Josh Strife Hayes Plays: Daggerfall - Part 1

[@TheGCRust]

Almost 7 hours of quality second monitor content

[@octavianpopescu4776]

Quality? You mean whelming. On this channel, that's the goal: not underwhelming, not overwhelming, just whelming.

[@morten8028]

I write this as I watch this content on my second monitor.

[@Fabermorrow]

im more of a picture in picture guy so similar experience :)

[@AshChiCupcak]

​@@FabermorrowThat's how I watch it as well. It's TECHNICALLY a second screen but I like to watch while I do work from my phone.

[@aska221]

Until josh says "Woah I didn't realize she was naked!" and my head turns 45 degrees like a manchurian candidate to look at my other monitor.

[@Granhier]

Zooming out on the map is a certified Path of Exile skill tree moment

[@MrFluffytheTurtle]

Zooming out in the Elite: Dangerous galaxy map

[@KingLich451]

@@MrFluffytheTurtle more like zooming in, that was the "wow" moment to me :D

[@zacharykelly7434]

Distant worlds: universe has those vibes too, but it's less impressive in an RTS I suppose

[@henrychurch6062]

What if Daggerfall is actually an MMORPG, but the world is just so damn big we never encountered another player?

[@ekdeimos]

Shh! Don't tell him! It's a secret!

[@Terrahex1]

But the chances of encountering another player in a world this big are astronomical. Anybody remember that bit of no man's sky marketing

[@adriansalcedogomez6976]

​​@@Terrahex1 and players uncovered the lie on day 1

[@14112ido]

2016 No Man's Sky called. They want their joke back.

[@climjark8055]

there is a fork of the daggerfall unity project that supports multiplayer! all someone would need to do is setup a dedicated basic player that just sits there, and then log in with a different instance and play as a server :P

[@charliecharliewhiskey9403]

Procedurally generated, but using the same seed. Like in minecraft, if you put in a specific seed, and someone else puts in the same seed, you both get the same map. The procedural generation in daggerfall was used to generate a gameworld before release, but isn't rolled randomly when you start the game. They probably went through a bunch of seeds looking for one that wasn't too clunky when you're just starting the game. But if I play and you play, and we both go east for 15 hours, we'll pass the same settlements with the same layouts.

[@Towelgravy]

5:21 I'm not sure if there's much to be explored in the main overworld, but I think someone should count all the towns/cities in daggerfall. Each one basically has their own guilds and reputations. "209000 square kilometres" sounds good, but if you say "17,934 towns, each around 5-25 times bigger than any city in oblivion or skyrim, a lot of which have their own guilds and stuff for you to advance in" it really puts it in perspective. If you fully completed 1-2 towns per day, it'd still take like 40 years to complete.

[@greenhowie]

For anyone wondering, Daggerfall is also free on Steam but you need to patch in the free Unity remake yourself after downloading from its website. The base version works but runs terribly on modern hardware and is more effort to get working than the Unity remake.

[@RedBaronFlyer]

also for all that is holy DO NOT USE THE GOG cut! The GOG cut runs on an older version of daggerfall unity that hasn't been updated in years and thus carries any bugs, glitches, or crashes that have long since been fixed. That means that it has bugs that have already been patched, and it by extension can't install any new mods because they are incompatable (because, again, the GOG cut is nearly or over two years old at this point). It also comes preinstalled with mods that have compatibility issues with each other and are buggy as a result, and also includes mods without the mod author's permission. The GOG cut is also way more performance intensive because it includes a bunch of graphical mods. GOG got permission to host Daggerfall unity on their storefront from the guy behind Daggerfall Unity, but the modlist included, which by the way was included without the realization of the Daggerfall Unity author, was put together by a streamer named GamerZakh who had nothing to do with the Daggerfall Unity team. It works well enough but it is the worst option.

[@zacharykelly7434]

The version hosted by the unofficial wiki is the best one, prepatched for unity conversion but also setup in it's own dosbox so it should run on nearly everything (just got it all setup lol)

[@zarlg]

Believe it or not the 3D map is not a Unity addition, it was there in the original game back in 1996.

[@foodfordagods541]

Man ive been blessed with these uplaods right as im looking for something to sleep to.

