzify How come? Its not third person, it doesnt use that kind of graphics or even look nothing like Runescape. :D:D Music is pretty much the same thought. :D

[Acefighter0098]

As fun as the first two games are suppose to be I can't stand the shitty music and the 2D graphics maybe because I'm a younger gamer but morrowind isn't that good looking and I still play that all the time. Doesn't everything computer generate when you create a character? If so nothing would ever be the same, that would be pretty lame and all the provinces seem too similar. Are there towns that are unique? -Sbowjnso hub fuckyou

[ZombieAlienHamster]

Can you go to Vvardenfell in Arena?

[BobMcCob]

@ZombieAlienHamster yes, dagoth-ur is in the game also.

[PirateMonkeyFilmz]

any particular reason why this lags so much? is my old laptop too new?

[spikew10]

This game reminds me of final doom. This game seems to be really old or they didn't care much about there graphics when this was made. Which cant be said for obliviion.

[0elmir0]

@spikew10

lol use google instead of emberassing yourself on old youtube videos -.-

oblivion was made 12 years after

numnut :D

[powerofthemind21]

I have to say even after playing through Oblivion

this game is great to play... I am actually writing this in hope that some1 will help me

I have gotten out of that first dungeon and done many quests in that first city.. so can any1 tell me what to do now ...exit the city and go randomly about or go to certain places, and how to complete the main quest?

[bigantennaemay]

@powerofthemind21 that depends.... if by first dungeon you mean Stone Keep, then you have to go back to the ruler of Rihad to exchange the parchment for the location of Fang Lair. And if you meant Fang Lair, well, another vision from Ria Silmane should tell you where to go. (Hint: Mage's Guild in Winterhold, Skyrim, ask about Labyrinthian)

[Theelderscrollsftw94]

FUCK, why have they removed climbing on Oblivion and Morrowind? They bether add it in tes v:P, oh.. and they should also use the SMART system like they have in Brink.

[TheFakeBlood]

@Theelderscrollsftw94 I doubt they would, seems like they constantly removing features with each game :(

[kezunetwitch]

Buh! How did you get sound?

[HardWarUK]

Why do we not get more procedural games? Isn't Elite and Arena and Daggerfall, Darklands and Space Rangers 2 proof enough that procedural games are more brilliant?!

[SciFiMoviePro]

when i play this with DosBox (on windows vista) it is laggy laggy laggy. maybe about 3 fps! WHY!

[vidEOkid12345]

@SciFiMoviePro keep pressin ctrl+f12 until the cpu cycles are at 15000-16000

[SciFiMoviePro]

@vidEOkid12345 TYSM!!!

[vidEOkid12345]

@SciFiMoviePro no probs, im always up for helpin arena fanz.

[FwithouttheFrank]

Only in this era of gaming was it perfectly normal to be running through the streets at 80mph 

[Spark400]

Yeah, that's an emulation issue. Bethesda made the game to run at 15fps, so speeding up the cpu cycles meant that the walking pace increased as well.

[iscrewy]

@Spark400

What's your favorite Elder Scrolls game?

[Spark400]

@iscrewy

I have the fondest memories of Daggerfall, so I'll go with that.

[expertsk8er79]

@Spark400 I'm rining Arena at about 5 FPS and I'm on an iBook G4 1.33GHz 1.25 GB. I've tried raising the cycles higher than 10000 but that makes it slower. Any ideas?

[Minority119]

@FwithouttheFrank if you ask me, that's something we're needing nowadays

and loose some of the "gritty it-could-happen-tomorrow...and­-russians-will-be-involved 'realism'" that swarms modern games

[SparxI0]

How did you get it to run this fast? I tried running it through DOSbox using the Arena download Bethesda gives you, and I only got about 2fps.

[videochemist]

Too bad I can't play this, my system would lag like hell. I'm dreaming of the day I can upgrade my computer, I don't care if this game is out of date by then.

[wexenhex]

@videochemist

lol wut.

this game came out in like...what....1994?

[cyberzaikoo]

why does this looks better then daggerfall ? :P

[guitarraplayer12]

@cyberzaikoo thats what i thought to!

[cyberzaikoo]

@guitarraplayer12 wierd isn't it xP

[guitarraplayer12]

@cyberzaikoo yeah but i still like daggerfall better xD

[cyberzaikoo]

same here xP

[Cam4cha]

This is amazing and ridiculous at the same time :) Somehow I feel that, dispite the graphics being amazing, game concepts haven't changed much recent years.

