26th March 2010, 5:59 PM
Well, I take back some of what I said about Arena. All in all, it's pretty barren. I ran for several minutes across a series of roads, trees, and buildings and couldn't figure out how any of it was relevant. There weren't even any monsters out in the open world, which was pretty lame. I suppose you're supposed to locate dungeons and such.
I also played some Daggerfall too. It's more advanced and features a cool 3D map, it's got a travel feature as well so no more slogging through miles of barren landscape to get back to somewhere you've been before. The problem? It's HARD. I've been utterly slaughter about THIRTY times in the noob dungeon. I open a door, some monster comes out, it kills me. Roll game over movie clip. Thirty times at least. Your character gets absolutely raped by every monster in the dungeon, including rats. It's just insane how difficult it is.
The upside is that the game features mouse look [!!!!!!!] but the controls are still kind of clunks and it still has the annoying "swipe the mouse to attack" feature. I might like it more if it was easier, but it isn't.
As it stands, Morrowind and Oblivion eat these two games for lunch.
I also played some Daggerfall too. It's more advanced and features a cool 3D map, it's got a travel feature as well so no more slogging through miles of barren landscape to get back to somewhere you've been before. The problem? It's HARD. I've been utterly slaughter about THIRTY times in the noob dungeon. I open a door, some monster comes out, it kills me. Roll game over movie clip. Thirty times at least. Your character gets absolutely raped by every monster in the dungeon, including rats. It's just insane how difficult it is.
The upside is that the game features mouse look [!!!!!!!] but the controls are still kind of clunks and it still has the annoying "swipe the mouse to attack" feature. I might like it more if it was easier, but it isn't.
As it stands, Morrowind and Oblivion eat these two games for lunch.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.