Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-26005008-20160407215658/@comment-1496755-20160819053555

Awww, you... you... tempter!

Indeed, I could see the differences betweenthe different cities of Arena, even if they are limited to the sky backdrop or the skin color of the inhabitants. Different weather also helps. I got thick fog once - it looked very nice. Daggerfall has an amazing number of places to visit but most of them seem pointless indeed... welcome to generic town #75541 - enjoy your stay at our generic tavern.

A complex plot isn't always bad, but in DF's case it's kind of vague and confusing. And that's bad! And the bunch of different endings forced the story writers to invent some sort of time warp that justifies all of them. As an aspiring I writer I'd rather cut off my finger than use such a plot device ... Whoa, wait a second, Lysandus had a wife??? This changes everything!!!

Some people's idea of improving the GUI is "make it more complicated", which is yet another bad idea. I like what Diablo II did - improved the interface but without making it more complicated. In fact, some aspects of it were made somewhat simpler, while still considerably more efficient than D1's system. That's the right way to do it :)

Indeed, the character and inventory screens in DF looks a bit intimidating at first.

I read somewhere that DF's monotony was one of its biggest flaws - they used a lower number of possible building blocks (and textures, apparently).

Random quests get old pretty fast but at least they are quick and easy to do... quests given by city rulers are slightly more interesting, but they are rarer. "A cowboy-like person called Dood'stylker sits next to you at the bar and whispers with a conspirational tone: I have to deliver this Doom video to the Mages Guild, so that they can find all the 51 secrets in it, but I can't make it on time. I'll give you 666 gold if you bring it there by Someweirdmonthname the 7th. Do we have a deal?"

Daggerfall is more like real life - you can wander off and do pointless stuff, forever missing the important things (e.g. the main quest). But that's fine since you are going to die eventually :P

Your fascination (or perhaps a fetish) with giraffes continues to puzzle me :D