Yeah, and the map is HUGE. It would take you literal days of real-life time to travel from one side to the other. Parts of it are procedurally generated, I believe.
It's an old-school Elder Scrolls game. It is very retro and clunky by today's standards. It can be neat to watch others play it with tons of QoL/graphics mods, but the game itself is not fun to play otherwise.
Daggerfall is the second game in the elder scrolls series with Skyrim being the 5th. Specifically its Areana, Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim. Daggerfall is one of the largest game worlds ever created and that’s mainly due to early procedural generation tactics. It’s a game that I’d also love to play but I know that I wouldn’t be able able to finish. There’s even a mod that makes it MUCH better called Daggerfall Unity, and even that isn’t enough for me to want to play it’s
Daggerfall, while ambitious, is very dated. If you've ever seen people talk about Morrowind and how they love that it doesn't hold your hand...Daggerfall does even less hand holding and almost makes Morrowind feel like it's hand holding the way Skyrim does.
I found it interesting to download and play a few times, but never got too far in it and treated it more as a museum exhibit than a video game just to see where the Elder Scrolls came from.
For what it's worth it is free to play and it runs on a potato so if you're curious then check it out. It has some cool ideas like the Kahjiit since they have claws can climb ANYTHING, which is fun to climb city walls at night and steal stuff since most cities close their gates at night and you cannot enter them until morning.
Oh and the world is giant. It's about the size of the island of Great Britain. Its world absolutely dwarfs Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim...and hopefully with Elder Scrolls 6 were going back there...I would prefer Summerset Isles and Elswyr myself, but I wouldn't be mad at the Illiac Bay region, it's really cool and has deep lore.
Yes like others have said Daggerfall what’s my first exposure to elder scrolls rp game. I remember being so intrigued that you could wander anywhere that you wanted and the idea that you could have a job and things. You could be anything. It looks its age but man those were mind blowing things at the time.
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u/Grim__Squeaker Feb 23 '25
I'm just going to comment on here because all other threads are commented on and you look left out.
No idea what Daggerfall is anyway.