The Best Daggerfall Has EVER Looked | 2024 Amazing Mods To Remaster & Remake 

If you need help installing mods, then here's an easy guide: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KylAZpSpiwk.html Just do it with a custom Daggerfall Unity Install. Otherwise, follow the DREAM modlist and I have my extra choices (links & choices below). *Remember to Endorse all the mods you use on Nexus!* - Download Daggerfall Unity github.com/Interkarma/daggerfall-unity/releases DREAM & GUIDE (follow everything carefully!) www.nexusmods.com/daggerfallunity/mods/5 + Beautiful Villages of Daggerfall + You Can Pet The Cat + Faithful 3D Animals + Ambient Text + Bestiary (it's been fixed, choose the settings you like) + Convenient Quest Log + Low Poly Trees + Simple 3D Trees (load below/after Low Poly Trees to cover what hasn't been done) Simple Character Creation Guide en.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall_Mod:Daggerfall_Unity/JayH%27s_Character_Creation_Guide

Older games didn't hold your hand. Morrowind had wrong instructions by locals, and straight up NPCs that would trick and attack you. I miss the scale of these older games.

I got the original Daggerfall in 1996 as a wedding gift when it came out. I remember waiting sooo long for it to install, it was HUGE at the time

Man if Elder Scrolls 6 was Daggerfall game design but modern gameplay/technology I would be set for life. Thanks for showing this, man never seen such a immersive world in scale before.

This is utterly gorgeous. As someone who sought out a copy of Daggerfall on Ebay before the age of GOG, after I fell in love with Morrowind, I never imagined it could be made to look as good as this.

Your videos are so comfy, man. You do a really great job at bringing people into the fold, as it were. I mean, I played Daggerfall when it came out, and every Bethesda rpg since, and I still feel like I'm welcomed into this new friendly comfy community whenever I watch one of your videos, lol. Good job.

The story of Daggerfall is probably the most important story in all of TES. Pretty much explains how Mannimarco becomes the Necromancer's moon and deals with the creation of Talos as a divine. Before this game there was no Talos and it was only 8 Divines. If this game's plot didn't happen there wouldn't even be a Civil war in Skyrim as Talos as a divine wouldn't exist and would have simply have just been the famous Tiber Septim just an ordinary man who just happened to be very skilled.

This game was a colossal part of my teen years (following a long love affair with Ultima Underworld in my earlier childhood), and I absolutely love that people are still modding and playing it.

"You can spend hours in the first dungeon being lost". Actually someone at Bethesda thought of that too, possibly right before they finished packaging, because way back then I borrowed my copy from the library, and it included an official guide on getting out of the first dungeon. They just explained everything you had to do, including that if you would just hurry up you didn't actually need to kill the imp.

Right hand wall rule when clearing out those dungeons. Love how daggerfall was so open back in the day

I love your enthusiasm for this game. The vanilla version may feel janky and broken now, but when it came out it was absolutely mind blowing. So happy to see all this great work being done to polish up and improve one of the greatest crpg's of all time.

Games back then also came with HUGE manuals that were NOT OPTIONAL to read. Basically a necessity and came loaded with information; sometimes even close to mini walkthroughs to help get people started. I have seen a few with full bestiaries within them. I started gaming in the late 90s as a child but I still remember the N64 manuals having loads of info but being not as necessary; good thing because we got most from second hand stores. Still I really like the idea of getting a Traveler's Guide to a video game versus a Tutorial.

Game looks amazing! Thank you for th is video. Also as a Daggerfall player; a tip to show how far into your level you are is to click the Level word and it should say "59%" or something to that effect :)

21:30 If I remember correctly, the flavor text for stores and buildings can reflect the quality of the goods for sale and their prices. Also, some stores will accept certain item types when selling. There are mods that allow you to run across the landscape at higher speeds. I typically toggle this on while travelling and off when trying to engage with the environment and mobs.

28:55 man that takes me back to my childhood when you explained it that way. Same here for me in Malaysia. Grew up with gaming in the late 90s and early 2000s and my parents wouldn't buy me any games unless i got top three in class or something like that. So i ended up playing the same games over and over.

Didn't realize the unity release has a modding community... Time to hop back into a Daggerfall playthrough I never finish.

As someone who first played this game in 1997 and has 400+ hours into it and never beat the main story, I have no idea how you could leave the first dungeon without fully clearing it. I have re-started this game 15 or so times and every time I have to 100% the first dungeon. I will say it has never looked better than in this video and I look forward to modding it and starting another run once I find a lull in games coming out, (maybe this time I will finish the main story...lol).

Daggerfall was always confusing to me, but these changes makes the game absolutely beautiful. Now you have to make a 500 hour series of this game, haha!

