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The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall

PC (Microsoft Windows), DOS • 2022

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Quick resume

THE GREAT MACHINE AWAKENS

Global score

86/100

Genres

Action, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure

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    Pros

    • Massive open world and exploration
    • Deep character customization and roleplaying
    • Active modding community and quality of life improvements
    • Free to play
    • Immersive fantasy life simulation

    Cons

    • Dated graphics and clunky controls
    • Steep learning curve and difficulty
    • Buggy original version (unity fixes many issues)
    • Procedural dungeons can feel repetitive
    • Lack of modern ui and quest tracking

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Fellowship

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      "Primarily a solitary experience with minimal social or community interaction."

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership
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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Status
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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership, Violence. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Expression, Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Sensation.

    How to use the graph
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    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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