I hear a lot about the Elder Scrolls 2...

[hakuroshi]

Arena had very nice text descriptions when enering a tavern or a shop. And there were pools after rain.

I think it was a decent game for it's time considering that Bethesda never tried to make an crpg before. But nothing great. It would be completely forgotten if there were no other TES.

 

[Sceptic]

I think nomask loved it, so I say this at the risk of him running in screaming that I hate Beethoven, but there you have it.

To be fair to Nomask, he loved it for the one thing it did really well - dungeon design in the MQ was quite good, possibly the best in the series if you don't count the spinoffs (DF's is waaaaaaaaaaay too crazy to qualify).

The world is huge, with lots of random towns and houses

By towns do you mean the small clusters of houses you find in the wilderness? because the cities/towns (that you can fast travel to) themselves were all set IIRC.

in case of Arena it's "collect seven pieces of macguffin

It's EIGHT damn it!

 

[DraQ]

in case of Arena it's "collect seven pieces of macguffin

It's EIGHT damn it!

Sorry, got it mixed with Unreal2.



What do you think of TN and what about Lem?