[@Lysurgic]

Josh, you're a gentleman and a scholar. I appreciate you

[@hayato1886]

Actually, the original daggerfall did have mouselook, it was in the advanced control section iirc

[@Crypt4l]

1:30:00 in and no live gameplay yet. Feels like playing a book, love it!

[@AshChiCupcak]

Wow, the maps in daggerfall are better than Oblivion and Skyrim. The amount of time i got lost in the other ones because of overlapping walkways that you couldn't see on a 2D map is ridiculous. A 3D rotatable map would have been so nice.

[@jasonmuller1199]

It's sad hearing Unity get credit for features that where actually in the original Bethesda game

[@mementomori771]

Josh being casually wrong is casually often

[@RogueBones3]

To anyone who wants to play daggerfall please don't use the GOG cut. It's very outdated and buggy.

[@KingLich451]

yes idk what were they thinking with that

[@silverdust4197]

Josh , I really enjoy you played Daggerfall but the GoG is very outdated version of Daggerfall Unity

[@rebeginme]

Josh updated his version a few streams ahead. You can look at his latest twitch streams and he’s on 1.1.1.

[@DakumunDahBat]

Fun fact: There are many subspecies of Khajiiti, and the ones featured in Daggerfall are the Ohmes-raht, or "Ohm" for short (I think), and are actually very human looking. They actually, in the culture, wear tattoos to display their Khajiiti heritage, cuz otherwise they could be mistaken for your average human. I started playing daggerfall again because of this video.

[@dmdeign7116]

I used to work near Liverpool St Station in London. The old building next door was getting demolished, and I arrived for my shift to find a the police had cordoned the entire block. Turns out the demo guys had found an old ww2 bomb in the top floor lol, dang Jerries

[@Dr_DoomJazz]

Get em Tommy

[@ekdeimos]

I swear to his Imperial majesty, I will watch every damn second of this that you play. This is one of my favorite games. It's brutal, insane, but so good.

[@MichaelClimson]

ive laughed at this video SO many times.."buckinging" "green berries AND green berries" "wickington"....

[@strugglesnuggledslime7040]

Urgh the GoG-cut thats not just outdated but comes modded to the gills. For a first-timer this might be alright but my eyes bleed seeing that AI-upscaled art.

[@JamesEDonaldson]

34:00 First thing I thought would be, "accept the offer, to know where not to strike at, because he's been injured and it wouldn't be right to hurt them in a fair duel", but that wasn't an option.

[@dfx81]

Btw, mouse look and the 3d map is in the original version. Mouse look is disabled by default and need to be enabled in the in-game settings

[@poteznymagus3549]

and the original doesn't make your eyes bleed

[@shootingdragon0]

Respectfully disagree ​@@poteznymagus3549

[@MsTatakai]

@@poteznymagus3549 what you mean ?

[@poteznymagus3549]

@@MsTatakai i mean that the dosbox version is much better to look at visually

[@Zeziliath]

you cannot fucking tell me this 20 years later and expect me to not lose my shit. What the hell? its been possible all that time? and I didnt know? FUCK

[@JPSimmsHM]

We're living through a Daggerfall Renaissance and I'm here for it.

[@Blisterdude123]

Cracked up when your super important mage contact at the literal start of the game is like 'so I heard you nearly drowned and crashed onto our shores anyway I need you to hoof it across the entire province to the entire opposite end of where you are in a few weeks because like fun am I coming to see you, prole'

[@codyerb6143]

I just realized what's going on here... Josh is playing the GOG Version of Daggerfall Unity, and isn't aware of how it's a severely subpar version. That's why it came pre-packaged with mods.

[@Endermyre]

I haven’t seen the other streams but I hope he realizes this. It’s unfortunate because he isn’t able to tell what’s a mod and what’s the base game. I haven’t heard anything good about the GoG cut of DFU.

[@MichaelClimson]

@@Endermyre GoG is a perfectly valid way to play daggerfall, it's even modernized, which is best for live streaming which is WHY josh is using it.

[@MichaelClimson]

using GoG to play the game is a perfectly valid way to play the game, it's very nice for livestreams which is why Josh is using it.

