Daggerfall: Snowing

[9000Ice]

Halt Halt Halt (climb up fighters guild building and unleash arrows)

[cullen823]

Oh this game. I should go back and play it sometime. The only thing I didn't like was nudity and the controls.

[Thoreksir]

@cullen823 You can change the controls. As for the nudity part, there are filters for kids when you install the game :)

[HatEtHePolicENo2]

Love the game, Love this piece.

[Thoreksir]

@HatEtHePolicENo2 When I first bought the game, left the first dungeon and came onto the big world, it was winter, as I recall. I quickly came to the nearest village and this music was playing while it was snowing heavily. I was so drawn to the game world's atmosphere that I had an ale to 'warm up' :)

[pastrychef1985]

Great music. Would be good if Bethesda could re-incorporate some of it.

[gorath105]

@pastrychef1985 They re-incroporated one of the indoor themes as inn music in Skyrim.

[gigacannon]

YES. This is such an amazing piece from Daggerfall. It's such a perfect theme for the snow.

[lordwannebo]

I still dream of finding a secret passage in Skyrim that leads me trough the mountains and into High Rock and I could experience Daggerfall again, in this engine. Still wouldnt feel the same, the pixelated 2D graphics is the best!

[SpaceSmoke]

♫ There is a house in New Orleans... ♫

[FootballPro97]

@SpaceSmoke LOL

[JamesIsHereBro]

@SpaceSmoke

They call.... The Rising.... Sun!

[user183]

i can still hear it... the snow crunching under my feet

[MrMoorasPowrocil]

wow! no dislikes! great

[Fishstixj4l]

reminds me of the rising sun

[redsox95MB]

This seems to have influenced Skyrim's theme quite a bit....

[morrowindarcherman]

Daggerfall has two separate themes it plays for two separate types of snow. Fuck yeah.

[Jakkail87]

Memories....

[Yabuturtle]

I think this is my favorite song in Daggerfall and one of the most memorable ones in the TES series. It's nice and simple. It's beautifully done and it gives me the feeling that I have a long journey ahead of me as I walk across the snow, and I gaze into the sky, watching the snow descending.

I wonder if they had a game like an RPG or an MMO or both that had multiple worlds to go to, and each was the size of the Daggerfall map. xD I had that thought now, wondering what that'd be like.

[Beriorn]

There is a house in Hammerfell.

They call it the house of the Ri-STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM.

[Devintuel]

@Beriorn I'm sure you mean HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT HALT.

[M4sterOfTheDisaster]

@Beriorn This does sound a bit like "The House of the Rising Sun" , I thought I was the only one to notice that xD

[zippo504]

Daggerfall music+minecraft=epic win.

[since65]

I hope i get to play this game someday

[bmc2006]

there is a house in new orleans...

[VengfulBacon]

@bmc2006 Wow, you're right - the resemblance is uncanny, never would've guessed the two songs were so alike.

[Guxman9294]

I wish i could configure daggerfall in my PC, i am so clumsy with retrogaming :(

[justacondom]

Never played Daggerfall, but the music haunts me....

[w0rd1zzl3]

I can almost hear my boots crunching in the snow, if I strain my ears enough :D

[weezerjr955]

@0NoName9 Elder scrolls Rocks. Stfu

[weezerjr955]

@0NoName9 well thats animation...elder scrolls never been good with that.

[jancobblepot]

@0NoName9 Agree, Ultima VII was awesome (still, my favourite is Ultima IV). But ¡Hey! Character creation in Ultima VII was terrible too! And the gameworld was small compared to any TES

Daggerfall was a great graphic Roguelike to me, unlike any Ultima, Morrowind or even Oblivious.

[OblisGR]

I love Daggerfall!!!

[tomalotube]

@0NoName9 you obviously have no idea what modding is.

Consolefag.

[0NoName9]

@tomalotube You obviously have no idea what my tastes are. Nor that there's no mods to make an ES game have the level of interactivity of Ultima VII.

Destroyed faggot.

[tomalotube]

@0NoName9 Nope. :) On youtube, someone can't be destroyed unless the responder gets a top comment.

Gentleman, do we have a problem?

Also, you obviously don't check for those types of mods. I played both, and while Ultima is awesome and everything, ES beats it when you start changing things around.

[bkismlg]

@tomalotube It's ConsolePeasent you retard, and most of the mods on the PC are bad.

And the controls on the XBOX are superior to the PC.

[tomalotube]

@bkismlg You can integrate an xbox controller with PC. But can you do the same to an xbox? :)

And not really, you probably just never check it because it doesn't matter for you because you don't have a descent PC.

