An Elder Scrolls Legend: Battlespire (pt1) - Intro, Character Creation, Yada Yada

[@exile9024]

who would have thought the daedra were so neat and organised with their file cabinets.

[@pkmn1260]

You have to love how this game was created and then basically forgotten about except for a single line in a book about not being able to get the crystals working again. This is literally never mentioned again.

[@bloodrunsclear]

William B Listen to the Scamp sounds though! Their annoying screams live on XD

[@sutchsteve]

William B The soulcairn and some of the enemies from there show up in Dawnguard

[@icarusben4633]

William B While the events of this game are lost to the Scrolls, many enemies make a comeback in Oblivion and Skyrimm

[@pkmn1260]

Mr. Raspberry Iced Tea clearly we are brothers......

[@letummors922]

+William B (PKMN12) Actually The Doors of Oblivion talk about it too

[@kritsadventures]

Jesus, I thought that fight was going to last an hour..

[@obiwanlego]

2D sprites running into you is the scarest thing in the video game history.

[@cosmicsans3275]

hell yea

[@Brilhantina9]

Dude this game was hellish, even the music is dark ambient

[@robertsides3626]

Hey. Wanna hear the most annoying sound in the world? 6:18

[@jackercooper4078]

it's actually close to it

[@thedangerwich5476]

loooooooooooool!!!!!!

[@StarWarsTrekkie1342]

I was gonna say cliff racers are worse, but the scamp sounds are actually pretty similar

[@alchemistgaming6691]

I hate how so many people forget about the classics. It's almost as bad as these kids starting with Skyrim and thinking there'll be a Skyrim 2.

[@InfernalLeo777]

Alchemist Gaming my friend was trying to be cool with my other friend and i, and he said. "WHEN DO YOU THINK THERE WILL BE A SKYRIM 2?" i played skyrim first and now i wanna play daggerfall, and Morrowind.

[@prince-solomon]

Is Skyrim a remake of this game or what?^^

[@xxblade.2272]

Just because you're being an emotional fanboy, it doesn't mean everyone else have to go back to a 20 year old game with those kinds of graphics. I won't even mention it, you can watch the video.

[@hollowtavo7612]

Happy Merchant I'm 16 and believe me I would like to play all the past games to but PC are expensive and I don't even have a console you gotta check your privilege man not everyone could just go out and buy the things required to play those games hell currently I don't even have a console so all I do is sit and watch TV I really wanna play dark souls remastered probably gonna be one of the first games I buy when I finally get a Xbox one

[@sammyshehole]

It’s one thing to have played these older Elder Scrolls games when they were originally released. You have that nostalgia that’ll keep you going back to it. But it’s another thing to have been introduced to the series with Skyrim and trying to go back to these much older games before it. I tried Morrowind and the combat was just so atrocious, I couldn’t continue with it. Makes me wish I had been familiar with the series back then.

[@finjohnkhan428]

This looks genuinely creepy.

[@eusouocarameuirmao]

say what you will about the game, the theme song is pretty dope

[@JLsminecraft]

Mehrunes Dagon is in a lot of TES titles.

[@FlockOfHawks]

What a nice surprise to see *this* one finally ! It's surprisingly beautiful , contrary to all the negative sentiments i picked up about it in the online lore . I know what i'll be bingeing today :o) !

[@tekknking]

Am i the only one who finds some elder scrolls creepy ? I remember when i was 13 and bored , i'd dare myself in morrowind to go through the random dungeons and i would be paranoid

[@abemartinez9623]

dude yes i was so young in that game i was scared to leave town sometimes!!! what a great experience

[@Endelyon_Jikken]

Corprus stalkers scared me haha

[@RooRoove]

Ya know that skeleton in the first dungeon in Daggerfall? Freaked me tf out the first time I heard it...

[@isabelcast7792]

The older games seem creepy for some reason .

[@Smartacus98]

Kogoruhn was horrofying in Morrowind

[@jesterface0521]

I love how the scamp leans back and then basically cat scratches and don't get my started on the ow's. OW!OW!OW! LOL

[@rohry4905]

Why is this game so fucking creepy?

[@minihunter2776]

+Jacob Rohrbacker Yea I know that feel, most old Bethesda games have that eerie feel.

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

Tamriel Park Is frightening in the dark, all' the fardragon are running wiiiild.

[@grunsoul50]

Jacob Rockenblocken Exactly! 😂

[@MinscFromBaldursGate92]

I like that you Can talk to the monsters.

[@lukewarm25]

Dat "ow ow ow" sound, tho

[@kaardin6759]

Honestly im suprised the graphics were even that good for 1997. Good job Bethesda.

