Hello everyone, It has come to my attention that Battlespire has been added to Steam. I have no idea if any of the technical advice I gave still applies, though I would assume most of it does. It is still available on GOG, so if you're worried about the technical advice not applying, go for the GOG version. It's generally better for games this ancient, anyways.
Surprisingly hand to hand is extremly efective in both Arena and Daggerfall too, most builds that actually defeat Jagar Tharn instead of destroying his life-force gem use hand to hand
Interesting, so hand-to-hand is perpetually a meme across the entire franchise. Either extremely good, extremely bad, or both simultaneously. Do you have any videos or a writeup on hand-to-hand in Arena? I want to see that in action.
@@marriedtomychair I dont have any videos of my own run but I found a couple floating around, check this one th-cam.com/video/Ts-MRJkVPu8/w-d-xo.html fighting with a weapon means he parries or evades most of the attacks, compare it to this one th-cam.com/video/YjWXX7DvCEk/w-d-xo.html
This was the first game i worked on, it was a crazy transition game in that it was the last game to use sprites where as redguard was the first fully 3d game. Todd was at the company at the time, but i thin he was on another project. We had some really amazing artist working on this, underated game.
It’d be so fucking sick if they’d remake Battlespire, even just on a AA budget. Like I swear to God this game could NOT blow ass if some of its systems were just taken and made a little sense of
I wasn't going to comment... and then I saw your custom Morrowind spells at 36:46. I just CAN'T resist pointing out some of the best (in terms of comedic value) out. In the order in which they appear: Become FISH Boomer Bile elon musk ez levitate Greater Fireball 2 Greaterer Fireball smartest boi Soul Snipe super elon musk *slow clap* I have to wonder if 'elon musk' is a bonewalker - mostly due to the existence of 'super elon musk' and hence greater bonewalker. Perhaps hunger/dremora? Then again, with mods, said 'elon musk' / 'super elon musk' might be literally anything. The world may never know.
Great advice about the character creation. I wish I knew all of this information before I played the game myself. I remember using a long blade build from some obscure website and by the endgame I struggled so much I remember I used an exploit (which I found on my own) to get over a barrier of daedric sigils that damaged you.
Glad you appreciate it. I was very adamant about putting a lot of build advice in this video. It's easy to screw yourself over like I did trying to make a jack-of-all-trades pure warrior (which is usually the safest build in these sorts of games). Personally, I really hate starting a game over from almost a dozen hours in because I did the RPG equivalent of making a typo on tax returns. Usually, you have to find the corresponding amulet to pass by those barriers. Though given the way loot functions in this game and how badly obfuscated mandatory keys can be, I can't blame you for using an exploit. Do you remember how to perform the exploit?
Its interesting to look back at how they forshadowed oblivion in other games. Its almost like it was building up to their invasion. In Arena, Dagon helped tharn trap the emporor In morrowind, the heart of lorkhan is destroyed, and the tribunal weaken and eventually disappeared. Considering what lorkhan is, i dont doubt destroying the heart make it easier to invade. Also, im sure dagon knew better than to mess with the tribunal. Then, obviously, battlespire.
Battleslire is a wonderful game, especially if you think about it as a some kind if DLC. it misses open world, trading, resting, many spells, other things you expect to see in TES. but this is all because this game is just one big dungeon crawl. and this is a shame Bethesda didnt develop communication with mobs. I LOVE to talk while I fight! what shall we talk about? HNNNRRGH? WAAH! NASTY mankin!
Hand 2 hand in Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind and Oblivion is pretty fun, idk why I keep doing hand to hand in rpgs that gives me the option to do so lol Meanwhile hand to hand in Skyrim literally doesn't exist.
Todd Howard is the first name listed under the heading Special Thanks in the Battlespire paper manual that came with the game. It's on page 5 which is labeled CREDITS. Actually this game and Redguard were being worked on at the same time and Todd Howard was in charge of that project. This is why he only has special thanks on Battlespire. Story and lore wise Redguard is definitely the better game. Unfortunately gameplay wise... Not so much. Also Orcs are not monsters in the lore at this time. In Daggerfall, which is BEFORE this game the Orcs are not playable but part of the story is about Orsinium, the Orc province and how their leader, Gortwog is trying to get the Empire to recognize the Orcs as their own province within the Empire.
