After over 20 years, I've returned to Daggerfall.

I tried to play the original, but frankly speaking - it is barely playable, it is way more clunky than I remembered. You need A LOT of patience.

Then I switched to Daggerfall Unity - and I have to say - this actually works quite well!
A lot less clunky gameplay - the game feels closer to Morrowind - not bad.

There are tons of great mods out there - though I wanted to have classic feel, so I didn't try them out.

From all the hundreds of hours I put into Daggerfall when I was just a kid - I never completed this game. Till now.
And I have to say - the main quest in the game is VERY convoluted and dungeons are VERY complex.
I'm not sure if you can manage to finish the game on 1st playthrough without wiki/walkthrough.

Complex dungeons are not bad, till you need to spend hours to just complete this one quest for one guild to increase reputation by 5% (20x to 100%).
I managed to finish the game in around a week. I focused hard on main story.

After some 20 hours of playing normally, my character became kinda OP and... grinding through way-too-easy dungeons became annoying. Well I min-maxed my char too hard. I've played games like PoE probably too much.
I've overleveled theorycrafting...
If you don't want the game to be too easy - do yourself a favor and pick a class from the list. Don't make a custom class. But then you need to prepare to how difficult the game can be. Especially if you decide to play without magic (or low-magic).

When I ventured through dungeon for a LONG time and couldn't find the way forward - it became annoying and frustrating - this is when I resorted to just tping myself to the quest item via console command (built-in in the Unity version, easy to use).
I usually never cheat in games, so that gives you the idea of how frustrating dungeons can be.

After playing probably thousands of games in my entire life - Daggerfall feels like it has the most frustrating, hardest to navigate and soul-crushing dungeons I've ever went through.

Anyway, I highly recommend to play the Daggerfall Unity to all the fans of TES series!

♥♥♥♥ this game, I have played skyrim, oblivion, and now am playing morrowind and all of those games I am enjoying but i would rather cut my balls off with rusty hedge trimmers than ever touch this game again.

controls, ass, game mechanics, ass, i couldnt leave the start because the bandits kept ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ME.
♥♥♥♥ this game, ♥♥♥♥ you 1990s todd howard.
1/10 would rather watch madame web again

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