How To Daggerfall 

Why tf premiere it live. Had to wait till it was over to watch from the beginning. Sure, this will barely come up. But still

The modding community for these games is like those RU-vid videos where the guy finds a 20 year old neglected rusted knife and dunks it into dollar store vinegar and cleans it up in a day.

The Altmer being able to be easily turned into a game-breaking demigod makes the fact that they canonically believe they got nerfed even better, honestly

Love how Todd didnt make this game but we still blame him for the bugs

22:03 "This lock has nothing to fear from you" You know, I've often said that not enough modern games attack your lack of skills on a personal level. :D

Pro Tip: Go to the city of Daggerfall and wait till its night. It's a perfectly safe and awesome idea. Trust me.

The story of The Elder Scrolls series is a story of slightly fixing the stuff that was broken, slightly improving stuff that was crap, while completely removing everything that was great from the start.

"There's no indication that you have a disease" *You feel somewhat bad x8*

I remember one of the first quests I did in kingdom come deliverance, something about getting a pint for my dad I believe.. I grabbed it but I took my sweet time exploring around and talking to a bunch of people... when I got back he complained to me that the beer was warm and made me go get another one. That blew my mind and was the moment like damn, I really cannot treat this like other games and I’ve truly been spoiled. I LOVED it!!

The randomised fever-dream dungeons combined with mobs spawning behind you in rooms you've already cleared makes this into a survival horror real quick. 10/10 ruined my life and I can't stop playing.

Yes btw, the enemies comboing you is a intended mechanic of the game, not all enemies have multiple attacks, but a few do with deadly effect.

14:08 So you're saying that if you move slightly backwards when enemies attack the AI is incapable of hitting you. Some things never change.

I was almost murdered a few weeks ago and ur videos have helped my memory immensely. Please keep up the good work and help me recover. I was ambushed on my way to my car after work and wound up with a fractured skull and brain damage. Everything goes numb and I can barely function as a grown adult. I'll never work again. Please keep at it as these videos help me remember things I cant normally recall

Factions are important because they determine what missions you DONT get. I wish games these days would pick up on that

I remember when I first died of the plague in Daggerfall. I had been aware of it, and I wasn't sure how far I could make it without dying. Learned quickly that I couldn't make it back to the capital, so I reloaded and changed tactics. I found the closest village possible and traveled there, managing to find a temple where I purchased healing from the disease. It felt great to figure something like that out for myself and find a realistic solution.

If you're apart of the mages guild, you can make a teleport spell where you set an anchor (in the start of the dungeon) and once you reach a dead end and explored a section of the dungeon, you can tp back to the start.

'Darggerfall was held together by bandaids and elmers glue..." so it was a Bethesda game? XD

37:15 The word you're looking for is "lycanthropy".

As I said in the live chat, I think procedural generation has its place... at the beginning of building the world space. It is a good tool to use to create the foundation of your world, but then you should go in and manually refine it after that. A lot of the work will have already been done, and that saved time and effort can then go into handcrafting and tailoring the pre-built world even further. It is a good tool, but it should never be the only tool.

Hmmmmm good stuff

Using just one save slot in Daggerfall.. chill went down my spine.

"Once Lost Games" has the main programmer of Daggerfall, Julianos, working on a successor to the ideas of Daggerfall. As in a fantasy simulation "game". Where a sort of dungeon master AI works around the player with quests etc. Might catch your interest if that ever comes to be.

"Use the Teleport" says Doctor Doom

30:41 "They must have realized that handcrafting was the recipe for sucess" Todd: *1000 PLANETS*

Daggerfall Unity has an option in the settings file for `SmallerDungeons`. I don't know why it's hidden away and not accessible from the menus, but it makes dungeons way, way more fun. Objectives can still be behind secret doors and whatnot though. :)

great shit

I started recently and went to a tavern when I talked to a random npc he turned into some sort of wizard orc and said something along the lines of "My mortal enemy I shall exact my revenge" then he teleported me to a random dungeon I was really confused

Jesus those cliffracer noises gave me genuine feelings of anxiety...

When I was staying up all night working on my MBA (trust me, NOT a flex), I would take 15-30 minute breaks and play Daggerfall. It was one of the few chances I had to relax. Even the music brings back SO MANY memories and a feeling of having a much needed break

I walked across the ENTIRE MAP in The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall. It took 69 hours.

When you describe the the dungeons of this game it feels like you’re describing some kind of unknowable, lovecraftian labyrinth.

