The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall Unity Review

Daggerfall Unity and the many mods available for it are a great fan revival of a classic game.
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Daggerfall Unity Website: www.dfworkshop.net/
00:00 - Intro
01:59 - Installation & Mods
04:00 - Daggerfall's World
06:12 - Character Creation
08:51 - Gameplay
15:51 - Main Quest & Story
19:12 - Conclusion
19:41 - Credits
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[@DrJerryGaming]

Update: 1.0 release is now available. Check it out here: www.dfworkshop.net/daggerfall-unity-1-0-release/ Corrections: - DFU's website is not dfuworkshop .com, it's www.dfworkshop.net/ - The world is over 160,000 square kilometers, not "sixteen hundred thousand." Woops... - The disadvantages of Lycanthropy aren't usually all that intrusive, and thus, werewolves/wereboars can be pretty overpowered. I struggled mightily with the audio for parts of this, so sorry if some sections sound bad. I left a list of mods that I use here: www.youtube.com/@DrJerryGaming/community

[@godofgods4173]

Do you think there is a mod to play as an orc I love playing as an orc

[@DrJerryGaming]

Yes, I have yet to try them, but there are a couple of mods that you can use to play as orcs. Races Framework Redone www.nexusmods.com/daggerfallunity/mods/326 Races - Orc www.nexusmods.com/daggerfallunity/mods/291

[@godofgods4173]

@@DrJerryGaming danke

[@user-tp5yb4hr4w]

Will this game work on android? I mean like open microwave Morrowind works on android?

[@jong2359]

Your audio work really wasn't bad, but being humble about it will pretty much guarantee that it gets better.

[@l1z4rdon7]

One of my most memorable Daggerfall experiences was being sent to a dungeon to obtain a scroll for a timed quest. Once I entered I was met with a forked path. I took the left path and explored and died a hundred times for 3 hours with no luck. I decided to go back to the entrance which took 2 hours due to getting lost with the dungeon being cursed with a confusing layout. Once back at the forked entrance I took the right path instead. After 2 min of walking, without running into any enemies, I found the scroll. Once I got back to the city to turn in the scroll, the quest timer ran out and I got yelled at by the quest giver for being an idiot. Truly legendary.

[@mayssm]

I recall I needed to get something for a quest (I think it was the main quest line). I spent probably 2 hours in the dungeon and got it, went back to turn it in, and the guy wouldn't recognize I had it in my inventory, no matter what I did. So...that was just the end of the game. I was so frustrated after spending so many dozens (hundreds?) of hours wandering around dungeons that I never played again.

[@Doomxeen]

If you haven't done something similar at least once, can you even call yourself a gamer?

[@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051]

The Quest giver was right.

[@305backup]

​@@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051quest giver made a proposition, it wasnt his fault you werent prepared and didnt scout out the area beforehand

[@Elyseon]

Timed quests suck balls.

[@Odonski]

Played this last year for a week straight using a notebook and no online guides. Beat it. One of the best gaming experiences of my life. Legitimately felt that magic I used to feel as a kid playing an adventure game.

[@LexBundy]

I have never played this... but I have been thinking about it watching this video.. I didn't realize it had so much to it

[@Odonski]

@LexBundy definitely give it a playthrough

[@Odonski]

@@KathrynElizabeth-uz8hi hell yeah

[@RUdigitized]

That actually sounds like a great idea

[@tonygucciano6875]

notebook is the way to do it. a necessity for any game back then. last time I broke out the notebook was zelda 2, trying to get past death mountain.

[@CyberBeep_kenshi]

Was my first big game and i LOVE it still. For new players: whatever you play, get the spell that allows you to pick a location and then return to it, used to be called anchor i think. The dungeons are So large, you can get lost in them permanently. So what you do is cast the spell at the entrance. If you get lost, or are done, you can return. Also works in shops btw. So you can teleport in after closing time ;)

[@swordandsheild1]

I feel like you didn't watch the video lmao the dude said pretty much everything you did in it.

[@King-O-Hell]

That's great advice. Getting stuck in a dungeon is Hell. Lol

[@MickyD]

Really enjoyed this video! Was a great deepdive into Unity, its benefits and why Daggerfall as a whole is still worth checking out. Good stuff, keep it coming!

