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Let's Play Daggerfall! Part 9: In Which We Steal (And Fight Walls) [NSF56K, NSFW]
MechMantis
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The Elder Scrolls games. A series of four (soon to be five, if Bethesda's rumblings have any truth to them) excellent computer Role Playing Games, all set in the Empire of Tamriel, made up of one continent of the world of Nirn.
Many of you know of the third and fourth installations in this series, Morrowind and Oblivion. The other two, however, are almost lost to the sands of time. Many ages ago, when Bethesda was it's own entity, they released the first two installments. One of these is Arena, released in 1994,which can be downloaded free of charge from their site.
The other was released in 1996, and is known as...
Welcome to Let's Play Buggerfa-- I mean Daggerfall, the rather glitchy second installment of the Elder Scrolls series. As a note, I will be using a save game editor for a few things (namely, an item of Recall if we're not playing a mage), but those uses will be few and far between. Cheatmode will be on, as the game is nearly unplayable witout it. Also, I WOULD use Andyfall, but Andyfall and DOSBox seem to hate each other, so this is a vanilla playthrough. Which will take ages. If the save file doesn't corrupt itself.
UPDATES
Part 1: Privateer's Hold, Round 1
Part 2: Privateer's Hold, Round 1.5
Part 3: Privateer's Hold, Round 2
Part 4: Privateer's Hold, Round FINAL
Part 5: THE THIEVING.
Part 6: The Leaving.
Part 7: A Fork in the Road
Part 8: A Spork in the Road
Part 9: In Which We Steal (And Fight Walls)
Race:
The races come from the different areas of Tamriel, as shown on the map above. The races are as follows (with descriptions):
Dark Elves
Archetype:
I say ARCHETYPE, not CLASS. I'll try to focus on one archetype, but in Daggerfall, as in all the other Elder Scrolls games, attempting to play a "pure" archetype leads to destruction and un-fun. If you don't believe me, go play a pure mage in Morrowind or Oblivion (No mods, now)
Thieves
Alignment:
This will mainly affect the guilds I'll allow myself to join, and the tone of the narration.
Neutral characters are the middle-ground, sometimes doing good, sometimes doing bad, depending on the situation and how they feel.
And a final note: The NSFW tag comes from rude titties (which will be black-boxed out with the almighty power of MSPaint) scantily clad women, and piles of heads on the ground.
LET THE VOTING BEGIN. I'll start once there's a pretty strong majority for one idea.
Many of you know of the third and fourth installations in this series, Morrowind and Oblivion. The other two, however, are almost lost to the sands of time. Many ages ago, when Bethesda was it's own entity, they released the first two installments. One of these is Arena, released in 1994,which can be downloaded free of charge from their site.
The other was released in 1996, and is known as...
Welcome to Let's Play Buggerfa-- I mean Daggerfall, the rather glitchy second installment of the Elder Scrolls series. As a note, I will be using a save game editor for a few things (namely, an item of Recall if we're not playing a mage), but those uses will be few and far between. Cheatmode will be on, as the game is nearly unplayable witout it. Also, I WOULD use Andyfall, but Andyfall and DOSBox seem to hate each other, so this is a vanilla playthrough. Which will take ages. If the save file doesn't corrupt itself.
UPDATES
Part 1: Privateer's Hold, Round 1
Part 2: Privateer's Hold, Round 1.5
Part 3: Privateer's Hold, Round 2
Part 4: Privateer's Hold, Round FINAL
Part 5: THE THIEVING.
Part 6: The Leaving.
Part 7: A Fork in the Road
Part 8: A Spork in the Road
Part 9: In Which We Steal (And Fight Walls)
Race:
The races come from the different areas of Tamriel, as shown on the map above. The races are as follows (with descriptions):
Dark Elves
hail from the province of Morrowind. You are part of a tall, dark-skinned people, known to be extremely strong, intelligent, and quick. They are extremely versatile in all manners of skills and well-known as warriors and mages.