[bkismlg]

@tomalotube You think That I don't know that you can use a gamepad?

And why do you think that a bad PC affects the controls on a game?

[tomalotube]

@bkismlg "xbox controls are supieror"

what I was saying is that with a little tweaking, PC can match this "superiority" of yours.

[person11235813]

@bkismlg Yep, the ability to go to Elsewyr, Morrowind and Valenwood while playing Oblivion truly is horrible. PC>Xbox

[bkismlg]

@person11235813 It would be too large, so it sucks. (these mods that allowed you to go there sucked)

[broddersamse]

@person11235813 PC has always beaten the consoles.

[fabiobit]

@HardWarUK I agree with you a hundred percent. Consoles are for fags.

[HardWarUK]

@fabiobit Go for European titles like STALKER and The Witcher, the Gothic games and yes, Two Worlds and at least get PC style PC games that mostly are developed and released on PC only! U.S. companiwes just want dumb console conversions for PC like Alpha Protocol and Jade Empire!

[Girlysprite]

I have read some pages of comments. Do not fear, good games are not dead. Just skip the shelves and look at online publishers. Shleved games just cost too much to produce, so they *have to* appeal to many people. Online games are cheaper to make, so they can aim at niche fans.

[Northorseman]

@HardWarUK Agreed. Subscribed! :)

[HardWarUK]

@simfamSP Please delete your comment. Because of the swear word please.

[HardWarUK]

@simfamSP Please delete your comment and I will delete this comment. All we did was disagree in a debate.

[2345solidsnake]

Were did you get the music 

[HardWarUK]

@simfamSP "Stats and skills, do certainly not make an RPG" - that has to be the most stupid sentence I have ever read! You certainly are a console gamer that has not played any RPG's prior to about 2005, aren't you?!

[gokudomatic]

@HardWarUK do you consider nethack as an RPG, then?

[HardWarUK]

@gokudomatic Don;t know - never played it. Only comment on games i've played. Unlike some....!

[ZDST]

@HardWarUK

I wouldnt really blame consoles as so much as the console market.

Consoles are just as fine of a gaming medium in my opinion, especially nowadays when you can just slap on a USB keyboard to any console.

Whats wrong is how games in general are trying to appeal to -everyone- and grab as much of a profit as they can, as opposed to trying to appeal to a target audience.

[HardWarUK]

@ZDST But it was the "multiformat" market a word coined by the games publishers when we got the 360 and PS3 around 6 years ago (still called Next Gen, by the way!) that got the games companies writing dumber games believing all console gamers were spotty teenagers who just wanted action. These gamers are now in their early 20's but the games companies haven't changed. this is why I don;t think the games market can last in it's current form much longer!

[ZDST]

@HardWarUK

It shouldnt, but to much dismay I do believe it can and might possibly last like it is for a long time.

Admittedly, there are a good number of people who like classic style games (And I'm not just talking about this resurgence of 8-bit platformers like Scott pilgrim or megaman 9-10) but a majority of people who play videogames this day and age seem to -like- this oversimplified pile of games we have today. Ask gamers you know if they prefer to play morrowind, or COD:MW.

[HardWarUK]

@ZDST The next year or two will tell, as we are at a crossroads with gaming. Games sales are down between 14 and 39% over the last couple years (blamed on the recession; but I am not so sure) and we have 3D TV coming along. It has always struck me that errors by the industry, especially over the last decade, has stopped gaming become mass market, like books, TV and movies. To the extent it isn't, it is vulnerable. If the future looks poor people look to the past. The growth in retro is a sign.

[HardWarUK]

@simfamSP What you think makes an RPG is wrong because you never played pure adventure games 10 years back or more. If you had, you would realise your description of what makes an RPG is actually a description of what makes an adventure game! In fact it could be said what you say makes an RPG makes every game an RPG! Far Cry had a story, it had some choices and it had consequences, but it was a shooter through and through! Your description is used to validate modern console RPG's that are not!

[HardWarUK]

@simfamSP Believe it when i see it. In any event, I have heard so many times how this or that RPG has had 'action', as it is trotted out so regularly. What's always failed to mention is that the word 'action' is used rather than 'combat' to try and prove a point. EVERY SINGLE cRPG, however deep, however how many stats, however big the world to explore, however sandbox and non linear, has had combat! Exploration and avatar stats/skills are at the core of a cRPG and we're losing that from Bethesda

[HardWarUK]

@simfamSP Well, at least on PC, this was the first Bioware RPG that did not have exploration at it's heart. It is, in fact, the first mainstream AAA PC RPG to not have exploration, when you look at the Elder Scrolls Games, the Gothic Games, the Wizardry Games, the Ultima Games, and on and on! That's why it's not an RPG to me.

