Daggerfall remake..., There's a rumour going 'round... Options

[McBadgere]

I read today in a small section of the brother's X-Box mag that rumour has it that Bethesda are remaking Daggerfall as their next ES game...

Anyone else think this is likely? And was it a good enough game in the first place to warrant remaking it?...

Oh, and what was it about?...I don't know anything about the early ones... ...

What do you mean "Well go and look then, ya flipping* idjit..."? ...

[ghastley]

Depends on what "remake" means.

Original Daggerfall had a huge number of towns, and dungeons, but they were procedurally generated from building block pieces, so there wasn't any real variety. I can't see them wanting to repeat that aspect, and doing that number of locations any other way would be unworkable.

The story could be re-used in a reduced map of the Illiac Bay area, with just the required cities of Daggerfall, Sentinel, Wayrest and Orsinium plus a few other locations for the quests, such as Direnni Tower, Scourg Barrow etc. and a scattering of dungeons to support the side-quests for the guilds etc.

I'm not sure how they would handle the Orcs in a remake. They weren't playable in Daggerfall, and were always enemies (except for Gortwog himself, who just got involved in a couple of quests). Imperials weren't playable either, but they really didn't exist in the game as a separate race.

Anyhow, there have been rumours about each of the provinces for the next in the series, so I doubt this is any more real than the Redguard remake one. In that case, they'd renewed the trademark, which was a bit more concrete.