[@christiaanprinsloo8951]

We want our daggerfall unity video, SLAVE

[@vukjovanovicofficial]

Truer words have never been spoken Micky!

[@SilverionX]

I saw the original game when I was a teenager on a language trip to England. It blew me away and I spent way more time playing that than actually learning English or doing anything else I was supposed to. What a summer that was, first time I discovered Daggerfall, KFC and alcoholic sodas, which were all the rage back then. It was a great time to be alive.

[@nothingelse1520]

Daggerfall was my first PC RPG way back in 1996 it blew my mind compared to the SNES games I was used too playing. It was so buggy back then I never managed to finish the game, my savegame stopped loading even with the FixSave utility. I finally finished it with Daggerfall Unity. Amazing project. Its too bad DaggerXL never worked out. I was looking forward to playing that.

[@stephensteele2844]

I feel this I kinda missed out on the whole Super Nintendo era Because I was like uhhh daggerfall tho

[@nothingelse1520]

@@stephensteele2844 SNES was my last console as a kid

[@bravalloy]

My first RPGs were Eye of the Beholder and Ultima 7, but I enjoyed Daggerfall the most since I ignored the main quest and levelled up breaking into houses and murdering town guards.

[@GreggyAck]

An ambitious Elder Scrolls mod biting off more than it can chew? Impossible, sir!

[@nothingelse1520]

@@GreggyAck yeah DaggerXL seemed way too good to be true. One guy making a custom engine for like 5 games? That's a ridiculous amount of programming

[@bifrostbeberast3246]

You should have used Wilderness Overhaul mod. The complete landscape of the whole game becomes coherent, forests, grasslands, etc. It's mindblowing!

[@solinus83]

I remember as a kid, crafting my fireball spell, which had huge AOE and damage which could kill you, but I added health and mana absorption, so I could cast it all the time, just went to wilderness and sleep until a monster woke me up, this was my way to level up

[@quinnlawless6263]

Really well put together video, from a Daggerfall fan. You deserve more views, so keep making content like this!

[@nieenden]

Impressive video. I can't imagine how much time this took to edit together. Really informative and thorough. As a visual learner it really helped that you included clips for pretty much everything you talked about.

[@Timcameronmusic]

Thank you for that excellently scripted and edited video! These kinds of thoughtful deep dives are the best thing about KZbin in my opinion. Very glad to have found your channel!

[@exmalobonum1]

This video sent me back to my teenage years in an instant. I remember it came out the day I was going on a camping trip with my mom. She let me buy the game on the way to the cabin we stayed at. It was very rustic and I remember reading the manual to the game by lantern. I miss that time.

[@skeletonking4119]

You my good sir, have put everything under careful perspective , and well made guides and advice, well made!

[@westingtyler2]

daggerfall dungeons stunned me with their verticality. deep shafts with underwater corridors. we need CLIMBING and acrobatics to come back for elder scrolls 6.

[@PandaJerk007]

That sounds so cool! I'd love to see more verticality in Elder Scrolls :) maybe you can attach a rope to climb up/down in certain spots! or swing across chasms!

[@Suno-Pop]

Daggerfall was the reason I bought my first gaming PC in the fall of 1996. It hooked me from the start and I haven't stopped playing it since. Addictive, detailed, and almost limitless potential. DF Unity was a godsend.

[@TheKeyboardBeatz]

The thought of a 'gaming pc' in 1996 makes me chuckle

[@sgtjasper]

@@TheKeyboardBeatz An off white case with a dedicated videocard and a soundblaster

[@toto3777]

Amazing content and synopsis, always wanted details like this since I cannot get into Daggerfall myself but I know the game was made out of passion, thank you

[@garuelx8627]

Lycanthropy's disadvantages are manageable because your beast form's crimes are not carried over to your base form but you can still get that Dark Brotherhood invitation. Or you can just get rid of those disadvantages altogether by getting that Daedric Artifact you shown on this video. Lycanthropes are broken af in Daggerfall.

[@Belgand]

Becoming a werewolf assassin whose shapeshifting allows your crimes to go unnoticed by the rest of the world would be incredible in any other game, but in Daggerfall it's just Tuesday.

