From political factions, guild memberships, religious affiliations, and a developed calendar with special days observed in various locations throughout the year to necessary encounters with monsters, continuous decisions on mainline or secondary quests to accept or decline and thousands of words of text to read (there are books galore that weave the story of Tamriel and individual histories), the hardcore role player will find an abundant source of intrigue and questing worth the money spent in purchasing this title. A special note on dungeons: there are 12 so-called main storyline dungeons that are unique and incredibly complex but rest assured every crypt and dungeon waiting to be explored is rife with treasure, monsters, unscrupulous beings or just maze filled hallways, rooms, chambers or traps to get lost in.ĭaggerfall is a huge world. It comes equipped with all the other trappings of the basic RPG with a vast array of weapons, clothing, armor, monsters, vampires, dungeons, towns, cities, shops, graveyards, crypts, shrines, beasts and thousands of NPC's. With over 70 magic spells available, at least 27 skills apparent, and the options to create your own spells and items, the structure of Daggerfall allows nearly unlimited player intervention and control of directing the life of the character. Another option allows you to custom select (pick and choose) attributes and skills that build your character's reputation which is a very important aspect of the game - the better the reputation the more cooperation he/she can rely on during gameplay from the thousands of encounters that occur.
All of this leads ultimately to skill generation by class and basic attributes that define your character. The next step is developing a career path by responding to twelve biographical situations related to character idiosyncrasies or again simply choosing a career path. From there you choose one of eighteen possible character classes by either answering a series of questions or simply picking one from a pre-existing list. Character generation starts by choosing one of eight provinces your alter ego can emanate from and this decides his/her race. Your character is molded from an incredible assortment of possibilities offered and can constantly change dependent upon accomplishments and/or personal choice as the adventure unfolds. It is an open-ended adventure that builds it direction based upon choices made by the player throughout the game.Ĭhoices are numerous from the beginning. Featuring literally thousands of locations and entities within the game, the world is so vast that an estimate of time to completion would be meaningless.
At the time Daggerfall came out in 1996, it quite possibly was the most advanced RPG ever released for the PC.
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