Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20180827202615/@comment-1496755-20190311164157

You are right that there are numerous aspects in which Arena was better than Daggerfall - like not getting hopelessly lost in dungeons, being able to get top-tier gear as soon as you got the gold to buy it (shop inventories don't scale with player level), the simpler interface, the straightfoward main quest, the more meaningful wilderness (as opposed to Dagger's empty wasteland). Another notable thing is the way Arena gives a (mostly) equal chance to all character classesm while Dagger seems to favor spellcasters (especially with regard to levitation and means to protect yourself from enemies one-shotting you with magic attacks). A non-spellcaster can compensate with potions, but then again potions aren't sold freely like in Arena (and in whatever quantities you want) - you'd have to join a guild that offers potion selling and reach a rank high enough to access this service. But that probably won't be enough, so you'd need the potion maker service, to brew some custom ones for magic resistance/reflection/absorption (again due to being one-shot by spellcasting enemies). This felt a little unfair to me, as I generally play non-spellcasters. The official Daggerfall guide actually admits to this bias - it says on one page that the gamne is easiest to beat with a Battlemage or Spellsword, and hardest to beat with a Thief.

The final dungeon stands out, for sure. It's nothing like all the pseudo-random things you explored before it. I was a little worried when I entered the very final room because I had no levitation potions left... luckily, I was able to jump across the chasm and climb.

Yes, I could try Battlespire. It used to have some issues, but they should be fixed by the SVN revision that fixed Tomb raider's issues (they were similar), therefore I'll expect it to work just fine now. Then there's that Redguard adventure-ish thing too. A weird case of installing the game under Windows, but running it under DOS. A leftover from the Win 95 age when there still wasn't such a big distinction between the two.

I've experienced gripes and reluctance to try out new stuff too... in most cases trying out the new things turned out just fine, so I am usually optimistic about the whole process. Heh, just watching your videos convinced me to try out a whole unfamiliar game series, and in a genre I've never focused much on ;)

I also hope your patience pays off - I know that you've definitely had to endure a lot of crap over the years. If there is karma, you must have earned some reprieve by now.

Steam seems to add to the magic of older games, in a way. It helps you appreciate having the whole thing just for yourself, without needing external validation.