Arena: Won!

It sounds like Bethesda originally intended for the PC to be ported into later games. I was somewhat bored with Arena by the end of the last entry, so I just raced through the last few dungeons without doing any extra side quests or anything. The last few dungeons are real time sinks. Not only are some of the levels extremely large, but the player is also encountering much more difficult enemies, including liches, iron golems, stone golems, and fire daemons. These enemies might individually take five minutes to kill, even if the battle goes well. I thus adopted a few tricks to make the process go faster. Down stairways show up on the automap in blue if you get anywhere close to them. So I didn't have to explore every inch of the rather large final levels, I bought a large stack of Potions of Invisibility and used them to just race around the levels, maximizing coverage, until I found the blue stairways. Even on the bottom levels, where I had to explore more carefully to find quest…