Maybe someone already pointed this out, in Morrowind they kept mouse swinging to decide which attack you'd make. But they also added an "always use best attack" option and everyone just defaulted to that. Great video!

There is a swimming mechanic, so quest items being underwater is perfectly legit. But yes, the game wants to murder you. Like old school D&D, for that matter.

Aside from a quest actually being broken and the item being unobtainable without cheats, I really like Daggerfall's massive labyrinthine dungeons. But, I love dungeon crawlers in general. Just the feeling of finishing a dungeon that took a couple hours to complete, is fun to me. The only actual problem I have with them, is they're all the same. Outside of maybe some unique set pieces and enemies, every single dungeon is largely the same. I think if they spent more time creating more resources for the generation to pull from, it would be even better

Daggerfall is an inspiration.. I'm surprised no one has created something similar.

Hmm, I've always enjoyed the dungeons, despite the jankiness. They give me this sense of dread, as dungeons should. Not this happy-go-lucky adventuring you find in other games. And the random generation actually aides in that. You see, it's not just the monsters, that fight you, but the dungeon ITSELF is a challenge. I like the overwhelmingly giant and truly confusing labyrinths and the way they often seem to not be made for mere humans to traverse them. Entire sections sunken underwater, rooms connected by long, vertical shafts and other fuckery. Why not? Lots of these places were probably designed to keep people like YOU out. Preparation is key when adventuring. Have the right skills or spells (like climbing, swimming, levitation) or walk away in shame and find another place to loot. Coupled with the creepy environmental sound effects and music and the noises made by hidden enemies, it really makes me feel, like I am in a hostile environment and I don't want to stay there for any longer than absolutely necessary. It is possible to spend an entire afternoon, trying to explore some of the larger dungeons. I actually tried to map out the entirety of the starting dungeon, because I am kind of a completionist and expected, that this would be possible with my starting character, just like in pretty much every other game. Nope. Daggerfall taught me right from the start, that adventuring is no trifling matter.

When this game came out, it was the largest installation for a game at the time. If was 500mb install. I had to buy a new hard drive in order to just play it. I played the game for 2 or so years after it came out. Beautiful game.

40:20 Genuinely spooked me

19:15 It's funny because the path-finding AI of Skyrim still can't jump or get up to higher grounds if you decide to cheese.

I will always love Daggerfall more than every TES game in the series. That dungeoning is supreme.

One of my favorite builds is making a character who cannot cast magic (inability to regen spells, unable to cast magic in light and darkness), and then spending all those benefits on a maxed out health meter as well as immunity to disease, magic, paralysis, and poison. You get to play a rampaging tank who can completely ignore what would otherwise be game-ending hazards.

You don't even need the cheat mod if you're part of the Mage's Guild (or maybe just got lucky with the loot). Just use the mark and recall spells and you can teleport right back to the entrance of the dungeon or wherever if you left your mark there.

The dungeon problem is so interesting to me. I recently played through the chalice dungeons in Bloodborne, which are also randomly generated dungeons, and I found myself consistently excited prepping for and then completing a never ending string of random dungeons- I think at a base level, a lot of humans are just really attracted to that loop of “prep, execute, repeat”

Just want to thank you for entertaining us.

"Chance to Hit" is a way of simulating an actual fight, where blows are blocked and dodged and parried. Notice how you can recover arrows from enemies you "hit" but didn't damage.

I thoroughly appreciated the use of the word sneaksie, I use it all the time

Best way to enjoy daggerfall dungeons for new players is to use the recall spell once you enter the dungeon and use tele2qmarker to go immediately to the quest target. Then just work the dungeon backwards so you can leave whenever you want with the recall spell.

man I looove the music of Daggerfall, it's just lovely.

I have a custom made Breton Healer with climbing as one of his secondary skills and I gotta say, having to climb the wall of one of the major cities (like Daggerfall) to get into the city while enemies are chasing you at night while you're low on health and magic is a blessing. Altho i forgot to put spell absorption onto my dude tho. LOL. Also ironically, my Breton is calleld B'aldum but he's not bald lol

>takes critical weakness to disease >complains about how unfair the disease mechanic is.

Daggerfall was my first PC RPG. I was determined not to cheat so I spent a few hours looking for a quest item in a dungeon. Finally I broke down and used a cheat that teleported you to quest items...it ported me into an empty room with nothing inside it.

bethesda old ambitious design are dead within, by the time the video games technologies is far better than '80 techs, most video games developers who were once very ambitious about their passion, died by their own greed for money they saw in "shandification" of video games RPG genre. nowadays, a less complicated or simply complicated RPG became a niche to the old fans of the genre by which, still debating with younger generation of RPG fans who lacking common sense when it come to debating.

