When you started your way along the path of The Elder Scrolls?

newtinmpls

Morrowind

I had said:

newtinmpls wrote: »

My greatest frustrations here (ESO) have been the lore-innacurate depictions of some of Morrowind.

To which Betakiin replied:

Betahkiin wrote: »

They reserve the right to modify events and temporary lines basing on:

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Break

Dragonbreaks I get - and that's lore appropriate.

Feathered cliff racers, tiny mud crabs, squirrly spazzy nix hounds - these annoy the $%#^$% out of me.

I adore Morrowind. It's still on my computer, though I play it less now. My Breton character Tallesma progressed her unarmored so often by boxing Mud crabs (which looked like Piles of Mud - hence the name!!) that I used to have her visit a particular beach to find one, and I imagined him being related to the infamous mud crab merchant. The crab was darn near as tall as she was, not this little pie-plate sized thing you see now.

Nix hounds were also big blue-black critters - scary to low-level folks. Not squeaky little 1-hit kills.

Cliff racers were terrible flocks of pteradactyl death that made you run like Heck for a keep where the guards would come out and save you by fighting them.

You only found certain plants growing in certain areas .... luminous russola WAS ACTUALLY LUMINOUS (sp - yeah I know).

Bonewalkers and other dunmer created "undead" were relatives of the living. Tombs had offerings left - there was a CLEAR distinction between the necromancy practiced by some evil types and the ongoing relationship that dunmer had with thier ancestors.

AGgghhhhh

Okay... I'm calm now. Really.

Snippit_Thomas

Daggerfall

Daggerfall. Did not get that far into it, played all the others after that. Skyrim and Oblivion my favs

newtinmpls

Morrowind

Oh wait ... and Guar should be Pack animals, not riding animals

Skayaq

Morrowind

Started with Morrowind, took me four years before i finally got around to finish the main quest, so many other things to explore and do first.

xMovingTarget

Morrowind

That game hooked me up for hundreds of hours. Also was the first rpg game I liked.

Kendaric

Arena

Started with Arena but fell in love with Daggerfall, the best TES game to date. Sadly games like that aren´t made any more...

newtinmpls

Morrowind

Kendaric wrote: »

Started with Arena but fell in love with Daggerfall, the best TES game to date. Sadly games like that aren´t made any more...

I've thought about trying daggerfall, isn't it a free dl from some places? do you think it would be worth it to try?

Tabbycat

Morrowind

I fell in love with the Elder Scrolls series when I was playing my character in Ald'ruhn during a sandstorm and she put her hand in front of her face. It's the little things that made this series such a wonderfully immersive game.

Chanz

Morrowind

Started from Morrowind. The best.
Skyrim was good too.
Didn't like Oblivion that much.

kongkim

Arena

Startet with Arena, But think Daggerfall is one of the best games ever i enjoyed the most

Turimblar

Daggerfall

Started with Daggerfall, and I remember one holiday a friend and I played it day and night, and at the end was in a coma state... Those were the days
And we always started the character customization over and over to get the best 'start-up stats'.

I've played Oblivion, a little bit of Morrowind, and Skyrim.
I think Skyrim has been the best experience for me, but Daggerfall was the 'drug' back in the days. We always talked about what Daggerfall would be as an online game with co-op features.

Now I look forward to try the PS4 beta before I pick up the pre ordered Imperial edition in June, and hooking up with a couple of childhood friends I played table rpgs with

ozm8ey

Oblivion

Oblivion, ever since I played Oblivion I could never get back into GTA games lol

Moonscythe

Morrowind

True story about being an older Mom playing her first RPG. My son was living out of town and we were discussing a fantasy world he was trying to develop as a game. My suggestions and comments were all based on books so he told me to get out his Xbox and play Morrowind so we would be on the same page. I did and loved it.

He came home at Christmas and I was well along in the game. As he watched he asked me what difficulty I was on because I should be having trouble with Golden Saints. I said "huh?"; I had no idea there was a difficulty slider or that it was on faceroll easy. I went ahead and finished the main quest for the experience and then immediately began it again to finish it a second time on a more reasonable level though still not highest difficulty.

It took me two years into Skyrim before I was confident enough to face a Legendary Dragon on Master with Incinerate. I finished each game at least twice because the first time always left me feeling like I could do it better.

