So I went into daggerfall blind, never having played it. okay not 100% blind, I had to look up various character builds. Saw a lot of easy ones, but I went with partly my own build and a mix of two builds and went with a semi-diplomat style build. No idea if its any good, but its fun.
And then I literally spent 3 hours and 58 minutes running off into nowhere land. I didn't know how to fast travel, actually thought it was bugged. So figured I'd hit the end of the map or find something. And...then I finally just now, saw its "V" (I missed it) to open the travel map. I think found a graveyard, so at least found something. There wasnt any undead though, just a graveyard.
I then saw the size of the starting region is massive...like almost 4 hours and I didn't make much progress...
Then I had to look, because its the whole world not just daggerfall.
World is 161,600 square kilometers (62,394 square miles) — roughly half the size of Great Britain — with over 15,000 towns, cities, villages, and dungeons for the player's character to explore
And...then its gonna be the first game I actually make use of fast travel rofl. But I hate fast travel in how they did it in fallout and most games...click button and auto teleport there. Unless it makes sense, like a ship going to another port (though I'd rather watch the ship actually travel there in real time), or a literal portal in the game world, or an actual teleport spell works too. Not stupid button to click on and go there. Worst immersion ever. At least skyrim had wagons and there was the immersive wagon addon, even if it was buggy. But I wouldn't like teleporting in real life either and would never teleport in real life ever. It be like star trek you die and make a 100% clone of you in the other spot lol. So if it works like that where you click non-immersive button and teleport there for no immersive reason at all, I'm gonna get this
https://forums.dfworkshop.net/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=1293 the only gameplay mod I'd want to get without having played daggerfall before.
But anyway rant about teleporting aside, so 5 hours with finding one single interesting thing that was empty and made very little progress rofl. Never seen such a big game map, though I guess ES arena is bigger since daggerfall is #2. Or I guess minecraft is actually bigger since it autogenerates forever.