A minor correction. Failing to meet Lady Brisienna *does not* bar you from the MQ. You'll still receive letters from the various factions to progress the MQ along and you can go from there. Lady Brisienna is entirely optional. I forget whether or not this impacts you *spoilers* later in the game when you're deliberating on who gets the totem of Tiber Septim however, as Brisienna is one of the individuals you can give the Totem to.

*_"HALT!!"_* ~ Your Daddy

"so much freedom it makes terrorists cry" is going in a song

At 39:56 I jumped and thought it was my phone ringing. Because that jolly music is what I use as my ringtone presently.

I really love the uncertainty involved with the massive labyrinthine dungeons. The fact that I can be the biggest, baddest mofo in all of Tamriel, walk into a dungeon and still have the possibility of complete failure is something I find to be incredibly realistic. It makes success to be that much more rewarding. Consider actually living in Tamriel, for a moment. Just entertain the idea that it's a real world with flesh and blood people.... and cat people... and lizard people. In such a world, it wouldn't necessarily matter how hard you trained, or how powerful you became, because there would always be someone, or something there, better than you, who's just looking to knock you off. Imagine thousands of years before Daggerfall, when the King of Worms was just a young aspiring battlemage named Manimarco. When he went into a dungeon there would be no guaruntee of his survival, or of the success of his purpose. He spent millennia building up his power and training his skills, and still, even after amassing an army of undead, and a cult who worship him, he still finds himself at the mercy of some young upstart. This happened to him at least two times throughout his long life.

Somehow I totally forgot Daggerfall had some low polygon 3d models and wasn't just sprites endlessly circling you like the weird eyes of a painting.

Finally! Long have I waited for this moment!

Your how to videos are a sense of intense enjoyment for me. I hope you know that.

I had a quest in a dungeon that put the target behind a wall near the entrance which opened when I interacted with a torch sconce beside it. I found this out after using the teleport to target command in DFU's console. Ironically, and to my sheer loss of sanity, I had spent the last hour exploring an entire half of the already large dungeon that was inaccessible as a teleportation door blocked my way into that other half, which I assumed would've had the quest target so I used a teleport command to just get beyond the teleporter door. Daggerfall is my favorite TES game but man did it outpace what should've been done in the 90s, this sort of game really needed modern technology.

Ah yes, Daggerfall. Or, as I like to call it, "that game where I got the Black Plague during the fucking tutorial." I enjoyed the freedom and difficulty for a little while, but didn't enjoy the bugs at all, unfortunately. For my first quest, I remember exploring one dungeon top to bottom, looking for a kidnapped NPC, clearing it of all enemies, only to find nothing. I struggled with the godawful map for a bit, explored it some more for an entire day, finding a few secret passages, but still, no dice. Had to resort to cheats to teleport me to every single point of interest where my target could spawn... _and even that didn't work._ I finally found out that I apparently encountered a bug in which my target didn't spawn, making the quest unwinnable. I shelved the game right after that. I could appreciate a lot of what it did, including how harsh getting sick was, and how your race mattered a lot more than in subsequent titles (had to look for a bit before I managed to find a priest that was willing to cure me of the Plague rather than insult me for being an Argonian), but it had all the common flaws of procedurally generated games... and gamebreaking bugs. Looking back, despite everything, I can't find it in myself to get it to a workable state and play it. Too much work for something that had a few interesting design elements, but pretty boring environnements. Still, it did have something that more modern RPGs lack: gameplay systems meaningful enough that their interactions create emergent stories.

I loved the scale of this game so much and the sheer number of options. It somehow despite the procedural-ness of it made it feel realistic. Later games like oblivion felt unrealisticly tiny by comparison. I spent so much time just dorking around in this game. Making almost indefinite duration levitation/flying spells and floating across the world was one of my favorites. Getting up to the top of palaces and mountain ranges, crossing the sea into northern red guard lol.

Once again I am blown away at how much better this is than just about anything floating around that claims to be "entertainment." Your videos are funny, but not cringey, informative, but not bloated, and well produced while not feeling insincere and fake. The time and effort you put into these are readily apparent, as is the passion you have for the topics you cover. You are a refreshing voice in a sea of dreary sameness. Thank you for all the work you do.

