I Beat Daggerfall as a Monk

[@JustBackgroundNoise]

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[@TheDoomerBlox]

Wow, a Runescape sponsor. Nice!

[@ConfusionPlus2]

You got sponsored by the thing you started with, congrats!

[@Fanciable]

Oh dw I haven't logged out yet

[@0zNIE]

literally grinding while watching this, going a mage build for the first time in leagues. Hope youre playing too and enjoying it

[@Doji97]

It is clearly a trap set by the cyborg, if I know something about Old Runescape players is that the only thing they hate more than Runescape is Jagex 😂

[@Deneb626]

25:42 The idea of using a zombie as a courier is so funny to me. I just imagine a necromancer stapling a message to its chest like a message board.

[@seadmurtis6075]

There are many funny letter delivery messages in Daggerfall, I believe it was the Underking who sends a skeleton which shocks you enough to make you open your mouth at which point it inserts the letter in your mouth and leaves.

[@draexian530]

​@@seadmurtis6075 That's enough of an anecdote to get a man through a DOS emulator.

[@joshjames582]

I also like how it's implied if the player isn't even strong enough to kill the messenger, he's probably not worth Mannimarco's time.

[@violentbeetle2441]

I think planescape torment had a zombie covering in notes serving as a message board.

[@goreobsessed2308]

​@violentbeetle2441 yes but only after they ran out of room carving notes on his skin 😂

[@MonsieurBro]

Some additional quirks to the DOS version are: *Dodge is broken and reduces YOUR chance to hit *Walls are suggestions and you can go out of bounds easily *Levitate just creates an invisible floor beneath you, meaning if you cast it while falling (without slowfall) you can just die from fall damage *You can use hand to hand to begin flying upwards into the air *Bethesda added a 'Teleport to dungeon entrance' button in the latest patch, as a quick way to address people getting stuck/out of bounds *Several Totem options don't actually give you anything, such as Mannimarco not giving you any reputation at all The list is endless. Daggerfall Unity really makes the game just... playable. A godsend

[@agihammerthief8953]

And that's after several patches, imagine playing this thing on release, or if you couldn't get the patches

[@Yominokun1]

@@agihammerthief8953 Honestly, it was it's own kinda hell. But it laid the foundations for "it just works" :D.

[@lucasgreer1736]

I'd say the game is playable in its normal state, although buggier, but I may just prefer it because I really don't like daggerfall unity's weird combo of original daggerfall textures with modern lighting.

[@iusemyrealnamebefore]

@@lucasgreer1736 yeah you need to use mods to balance that

[@Light_Skully]

Actually I think Dodge makes enemies have a higher chance to hit you, rather than the inverse, in the OG DOS Daggerfall. Neither one of those things are worth dealing with, though.

[@jayrenault7892]

Ok, most people seem to ignore this little fact, but the dungeon you start in in is theoretically connected to a cave via a secret passage, which leads to the coast. In Daggerfall, you're shipwrecked and ended up in said cave which also suffered a cave in, which leads you to the only way out left; the dungeon. One of the things I'd love to see World of Daggerfall do in DFU would be to make said cave, either as an exterior explorable asset or as a handcrafted dungeon one "pixel" away from Privateer's Hold, on the coast. The Shipwreck could be found, as well as the bodies of the other Blades aboard, and the cave could lead to a dead end which wold thematically be the other side of the Cave-in.

[@Mythraen]

I loved the "disappeared into the crowd" and then you turning around and there was, like, one person 12 feet away from you.

[@Sphendrana]

I just started a playthrough, and that was funny to me as well, because I looked around outside the town wall. ONE PERSON. I do a 360 pan? SUDDENLY A CROWD. It would seem their potions of invisibility all wore off at the same time, just as keikaku.

[@Giantcrabz]

three's a crowd right

[@rowanfynn6518]

13:25 FINALLY MY KNOWLEDGE COMES IN HANDY We know that Morgiah is not offering her firstborn, according to the Daggerfall Chronicles. The letter just says 'first,' and this was supposed to be resolved in the third game, but then Morrowind was different to what they were originally planning.

[@charlietownsend2826]

Now I feel stupid for making the same comment 😂

[@walnzell9328]

So turns out it has never been established what she meant by "first."

[@Kryptnyt]

Hmm, I don't think Mannimarco wants the same first from her that I do.

