RedGuard is so unique, its fascinating. Some facts about RedGuard:

1.Only non-rpg Elder Scrolls game
2.Only TES game to take place exclusively in third person
3.Only TES game to have no character creation
3.Only TES game to have only two weapons available to the player (Sabre) (Prince's Soul Sword)
4.Only TES game to have a living dragon, that you can kill
5.Only TES game to have an obese person in it (Amiel Richton)
6.Only TES game that didn't allow the player to cast magic spells
7.Only TES game to have dialogue interfaces in third person
8.Only TES game to have a non-tamrielic race in it (Sload)
9.Only TES game to take place in the Second Era
10.Only TES game to have a Khajit speak in their native language
11.First TES game to have a voice for each character
12.Only TES game that did not allow the player to wear armor
13.First TES game to take place completely in 3d
14.Only TES game to have a preset name and background for the player
15.Only TES game to have the player speak on a regular basis
16.Only TES game to have a RedGuard speak in their native language (Hayle's Mother)
17.Only TES PC game that did not support a mouse.
18.Only TES PC game to never be patched.

Please, list more if you know any.

This is a general discussion for RedGuard thread to talk about anything RedGuard, except how to get it to run on your computer. :shifty:
This game is so different from other TES games, I mean really different. I think it deserves a general discussion thread.

I think despite being somewhat of a failure, watching clips of it you can see the beginning of what made Morrowind appealing. Instead of Daggerfalls endless procedural wilderness, you could walk to areas that were part of an existing world. I think it really does add that sense of adventure and action, which when mixed with the RPG elements it did not have, make the kind of game Morrowind was.

You've got be kidding, are there no fans of RedGuard on these forums!?

Sure. I'm a huge fan. I actually LOST a full day playing this game. I had a holiday vacation with nothing to do, and it occurred after the Christmas wherein I rec'd this game as a gift. I never played 24hrs straight, yet within 5 days, I thought it was Saturday and it was actually Sunday. Yeah.. I loved this game. Of course, since I haven't played it in 7 years or so.... (well, maybe not 7) I plan to go through the (apparently unmentionable) "how do I get it to run under XP" scenario someday, but right now, I'm back deep inside Daggerfall again..

I need to get my hands on a copy of Redguard. I know some sources (legitimate retailers with physical copies, of course), I just don't have the time.

But yes, Redguard was actually a turning point in The Elder Scrolls series. It was when Bethesda became aware of how much intrigue and detail they could put into a small, defined world and decided with Morrowind that it was time to switch to smaller scale projects like that.

I've got a copy. Played it for a while, but I just couldn't get into it. Also, the combat was pretty dang clunky. I don't know, maybe I'll give it another shot sometime, but I doubt it.

I love Redguard, problem is I svck at it. Damn mushrooms. >_>

The opening clip was the thing in TES that brought me most into the amazing TES world, it's so athmospheric, and everything is cool and special, you get to see cultures and evrything, it really gives a feeling of a good world, and Dram is awesome, too bad he svcks.
I don't get why people love dragons so much.

Well, if some of you get to play RedGuard all the way through you might remember this famous speech:

My Amazon order of Redguard just came in, and I am thrilled by the manual alone, not to mention the "burnt by Bethesda" map. The artwork svcked me in immediately. Now comes the fun part of trying to jury-rig the game to run on XP.

Be wary of the controls sometimes they tend to be a little frustrating, but not all the time. Have fun! :thumbsup: I hope you get it working.

Well, got the basics working. It's a little stuttery, and the intro videos have some graphical artefacts, but not bad for fifteen minutes of tinkering. I'll be in Hammerfell for the rest of the night, I think.

There's a full walkthrough for redguard on youtube, and I mean FULL.(ALthough watching it all is a huge waste of time, there are something like 35 ten minute long vids)

Stros M' kai to be specific.

Could be, but with the taunting going on, I was enthralled from the first encounter with a guard.. It was like "Die by the Sword" all over again, but somehow even funnier.

I'll be getting a new copy of RedGuard soon. Its been tough to find but finally found one. I lost my original years back, I always wanted to play it again, and now hopefully when it arrives I'll be able to play it once more. For now though I'll play Daggerfall.

Thatoneguy, you got your facts inaccurate on this one. For it was Daggerfall that almost bankrupt Bethesda, not RedGuard. That's why they more cautiously made games after Daggerfall. Here I think this will explain:



I hope this clears things up. Anyway, this is my hypothesis and mine only.

Daggerfall sold quite well (700,000 copies which was a lot back then when gaming wasn't mainstream and the developer teams were noticeably smaller), Battlespire and Redguard didn't. And a year later bought by Zenimax. When they then developed Morrowind, pretty much their whole existance depended on that game, and it became a smash hit so they could continue to live.

redguard was brilliant, if gamesas could've ported it to the playstation, it would've been a breakthrough title. battlespire was a turd, and should've remained a daggerfall add-on.

I like Battlespire But yes, it would have been better as an expansion. Then someone could have haxx0red it and we could have had fun. See my signature for details

Sorry my mistake, I must've read it wrong. Anyway I got my new copy of RedGuard today and have been playing it on Virtual PC (Windows 98) It runs well, but the fps is low, and I don't play it that much because of the fps sadly. I agree that it should've been ported on the Playstation. It might have sold better if they did that.

I thought the combat was a little clunky too, but it has such amazing potential if I could just get it to run right, to be awesome. For a fencer, based on reading the manual alone, Redguard's swordplay is like video game fencing training!

Sadly, I just can't get it to run properly on my desktop; sound won't work and I ain't playing without sound, dudes.

They actually worked on a PS2 port of it, but eventually dropped it to put more resources into Morrowind. It would have been damn awesome if they had finished that port.

I was wrong about Daggerfall and the bankruptcy of Bethesda. Here's the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_history_of_The_Elder_Scrolls_series. I have know idea how I interpreted like that. I was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_history_of_The_Elder_Scrolls_series however about Daggerfall making Beth choose to make smaller and more detailed games. Well, that's the end of that, there shouldn't be anymore posts about that. We need to stay on topic.

I always speculated this, but could never prove it. That the song the Dunmer pirate woman sings in Oblivion is in fact about Cyrus from RedGuard. Its on Wikipedia you can see it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elder_Scrolls_Adventures:_Redguard.