[@gingerbill128]

i always loved you could just run over buildings as a WW . It was very OP and a lot of fun. I remember when the much hyped hunters came to kill me as a WW and i just ran up to them swiping them to death in about 2 seconds.

[@honoredshadow1975]

This was amazing to watch. I played this as a kid and had no clue how I kept dying. This enhancements and mods make this game even more incredible. I'm gonna look up some of the mods you mentioned as I download the game. Thanks for the vid! Subbed ;)

[@thmrls2784]

Really well made my man! Keep it up & your channel is sure to grow!

[@calii6368]

"Enemies level up as you level up" Artifact Quest: "Since you now arrived at your first village, Here is a quest to retrieve the skeleton key" Dungeon: "The skeleton key is with an ANCIENT LICH"

[@evellium8037]

Great vids man, definitely one of my favourite up and coming KZbinrs. Can't wait for the next review.

[@LotusOfDoom]

Excellent review. As someone doing a full playthrough of Daggerfall currently (and unity for stability reasons on stream no less) you really nailed the explanation of Daggerfall Unity

[@mich305alba]

If all the content is gonna be this good, that sub count will 100x easily

[@RealSykes]

Lovely video! Great production quality and presentation for a game I had no idea existed. Frankly blown away with how in-depth this game is. From its size to mechanics.. Going to try and get this running on my Steam Deck!

[@shaunhall960]

I played this game when it first came out. I just got back into gaming about a year ago and this is great news. Time for a revisit!

[@SirSilicon]

Daggerfall Unity is truly a gem. It's rightfully on the list of my favorite fan "remasters" next to Keeper FX, open XCOM, devilutionX (Diablo1) and openMW

[@shanescott3166]

A man of culture I see.

[@camillebourgoin9662]

I agree and want to add : OpenRA, Raze/BuildGDX, OpenJK, TheForceEngine, FHeroes2, OpenEnroth, Quakespasm, Crispy-Doom and many others.

[@SirSilicon]

@@camillebourgoin9662 it's just amazing how fans keep so many games alive.

[@TheKay1024]

​@@SirSilicon Indeed! Not only does it keep the games alive, it also brings together the players as a community. One such project I enjoy in addition to those already mentioned is ForsakenX.

[@SirSilicon]

@@TheKay1024Yeah community can be so powerful. I also forgot CorsixTH (Theme Hospital) and Jagged Alliances 2 straciatella

[@Jahzilla.]

Daggerfall was always my favourite game as a kid. I fell in love with it from the moment I played it's demo. The fact that people dedicated time to remake it in unity is absolutely amazing.

[@loz9324]

great review! glad i found this channel. Looking forward to more content!

[@sharon4942]

Did not expect this review would be so much in depth thank you.

[@brickjuice2129]

Sounds interesting I will look into this. Thanks for introducing me to this project.

[@jamppamaattori]

This was a very well constructed and insightful look into the game and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[@King-O-Hell]

This is awesome man. Thanks for doing this video. I heard about this project a long time ago and forgot all about it.

[@PovertyBench]

I tried Daggerfall in DOSBox but couldn’t get into it due to poor performance. I’m looking into this immediately. Thank you for bringing this to my attention

[@AdeptusArbites]

This was a fantastic video and I truly enjoyed watching it. You've made me want to try out daggerfall. Subscribed.

[@geribaldi2]

Think Arena had these but the best Daggerfall memory for me was exploring town manner houses / Castles (not dungeons - I mean the King and Mayor's place). Back them to me these were so cool. Especially that you couldn't simply walk into every area you wanted. Trespassing was real in these games and avoiding guards was fun.

[@Giaki]

Super informative, chill and overall great video, thanks for making it! Also I lol'd at "Name Thyself" ..."Thyself"

[@MagCynic]

The Daggerfall demo that came with some gaming magazine is still one of my fondest memories from my earlier gaming career.

[@Tomatokillz]

Awesome video, I can feel the passion through the screen!

[@bluefool1836]

Really great video! I was wondering if I should try this game out, but after watching this video I'm definitely going to give the game a try. Thank you!

[@artmalig4228]

Great Video! Love stuff like this, and can't wait to see more!

