TES II: Daggerfall - A Complete Retrospective

Quite a short video tbh Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Jwlar Discord Server: https://discord.gg/EstVM7nRgR Subscribe to let me know the last 6 months were worth it https://www.youtube.com/c/jwlar Watch more retrospective analysis and reviews: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM_F6ru-Us2yGX1EwpvQZTkrrhTf-2OoU Daggerfall Unity: https://www.dfworkshop.net/ The Wayward Realms: https://www.waywardrealms.com/ Sections Part 1 - The Making of Daggerfall Series Intro 0:00 Part 1 Intro 0:58 90s Bethesda 1:39 The Elder Scrolls Chapter 1 Arena 2:16 The Making of Daggerfall 7:20 Part 1 Conclusion 22:30 Part 2 - Living in the world of Daggerfall Character Creation 23:39 Dungeon Crawling 32:24 Combat 36:51 Difficulty 38:24 Levelling 39:51 Living in the World of Daggerfall 41:01 Ambience (and World Design) 47:35 Game-altering diseases 50:08 Artefacts 51:08 Travelling 52:16 Part 2 conclusion 53:40 Part 3 - The Guilds and Factions of Daggerfall Quests Overview 55:20 Types of Quests 1:00:48 Negatives of Daggerfall's Quest System 1:06:06 Guilds Overview 1:07:38 Types of Guilds 1:10:07 Part 3 Conclusion 1:19:27 Part 4 - Daedric Quests and Crafting Systems Random Quests 1:20:11 Daedric Quests 1:20:53 Vampire Quests 1:25:36 Crafting Systems 1:27:56 Part 4 Conclusion 1:32:50 Part 5 - The Story of Daggerfall - Lysandus Plotline Part 5 intro 1:33:24 Our Role & Goals 1:35:48 Initial Critiques 1:38:42 Setting the Stage 1:43:21 What happened to Lysandus 1:48:44 Finding the King's body 2:06:01 Releasing the twisted soul (Choices) 2:12:26 Plot summary 2:15:51 Tying up loose ends 2:21:01 Part 5 Conclusion 2:22:51 Part 6 - The Story of Daggerfall - Emperor's Letter Plotline Part 6 Intro 2:23:09 Where is the letter 2:24:03 The Totem… baby? 2:38:45 Acquiring the totem… and the heirs of Tiber Septim? 2:49:18 How did Urial mess up so poorly with the Letter? 2:55:15 The Mantellan Crux 3:00:13 The Multiple Endings 3:02:10 Part 6 Conclusion 3:03:35 Part 7 - The Lore of Daggerfall Part 7 Intro 3:04:51 The Mantella 3:06:53 The Man-God 3:14:38 The Warp in the West 3:19:55 Retcons 3:23:11 Part 7 Conclusion 3:26:12 Part 8 - The Age of Daggerfall Part 8 Intro 3:27:05 The DOS Version 3:29:07 The Unity Version 3:36:14 Series Conclusion 3:39:26 Credits 3:43:39 Thanks to PatricianTV for the inspiration for this video. Thanks to Indigo Gaming and Once Lost Games for their incredible support. SOURCES: Youtube reviews I watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWmKlE1fR58 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PClYoP3ND2o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2BHboAzpvQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SexNidNgKjk Daggerfall trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_MY0ihuJZc Old websites: http://web.archive.org/web/20031220095406/http://12.145.63.45:80/~uesp/dagger/faq/dpreview.shtml https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=16245&start=200 https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16245 http://forums.dfworkshop.net/viewtopic.php?t=1080 https://www.mobygames.com/game/elder-scrolls-chapter-ii-daggerfall/promo https://tcrf.net/Proto:The_Elder_Scrolls_II:_Daggerfall/October_1995_Demo https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16245&start=100 https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0ByRZMKXTjUMbUHI0UkJUNnRON2c?resourcekey=0-B63KcQ6LQ862SblQ-zlPnQ The Daggerfall Essay: http://kultcds.com/Upload/MakingofDaggerfall.pdf https://www.reddit.com/r/Daggerfall/comments/7d7l0t/found_a_making_of_document_for_daggerfall/ Referenced games: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqUCz7E1s90 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IIkBgKBoFc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee4PUcpGSn8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc1dQmdqTbY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whp2Y_MjTXs Wikis: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Screenshots https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Games_Domain_Preview https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Interactive_Entertainment_Previews https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Concept_Art https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Development_Team https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Arena:Concept_Art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lieberman https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/en/arena https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/en/daggerfall https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Warp_in_the_West CES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xh3IfMFO6o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi5Jm90lGn8 Other articles: https://medium.com/@indigogaming/how-i-almost-made-the-game-of-my-dreams-da8b327e50f3 https://arcadology.net/tag/daggerfall/ Art by: Fuelreaver Elder Scrolls Legends Alexey Rudikov Undead-night Devolist Art Blog Violetta-Altory ognevkafenella Hieronymus7z Koncept (Nexus) fkcogus333 Egnirc Alex Tarakanov #elderscrolls #daggerfall #jwlar