The Making of The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall
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Series Introduction 0:00
Video Introduction 0:59
90s Bethesda 1:41
The Elder Scrolls Chapter 1 Arena 2:19
The Making of Daggerfall 7:21
Credits and Thank You 22:58
Watch more retrospective analysis and reviews:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM_F6ru-Us2yGX1EwpvQZTkrrhTf-2OoU
Why you should play The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall in 2021
Daggerfall was released 25 years ago, and guess what, it’s actually my favourite game in the series. Yeah, I said it, and this is coming from someone who played Morrowind first and didn’t even touch Daggerfall until last year, but after a long bonding session with this phenomenal game over the course of the pandemic, Daggerfall has proved itself to me.
So before we get started here, over the next several videos I will deconstruct every aspect of Daggerfall in an attempt not only to learn what made this great mid 90’s immersive sim tick but also to convince you why I think you should play it.
Okay, first off, all footage for this video was recorded using the Unity version of the game, which is the superior version, all the points made in this series are made with this version in mind, including all the bug fixes that it makes.
There’s gonna be a whole lot more reasons for Unity’s supremacy, which I’ll cover in a later video, but for now, sit back, grab some snacks and...
“Prepare to experience your new obsession”, the marketing guys at Bethesda knew exactly what they were selling when they put those words on the front of the box.
Daggerfall offers a world larger than any other in series, with more freedom and options for immersion than it had any right to have in 1996, it’s a game where you can role-play any single fantasy character that you can imagine, with little to no barriers, but before I spew over and over about how great the gameplay of Daggerfall is, we have to go to the beginning, to a time where Todd Howard was just a young man begging Bethesda to hire him.@
About TES 2 Daggerfall:
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (also referred to as The Elder Scrolls: Chapter II - Daggerfall, The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall, or simply Daggerfall), the second game in the Elder Scrolls series, takes place in the provinces of Hammerfell and High Rock. The Emperor recruits you to exorcise the restless spirit of the late King of Daggerfall, but soon the story unfolds to something far greater than avenging the death of a noble ...
Daggerfall is available for free from GOG.com if you buy another game in the series. Other options for downloading the game can be found here. Also see Daggerfall Unity, which is a fan-made recreation for modern machines.
SOURCES:
Youtube reviews I watched:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWmKlE1fR58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PClYoP3ND2o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2BHboAzpvQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SexNidNgKjk
Daggerfall trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_MY0ihuJZc
Old websites:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031220095406/http://12.145.63.45:80/~uesp/dagger/faq/dpreview.shtml
https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=16245&start=200
https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16245
http://forums.dfworkshop.net/viewtopic.php?t=1080
https://www.mobygames.com/game/elder-scrolls-chapter-ii-daggerfall/promo
https://tcrf.net/Proto:The_Elder_Scrolls_II:_Daggerfall/October_1995_Demo
https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16245&start=100
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/0ByRZMKXTjUMbUHI0UkJUNnRON2c?resourcekey=0-B63KcQ6LQ862SblQ-zlPnQ
The Essay:
http://kultcds.com/Upload/MakingofDaggerfall.pdf
https://www.reddit.com/r/Daggerfall/comments/7d7l0t/found_a_making_of_document_for_daggerfall/
Referenced games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqUCz7E1s90
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IIkBgKBoFc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee4PUcpGSn8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc1dQmdqTbY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whp2Y_MjTXs
Wikis:
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Screenshots
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Games_Domain_Preview
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Interactive_Entertainment_Previews
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Concept_Art
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Development_Team
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Arena:Concept_Art
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Lieberman
https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/en/arena
https://elderscrolls.bethesda.net/en/daggerfall
https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Warp_in_the_West
CES:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xh3IfMFO6o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi5Jm90lGn8
Other articles:
https://medium.com/@indigogaming/how-i-almost-made-the-game-of-my-dreams-da8b327e50f3
https://arcadology.net/tag/daggerfall/
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