Bro did you relesed this at 3 am just for me? Noice

22:15 I dont have to man 🤣 I was stuck in a dungeon for 8 hours long. The most harrowing elder scrolls experience of my life. I kept having to rest to survive the tigers. And when i found a dress with a healing spell, it was all made worth it. But my god, the 1 way teleporters that send me to another chunk of the dungeon that ended in another 1 way teleporter that was another seperate chunk with 2 teleporters, 1 of which sent me back to the last chunk. I almost thought there was no way out for too long 🤣 Edit: yea, it wasnt 2 hours 😆

"Thanks, Todd!" he says, not realizing Todd Howard had almost nothing to do with Daggerfall.

Glad you finally had a video take off like your old ones. You deserve it man. Love your channel

Love the thumbnail lol

7:27 I'm surprised you didn't show off the beautiful symphony that ensues when you open a menu while standing next to a torch.

I actually liked the dungeons. You always felt so hopelessly lost and confused while searching for what you needed. My most memorable gaming experience was when I spent 2 hours in a relatively small dungeon trying to find some fucking wizard that needed some supplies, only to be informed he also had a quest for me and could teleport me to it right away. So I got teleported to a dungeon filled to the brim with mobs that I couldn't beat so I had to run until I found a room to hide in for healing and mana regeneration, beating this dungeon took me months of in game days so when I got out and was about to hand it in it fucking expired and got me kicked out of my faction... It has been long since I've been so invested and heartbroken by a game

One huge improvement made in Unity is the rappel function. Once you climb up, you need only run to the other side of the roof, point your tail to the open air, & you'll automatically begin climbing down when you walk off the edge.

What a fucking excellent vidoe. Seeing a new upload from you always brings a smile to my face and indicates that the next hour or so is gonna be fun and thougth provoking

As for the impossible dungeons, theres an option in Daggerfall Unity's ini file that allows you to turn on simpler dungeons, which makes the procedurally generated dungeons actually bearable. They are a tad too simple for my tastes, but theyre godly compared to the regular ones so i keep it on.

This video was awesome and had me smiling. Another good one. Get well soon, always look forward to your vids

Dude, I'm so happy I found this channel. It's dope!

The main quest only marks you a traitor if you don't meet the first person the note tells you to within the time limit, after that fucking around is fine till you start the next time sensitive part

There is a setting in unity to make all dungeons "Small" makes them way more playable

This was enjoyable af. This is my favorite type of video from yourself. I would love to see you dive into more old RPGs. Have you played Might and Magic VII? No game captured me as much as a child as that one.

dude you had me hooked in the first minute- great writing!

I feel like a lot of your complaints about the features are some of the fun parts about it that make Daggerfall Daggerfall

there needs to be another big procedurally generated RPG. handcrafted is good and everything but I miss big actually meaning big.

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I kinda like Daggerfall dungeons. I never know if I can complete quest. Sometimes failure is an option, but it's okay because my character always comes out richer and more experienced. In weird and probably not intended way it adds new layer of depth to world building and immersivness. I am not feeling like THE HERO that can acomplish everything, but rather like random adventurer that is working for some guilds and sometimes just fails like every human being. In Skyrim for example there is nothing like it. There I would rip and tear through every dungeon in the game, because it is intended for me to do. Because of that Skyrim's dungeons feels more like amusment park than real threat or challenge. And don't get me wrong I really like Skyrim and I think it is the peak of whole series, but Daggerfall has it's unique charm that no other TES games have.

City Watch all gangsta until you jump onto a roof with your bow. (not sure, might have been a vampire at the time)

I like the less terse tone of this video relative to your earlier works. Thanks for the continued excellent content man!

I made the HD Daggerfall Title screen art used in the D.R.E.A.M.S mod, I'm credited on the mod's forum page under the username "AmmoniumDichromate" Interesting facts about the title screen recreation I made: The skybox I used in the scene is a blurred equirectangular panorama photo I took of my apartment years ago, in order to have the scroll cast the same shadow as was the original title screen, I made the the table curve downward on the right side slightly and from the wrong angle this makes the smaller potion bottle look like it's being held up the thin paper scroll, and finally, the candle is about as bright as an 80 watt lightbulb.

a tip guys. daggerfall unity comes an option that reduces dugeon size by more than half. is an option called SmallerDungeons = True It is located in the ini of the game "AppData\LocalLow\Daggerfall Workshop\Daggerfall Unity" just change false to true and watch the magic happen.

