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Arena ... Arena ... Arena

Robb was kind enough to send it to me ... twice and it just won't work right. I can run it directly off the CD with no trouble. I can from a .bat on my harddrive that uses the disc and it will run fine as long as I disable sound. I also can run the .bat with sound and it won't let me get to the main start, load, and exit screen.

I tried it in DOS in which each time I run the program my computer crashes. I've got all my memory running and I should be able to start it up in DOS but it keeps on crashing.

Here is how the modified Autoexec.bat and Config.sys look that I use to run games that require EMM.
Config.sys
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE
DEVICE=C:\SAMSUNG\SSCDROM.SYS /D:SSCD000 /v

Autoexec.bat
**REM I've got my mouse.com in the command folder**
MOUSE
C:\SAMSUNG\MSCDEX /D:SSCD000

I tried to look this up. This is the Elder Scrolls: Arena game, I take it? Is it recommended?

What's the opinion of most Elder Scrolls games in general?

Here's my autoexec.bat and config.sys for real mode DOS 6.22:

rem Autoexec.bat
LH C:\DOS\MSCDEX.EXE /D:NCI000 /L:G /V
PATH=C:\DOS
prompt $p$g

rem Config.sys
BUFFERS=30,0
FILES=40
LASTDRIVE=Z
FCBS=4,0
DEVICE=C:\TAISATAP.SYS /D:NCI000 /P:170,15

Shoot... for some reason, my DOS drivers for my Sound Card aren't there. I could have sworn that I also ran MemMaker... shit.

I'll give it another go and see what I can come up with, Worm.

Roody_Yogurt wrote:What's the opinion of most Elder Scrolls games in general?

I think my take is pretty average. Here's what comes to mind:

Arena: Remarkable mostly because it was first. Great open-ended design, not terribly buggy. Graphically inferior to Daggerfall. A worthy classic. I've played this for maybe three or four hours tops (I bought it when Daggerfall was considered old.)

Daggerfall: The ultimate desert-island game. Incredibly buggy before the 2.13 patch, and you'd best still backup your saves and save often with it. Neat for having stuff that was later eliminated, like climbing, random dungeons and the ability to loot a shopkeeper and sell his stuff back to him the next day. Features one of the most annoying and consistently-mewling characters of all time in the dead king that inhabits the first town. If it's crippled by anything, it's over the fact that each time you create a new character, you need to work your way out of the starter dungeon, which is really overpowered for sneaker types. (I've spent waaay too much time playing this one, and only followed the first couple of tasks for the main quest. The rest was spent in free-form mode.)

Battlespire: From what I understand, it's a bit crap. (Don't own it, never played it.)

Morrowind: Really cool. Gorgeous to look at. I wrote a rant that said "Where I Stopped Playing It" a couple months ago but I have actually returned to playing it as of late. Navigation pretty much sucks, and from what I understand it's quite "easy" to get yourself to the point where you outclass most every monster you encounter, but I am nowhere near that. There are some ways to "cheat" within the context of the game, as well, but that's just a matter of player discipline. Even though it has its faults, I wish there were more games like it. Crippled by Safedisc2, which slowed the thing down dramatically -- there was an unofficial patch that removed it, and my understanding is that the last official patch did the same.

If anyone's played Battlespire, or if there was an Elder Scrolls game that I forgot, please, jump in.

Sadly, Morrowing for XBox is getting sucky reviews around and about; draw-distance is too close, it's so freeform it's impossible to get into it unless you "live" it, that kind of thing.
Console gamers are not built for games where you have to "Hunt" for the game-story, and in which you can do anything you damn well please. It fucks with their point-gun, shoot-gun mentality, apparently.
FUCK YOU!

Lex wrote:Sadly, Morrowing ...
FUCK YOU!

Those are the same buggers who use the word fucktard habitually and take me seriously when I randomly say shit about things with never playing them. I mean if I want to pretend I've played GTA3 and disparriage it why do they want to ban me? Robb should start up an IRC chat we could call it #LEVELHEADEDPEOPLE