The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall Unity Review

Update: 1.0 release is now available. Check it out here: www.dfworkshop.net/daggerfall-unity-1-0-release/ Corrections: - DFU's website is not dfuworkshop .com, it's www.dfworkshop.net/ - The world is over 160,000 square kilometers, not "sixteen hundred thousand." Woops... - The disadvantages of Lycanthropy aren't usually all that intrusive, and thus, werewolves/wereboars can be pretty overpowered. I struggled mightily with the audio for parts of this, so sorry if some sections sound bad. I left a list of mods that I use here: youtube.com/@DrJerryGaming/community

One of my most memorable Daggerfall experiences was being sent to a dungeon to obtain a scroll for a timed quest. Once I entered I was met with a forked path. I took the left path and explored and died a hundred times for 3 hours with no luck. I decided to go back to the entrance which took 2 hours due to getting lost with the dungeon being cursed with a confusing layout. Once back at the forked entrance I took the right path instead. After 2 min of walking, without running into any enemies, I found the scroll. Once I got back to the city to turn in the scroll, the quest timer ran out and I got yelled at by the quest giver for being an idiot. Truly legendary.

Played this last year for a week straight using a notebook and no online guides. Beat it. One of the best gaming experiences of my life. Legitimately felt that magic I used to feel as a kid playing an adventure game.

Was my first big game and i LOVE it still. For new players: whatever you play, get the spell that allows you to pick a location and then return to it, used to be called anchor i think. The dungeons are So large, you can get lost in them permanently. So what you do is cast the spell at the entrance. If you get lost, or are done, you can return. Also works in shops btw. So you can teleport in after closing time ;)

I saw the original game when I was a teenager on a language trip to England. It blew me away and I spent way more time playing that than actually learning English or doing anything else I was supposed to. What a summer that was, first time I discovered Daggerfall, KFC and alcoholic sodas, which were all the rage back then. It was a great time to be alive.

You should have used Wilderness Overhaul mod. The complete landscape of the whole game becomes coherent, forests, grasslands, etc. It's mindblowing!

Really enjoyed this video! Was a great deepdive into Unity, its benefits and why Daggerfall as a whole is still worth checking out. Good stuff, keep it coming!

Daggerfall was my first PC RPG way back in 1996 it blew my mind compared to the SNES games I was used too playing. It was so buggy back then I never managed to finish the game, my savegame stopped loading even with the FixSave utility. I finally finished it with Daggerfall Unity. Amazing project. Its too bad DaggerXL never worked out. I was looking forward to playing that.

When my mom died i found a box with this game and a pocket notebook with notes on different bulids and quests in the back, she used to let me play wolfenstein and doom but i never touched this

daggerfall dungeons stunned me with their verticality. deep shafts with underwater corridors. we need CLIMBING and acrobatics to come back for elder scrolls 6.

Really well put together video, from a Daggerfall fan. You deserve more views, so keep making content like this!

I remember as a kid, crafting my fireball spell, which had huge AOE and damage which could kill you, but I added health and mana absorption, so I could cast it all the time, just went to wilderness and sleep until a monster woke me up, this was my way to level up

Impressive video. I can't imagine how much time this took to edit together. Really informative and thorough. As a visual learner it really helped that you included clips for pretty much everything you talked about.

Thank you for that excellently scripted and edited video! These kinds of thoughtful deep dives are the best thing about YouTube in my opinion. Very glad to have found your channel!

This video sent me back to my teenage years in an instant. I remember it came out the day I was going on a camping trip with my mom. She let me buy the game on the way to the cabin we stayed at. It was very rustic and I remember reading the manual to the game by lantern. I miss that time.

This is the best Daggerfall video I've seen. No 12 hour intellectual exposition on the meta pseudo themes of lore and bla bla bla. Just straight up a great review.

You my good sir, have put everything under careful perspective , and well made guides and advice, well made!

Daggerfall was the reason I bought my first gaming PC in the fall of 1996. It hooked me from the start and I haven't stopped playing it since. Addictive, detailed, and almost limitless potential. DF Unity was a godsend.

Super informative, chill and overall great video, thanks for making it! Also I lol'd at "Name Thyself" ..."Thyself"

If all the content is gonna be this good, that sub count will 100x easily