[xXKrazyLepreconXx]

if you could look with the mouse like in daggerfall i would probably like this game more

[aianta03]

@UT3 off the elder scrolls website

[lilman1104]

remember when this used to be revolutionary? good times, good times.

[PirateMonkeyFilmz]

wtf? farther view distance than daggerfall!

[Chinothebad]

Watching this makes me hope that if they make a TES 5, they should make it like the classic one's like this.

[cyberzaikoo]

wtf. is it just me or does look almost better then daggerfall o.0 ?

[SaloMaya]

I'm going backwards with the TES series, I played Oblivion and I simply loved it (say whatever you want, it's one of my favorite games of all times), then just for curiosity sake, I'm playing Morrowind and despite being a bit archaic compared to Oblivion, I kinda like it, then I'm seeing vids of Daggerfall and now Arena and I gotta say that the series had a great start with both games. I kinda like the crappy graphics, reminds me a lot of Doom, wich I still love after all these years.

[aianta03]

@SaloMaya The best part is that both games (Arena, and Daggerfall) are now free :)

[UT3MONTAGE]

@aianta03 are they? were can i get them?

[aianta03]

@UT3MONTAGE

off elder scrolls website:

elderscrolls DOT c o m

then go into downloads

[wexenhex]

@SaloMaya

good luck on your journeys. Daggerfall(which has the biggest game world of the whole series. will take you DAYS to get from one end to the next) and Morrowind are the best ones

[Lazarus174]

I remember the first time i played this game i was banging my head on my keyboard since i was constantly getting lost, i kept getting killed by random thing that didn't even know what they were and the game was just to damn unforgiving!

[SumFungus]

I'm planning to play through tes 1 - 4 but arena lags horribly on my computer ( wich has no problem running todays games) im using dosBox 0.73 anyone else having the same problem?

[sozeee00]

@SumFungus u can find a guide if u search well on the net but from memories u can speed the game by pressing one of the F keys (F9??)

u need to press multiple times to adjust to good framerate.

[LarisaFrolova]

Reminds me of many games, like this one and Fallout 1/2, that would be cool to be remade. How unlucky I missed the chance on these games, because back at 1995 I'd say the gameplay and graphics are WOW OMG!!! Now, obviously, we've played TES 4:Oblivion and Fallout 3 and Bioshock and Assassin's Creed and say that a hell of time passed and how gaming technologies improved over the years. If some magic appeared in the future allowing you to convert any game to the highest quality, I'd do it...

[ek180]

This game was so much fun. There was really no limit to the amount of crap you could do. I got a vampiric sword in a quest that made it so i never needed healing again. The game was hard as hell though for a ton of reasons. I must thank you for inspiring me, because i'm about to go download and play it all over again.

[555MILKMILK555]

cmon bethesda you can do better than THAT this game is like roblox lol

[tepper94]

My EYES :D

[MrPivotPie]

its hard at night they need to remake the game so whos the one to let Bethada no that the fans of Arena want a remake cuz i want to play it in the first E(if you play Teh elder scrolls oblivion yourll no)

[Crox300]

Its first rpg 3d game i think :)

[ELOdry]

Actually, the first 3D RPG game is probably Dungeon Master (almost 10 years before Arena). And the first RPG "real time 3D" game should be Ultima Underworld, two years before Arena(s release. BTW, UU and Arena are in "2.5D". I'm pretty sure that the first RPG with a real 3D engine is probably Daggerfall, the sequel of Arena (and prequel of Morrowind)...

[I360FlipStuff]

@Crox300

nope, its 2.5D (2D that looks like 3D)

[HardWarUK]

Is it me - but if what the Queen said to you had been spoken, it would have been cheesy, but because it was text, it sounded Regal and right?! Is this maybe what is wrong with modern gaming with everything being voiced? It takes so much space that there is no flowery conversations like in Arena, Daggerfall,Morrowind or Planescape Torment!

[BansheeFriend]

If only my computer was powerful enough to render daggerfall...

[ZachariasClub]

@BansheeFriend Too graphics-intense?

[AbosluteInfinity]

@BansheeFriend Holy crap your computer must be ancient not to handle such and old game

[XultimateCakeX]

i would love to have them make daggerfall, areana to DS :P

[TheKultamuna]

this was legend

[Quartrez]

In Arena, you can go in the WHOLE Tamriel.

[bigbadpur3]

Orly? Is it the biggest TES game or is everything minimized to be about the same size as Daggerfall?

