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I don't know why people stopped playing Arena and Daggerfall because they are still cool games, well at least Daggerfall. I mean Morrowind is a great game and I can wait for Oblivion, I still play Arena and Daggerfall when I feel like something different.

I havent played either of them, but I have played morrowind alot.
Can you give some pros/cons of daggerfall compared to morrowind?

Worst graphics, a few bugs, need to run it under an ms-dos emulator like DosBox.

[QUOTE=Luis Antonio]Worst graphics, a few bugs, need to run it under an ms-dos emulator like DosBox. [/QUOTE]

That's a pretty good summary. In addition, Daggerfall's quest system was very redundant. A guild would offer one of 7 or 8 repetitive, identical quests all the time; and there were only 10 dungeons in all, that were randomly chosen among whenever you entered a generic dungeon. (This excludes a very few plot-specific dungeons.)

On the other hand, it only provided guild services on a tiered system, so you got better ones the higher you went in a guild. I hope they bring that back for Oblivion, because it was abandoned for MW.

Yeah, the games are not so different I played it ages ago, I only prefer to play morrowind due to the "lack of bugs" (sweet lie) and to windows compatibility.

[QUOTE=Luis Antonio]Yeah, the games are not so different I played it ages ago, I only prefer to play morrowind due to the "lack of bugs" (sweet lie) and to windows compatibility.[/QUOTE]

I find they feel very different. The individual way each cave, cavern and dungeon was built in MW--more than 1000, if I recall correctly--really gives it a more distinctive flavor. Not that you'd know from the NPC's conversation, of course.

I havent played ES2 that deep. Unfortunately. I hope after the launch of TES: Oblivion, Bethesda decides to allow freeware download to Arena.

I think it would be really cool if they went back and updated and fixed TES 1 & 2 and rerelease them with the same stroy.

I downloaded Arena, but I couldn't get to run acceptably even on a 2.4GHz (overclocked to 2.8GHz) P4 system with 1GB memory - the frame rate, if my eyes didn't deceive me, was lower than 5 fps, and I had already "overclocked" DOSBox to significantly higher than default clocks.

How slow can it get

Does anyone remember the delayed combat in arena when it first came out? i.e click the right mouse button move the mouse in a frenzy then wait ten mins for the pc to catch up. I'd allmost forgotten about that until i decided to use the dos box to play it rather than straight windows (which makes it that fast that the first goblin in the starter dungeon cuts you ribbons in an eye blink)

[QUOTE=Luis Antonio]I havent played ES2 that deep. Unfortunately. I hope after the launch of TES: Oblivion, Bethesda decides to allow freeware download to Arena.[/QUOTE]

the only problem i had with daggerfall was all the bugs. They did my nut in especially in the main quest with that blasted letter

I just bought a new cumputer, (top of the line). I would not recomend playing Arena of a 21" screen, it really took all the fun out of it.