Archetype:
I say ARCHETYPE, not CLASS. I'll try to focus on one archetype, but in Daggerfall, as in all the other Elder Scrolls games, attempting to play a "pure" archetype leads to destruction and un-fun. If you don't believe me, go play a pure mage in Morrowind or Oblivion (No mods, now)
Thieves
are well known for their adeptness in using stealth, speed, and cunning to steal for a living. They rely on agility, speed, and skulduggery to survive, lacking the magical artillery of the Mage and the combat prowess of the Warrior.
Alignment:
This will mainly affect the guilds I'll allow myself to join, and the tone of the narration.
Neutral characters are the middle-ground, sometimes doing good, sometimes doing bad, depending on the situation and how they feel.
And a final note: The NSFW tag comes from rude titties (which will be black-boxed out with the almighty power of MSPaint) scantily clad women, and piles of heads on the ground.
LET THE VOTING BEGIN. I'll start once there's a pretty strong majority for one idea.
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Cause being evil means you get to fuckup someones day.
It's too bad. What I did play was quite enjoyable. I hope that some sort of community project in the future finds a way to fix the issues.
This.
Also, playing a straight warrior or mage in Daggerfall isn't actually that bad. The straight thief, however, makes Daggerfall about the hardest game you'll ever play.
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
I like this, sera. Be a jerky ashlander though.
Eheheheh. I almost got killed by a few Kwama foragers once I ran out of magicka.
How is Arena? I've seen that it's apparently available free now, and that it's quite a bit more stable.
How could any 10 year old pass up that boxart?
Also, if this is a non-serious playthrough, you should totally become a were-piggy.
I dunno, my 10 year old self could pass up a MobyGames box pretty easily.
And as to snarkiness, depending on the bug-level/frustration, it could be serious RP or snarky commentary. Evil characters will be snarkier by nature, good characters more serious.
Oh and one vote for a Neutral Khajiit Thief.
( I love this game WAY too much I loaned it to a friend and he rolled over the CD with his chair and broke it in two =( )
One more for neutral dark elf thief.
This. The Morrowind LP someone started the other day is already boring as shit because it just reads like bad fan-fiction, but with screenshots.
AND THE COIN OF DESTINY SAYS TAILS.
So much fun.
Looking forward to this.
Yeah, I pretty much agree.
and then I quit without saving.
LET'S TRY THIS AGAIN.
EDIT: Well, in retrospect, I saved Daggerfall the trouble of corrupting the save file by not creating one!
Update is on it's way.
Fixed for in-character chat..?
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
How to make a Dark Elf capable of surviving the starting dungeon:
(I would lime this image if I could. It's that important. You see ebony, you click it.)
This concludes a condensed version of character generation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh24sXlxY8s
(Pardon the soundskip, but you get the idea.)
(Phhhht, no.)
Great job so far, looking forward to seeing how this goes since I never did get as far into Daggerfall as I'd like to have. I think the head on the left looks like Tycho--Cameo!
Hey, you didn't take any language skills!
Hybrids are actually more fun, but man you can cheese the shit out of this game with the right spells.
In what other game can you run around as a hot nekkid elf chick killing random people, flying, stealing shit, turn into a vampire, and still not do a lick of the main quest?
I was THINKING about adding a Linguist archetype.
But then I remembered how much I love life, and how playing a Linguist would make me commit suicide.
when I was in high school and started playing EverQuest I met up with some other high schooler in the game who would talk endlessly about daggerfall. from his descriptions it was the BEST GAME EVER.
the closest I ever got was Morrowind, many years after EQ had replaced the blood in my veins.
I am looking forward to this.
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I've always tried to play daggerfall, but it performed awfully through dosbox (on reflection it would have been much better to use Virtual PC to create a dos enviroment)
I wish more games would make use of procedually(randomly in this case?) generated enviroment; preferably without the hardcore generic and inane problems daggerfall has with it.
I'm pretty sure we asked him to join in on the fun, but he just say there. Playin' his game.