Daggerfall

31/03/2025

First blog post! Just like every other blog I've seen on Neocities, I don't really know what I'm going to do with this, so I'll start with talking about a game I've been playing recently: Daggerfall!

Daggerfall is the second chapter of the Elder Scrolls series, published by Bethesda in 1996 for DOS. It's an open-world RPG where you do classic RPG things like taking on quests, exploring dungeons, fighting monsters, etc. It starts off with a very D&D feel where you choose your characters race and then class by either selecting from a list or taking a little questionnaire, before rolling for your initial stats. Then, with your new character, you're launched into the main questline where your emperor has enlisted you to investigate the spirit of a slain king which has been haunting the city of Daggerfall. You'll quickly find yourself too low-level to continue the main story, so you must explore around the city, picking up side quests in order to level-up and progress.

Also, this game is HUGE. The image above on the left shows the different regions of the game's map, and on the right you'll see a zoomed in version of one region where each of the little dots represents a town, city or dungeon. In fact, according to MrSaviorHD on Youtube, the game's map is roughly the same size as Great Britain.

Being almost 30 years old, the game definitely shows its age in terms of graphics but is still very much enjoyable and playable. Particularly when compared to other 3D or open-world games from around 1996, I think that Daggerfall was well ahead of its time. So far, I've only played for a few hours and barely scratched the main story, but I am very excited to play more :)