

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. Furthermore, during winters the towns get covered with snow.The calendar doesn’t lie. The effects of rain and snow are also shown in the game. At night, the threatening streets of the town light up and the game also show effects of dawn and dusk. Also, the player finds some villages or landscapes outside the town. However, the player can roam about the boundaries of the town and go inside the tombs and temples. The choice of the town has an impact on the role that the player would be playing.Ī new panorama is created whenever the player starts a fresh game, therefore, the player cannot traverse from one town to some other town. The player chooses a town from which he wants to initiate the game after he escapes from the cave. But afterward, the game became a single player Role-playing game in which the player did not have a team. Primarily, in Elder Scroll- Arena the player needed to prepare his party of soldiers and combat with the other parties in different landscapes in Tamriel. Along with this, the player can go on exploration in the towns and go on some provincial adventures. The player can delve anywhere into Nirn and investigate huge caves. The player needs to escape from the cave and murder Jagger Tharn to set the king free. Jagar Tharn imprisons the king using the staff of discord and locks the player inside a cave. Ureil Septim indulges himself in a fight with Jagar Tharn so that he can unite the whole world of Nirn. The plot of Elder Scrolls – Arena is set in the world of Nirn in the dominion of Tamriel who is ruled by Ureil Septim.