[@codyerb6143]

@MichaelClimson Yeah, not argue with you there, I only wish he had made more of an effort to be aware of what mods were included in the GOG release, and how they impact the game, changing it from the default Daggerfall Unity experience. It's fine that he's using it, but it's still a deeply inferior version...

[@MichaelClimson]

@@codyerb6143 there is nothing inferior about it, it's the SUPERIOR version in fact, it contains mods that were added as quality of life, some of them maybe do some other stuff aswell, understand that the GOG version of daggerfall is best for livestreaming and casual gamers, a casual gamer will not be able to play daggerfall or daggerfall unity without mods, they are outdated even with daggerfall unity being less so, daggerfall unity is still a remake of an old game, it still functions semi-like an old game. so the GOG version is the superior one if you compare strictly to daggerfall unity and daggerfall, unless there is some other version i am not aware of, then yes. but if you compare GOG STRICTLY to the two daggerfall versions, GOG is the obvious choice for the better version.

[@gabfontaine639]

I love the diablo 1 bat screech and bow shot sounds 🤣🤣

[@VagrantStoryMatsunoYoshida]

It is time for Josh to play the masterpiece which he wil absolutely adore (minus a few old mechanics) and the world needs a remake of to enlighten itself: Vagrant Story My quest, my crusade, starts now.

[@disturbownzall]

Almost 2 hours before we even get into the game and start playing, just the way I like it.

[@octavianpopescu4776]

Regarding the story about the bomb... my grandmother had large vase made from a bomb. I can totally see the confusion. Explanation: Soviets had bombs sold to them by the Germans before their invasion in WW2 and a lot of these bombs were actually filled with sand. One of them had fallen my grandmother's family's yard and since it obviously didn't explode, they took it, cut off the middle part, turned it on its fins for support (as a sort of legs to keep it vertical), filled it with earth and used it to plant stuff in it.

[@raifthemad]

In Estonia, lots of battles had been fought so some places in the woods were easy to find all sorts of ammunition. One boy dragged an unexploded artillery round home and stuck it on a stove to dry. After the boom he was all over the room.

[@Epicman1252]

24:32 Drako Meowfoy

[@Liesmith424]

Man I hate that the GOG version just silently packages in a bunch of mods. So someone like Josh goes into the game blind and doesn't know which things are original, which are mods, and what's borked as a result.

[@Kinglysandus1996]

My fav creator finally playing my fav game what did i do to deaerve this😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭. THANKS FOR PLAYING THIS JOSH!!!

[@desssperato5420]

This is my favorite video game from pre-2000! It was so ambitious for its time

[@polarfoxpat3657]

Just finished watching like 12 episodes of someone playing 2/3 hrs per video, and now you upload your own Daggerfall adventures, cant wait!

[@ChaoticGoodPeasant23]

Just Background Noise? Love that guy

[@LostInWalrus]

I fell in love with this game last year and it has quickly become my favorite elder scrolls game and it is now what I play for some simple comfort after a hard day

[@midnight_purple5461]

Can't wait for like the 100 hour video whenever he's done playing daggerfall lmfao

[@MittensOnly]

kinda wish he went with the paladin, heavy weapon and spells approach cause it works really damn well in this game perhaps another time

[@Retired_Geek_Woman]

Not sure if anyone else told you but the original version of Daggerfall had the 3D map. I have the original Prima Guide that has the main quest dungeon maps if you want to see. :) I loved seeing so many of your chatters who have played Daggerfall and are giving you legit tips! For streaming, on the unity menu, look for the option to make huge dungeons small (except for main quest dungeons). You will thank me for that.

[@SpartonWolf]

Josh I could watch you wander around daggerfall for a lifetime, this is very entertaining

[@foxdenmtg]

I remember this game being life changing for me, it's great too see it is exactly how I remembered it.

[@arboris]

Ah yes, I love me a good Daggerfall lets play

[@iCantEditBro]

simple as

[@randomassassian]

Best part of going back to work is all this quality Josh strife content to get me through the day

[@PunchlinePress]

Only a few minutes in and we already have the most whelming footer in streaming history. Perfect.

[@NerdHerdForLife]

Oh hey this is neat. I've occasionally watched this channel but had no idea there were Let's Plays on it. And to discover this playing my absolute favorite Elder Scrolls game is neat.