It's awesome to see how much love Daggerfall is getting these days. I'm hoping someone makes a Wabbajack of this mammooth modlist so more casual mod enjoyers can get on board too tho.

awesome work mate glad to see the classics been kept alive

Love that throne room guard. "Don't trundle off to the private quarters and don't throw spells around in there" "Why?" "Excellent, you may enter, stranger". Been eons since I battled my way through Buggerfall and it's nice to see it's still a game to be played, hopefully with fewer bugs than the old game.

I remember the starting dungeon being so deviously difficult and unpredictable. Like when you rest there is a small random chance that a spectre or wraith will spawn and kill you upon you waking up, because you couldn't kill it with your pathetic starting stats and equipment. But I loved it because it felt like you really were in a dangerous world that you couldn't control or plough through like on a guided tour. You had to become a survivor in the truest sense of the word, and that was part of the game's charm.

I agree with the parallelism between Morrowind Graphics and Sound Overhaul and Daggerfall Unity GOG Cut. Both are very easy to install but both have always been really unpolished. Still, MGSO was crucial to me, because it's basically what sparked my passion in modding Morrowind, showing me how beautiful it can become. But if you want the best possible experience, you should learn yourself how to properly mod (which, granted, it's not easy to learn at the beginning).

Awesome! Just started my own playthrough using all these mods + a bunch more.

Still playing Daggerfall Unity on 2024 still loving it, as someone who played the original on DOS for many hours, this is like a dream come true.

Thanks for the updated video! One thing Ive noticed is that you mapped the Torch on the hotkey bar. Thats not needed. You are using Torch Indicator mod - so when u equip a torch, its sprite appears above the Compass. That mod has its own hotkey, which you can set at the mod settings. So you can for example set it to Mouse Button 5 and enable torch with clicking that mouse button at your thumb. It will save you one spot at the hotkey bar, and its just better this way.

I just remember kicking everything to death worked on the imp and daedra, then i realised hitting yourself with a aoe spell with spell absorption gives you more magika back than it cost

Man this game brings back memories hard to believe its been 28 years since it came out

Fantastic to see this game come back to life.

just found you today, love the vibe of the channel. just feels really genuine. subscribed.

Wow, great work! I remember playing this game when it first came out. It was so full of bugs but still it kept me hooked for a loooong time.

@5:56 In the original Daggerfall You did in fact have mouse look + minimal UI(BGS was quite ahead), but you had to enable that from the menu.

Just started playing yesterday, already sunk 10 hours into it. story: there's basically three types of quests. 3 - roaming quests, you can just talk to any npc and ask for work and they'll tell you who has side quests available. why does no other RPG do this!? 2 - Guild Quests. and with the Expanded Quests mod there's so many of them and with quest list on you can pick which you wanna do. very easy to keep track of. 1 - Main Storylines. you get mail that three kingdoms need your help but one is on a timer, so you take that one first. and you have all the time in the world to do the rest, so it doesn't become overwhelming, just make sure not to pick up too many quests side note, i went to daggerfall immediately and got a endgame dungeon with a 150 day timelimit. that's a little stupid, but they probably expected you to visit the closest city and not just immediately go to daggerfall before getting told about it. i just reloaded a save before i accepted the quest. (for every old school game, save early save often!) i generally don't like quests with timers. but it forces you to be more picky with what quests you pick up, and keeps a clean quest log, which i like. gameplay loop: the dungeons are 3x as big as they really needed to be, if you like exploration, you can spend hours in one cave checking the map if you missed hidden doors. And that's basically it, you get quests and explore dungeons. there aren't any dialogue trees, the combat is a dice game, there isn't any emergent gameplay. It's so strange seeing what elder scrolls is like when you peel off all the other layers. and have a flat city of easily findable quests, that are easy to follow once you know how the map works. The game might be a bit too simplistic for my likes, but i'll probably finish it just to see the story. i heard it's pretty important for the world of Elder Scrolls. top tips: when making a character get the Dai-katana, it is simply the highest damage weapon in the game. get the ebony dagger, otherwise you will have to punch magic creatures to death.

Great video! These mods make me want to check out this game, it looks pretty cool. Would love to see you play more of this!

This was the greatest game in existence until Xenogears hit the PS1

It was your videos that got me into Daggerfall. Thank you for all the great content.

This looks so good! Really great work modders and a thanks to you for sharing! ❤

Thank you for the great video! :) Just started a vanilla playthrough and I’m thinking about modding DFU a little bit, to make it even more immersive. Just for reference though (and I‘m sure you just confused the words): The original DF was released in 96, so mid 90s and not mid 80s. ;-)

This actually looks like a game now :o The way you add names to the buildings is so smart!

i bought this game with my first computer, along with tomb raider. good times!

