Arena - Who's still playing?

lostlast · Post by **lostlast** » Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:53 am

I have recently started playing Arena again. Any one else out there still playing?

lostlast · Post by **lostlast** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 5:44 am

Oh come'on. No one? hahaha seriously? .................. weak.

KalleFlaxx · Post by **KalleFlaxx** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 3:50 pm

I play it sometimes. My last save disappeared after I broke my computer, and I just haven't got around to downloading it again.
Might do that sometime soon, though.

lostlast · Post by **lostlast** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:40 am

I have been really enjoying it. Haven't played it since 1994-95-96. But glad I have given it another go. Plenty of fond memeories.

KalleFlaxx · Post by **KalleFlaxx** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:04 pm

I don't really have any old memories with it, because the first time I played it was sometime last year.
Think I managed to find 3 parts of that staff or something, but never got any farther than that.

NitrusReigns · Post by **NitrusReigns** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:08 pm

I just started playing it a few days ago...I only just escaped from prison tho because I explored the entire dungeon before leaving

(that and I haven't spent a lot of time playing obviously)

Jcnator · Post by **Jcnator** » Sun Feb 27, 2011 5:38 pm

I always die before leaving the tutorial

lostlast · Post by **lostlast** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 6:49 am

jcnator wrote:I always die before leaving the tutorial

Come on. It's not that hard anymore. I have been hacking away at it now for a while; I'm doing miles better than I remember when I first played it. That said, I have a far better understanding of TES now than I did back then. I do remember Arena being rather difficult, but now it's a breeze, a lot of resting early on. Once you advance and get some better armour, mines all Mithril now. Would be Adamantium, but I don't like the colour, and it's one going to give me an extra -1 to my armour rating, so I can live with that. Ebony is way to freaking expensive at my current level. So I will continue questing until I rack up some serious bank.

Spiney · Post by **Spiney** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 6:50 am

I have it, yet I don't play it. I prefer my old space-ship games to Arena.

Snuke · Post by **Snuke** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 1:17 am

I remember desperately trying to upgrade my PC so I could play Arena when it came out. A friend had it on a decent computer but I just couldn't handle it on my ol' 386.

When I finally did get it upgraded, I was friggin' thrilled. I remember the first time I could walk through a town and move side to side without getting bogged down by 5 FPS!

Memories....

lostlast · Post by **lostlast** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 7:07 am

Yeah our family computer was below standard. Truth is, the only reason I found it was because I was staying at my Grandparents place on school holidays. My uncle had just finished his uni degree in IT and was still living at home. There is a huge age gap between him and his siblings; he was born when his parents, my grandparents were in their early 50's. So he is closer to my age than his brothers and sisters. Anyway, he was heading out for the night and quickly showed me a game on his comp called 'Arena'. Once I started playing, I was completely hooked. I remember for the rest of the holidays I was up in his room playing. My uncle was hardly home, holiday time, I still remember how freaked out my Grandparents would get when I'd play on his computer. Thinking you needed a degree in IT to turn it on and play. hahaha... love it. Even when we were younger and played on his Atari (the first Atari, the boxy one) having to flick one switch over from the TV Ariel to the Atari, and that would freak them out.
"Just don't break the TV or your uncle's game machine"
"Yeeees Grandma"
I forget what my point was.....

lostlast · Post by **lostlast** » Fri Mar 18, 2011 6:54 am

OK... so I am a god in this game now. I noticed an artifact issue, if it's a glitch or not I'm not sure..

Spoiler:

Xephonai · Post by **Xephonai** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 6:41 am

I am currently playing it, going to start working on staff piece 6

BiasMonkey · Post by **BiasMonkey** » Thu Mar 24, 2011 2:46 pm

just startid, startet, started? anyway, i just began playing it, just for funsies.

i though my computer was lagging but i just had to adjust the speed, silly me, cost me 5 days to figger that out.

Xephonai · Post by **Xephonai** » Sun Mar 27, 2011 1:16 am

Just beat Arena last night for the first time. Started Daggerfall just a little while ago. Dark Elf Ranger, woo

VirtualWeasel · Post by **VirtualWeasel** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:27 pm

Started playing, but have no idea how to attack.

OblivionDuruza · Post by **OblivionDuruza** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 10:39 am

I started a while ago, but let it slip away. I should probably get on it again.

ZombieMonkeyNZ · Post by **ZombieMonkeyNZ** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 10:47 am

Would play, but I have Win7 x64, and it ain't compatable.

OblivionDuruza · Post by **OblivionDuruza** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 10:48 am

Even with DOS Box?

ZombieMonkeyNZ · Post by **ZombieMonkeyNZ** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 10:49 am

Nope.

OblivionDuruza · Post by **OblivionDuruza** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 10:53 am

It's a completely different experience from Oblivion and Morrowind.

ZombieMonkeyNZ · Post by **ZombieMonkeyNZ** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 10:54 am

So I've heard, apparently it has a random generated cell component, meaning no two cells are alike. Any truth to that?

OblivionDuruza · Post by **OblivionDuruza** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 10:59 am

The cities are big and I think that the many many taverns do look alike. The quests are less fun than Oblivion because there is a lot of go from A to B to deliver something or escort someone. And rumours send you all over the huge cities to different taverns that as I said do look the same to attain more walking quests. But the skill system is very interesting, and a lot bigger (fits a bigger world I guess

). It is worth a visit if you can manage it.

ZombieMonkeyNZ · Post by **ZombieMonkeyNZ** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 11:03 am

I'll see if I can scam a copy of XP from my brother. He gets all this IT crap from his uni, so hes bound to have a copy somewhere in that bombshell of a flat.

OblivionDuruza · Post by **OblivionDuruza** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 11:05 am

Awesome, happy hunting through the wastes of a uni-students flat

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