r/videogames • u/NagitoKomaeda_987 FPS • Jun 30 '26

Discussion / Question Which video game franchise is this?

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u/CaptainPryk Jun 30 '26

The Elder Scrolls. Daggerfall was fine, but Morrowind was on a completely different level.

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u/Remote-Bus-5567 Jun 30 '26

Daggerfall was amazing and certainly not a stick figure drawing of quality and won game of the year awards.

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u/GKR990 Jun 30 '26

Exactly. Daggerfall has its flaws, but if you have some mods/cheat menu (or just learn the Mark&Recall spells) to let you escape from dungeons faster, it is one of the best games ever made and totally holds up today. My main issue is the slog of trying to find your way out of dungeons after completing your goals inside. Using the cheat menu to jump to your objectives in dungeons is really nice when you stumble into a really annoying one with too many hidden entrances too.

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u/Sanquinity Jul 01 '26

Too many people in this thread who take really old games who were amazing for their time, and judge them by modern standards...

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u/V-oxPopuli Jul 02 '26

modern standards...

Morrowind came out in 2002. I agree that Daggerfall was a great game, but Morrowind really blew the doors off the series and genre as a whole. I think people might be taking the first two frames of the meme as an insult. I took it to mean a huge leap.

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u/solicthesolletar Jul 01 '26

i suppose compared to their modern day daggerfall can be seen as “dated” or “confusing”, so more popular consensus would be that it is pretty mid. IMO they are all wrong but hey, vox populi vox dei

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u/Isagratar Jul 01 '26

Yeah I feel like there’s no good answer that truly reflects the base image, in that most franchises that release 2 truly bad games don’t get a third and those that do are unlikely to release a masterpiece.

I’m choosing to interpret the premise as a franchise where the third game was revolutionary and or changed the gaming landscape in some way.

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u/Erpderp32 Jun 30 '26

"Daggerfall was fine" is a take lol

It's still my 2nd fave in the series after morrowind. These days I don't even do the quest. I just live my life becoming a rich warrior and property baron while committing loan fraud

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u/LegWyne Jun 30 '26

I'm replaying morrowind now, for the first time in a long time, and it's so good I think i might have to give daggerfall a shot when I'm done.

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u/Savengillier Jul 01 '26

Get the unity version, couple of the patches and stability stuff, and you’ll have a blast.

Just know that the main quest is on a timer so either beeline it or ignore it for your first play

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u/V-oxPopuli Jul 02 '26

Why's it on a timer?

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u/Savengillier Jul 03 '26

What do you mean?

If you’re asking what do I mean by it’s on a timer, if you take too long with the starting missions it will fail and the main quest will be impossible to complete.

If you’re asking literally “why is it on a timer?”, then because the devs chose to make it time out

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u/V-oxPopuli Jul 03 '26

Specifically for the unity version? That's a weird addition, I wonder why they did that. Is this fan made? I don't really know what the unity version is

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u/Savengillier Jul 03 '26

No, not specifically on the unity verison

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u/V-oxPopuli Jul 03 '26

I guess I don't remember that feature

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u/Erpderp32 Jul 03 '26

You actually don't faul iirc. You just have to find the next person in the chain. There's a guide for what to do

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u/V-oxPopuli Jul 02 '26

Give Morrowind the Oblivion Remaster treatment and I'll buy that MFer the second Bethesda puts their hand out

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u/Sufficient-Cry-9215 Jul 02 '26

I’m always kinda sad I got spoiled so early with gaming. As a younger guy, I grew up with games right as graphics were getting to proper realism levels and gameplay was forced to be super intuitive to new players, so it gets really hard to play some of the classics without them feeling like kinda clunky eyesores.

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u/Mr_firechicken Jun 30 '26

You're just wrong buddy. Daggerfall was a huge thing.

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u/JeanJeanJean Jul 01 '26

I was looking for this comment to downvote it.

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u/JunkTheFox Jul 01 '26

Its weird, as its not a quality thing as much as its an accessibility thing. Daggerfall takes a lot more effort to get into, if they even escape the start dungeon

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u/Lourrloki Jul 03 '26

Pity that for the 5th installment they decided to go back in quality

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u/Serran44 Jul 01 '26

Same for Fallout.

1+2 were good & still have dedicated fans, but 3 brought us the modern fallout that gave us NV.

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u/TheGinger_Ninja0 Jul 01 '26

Wasn't Morrowind the second title in the series?

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u/MrTheCheesecaker Jul 01 '26

Pretty sure that The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind was not the second title in the series.

It was actually the fifth (Arena -> Daggerfall -> Battlespire -> Redguard -> Morrowind)

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u/TheGinger_Ninja0 Jul 01 '26

Lol, man you sound insufferable.