[powerbuzz69]

its minimized LOL theres no morrowind province in this game... and also its one of the crapiest game ever! u should try daggerfall instead (if you were planning on trying out the old school elder scrolls)

[bigbadpur3]

I tried Daggerfall aaaand.. It sucks, it's too buggy and shit, and too weird controls etc. This seems to be less buggy and seems to have more comfortable controls :P

[powerbuzz69]

lol dude all elder scrolls are buggy on pc even morrowind and oblivion occasionnally crashes on my pc but i think arena is the worst of em

[wexenhex]

@powerbuzz69

what? you can go to EVERY province in Arena and Daggerfall.

[powerbuzz69]

@wexenhex only in Arena... you cant in daggerfall...

[Quartrez]

Arena is the only Elder Scrolls I haven't played, so I can't tell you. I read somewhere that there are roads to connect the various locations, but it is said to be closed, unlike the wilderness in Daggerfall.

Arena's gameworld is approximated to six million square kilometers, although if what I stated earlier is true, than most of it cannot be reached.

[darthteej1]

But all of it's randomly generated right? You can't see the Ayleid ruins of Cyrodill, the deserts of Hammerfell, the beaches of Summerset ect. ect.

[Quartrez]

Most of the world is randomly generated. There are no Ayleid ruins in Cyrodiil (or Imperial Province, as it is most known in Arena and Daggerfall) as the lore was slightly different.

[darthteej1]

That's what I was both asking and saying. You're not really playing in Tamriel because all of the interesting stuff about it has been sucked away. Black Marsh, Hammerfell, Morrowind, all of these diverse regions are just the same patches of fields and towns.

[Quartrez]

It's not that it's been removed, it's only that it was not part of the lore when the game was made.

[darthteej1]

I'M NOT SAYING THAT ANYTHING HAS BEEN REMOVED! What I'm saying is that since everything's been randomly generated, there's not much that's unique, and as such the claim that you can go to all of Tamriel isn't as impressive as it sounds.

[Quartrez]

Of course not, but what I'm saying about the Ayleid ruins is that, maybe they weren't yet part of the lore when Arena was made. Just like Daedras. And daemons who don't exist anymore.

A lot of the Tamrielic lore has been introduced with Daggerfall.

[AlexAlex1310]

wow. fire demons are realy ugly.

[velenvskaelhas]

which province can you go to in arena?

[HardWarUK]

You've inspired me to re-install the game and re-play Arena, and this time to try really hard to get out of the first dungeon!!!!!

[f3xphilippru]

Easy money!))

[sprucemoose18]

which region of tamriel is arena set in?

[bigantennaemay1]

All of them, srsly. Except maybe Summerset Isle, I'm not sure either way whether or not that is included, but all the other provinces are. It even has teh continental and the islandal Morrowind.

[Herringish]

Even Blackmarsh/Argonia? o_O

[mewditto]

ALL of them

[PuppettheMuppet1]

Valenwood

[Dark6Metal6inside6]

is this a fight at 4:10 and so on ?

^^

[rat4cooler]

I've beat this game twice with magic-user type characters. Playing an acrobat was the most impossible challenge tho.

[flyingtoothpaste]

the music and graphics make me think of runescape classic remade into a fps ^^ but i'm not whatsoever comparing runescape to the elder scrolls, cuz that would me moral injust and punished by death sentence

[mooreonic]

omg these graphics are fucking awesome...

[xxAtlantianKnightxx]

Holy... At this time, rpgs, were real rpgs...

I can't forget Daggerfall. It ruled everything in it's days.

[tokyopp]

@xxAtlantianKnightxx why always people talk about the past like if everything was perfect!i mean always i found myself reading comments like this one. this were real games. in all times are good and bad things why to be complaining!

[Eric90621]

i liked video games better back then

it gave it more of a psychological horror feeling

[alphaman03]

tes has come a loooooooooong way lol

[Cypher402]

Yeah, less content more graphics. That sounds like a good way to go  /sarcasm

[urwierdm8]

Oh wow.

[erikouwehand]

is this 3d? or like doom 1 ,,, 2 and half d, which engine?

[Spark400]

It's like Doom. The geometry is 3D, everything else are 2D sprites. It uses a different engine than Doom, though.

[thatguy30000]

@Spark400 Doom has slightly better graphics than this though, daggerfall's graphics are better than doom's in my opinion.

[iiahmad]

the elder scrolls: arena-daggerfall-morrowind-obl­ivion

[GasSnake2003]

Lol, I remember once a door was locked and I tried beating it in with my sword (I assumed the "thunk" sound it made meant I was doing damage) but a Guard came and killed me XD

[THRA5H1]

makes you think how much the series has grown.

The towns at night look between than in Daggerfall - love the colours! Also,notice the political intrigue about the Oracle cursing the Queen to bad health (