[HardWarUK]

@simfamSP Quite an adult debate between us I think...! I believe mostly that TES V will be an MMO, because that's what the rumours are saying, and if it was going to be a SP game we would be getting hype on it by now (screenshots, etc), when you consider Oblivion came out almost 5 years ago and generall TES SP games come out every 4-5 years.....

[HardWarUK]

@simfamSP TES V will be an MMO or console only and will be an Action-Adventure more than an RPG, just like Jade Empire, Mass Effect and to some degree Dragon Age.

[HardWarUK]

@simfamSP Trust me it is deep when you really get into it! Some might say the dungeons make it deep, but I think it's the quests! Only in this game and Arena before it have I been blackmailed into having to doing a quest or seeing my reputation in that town going down the tubes because the lies that would be told about me!!!! Now that's deep - surely?!

[stevej71393]

I remember hearing this when I finally escaped that goddamn first dungeon. Then I got killed by bandits and had to reload a save in the dungeon.

[afternoonworkout]

this sounds like House of the Rising Sun!

they should call it "House of the Falling Snow" instead of just Snowing...

[pastrychef1985]

@afternoonworkout Edmund Rubbra used a lot of inverted melodies/intervals to good effect too, but normally original ones in the recapitulation.

[Ainippe]

Amazing tune, this still gives me goosebumps after all those years. :)

[Ainippe]

Amazing tune, this still gives me goose bumps after all those years. :)

[DarthExecutor]

@HardWarUK Daggerfall wasn't "deep", it was a limited number of assets cut and pasted 100000 times that only looks deep with amnesiac retards who don't mind playing the same thing over and over and over again because it's all new to t hem.

[HardWarUK]

@DarthExecutor Bullshit!

[TheRetroZombie]

@HardWarUK agreed! Classic rpg is way better than the ones now.

[HardWarUK]

@TheRetroZombie With a username like yours how could I expect you to disagree!

All I will say is 'thank you' to Europe, where they still make PC only games in the old school style, like The Witcher and Gothic and Sacred and Spellforce and even shooters that are deeper than what we get in the States like STALKER and Metro 2033!

[TheRetroZombie]

@DarthExecutor BS

[gringolazlo]

go to chesterwark and kill the rogue temple priest.

[OB1Cannoli87]

Anyone who thinks Oblivion is better than Daggerfall...Is not a real PC gamer...

[AmiMecanique]

I died at least a dozen times before I got through the starting dungeon, and then I died twice before I figured out how to fast travel to the nearest town. I... I kinda wussed out and went back to Morrowind. Games back then were not kind to their players.

[HardWarUK]

@AmiMecanique Did you set the game up with the WASD mouse UI? This allows the game to be played in a more familiar way. Also, build your own character or make sure you choose a character to get an ebony dagger/sword, as this is the only way to kill the imp. Also, I am sure you can get the pdf manual from the web (don't know why Bethesda doesn't have it in the zip file. In the 90's you really needed to read the manual! Don't give up on it just because you didn't know the controls! :)

[AmiMecanique]

@HardWarUK I don't mean to sound silly, but how do I change the controls and whatnot?

[HardWarUK]

@AmiMecanique change the control option in Z.cfg to 'viewplyr.dat'. This will give you a WASD control scheme with mouse look. In other words, the way modern games work. Also, check Options a) to see the control keys now set up and b) to click on 'Full Screen' so you now have a Morrowind/Oblivion style GUI! With this set up you'll be a lot more comfortable and will do better in the game!

[LamentOfInnocence1]

@0NoName9

All bethesda RPGS are. I played Fallout 3 on 360 first then PC and it was like a totally different experience.

[2345solidsnake]

HardWarUK did you ever play arena

[2345solidsnake]

@2345solidsnake

[HardWarUK]

@2345solidsnake Not only did I play it, I still have the original boxed copy sitting next to my Daggerfall box, my Morrowind box and my Oblivion DVD style 'box'! I also have Elder Scrolls Redguard and Elder Scrolls Battlespire sitting proudly alongside them too! Right next door I have the original boxed copies of Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 sitting proudly next to Fallout 3 too! All bought within days/weeks of them being available in the shops from back in the early 90's and up to today!

