So i concluded that the widescreen doesn't look as good, the doors & people seem to be of odd proportion, too wide, seems more cartoon like. With the 16:9 ratio, my character in the inventory screen is less than 6 heads in height. With 4:3 it is better, about 6.25, but realistic human proportions are between 7 and 8 heads height (although my character is a high elf, i'm sure all the other races will be the same so that clothes and armor fit). So, went back to 4:3. Edit: oh yeah, so my question was, why is daggerfall 320x200?
I didn't think widescreen screen format was common for computers back then, if at all. Posts: 3394 Joined: Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:39 pm. Edit: oh yeah, so my question was, why is daggerfall 320x200? I didn't think widescreen screen format was common for computers back then, if at all.
Daggerfall isn't widescreen. 320x200 was the common resolution for DOS games. It was never meant to be showed on a widescreen monitor, but instead on a normal 4:3 monitor. DOS also got some other tricky resolutions that were meant for 4:3 monitors, like 320x400 and 640x400.
So the pixels for most DOS games aren't square. But rectangular and very 'tall'. The aspect ratio setting in DOSBox sorta fixes this, and make the pixels 'tall'. Posts: 3352 Joined: Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:20 am Display posts from previous: Sort.
So i concluded that the widescreen doesn't look as good, the doors & people seem to be of odd proportion, too wide, seems more cartoon like. With the 16:9 ratio, my character in the inventory screen is less than 6 heads in height.
With 4:3 it is better, about 6.25, but realistic human proportions are between 7 and 8 heads height (although my character is a high elf, i'm sure all the other races will be the same so that clothes and armor fit). So, went back to 4:3. Edit: oh yeah, so my question was, why is daggerfall 320x200? I didn't think widescreen screen format was common for computers back then, if at all. Posts: 3394 Joined: Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:39 pm.
Edit: oh yeah, so my question was, why is daggerfall 320x200? I didn't think widescreen screen format was common for computers back then, if at all. Daggerfall isn't widescreen. 320x200 was the common resolution for DOS games. It was never meant to be showed on a widescreen monitor, but instead on a normal 4:3 monitor.
DOS also got some other tricky resolutions that were meant for 4:3 monitors, like 320x400 and 640x400. So the pixels for most DOS games aren't square. But rectangular and very 'tall'. The aspect ratio setting in DOSBox sorta fixes this, and make the pixels 'tall'. Posts: 3352 Joined: Fri Apr 27, 2007 4:20 am Display posts from previous: Sort.
A first-person screenshot from Daggerfall, demonstrating the user interface and graphical capabilities of the game. In Daggerfall, as in all games, players are not required to follow questlines or fill specific character types. Daggerfall features a spell-creation system where, through the Mages Guild, players can create custom spells with several different effects. The game will then automatically generate the magicka cost of the spell based on the power of the effects chosen. Other features include an equipment enchantment system (similar in concept to the spell creation system); the ability to buy houses and ships; a variety of clothing and equipment; dynamic political relationships between kingdoms; the ability to become a, or; and the combat system, which uses mouse movement to determine the direction and effect of weapon swings in melee combat. The political system is supported by a net of guilds, orders, and religions, all with unique tasks and quests. Joining and contributing to these organizations allow the player to raise ranks and gain a reputation in the game world, which affects how NPCs and other factions view the player.
Daggerfall has genre-typical gore elements and some sexual topics. It displays cartoonish nudity including male and female genital areas when all equipment is removed. The game installer includes a password-protected childgard feature that hides blood and corpses (instead showing just the skeleton of the corpse), disables sexual topics (though not removing all nudity), and ensures the character portrait is wearing underwear at all times. Daggerfall, like the other games in The Elder Scrolls series, takes place on the fictional continent of Tamriel. In Daggerfall, the player may travel within the High Rock and Hammerfell provinces of Tamriel.
A wide range of formidable enemies, the strongest of which are the demonic Daedra, make the journey through these realms difficult. Bethesda claims that the scale of the game is the size of: around 229,848 (88,745 ), though the actual size of the map is 161,600 (62,394 ). The game world features over 15,000 towns, cities, villages, and dungeons for the player's character to explore. According to, game director and executive producer for Bethesda, the game's sequel, is 0.01% the size of Daggerfall, but some aspects of Daggerfall 's terrain were randomly generated, like the wilderness and some building interiors.
The explorable part of Morrowind, Vvardenfell, is 24 km² (9.3 ). In Daggerfall, there are 750,000+ (NPCs) for the player to interact with. An automap was implemented to help players navigate through the lengthy tombs and ancient underground fortresses. Players have to visit approximately 6-8 areas in order to finish the game, although a total of 47 areas are present.
A limited array of building blocks were used to build the towns and dungeons, causing some reviewers to complain about the game's monotony. In 2002, Morrowind, the third game in the series, responded to this issue with a smaller, more detailed world containing unique-looking cities and NPCs with greater individuality. Plot Daggerfall is set in the Breton homeland of High Rock. The player is sent here at the personal request of the Emperor.
