Nowadays, we could build on an engine like Unreal or Unity, but if you wanted working technology back then you had to build it yourself. When I first joined Bethesda, Arena was on the backburner while we developed a 3D engine for it.
In later years, I worked on some big budget, big team projects and when they crash and burn, which they sometimes do, it’s not as easy to dust yourself off and move on to the next project. There are 17 people listed in the credits for Arena, but most of us were part-time, splitting our 80-hour-a-week work hours between two or three other projects during the same period. We had very short development times and very small teams. I had been hired on at Bethesda only about a year and a half before, with zero experience in making games, and by the time Arena came out, it was the third game I had released. We simply moved on to the next project, not thinking there’d be a sequel let alone a series. Remember, this was in an era where you didn’t download your game from Steam, you bought it at a brick and mortar game store, and if it wasn’t on the shelves in time for Black Friday and the holidays, you would only get a fraction of the sales you needed. The full title was The Elder Scrolls, Chapter 1: Arena actually, which suggests we anticipated that it would be a series, but that was wishful thinking more than anything. It’s been 25 years since the first Elder Scrolls game which we titled Arena was released. ArenaSetup : Install and play to Arena with DosBox more easily.The calendar doesn’t lie.Playing DOS Installments under DOSBox on the Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages.Disk version 1.06 freeware release on.Also going into the DOSBox Options by going to C:\Program Files(x86)\DOSBox(your version)\ and going to the Options batch file, then going to the 49th line, and changing memsize from 16 to 64 will help with the lag issues. Trying the tweaks suggested on the DOSbox page might help. However, when it is run, it is very slow and lags often. In 2004 the disk version was released as freeware to celebrate the 10th anniversary of The Elder Scrolls series.īefore try to launch Arena manually with DOSbox, you should use ArenaSetup which do all the work for you.
The Elder Scrolls: Arena is the first game in The Elder Scrolls series, developed by Bethesda Softworks and released in 1994.
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