[@Sphendrana]

I have to say it. I have been thinking it the entire time I have been an Elder Scrolls fan, after they released Skyrim I noticed the MASSIVE DIP in story telling depth, and oversimplification of the game mechanics with every new title. Went from being a real time D&D adventure to.......generic hack and slash FPS with miniscule "RPG" elements. I'm not saying Skyrim is bad, but it's not good either. It just works. We play Skyrim for the Fus Ro Dah's and Wuld Nah Kest's. And to kill Thalmor. We play Oblivion for the memes. We play Morrowind for the Elder Scrolls Lore. I think Daggerfall though just happens to be a lot more in depth in it's VISION. Shame it was released unfinished lol. Imagine if we could have had the entire map of Tamriel at our finger tips. With the way they handled things in DF, I could see it being possibly the BEST ES game if they'd been able to finish it, and stick with the ideas they had established. Buuuuuut retconitis afflicted them much like the Divine Corpus plagued Morrowind.

[@bluegem8582]

@@Sphendranait’s also an issue on scale between handcrafted world by compressed, or hugely spanning but procedural, because it’s just unfeasible to expect that level of scale while keeping the world filled with recognizable landmarks, which seems to have become their preferred way of making world since the move to 3d in mainline post morrowind, even if DF did have countless constant structures in world like all the dungeons and towns and such (as in they wouldn’t shift in different playthroughs) Maybe it’s just my mind viewing it from perspective of viewing through lens of what we got in future compared to ambitions that DF had itself

[@berrie-nice-to-meet-you]

Meeting Sheogorath there feels like a breadcrumb to Chipmonk's next adventure. Slap the silly out of Jygallag

[@BornRemaining]

Don't you mean slap the silly back *into* Jygallag? TBH there should have been a Snickers bar commercial of him paired w/ the Shivering Isles DLC. Jygallag: *begins the Greymarch* Haskill: "Here m'lord, partake in this most delightful Snickers." Jygallag: "WHY!?" Haskill: "Because you're not at all yourself when you're hungry." Jygallag: *eats Snickers* Haskill: "Feeling better, m'lord?" Sheogorath: "Much better. Thank you, Haskie." *proceeds to scream about cheese and dismembered eyeballs*

[@chucklebutt4470]

Jygallag has no chill -_-

[@BloodyMobile]

"Ambient nudity" - now here's something I definitely didn't have on my bingo card. Damn it. "Take the stairs. But if they're to heavy, just climb them." xD "Take the door on your left. If it's to heavy, just open it and go through." - I love this "protest" against linguistic logic

[@BARMN89]

44:15 You make a joke about the voice of King Lysandus and the Narrator being voiced by "Dave in the Bethesda Sales Department" but thats actually Julian Jensen/Lafey, Father of the Elder Scrolls and Lead Director on both Arena and Daggerfall!

[@L-A-C-IV]

🗣 🗣KINGLESS ANUS HAS BEEN LAID TO REST 🗣🙏🏻⚰

[@danielbrown001]

The joke still holds up that it’s “guy at Bethesda with no voice acting experience,” but still an interesting nugget of history to know he was THE guy.

[@redbasher636]

@@danielbrown001 He is HIM. He's been him. He will CONTINUE to be HIM.

[@crickett3536]

The thumbnail's "So you don't have to" is already giving me a hint of your suffering. Thank you for your sacrifice 😂

[@JustBackgroundNoise]

Daggerfall is...something.

[@HungMantis]

@@JustBackgroundNoiseI’ve been wanting to play it is it that bad that I shouldn’t also how do you get the unity version sorry

[@LycanFerret]

​@@HungMantis The worst thing is that, like Morrowind and Oblivion enemies can be immune to physical attacks, but instead of it just being ghosts - it is basically every enemy. If you start as a melee character you will struggle to even leave the first dungeon BECAUSE OF THE STUPID IMPS! Play as a magic heavy character, save yourself the trouble and pain.

[@Tony-The-Motherfucking-Tiger]

​@@LycanFerretNot only the imps, but the skeletons and the horrible noises they make will straight up give you PTSD.

[@TheTuttle99]

Yes I believe that is what's implied

[@brammachu725]

28:20 small correction, his battle mage didnt betray him ( the emperor), the emperor betrayed his battlemage

[@JustBackgroundNoise]

Oops. That's the public story, right? That Zurin betrayed Septim and Wulfharth, and that's why they had to kill him?

[@charlietownsend2826]

⁠@@JustBackgroundNoise I think the public story is that Zurin heroically sacrificed himself or something but there are many versions, including the one where Wulfharth and Septim turn on Zurin Arctus and feed his soul to the Mantella.

