Not even talking about “trainers” or third party hacks or whatnot. So what’s the other option? What can fix this? Just the thought of slogging through more of Orsinium is keeping me from firing up the game in the first place. Sure, wandering through those halls can be appealing, but it’s nowhere near as fun as Arena or the more focused post- Morrowind games. But since the only other indication of where the hell I am is the wall and ceiling textures of the dungeon “block” that I’m in, and since the organization of the tunnels doesn’t have the pleasing block-based density of Arena, I’ve found that I just don’t want to go into them in the first place. I find myself more lost after using the map than I was before. They’ve never really worked-developers and players both have known that since the first Descent-and Daggerfall’s maps are no exception at all. Unlike Arena, where exploring dungeons was fun and rewarding, exploring in Daggerfall is an ordeal due to the inability of the designers to put in a mapping system that actually works. If you tried to run from one town to another, you’d just loop back around. Each town and city was its own separate area.

You just teleport from place-to-place.Īrena was different you literally had to fast-travel because of the way the game was structured. You have this entire gigantic continent-sized gameworld that you NEVER, EVER SEE. You never go exploring, you never stumble across things, you never have random encounters, none of that. You never, ever travel from town to town. It also means that, in a very real sense, you never really engage with Daggerfall’s size. Basically all you see of the whole kingdom.

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