This makes it sound like you are now only willing to date women half your age or less. Besides, many women do grow more beautiful. Bad anology. Old graphics are what they are, and old games are often very nice to look at as long as the design and artwork fit the technology used.


You'd never be able to play them. Games that play well on a touchscreen have to be designed for that from the start. This is why nobody likes FPS games on their iPhones. They're unplayable. Daggerfall would be utterly impossible.


Contracting your competition to make assets is a silly idea. BGS can find or create the talent to do whatever they want to put a priority on.


Not possible. They would have to rebuild the games from scratch for various reasons including:

• Non-availability of their old source code (they tell us they lost it).
  
• Assets designed for a different type of engine (Arena doesn't even have a continous landscape, for example).
  
• Daggerfall's massive scale. You don't handcraft 4000+ towns. You just can't. Daggerfall also has very boring terrain. Building it in Skyrim's engine would be a strange, broken and wasteful exercise. Never mind that it wouldn't fit on even ten discs.

They did us a nice favour be releasing Arena and Daggerfall for free. At this point, any enhancements to those are going to be fan-made, like DaggerXL, and also free. That's even better. Morrowind is still perfectly playable on modern systems and has some excellent mods to make it look nicer on PC if that's your problem.

Uh, how much would it be? After skyrim i highly doubt i'll be able to seriously play stuff like arena and daggerfall, i'll just die with the graphics.
Oh wait there's 1st person horse mode

That is what i meant updated graphics and probably undated AI and included DLC from the old games like lots of people have pointed out this would be a GIANT undertaking and would probably never happen but was a nice idea i thought and wanted to get others opinions on it

If they re-released daggerfall people would just complain about falling through the floor.

Would be awesome but will never happen

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Every time i tried to re-play a game i totally loved years ago, I quickly got bored.

I would love to see Arena brought up to today's standards (Keep in mind it was basically Doom in a fantasy setting)

Will the mod kit allow creation of world maps, terrain, etc, or will you be stuck with Skyrim's world map and terrain? Someone could rebuild Arena...

I am. Many, but not ALL. And it's a *good* anology, you just don't like my answer so you condemn it. These are my opinions; deal with it.

Carry on.

Daggerfall is in the process of being 're-mastered'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3SzQqf9KBM

I have them all except for Redguard and Skyrim; otherwise sure.
(Though it would be nice if they included optional mods that allowed you to play the original ~patched, but otherwise "as shipped"; or to play with community and/or official enhancements).

i've got the big 3 (with 2 goty.)

if the remastered package didn't include a lot of the dlc's or additional features, then no, unless, the price is good.

Arena and Daggerfall both play very well under DosBox. I had not ventured far into each of them under DosBox, but they play as they originally did.

Call me a nostalgia freak, but yes! A thousand times yes! If you had an 'HD remake' of Arena and Daggerfall that ran on consoles and a 'Combat Evolved Anniversary' treatment of Morrowind, and if Oblivion came with ALL the addons, not just SI and KOTN, I'd be for it on all fronts. If they kicked Oblivion over towards MW and SK style of 'grittier' graphics I'd be even more for it, as that was my chief annoyance with the game.

But you have to realize that, though HD remakes of shooting games are seemingly all the rage lately, there's SO MUCH MORE to an open world RPG that would have to be redone, even if each game ran on its exact respective original engine. Just the graphical and audio overhaul of so many models and textures and animations and sound effects.. even if you leave the sounds as they came originally, it'd be so much work just to do Morrowind by itself. Arena and Daggerfall I can't speak for as I've never played them because my computer hates DOSbox, but if they gave it the same treatment they gave DOOM on XBLA it'd probably still be a lot of work.

Also, that would be time spent on TES that wasn't spent on Skyrim DLC or TES VI. Priorities.

That said, if it happened somehow, I'd buy it without a second thought as soon as I had the cash.

Yes I would buy it, I never played Morrowind, Arena or Daggerfall, I would love to experience the previous TES games

I'm in two minds about this.

On the one hand I can see how making the old games available to play would be advantageous. I for one love the whole TES world (far more so than the grim and depressing experience of the Fallout games).

On the other hand, I'd rather see new content than remastered old content: We've yet to see a DLC for Skyrim. There's plenty of locations for TES 6, 7 etc within http://www.uesp.net/wiki/File:TamrielMap.jpg. And then there the potential for revisits to Cyrodiil, Morrowind etc set hundreds of years on from the events of Oblivion, Morrowind etc. And Bethesda still need to sort out multiplayer too.

Just because you posted about the multiplayer i want to throw something out there. I am assuming there are lots of different ideas that people have but i for one would love to see a multiplayer similar to Dead island. A few reasons why 1 you can't make skyrim like a WoW game just to many people they would probably have to charge extra for the multiplayer to be worth it with all the connection problems people have would be hazardous in my opinion. 2.) For those who haven't played dead island the way it works is if two people are on xbox live and are playing the game and two random people are in the same part of the map as you then you can request to party with that person. If the person wants the help or just wants to buddy up with someone then u accept and you have a party of 2 and it goes up to a party of 4. I think this would make the game immensely more interesting you could throw in VERY tough bosses that were next to impossiable to beat without help and would draw people to play longer i think. Just a few reasons what do u think

Seeing as how it would basically only be playable if you converted the current graphics, vocal usage, etc for Daggerfall on a computer.

Try running all of that on a console, the console would learn a new trick, play dead.

But on topic, sure if they converted all? that was in the original games.

I agree that i would like to see new content but i am one of those people who is just as interested in the past if i haven't explored it but it's not like i am against new content

Skyrim is my first game so yes, but if it was more of a travel around Tamriel game that would be even better. I bought Oblivion GOTY edition for 12.50 from steam and have been playing that aswell to familiarize myself with the other regions. If Morrowind ever goes on sale I'm probably getting that too.

That would be great and def. worthy of my hard earned cash. On the real tho, highly doubt it'll happen

if you can't play daggerfall
there's someone uploading walkthrough videos on youtube
but i can't find his channel now lol ....

I'd pay the 60 bucks just for Morrowind remastered. As long as we're talking everything and not just graphics, its the combat that keeps me from playing morrowind. even with the old graphics but skyrim combat i'd buy it

That's a good point most of the time when i think remastered i think of what they did with halo but in this case they would have to build the game up from scratch well mostly they would at least know exactly what they are doing. That's why i highly doubt this would happen but i just had to see if i was the only one thinking this idea would be amazing and lots of money to be made here. One way i could see this happening is if they allowed another company to remaster it again that would probably never happen but if they just gave them the right to make the same exact game but remastered then they could work on the next elder scrolls game and make some (meaning alot) of extra money on the side by letting another company do this again though im only brainstorming im sure someone well tell me why that's a horriable idea

I still play Morrowind GOTY on the Xbox. I would buy an updated version at full price if they just did three things: (1) let me apply the poisons I create to my weapons; (2) upgraded the graphics to the same quality you can get with current mods on a PC and (3) let caves respawn.

I realize that you can do all this right now on a PC with mods, and someday I may do it, but honestly I would pay full price for a new game just be able to play a good modded version of Morrowind (or Oblivion or any TES game for that matter) on an Xbox or PS3 without the hassle of hunting for mods, figuring out how to install them, making sure they don't conflict with each other, figuring out how to make a controller mesh properly with a PC, etc. etc. I bet there are a lot of console players who feel the same way.

I agree with a fan base as large as it is on the consoles you are definitively not alone.