Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20160820115218/@comment-1496755-20161009140014

Death, you can congratulate me - I beat the game!

Last night I decided I wouldn't stop until I've conquered the world of Arena and kicked evil's behind for all time. So I packed all the patience I could muster, bought a few extra Adamantium Sabers, and declared war upon the forces of darkness!

Dagoth-ur: cool dungeon, but pretty hard monster encounters. Nasty! But the lava lake was cool. Really makes the illusion of being inside a volcano. And that riddle was pretty clever ;)

So, I collected the staff pieces but nothing happened. So I wandered around for a while and Jagar Tharn appeared once again to tell me that the staff was merely a stick useful for churning butter or rowing a boat. Nice. And he taunted me to find him. So I thought that Tharn should be located in the Imperial capital... and then discovered that the Imperial Province was accessible on the map. And the whole thing has only one city, right in the middle. Not suspicious at all :P

The Imperial Palace - this was the ultimate nightmare. Vampires and Liches all over the place, and killing one wasted at least 3 heal potions. Savescumming was taken to an extreme. And this could be why I got one "insufficient base memory" crash - luckily, just one. Eventually I reached Jagar Tharn's lair and jumped at him with all the anger I had accumulated from the long hours of dungeon crawling across this world. Well, no cigar - he wouldn't die. "Must be a puzzle battle" I thought and started looking for a floating spiked ball to telefrag him with. No spiked ball (Shub-Niggurath thou are not!), but I did notice something red behind a locked door. I found the key - easy, because Jagar was conveniently stuck in one part of the room (a beneficial bug for a change), and so I approached the red thingie and clicked it.

And suddenly I won the game and got a cool cinematic. The big bad wizard got the gruesome demise he deserved. Sadly, I did not become an Emperor (the previous one was apparently still alive and rescued), but "Eternal Champion" sounds nice too. Diablo II does a better job of decorating you with cool titles, though.

Anyway, I feel happy that I was able to beat theg ame (even with tons of saves and dying) with a realtively challenging class. Yes, he levels up fast, but the weapon restrictions are pretty harsh. Saber was the best I could wield, and it was just a little better than a kitchen knife. And that buckler was like a slightly reinforced frying pan. And it actually broke down during the final dungeon.

So... what comes next - Daggerfall. The land of mystery where no one knows what they are supposed to be doing. And speaking of which - are you still stuck?