[@agihammerthief8953]

One of the public stories is that, after winning his major wars, Tiber kept using the Numidium for increasingly petty rebel-crushing, which Zurin didn't approve, so to stop this he attacked and shattered the Numidium. Which would mean that technically Zurin did rebel against the emperor and therefore betrayed him, but, really, the emperor betrayed Zurin's trust first by misusing the Numidium. (though one might argue that its intended use wasn't much more humane or moral, either)

[@bluegem8582]

@@agihammerthief8953yeah, honestly believing the superweapon of that magnitude would only be used as threat for peace was honestly naive of him, but in that interpretation what would become under king was definitely in the right Plus, depending on which parts of The Real Barenziah are *actually* true, would be far from only time Tiber was a ahole about things

[@wailfulcrab]

Hand-to-hand is so unique that not only it can damage ghosts and enemies immune to weapon tiers, but also Fighters Guild does not recognize it as a weapon. Having high h2h but not other weapon skills, FG will not let them join them because they wont allow people that "can't fight". Also Medicine not only increases hp regen when resting (and its better than you think as all quests have a time limit), it also shortens the time for character to recognize that you contracted a disease or get poisoned. All diseases in the game are lethal, if you don't treat them in time and fast travel anywhere you just drop dead on arrival. Poisons slowly chip your hp bar away until you drop dead as well.

[@1thevm1]

Unfortunately Medical quickly becomes a chore to level up because it requires several in-game years for you to sleep through. It's one of the skills you always have to train with the trainers, or else it'll be stuck in low 10s for the rest of the game. On most of my characters with 100s of hours it was always underleveled.

[@Dachnik228]

@@1thevm1 Just like in real life you have to go do medical school to get your certification

[@BurningM]

I think in the base unity version that's been changed, diseases are no longer so lethal! I haven't done any mods so far and was able to get a disease and survive it lol!

[@wailfulcrab]

@@BurningM From what I know the diseases work by draining character stats per day, if any of the stats reaches zero your char dies. Diseases have various magnitutes with the lowest being 1 and highest 30 with the Cholera and Plague. So if you got lucky and got any magnitude 1 of the stat you have 70-80 in, you can survive for very long time and not even notice it. This behavior has not changed in Unity and its always good to have cure disease potion or spell at hand, or immunity to disease advantage.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Hand-to-hand, not just in Daggerfall but also Morrowind and Oblivion is basically like eastern martial arts. It isn't just your fist that is hitting the ghost. It's your chi that hits them, and that is magical by it's nature. And that the fighters guild doesn't accept it also plays a bit into that. A big reason why "king fu monks", developed those martial arts is because they weren't allowed to carry weapons. So they made their body the weapon.

[@donchindle2958]

Love a good daggerfall video! For anyone thinking about getting into the game, really consider making your own class! This game is absolutely brutal when it comes to poison, paralyzation, and diseases, and a custom class can null all of them!

[@JustBackgroundNoise]

But what if I _want_ to die to of stomach rot?

[@wailfulcrab]

Or cheesing the game with a classic exploit of infinite fireballs

[@plebisMaximus]

I love it when the game doesn't communicate you got poisoned and you just die whenever time passes.

[@milesromanus7041]

I play with critical weakness to paralysis, the free action spell is ceap and the advantages you can get outweigh the disadvantage

[@피리를-불어라]

My favorite is making a pure melee, not allowed to use any magic, and then immune to everything lol. A big dumb idiot with a sword that's very tough 😅

[@omerhikmetarslan8424]

I love that chipmunk became a recurring hero through our elder scrolls adventures, fisting his way through prophecies and bandits alike. Go chipmunk go !

[@operator8014]

Go go chipmonk ranger!

[@MishraArtificer]

Just like Abraham Lincoln in Nerbit's various runs...

[@kayblis]

Love that you keep it real with all the level-design criticism of the older games. Too many people are nostalgia-coded to ignore the flaws of daggerfall because they've played through it so many times and just don't notice. I would love to see more daggerfall on this channel.

[@AnAverageGoblin]

I've never seen people be nostalgia blinded for Daggerfall. huh. EDIT: I've been insulted by several people like that in a different video's comment section

[@megapussi]

Man you must be in very different circles than me lol, I've literally never seen a single person who played daggerfall before any of the other games, never seen anyone say the level design in that game is good either lol all ive ever seen is "its a janky convoluted mess but thats the charm of it."

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

With older games there are typically two schools of thought: 1) the game is perfect, anything afterwards is a cut down, casualised imitation. 2) The game is ugly and clunky and lacks any kind of convenience. And in a way both are right and wrong. Yes, those games weren't as casual, but they also lacked lots of convenience. More recent games have added many great things that improve on "just playing" them. The player was expected to do much more themselves. Who here has drawn a dungeon map on graph paper before? Because the game came with no map. Morrowind at least came with a big paper map that you could put on your wall. And that map made navigating the world and following the directions of questgivers much easier.

[@StephenThuggin]

I love daggerfall so much. It's always a good day when there's a new DF video. My mom was diagnosed with cancer yesterday and I really needed this. Thanks brother.

