/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10127686
It's been great seeing the devs stick with it for so long. I wish I could get into DF; I've tried OG and Unity several times, but it's clunky and unintuitive.

Its a great way to experience Daggerfall since running it even on real hardware back in the day was janky and dosbox is even more so
its not very fun though and the plot is kind of boring and not connected to anything from the other games

Downloaded it but never touched the game

hmm, ummm, what do i think of daggerfall unity? maybe, idk, not retro?

>>10127686
HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA
funny joke!
...this is a joke, right anon? right??

>>10127686
is this someone from philly asking me about retro games

all in all I think its fine, it makes it way more accessible for some people and it seems like the mods are cool and can help elevate the game, I haven't modded it yet but it's probably something I'll get into eventually when they're more fleshed out

>>10127686
It's better without the shitty AI upscaled textures that make my screen look it it's been smeared with vaseline. If I wanted that effect I'd just turn on texture filtering by itself.

>>10127686
It's great. Makes it easier for new players to get acquainted, with all the QoL stuff and it allows old players to reimmerse themselves into the new and improved daggerfall. Tons of stuff added to the wilderness. Random encounters, enemies attack enemies, settlements, airship(though flying on a horse is also acceptable), terrain heights, etc .. it's getting fleshed out nicely. Dungeons are also getting scaled, by characterization. So, there will be appropriate sized dungeons.... Mostly. Just add chatgpt to the box dialogue and faction quest generator and it'll be some kind of retro future beast.

>>10129604
You don't have to do that. There's a retro rendering mode that keeps the draw distance etc...

>>10127686
I don't like it, doesn't feel like the original game
it's good for modding but it's a completely different game at that point

it's a bad fit and a bad engine

>>10129579
Disgusting.

>>10127686
Where can i download it?

>>10129604
The women have never been sexier.

>>10130247
One of those rare cases where you can confidently say it always looked like shit

>>10130248
google daggerfall unity
as for the version of daggerfall I think its on bethesda's site? the df unity site will probably link to what version is best to use. its alot of fun anon you will enjoy it once you learn how to get out of the first dungeon

>>10129579
>>10130247

>>10127686
Comfy as all get out.

>>10129610
Whole Tamriel remade in Daggerfall when?

>>10131672
/thread

>>10127686
been playing the game off and on since it came out. love it and spend tons of times in backwater provinces doing shit jobs for shit rep just cuz its part of the fun of the game. the main quests arent bad but I mostly just play on occaasion to grind out rep for someone before I join any guilds. makes things easier hwen you have max rep starting out

>>10127686
It was cool to experience daggerfall... and also made me realize that Daggerfall is a game that was not meant to be played. It's a dream in a bottle, as soon as you uncork it, there's nothing there.

>>10131984
I think its a great game to play but you have to stop at a certain point if you arent chasing the main quest. tho for people that love repeating quests and building uber powered charactors its also alot of fun. I have a few high level charactors that are far in the main quest but sit comfy doing side stuff and building more power.

Loved it to death when growing up.

Love it now, modded to the fucking gills (i put on almost everything except audiovisual mods, like DREAM and Orchestral Music. I don't like those). Mechanics, encounters, guild, quests? Fuck yeah gimme all of them.

If you would like to experience it VANILLA though, like back in the day, it's better to download the DaggerfallSetup version (and edit the DosBox.conf cycles item from "fixed 70000" to "max").

Based masonic flooring

>>10132290
I spend way to much time repeating quests over and over. do that guard the mage quest for the mages guild over and over and get magic items. get a witches guild and get access to magic items also (I know a few in game in towns) . in fact playing using the witches covens is alot of fun especially if you land the 42 rep hidden quest they have. (I think it was 42 rep). love this game and its amazing even all these years later. give it a few more years of mods and this game will be one of the best to play all around.

>>10127686
Spent 5 hours wiffing on rats, learned how to make an actual character and then after five more hours got out of the first dungeon. 10/10

>>10132460
I agree 100%, and you mentioned another thing i love about it: you learn of something new about it everyday.
I had no idea the covens had a hidden quest. I outta look for that one now.

>>10133269
I only learned about its existance a few years ago when I actually landed the quest and was like wtf is this quest? went online and looked it up and found it was a hidden witches coven quest. Its repeatable 2 appearently so you get the number do the quest get the reward than let your rep drop back to 42 and do the quest again. I have never tested this out and only saw it mentioned in a forum post.

>>10129604
>smeared with vaseline
Every other Unity game these days looks like that and I fucking hate it.

>>10133691
its a disgusting filter and I wish so many people would stop forcing it. looks like shit to me and can ruin the visuals of games to the point its almost unplayable. And to some it becomes unplayable.

>>10133672
These kinds of things are really cool. The random holidays, deadric rituals, etc… sometimes the quests can still be chaotic like a fetch quest turning into a murder mystery involving a mummy. Flying a horse over illiac bay is amusing

>>10130283

>>10134932
I remember the flirst time I messed with making my own spells. ended up making one that blew the area up around me and it killed everyone including me haha. I later improved it and turned it into a poison cloud around me which if I remember right pushes the enemy away from you. the whole game is alot of fun to just explore and experiment.

