what if they took all the old games (Arena, Daggerfall, Battlespire, Redguard) and bundled them together, possibly for handheld because they wouldn't need to make the graphics look all fancy if they decided to update them. I downloaded the demo for Redguard but apparently it doesn't work on my computer. I'm not talking about running it, because it won't run because I need some special rare drive and some crazy program that I never heard of before. And my computer isn't new - it's Windows 2000 (yes, I'm cheap)...

I'd love to play the old games...but I don't want to have to deal with the DOS stuff, or the primitive graphics. And I think A LOT of people would agree with me. Yes to bundle , yes to updated graphics...and I think this would sell well because a lot of people love TES...but don't really care about those old games before Morrowind. The first TES game I played was Morrowind too.

Feel free to criticize...but please don't bash me. it's just an idea.

don't even get me started about the whole dosbox thing. It's just too much work for me...

It won't sell well enough to justify the amount of work necessary to update the engine and make the game run. Especially since Arena is slow by today's standards, even by Baldur's Gate II standards. To be fair, you're not missing much from the two games, just the storyline that can be wikied. Most of the quests are randomly generated, and Arena's main storyline is just one big fetch quest. (Find all pieces of the Staff of Chaos, kill Jagar Tharn.) I couldn't get past Daggerfall because it's buggy, but even if it ran perfectly, I don't find interest in randomly generated quests.

I'd like that...as long as there is no need for dosbox...

Where is that list of "TES update" threads that someone was keeping track of? Wasn't there something like a dozen of them already? Search the forums and you will find heaps of reasons why this will never happen.

I would buy a copy or two if they'd release them in their original forms, possibly with the updates applied. We can use DOSBox or VDMSound or a number of things to make them run, but me, I'd plop them all on my old 486 or P1 systems and play them as they were meant to be. I am against them being ported to a crappy handheld unit or consoles. I do play on consoles from time to time, but games are just so much better on PC. Well, except in the case of a game like GTA: San Andreas, where they ported it from a console to the PC and you need about four hands to use the controls properly...

I'd certainly buy it.

But I'd rather they make it an easy install. Perhaps, including DOSbox in the installation process, but the unintelligent gamer wouldn't notice or care. Would look like a normal installation.