The Daggerfall 30th Anniversary Special!

Well, let's start from the beginning, guys.

So Arena was a success.

Eventually.

Well, that's kind of the thing is eventually, yeah, it did eventually become a success.

And kind of the same thing for Daggerfall, from what I understand, you know.

But what I want to know is when Arena came out, it eventually became a success.

So how did a sequel eventually become to get greenlit? You know, was it immediate? No, for sure not.

no for sure not okay ted tell tell us how did how did this come about how did that i

don't know how it came about but i do know that it was not immediate success like that it was a thing that they had to think about and figure out you know like make the money make sense

If it was that hard to get a sequel off the ground, you know, just the concept of like, you know, do we even want to do this from like a management standpoint? You know, I got to wonder, like, why did they even bother to try? What do you think? And this goes out to, you know, to anybody, what do you think they saw in Arena that said, like, let's, it might be risky, but let's give it a try?

I seem to remember that Arena, that was before my time at Bethesda though, that once it sort of had been out there for a little bit and for a while, it became obvious that a sequel like Daggerfall was a good idea, but it took a long time building it up, as Ted was saying.

I seem to remember that as well.

It was kind of like a slow start, slow long start, where I think Julian and probably UTEP was working a bit on the concepts way before there was actually a formal team.

I'm just toying around with the idea.

Was there hesitancy at Bethesda to get it off the ground once they said, like, all right, let's do it? Like, were some of the teams thinking, like, I don't know if I want to be a part of this team? Or was there excitement, hesitancy?

I'll chime in there, just given the time of when I joined, because I joined maybe four months after Arena.

So when I first joined, I was actually helping close out things on Arena and doing producer stuff on Arena.

Daggerfall was still just... like kind of getting started at that point.

So from my recollection, Julian and Ted were kind of working on it.

Julian was starting to toy with some programming, but there were no artists dedicated to it when I first came on.

There were only four artists, I think.

I mean, at the time, Bethesda was not very big.

There were, you know, less than 20 people, I think.

Less than 10.

Yeah, I was going to say it was pretty darn small.

Well, let's start from the beginning, guys.

So Arena was a success.

Eventually.

Well, that's kind of the thing is eventually, yeah, it did eventually become a success.

And kind of the same thing for Daggerfall, from what I understand, you know.

But what I want to know is when Arena came out, it eventually became a success.

So how did a sequel eventually become to get greenlit? You know, was it immediate? No, for sure not.

no for sure not okay ted tell tell us how did how did this come about how did that i

don't know how it came about but i do know that it was not immediate success like that it was a thing that they had to think about and figure out you know like make the money make sense

If it was that hard to get a sequel off the ground, you know, just the concept of like, you know, do we even want to do this from like a management standpoint? You know, I got to wonder, like, why did they even bother to try? What do you think? And this goes out to, you know, to anybody, what do you think they saw in Arena that said, like, let's, it might be risky, but let's give it a try?

I seem to remember that Arena, that was before my time at Bethesda though, that once it sort of had been out there for a little bit and for a while, it became obvious that a sequel like Daggerfall was a good idea, but it took a long time building it up, as Ted was saying.

I seem to remember that as well.

It was kind of like a slow start, slow long start, where I think Julian and probably UTEP was working a bit on the concepts way before there was actually a formal team.

I'm just toying around with the idea.

Was there hesitancy at Bethesda to get it off the ground once they said, like, all right, let's do it? Like, were some of the teams thinking, like, I don't know if I want to be a part of this team? Or was there excitement, hesitancy?

I'll chime in there, just given the time of when I joined, because I joined maybe four months after Arena.

So when I first joined, I was actually helping close out things on Arena and doing producer stuff on Arena.

Daggerfall was still just... like kind of getting started at that point.

So from my recollection, Julian and Ted were kind of working on it.

Julian was starting to toy with some programming, but there were no artists dedicated to it when I first came on.

There were only four artists, I think.

I mean, at the time, Bethesda was not very big.

There were, you know, less than 20 people, I think.

Less than 10.

Yeah, I was going to say it was pretty darn small.