[ParadoxIcon]

@HardWarUK I hear ya mate. I still have the Fallout games, and Tactics. But my old TED games have since been lost/stolen/dunno what happened to em. May have lost them while moving. Was still an awesome game series back in it's day.

[HardWarUK]

@ParadoxIcon Well Arena and Daggerfall are now free downloads, and to show today's interest in these old games, over 350,000 Daggerfall's were downloaded from the Bethesda site in the first 3 days - causing their servers to go down! Also, consider 5+ million DOSBox downloads. meaning you have hundreds of thousands of DOS games still being played everyday! ::)

[HardWarUK]

@2345solidsnake Oblivion isn't as deep as Daggerfall. - he gameworld is barely 30 miles across. The voice work is done by only 12 voice artist's for 1,000's of NPC's and there is a You Tube video showing the AI for PC, prior to going multiformat, showing how much deeper the conversations and AI was before the 360 dumbed it down. With a ton of mods on PC Oblivion comes close to Morrowind and Daggerfall, but is still third! And today we get Jade Empire type games being called RPG's due to 360!!

[SuperLlama53]

This is actually GSNOW_B, if you want to be completely accurate. "Snowing" is the name given for the snow theme taken from Arena.

[SuperLlama53]

This is actually GSNOW_B, if you want to be completely accurate. "Snowing" is the name given for the snow theme taken from Arena.

[xXKrazyLepreconXx]

does anyone know how many songs daggerfall had?

[Darkon711]

@HardWarUK Speak for yourself. I'm glad they don't make games this huge anymore, and coming from me, that's saying something. Daggerfall was fun, but I much prefer a smaller landmass with many times the detail to it. Don't even get me started about the bugs. Ugh.

[HardWarUK]

@Darkon711 There is plenty of content in Daggerfall, but I am sure you will have your wish, if Daggerfall is a Country, Morrowind was a State and Oblivion was a City. The next one will be a neighbourhood, and will therefore be right up your alley! After all, back in the 90's 30 hours was seen as a short game, now, even a 12 hour game is not seen as such!

[Ericzeppe]

Wrong, 30 hours of gameplay in the 90´s was a very long game, like baldurs gate, final fantsy 7 and fallout.

Games back then was just as short as todays and even shorter in lots of cases.

Elite , Daggerfall as exceptions.

RPG´s like NWN 1,2 and dragon age are way bigger then the most early rpg´s like eye of the beholder, ultima underworld

[HardWarUK]

@Ericzeppe You are wrong wrong wrong. Most shooter had at least 40 levels. Many demo's were extra mssions - Terra nova Task Force Centauri came with 30 large mssion and produced three more new missions in the form of demo's Then we have games like Railroad Tycoon, Pirates, The early Wizardry and Bethesda games, flight sims, adventure games and so on that all gave 30 hour plus of gaming!

[Ericzeppe]

Depends of the genre. Flight simulators and freeroaming simulators (Darklands, pirates, daggerfall, elite) games were often dynamic generated so you could play them for a very long time but you often ended up doing the same thing over and over again. And they are still making flightsimulators empirebuilding, economic simulators that can last for 100 years.

In Daggerfall everything was so huge so it was very rare to find something really unique.

[Ericzeppe]

Morrowind was smaller in mapsize but had a lot more content, unique quests and handmade design then generated Daggerfall. i think i have 600 gaminghours in Morrowind :). Games are not dynamic generated anymore, and are handmade instead. if you play neverwinter nights 1,2 + expansions, you will notice that they are way bigger then non-generated storydriven rpg/adventure games before Baldurs gate, and the same goes for biowares new titles too.

[MysticRonin101]

@HardWarUK It's not just console games...

[HardWarUK]

@MysticRonin101 its about developers thinking console gamers are dumb so make dumb games for them and then convert those dumb games to PC expecting intelligent over 21 PC gamers to buy them!

[Swidhelm]

Man I wish the last few Elderscrolls games handled music the way this one did. Just just generic explore music, but music specific to region, time of day, weather, etc. It was a lot more immersive.

[gladek]

Hab die ganze musik auch noch auf platte von Daggerfall, alle Original Midi und klingen absolut einzigartig mit Silverspring 1.5 sf2!

Übrigens ein sehr geiles Lied von dem Game, ich mag solche musik sehr gerne, 5 Sterne!

[Loyalty2theEnd]

I'm a big fan of the Elder Scroll series, & I want to play the 1st 2 games, as well as hammerfell & Spire. Does anyone know where I can download these classics? For free?

[ELOdry]

You can download TES1 & 2 for free on Bethesda official website. But Battlespire and Redguard aren't free (yet?).

