Dungeons and Daedra... The Elder Scrolls: Battlespire - Retrospective/Analysis Thingy

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• LA

  @ladyariadneii · 2 years ago

  I fucking love the names of places in this game. They were cooking with “weir gate”, “shade perilous”, and “slipstream realm”.

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• HQ

  @HQ_Default · 2 years ago

  I think my favorite part about the story is the idea of a snubbed bureaucrat from Oblivion helping the apprentice stop the Battlespire invasion purely because he was salty about his faction pulling a stunt like this when they didn't have the manpower to actually hold the position.

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• VO

  @vocaeien · 2 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMFPM7X6Q98&amp;t=6300">1:45:00</a> &quot;what are the lore implications of this?&quot;<br>&quot;don&apos;t even fucking start&quot;

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• HQ

  @HQ_Default · 2 years ago

  Honestly I liked the Redguard video being such a healthy length. For games as old and under-discussed as that, it&apos;s nice to get into the nitty gritty details.

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• DD

  @ddewcifer · 2 years ago

  My mom wouldn’t let me play Battlespire in 1997, so I finally bought it recently and found out why. Straight up naked women. The 90s were a fun time. I do think the game would benefit a lot from a unity port like Daggerfall did, and a bit of a rework.

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• TE

  @Tenchigumi · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMFPM7X6Q98&amp;t=2050">34:10</a> This description of the Ideal Masters sounds like an allegory for players who hoard all their most powerful consumable items and abilities for when they&apos;ll &quot;need them the most,&quot; only to end up either dying or beating the game without ever using a single one.

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• MA

  @Magnymagic · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMFPM7X6Q98&amp;t=1371">22:51</a> <br><br>Old lore is that the Empire and by extension Cryodiil was home to a lot of dragons. Found the quote. <br><br>“The heart of the province being what you think of when you think of a traditional jungle, tumbling down to the fields of large rice paddies that fed the Empire, guarded by Romanesque troops and dragons everywhere. The Imperial City was to be vast, rolling across wetlands and swamps, with large sections lost and overgrown, full of too many cults to count, the oldest temples having obviously been around since the Merethic Era. <br><br>Then Todd watched The Fellowship of the Ring and mistakes were made.”

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• EL

  @elielilol · 2 years ago

  I fell asleep with this video playing on the bedroom TV and woke up at 2 am to &quot;I LONG FOR THE GREAT RELEASE THAT DEATH WILL BRING&quot; 10/10

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• SI

  @Siltprogramation · 2 years ago

  In the TES lore there are airships, so the balloon thing is 100% lore friendly XD.

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• BI

  @BigLongRandomNumberNameM-kf9vy · 1 year ago

  RIP Julian LeFay

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• EL

  @EltaninVintius · 2 years ago

  How does this not have more views? Excellent retrospective.

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• AL

  @AlbinoTuxedo · 2 years ago

  &quot;Who you calling brittle, ice boy?&quot; Is now stuck in my brain. So fucking funny 😂

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