[@milesromanus7041]

I hope she gets better bro 🙏🏼 stay safe

[@StephenThuggin]

@milesromanus7041 thanks brother. She's got her first appointment with the oncologist Tuesday hope it goes well. Happy holidays.

[@Shmandalf]

Its an awful thing, I lost my dad to it like 15 years ago. A little optimism, a lot of forms of cancer are perfectly treatable today, so hopefully things work out for you

[@noahwakkure1870]

I wish you and your mother the best, I’m sorry you two are going through this.

[@StephenThuggin]

@@Shmandalf Hoping for the best wont know much til next week. Thanks for the kind words, It really helps. Sorry about your dad. Cancer sucks.

[@sunblade704]

"Take the stairs. But if they're too heavy, climb them." was so unexpected that I laughed out loud at the train station 😆

[@SkyBlueFox1]

Ahhh, Daggerfall my beloved. And one of the most digestible portrayals of the MSQ dungeons to boot! :u I like the main quests on paper - the intermingling politics of the Bay is a really interesting concept - but as you said, the low points can get pretty rough. It’s easy to see why the guilds and sidequesting take so much of the spotlight, since I think the game’s a lot more fun when you’re creating your own character and your own story to tell.

[@MittensOnly]

I absolutely love Daggerfall, the Unity engine specifically. Being on Unity makes modding incredibly easy for modders and players. Depending on your level of mods the game can be anywhere from a fancy RPG to a full on fantasy life simulator, you can really lose yourself in this game

[@anti2161]

The zombie appearing outside of town with a letter from Mannimarco attached to it is genuinely one of my absolute favorite gaming moments

[@hypotheticalaxolotl]

20:00 The letter was addressed to "The Queen of Daggerfall." Emperor didn't put the name on, just the title. When it arrived, Lysandus had been killed and the Queen was now Aubk-i, not Mynisera. Mini-Sarah. Meany Sarah.

[@rdrrr]

The plot would've been _waaay_ simpler if ol' Uriel just wrote "Queen Mynisera". What a dummy!

[@hypotheticalaxolotl]

@@rdrrr Not quite his finest hour, no.

[@1thevm1]

It really is such an Emperor thing to forget the name of some random mistress who entertained him decades ago, who also turned into a queen in some backwater, insignificant county that somehow ends up housing the Super McGuffin he desperately needs to maintain his power over the land.

[@hypotheticalaxolotl]

@@1thevm1 I mean, she was the wife of "[...] as great and loyal a subject, ally, and friend to me as you are." (To the player character). And he explicitly name drops Queen Mynisera when sending the player on his quest: "Several years ago, I sent a letter to Lysandus’ Queen Mynisera."

[@Lucifronz]

25:53 lol, there's something wonderfully dark about using a hostile zombie as your personal courier. Like he knows it probably won't kill you and he doesn't really care about collateral damage, so he just straps the letter to a piece of angry flesh and sends it in your direction. Probably ate a few villagers along the way, no big deal.

[@JUNKMECH]

I'm proud of Chipmunk for managing to successfully cast DE-DIMENSION!

[@bernard832]

17:27 I'll wait here, in the place where I live and work, for the oddly specific time limit of 149 days, for you to kill one werewolf for me. It's not urgent, but don't take too long.

[@Pyroniusburn]

I love the weird dissonance between delivering instructions in plain english and attempting to sound natural, only to end with the most arbitrary video-gamey time limit on the task you've been given.

[@CatBxtchNami]

@@Pyroniusburn Like I get it why some quests have time limits but why this one?!

[@AerinSwift]

There is a funny bug in the DOS version - mages spam spells without delay (due to a fast processor), and every fight with mages (especially liches and vampires) turns into a one-shot fest. Beautiful video, as always.

[@serioushex3893]

all i have to say about daggerfall is HALT. HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT

[@JustBackgroundNoise]

VENGEANCE!

[@Yominokun1]

Just reading this triggers shellshock :p

[@pe4enie401]

dang it, i can hear this message

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

You know about "Stop, you violated the law!" But the Daggerfall guards HALTing the shop theme is on another level /watch?v=IpeettBUmF4

[@Hobobatman1000]

The intro of the video is quite possibly the only Oblivion fanfiction to ever feature Raminus Polus

[@marcoflorianefinger6937]

I kind of like how weird the final dungeon is. It fits the idea of a realm of gods that goes beyond the understanding of mortals. But from a gameplay perspective it is agonizing. I can't imaging someone beating it without a guide.

[@mightystu49]

This is why you can have multiple save slots!

[@Yominokun1]

@@mightystu49 The full 6 xD

[@walnzell9328]

33:42 Man. Would you look at that. What a beautiful tower. Hopefully a bunch of elf nazis don't try to blow it up in the 4th era to unmake the world or something.