Wow this brings back memories. I found myself mildly annoyed that you weren't jumping as you ran to increase your jumping skill as well, because that was how I always moved in this game. That and trying to climb up every other building so I could move across the roof tops (Lycanthropy was so great for this). Such an amazing game.

Julian Lefay outdid himself with daggerfall. It wasn't perfect, but it's imperfections were overshadowed by it's scope and ambition. It's not like the Bethesda games of today.

No way! This looks so good! I tried playing Daggerfall years ago after watching one of your hilarious playthroughs. Enjoyed the mechanics a lot, but after about 10 hours those 2d sprite trees really creeped me out and I switched to a more recent open world RPG. Going to give this a go again, thanks for the video!

5:50 "in the mid eighties" slip of the tongue 😄

Oh my god! I thought it was fairly finished when I played it a couple of years ago, but it looks amazing and I just started the video.

I you want to help, chill or have questions about the mods, the daggerfall unity modding community have a discord channel 😉 Thanks for the update about daggerfall unity, I might go into it again after my starbound run (frackin universe)

wow...played this game for about a 100 hours back in 1997-ish. Was my second RPG after Megadrive's Sword Of Vermillion. What an upgrade! This Remaster is tempting me to return to it.

Man, that fatigue droping gave me the chills. You have to travel safely and rest for free in the Fighters Guild for Azura's sake!

As a Daggerfall veteran (both original in the DOS box and unity), watching bumble around is hilarious. You should also get the Diverse Weapon mod, it's awesome.

Omg! the dream game in 2024! hype overload!

Wonderful video. I played both Arena and Daggerfall when they released. Ultima Underworld too, for that matter. You can play this game for ages and still discover new stuff. It's not as if we never grew a bit bored of it but we didn't really "life" games back then. We played a couple of hours now and then and enjoyed them in smaller chunks, between playing soccer and hanging out with friends. Good, old 90s. My first successful character was a spellcasting thief type. Can't even remember whether I made it myself or used a premade template. Breaking and entering was probably the most popular time sink in this game. I've never finished the main quest. I will... someday. I've revisited this game once or twice per decade since 2000. This one will be special!

man, I cant wait for the Wayward realms.. be nice to have a modern Daggerfall equivalent :)

Everyone needs to go support "The wayward realms"

This looks incredible.

Looks surprisingly atmospheric with all those mods.

Thank you sooooooooooooooo much for making this video ! I am about to get started with this game right after Arena.

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I remember when I first accidentally learned about climbing. I was just kinda blindly walking forward in a city while looking at something else and had apparently hit a city wall and when I looked back at the screen I was halfway up the wall. My mind was blown.

Really enjoy these long plays. Keep up the good work!

Looks like Daggerfall is back on the menu boys!

Wow how have I only just found this channel! Subscribed straight away

What is goog with this new version of daggerfall is that it has an option to make it looks oldschool but still with the lightning and the needed enhancement. Wich is perfect for my taste. tBecause the 2D sprites for the trees are way more pretty than the 3D models in my opinion . I can't wait to see the next mods

I've never played Daggerfall but I've seen so many of your videos on it and its enchanting. I really want to try it myself one of these days.

Skeletons are resistant to bladed weapons, using a mace or relevant blunt weapon will make skeletons a lot easier.

I'm glad I stumbled on this video. I didn't know DFU had hit 1.0 and it is absolutely something I'm going to pick back up now.

9:13 leveling is based

Back when Daggerfall was released on Dos back in the 90s the people who played the game were a very decentralized group, I in fact knew nobody else outside of my friend group who played daggerfall much less knew of it. It's amazing to see that this game has not been lost to the sands of time, and that a community has rallied around it and that it is getting well deserved upgrades and care. I spent hundreds of lonely hours playing this game in my teens, it was a portal to another world whenever I wanted to go there. I always thought there was something special about it and now more people than its original reach are seeing it in it's full glory.

This game was large and ahead of its time. I could imagine spending nights playing this in a computer room on weekends just losing myself in the game back in the 90s. I wish I could have lived those times, it feels nostalgic even for me who was born in 94.

Great stuff man, I’ve only played Morrowind, Oblivion, & Skyrim. Of those 3 I mostly go with Skyrim because it feels the most modern to me. Which Elder Scrolls is your favorite Zakh?

Time to install this and likely i will begin making mods for it. Awesome walkthrough btw, made me really inspired to play :)

This still has to be one of my favourite games I ever played. I've never played it with the mods but tried to go back and the old interface was terrible compared to new ones. But so much of the behind the scenes mechanics were still some of the best and most immersive games I have played to date. I wish they built more games that used most of these mechanics and improve upon them for future elder scrolls. Add more survival mechanics maybe. I remember joining guilds felt meaningful and skills felt like impactful decisions. While had such great difficulty for survival and the dungeons, even though were repetitive , felt very good for exploration. Towns were the first that felt lived in. Such a great game.

