For some of you around long ago, this is a resurrection of a particularly old thread back from before the warp when the gamesas fora appeared to have lost all the data. Use this to post your DF videos, although all past game videos are welcome.

I'll start by some of mine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InY1EfELXGw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv26o6cTnyw

How do I record videos?

[I'm just typing out my own commentary as I watch this ]

Heh, an adventurer after my own heart: first thing after accepting a quest is a trip to the bank to dump some of that heavy gold (btw: if you have a calculator nearby you can easily determine the exact amount to get all your gold into 1 letter of credit. Just dump it all in, divide your account by 1.01, and take that amount as a LoC) Since you only need actual cash for inns and travel, I tend to only ever carry about 100 in cash; the rest goes in letters of credit, which everyone else accepts just fine.

I hate ghosts. Not as much as I hate zombies, though.

HAH, again, an adventurer after my own heart: you see your path descend into water, say "F this," turn right around and leave. Bravo!

Clever use of "Short Levitate." I assume you jacked up the "per level" portion of the spell so it wouldn't ever last that long?

OK, seriously, I would have crapped myself at being stuck in a room with 3 zombies. But you totally wasted them with that magical holy tome.

Nice luck getting a prison room full of rodents that couldn't all open their own doors and mob you. That's a pretty dangerous room when it's full of, oh, nightblades! You go for the treasure in the center and they all jump out and cut you to ribbons.

Hi Jorm,

Thanks for commenting!

By the way, on that room full of rodents, yeah I was lucky now. BUT, once when I crawled through Castle Necromoghan, this time it was a room full of vampire ancients, instead of rodents.

The "Short Levitate" spell is quite an old trick I follow since I read the Beginner's Guide, thank MStinson for it. Yes I do that, especially since my magical characters tend to be quite frail and non-athletic, so all those magical tricks are a must. Besides they are more fun! Since I became a vampire for the first time I always levitate above the city walls, gates are for losers who don't know the vagaries of Thaumaturgy. lol

I know you're not that really fond of using Destruction magic, but I love it. The special effects are great, more so when you're fighting a critter that likes to reply in kind, and by the time you can cast God's Fire, you can fry even the toughest critter in a way no bow does; the "area around caster" is also a very useful effect when you're surrounded by lots of critters, like in your archetypal nightblade room or in that zombie infested situation.

The thing is, that all "-mage" characters will follow a progression. Early on, when skill is low and spells are utter expensive and ineffective due to level scaling, my "Battemage" class only occasionally flings spells to hurt a bit before bashing skulls. Later on and offensive spells like God's Fire and Sphere of Negation are simply devastating, and not something to be overlooked - I enchant an item with Spell Absorption and keep flinging and absorbing spells to recharge my magicka, this way I don't have to rest as much. Needless to say, it's harder to pull this at lower levels because critters don't throw powerful stuff around yet.

Come on people, post videos! I'm preparing a LONG series right now, involving an artifact quest .

Here's a complete series of an artifact's quest involving two dungeons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8_9dwK4pEE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyqiBYILGmg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOd8v9PVwu4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7R_20rOJic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlQEutGtQ54
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9E_bRnniCo

I hope this thread isn't forgotten, ya know.

I'd love to contribute, but I need to know how to record videos, first.

Install the Dosbox ZMBV video codec (they have detailed instructions).

Press Ctrl-Alt-F5 to start or stop recording.

Use a video compressor, like Virtual Dub, to compress your videos, split them, and make them suitable for Youtube format.

I'll try to do this when I get the chance to.

Aw. Why'd you have to do your vids with a wildly incorrect aspect ratio?

Incorrect aspect ratio? It must be the video capture since Dosbox always perfectly scales to my screen.

Here's more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWcvP-5lOkE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN5R1XTUri4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN5R1XTUri4&feature=related

Aww, that svcks that the mummy was bugged. All that work and looking around, and it was just that he wasn't given the right loot.

...Actually, I think this may be due to using a Disintegration spell on him. Usually, you get a message when you kill a quest target. Since Disintegration spells don't actually deal damage, perhaps it is that they don't trip those sorts of messages because it wasn't death by damage, it was death by a special case. Because he didn't die in a normal fashion, I bet that's why you didn't get a "yup, them thar was the varmint I was after" message--and I'll warrant that the quest item is placed in its inventory when that message is displayed.

I may be wrong about that, but I have never had a quest target fail to load the right booty. And because inventories are generated on death, and the messages for such things are shown on death, it goes to say that because his death didn't fall under the normal parameters, then it wasn't tripped properly and thus no message and no loot. I bet that the quest is tied to his "have I taken enough damage to die yes/no" script, which the disintegrate spell bypasses.

So I would say the lesson is don't use disintegration spells on your quest targets.

It's great that you're posting Daggerfall vids on the web. There aren't as many as there should be.

Well I had this problem before without disintegration spells, so I'm not really sure it is that. DF can be notoriously unpredictable in that department.