[@MishraArtificer]

...having a brainfart: is that something that happens during the war with the Aldmeri Dominion before Skyrim begins?

[@walnzell9328]

@@MishraArtificer It's something they might try to do in TES VI. It's believed by fans that the Thalmor want to unmake Mundus so that everyone will return to Aetherius to live like the good ol' days before Lorkhan made the world. They did try to steal the Eye of Magnus, an artifact linked to the god Magnus who made the blueprints for Mundus, who is linked to at least one doomsday cult. The Mythic Dawn. That Thalmor guy in the College of Winterhold even said, "The power to unmake the world at my fingertips!" And parts of Adluin's Wall do talk about "the towers" and how Alduin appears to start a new kalpa when they get destroyed. The towers are essentially anchors of reality or something. Maybe. And Direnni Tower is one of them. It's actually the tower where the Divines came together to plot Lorkhan's death... I think. The Thalmor are actually all for Alduin being slain. Not once do they try and stop the Dragonborn from doing so. Probably because they want to keep to the current kalpa so they can sack Direnni Tower. I think their plan gets rid of a need for Alduin. As they're planning to return to stasis and status quo in Aetherius... or something.

[@MishraArtificer]

@@walnzell9328 Camelworks did a video several years ago, explaining the events depicted on that mural (and the prophecy that goes with it). I don't think Direnni Tower was one of the Towers mentioned, but I could be misremembering. Oh, no, guess I'll have to go back and watch a Camelworks video again. What a shame...[/s]

[@walnzell9328]

@@MishraArtificer Direnni Tower wasn't on Alduin's Wall because it's not linked to the prophecy of Alduin.

[@AllenAlchemyTTV]

Manninarcos boon of fame didn't work in the original game, but it's fixed in Unity. It gives you 100 rep with every Provence, npc, guild faction. It's useful because, if you want to tinker with dark brotherhood, witches covens, daedric summoning, etc., you can join any faction and immediately ascend to rank 10 after 30 days and get all perks the faction offers (since your stats and skills are already at the minimum requirements since you already beat the damn game). It's pretty fun if you care about post game antics.

[@pinkskie5536]

I know you were kidding, but I'd absolutely watch a "Quick Retrospective" done by you. I could always use more 6 hour video essays to listen to while doing housework.

[@turtles2908]

Super hype to see the jagex sponsor!! And the irony of getting said sponsor a year after you stopped uploading runescape is not lost

[@irisinthedarkworld]

to be fair, the king of worms' reward of granting maximum reputation in every faction is actually incredible. it basically completes every questline for you and makes everyone like you (also, fun fact: "the king of worms" and "mannimarco" are never explicitly stated to be the same person in the first two or three games)

[@Shadykins]

Yooooo Daggerfall! Ready for the Arena runs at this rate. B)

[@JustBackgroundNoise]

If OpenTESArena ever gets finished, you just might.

[@kanrakucheese]

​@@JustBackgroundNoise Arena is surprisingly playable with mods already. Get the dosbox config that changes the controls if you're not holding a modifier key, and up the CPU speed (every official pre-configged release has the CPU *way* too slow so the game is perma lagged.). The real challenge run for Arena is playing a non-mage and not casting 0 magicka spells (Arena is the only game where that's possible, and virtually all the non-attack options for that are broken), or playing a mage without using the spellmaker (almost all the premade spells are terrible).

[@milesromanus7041]

​@@kanrakucheeseyep, Arena is surprisingly playable. I finished the game several times on doxbox, with the keymapper mod, and some visual ones. It also has a nice atmosphere, sometimes feels like a horror game

[@kupokinzyt]

I have a full playthrough with just the regular steam version without any mods or config edits, running the game on its own on my channel using Windows 10. It is very playable!

[@AllenAlchemyTTV]

​@@milesromanus7041agree, since enemies spawn randomly and infinitely at set nodes as you explore, the jump scare opportunities are endless

[@KaiserHardauer]

30:50 This is truly a Potion Seller moment! Hope he wasn't a rascal, potion sellers can be a handful sometimes

[@ZeGluon]

I dived straight into the comment just to write about it Glad there are some people of culture here 🍶

[@MaisuBirb]

Not me having recently watched Jwlars retrospective for the 4th time as 2nd monitor fodder when JBN drops a banger worthy of my first monitor Honestly love how you manage to intertwine storylines and tell them, mixed with comedy, long form content, great editing and what not. Absolutely deserving your meteoric rise in popularity!

[@Light_Skully]

2:30 >Critical Strike & Dodging are Random. No, they are not! They gain experience every time you hit (Critical Strike) or get hit (Dodging), even if you don't actually dodge. You can see this for yourself if you install the Viewable Skill Progress mod from the Daggerfall Unity Nexus.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

That is basically how TES skills still work. You level them by using them. Even in Skyrim, you need a shield to level your block and you need to wear armor to level armor. The basic systems are still pretty much the same.