[@analanus3131]

There was much better back then.

[@chuckles123]

Were they though? Didn't quake release that year?

[@mikhailthegoon]

wait in the credits of the beginning it says "No thanks" lol

[@TaylorNicholas93]

I love the music in this game!

[@MrDjSeamless325]

this game should be re-made officially. Kind of like how TES renewal project is redoing Morrowind. Played the crap out of Morrowind, never played Dragonspire. Looks insanely fun. Looks way darker and evil than other TES games.

[@TheSpaghettiKnight]

Wait a minute. Is the narrator from the opening the voice of the scientists from the original Half-Life?

[@MuamerHodzic]

i laughed so hard at "inside voices plz" hshah that dremora flipped the fuck out lmao

[@bloodrunsclear]

Hmm...a parallel dimension serving as a trial by fire in a wizard's tower... Hey! Dragon Age borrowed this idea for The Harrowing! XD

[@convoy81]

+TheBrownViper Yes the realm of dreams is the realm of Vaermina in TES

[@grumpfgrullgrumbulok5352]

I like you video. People should not forget battlespire and redguard. They are also awesome parts of the elder scrolls

[@MagikGimp]

Would love to see all of these old games' intros running real-time on modern hardware.

[@Worldowner]

Thank you.I can't run that old games on my comp, but atleast i can look at them on youtube.

[@ArcadianBluGamer03]

Battlespire, is like a mix of modern and Medieval times, I saw file drawers made of iron, and a button with a skeleton on it,that activates a Plasma light, Kinda like the Dwemer artifacts really.

[@RooRoove]

I'm playing through this game now. The starter equipment didn't give me any option for pants, so my character's running around the battlespire nude from the waist down. Not the best TES game, but the music's pretty solid.

[@mhaxen4081]

I just love the theme song!

[@BeetoThePardonBeggar]

Just finished watching your play of Redguard, so glad to see you did Battlespire! :D

[@xraptor94x]

I would rather pick anything else than a elf. (Except Dunmer. They are sometimes nice.) Too bad that the Argonians doesn't exist in that game. They would be the first race that i would pick for some Bow and Arrow action.

[@shuboy05]

In fact the scythe the Dark Seducer uses in the intro can be found in Morrowind. Bethesda wouldn't stick a callback to Battlespire if it weren't canon. Oh, and don't forget the Savior's Hide you need to defeat Dagon shows up in the later games.

[@daniel.holbrook]

Wow, this character creation looks even better than Daggerfall's. For all I love about Morrowind it's a shame that they got rid of special advantages/disadvantages, they were so fun in Daggerfall.

[@HundredYearsBoar]

I thoroughly enjoy this soundtrack.

[@ED-jn4fg]

I like the concept of this game and will like it if Bethesda went back and do another one.

[@patrickmccutcheon8860]

One of the weirder looting screens I've seen in a game. This looks pretty fun though. I'm a big Elder Scrolls fan.

[@Zellig]

This looks terrible by modern standards obviously but if I was a kid I would think this is the most amazing fucking thing ever.

[@brigge7830]

Dude,compare it to Daggerfall Graphics,it looks gorgeous... I was literally telling myself, "man,these graphics are great" (compared to previous elder scrolls games).

[@szczurolak]

The cabinet in 13:22 is like: "I have to go, my people need me".

[@user-ti2xu3wp5l]

Gives me major Diablo I + II vibes

[@JustDatBoi]

Back when Bethesda and Blizzard put out quality games. I miss those times.

[@HybOj]

respect for going through those old TES games

[@pauloa.7609]

Love the intro music.

[@afinoxi]

I like how these old games would've been like the most hyped thing and people would cheer for seeing something like this and these days people just play them for its retro looking. I'm not so old , in fact this game is older than me so I dunno if this is real or not.

[@d00kiebird]

OW OW OW OW OW OW huaaaugh OW OW OW huaaaugh

[@EQOAnostalgia]

Wish this was on PS1 back in the day. Never had a PC in those days so Morrowind was my first entry. A very worthy title but it's sad i missed the heyday of the series.

[@stfuenviousnoob]

i only like the elder scrolls main series. the other elder scrolls spin-offs are rubbish to me, that said, you doing a playthrough of this is more awesome than i thought. looking forward to this playthrough.

[@54667991]

I bet the Battlespire will eventually get added to The Elder Scrolls online.

[@hey111222]

The sound effects are...AWESOME.

[@mikeman232]

its funny how Battlespire was released on November 30, 1997, one year before Half Life, I am saying this because I was about to say, "Why does the game have sort of 3d elements, but I checked the wiki before I sounded stupid and could have insulted some. But still a good game like skyrim but looks like doom.

