I saw that the elderscrolls serise will be 20 years old in 2014- and I was wondering what will bethesda do- to celibrate. Personaly I think it would be cool of they released updates of the old games but it would proably not happen just seeing if ya'll would want that or not.

Sadly there is no 'probably', just a wont heh. It would be really cool, but I know games like Daggerfall and Redguard aren't worth the time and effort to redo given the buggyness of each game plus the tech they had at the time plus the massive amount of work it would be to pull off such an update.

Yes, absolutely

I have heard that Daggerfall was a good game, but I am completely unmotivated to play it because of the crappy graphics.

However, in Arena and Daggerfall, you basically went all around Tamriel, which is different from Morrowind and Oblivion (the latter two restrict you to one nation). As such, Bethesda would have to change the whole story of Arena and Daggerfall to make it really fit. So I doubt they will do it.

It would be cool, tho

Arena included the whole of Tamerial, Daggerfall was High Rock and northern Hammerfall.

The problem is 'updating these games is that they are had mostly pre-generated random lanscape....so it's pretty boring. A game like them just wouldnt sell in today's market anymore.

No. They may be outdated but they're fine the way they are. I don't want a bunch of time and effort spent on a game or multiple games that already exist. It would be a nice fan-project or something like that, but I'd rather move forward. Maybe for the 20th anniversary, re-release Redguard and Battlespire as a free download for the ones who haven't played them yet, but otherwise, new games only.

Not very likely. Bethesda has already released Arena and Daggerfall for free, and both of those games are for DOS anyways. They'd have to do a lot of work to get Arena and Daggerfall to run without a DOS emulator, and to bring both games up to modern standards would also require a complete redesign of all in-game assets. (which would be expensive, very expensive)

Who cares about graphics? What they should do with the older games is release patches for the tons of bugs the games shipped with.

No because I want them to do new things and no because Arena and Daggerfall still weren't finished/polished very well and wouldn't be accepted, as they are, into the modern gaming market (Guess who loses money.)... especially since the old ones are free and many, although not all, people who are interested in them seem content with playing the older versions.

As you can download the old games as freeware- it would be better to simply release the sorce codes and keep working on the new games.

Even though this wouldn't happen, it would be nice to be able to play arena and daggerfall on some kind of console besides PC. I think the original playstation seems to fit its graphics about the same.

Ah yeah true, that would probably be better (and more realistic). Though when DaggerXL is complete this would probably just be unnecessary (also because Lucius said there might be plans for ArenaXL somewhere down the line).

They lost the source code for Daggerfall.

If they did it right, an update would be nice. But what I would honestly prefer would be for them to release the games relatively unchanged (bugs removed, of course) so they can run on newer systems without having to go through a bunch of extra downloads that bog down your computer's capability to run well. I can't play Arena or Daggerfall on my pc because they aren't compatible with Windows 7 without downloading all this extra crap that makes my computer super glitchy--not to mention, finding the downloads and going through the trouble to put them on my computer is a lot of work when I know they could just reformat the old games to make them run on Windows 7 without having to do that. It wouldn't be a brief and simple task to be sure--but it wouldn't be that hard, nor would it be so time-consuming that it would make it less than worth it. :shrug:

it would be nice but Pete Hines has gone on record to say that they won't ever re-release content. (I believe it was an OXM podcast)

It would require an entire side-company. Bethesda simply doesn't have the time to remake older games.

No.

It should be left to the modding community to bring in the other provinces/games if they so desire and leave bethesda to create the new engines and environments they wish to instead of re-hashing old ones.

Why bother? Modders already do http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r6hilB6Dlc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJQ0rYjIaro is coming along nicely too.

This. The community has done well with the PC MW and PB games (unofficial patches), but console users get the shaft. Additionally, DF (and Battlespire, Redguard) are still bug-ridden and there are few tools (and few modders) able - or even allowed - to muck with the game code to fix it. If Bethesda released the source code, that would be great. They have the game as a free download, why not take a page out of id software's book and release the source code, too?