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Haha some of us were playing when they were just the 'adolescent' scrolls
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Uh… what? The only thing you need to do to have mouse-look and custom controls is to go into options from the game menu, choose "mouse-look" option there and remap the keys. Crazy, isn't it?
You don't sound like someone who could possibly have bought Daggerfall "when it came out". Your post reads like you have just discovered the game.
By the way, please explain what I said that makes you feel I didn;t buy this game when it come out? Because you think your system is better and mine worse? How egotistical!
Really, especially since you stated in your initial post you got the game when it came out.
BTW, great post, I've been thinking about retrying Arena/Daggerfall (again) but all the other times it just doesn't work out. I will keep your post in mind if I reinstall. BTW2, I haven't checked in a while but there used to be a couple of web sites that dealt with old manuals (replacementdocs.com???). But its too early in the morn and I'm far too lazy right now to check it out . . . .
Why go to the trouble of remapping all the keys to WASD, etc, when by changing betaplyr.dat to viewplyr.dat, the game will do it for you! You would have to click on Mouse to get mouse-look and options to choose VIEW mode then go into controls and change most/all the keys.
My method you change that file, then just check the new key controls and play! And you have to go into the z.cfg file to enter cheatmode 1 and magicrepair 1 anyway!
By the way, please explain what I said that makes you feel I didn;t buy this game when it come out? Because you think your system is better and mine worse? How egotistical!
For me it's defiantly Morrowind. It has the same elements of all the TES games (most of which I don't like very much) but it was a very interesting place to explore and visit. The art style is just fantastic.
It's still dominating, as near as I can tell. Steam is still charging full price for it, too.Skyrim is almost certain to dominate the RPG landscape in the latter part of the this year…
Why I voted for Arena ? Because, honestly, nothing compared ever since with what I felt while first playing it back in 1994. The only comparable emotions where when I first played through Ultima 7 Serpent isle, a few years before.
Although later games eclipsed the gameplay in practically everyway (IMO at least) its almost impossible to beat those early experiences. Arena was one of those games for me as well. It was something like "holy crap! Is this really possible in a computer game!?!?"
Its really difficult to recapture that feeling later in life, regardless of how groundbreaking the game is.
That's exactly what I feel with those games. Many games have surpassed Arena since then as you say, in the E.S. series, and there's no comparison between Arena and Skyrim but to comment on Dajjer's comment, even though I won't exchange the former gameplay for the later one and despite some glorious moments I too lived through it, it never felt the same experience at core. Don't know why some can feel like that while others are more like Dajjer but I respect this difference. I suppose it's the same as with women, some can go from one another and just pick the more fulfilling moments while some just get hooked on a particular feeling or emotion they won't ever find in someone else ? I am like that )…ts really difficult to recapture that feeling later in life…