[@warellis]

Cool thing about the Battlespire: if you know the cosmology of Tamriel, you can find out that Battlespire is essentially what we'd call a space station. In fact here is some official lore from Kirkbride about an interrogation between Cyrus and Tiber Septim, parts of which involve space combat: www.imperial-library.info/content/tiber-septim%E2%80%99s-sword-meeting-cyrus-restless

[@AWonderingWarrior]

I think the only good thing about Battlespire, is the box artwork. Also, Redguard in my honest opinion is much superior to this title. Worth a look though.

[@LikaLaruku]

I guess Elder Scrolls just has a long tradition of good voice acting & nice music. Took me all of 2 seconds to find the OST download.

[@TheKingBusiness]

Glad to see you are making videos again! I really liked your previous ones, I also like to see your annotations of your guy talking. I enjoyed the last one in Daggerfall, I believe when you were a girl character.

[@Vazz]

@Sporevideomaker Installing wasn't a problem. If you're familiar with dosbox it's the same as installing any other elder scrolls. I had a problem getting it to run smoothly though.

[@v.t.o.l.friedchicken6973]

i watched this just for the theme song

[@Defender98TV]

"OWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOOW" IM GONNA PUNCH A HOLE THROUGH MY COMPUTER SCREEN IF IT DOESNT STOP!

[@Joram647]

Wow, never played this game before, but I must say it looks a lot easier to navigate than the dungeons in Daggerfall. I could never figure out why every single cave and large building not in a city or town had to be built like a claustrophobic labyrinth system. Sure it was annoying, but it also made no sense. I'll have to pick this game up sometime and try it.

[@TheAlexagius]

Looking for a black cat in the night is easier than navigating in arena and daggerfall.

[@Vazz]

Good to see you got the game working. I haven't tried multiplayer, so I dunno. I heard the multiplayer isn't very good though and actually makes the game harder.

[@user-mf1et3um9z]

Watching in 2021. Never played but always wanted too. Also: OW

[@Vazz]

Quality. But it's very hard as well.

[@grunsoul50]

I'm never going to see the scamps the same way ever again in Oblivion

[@shuboy05]

The Soul Cairn (Level 3) is making a reappearance in Dawnguard but I would LOVE to see the Battlespire with Skyrim's graphics.

[@NerdHerd-RP2]

If I remember right, I could be wrong, but it definitely takes place before Daggerfall.

[@dr.throwback]

Damn the music is dope!

[@piratatrillo]

King's field 4 ps2. great game guys.

[@neuerehrgeiz7816]

The mage guy kind of sounds like Hideyoshi Toyotomi from Samurai Warriors 2. Like, his nerdy cousin or something.

[@artemisarrow179]

Scamps have come a long way lol

[@archiethedog4515]

Elder Scrolls classics are on sale on GoG.

[@murderman911]

It's interesting that these games have revolutionized the RPG world.

[@vladislavborsch7756]

10 years after yours comment these games are still the same as at 1997 :DDDDDDDDDDDddd ( T_T )

[@milanradojevic8266]

wooooow finaly... tx for uploading this bro :)

[@SoulerVids]

Arena is free? Yes! I've always wanted to try it.

[@xaGe__]

..Dosbox runs Battlespire (along with Arena & Daggerfall) just fine on my 4 year old so-so HP G50 106R. dual-core intel with intel graphics. A virtual machine is far from needed, but you could go to extra time and trouble to do so or just down load dosbox and have the game up & running in a few minutes. I prefer using one of Ykhwong's DOSBox SVN Daum builds though. Put it all on a USB stick and have them where ever you go!

[@hellospaghetti5754]

The scamps kind of sound like cliff racers in this game

[@MrMoorasPowrocil]

dunno why but when someone hits you and you scream it remind me of "Hell" soundtrack from Worms Armageddon

[@MagikGimp]

@MrMoorasPowrocil Yeah! I was wondering myself where I'd heard the obviously library effects before.

[@surroundgatari]

Did an Elder Scrolls character just say "Jack-All"? 15:07

[@ikoikoni]

1997 and the combat is better than morrowind

[@RamRam.720]

Morrowind had good combat, Daggerfall's was really good. Oblivion's and skyrim's are pretty meh

[@ikoikoni]

I know that morrowinds was good but it had many problems

[@RamRam.720]

nicfire10 |Gaming Channel It's way better than skyrim's

[@Malusdarkblade]

MrRamram720 Either you never actually played Morrowind, you are saying it to be cool, or you smoke crack. Morrowind had the worst combat of all, it always came down to who had the most potions, and by about the 60 hour mark you could kill most things with the right build in a single hit. Or you picked the wrong build and you would have to restart. Lets also talk about the fact most combat was "forward, hit, back, wait, forward, hit, back, wait, forward, hit (miss), back, wait, forward, hit, back, potion, wait, forward, hit" and so on and so on.

