Getting lost in a dungeon makes for a bad day.
I never got too far in this game and that was for one reason: the dungeons. I remember having to enter a dungeon for a quest and finding it absoluetly impossible to find my way out of. I ended starting anew and made sure to get the recall spell so I could set a recall point at the entrance. That was just too tedious and the dungeons were still too rediculous. The rest of the game was fine, and improvement over Arena.
I have since lost my copy of Daggerfall but have discovered a Daggerfall strategy guide at my parents' house not too long ago that must have stayed around. It was worth a good chuckle and nostalgia to thumb through the thing.
It is interesting to note that Arena can be downloaded free of charge now and playable via a dos emulator. You want old school, then you play that game and see what started this whole shebang!