Who would like Elder Scrolls on his Axim?

someone1 · 06-02-03, 07:41 PM

Maybe we could ask Bethesda to make a version of their Elder Scrolls Travels game for the pocket pc, many people would probably like that very much (I'm talking about RPG fans off course), so please reply and send me your opinions about this idea.

McCade · 06-02-03, 09:05 PM

Sounds good to me. I love their games. Perhaps they could port Arena or one of their older games that wont be to graphically intensive over to the PocketPC.

McCade

06-02-03, 10:51 PM

Yes, i think we would all like warcraft3 and ut2002, but these graphis on this game look quite close.

http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showt...threadid=12557

BruceL · 06-03-03, 12:41 AM

I'm glad someone posted this... Bethesda has recently announced that they are working on two cellphone Elder Scrolls games, and in my opinion it at least is a slightly positive indication that someday there could be a chance of a PDA game set in the ES universe.

I would like to suggest that anyone that was interested in this idea should go to the new official forum for the ES cellphone games and post in this PDA-related thread. The more voices that ask for this, the better chance it would be considered.

Post here

06-03-03, 11:48 AM

If you want something like Elder Scrolls, there are many Everquest games for the pocket pc. If they do make Elder Scrolls for PPC, obvisouly it wont be the same graphics or anything...so dont get 2 exited.

cronofrog · 06-03-03, 01:27 PM

Personally, I think the everquest games are so watered down that they aren't that fun. If they could do Daggerfall (which was around 16 megs I think) on a pocket pc, that would really rock.

BruceL · 06-03-03, 01:53 PM

To begin with, the Everquest demo came off as a very simplified, nice looking, poorly written game. Obviously the full retail version might be better, but overall it seemed a little bit lowest-common-denominator... on purpose. The demo certainly did not create any desire in me to buy any of the episodes. Plus I've never played the PC version, and therefore have no connection to the material.

But since I'm really into the Elder Scrolls, it stands to reason that I'd prefer to play games from the series where I'm familiar with all the story elements. Not to mention that the ES RPGs were *never* created for sort of mass-market consumption, but rather were always intended to be complex. This is all guesswork, of course, but I'd like to think that this approach would translate to an ES portable game too, although it could just as well end up being more of an ES:Adventures type of game.

I have seen enough great PPC games to think that the platform could definitely support a mature, complex RPG. And although graphics are far down the list as far as importance to me, you could still get some really nice 2D art even if the game was still sprite based.

McCade · 06-03-03, 02:01 PM

Daggerfall was a lot more than 16 MB. Their older games though would be fine. Daggerfall to the best of my knowledge was quite possibly the largest game ever (in terms of playing field), approximately 2 times the size of Great Britain and supposedly would take days to walk from one coast to the other.

If memory serves me right, and it probably does not, I want to say it came in at around 500 MB. But I know it was deffinately more than 16.

This is not to say that I am against the idea, I would just have to go buy a IBM Microdrive. :D

McCade

someone1 · 06-03-03, 03:30 PM

yes, well, one of the reasons that I posted a thread like this is because I just stumbled around the new forum at elderscrolls.com, and I found a thread similar to this there (it is in the "elder scrolls travels" section). Someone mentioned there that they should port elder scrolls travels or any of their older games onto PDA's, this is a hell of an idea by my opinion, nad I wouldn't wait one second if somehting like that came out.

AximPhreak · 06-14-03, 09:07 PM

400 MHz processor...
64 MB SDR
Onboard Video

The above is a description of a sys-m i had gotten to run morrowind (ES3) smoothly (had to rip the ass off it tho)... it ran smoothly at 640x480.

The Dell Axim X5 has similar specs, except for maybe the video is a bit weak, but the maximum res. on the axim is 240X320, which is a flipped 320x240, which is in perfect proportion to 640x480, only you need 1/4 the pixels = 1/4 the rendering power. tone down the details, make sprites out of half the things (just please to god not the people... MAYBE weapons but NOT environment....). On To space: a rip of morrowind (out of sick curiosity i downloaded this, with no movies and half the music missing) takes up 579MB... you modify that all to work on ppc02 and itll go down to 450. If the company that does all this puts it all on a 512MB memory card (which im sure would cost <$75 in bulk) and slaps a $125 price tag on it, i'll be waiting for it to hit stores.

Besides, the PS2 has a 294.912 MHz processor... the axim has 400, and look at the graphics they put on the PS2... makes me sick.

P.s. I know that there are hundreds of variables other than clock, but at 1.5X clock speed, i'm surprised at why we're not seeing announcements of Doom III on this end of the market...

McCade · 06-15-03, 12:48 AM

There is one flaw in that. The one thing a lot of people don't understand is that a 400Mhz X Scale Processor does not mean it is the same speed as a P2 400.

When you are dealing with one chip manuafacture and one architecture then it is reasonably safe to say that higher MHz numbers are better than lower ones. However, when comparing to a different architecture, you can't just compare MHz. For example, Steve Jobs demonstrated that a G4/867 MHz Mac can outperform a Pentium 4/1.7 GHz at cetrain tasks, in fact it is up to twice as fast.

There are a lot of factors that go into dertermining how fast a system is, clock spped, architecure, bandwidth on the pipe and much much more. Even the other hardware in a system needs to be looked at in determining the overall system performance.

So, what this all means is that a 400 MHz is no where close to the speed of a 400 MHz P2. Morrowind will never be able to run on an Axim with current day technology. That is not to say that a few generations from now, it wont be possible...it just isn't now.

McCade

BruceL · 06-15-03, 08:29 AM

All good points, but it'd be unrealistic to ask for Morrowind in the first place due to the control scheme. BUT...

someone1 · 06-16-03, 09:00 PM

I agree, it would not be very easy to control Morrowind on your ax, unless something like a gamepad or keyboard or mouse (or both) came out for the ax (not to mention and to be compatible with the morrowind), then it would be a differrent story...

RCC · 07-02-03, 12:14 PM

It seems to me that Arena, the first Elder Scrolls game, would be perfect for this. I'll go to the forum and add support to this request.

Did anybody else find the glitch in Arena that gave you ~800 million gold pieces? :D

ssjtrunk1 · 07-02-03, 02:00 PM

I would definitly want a elderscholl morrowind game for the pocket pc i been playing morrowind for around 7 months and i am still playing it.