[@HeroSwe]

Wow. that last bit was wild, I mean kudos to the developers for really wanting to go hogwild like that but I don't know how fun it would actually be to play through it myself :D

[@erickmejia1643]

Same Ive seen gameplay footage of this game myself and it didnt impress me very much, but that last dungeon segment was crazy and I really wish later TES games would go out of their way to just go nuts on the final dungeons.

[@mightystu49]

It's a ton of fun if you go in with the right mindset! It's not for everyone though

[@karlk5801]

When I figured out the crossbow thing I felt absolutely brilliant. I can't remember anything else about that dungeon.

[@kaiserschnitzel89]

I wasn't going to ever beat Daggerfall as a monk, so your sacrifice was in vain.

[@Kevbo2040]

Seeing the Unity version of Daggerfall actually makes me wanna give it a try. I'm an old fart who really loves Morrowind, but even I couldn't stomach the original Daggerfall when I first tried it.

[@TuxedoTed]

Thank you for taking me on a tour through Daggerfall, JBN. I was lucky enough to enjoy Morrowind as it was released as my first Elder Scroll and can replay it at the drop of a hat, but at this point I don't think I could manage Daggerfall without those thick rose-tinted glasses. I feel like this is just as fine a way to experience it.

[@katherinebot]

I heard that Battlespire music at 14:18! I'm excited to see "I beat Battlespire as a Monk"!

[@frostyz3836]

Whenever one of these videos drops, I can guarantee that I'm about to have the coziest evening. Thanks for the good vibes, man

[@ABEW19043]

I put this on for background noise while grinding in the OSRS League. Fitting.

[@Nemmy25]

“i’m gonna steal your uncles soul… er your grandpas soul…ah your royalty it’s probably both” LMAO

[@BigSwordGal]

Another stellar video JBN! "What I'm gonna did to him" had me rolling, love how you write these :) Keep up the great work but remember to be patient with yourself and drink lots of water!!

[@needmorebagels6217]

Been subbed for a couple months now, and I gotta say I love this content. Great to listen to and watch while at work, or just doing chores around the house. Even better when its games I know about so I dont inherently have to watch. The commentary is golden and I just appreciate the work that goes into these videos. Thanks for your entertainment and work JBN.

[@spiderz5145]

Oh hey, that werewolf dungeon was where I got turned into one myself, I had no idea why there were werewolves in the dungeon because I was not sent there to kill them, and I noticed the disease pop up every time I tried to rest to recover health… but now my stats are very high and I feel very powerful.

[@user-rv8yv4yh9n]

every time, I'm watching like usual then _wham_ , hit with a sidewinder of a funny. "Take the stairs. If they're too heavy, just climb them." 😂

[@interdimensionalcommunicat9750]

Can you beat Morrowind as a Rogue Ordinator? *Must use Ordinator NPC class. *Can only wear Indoril and Her Hand's Armor, can only wield the Ebony Mace, Ebony Scimitar and Trueflame (since the Ebony Scimitar is an obvious imitation of Trueflame). *Must join the Temple and rise to the rank of Archcanon. *Must aggro as many Ordinators as possible by wearing their armor, but cannot fight back in self defence.

[@zubizuva]

I love the deep lore into the handmaidenification of Daggerfall. I think I just invented a new word.

[@DaniilHomyak]

20:37 Ah, man! Not the IRL notification message with a reminder on my credit card loan payment overlapping Daggerfall notification, reminding JBN that his in-game loan is due 😭 Worst timing 10 immersion breaks out of 10

[@rdrrr]

Apparently there's dialogue in Daggerfall that suggests if you fail to pay your loan back enforcers will be sent after you This never happens Imagine if Daggerfall banks could foreclose your player house, seize your horse or, if we're going full medieval, throw you in debtor's prison

[@Moewenfels]

1:07 Throwaway jokes are such an art. And youre on your way to become a master :D

[@Bridgetrollhaspizza]

How can we be completely sure that last dungeon is just some elaborate prank by Sheogorath just to fuck with people?

[@gabrielnygren8515]

You dont understand the sheer value your videos have in lulling me to sleep. In the most complimentary way possible it is the most relaxing thing I have ever found on youtube. Also very entertaining while awake ofcource

[@NotOnLand]

I was really hoping you'd say "I'll try to be very explicit with my descriptions. After I left the goddamn cave I fucking leveled up"

[@oz_jones]

Cussing isnt funny

[@hoodedman6579]

@@oz_jones It can be sometimes depending on the situation; in this case, the joke would be a misdirection joke, as everyone would assume he meant "explicit" as in the way he actually did. The Angry Video Game Nerd was (and maybe still is?) good at making cursing funny due to just generally having creative wordplay; at times it could feel like oddly vulgar poetry.