[@QuarkLepton356]

Dude, this is fantastic content. I am so glad I found this video!

[@aaron71]

Unity got me back into Daggerfall and I've been playing SO much! Fantastic game and a great review of it!

[@randalthor6872]

same here! I feel a bit cheap because I'm using the GOG cut version haha. It was just so easy and at the time I wasn't aware of how easy it was to mod it myself. Now I'm 60 hrs in already so I'm just gonna roll with it :)

[@EllaKarhu]

​@Rand Althor I think you can transfer your saves to the normal version. You might run into some issues with mod dependencies though, unless you install (up to date versions of) the same mods.

[@randalthor6872]

@@EllaKarhu Thanks Ella :) I'm actually taking a break because I'm planning on starting a new save after installing the mods manually. I kind of want to try a new class anyway. So after I beat death stranding I'm back into Daggerfall! I've been reading and getting ready for the best load order ever!

[@lucidstream5661]

Daggerfall truly opened up my mind to what games could be. I've spent probably 500 hours on the game.

[@Jason75913]

Sounds little for such a massive game.

[@zenmastakilla]

@@Jason75913 It's an RPG, not a paradox game

[@bifrostbeberast3246]

Imagine Daggerfall Unity but with a lightweight LLM that takes the role of any NPC you encounter and answers to you in real time using Text to speech, so you just talk into the mic and the NPC replies with an actual unique voice.

[@8020erwin]

i played this so much back in the day, it's one of my favorite games of all time. And the map size and freedom was my benchmark. So alot of other rpg where disapointing compared to daggerfall. I remember that i had huge piles of papper where i drawed maps of the dungeons I entered so i would not get lost.

[@uberkill160]

I always struggled to make the game have an appropriate difficulty curve. If you build your character well, the game typically goes from being quite difficult at lower levels to being totally trivial at higher levels. Even without enchanted equipment it is pretty easy to one-shot end game enemies once you've maxed your strength and have decent skills. The main threat to you at later levels are hostile spellcasters (particularly vampires with their guaranteed KO sleep spell), who themselves can be trivialized by the rather easy to procure 100% spell absorb spell, which also fixes the whole 'magicka doesn't regenerate problem. Leveling is weird. If you play as a mage you can level up to 25 and beyond within an in game month since training magic skills is so easy and fast. If you want to know when a skill is ready to level up, you need to use mods, and even then in dungeons you probably don't want to rest for 6 hours every time your long blade or unarmed skill is ready to rank up. So the speed at which skills are trained (and thus different classes level up) varies wildly. Lycanthropy is insanely overpowered in Daggerfall, moreso than vampirism even though I would say the benefits of both are roughly equivalent. If you want to fast track your character's growth, go to the town right next to Privateer's Hold (Gothway Gardens iirc), join the mage's guild and get a good hp healing spell, then go camp just outside of town. Keep doing this until a lycanthrope interrupts your rest, then lure it back into town. There is a penned area with a low fence near the center of town, that the enemy AI has trouble pathing around. You can stand inside the pen or trap it inside, and stand near the fence to get hit and back away a bit to heal. Repeat this for a while, resting at a nearby inn, and you'll eventually become a lycanthrope. Compared to vampirism, lycanthropy's drawbacks are much less restrictive, to a point where they are barely worth considering (and the Hircine Ring lets you completely negate them). And in exchange, your abilities and skills get super steroids, you get a 2/day full hp heal from the transformation to and from the lycanthrope form (or unlimited full heals with the Hircine Ring), and unarmed becomes very viable even at low levels (it'll probably be your best way of dealing damage if you contract the curse in the way I describe above).

[@thermonuclearwarhead]

Still have my original copy. You have no idea how much nostalgia that horses head gives me 😂

[@yourikhan4425]

I've got so many good memories about this game. I wasn't aware of a modern remake. Thanks.

[@Grayald]

I appreciate this. I randomly came across daggerfall on ste am and thought what the hell, I'll try it out after all this time. Then I saw comments talking about daggerfall unity and mods and that let me down the rabbit hole to here, figuring out how to get it up and running and compiling a list of mods to make the game it's best. Haven't played anything like this in a long time

[@DaemionBlackFire]

Now I want to play it again. Thanks for the video.