[DissentingDogLevi]

@ELOdry Who would want them? It is like a crippled TES experience.

[Quartrez]

@DissentingDogLevi For the heck of it. (Ça fait bizzard de te voir ici, ELOdry :p)

[mrgrazzt]

@Loyalty2theEnd

Google is your friend. Search for Daggerfall XP (its modded and everything to be supported on modern OS).

[SuperLlama53]

I can play this on the piano XD

Love this song. Daggerfall ftw, if only it was less buggy, then it would even beat Morrowind.

[jackoneill45]

I can now play this on my violin lol.

[sylas61]

not way morrowind is by far the best game of all the elder scrolls games

[MisterVidicus]

Pff, we wont need TES V once Daggerfall becomes alot easier to mod, thanks to DaggerXL.

[Beefforyou]

@0NoName9 Oblivion, I agree with.

Morrowind? FFFUUUUUUUU

[XMasterZing]

There is a house in New Orleans

They call the Rising Sun

And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy

And God I know I'm one

[solomonkain]

Holy crap!! Yeh you're right!!

Soso similar!

[annuna]

I remember playing Daggerfall back in 1995 when the demo came out where you are just on Betony. Still have it. Daggerfall has the best RPG music ever. I was just playing it today as a matter of fact. I love when this song plays when it snows.

[jackoneill45]

amazing song for an amazing game. The sheer depth of just making a character that you want still amazes me. No other game seems to get it right.

[MichToJoshya]

this game was best there could be...ever!

[Aleryn27]

Favorite game, period.

Awesome song, too. Thanks poster.

I gotta turn these into mp3s...

[Baldoxxx4000]

please.. glitches all over the place, being stuck inside the house and outside at the same time???....gotta keep saving every second...

[KingdomAtWar]

ima download this fcking game!! im a huge TES fan, wth..! less do it

[SuperLlama53]

best song in the game :D

[killerpawn]

VENGEANCE~~~~!

[jackoneill45]

I dont care if your someone who played this game when it came out, or if you just decided to get this game now. This game is one of the best games ever made, period. I got this because I played oblivion and morrowind, and i wanted to see what the old ones were like-and now its my favorite TES. My only regret, however, would be that i didn't have this game when it came out. I was playing games like Quake 1, Duke Nukem 3D, and doom when this was out. the dungeon crawls remind me of Dungeon Master.

[Acoristo]

This was the very first video game I ever played at the age of five. Let's just say no game could have shaped my view of gaming more positively. I also was scared shitless of the skeleton screams. :)

[bigepi]

haha same! dam those skeletons

[MisterVidicus]

Had good Vocal Cords though.

[LordBelagerung]

I agree with Madness678

[madness678]

this sounds very similar to House of the Rising Sun....

[HardWarUK]

You are aware this music is a ballad from the medieval times (11th century) that was updated for House of the Rising Sun? You know the saying: "Nothing is original"! :)

[madness678]

hahaha yeah i guess that's true! just changed up a little bit ;)

[HewieOfHG]

does any one know where i can find a copy of dagger fall

[avvoltoio31]

search it on google, or abandonware sites.

[HardWarUK]

Daggerfall is free now,courtesy of Bethesda's and this games 15th anniversary!

[HewieOfHG]

thanks but where can i find a copy and i wish they could bring it to the x box 360 i dont care about graphics i just want to play it

[jackoneill45]

Hell yeah. Come on guys, download daggerfall, get out there and explore!

[MisterAAnderson]

@HardWarUK Cheers UP!!!

[mikeym820]

Was this by Jeremy Soule?

[ArcanumObscura]

The Daggerfall music was done by Eric Heberling.

[melkormgc]

I wish Bethesda signed him for the next ES's. And they should use old music in new games like Sid Meier does. Daggerfall was enchanting, I was 16 when I played it and it was such an artwork..

[Pentero]

Poor King Lysandus haunts the streets at night

With his army of souls

Nulfaga knows the secret, but she won't help

So you'll have to find out

Pay visits to nobility in Wayrest's

and Sentinel's keep

And free the spectre roaming in the dark...

[dg19]

My favorite !!! So many memories ....

[MirageBistro]

Very nice!

[Oggyglory]

One of the favorite music themes!

[xpolar1706x]

Wow..This brings so many memories..=] i loved exploring the gigantic city of Daggerfall listening to this song and traveling in the beautiful world of High rock..Also my favorite song in the game. It sounds so clear for an old game too..

[Orklord90]

This my favorite!