[@RamRam.720]

Captain Shite Stain Morrowind's combat was good for an elder scrolls game, whose melee combat was always lacking. In Skyrim you just mash the mouse button, in oblivion you mash the mouse button , but watch your stamina or you'll swing _slightly_ slower! Daggerfall let you chose direction without walking away from your target. Arena was a very basic version of daggerfall's. Morrowind had direction and you couldn't swing your sword for centuries without getting tired; also most people mainly hated the dice roll, well what do you expect from a game series based of a D&D game?

[@Vazz]

I got mine on Ebay. It would pop up there from time to time.

[@ExtremeDeathman]

Notice how the swinging sounds are still the same in Morrowind...

[@NerdHerd-RP2]

I don't know if you were playing these in story order, but this takes place before Arena.

[@rkhale02]

You have to emulate in order to play games these old, it's simple and there are tons of directions to help. I play from school.

[@maksphoto78]

I hope Beth make this and Redguard free to download. I wanna see for myself :)

[@BladePainter]

okay but yep it is rally harder but it semes fun to me and, i can start multiplayer and make a lobby if i want but i can`t find any games so i think its beacuse the server is no longer supported but i think there is a like configuration in the dosbox file that lets u still play the multiplayer :) btw love your lets plays and not to be gay or anything but i love your voice!

[@userxox]

5:47 HEY WHAT'S WRONG WITH PURPLE? THAT'S MY FAV COLOUR! >:(

[@xaGe__]

It can be found at Kat(DOT)ph or the Piratebay last I looked.

[@mmaddgrayy]

That pose though O.O

[@inphasesith]

This sounds like the introduction to conan the barbarian.

[@CanalDeMúsicaMusicChannel]

"yada, yada, yada"... lol Seinfeld reference.

[@Vazz]

I'll see what I can do but it's been so long since I've played it, I don't remember exactly how I got it working. Have you seen my video on how to install Arena/Daggerfall? I don't think the dosbox settings are much different from those.

[@genjuroukyo]

Bethesda made this game? I couldn't get past the first level back in the day Dx I got stuck or lost or something...Can't remember.

[@AlexeiVoronin]

What DosBox settings do you use? I'm asking because I can get the game running, nice and smooth, but... it's very small. Like a tiny window surrounded by blackness, unable to fill the entire screen as it is supposed to. Using "ddraw" for output solves this, but makes the game look more pixelated. Any help will be appreciated :)

[@Vazz]

I ran this game the same way I did Daggerfall. Here is a video showing how I did that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqW9fX-QbJmYqrM

[@AlexeiVoronin]

Yeah, that's the thing - all other 640x480 programs (e.g. WarCraft II, Quake, Descent II, etc.) fill the entire screen properly but Battlespire refuses to do so for some reason. I guess I'll have to put up with ddraw. Oh well... Thanks anyway :)

[@nerevarinenwah3690]

Still better dialogue and characterization than Starfield

[@fluffybunny6454]

I would not want that theme song played to me in a dark room. It's dark and ominous which is the opposite of redgaurd's theme.

[@Vazz]

No, I have not played any of the handheld TES games.

[@TheFunOfClassic]

Did you buy it or ..... if you did download it plzz tell us big fans of the elder srolls how we can play this game as well

[@BladePainter]

Oo and btw did u get the multiplayer to work, then i would really want u to explain how u did, and then maybe we could play u and me? ;)

[@MrDragon123203]

Good graphics for its time

[@Xenaisthebusiness]

Dosbox crashes every single time when I try to select or equip equipment.

[@stinkyblood12345]

did anyone else notice the "NO THANKS MRS MARPHY" at 1:49

[@Kevin500K]

Wow, i've been an elder scroll fan for years & i've never tried Battlespire (and probably won't ever) because it looks boring...

[@AlexPlaysGaming]

Never played this one. I have all the main TES games and their expansions but not this one or redguard. Dont really wanna play redguard because it looks kinda pointless, but i do want to play this

[@yeismeload]

I am watching his LP's of both games, since getting either to run in Windows 7 is virtually impossible. Actually, in the case of Redguard it literally is..apparently even after a massive amount of tweaking the settings in dosbox there's a point in the game that crashes no matter what.