I might pick this up and try it out. I’ve only played Skyrim even though I own Morrowind and Oblivion.
https://github.com/Interkarma/daggerfall-unity/releases
Here’s the link to the project for people who don’t want to go through the whole article to find it.
Play Morrowind.
Keep your fatigue (stamina) bar above 50% to avoid most of your frustrations. That’s the only advice I’ll give.
my advice is to make an amulet of summon Golden Saint and use Azuras Star to farm grand souls and build an arsenal of destruction spell gauntlets. They never fail and fire off faster than manually casting spells.
I would absolutely not give that advice. My favorite experiences with the game were just exploring and figuring out my way. Getting my ass kicked by some peasant. Robbing someone of that would be horrible imo.
However, without the fatigue advice, new players will fail a lot and not even know why (eg. missing your attacks). That is one of the biggest reasons people just quit the game and never come back to it.
I can appreciate that. But especially compared to Oblivion and Skyrim, one of my favorite things about Morrowind is how powerful you can make your MC seperately from your stats and level. Leaping over an enemy encampment and dropping loads of rapid-fire fireballs before you hit the ground is an important experience you don’t get in the other games.
Oh yeah, there’s heaps of suggestions once a player gets their bearings and restarts with their preferred character build. Even knowing about Golden Saints is a huge benefit.
I made a small mod that makes this a bit easier, while staying fair and true to the spirit of the game.
Man…. How much profit do you think that company has made from free labor by now? It’s insane how they’re still praised for this.
I’m not sure how that applies to this since both the mod and base game are free. I agree when it comes to mods on their current paid games to fix their bugs, but I don’t see how it works on this.
Weird article lol. Says my parents didn’t know how to make me in 1996 when I was 16. I was obsessed with daggerfall as a teenager and am excited to try it again. Swinging my mouse sword like it’s back in the day.
Yeah, including that was an odd choice. That made it clear that the author doesn’t know the target audience for this project. I would wager that the vast majority of modern gamers would give up on it in minutes.
I’m stuck in the first dungeon and my swings do nothing, this game sux!
Reminds me of a friend who plays with two custom spells on quickslots the first chance he gets to make them. The first he calls “JUMP GOD” and the second is “I HATE FALL DAMAGE” with 2-300 points in jump for 1s and a couple seconds of feather fall, respectively.
Who needs fast travel?
Morrowind has the same thing, funny enough. Didn’t work out so well for Tarhiel, though.
Is this worth trying if I really disliked Oblivion and Skyrim? It was mainly the terrible floaty combat that I just couldn’t put up with in them.
The combat isn’t any better the further back you go, it’s actually worse. Combat’s never been a strength of this series.
Daggerfall is a very different game from Skyrim. It’s much more about hardcore RP, like you can actually fail the main plot if you don’t complete the first quest within a few weeks of in-game time.
Thanks for the reply. I’m not adverse to more hardcore RP and actually having consequences. Maybe I’ll give it a try seen as I can pick it up for free, I should be able to tell pretty quickly if the combat is going to be bareable for me or not I guess.
I’ve tried to start oblivion 3 times and skyrim 4 and every time I quit before very long at all. Maybe I should resign myself to the fact this series just isn’t for me and wait for Dragons Dogma 2 xD
If the floaty combat is all that bothers you, have you tried playing a pure mage?
I haven’t to be fair, I usually prefer melee based builds when I play stuff so I usually default to that play style when I’m playing a game for the first time. Maybe I should try!
Maybe cheat around a bit to get yourself set up for it around the start but I found it a pretty cool way to play a game without any weapons.
Wait, is it really bigger than Starfield??
Daggerfall is around the size of the UK, but it’s all procedurally generated. It still feels enormous compared to Starfield, which felt tiny in spite of having 1000 planets because everything was locked behind load screens
It’s enormous, just don’t expect anything to be going on in the vastness.
Definitely not in the conceptual sense, but maybe “biggest continuously traversable game” was too many words for them…?
I LOVE Daggerfall. I kinda feel like it gets overlooked. Then again, Daggerfall is the game that made me fall in love with CRPGs. I enjoyed others before it, but Daggerfall became an obsession. I went back and replayed Arena after having had a tepid experience with it the first time around and found it a much better experience. It’s not perfect by any means, but it firmly established Elder Scrolls at the top of my favorite series.
OK - I’ve given it a fair shake and I can definitely say that this game lacks the magic of later games. Exploration is repetitive at best and an outright nuisance at worst, and that is what I loved the most about 3, 4, and 5. I took on a quest to snag some Saints Hair from the mages guild and was treated to the windows maze screensaver that extended over 3 tilesets and had SO MANY ingredients… but only after 6 days of delving nearly identical hallways did I find the hair, and to top it all off, the travel times disqualified me from even completing the quest. The next quest was a mission to track down a serial killer, which meant using the eyeball tool to check every single house in a city bigger than every capital in skyrim combined and chatting up bretons with answers like “What you seek may be north, no west, no east” and “what have khajiit done for me lately”. Doing it once wasn’t enough, though - I had to do this exact same task 3 times until an ordinary nightblade appears. Oh, and if I didn’t do that immediately, the quest would have failed in only 2 days.
This was probably a fun toy when it came out, but i cannot imagine playing it all the way through.
