Daggerfall - Released for Free

Yes.... that's exactly what I mean. Daggerfall didn't have that out of the box?

Are you sure you're not thinking of Arena?

I am pretty sure Daggerfall had mouselook out of the box, and you could switch around between the two modes. They might have changed the default in the patch, I guess.
 
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Yep, mouselook with vanilla out-of-the-box Daggerfall. In the first dungeon room you encounter a rat which is at floor level, tilting the viewpoint with the mouse makes the weapon strike the rat otherwise you will miss the strike.
 
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I forgot how hard this game starts out... I keep getting brutalized in the first dungeon. :)

I'm also missing my targets..... a lot. I assume your hit\miss ratio for melee is governed by your Hand to Hand skill?
 
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Agility and whatever weapon skill you have with the weapon you're using I believe.
 
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LOL i heard about it to you could just go to elderscrolls.com and go to downloads.
 
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I also remember always choosing the question that gave me the silver dagger so I didn't have to run like a little girl from that imp in the dungeon.
 
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Are you aware this game is 15 years old? While it certainly doesn't look good, I wouldn't say it looks terrible.
I am but except from the old time's sake factor I see no reason one would like to replay it.

I sound like a graphics w**** but it really does look terrible on my 22inch monitor.
 
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I am but except from the old time's sake factor I see no reason one would like to replay it.

Well, if you never played it there is an opportunity to see a classic ... and if you have, yo get to replay 'for old times sake'.
 
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I don't know...with different scalers it looks pretty damn good for its age. Looking at it now I kind of marvel at the complexities it had for its time.


Gotta say though, some quests are hard when they point to a place on the map and that person isn't there....or...water for swimming in general...

But man, it is fun.
 
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That's the ebony dagger, Rith.

And yes it is 3d mouse view. Rather advanced for it's time, I believe. :)

The convoluted multi-level dungeons I thought were amazingly huge and confusing, and that's a good thing in my book. And the 3d mini-mapper that allows you to zoom, pan, rotate, and make levels transparent while awkward initially is unique in my experience. :)
 
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I sound like a graphics w**** but it really does look terrible on my 22inch monitor.

I assume that back in ye olden days no-one actually had an 22 inch monitor ?
 
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I assume that back in ye olden days no-one actually had an 22 inch monitor ?

Of course we had. I remember very well my comp back then: 4 500Mhz CPU's 1 Gig of memory with another 1 Gb externally connecgted. 8 100 Mb disks, and 2 22 inch CRT's.

And that was my laptop.
 
That's the ebony dagger, Rith.

And yes it is 3d mouse view. Rather advanced for it's time, I believe. :)

The convoluted multi-level dungeons I thought were amazingly huge and confusing, and that's a good thing in my book. And the 3d mini-mapper that allows you to zoom, pan, rotate, and make levels transparent while awkward initially is unique in my experience. :)

Ebony! I thought it was that, but I was thinking "Hrm...ebony...that's pretty early in the game..maybe it was silver?"
 
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Of course we had. I remember very well my comp back then: 4 500Mhz CPU's 1 Gig of memory with another 1 Gb externally connecgted. 8 100 Mb disks, and 2 22 inch CRT's.

And that was my laptop.

I didn't.

An 14 or 15 Inch was all I could afford.

Even the monitors at university weren't about 20 inches.
 
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Being the good person I am, I must admit that the specification of my old computer wasn't entirely truthful. Actually, it was far from truthful. Actually, some would say I was lying...

I'm sorry.
 
A friend of mine actually did have a 20 inch CRT monitor which cost him nearly $10k. He was a software dev/programmer, so it was a business expense, but he played DF on it and I was certainly impressed at the time!! :)
 
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Looking at it now I kind of marvel at the complexities it had for its time.

I always wonder about what Daggerfall could have been if the devs hadn't gotten so over-ambitious with the project. If the landscape had been smaller but more customized, it would have been sooo much better imo.

Did you know that Morrowind is less than 1% the size of Daggerfall?!?


Ebony! I thought it was that, but I was thinking "Hrm...ebony...that's pretty early in the game..maybe it was silver?"

Silver will also do the job against Imps, I just killed one with a silver staff.:)
 
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A friend of mine actually did have a 20 inch CRT monitor which cost him nearly $10k. He was a software dev/programmer, so it was a business expense, but he played DF on it and I was certainly impressed at the time!! :)

I had a 17" high end monitor on my last full-time desktop PC around that time ... and between the PC and monitor it was still close to $10k ... insane ...
 
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