How do you attack in the elder scrolls ARENA

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Haven't played it in a while, but I think you have to hold down one of the mouse buttons and swing the cursor back and forth across the screen.

what platform is it on? usually it would be the same way you would attack normally

Is it different than in any of the other TES games?

you hold the right mouse button and move the mouse slashing motion.I love elder scrolls games I need to get morriowind and oblivion for the pc so I can use mods thats what stinks about the console ones and I need to get daggerfall

Daggerfall was a little disappointing... it's basically a good game, but it's ruined by a lot of bugs, repetitive quests, lots MORE bugs, and a lack of unique content (sure the game world is huge, but it's mostly all the same).

Morrowind game of the year edition is like 20 bucks... I would recommend that one first for many reasons...

-Even though Morrowind has less acreage in-game than Oblivion, it *feels* much larger, especially since you can't see all the way across the game map. Since the entire landmass is hand-crafted (as opposed to daggerfall's randomly generated or oblivion's procedure-generated content), each area seems original when you enter it, instead of feeling like you've been through it already. I was discovering new places I hadn't seen before, 3 years after purchase, in the vanilla game.

-Much more realistic feel in the plot compared to Oblivion, which in turn feels like a generic fantasy story. Also, more moral ambiguity allows for interesting plot twists and several ends that are up to the player to decide, also lacking in oblivion.

-Bigger mod base, since Morrowind is easier to mod than oblivion by a couple orders of magnitude (no voiced dialog or lip-syncing to worry about)


The only advantages oblivion has over morrowind are mostly mechanical in nature:
-better graphics
-havok physics
-refined several aspects of the game engine that needed refining from Morrowind, like the thieving system.
-no cliff racers (actually not an advantage in the PC version thanks to the ability to mod cliff racers to become passive in nature)


The way I see it, if we were to compare TES games to windows operating systems, Morrowind would be somewhere between 2000 and XP. It had its rough edges at the outset, but it was a solid system, and later expansions added to it's capability tremendously.

Oblivion, on the other hand, would be Vista. Eye candy, slower to run even though it is technically more advanced...

I guess that would make Daggerfall 95/98 (buggy, prone to crashes), and Arena the old 3.x series...

Good because I plan on getting a gaming pc so I can play oblivion and morrowind and I agree but I need to play arena on an older system because I find it slow and almost unplayable on dosbox.

I also had problems running that on DOSBox at first; what you need to do in DOSBox is press CTRL+F12 a few times to turn up the cycles until your character's walking speed becomes acceptable. Same story if you want to run Daggerfall. Hope that helps.

THX I got it! my laptop cant play oblivion and I want more than morrowind! THX again

Umm, aside from graphics, oblivion is NOT more than morrowind... Sure, they say that there's more land area in oblivion, but when you can see halfway across the map from Dive Rock, it kind of feels a whole lot smaller... If morrowind had oblivion's view range, you could probably see the entire island from the summit of Red mountain on a clear day (after the main quest, of course)...

The way the TES games seem to be going is that graphics increase with each installment, while gameplay factors (game mechanics, plot, replay ability) tend to decrease... TES V is probably going to be an open-ended FPS at this rate...

Ok hopefully arena will run better. I like morriwind more than oblivion but mods make both even better that and oblivion fixed things I hated about morrowind.