The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

It's clumsy, rickety, and filled with bugs. It is also largely the basis for all Bethesda games going forward from it. It can be quite a feat to look into the technology they put into this game, but only when it's all working properly. Which, even at the final release, it wasn't. The thing is, Daggerfall tried to do far too much in a very limited technological space, and there were consequences that were immediately pigeonholed into. Nearly every complaint anyone has had with the Elder Scrolls as a series can directly trace linage to here. Terrible inventory systems, overtly long dungeons to little to no reward, a story that will be retconned into something more generic, NPCs with the personality of a flat sprite, it all starts here.

I appreciate this game for being a building block for the ESO series to become what it is now, for we would'nt have new additions to the series without the games made prior. Though for someone who has been console exclusive and first introduction to the ESO franchise was Skyrim (which does make me bias against PC and older games) this one just isn't for me, but I can see why this was/is popular with people who are familiar with PC controls and games of the earlier era's.

I would really like to experience the narrative of this game but I think I'll stick to Let's Plays on YouTube.

Had a quick go. Superb

I really tried to love this. It sounds exactly the kind of game I should like. But it was just horrible. I've played both the DOS version and the 1.0 release of the Unity version with hand selected mods from the top ones to add more variation to quests etc. I got bored after maybe 7 hours or so of gameplay. Everything is tedious, and I cannot immerse myself to this world at all. Unkillable NPCs everywhere, even with mods that are supposed to fix that. NPCs that are just animated signposts nobody really does something in the world, and the sheer size of the world means that I cannot get attached to anything interesting. A completely annoying if not broken legal system (guards keep arresting you after you've been found innocent). I know Daggerfall is a historical milestone for the genre but it's unbelievably boring for me.