Combat is as clunky as one might expect from an early Elder Scrolls game, with directional swinging based on mouse location and magic being over-powered.Ī lot of mainstay aspects of the series' lore and world are very different or absent entirely, such as the lack of playable Orcs (who are always evil), the Dwarves being alive (and very Tolkinesque), Khajit looking more like normal humans with face paint, and the lack of Daedra. Beyond the wonder of exploring many villages and forests that are randomly-generated, Arena is a fairly typical dungeon crawler with a simple story about a player whose thrust into a collect-a-thon journey to defeat an evil wizard. RELATED: Ember Is the Elder Scrolls Online Companion Everyone Has Been Waiting ForĪrena is definitely the harder of the two games to get into, which is understandable since it's the first. Still, it's easy to see how influential these games were to not only future Elder Scrolls entries, but also to gaming as a whole. However, these titles haven't necessarily aged well, with many modern gamers noting their clunky controls, obtuse mechanics, and unforgiving difficulty. As first-person action-adventure games in the vein of a fusion between DOOM and Ultima, the first two Elder Scrolls games were among the earliest to feature such a large scale, with Arena actually being nearly infinite with its procedurally generated worlds.
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