He wants the player to do two things: First, the player must free the ghost of King Lysandus from his earthly shackles; Second, the player must discover what happened to a letter from the Emperor to a Blades spy in the court of Daggerfall. The letter reveals that Lysandus's mother, Nulfaga, knows the location of the Mantella, the key to resurrecting the first Numidium, a powerful brass. The emperor wants his spy to force Nulfaga into revealing the location of the Mantella so that the Blades can finish the reconstruction of the Numidium. Through a series of mishaps and confusions the letter fell into the hands of an orc by the name of Gortworg.
Not knowing what the Mantella is, Gortworg consults Mannimarco, the King of Worms (the leader of the ). During this time the Underking, who originally destroyed the first Numidium because of its misuse by Tiber Septim, is recuperating deep within a tomb of High Rock after expending so much energy destroying it the first time. In order for the player to give the Mantella to anyone, the player must kill King Lysandus's murderer and put his ghost to rest.
After accomplishing this, the player must steal the of Tiber Septim from King Gothryd of Daggerfall, and free the Mantella from its prison in Aetherius. Following this the player has six choices of how to deal with the Mantella. Daggerfall has six endings:. If the player activates the Mantella himself while in possession of the totem (the controlling device of the Numidium), the Numidium will slay the player, go out of control, and be destroyed by Imperial forces. Although this was listed as a possible ending on the Elder Scrolls official website during the 10th anniversary of the series, there doesn't appear to be any possible way to achieve this ending because the player cannot retrieve the Mantella without giving the totem to one of the major powers first.
This ending is possibly just a rumor which even staff of Bethesda that did not work on the development of Daggerfall were led to believe was true. It is possible to achieve this ending through hacking of game files. However, the end result is unfinished and nearly unplayable due to. If the player gives the Mantella to the Underking, he absorbs its power, passes into eternal rest, and creates a large 'magicka free' area around himself. If Gortworg is victorious, he uses the Numidium to destroy the Imperial forces and the 'Bay Kings', the rulers of the several provinces of the Iliac Bay. The Underking arrives shortly thereafter to destroy the first Numidium once and for all, losing his own life in the process. Gortworg then succeeds in creating Orsinium, a kingdom of Orcs.
If the Blades are victorious, they succeed in recreating the first Numidium and use it to defeat the Bay Kings and the Orcs as well as unite all the provinces of Tamriel under the empire once again. If any of the Bay Kings win, that king will use the first Numidium to defeat all the other kings just before the Underking destroys him and itself.
If Mannimarco receives the Mantella, he uses it to make himself a god. Development. Each dot on the map represents an entire town, city, or dungeon. Design goals Work on The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall began immediately after Arena 's release in March 1994.
The project saw Ted Peterson assigned the role of lead game designer. Originally titled Mournhold and set in, the game was eventually relocated to the provinces of High Rock and Hammerfell, in Tamriel's northwest. By mid-1994 Daggerfall was the new name. Developers at first planned to connect it with Arena and one or two more games as done with, but Arena 's experience-point based system was replaced with one that rewarded the player for actually role-playing their character. Daggerfall came equipped with an improved character generation engine, one that included not only Arena 's basic class choices, but also a -influenced creation system, offering players the chance to create their own classes, and assign their own skills. Daggerfall was initially developed with an updated raycast engine, like the, but it was eventually dropped in favor of, one of the first truly engines.
Daggerfall realized a gameworld of 160,000 square km, filled with 15,000 towns and a population of 750,000. Influences Daggerfall, in Peterson's opinion, was little-influenced by contemporary, as they simply 'weren't very interesting.' 'I can remember playing the latest, and while working on it, but I can't say they had any profound impact on the story or design.' Daggerfall 's most profound influences came from whatever analog games and literature Julian LeFay or Ted Peterson happened to be playing or reading at the time, such as 's, which influenced 'the quest where the player had to find the missing Prince of Sentinel,' and, which influenced 'the idea of vampire tribes throughout the region.'
Release Daggerfall was released on August 31, 1996, within the game's intended release window. Like that of Arena, Daggerfall 's release suffered from buggy code. It was code, however, a fact that nonetheless left consumers disgruntled. The yearning to avoid what were, in LeFay's words, 'all the stupid patches we had for Daggerfall' led to a more cautious release schedule in the future. Ted Peterson left Bethesda following Daggerfall 's release and went to work for a series of companies in and:, AnyRiver Entertainment, and Savage Entertainment.
Community support After the by Bethesda, some makers have repaired in the latest official release of Daggerfall with. The DFQFIX quest-fix pack and HackFall were the most recent attempts at this. DaggerfallSetup is a community-made Daggerfall for modern Windows versions. The aim of this project is to install and easily run a fully patched Daggerfall on a modern Windows operating system under usage of the. This game installer setup contains many official and and also for several languages, including French, Russian, Spanish, and German. Engine remakes There are also projects for Daggerfall, which aim for native compatibility with modern operating systems and hardware (as opposed to being run in DOS, or through DOSBox ). The XL Engine was started in June 2009 named DaggerXL and in 2011 with another engine rewrite project to the XL Engine.