[@PoeticDeath]

You know your channel name is so apt because as someone who needs background noise to not go insane if I'm not listening to yt or music

[@mrpuggerson]

A week ago my girlfriend asked me if I could put on some background noise, so I put on one of your videos and now we fall asleep to one every night 😂 Also, the Jagex sponsorship was unexpected but awesome. I usually skip through those parts but now I wanna check it out

[@Foreststrike]

I absolutely needed to imagine trees twerking in Daggerfall now. Thank you, JustBackgroundNoise.

[@thewimp9630]

Last time I was this early, the dwemer weren’t thanos-snapped yet…

[@PhillyCheese-s7c]

Just wanted to comment that I continue to love your videos and look forward to whatever you put out next, your style is the perfect mix of calm, insightful, and funny. Congrats on 100k!

[@MalleusSemperVictor]

Someone send this guy the Bethesda Colovian fur helm beanie they made

[@Bifurdoggo]

You've rapidly become one of my favorite youtubers, and introduced me to a whole genre of videos that I never realized I enjoyed so much. Your personality, scriptwriting, and especially your love for these games all stand out so much that I felt the need to comment on my appreciation for them! I don't know if you'll read this, but if you do, I hope you're proud of the smiles you create!

[@AllenAlchemyTTV]

There is also a pacifist option for Lord Woodborne, you can find his diary and give it to Nulfaga or the Dowager Queen. They smear his reputation across illiac bay and he's ultimately tried and executed "off camera". This also puts Lysandus' soul to rest

[@UnclePutte]

Lhotun's quest is always my favourite part of the story. It really underlines the Shakespearean inspiration of the game. Tragically stupid and cruel nobility.

[@simonsoupshark8009]

damn the woman of dagger fall all seem rather well endowed.

[@Lubbydubs]

the edit of the daggerfall footage onto the CRT monitor is amazing, holy shit. actually looks like it's on the screen!

[@joshm7335]

I've been playing through Daggerfall for the first time and I've got to say, every complaint in the first 7 minutes are 100% accurate. This game is rough and rough again, without mods. I don't know how people forced themselves through it, back in 1996. I'm almost at the end of the main quest and it's taken over 100 hours... I blame the aggressively boring dungeons.

[@cherry9787]

Because this is 1996 and people haven't found out game design yet.

[@Graah353]

There was an official patch that included an ability to teleport to quest targets in dungeons.

[@LeRuse817]

You joke but you know we'd all watch a 6 hour video from you happily.

[@FrostLeaf13]

Yeah, she does indeed look very Morgiah-esque

[@saltmyne]

building a cabinet for my lizard tank and this vid could not have been timed any better, love to see chipmonk on a new adventure

[@toasterinfact]

46:53 подтверждаю, это и правда похоже на babushka

[@theturkeychild]

I would, for sure, watch a 5-6 hour JBN retrospective about a game I've never played

[@Catman_CM]

I love the Alfiq Khajiit. ESO is canon because they are adorable.

[@AleksoLaĈevalo999]

The thing is that Alfiqs are just canon in general. Even if ESO would not be canon Alfiqs would still be canon, just not appearing in any canon Elder Scrolls because budget. In Morrowind (and Oblivion too) there is a book series "Dance in a fire" that mentions them.

[@Catman_CM]

@AleksoLaĈevalo999 ESO is canon because Alfiq's are adorable, not because it's the only game with Alfiqs.

[@Techhunter_Talon]

Will admit that having a dungeon set in Aetherius is a novel concept and I do like how weird everything is in there.

[@tedparkinson2033]

last time I was this early, Yugoslavia was stil a thing.

[@mlkshake1230]

From Arch-Glacor to arch mages I'm so glad to see you enjoying making videos and variety streaming fits so well! Been a while chum but it's always good to hear your voice in the background. 🙇

[@rumblepuss5972]

"I'm not a kid, I'm TECHNICALLY a man." "I'm taking out a bank loan, would a kid do that?" This is the most relatable self-consciousness I've ever heard.

[@andrearossi6564]

Also the "Horsiee!!" right after

[@rumblepuss5972]

@@andrearossi6564 that got me too

[@LolaliciousSmiley]

I never realized how big of a subgenre "non-Skyrim ES playthroughs" is. I enjoyed this.

[@CoadyShay]

We love osrs, don't we, folks?