I feel like you didn't give the Main Quest enough credit. To me it was possibly the best part of the game, especially since it tied in so well with the major faction quests represented by the 6 or so political players (some like Mannimarco and his Worm Cult or the Underking and his agents being hidden major factions). It is arguably the most well designed main quest out of any TES game, or at least up to par with Morrowind, as well as the only one with multiple endings. The secondary quests tied to the main faction quests (such as the personal requests of Barenziah or Mannimarco) are all unique and take place in randomly generated dungeons with unique assets that you won't find elsewhere and that breathe a heck of a lot of fresh air into the game.

Your reviews are amazing, dude. Keep up! Just subscribed.

One of the things I absolutely love about Daggerfall and one of the reasons it is cemented as my favorite Elder Scrolls game of all time is that even failed skill checks still factor into leveling up that associated skill. It is an incredible little detail that most Role Playing Games don't factor in and certainly no other Elder Scrolls game does. It is based around the idea that even though you suck at using a certain skill, you are still learning that skill by failing at it. In Morrowind you would have to have lots of gold and abuse skill trainers to train those skills that you are not good in just so you could use them competently. Daggerfall doesn't have this issue at all. Even if you fail at using lockpick or even if your weapon attacks miss an enemy, the game acknowledges this as contributing towards that skills usage which levels that skill up.

Those upgraded sprites in that Unity thing look really weird to me for some reason. LIke they're too smooth but also too 2D, they feel like they don't fit in the environments.

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Love your humor and style sir.

Just imagine a gear stacked buff as hell high elf cruising through a village literally unstoppable.

My impression playing Daggerfall many many years ago in a Pentium DOS PC. How do I get out? How do I get out this freaking first dungeon? I want to see how outside looks. My arm was tired swinging with right mouse button, player back and forth with those freaking skeletons than can't take a hit. Kept dying by the magic imp. Fell through the stairs in void and the load again. I was out. Wow,. it's empty! But the feeling was huge, especially when opening the map and seeing all these dots and that's only one of the main regions of the world. Protip: if you want to have the experience of walking from one place to another outside without using the map, if you escape Privateer's Hold, straighten the view to the North and walk, in a minute or two you are in Gothway Garden, a nice first town. Else it's pretty hard to walk and hit some other random town or dungeon or temple accidentally. I tried the main quest. Back in time, because of the complexity of the dungeons, I didn't even finish one quest, I didn't even found a random piece of scroll or prisoner or whatever the quest was asking me to. Went to shopkeepers and waited till it's night,. I was still inside but could steal everything and sell it to the cardboard animated shopkeeper. Great fun! Got horse and cart. Went inside daggerfall castle, killed all the guards, loot their stuff and threw them to the cart,. went outside and then inside and everybody was cool, repeat again. At some point I got a loan and a house. Did some more weird stuff. Then, my saves started being corrupted. Crash and back in DOS. Maybe I played 20-30 hours. Fuck this game is ambitious but if it's gonna corrupt my saves till I know it later (loading previous saves and playing would still corrupt after a while, it's like that disease where you only know you are already in trouble it when you die). Years later I try Daggerfall Unity. All these bugs were fixed. I spent 150 hours in the game. And wow,. in the process I have seen way more things I didn't even know existed in game! There are so many things, my jaw dropped when I was bitten by a werewolf and there is this whole transformation, and you get a letter from vampire hunter, you go to temple to cure the condition, there are two paths, one dark and another that leads you to a witch coven. And then I learn things I haven't tried yet, the whole deadra thing, the different guilds, the way people talk you depending on your race (I was Khajit in one play and an inn keeper told me to fuck off because he didn't like my race), the way reputations work,. the calendar with the faces of the moon (affecting things in the game), and way way more. I managed to proceed the main quest (thanks to the new archeologist guild added, which is highly recommended, because you can get tracking location wands to short of show you if you are close enough to the quest item, still a pain though to find some quest items). I have over 150 hours in the game and there are still complexities in the whole RPG systems I have yet to find. Whether it's tedious or not fun for new players, Daggerfall was the peak for me of what an RPG can be. It's just that you have to get used to it and it takes many many hours and trying to do different character builds (I did a lot during these hours of play) to discover how things work with different builds, then you start realizing how everything is interacting, politics, character classes, race, reputation, different main quest paths. How did they managed to make this over ambitious game back in the time when Bethesda was a small team, not a multi million or billion company.

8:24 Yikes, and I thought the item world in the original Disgaea was bad!

Its been a long time. Thank you for the nostalgia.

All I have to say is that was a beautiful revew for one of my most favorite childhood games