The final goal of the XL Engine is the support of many classical 3D game engines. Additional goals – for Daggerfall specifically – include the implementation of features that were initially promised for the game, but were not included (or only partially coded in) at the time of its release in 1996. As of August 2012, DaggerXL supports character creation, the rendering of all provinces and dungeons, user-definable display resolution (including smoothed terrain and ), and basic gameplay. While additional gameplay features and bug fixes are being implemented for DaggerXL, a significant amount of the project's development since 2011 has involved the of the XL Engine itself as a result of the merger. Daggerfall Unity is another of The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall using the with active development as of September 2016. Modding Although Daggerfall did not come with official tools like later The Elder Scrolls releases, enthusiasts for the game developed tools on their own to access the game's content soon after its release.
As a result, a number of additional quests, graphical enhancements, and gameplay features were developed by third parties. Notable works include AndyFall and DaedraFall.
Reception Reception Review scores Publication Score 89% 90% 65/100 Awards Publication Award Best Roleplaying Game 1996 Role-Playing Game of the Year Daggerfall was met with critical acclaim, surpassing its predecessor in Game of the Year Awards. Reviewing the game in, Michael Wolf hailed it as 'about as close to reality (or is that fantasy?) as you can get in a computer game.' Although he criticized its bugs and writing mistakes, he summarized Daggerfall as 'one of the most realistic, involved, and impressive RPGs on the market.' The magazine's editors later awarded Daggerfall their 1996 'Best Roleplaying Game' prize, noting that it features 'unlimited playability, non-linear exploration, and a huge game world'. In 1997, the editors named Daggerfall the 50th best game of all time, calling it 'a superlative RPG' but again criticizing its numerous bugs. Prior to the game's release, ranked it as the eighth top title in computer game history.
The editors wrote, ' and creeping technology held up this potential jewel for far too long.' Despite their frustration with the delay, the very same publication would later award the game 4.5/5. The magazine later named Daggerfall its 1996 'Role-Playing Game of the Year'.
The editors wrote that the game 'is not perfect, but it is revolutionary.' In, Michael E.
Ryan called it 'revolutionary' and wrote that it 'may be the best RPG since Origin's '. Like Wolf, he found fault with the game's bugs, the number of which he said 'shocked' the magazine's staff. Despite these issues, Ryan remarked that the staff became 'hopelessly addicted to Daggerfall 's endless possibilities and game play.' A reviewer for wrote that Daggerfall 'comes as close as anything ever has' to simulating real life, and that the long wait for the game was 'hands down, worth it.' James Flynn of praised the game's size, depth and role-playing mechanics, but qualified that it is 'very, very slow' and 'as large and detailed as a game could ever become without collapsing under its own weight.' He argued that the game's biggest flaw is its visuals, and wrote, 'With all the kit available to programmers and artists today, quite how they've managed to produce such an ugly grey look with is a mystery.'
Andy Backer of called Daggerfall 'a flawed masterpiece', noting that bugs held it back from perfection. However, he wrote that it 'may be the best CRPG of all time', as well as 'the best CRPG of the year, period.' Daggerfall was later nominated as the magazine's 1996 role-playing game of the year, but it lost to. In, Charlie Brooker called the game's core concept of simulating a virtual world 'a sound one', and he suggested that Daggerfall could have succeeded as a. However, he believed that the game was a failed experiment, as contemporary technology could not generate a sufficiently interesting single-player world. Brooker argued, 'What's the point in being able to go where you like and do what you want if none of it's as interesting as real life?' It would go on to win the (later the Game Developers Choice Award) for 'Adventure/RPG Game of the Year'(1997).
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Review of the game described it as 'easily the RPG of the year' and 'one of the BEST roleplaying games in history (so far)'. Writing for in 1996, Trent Walker opined that Bethesda 'has finally returned to the RPGs of the old school and created an adventure that will take even the most experienced gamer months to unravel.' PC Gamer Magazine ranked Daggerfall among their list of 'The Most Ambitious PC Games'. Daggerfall was named the 33rd best computer game ever by PC Gamer UK in 1997. The editors called it 'so vastly massive that it threatens to collapse under its own gargantuan weight'. References.
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Delete/rename ANIM0001.VID citation needed. Configure the game to. Go into arena2 in the installation folder. Delete or rename ANIM0001.VID. Enhanced Music When installing the game under DOSBox, the guide provided by Bethesda recommends Sound Blaster 16 (or 16 Pro) for the music and sound emulation.
This will provide terrible sounding musical-quality. For increased musical quality, one must go through the installer and set the settings to equal:. SOUND: Sound Blaster or SB16 (or compatible) - I0:220 IRQ:7 DMA:1. MUSIC: General Midi or MPU-401 - I0:330 IRQ:2 DMA:1.
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Issues fixed Broken movement If you are running Daggerfall via DOSBox there can be a problem with movement: you can't run backwards and jump. In this case you need to set your cycles amount to fixed 50000, or 50%. You can do this in DOSBox config or pressing Ctrl+ F11 / Ctrl+ F12 Corrupted saves Save corruption is caused by memory issues. Use to prevent save corruption. Already has this fix. To fix saves that are already corrupted see UESP Wiki's page. 'You do not have enough disk space for your chosen installation type' error during installation.