[@stormykeep9213]

Daggerfall is a classic masterpiece. It was way ahead of its time back on original release. I remember it being somewhat buggy, but the immensity of it just kept you coming back for more. So glad to see the modding community keeping it up to date!

[@zacharycarrillo7539]

Is there a modpack with all those mods you mentioned?

[@davidstufflebean3285]

Man, I remember when this came out and sitting there loading the CDs in to install it! Then playing for hours and hours, never went online to look at anything had to figure it all out, getting stuck in dungeons trying to find my way out. Camping in the middle of nowhere to spawn enemies just to get higher-end armor and weapons. Creating crazy spells lol. Still playing Oblivion might even fire up Morrowwind at some point.

[@jeffc7656]

I finished this over and over recently and enjoyed the hell out of it. Use to play this when it first was released but never got the chance back then to finish it. Tried it with the mods and Unity and loved it much more then back then. Was worth it.

[@MrTarzi88]

Great video, man! you made me wanna leave my responsabilities and play this for days..

[@chaz9808]

Wish I knew about this game back in the day when it came out I would have loved it

[@luigimaster111]

Whenever someone uses the DREAMS mod, and I see an art asset I created for that mod, it makes me really happy for some reason. My favorite game of all time, deemed my art good enough to include... Well it was actually the community, but with how important modding is to the Elder Scrolls and Fallout communities, well it feels the same as getting the approval of Bethesda itself.

[@AsianTheDomination]

i like your art

[@Tylerbrave]

im in daedric gear havent even touched the main quest at all yet just been trying to fill up my map with dugeon locations as dungeons reset and finally someone managed to add new enemies to daggerfall with the daggerfall enemy expansion mod. this is an awesome game to mess with

[@bandaidglue]

Do you have a mod list you recommend? or are you using the gog cut in this video?

[@zweihander7309]

This is the first time i have heard of this unity 2 version, great vid thanks!

[@Riecheck]

How difficult is it to get all these graphics and mods setup with a modern control scheme? I wanna play it with all that but the couple hours of connecting everything correctly and making sure the mod order is perfect makes me not wanna bother

[@ThommyofThenn]

The amount of complex mechanics in this game are so ahead of its time. I can't believe how much I admire the people who worked on this. I played a few hours of this game last year and I also used the Unity version

[@matthayes533]

are the Unity side dungeons randomly generated like the original game? That was a feature I missed in the sequels

[@Constantinus_Apollyon]

NICE does anyone knows if I could import the DOS version to my PSP? does it work well with controllers? Thank you in advance 👍🏻

[@suineg1]

What have you done mate! I knew about how good the game is and some years ago I tryed Steam version of Daggerfall and found it a bit too "old" for me to play. But now with Unity version (without even trying to install it yet) I already know that Im stuck in Daggerfall for many months. Thank you for revealing it to me! 😅👍

[@samwisegamgee6532]

For those would wouldn’t know. The book The warp of the west in later games describes the daggerfall events, and by which phenomenon the different endings actually all happened simultaneously so the world history would stay consistent with any way you would beat this game.

[@PJxpanterx]

I loved Daggerfall back in the days, it was so massive. Nothing on my ZX Spectrum 48K or NES had something like this.

[@welp_dang]

making me wanna play daggerfall now

[@DeathHammer1994]

Great video!

[@TrueTrife]

I started playing this for the first time yesterday. Got killed in the tutorial after getting jumpscared by a thief lol. I didn’t realize they could open the doors so I thought I was safe

[@WrestlingColin]

OK this looks incredible.

[@scentlessbleach]

very well structured reviews man, you definitely give these games the recognition they deserve! If you're interested give the game System Shock a look! It's the predecessor to Bioshock and was developed by looking glass studios. I feel like if you enjoyed thief and daggerfall you'd like this game as well maybe. It has the labyrinth-y like maps of the daggerfall dungeons with the immersive sim type feel of thief, a real classic! I'd like to hear you take on it.

[@KevenLC]

the sound when you open a door is the same in Stonekeep (1995)

[@LittleMushroomGuy]

Congrats on your growth, in just 4 weeks all of your videos were real bangers Any ideas on whats the next review going to be?

