The Elder Scrolls: Arena rated in Australia
The Elder Scrolls: Arena has been given a rating by the Australian Classification Board, indicating that the game may be getting a remake or re-release.
Update - Added official comment from Bethesda.
We may know the name of another Elder Scrolls project, thanks to yet another ratings board slip. This time Australia has rated The Elder Scrolls: Arena, which fans may recognize as the name of a brutally difficult 1994 PC DOS game.
The rating (via IGN) lists it as "M" due to moderate amount of "fantasy violence." It also purports to be "multi platform," which the original title was not. The game was rated on April 9.
Though Bethesda has a page devoted to Arena on its official site, it's simply a short explanation of the 1994 game along with a free download. This rating would seem to indicate the possibility of a remake, reboot, or a new port. Shacknews has contacted Bethesda and will update as more information becomes available.
A spokesperson for Bethesda told Shacknews that this appears to be an error on behalf of the ratings board: "Appears this is simply an error on OFLC's part. It should just say PC, not multiplatform. We've notified them and they're going to fix it - there is no new version of the game coming. Just a clerical mixup."
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replySteve Watts posted a new article, The Elder Scrolls: Arena rated in Australia.
The Elder Scrolls: Arena has been given a rating by the Australian Classification Board, indicating that the game may be getting a remake or re-release.-
Awesome, this is the only one I haven't played.
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Was it as buggy as Daggerfall? The graphics are what kept me away from Arena, even in 1996 (or whenever I played Daggerfall) Arena looked pretty dated. That was pretty much the reason I never played it, plus I don't think I ever saw it on sale anywhere.
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Was it as buggy as Daggerfall? The graphics are what kept me away from Arena, even in 1996 (or whenever I played Daggerfall) Arena looked pretty dated. That was pretty much the reason I never played it, plus I don't think I ever saw it on sale anywhere.
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i wouldn't really advise playing arena or daggerfall these days. about twice a year i get nostalgic and load one or the other up in DOSBox and it's just brutally painful to play. the midi music still rocks, though.
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This is comforting to hear because I sometimes wonder if I should go back and finish Daggerfall... but that's probably not worth the effort. I remember being more impressed with the scale of the world and the dungeons were impressive at the time... but I can imagine it not holding up well.
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I loved casting levitate while riding a horse in Daggerfall. Flying around on my horse, blowing guards away with crazy fireball spells, that game was so badass.
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it's cool and still one of my favorite games but it's so buggy, the graphics are brutal, the controls are sketchy as hell. it's worth loading up to just roam around for a bit in graveyards/snowstorms. mainly night stuff. but if you plan on any extended play sessions where you're doing actual quests and trying to follow the story, i'd forget it.
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You guys should check out DaggerXL if you haven't before:
http://xlengine.com/blog/
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Update with a comment from Bethesda:
A spokesperson for Bethesda told Shacknews that this appears to be an error on behalf of the ratings board: "Appears this is simply an error on OFLC's part. It should just say PC, not multiplatform. We've notified them and they're going to fix it - there is no new version of the game coming. Just a clerical mixup."
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