I spent 60 dollars on eBay for this game, and have barely played a few hours. I'm starting to think the reason you guys love this game so much is because you played it and were astonished by its vastness back then, but didn't start playing it in modern times like me. The graphics aren't the issue. I play Wasteland and enjoy that just fine
No, it's the gameplay. It just isn't hooking me in. Here's how a day in Daggerfall goes for me:

I head to a shop and find a nice weapon I want to buy. Unfortunately, it costs a good deal of gold more than I have. I run over to the Fighter's Guild but they're all out of work right now. But I manage to find a man who seeks an item over at the Inn. He tells me to go to a dungeon that's probably miles away. Rather than exploring a beautiful countryside like in recent games, I instantly teleport there. It's a dinky little cave entrance. Hmm. Must be small. Turns out it was basically twenty of Oblivion's dungeons IN ONE. Three hours later I find the item. I take it back to the man but it seems my time has run out and I can't get the reward. But how lucky am I! There's a lady next to him who wants me to travel to ANOTHER dungeon likely bigger than the last! Five hours later I return to the shop with gold in my pockets. Oh lookie! Another cool item! I'll need more gold, won't I!

*Sigh*

Just not my thing. Maybe I'm missing something.

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You should have tried the DF Betony demo first to get an Idea of what the full game is like, NEVER buy a game based on what others think of it, eg: if I had bought Bioshock before I played the demo, I'd have been dissapointed even though I loved both SShock 1&2.


Nope, I first played DF in 2003 a long time after its release. I wish I had heard of it earlier but I wasn't on the net untill then, and none of my friends played CRPGs. I have been gaming since the 80's though and have always enjoyed games being a challenge, and DF gives me the type of challenge I like. I would always recommend someone to play the demo first though before buying it.

Hardly. I started to play this game a two/three years ago, and I love it. But tastes differ. :shrug:

I agree, Crysis got very good ratings but when I bought it, it didn't seem as good as I expected...

I spent 60 dollars on eBay for this game, and have barely played a few hours. I'm starting to think the reason you guys love this game so much is because you played it and were astonished by its vastness back then, but didn't start playing it in modern times like me. The graphics aren't the issue. I play Wasteland and enjoy that just fine No, it's the gameplay. It just isn't hooking me in.

On the bright side, you can just turn it back over to the eBay mob and maybe get your $60 back.

Holy hell, $60 for Daggerfall.
My god Morrowind is like $15 haha, someone got ripped off and wants to blame us for liking a game he went out and bought and didn't like.

DF is a great game, it's a lot bigger and Randomly generated but the complaints you seem to have with it are no different to what you experience in Morrowind or Oblivion so maybe TES games aren't for you heh.




Because It's the same problem that Farcry had, a game made to hypnotize people with pretty colors while you sit there mindlessly playing a game about nothing important. If you get in the game and look around in awe at the "graphics" then you may as well say you completed the game, because that's simply the only purpose for Crysis.

It's a trick, the "Pretty Enviroment" is there to hide the fact your playing a crap game.

Yea, I'll second the "play the demo first", which should apply to just about any game that has one. Always try before you buy!

Maybe it's just me, but I don't see anything wrong or bad about your story. Maybe you expected the game to be easy? Yes, pretty much all quests have time limits, and dungeons are very large. Make sure you buy a horse so you can fast travel faster (I find most of my time is wasted just getting there and back, so a recall spell also works wonders), and get acquainted with the dungeon map function so you can tell where you've been and where you haven't. Dungeons can take some getting used to.

Didn't you find some good loot in the dungeon? Never leave a dungeon without carrying as much stuff as you possibly can--that's good stuff to sell and make some dough.

Uh.. to the first bit, that's about as cheap as you can get Daggerfall these days, unless you find it in a bargain bin or you're REALLY lucky on eBay. And I don't remember blaming any of you :/

To the second bit, I love both Morrowind and Oblivion, and TES is one of my favorite game series.

Don't forget to join a guild. I've never had problems getting quests after that. You're not stuck to just the Fighters or Mages Guild, you can joint a Knightly order or a temple as well as various "secret" guilds depending on your actions (Thieves and Dark Brotherhood I believe). In addition to quests, guilds open up other services such as making potions, items, spells, training, etc. Also gold isn't a big problem once you start collecting all the junk from the dungeons - having a wagon helps here because you can take your loot back to the entrance, load it onto the wagon without leaving the dungeon, and then you're free to collect more.

As someone else suggested - you should invest in a horse and/or wagon as soon as possible.

you got a quest with only 3 hours limit? where you int hat dungeon for days ungame then? usually those easy quests gives you some 10 days up to 20 days to complete them.

Much of the problems you described (not being able to find quests, running out of time) is not typical.. once you play and understand the best places to find quests as well as the most efficient way to travel and explore your quest destination it becomes a non factor. Gold is extremely easy to come by, especially after you've leveled a couple times and explored a few dungeons.

If you need help figuring things out, there's plenty of people here to help and a ton of resources on the internet as well. Keep playing.. give yourself some time to understand the game. But granted, it definitely is difficult to play an old game like Daggerfall when you are so used to today's games.

I suppose I'll give it another try when I get my computer back. I really wanted to make a thief character... but he'd look weird in heavy armor and the only light armor is leather and chain...

I personally love this game, but it's not your fault if you don't really like it. Maybe it's just not your taste of game?

When I make thief characters I usually don't even give them armor. It lets me get a little creative with clothing, which has much more variety than armor, anyway. And it's good for a challenge.

The only armor I've worn on my female Wood Elf thief is leather grieves, because I can conceal them under her clothing. Don't know why they didn't make chest armor like that. Oh, and don't forget the sandals that inexplicably give you +3 AC!

oo: I never knew that! But... +3 AC is the same as leather boots right? That will go well for my Khajiit Acrobat who lives in the desert!