The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

开头的剧情还是大致看懂了。但是后续操作等等真不太明白，不知道怎么打架开局直接被老鼠咬死。。 总之游戏肯定不错，但是高糊的字体更让阅读难上加难。 总之，b社你倒是赶紧把老滚5弄上gog啊！！！

I wasn't expecting an RPG of this age to be so good. Of course it's completely different from Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim, but my god, it is charming. Everything is so colorful and easy to read on the screen that I mostly played it at sundays just to relax. The technology behind the size of the world map is astonishing, and every RPG lover should at least try it just to feel how it was made. Some mechanic aspects of the game as levelling up, combat systems and inventory management didn't age very well, but if you play with Daggerfall Unity, most of these problems can be solved. If not, it has a long mod library on Nexus. Also beware that it is huge and very repetitive on quest variation. You will spend most of your play time inside labyrinthian dungeons searching for a needle in a haystack, with no quest pointer at all; a migraine indulcing map which reveals itself as you explore; and some enemies that can kill you with half a hit, at least in the beginning, so make sure to save a lot and always. All the Elder Scrolls races and classes are there, also the alchemy and spell creation. Some cities are filled with taverns, stores, banks and houses to interact with, so you will have a lot to do even when you're not doing some quests. After a couple of hours you will stop engaging with most of the NPCs, as most of them are just walking paper dolls, but let's not forget this is a game from 1996. There are no dialog options, neither voice over, but I particularly loved the writing and lore of this game, paying attention to what the main NPCs has to say, reading books and letters. It's a nice piece of RPG history and totally free to download.

If you’re playing the Elder Scrolls games backwards from Skyrim, this game will probably disappoint you. So you really have to look at it through the eyes of when it was new. First of all, this game could have easily been called “The Elder Scrolls: Texas,” because everything about the game is BIG! The map is almost the size of Great Britain, the cities and towns are huge, and you can even get lost inside some buildings. And don’t get me started on the size of the dungeons. But that’s also part of the problem with Daggerfall. See, a lot of quests are timed, in that they have to be completed within a certain number of in-game days. And there is no “fast” travel option - you have to look up your destination on the map and choose how to get there. For example, traveling from one end of the map to the other takes something like 10 in-game days. Because of this, you don’t usually have time to randomly explore the map. On the other hand, a lot of locations look the same. But this is how you fit a game world of this size on a PC with specs that make a Raspberry Pi seem powerful. Overall, this isn’t a bad game at all. It just hasn’t aged well. If you want to give it a try today, I’d suggest running the Unity version.

Listen... the graphics are a 2 of 10. Everything else is a 10 of 10. If you love the elder scrolls and want to travel back in time... play this game! You will arrive at a more simplistic and on the other hand excrutiatingly painful game that hopefully expands your gaming horizons.

After playing all modern entries in The Elder Scrolls series, I decided to go back and see where it all began. What I found was a game that clearly laid the foundation for the series identity, with mechanics and ideas that are still present today. There's plenty to do here. The quests themselves are basic and often templated to simple fetch quests but it's understandable within the context of the limitations of its engine. Dungeons are another beast entirely. They are fully 3D and often feel like sprawling labyrinths. There's a sense of scale and confusion that's hard to replicate today. But the best part of the game is immersion. You're not the center of the universe here. You're just one person in a huge, living world, and it behaves more like a simulation than a typical RPG. The main quest isn't urgent. In fact, it often pauses for ingame weeks until the next letter arrives. In the meantime, you're free to do whatever you like. Buy a house or a ship. Travel the wilds, worship Daedra and earn rare gear. Or break into someone's home, get arrested, go to court and spend a whole ingame year in prison because you can. It's all part of the world, and it never pressures you to follow a specific path. Of course, it's still an old game. Accessibility is a hurdle for modern players. Thankfully, there's a version running on the Unity engine. This brings quality of life improvements plus full mod support. Imagine how important this game is to fans, carefully porting it into another engine and preserving the experience. And with mods you can also have your waifu experiences in Daggerfall. Great isn't it? It is glitchy and janky but still worth trying. With the Unity engine and because you can play it for free today, there is no excuse not to give it a try if you're curious about the roots of the series.