Was not expecting full-frontal nudity. Cool.

Advice:
1. Download Daggerfall Unity.

2. Launch DU and, when prompted, set file path to your local The Elder Scrolls Daggerfall/DF/DAGGER folder installed by Steam.

3. In your Steam library, select TES Daggerfall and open "properites."

4. Under "general" in the properties settings, set the launch option to: "C:\Games\DaggerfallUnity.exe" %command%
(Or wherever your DU .exe file was installed.

5. Profit.

Daggerfall, Daggerfall, Daggerfall! What would I be without you? Every game I've played since circa 1996-98 has been juxtaposed with, compared to, bounced against, and otherwise lived in Daggerfall's shadow, at least until Morrowind showed up. Elder Scrolls: The Arena was a bit of a circus freak to us Doom and Wolfenstein fans back in the day. It had so much detail and creativity that it perked my ears up and blew my hair back long enough to sit through a double-speed CD-ROM 3-4 minute load time, for EVERY MAP! My friends would make jokes about how all the NPCs looked the same, but we all agreed that the character possibilities in Arena were top shelf! Half the fun was trying out all the different races in the Empire of Tamriel. We all heard about Daggerfall's development and eagerly awaited it's release, and it certainly didn't disappoint.
Daggerfall had little to no load time at all. Instead we got bugs. If there is any truth here, it is that Daggerfall introduced me to gaming glitches and bugs. I've probably lost more hours of data with Daggerfall than the lifespan of your average insect. Steam didn't exist in those nerdy days, and I never did get any of those patches that allegedly fixed the bugs in Daggerfall. These days the kids are playing Daggerfall with all kinds of enhancements and graphic fixes, but back in the nerdy days of ole you needed some pretty darn good hardware to run Daggerfall, not to mention god-like patience. Once you got Daggerfall up and running, however, the fun had just started. My friends and I lost entire characters forever because of game malfunctions. My favorite bug was the one which just crashed the game with a strange whisper sound that froze the screen and forced you to physically reboot the whole system. The screen would shrink down to a blank frozen rectangle after about 7 seconds of loading a saved game and stayed there for all eternity. thereby eradicating a character that you'd been working on for sometime. Edgar the Knight and Thorus the Mage were the two characters that made it beyond this weird bug. I had to use multiple save game slots for them. A back up save game for my save game, true story ;-)
In typical Elder Scrolls fashion, Daggerfall led you by the hand long enough to get things moving, but then cuts you loose, and oh boy! This was an ambitious undertaking! Rumor has it that the wilderness from beginning to end is roughly the size of England! As with Arena, my friends and I used to camp outside the walls of a city just to find monsters to fight and experience to level up. In Daggerfall the cities were connected and you didn't need to grind away at killing things to get experience points! Such magnificent nerdy design!
Daggerfall introduced me to guild quests and skill-based RPG gaming, Truly a winning combination in gaming. Who needs Sonic or Super Mario when you could create your own superhero with a first person perspective? Will you be a killer archer, a wise powerful wizard, or a clever heavily armored combination of both? Who can be satisfied with numbered stages, 2D graphic engines, and forced goals when you could sell goods, make money, get famous, pay for training, save the realm, and build yourself up to god-like powers all in one game universe? Much like Doom and Wolfenstein, the Elder Scrolls led me to the nerdy nirvana of PC gaming that I will enjoy to the end of my days.
Daggerfall has my favorite quote from any Elder Scrolls game. It comes from the days when you had to load the CD into your PC and setup the software so that it could load into the hard drive. Most times you would have to manually or select from a menu what your hardware settings were. A sound check was often included and Daggerfall's sound check was the Emperor saying "And my champion, rest well this night, for tomorrow you set sail for the Kingdom of Daggerfall" taken from the live action intro. Sometimes when I'm feeling jolly or in need of a good motivating send off at work or in my personal life I like to work in that line into conversation with a wink and nudge. It's either that or the ol' Shakespeare "Once more into the breech dear friends! Once more!" ;-)
Until Patrick Stewart became the Emperor in Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, Daggerfall was my favorite intro for any RPG game. To this day I still stand by the ambitious live-action attempt at conveying the drama, mystery, violence, politics, and magic of the Elder Scrolls at the beginning of Daggerfall. Indeed....Rest well this night, for tomorrow you set sail for the....well...you get the point ;-)

As a Modern Gamer who's more familiar with Skyrim, Oblivion, and Morrowind, I aimed to give Daggerfall the college try, and overall did not enjoy my experience.

While the game mechanics/controls were hard to learn at first, what would be a bigger problem for me is the next step. When you get out of the tutorial/starter dungeon you're in this open wilderness, and there's nowhere to go basically. I made it to one town, but I got kicked out for simply walking in at night because I needed help after being chased around by fearsome monsters. I tried walking around for miles, and the only thing I could find were randomly generated monsters, but no other towns or people.

Very disappointed. 3/10

Overall, this game was a grating experience that should stay in the 90s where it belongs.