I just started Redguard and all the lore bits are so neat. You can really see the beginning stages of the big lore rewrite for Morrowind. I'm hoping that the Unity engine port gets a little more support behind it so that more people will play it.
While Battlespire got released after Daggerfall, lore wise its events happen during Imperial Simulacrum, or in other words, before or during the events of Arena. That means that during the events of Battlespire, orcs are still considered a monster race in Tamriel.
probably took an uncountable number of retries and reloads, i'm sure. if you actually did do that though, well done. that's almost as masochistic as it gets. did you use an archery build?
@@marriedtomychair I just counted up all the time from that playthrough and it only took 21 hrs to complete, all the footage is on my channel. I went for long blades and destruction as my primary skills. Currently doing a second playthrough, started with 55 wounds. On my blind playthrough I finished the game with like 50 cure health potions. If I didn't look at anything at all for level 5 it probably would've been a 22 hr or so playthrough admittedly but I looked up a few things for level 5 just because I didn't want to spend too much time on that level with the save bug.
love the animation on that Scamp you ll think Bethesda would have done a badass truly faithful TES 3 MORROWIND remake as a way to thank the game that saved their legacy anyway give me that sexy Breton girl all day
Hello everyone,
It has come to my attention that Battlespire has been added to Steam. I have no idea if any of the technical advice I gave still applies, though I would assume most of it does. It is still available on GOG, so if you're worried about the technical advice not applying, go for the GOG version. It's generally better for games this ancient, anyways.
Is there a Unity version of this game?
@@markcorrigan3930 Nope. The only way to play it right now is through Dosbox.
Would be phenomenal once out of the shop. Safe travels stranger. Holy places, time & spaces indeed.
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whoever started this "trend" of long reviews of old games should get a some prize.
Perfect background content.
This was a good higly informative video, there aren't many for Battlespire.
Dude seriously 😐 every battlespire video on TH-cam is "LOL look at this it's so bad etc..." I'm glad someone's finally done a real video about it
Surprisingly hand to hand is extremly efective in both Arena and Daggerfall too, most builds that actually defeat Jagar Tharn instead of destroying his life-force gem use hand to hand
Interesting, so hand-to-hand is perpetually a meme across the entire franchise. Either extremely good, extremely bad, or both simultaneously. Do you have any videos or a writeup on hand-to-hand in Arena? I want to see that in action.
@@marriedtomychair I dont have any videos of my own run but I found a couple floating around, check this one th-cam.com/video/Ts-MRJkVPu8/w-d-xo.html fighting with a weapon means he parries or evades most of the attacks, compare it to this one th-cam.com/video/YjWXX7DvCEk/w-d-xo.html
@@Disir-Elizbt That is incredible. I'll keep it in mind should I ever decide to try Arena again.
I uh....doesn't hand to hand crash arena?
This was the first game i worked on, it was a crazy transition game in that it was the last game to use sprites where as redguard was the first fully 3d game. Todd was at the company at the time, but i thin he was on another project. We had some really amazing artist working on this, underated game.
Hmm, a new player in the long form review game. We shall follow your career with great interest.
may you be blessed with the yt algorithm. great video
I cant believe this video is not as popular as it shoud be, its a great video, with amazing editing, Blessings of TH-cam upon ye
This must have took dedication, props to you
43:34 Dude... That's some nightmare fuel 😖
Have my subscription, you made a really compelling and in depth review of a game Ive never heard of before and I somehow loved it.
It’d be so fucking sick if they’d remake Battlespire, even just on a AA budget. Like I swear to God this game could NOT blow ass if some of its systems were just taken and made a little sense of
Wow, liked this video a lot. Great insight into a video game most gloss over. Also laughed quite often.
I wasn't going to comment... and then I saw your custom Morrowind spells at 36:46. I just CAN'T resist pointing out some of the best (in terms of comedic value) out. In the order in which they appear:
Become FISH
Boomer Bile
elon musk
ez levitate
Greater Fireball 2
Greaterer Fireball
smartest boi
Soul Snipe
super elon musk
*slow clap*
I have to wonder if 'elon musk' is a bonewalker - mostly due to the existence of 'super elon musk' and hence greater bonewalker. Perhaps hunger/dremora? Then again, with mods, said 'elon musk' / 'super elon musk' might be literally anything. The world may never know.
Both of the elon musk spells are just fortify personality. It's a reference to Telvanni bug musk.