[@ryvisthemad3357]

The thief skills are obvious. Dodging face shots. Stealthily doing things under the table. Pickpocket your hand into a pocket to feel the rocket. Climbing on top. And Critically, knowing just where to apply pressure for maximum “effect”

[@porcelainchips6061]

btw this is a DOS game (the original build)

[@ninjasquidkamer7440]

Excellent, more playthroughs to listen to for modding

[@kaptenteo]

I'm still only at the character creation part of the video, but dang, it seems Bethesda put a lot more effort into the role-playing aspect of the game, back then.

[@aska221]

Thanks for uploading this! Been looking forward to it

[@johnmacklin8238]

Make sure you keep the dagger it is your mark of the new you and the freedom to come with it.

[@hackermanack3393]

" dont let the queen see my browser history " - Uriel Septim II idk

[@Recon7-t7f]

I'm the guy who was in stream that suggested the name Meowcolm Reynolds.

[@Andee1234]

38:13 D. Counter offer, I ask the friend to help me and instead of a favor we just go hang out afterward. If I loathe cleaning the stables that much, and he's there when it's cleaning time, he knows he's about to try to take advantage of me. I can make my own offer instead to diffuse the entire situation and end up getting what I want twice.

[@Andee1234]

Oh yeah. It's all coming together.

[@Towelgravy]

I always loved the IDEA of daggerfall. The problem was -- I don't do the main quest. My character is an immortal (mostly because I am doing side-quests for the equivalent of about 200 years in-game so my character MUST canonically be immortal) so when I noticed that I had failed the main quest of daggerfall because I didn't meet some person in a pub within 100 days or whatever, I kinda lost a bit of motivation. Yes, I think you can still technically complete the main quest manually or whatever, but not being able to wander the continents for 10,000 years mastering every possible skill whilst also collecting every interesting item without being punished in some way was kind of a turn off for me. Also, I'm a completionist. The very first dungeon that I believe I had a random quest for -- was bigger than skyrim I'm sure. I figured "okay, I'll just walk in one direction until I reach a wall, and then I'll turn left and make my way back to the beginning to figure out just how large this place is. Oh no. No....... ...no. I literally had to figure out how to climb and possibly also levitate in order to keep going in the same direction through impossible pitfalls and then random 500 foot shafts straight upwards, all with random monsters and loot galore. I walked for 2 hours. In real life. Two hours straight in one direction and I DID NOT REACH A WALL YET! I gave up. It was impossible. There was no way I could continue the game without mapping out the entire dungeon like skyrim and oblivion but there was also the fact that it would've taken me at least 3 years to do it and I'd have mastered every skill in the game by then just attempting to complete this one dungeon lol

[@Liesmith424]

Daggerfall has been my go-to game for literal decades.

[@sentimentalmariner590]

It is still so beautiful, I do wish more streamers would play it with the original textures though instead of the DREAM mod, the pixel artstyle of the original has a lot of charm once you get used to it.

[@Liesmith424]

@@sentimentalmariner590 Yeah, unfortunately he got it off of GoG, which comes pre-packaged with several mods.

[@LostInWalrus]

​@@sentimentalmariner590 It's such a beautiful game and while the dream mod is very nice looking I think it kind of strips the game of some of its charm

[@JohnDoe-oc4rk]

Do you play the Unity version these days?

[@Liesmith424]

@@JohnDoe-oc4rk 100%, it's amazing. I don't like that the GOG version silently packages a bunch of game-changing mods, though.

[@DeReAntiqua]

To loosely quote the Internet Historian: Just because there's a lot to explore, doesn't mean there's a lot to find.

[@regntonne]

Masonry must've been a booming business in Tamriel with all these huge dungeons.

[@dannyboylan5926]

This has been my go-to fall asleep video since it came out. Keep these coming. Hopefully get some more 6+ hour vids lol.

[@sempersteel2799]

Really missed a trick by not following up on the male argonian maid. Could've named him Thrust Tea.

[@St_Nic]

Miss hanging out Josh, God bless and God speed. Hope to make a stream soon

[@Wulfyric]

"There are enemies nearby" No, that's just chat

[@silverdust4197]

Daggerfall, Neat !

[@andreluiz9726]

man, his videos are good but finding this was gold. The longer the better...

