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Posted on: May 15, 2025
jmccrea70
Verified ownerGames: 52 Reviews: 2
Old School
Game is very Old school and so am i, so i still love it. You have to work at it and at times its brutal. Wish they would remake with better graphics, but is still fun to play.
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Posted on: May 18, 2025
Hanglyman
Verified ownerGames: 444 Reviews: 141
Probably Impressive Then, Tedious Now
I spent about a day on this game before finally deciding it just wasn't worth the effort to keep going. At the time this came out, I could see how it was awesome- my only previous experience with the Elder Scrolls series was Oblivion, and this game surprisingly has a similar scope in terms of vast landscape and massive towns full of NPCs to talk to. It has features like an automap, highly customizable character creation, a wide variety of spells, and the ability to steal from shops. The lore and world is all there already (though my character, a Khajiit, just looks like a normal human instead of a cat-person), and anyone would immediately recognize this as an Elder Scrolls game despite its age. My main problem is that this huge world is mostly just empty space- yes, there are rocks, houses, trees and endless maze-like corridors of dungeons, but it's all pretty shallow and unrewarding. The items have very little variety and aside from the artifact quests, there's not a lot to strive for or build your character with. The enemies are unbalanced- you'll find wimpy rats the next room over from a gang of enemies that can take you out in two hits. There's not really any point to exploring the overworld rather than fast-traveling directly to the cities and dungeons you need to visit, and the dungeons themselves are ludicrously vast and dull, with very little story or treasure to reward you for slogging through them for hours upon hours. Even the shops are cavernous and it takes an eternity to walk over to buy something or get a room at the inn. Repairing your weapons means leaving them with a blacksmith for days or weeks- realistic, but extremely annoying. The sidequests are generic and not worth the reward, the controls are sluggish and often unresponsive at critical moments, and the game crashes or freezes fairly often. All in all, it was probably fine back when it was innovative, but in the present, it's hard to justify so much time sunk into so little fun or reward.
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Posted on: May 25, 2025
TehEvilMermaid
Verified ownerGames: 4 Reviews: 1
Arena is relaxing
I played this game as a kid on DOS and it works just fine through gog. The controls are pretty easy once you know them. You have to use arrow pad and not WASD, because its that oldschool. Its easier and less buggy to play that the 2nd elderschools game, daggerfall. which I am going to play next now.
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Posted on: May 27, 2025
Murrdock360
Verified ownerGames: 202 Reviews: 20
This game needs the a REMAKE treatment
This game is just way too dated to be played on modern machines the way it was designed back in the day. If nothing else, some one needs to revamp to control system to some more akin to Elder Scroll III.
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Posted on: June 13, 2025
Isgamer1
Games: 87 Reviews: 4
good game despite it's age
It's a good game. A load of trash, but good trash. I, an uncultured Zoomer recommend this very flawed gem that was ahead of it's time.
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