>>10134932
One of my best moments was talking to a random tavern dude, only for him to hire me as his bodyguard and take him almost across the province.
In the meantime, we were being followed and attacked by sorcerers/mages who offered me good coin to turn him over, but i declined.
That was a fun chase lmao

>>10130346
daggerfall never looked good, the pixel art is trash and the 3d models they turned into sprites are horrendous

>>10127686
if they would port it to PS Vita I would try it

>>10136487
I like it

>>10136487
so you wont play daggerfall because it looks horrible to you? that's fair but you're missing out on a great game world and experience.

>>10127686
Daggerfall was a mess of a masterpiece, and Unity extracts the best and with mods allows it to almost become the original vision.
>>10129604
I agree, i don't know why they include it in the GOG pack or why it's the most downloaded mod; The OG textures (exept for the skybox) are better than every pack i saw.
>>10130346
Tf you mean ? And :
>>10136487
>Original release date : 1996
I agree for the 3D model bit though, they aren't that bad but don't fit in at all.
>>10136623
Done but it stretches the hardware and is a bit tricky.

>>10136791
I already played it, long before the unity version came out and people started pretending it was good for gamer cred. it's the most repetitive game ever made and people only care about it because it has "The Elder Scrolls" in the title.

>>10136904
Did you actually play it ? Instead of just doing what the NPCs give you as quests in the down you start in, aka dungeon fetch quests/smuggling and a bit of personal protection

>>10136912
is this your cope? I did side quests so I didn't actually play the game? I got halfway through the main quest and stopped because the game is just so fucking boring and I was sick of the bugs. it's a truly terrible game that never deserved its resurgence.

Still waiting on OpenTESArena

>>10136916
The OG game has a lot of bugs i agree, but the fun of the game isn't in the side quests, it's in the freedom. Just do whatever the fuck you want, you can go commit loan fraud in the south to go buy a house in the mountains, and you do side quests designed for you to start the game and discover dungeons to pillage ? Sounds like a you problem.
>>10136921
Same anon, same. Would like if it came out after i have finished Daggerfall though.

I guess I got lucky I always find things to do in the game and accept its a glorified dungeon crawler with fetch quests eveywhere. But I dont mind and I enjoy when I do play. The unity version really cleans up alot of its problems and makes it alot more stable to play. AT some point im going to go crazy with mods and really deck it out and play. I want an overworld that has things going on in the wilderness so I can go get lost out there exploring the forests and lands while coming accross new stuff and I knoew a ton of mods already cover this. The next few years for daggerfall modding are going to be great. Even guilds and stuff are getting fixed/upgraded/added/finished. dungeons are getting overhauls and work better now overall. good stuff.

>>10136935
make a post that doesn't sound like marketer bullshit please.
>you can do ANYTHING! you can walk that way, and you can walk that way! you can enter a dungeon, and kill things! ANYTHING!

>>10136973
Lol
What i am trying to say is that what makes this game so good is not the quests or the story, it's the ADHD of the devs, kind of like with Arena but on steroids.

>>10136846
>Done but it stretches the hardware and is a bit tricky.
from what I've seen it gets ran in doxbox and plays like shit

>>10137013
Was talking about DF Unity. You have to compile yourself.

>>10127686
I cant decide if I like the thieves guild and dark brotherhood or not. The knights guild is kinda cool for when you're in the dungeon hero mood. Currently playing as a mage/healer hybrid and doing work in the deserts in some tiny region near sentinal. lvl 7 right now and having a good time.

Is there any good in-between? Can you play Daggerfall Unity with the original sprites and mostly original textures, just better rendering engine?

>>10127686
Makes this strange and wondrous game playable, for one. Playing it on dosbox requires the patience of a saint unless someone's been holding onto a secret trick or something.

>>10138293

Just turn on retro mode, it does all that for you, but you can still have tons of mods and stuff installed

>>10138293
The default install does just that anon.
The texture replacements and weird M.A.M.E.-level filters are personal appendages.

>>10136973
HEY ANON!
YEAH, YOU!

DID YOU KNOW THAT IN THE NEW BETHESDA'S TOP HIT, THE ELDER SCROLLS II: DAGGERFALL, YOU CAN FINALLY LIVE YOUR FANTASIES OF FIGHTING MONSTERS, CASTING SPELLS, FOUNDING YOUR VERY OWN BAND OF MERRY THIEVES, VOYAGING THE WORLD OR BECOMING A RENOWNED KNIGHT IN A KINGLY COURT!

IN THIS GAME, ADVENTURE AWAITS. DREAM OF YOUR PERFECT LIFE IN A MAGICAL FANTASY WORLD AND LET YOUR IMAGINATION RUN LOOSE ON MORE THAN 200 MAGICAL QUESTS, TAILORED JUST FOR YOU.

WITHIN THIS EMERGENT AND REACTIVE WORLD, ONLY YOU CAN BE THE HERO AND MAKE THE EVIL DAGGER FINALLY FALL TO THE GROUND!

THE DAGGER IS COMING THIS FALL OF 1996

>>10127686
I would play this if there wasn't so many god damn steps just to get this setup. I want an installer to do all the work for me.

>>10136487
I don't see how the pixel art is bad, the cg stuff does cause a clash though and has aged worse if you ask me.