[@OldSchoolRuneScape]

it's no Daggerfall, but I hear good things

[@Alderoth]

I never made it beyond cutting wood in the tutorial. Nahhh, that gameplay was riveting enough for me to have my runescape fill for a lifetime lol

[@Shmandalf]

I just got membership for the first time last month, just ran out a few days ago. Its fun and all but way too singe-player focused, my friends and I could barely do anything together which kinda killed the interest for us. Its good but idk if I'd spend money on it again

[@GuntWastelander]

Oh shit my bad I didn’t even know you used to be a RuneScape creator, can’t wait to go back and watch that content!!

[@LiroRaeriyo]

After hearing that final dungeon walkthrough, all i can say is "dont do drugs" has never had to deal with this nonsense.

[@kosimochaosbold7544]

I was intrigued by Daggerfall and dipped my toes in before, but thanks for taking the jump in in our stead. Great content, in particular the random question-driven tangents.. and yes, the dad-is-a-wordsmith level puns, too. But after 44:57 I expected you to explain where you got the ladder from.

[@T0XIIK.R0T]

NEW VIDEO???? AND DAGGERFALL??? LETS FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOOOO

[@TheMustardisbad]

I love your videos and I catch a stream every now and then. Congrats on 100k subs!

[@Myth2002]

IMO, ESO’s canonicity is similar to Brian Herbert’s Dune books; Strictly speaking, it’s the same continuity, but there’s also a clear disconnect.

[@phelanlawson1995]

Ive always compared the watering down of elderscrolls to the watering down of the Ultima series. I enjoy all of them and sinplifications arent bad inherently, but this type of game just doesnt attract a huge audience, and honestly with the recent bethesda blunders i really have little hope for TES6.

[@Hadaka01]

A monk having mysticism makes a lot of sense. Like…that’s what monks ARE.

[@Aundaay]

Love that the intro to all your videos lately involve some roundabout way to explain the situations you get into in a way that is lore based, honestly really adds to the charm I love it

[@tiredsadboi8278]

40:14 Hey background, you made me nearly die laughing because that guy's inventory looked like you edited an eye of ender from minecraft. You edit things like that all the time and I love you for it.

[@JustBackgroundNoise]

That's a basilisk eye. No editing on my part.

[@iusemyrealnamebefore]

Suprsingly, no, its an actual in game item

[@blib3786]

I love how all the nobility/royalty in Daggerfall just have hordes of assassins and evil monsters roaming the halls of their castles, which also happen to double as gigantic underground labyrinths for some reason.

[@hazeljoy1]

I would unironically watch a 6-7 hour retrospective of this game

[@MaxonerousX]

There's a very good nearly 4 hour retrospective on it

[@matthewwebb7921]

43:43 "i am the milk man, my milk is delicious."

[@codyphillips9627]

I'm so happy your channel is popping off. Love your content my guy

[@Flondre]

Thanks for the videos, they do help me falling asleep and I am very grateful, I never played or watched any elder scrolls game as well so its very interesting to me and I end up finishing the video the next day after I wake up

[@madcat789]

"Take the stairs, if they're too heavy, climb them." God damn thats funny.

[@mountaindewherbert]

It was me, i was that young kid getting stuck in dungeons forever. I have a memory of the mummy quest specifically, and it just so happened i was not only being chased by a mummy (i don't think i realized why) but the dungeon itself *randomly* decided it would spawn normal mummies. So yeah. Any time i found a mummy i very carefully looked through the alchemical ingredients it dropped looking for mummy wrappings. Which i think might have actually been a thing.. I did eventually get the quest drop, it was getting down to the wire, but it took me a long time to escape afterwards! I'd employ the handy stick to one wall trick only to loop around back to where i was... Then try going down/up, or choosing this door, to no avail. Awesome game!

[@indicus9075]

8:15 ahh yes Skyrim city my favorite hub of trading and quests

[@rdrrr]

I think of Daggerfall's game design as wearing its D&D influence on it's sleeve. The mysterious letters breadcrumbing you along the Main Quest are hints from the DM. While you were off having merry adventures he wrote the next part of his epic story and he really wants you to experience it. The dungeons don't make any diegetic sense because they're Gygaxian. Masses of corridors filled with teleporters, pits, traps, secret doors etc. They exist to provide a challenge to overcome. You're not supposed to think too hard about why they're there or how their form reflects their function. Ted Peterson and Julian LeFay were both seriously into D&D and DM'd a number of campaigns. Early TES lore is cribbed from their DM experience, apparently. A bit part of Arena and Daggerfall's DNA is "I'd like to make a game that feels like D&D with the boys".

[@basedstreamingatcozy-dot-t7126]

I've never watched a full playthrough of this game, so this was actually really good for giving the story and events

[@chachimendiola9042]

"Fight the Thicccc Vampire Women, GYATDAMN" 🤣🤣🤣