@@marriedtomychair Ohhhh... ofc it's a *pun.* xD
Great advice about the character creation. I wish I knew all of this information before I played the game myself. I remember using a long blade build from some obscure website and by the endgame I struggled so much I remember I used an exploit (which I found on my own) to get over a barrier of daedric sigils that damaged you.
Glad you appreciate it. I was very adamant about putting a lot of build advice in this video. It's easy to screw yourself over like I did trying to make a jack-of-all-trades pure warrior (which is usually the safest build in these sorts of games). Personally, I really hate starting a game over from almost a dozen hours in because I did the RPG equivalent of making a typo on tax returns.
Usually, you have to find the corresponding amulet to pass by those barriers. Though given the way loot functions in this game and how badly obfuscated mandatory keys can be, I can't blame you for using an exploit. Do you remember how to perform the exploit?
Its interesting to look back at how they forshadowed oblivion in other games. Its almost like it was building up to their invasion.
In Arena, Dagon helped tharn trap the emporor
In morrowind, the heart of lorkhan is destroyed, and the tribunal weaken and eventually disappeared. Considering what lorkhan is, i dont doubt destroying the heart make it easier to invade. Also, im sure dagon knew better than to mess with the tribunal.
Then, obviously, battlespire.
Endurance only affects breathing under water.... ENDURANCE. ONLY. AFFECTS. BREATHING. UNDER. WATER.
SOMEONE APPROVED THIS DURING DEVELOPMENT.
4:00 *spittake*
this guy uses hamachi port forwarding in 2022! *wheeze*
6:20 dude got a tarzan banana Hammock 😂
Battleslire is a wonderful game, especially if you think about it as a some kind if DLC. it misses open world, trading, resting, many spells, other things you expect to see in TES. but this is all because this game is just one big dungeon crawl. and this is a shame Bethesda didnt develop communication with mobs. I LOVE to talk while I fight! what shall we talk about? HNNNRRGH? WAAH! NASTY mankin!
This videogame made me question my sanity multiple times. At least twice. But at least the art style is baddass.
Good coverage.
My boy is doing God's work
Hand 2 hand in Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind and Oblivion is pretty fun, idk why I keep doing hand to hand in rpgs that gives me the option to do so lol
Meanwhile hand to hand in Skyrim literally doesn't exist.
Kinospire
Todd Howard is the first name listed under the heading Special Thanks in the Battlespire paper manual that came with the game. It's on page 5 which is labeled CREDITS. Actually this game and Redguard were being worked on at the same time and Todd Howard was in charge of that project. This is why he only has special thanks on Battlespire. Story and lore wise Redguard is definitely the better game. Unfortunately gameplay wise... Not so much. Also Orcs are not monsters in the lore at this time. In Daggerfall, which is BEFORE this game the Orcs are not playable but part of the story is about Orsinium, the Orc province and how their leader, Gortwog is trying to get the Empire to recognize the Orcs as their own province within the Empire.
I just started Redguard and all the lore bits are so neat. You can really see the beginning stages of the big lore rewrite for Morrowind. I'm hoping that the Unity engine port gets a little more support behind it so that more people will play it.
While Battlespire got released after Daggerfall, lore wise its events happen during Imperial Simulacrum, or in other words, before or during the events of Arena. That means that during the events of Battlespire, orcs are still considered a monster race in Tamriel.
Imperials existed since Arena you just didn't play as them. Imperials have had hold over Tamriel since the beginning.
I beat the game blind with 50 wounds. All I can say is kek, git gud.
probably took an uncountable number of retries and reloads, i'm sure.
if you actually did do that though, well done. that's almost as masochistic as it gets. did you use an archery build?
@@marriedtomychair I just counted up all the time from that playthrough and it only took 21 hrs to complete, all the footage is on my channel. I went for long blades and destruction as my primary skills. Currently doing a second playthrough, started with 55 wounds. On my blind playthrough I finished the game with like 50 cure health potions. If I didn't look at anything at all for level 5 it probably would've been a 22 hr or so playthrough admittedly but I looked up a few things for level 5 just because I didn't want to spend too much time on that level with the save bug.
love the animation on that Scamp
you ll think Bethesda would have done a badass truly faithful TES 3 MORROWIND remake as a way to thank the game that saved their legacy
anyway give me that sexy Breton girl all day
ha