Very funny "Favorite Daggerfall moment"

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Very funny "Favorite Daggerfall moment"

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I read this a while ago (I think it was on Daggerfall's 10th anniversary, when they released it for free) and found it really funny. I could relate as I still vividly remember the first time I entered Daggerfall at night (mild spoilers).

For those lazy to click the link, here is Gavin Carter's favorite Daggerfall moment.
My favorite Daggerfall moment happened shortly after the game was released. I was the ripe old age of 16, and had taken to playing the game long into the night whenever I could. One night around three in the morning, I was returning to town to pick up some supplies after a long run of witch coven scouring. It was a particularly stormy night in the game, and I was totally immersed in the ambience. At the time, I was using a monster pair of speakers for my computer. They could really pump out the volume, but were also very unreliable, occasionally cutting out for no apparent reason. This time, they cut out right as I was entering Daggerfall city. I sighed and took to fiddling with the volume knob. First I only got static. Then the speakers made a popping noise and I could hear the game music once again, though very faintly. I turned the volume all the way up, but the sound was still very faint and hissing. Frustrated, I was forced to stand up in my chair and lean against the desk while reaching around to check the connection. As I put my ear directly against the speaker, I felt the connector pop back into place, and the sound came back - at full volume. What's the first thing I hear? "VEEEEENNNNNNNGEAAAANCE!!!!!!!!" The shock of King Lysandus' exclamation sent me falling backwards out of the chair, and awoke my less-than-pleased parents, who forced me to invest in a pair of headphones the next day.

There's other favorite moments by other Bethesda staff:
http://www.elderscrolls.com/codex/team_ ... nts_03.htm
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Wasn't Daggerfall supposed to have the equivalent of like twice the land area of Great Britain?
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dlmvii wrote:Wasn't Daggerfall supposed to have the equivalent of like twice the land area of Great Britain?
That's right. Procedural generation pulled off that feat, though it makes a lot of the game very generic. Morrowind and Oblivion are all hand-placed, so even though they reuse dungeon setpieces NPC-wise everything is more real.
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