So glad i bumped into your channel. I wanted to play Daggerfall but not default!

The installation is pretty complicated, but the documentation and tutorial by DREAM makes it as easy as it can possibly be. I see why you said you might need a couple days to get it set up. Also, for those confused by the character creation advice on UESP, don't select "Warrior" from the options, scroll all the way to the bottom and select the option that says "custom". This tripped me up for some reason.

Incidentally, while it seems like there are a lot of 3D mods going around and the next big thing especially with all these new modders popping up, the lifespan of a typical daggerfall 3D modder is less than a month. xD Cheers, the jungles look amazing with the foliage, I bet we could try make the terrain more rough in there in WoD. -Ninelan

Glad DF finally gets some love. Also thanks for reminding me of the Daggerfall Unity, I still have it but keep forgetting to try out if they finally implemented the speech and language skills properly (they did pretty much do nothing in the original game).

wow i love it , since skyrim got new updated broke my mods , im on the mood for older elders scroll games

Haha love how you said you were gonna "wrap it up" and then played another 40 mins. Thanks for these modlist videos, I'm going to copy this one for sure

I remember in 1996 buying Pc Gamer magazine and playing the demo of Morrowind 3 Daggerfall. My mind was blown.

my first big game, hooked me into rpgs, love it! I still have the book, almost an inch think, with all the art, info, maps etc etc etc of the game.

Daggerfall is becoming the modern day Ship of Theseus. . .

Feeling old, remember playing the original when it was new. Having to buy more ram for my computer, to be able to go to large cities. Getting patch'es from a fried that had Internet. Still pick it up now and then.

Love how this looks now, and I have to say when I played Daggerfall on my then new overclocked 386DX33, I died at the first rat, so I was one of the 89% (I really think 89% is closer to the truth, lol) it has come a long way in a short time with these mods, I could not get back into the game because I got used to far better POV controls that have finally been added to Daggerfall through Mods.

I think GOG are doing the right thing. Not all of us can deal with mod compatibility, reinstalling and uninstalling mods, etc.

This video and your awesome classics playlist just got you another subscriber. I seen one of your videos on morrowind a while back and never seen your channel again so this time I'll subscribe so I can nerd out over some more old games.

06:00 You could move the camera just like you did here, even in the 90s. There was a secondary way to turn which I rarely used to turn when clicking on a side.

OMG the skeleton now looks terrifying so good wow I see why you said they fixed it, so good and this video is AMAZING I'm going to play it now with all this huge mod packs, crazy good, thank you.

I have never played Daggerfall in the early days and i'm just experiencing it at the age of 22 for the first time, still it makes me feel nostalgic even tho i shouldn't be able to feel nostalgic for a thing i have never experienced

I finished Unity Daggerfal in 2020 /covid era/ and these updates since then...insane...my shity Laptop cannot cope....

I love thinking that guards are keenly aware of the difference between a completely exhausted, passed out citizen, and a person who’s just merely napping for fun.

Would have loved this as a kid. Played Wizardry on Apple 2. This is such a huge leap. Many years later i bought my first gaming PC to play Morrowind.

1:07:18 can we appreciate the character background changes to a morning when the game time is a morning? :)) Also, its covered in snow. That took us some time to create as the amount of backgrounds increases exponentially with such a systems LOL. KoW

That flavour text when you entered the shop actually is a indication of the quality of items you will find there. and the prices, just like in real life.

Just the effort of writing an imaginary book in the world shows the work and attention to detail. Amazing. It will be interesting to see what the original devs come up with.

Dude I was just trying to tell.my.friend.of the craziest big game ever and I couldn't for the life of me recall the name and bam couple hours later here u are with the Massive save!! Flippin Daggerfall

The wayward realms looks really cool, hope it gets finished

For anyone having issues loading saves, as in you can't load a save at all. It's the addon pack for faithful 3D animals. Turn off all the extra packs except the main mod and you're good.

5:50 'Original Daggerfall in the midd 80s...' oh my just felt decade older there..

You switch the Interaction mode to INFO and click the building, it will tell u the name of the building. So you dont have to search for Moorsmith residence for so long :))

I hope that Daggerfall may one day support NPC companions. I remember keeping an escort quest going as long as I could just to have that portrait of the person I was escorting on my screen, and I'd take them on adventures until the time was running out and I had to send them where they supposed to go. I hope they enjoyed themselves.

Actually using page down and up key on the keyboard was to look up and down. And my god your daggerfall is beautiful. I hope I can get all the mods to work.