The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall/YMMV

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  • Complaining About People Not Liking the Show / Unacceptable Targets: Do not say anything negative about this game - even if you are being constructive, any criticisms merely mean you are a "Consoletard" to the highbrow elitist fandom.
  • Complete Monster: Possibly more examples than any other game in the series. We have Mannimarco for obvious reasons, Queen Akorithi for sending her own son to certain death simply because he didn't want to be a tyrannical, war mongering despot like his parents, Lord Woodborne for murdering King Lysandus, unleashing an army of undead on High Rock, and directly starting the war that encompasses the game, all just so he could take the throne of Daggerfall, and Princess Elysana for helping Woodborne (her fiancee) orchestrate Lysandus' murder, murders an innocent suitor in cold blood on a whim, and manipulating you into thinking she's a valued ally, only to stab you in the back once you start to close in on Woodborne's plot.
  • Fan Dumb: This is The Elder Scrolls, however this game, next to Morrowind, arguably has the biggest Fan Dumb out of the series. The fandom for this game that doesn't overlap with the fandom for other games flat out refuses to see anything negative about the game, and clearly judges your intelligence based on whether or not you liked the game. Even saying you liked the game but liked the others better (Where the unpatched versions could actually be completed) will cause the overly-Defensive Fans to send a bunch of pixellated guards coming over to your house saying "HALT!" to murder you.
  • Good Bad Bugs: There are a large number, but principle among them is The Void, the black area beyond the wall mesh in houses and dungeons. Walking/jumping/climbing against certain wall types at certain angles would allow you to pass through them, which usually resulted in you getting stuck or falling to the bottom floor, requiring a reload. However, with practice and luck, it was possible to use the Void to cut through the labyrinthine layouts (not to mention avoiding enemies) to quickly reach your quest objective, a practice usually referred to as Void Running/Walking/Surfing. Occasionally the Void would also swallow up enemies, which while helpful against Vampire Ancients at level 2 could render extermination missions unwinnable.
    • Of course the patch gave us Alt+F11, which took you back one step. It pulled you out of the Void, and with it you could also retreat out of the dungeon if you had forgotten to set the teleport anchor.
  • Most Annoying Sound: HALT-HAL-HAL-HALT-HALT-HAL-HALT-HAL-HALT-HALT-HAL-HAL-HALT!
    • A lot of the sound could be this sometimes, constantly playing the sound effects over and over again, "HALT!" is just one example.
  • Sacred Cow / True Art Is Not Popular: The game is not as popular as it's sequels Morrowind and Oblivion, but it is perhaps the most well loved game among the The Elder Scrolls fanbase.
  • Scrappy Mechanic: You cannot repair magical equipment in any way. Once their durability expires, you can never use them again. This includes Artifacts.
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