Arena Adventurings and Daggerfall Dealings, A Characters Update thread Options

[mirocu]

Hello, fellow gamers!

I thought I´d throw this one out there for those who want to share what their characters are up to in both Arena and Daggerfall. Maybe I´ll be the only one posting though, we´ll see

As it is all my updates are regarding Arena. Haven´t installed Daggerfall yet but if I do I´ll make it clear which game I talk about.

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As of now, my Nord battlemage Thor is running laps around a block in Neugrad Watch at night. He´s hunting for experience in battle to strengthen himself before he heads out of town to explore caves. He´s currently lvl 6 and at lvl 5 he made quite a strong shield spell which has saved his life more than once.

What is described above is basically what he will be doing for the next few levels. I don´t want to head out before he´s much stronger and can afford ten or more health potions as well as some disease potions.

This post has been edited by mirocu: Nov 13 2013, 09:17 AM

[mirocu]

Get yourself together, man woman, and persevere! It will become easier later on
What race is she, btw?

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As for my Nord, he just slept away three months because the winter ended but we couldn´t accept that so he´s been practicing fighting in a house for a long time. But enough is enough and so he went to the closest inn and payed for several weeks at a time and just slept until winter was upon him again!

This post has been edited by mirocu: Dec 22 2013, 09:58 PM

[Renee]

Get yourself together, man woman, and persevere! It will become easier later on
What race is she, btw?

She's a Nord, which is fine. Renee Gade II was an Imperial, so there's some sort of cross-breeding between RG2 and her mother, perhaps.

But yeah, Arena's frickin' hard man. I mean, damn. If this is supposed to be the Tutorial dungeon, the learning curve involved is really steep. I didn't expect much hand-holding, that's not what I mean, what I mean is I can't even make it 50 feet without getting killed. Good thing I'm not playing this game DiD.

Stamina = health apparently, and it does not regenerate. When an enemy attacks Renee Gade I, it's the Stamina that's getting hacked, and when it gets to zero, Renee is dead. There are moments when the game will let my character rest, restoring Health and Stamina, but these moments guarantee some monsters will show up, hacking away any gained momentum, and possibly also killing her with just 2 swings or something.

There is no difficulty, either. I can't dumb the game down. Perhaps this is where my first training on the Console will begin; perhaps I'll have to cheat a bit, give RG1 boosted stats or remove certain enemies (if possible). I hate doing this, but I'm too frustrated by this game as-is to really enjoy it. I have noticed goblins and rats are good opponents, problem is a lizard man or some sort of soldier-looking dude will show up. Two hacks from one of these, and RG1 is dead.

Once I'm out in the world, perhaps it'll mellow out a bit (like you say), perhaps I'll be able to have Renee run around a lot or something. But it's interesting in an evolutionary sense, because this is how games used to be. No hand-holding! None! .... The game even seems to trick and fool the gamer too, because there will be a message like "this looks like a good place to rest!" so of course I try to rest. Assuming the game even lets this happen, that's where RG1 gets into the most trouble.

I think there must have also been a different climate of gamers back in the '90s, at least on PC: a hardcore following of people who like the fact that it's super-difficult from the get go.

This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: Dec 23 2013, 12:07 AM