[@Vaelin94]

1:33:17 behold, combat.

[@RocketRoosterFilms]

I like how he included the lead up into the game, as well, with a broken first choice. (pun intended)

[@Vangancnoir]

Nothing better than a josh stream to watch while fishing in Osrs

[@GreenPlasma]

I played a little bit of Daggerfall at the start of the year. I played the regular version The controls took some getting used to. I failed right out of the gate. I seemingly couldn't do any damage. There were 10 enemies spawned on top of each other in 1 room. And I could not find the exit to the first dungeon for almost 2 hours. The first Dungeon is massive and I went the wrong way. I had to look up a guide and hated how close it was to the start down the one turn I did not take. I did a few quests and grinded another dungeon. Then got summoned to a city and got a quest from some lady in the castle to talk to a necromancer in a crypt. I stopped there. Maybe one day I'll play again. The regular version does have the 3D map, but this one looks easier to control.

[@ryanhuard7301]

So i saw a 6 hour 45 min video of daggerfall decided to skip forward a bit to see how the commentary etc was to see if i wanted to watch the thing whole way through. I skipped to the part right at 32:52 . Where Josh says kill him again, prevent his mom from being piped and kill him. And then said “can you imagine someone joining the stream right at that moment and not having the context” Well uh Josh that’s me. So there you go haha it was an interesting way to start watching this

[@guyincognito7188]

twitch chat noticed the diablo 1 bat sounds immediately, but also, at 3:10:17 notice the diablo 1 bow shot sound

[@guyincognito7188]

also at 4:46:25 spell cast sound from Diablo 1. or maybe the sound of a town portal opening, i forget

[@cleanserofnoobs4162]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure there's a slew of sound effects from various games that make up for a good amount of the unity build of daggerfall. That or vanilla dagger fall always had those sounds and games like Diablo 1 would use them in the future.

[@davidrivera2952]

There is a mod that improves the exterior of dungeons. No more hill with a door. Castles, graveyards, all different other exteriors for the dungeons

[@atharvadeshpande4749]

Not the GOG Cut! No! Josh you were supposed to be the intelligent one not the dumb one!

[@greenhowie]

Think GOG has been nice to Josh in the past so... eh. Not exactly sponsored but keeping them sweet I guess. It could be worse.

[@overlrd-hb5ih]

@@greenhowie That's not the issue the GOG unity version just has a bunch of problems and stability issues, so it's better to just use the normal daggerfall unity, it takes pretty much no extra effort to set up and is much less janky

[@rebeginme]

Josh updated his copy of the game a couple streams ahead - see his Twitch VODs and his latest is on 1.1.1.

[@DagonSwe]

To be more specific what the problem with this version is in case potential new player reads this: The GOG Cut hasn't been updated since its release in 22 so it features bugs and issues in both DFU and the mods that come packaged in it that have since been fixed by their respective devs. It also means you can't install additional mods or update the ones in the package since most mods no longer support that version of DFU. That's why the GOG Cut is not recommended and honestly GOG should just remove it or start updating it regularly.

[@SeannyOg]

Six hours, forty-seven minutes, and thirteen seconds of Josh noticing Daggerfall's girth, UWU

[@desired397]

lmao, so many people in chat were trying to warn him about the GoG cut being super out of date and he either just never noticed or ignored it. Though from what I hear he did eventually change over to the current version of DFU and just downloaded the mods he wanted to make it like the GoG cut (DREAM, etc)

[@davidrivera2952]

Just picked up the steam version, patched in unity. Added about a dozen QOL mods and graphical enhancements. And now I'm actually really enjoying my play through. It is still brutally unforgiving, but every failure makes that next success that much sweeter.

[@mr.blueadolf9702]

2:30:24 wanted to travel by train from my city too my girlfriends once and they also just found a bomb at the trainstation, surprisingly more common than people might think xD

[@dmdeign7116]

Hooooo boy, love me some Daggerfall!