[@DrJerryGaming]

Thanks, the next video should be up in a day or two.

[@memereep8297]

Seriously one of the best explanantions and overviews of Daggerfall. You actually convinced me to give it a try, and wow It's amazing.

[@larryjohnson1675]

I am amazed at how good they can make this look. This game is older than me!

[@BigMek456]

Just installed this again. Cool video

[@vladlock]

great guide and review, thanks!

[@Yshtola.]

this actually makes me want to give it a try, looks a lot cooler than I remembered it to be.

[@berkhulagu]

oh, the memories... :)

[@HighPriestPlays]

"Muster the patience to get throuh them" Man if that doesn't sum up my experience with this games dungeons perrfectly.

[@KhaziirEverflight]

agred, which is why the shorter dungeons settings for me is mandatory xD i aint gonna spend irl days and weeks trying to figure my way out of a potentially unsolveable dungeon xD

[@HighPriestPlays]

@@KhaziirEverflight yeah, it reeally makes me regret streaming this game before the uniity version was ready.

[@hhmaniak]

I cannot imagine how people felt starting this game in 96' to me its mindblowing to them its like dungeon and dragons rpg came to life

[@PurpleBear1625]

If you're having trouble with dungeons then make a detect quest item spell from the spell maker. A red icon then appears on the compass in the direction of the quest item. Also, the archeologists guild mod is necessary for non-magical playthroughs otherwise it's super tedious. Dungeons and magic are my favorite parts of the game.

[@TallionWhittfieldIII]

I'm really grateful for modders and people like this who are remaking games that should be experienced if you're interested

[@whiterunguardGreg]

4:57 I live in the Midwest man, everything looks the same so anywhere but here is awesome

[@WFKPG]

Excellent video - while you are probably at fault for me wasting another few hundred hours in a 20+ year old game I still have to commend the writing and editing, going together very well! Looking forward to more interesting reviews

[@noirlavender6409]

15:34 "And holy places..." Walks into into an incredibly sexy DOS era NPC -is the brothel holy!?!

[@mattc7420]

Hole-y 😏

[@iMakz07]

Great as usual

[@mattc7420]

Seems neat. This is going on my bucket list.

[@MovingVanFromMars]

Fantastic game, and excellent review. You make me wanna download Daggerfall Unity. Thanks for the video.

[@MiguelBaptista1981]

This is the best Daggerfall video I've seen. No 12 hour intellectual exposition on the meta pseudo themes of lore and bla bla bla. Just straight up a great review.

[@vitordematos3722]

This was very entertaining. I''ve never played this genre very much but the video made me want to play.

[@og3dkooz381]

Fantastic review. I'd definitely watch more; especially Elder Scrolls!

[@CalTheDamned]

Is that the daggerfall main them at 0:08 , cuz it doesn't sound like it, is it boosted?

[@DrJerryGaming]

It's Dungeon Theme 14 - Castle Dungeon from the Daggerfall soundtrack.

[@CalTheDamned]

@@DrJerryGaming thanks don't think I've heard that one yet playing.

[@ninjasquidkamer7440]

Ahh finally someone knows what Daggerfall and Daggerfall Unity are.

[@VEC7ORlt]

Pet pig sound is the Warcraft pig farm sound.

[@iBishopEsquire]

People always seem to recommend installing the game off of GOG to install the mods. I have played Planescape: Torment off that site once to play it with a mod. I'm assuming I can download the game off of the Xbox PC App and still move the Unity stuff over to the game files, right? Or do i have to use the GOG or Steam version of the game?

[@DrJerryGaming]

I haven't tried it with the Xbox PC App, so I can't say for certain. I know it works just fine with the Daggerfall files you can download from Steam, Bethesda.net, or UESP.

[@Chaingun]

loved the enhanced sprites for enemies

[@abylaybissekenov1588]

Great review, thank you for the video. Have huge urge to play the elder scrolls games and unity seems like best way to play daggerfall

[@thelastmotel]

I put around 10k hours into Daggerfall between 1996 and 2006. Loved it.

[@AP-qu2li]

You played 41.6 full days a year for a decade?