Play Daggerfall in skyrim! : V - Skyrim

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 9:18 pm

Daggerfall was a rather large game for its time something like 500 megs so um no that would take up far too much space on the disc.

200 megs.

The problem with this idea implementation wise is that Bethesda lost the source code for Daggerfall. As such, they wouldn't be able to convert Daggerfall so it could run without a DOS emulator. To play Daggerfall in Skyrim, Skyrim would have to emulate DOS. And an emulator is a hell of a lot of work to make.

@Target3, GTA didn't try to incorporate those classic games original code into GTA though. Their pretty simple mechanically and what the dev's most likely did was simply write in their own version.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:03 am

200 megs.

The problem with this idea implementation wise is that Bethesda lost the source code for Daggerfall.

argh

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:48 am

The only thing of Daggerfall, I'd like to see in Skyrim, would in fact be, the chance to revist the city and nothing else.

so I'm in the no crowd

» Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:51 pm

...Bethesda lost the source code for Daggerfall.

Lolwut? LOST? How did that happen? And, have they learned about it, so that game doesn't suddenly announce "Skyrim is postponed as we lost the sources"?

For the devs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup
Sorry, couldn't resist

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:32 am

They should include remade dungeons of the starting dungeons in Arena/Daggerfall/Oblivion as a little Easter Egg/Tribute.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:09 am

Lolwut? LOST? How did that happen? And, have they learned about it, so that game doesn't suddenly announce "Skyrim is postponed as we lost the sources"?

For the devs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backup
Sorry, couldn't resist

They lost it in the move from Bethesda, Maryland, to Rockville, Maryland apparently. Coincidentally, Bethesda softworks is no longer in Bethesda, the place.