General:Hal Bouma's Posts

Hal Bouma's Posts
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These are a few notable comments from Hal Bouma on The Elder Scrolls setting.

1996

On a gold edition of Daggerfall and TES3 (08-08-1996)

I'm going to answer a bunch of questions about Daggerfall/Arena here.

1) They have the pre-order special for Daggerfall going on right now which includes a T-shirt and poster and maybe a mousepad as an extra.
2) There is a Arena Deluxe which has the hint book and mousepad. This is on sale now. TES 3 has not started yet and won't start until after Daggerfall is released. There are no plans yet for a Daggerfall Gold edition either so anything on that would simply be speculation.

On TES3 and the art needed for TES Games in the '90s (12-12-1996)

rehi

rehiheyhello

Hi Hal...I bought the game and I do like it overall :)

I didn't know who you were the other night...thanks for being honest about VGA

heh

no prob.

It doesn't detract much from the game, does it?

I saw on Eric's Daggerfall page that Julian Lefay told him that TES 3 will hopefully not take too long to complete. Can you give any details?

Uh, that statement is no longer true. What TES3 was going to be at the time is no longer valid so its not just going to be another game cranked out.
(like the numbers for updating to SVGA didn't look very promising)

hmm but will it still be SVGA, just will take longer to make? (hope so)

There will be over 10 man years of artwork required just to do a game like Daggerfall in SVGA.

Whoa

Um, so hire ten men and do it in a year

So thats why Daggerfall wasn't and can't be patched for SVGA.

hmm

you know how long it takes to hire 10 artists? :)
and then to train them?
and where to put them...

But will next TES use less NPC's or something, etc. and be in SVGA (I didn't mean patching Daggerfall)

Thats about all I can comment about TES 3.

well thanks for that info anyway

define SVGA?

You have to remember, the TES line pushes wthe limits for data content. It takes time to do that. name another game that has as much original artowrk done like Daggerfall.

On the schedule and nature of TES3 (12-13-1996)

No, what I was saying is that in regard to the statement of "Julian was quoted as saying TES 3 was going to be a quick crankout." I replied no, thats not the case anymore because we realized how much work it would take to do the game in SVGA. Which sums up by this following quote from above:

Uh, that statement is no longer true. What TES3 was going to be at the time is no longer valid so its not just going to be another game cranked out.
(like the numbers for updating to SVGA didn't look very promising)

And I tried to explain just how much work SVGA was going to take. Now, the person I was talking to thought that the original schedule for TES 3 would remain the same, the game content would not. That is _NOT_ the case. As I stated at the beginning of the log, I was trying to say because of the art scheduling, its very hard to say when TES 3 will come out because it will be SVGA. And that it will take longer than just a quick crankout.