[@brothereldrian9913]

Yeah I played it. Died of starvation so many times because I could not find back to the exit of dungeons with the horrible 3d Maps. Also it is quite unforgiving if your class could not wear plate. Basically stuck forever with low Armor class. Moreover the original controls were a nightmare. Spent hundreds of hours of my life in it still. ^^

[@bytemixsound]

I could be wrong, but it sounds like my remastered music is being used. (part of DREAM, but I also have standalone loose files on ModDB and I gave someone else permission to pack the music tracks into a dfmod file to release on Nexus as a standalone remastered music mod for those who don't want to use DREAM. I don't know when it will go up, though.) At least, I think I'm hearing some of the synths I created/adjusted via Alchemy Player VSTi for the dungeon tracks back when I took on the project several years ago. And given that those synths were adjusted heavily in attempt to match what I remembered from the various original midi files, (and in some cases taking minor artistic liberty) I think I'd recognize them, haha. Always happy to see when people decide to use things I've worked on! I put a lot of work in the remaster to keep the music and atmosphere as close to the original intent as possible, while still being a significant step up in fidelity with good control of dynamics and overall soundscape. (I have better tools and higher quality orchestral libraries now, but no plans to go back and redo the remaster as it would require completely different mixing and finalization passes).

[@StonnedWolf]

Am I the only one watching the questions section thinking I've already seen this? I think it's from the adventure novels I'm pretty damn sure those questions at least1 or 2 were 38:00recycleled

[@Adamthegeek70]

are you playing the gog version cause that is out of date.

[@jackfish297]

The best thing about a 6 hour live stream is that I had it in the background and definitely missed something so rewsrchung it u will finde new stuff in the same stuff I presumably warched

[@ONCEFORVER12]

7 more hours of Josh content?? hell yeah 😂❤

[@Pitchguest]

You were stuck in that dungeon for almost two hours. Also, watching you play this makes me want to play this. And not just because of the nudity. I mean, not because of the nudity. I swear.

[@rosaecrux]

I do not know what Germans were in the chat, but the German word in question was Ständer and not stendarr. It just sounds similar. Sorry guys, that was good swindling at best.

[@RickCarleton]

I remember getting this as a demo on a PC Gamer mag CD. It just had a starter island but it had more content than most games around that time. Played the bejeeeezuz out of it. Never played the full game tho...

[@MichaelJesmer]

Josh, i dare you to play the first Witcher game. I got it and tried to start a full trilogy playthrough but the game is so damn hard to figure out. Totally your style of game

[@drewl8119]

The original game had the 3D map, it was just highly unreadable and slow in 320x240 😂

[@dannuck1]

Great video, Seth!

[@tw33kish]

ah, finally the original starfield experience

[@MrFluffytheTurtle]

51:15 we big chillin' !!

[@Detache]

I like these streams, thanks!

[@jaws8621]

Oh man, I love DF. I strongly suggest enabling the "small dungeons" setting. They're *still* large, just not absurdly so. Doing dozens, if not hundreds, of identical fetch quests that can take hours EACH because of the dungeon size is...a lot. Also, please for the love of all that is holy, go in and delete whatever is causing those AI upscaled textures. IIRC it's from a mod (called Dream?) that for whatever bizarre reason comes prepackaged with the GoG version.

[@AvoCamilo]

Oh, man, he's playing the awful GOG version, let's hope nothing ruins his playthrough

[@mementomori771]

Whats so bad about it? GoG typically does a good job

[@AvoCamilo]

@@mementomori771 The GOG version uses a 2 years old version of Daggerfall unity (used without permission), the mods they added are outdated and not fully compatible with each other, nor well optimized, making the game run worse and buggier than normal, heavier on your PC too. Even the Daggerfall unity devs tell people to don't touch this version

[@dilbert_thundercock]

GOG is pretty shit, but he's schilling for them ​@@AvoCamilo

[@alguem5996]

It's kind of a shame that he chose to play the GOG version.

[@Silverlance24]

If Josh dropped the dagger, would that be a Dagger Fall?

[@Kajo2k]

1:06:36 It still bothers me how you completely misunderstood my comment. I love Daggerfall. How dare you

[@xebatansis]

I always wanted to play this. Never got the time.

[@TKwoN87]

This is one of the videos ever

[@babybornas1]

Gonna just take a short brake from work to watch one video xD

[@ponyote]

So, the UK is just a bit smaller than Canada. What's included in the UK for this? Did you include Russia and the United States as territory for that? Lol