Since this video is gaining more popularity than I ever expected, I’d like to address some of the more common comments I’ve gotten:

- First, please keep in mind that I had just over 300 subs when this was made

- Yes, the introduction is a bit dragged out. The point was to both explain why the video was delayed to my small audience of regulars, while also trying to transition into one of Daggerfall’s strengths, which is emergent storytelling.

- I am aware that the lack of music harms the experience, and I started adding music to my videos more recently. It’s something I’m still figuring out how to do with some amount of creativity. Just looping a soundtrack in the background is boring to me, so I opted out of adding music altogether until recently.

- Since I only did one playthrough, do not expect a comprehensive breakdown of all the skills.

- Knowing more about ES more than I did when I made this video, I now think Dragon Breaks are pretty lame. The concept was unique to me at the time, but there are better alternatives.

That’s all, thank you guys for watching!

I don't hate Daggerfall's dungeon design. I hate mazes. I am a woman, not a rat.

I think one of the main reasons that people in recent years struggle when first playing Daggerfall is less the game's fault. And more the fact that Daggerfall came out during a time when you were supposed to read the manuals games come with, the manuals were the tutorials.

Let me share an anecdote about Daggerfall's dungeons.
When I was much younger, I was playing through the game blind. I didn't know about teleportation being almost necessary, or anything like that.
And I went into a random dungeon on some random unassuming quest. I was wandering for literal hours through this massive labyrinth, through one place after the other. Until I finally found my quest objective, some creature that I killed.
And then, the best part happened. I realised that I have no idea how to get out. Even using the minimap I couldn't even find where the exit was, let alone how to get there.
And so, I went on to explore. And there were hours and hours more, until I finally saw the place that I recognized and managed to get out.
I've never felt such tension in any game since. It wasn't pleasant, but, my god, was it an experience.

This dude is a masochist. Playing the DOS version of DaggerFall.

> Role playing as a Dunmer woman in the service of the House of Dibella.
> Take multiple quests in pursuit of rising through the ranks, each quest goes pretty smoothly.
> Get the “our god is angry with us, no, we won’t tell you why, go fetch this thing from that dungeon so we can do a ritual to appease our god” quest.
>Go through the entire dungeon in about 20 minutes.
>Quest item isn’t there.
>Spend 3 in-game days going over the entire dungeon with a fine-toothed comb.
>Still not there.
>”Dibella teaches us to find truth in beauty, a drink would be mighty beautiful right now.”
>Leave dungeon, go to nearest town, spend next week drinking myself unconscious repeatedly and randomly swinging my sword at the walls of the inn.
>Quest times out, return to the House of Dibella resigned to getting kicked out for my failure.
>Discover that nobody cares and my reputation only dropped from the 100 to 98.
>Thank Dibella for showing mercy to her most unworthy follower.
>Return to inn and drink myself unconscious to celebrate.

25/10 best game I’ve ever played

Meanwhile I'm sliding my face on walls to reveal the hidden doors like a caveman that I am

Get killed by skeleton simulator.

10/10 game. Todd, please hire back Michael Kirkbride.

Do not forget, Daggerfall came out before the days of the internet.  Nothing could be looked up.  Things such as Daedra summoning first required that you read through many books to learn lore about Daedra, then find out that they can be summoned, then discover how, etc.  The sheer depth and complexity of Daggerfall was what made it very appealing to me, back in the day.

About the Private's Hold (the"tutorial") - if you know the path (which is not very hard to remember), you can go through the dungeon without a single fight (you can just "run for it") even with 10 strength, 10 int, 10 endurance and 100 personality :D Long story short - you can just run near the enemies (just do not touch them) and as long as the projectiles won't kill you (there's only one ranged enemy that you will have to meet if you know the path), you won;t be harmed at all.

15:24 that is what we call a hidden floor trap. This is not a bug. This is intended feature that isn't a lot of dungeons. There are certain floor stairs and other sections that are considered curse that can afflict you with fire poison electric

59:51 he isn't calling for revenge, he's screaming for vengeaaaaaaaaaaance

I've played so many hours of this game since I was a kid, I loved the dungeons and used the map a lot!

Its not really correct to say that Daggerfall is only big because Arena was big. Daggerfall and Arena are two fundamentally different games in this regard. Arena was a big game because the overworld around every town and dungeon was literally infinite. Its literally impossible to travel from town to town on foot in Arena because the terrain is generated infinitely in basically the same way its generated in Minecraft. In fact its so similar you can cheat your way to the "end" of the gameworld in Arena and find the terrain generation algorithm breaking down and glitching out in the same manner it does at the "end" of the world in Minecraft.

In Daggerfall, the game isn't infinite. Yes, they used a procedural terrain generation algorithm in Daggerfall as well, but they manually placed every town, shrine, and dungeon as specific points in the world so that you can travel to them on foot. Yes, the overworld is still boring, but its actually a real place and the towns and dungeons have real locations, whereas in Arena, every town and dungeon exists independently isolated, surrounded by an infinite void of nothing. This is why Daggerfall is so much more impressive (especially given the time period it was made) than something like Arena where its size is a complete illusion.

Glad to see someone else likes Daggerfall's dungeons. They feel so satisfying to explore. Their atmosphere is still unmatched. I'll always remember the first time I did Privateer's Hold 12 years ago. The music along with the skeleton's wails and background dungeon sounds were the perfect mix to create an unnerving ambiance I'd never felt anywhere. Hearing a door creak open and not knowing what creature was coming for my wood elf was both terrifying and exciting. No game has been able to capture my imagination like Daggerfall did and still does to this day.

It's nice to find a kindred spirit in the outlook of Daggerfall's dungeons. Great vid. Attention to the details while wandering around, and eventually it's all second nature. Eventually you're dodging fireballs and skipping actions that create the glitches. I played that game without all the patches for a long time. I commend your patient and methodical mindset. Well done, Sir.

The dai-katana you can select during character creation is a steel weapon, incidentally, so that's a viable Longblade-user option for dealing with those damn imps.

daggerfall's dungeons are terrifying. always make me feel like i'm lost forever

Salty de Shrimp lol

Just found this video, good stuff, mate.

Not sure if it was intentional but I loved that at 8:24 the book in the chest in Skyrim was Night Falls on Sentinel, a retelling of a quest from Daggerfall. Despite how different the series has become there are a few fun callbacks. The Warband comparison was also great: it's what immediately came to mind for me as well, and the comparison I made to my brother when I tried to tell him about the game.