I played a bit of daggerfall.

I decided to roll with a bard, slapping on a full suit of chainmail and taking up a bow and fist fighting style. I learned a few recovery and utility spells, and began my first adventure!

I regret to say it was more tedious than fun. Clearing dungeons is an enormous hassle, and theres no way (that im aware of) to find the quest items in them other than just scraping the whole thing. If there's a way to make that experience better, I'm all ears.

The cities really made me appreciate the later game's deliberately reduced scale, I'll take the 20 residents of whiterun over the exhausting and innumerable randomly generated creeps in Daggerfall city.