Beowulf_McCallum

Daggerfall

Ninnghizhidda wrote: »

Absolutely amazing and years ahead of its time when it was released. Even today I still consider Daggerfall truly inspiring, and if we could have an updated version with "modern" graphics...

Daggerfall (and most of the "chapters" that followed) contains everything that is, sadly, missing from ESO, even if a "single player RPG". If only it could have been transformed into a MMO, if only...

I still keep an eye on DaggerXL ....just waiting. Hoping.

Beowulf_McCallum

Daggerfall

FishBreath wrote: »

I started with Daggerfall's demo version. The game was a bit scary for the teenager I was back then, but the cool playable Argonian race made me want the full game anyway. Then my dad bought it for me.

And since then I have bought every TES game with playable Argonians.

Ahh the Betony demo!! came in a PCGamer mag, did it not?

milkbox

Morrowind

Morrowind. I'll never forget stealing that glass armor from the fighter's guild. I even had dreams about it.

Why no glass armor and weapons, ESO?

Shadesofkin

Daggerfall

Holycannoli wrote: »

Daggerfall. Brilliant game and I still find it the best of the series. There's just something about it.

A demo disk came in the mail with my magazine way back when I was a kid, I played it so often that I just had to get the full version.

seaef

Arena

Started with Arena. Daggerfall is still the best of all of them.

BTW, you can still download Arena and Daggerfall from the Elder Scrolls site and they are free.

Vizier

Morrowind

Started with Morrowind, but did briefly play Daggerfall before that. A friend of mine had it and so I did get a taste but didn't really "get it." It wasn't until I got to sit down at my own machine immerse myself into Morrowind that I came of age. :-)

Morrowind- Still the best stand alone TES title. Oblivion (modded) offered the best overall experience though. Unmodded it was actually pretty terrible.

Cody

Oblivion

My brother got me to try Oblivion. I thought i would hate it, but nope:) played it until I gave away my XBOX.

I got skyrim, loved it. I tried morrowind, but my computer would not run the version I had, which sucked.

Betahkiin

Skyrim

newtinmpls wrote: »

I had said:

newtinmpls wrote: »

My greatest frustrations here (ESO) have been the lore-innacurate depictions of some of Morrowind.

To which Betakiin replied:

Betahkiin wrote: »

They reserve the right to modify events and temporary lines basing on:

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Break

Dragonbreaks I get - and that's lore appropriate.

Feathered cliff racers, tiny mud crabs, squirrly spazzy nix hounds - these annoy the $%#^$% out of me.

I adore Morrowind. It's still on my computer, though I play it less now. My Breton character Tallesma progressed her unarmored so often by boxing Mud crabs (which looked like Piles of Mud - hence the name!!) that I used to have her visit a particular beach to find one, and I imagined him being related to the infamous mud crab merchant. The crab was darn near as tall as she was, not this little pie-plate sized thing you see now.

Nix hounds were also big blue-black critters - scary to low-level folks. Not squeaky little 1-hit kills.

Cliff racers were terrible flocks of pteradactyl death that made you run like Heck for a keep where the guards would come out and save you by fighting them.

You only found certain plants growing in certain areas .... luminous russola WAS ACTUALLY LUMINOUS (sp - yeah I know).

Bonewalkers and other dunmer created "undead" were relatives of the living. Tombs had offerings left - there was a CLEAR distinction between the necromancy practiced by some evil types and the ongoing relationship that dunmer had with thier ancestors.

AGgghhhhh

Okay... I'm calm now. Really.

Lol

Keep calm...

I understand how you feel, so try to explain is that with the invention of the Dragon break can justify almost anything. A change in the timeline can justify evolutionary changes that in the original time line never happened.

They can justify the existence of things that should not exist or no they should be.

Basically they can build a parallel universe with several modifications and simply say it was the result of the modification of a chain of specific facts that only take place in this new timeline.

This is not the first game that uses such excuses to alter what was already written and try to reinvent things that happened otherwise.

For lovers of Lore is almost an insult, I know.

I spend the same with another game (well known in the industry of video games and has over 10 years of residence) where I follow the story from the beginning, acquired all his novels and skip reading them hours until they suddenly decided modify much of everything that was written in these ...

I took it as a sign of disrespect, a betrayal that so long as I am part of an incredible story and from that moment it was no longer the same.

But it seems that this is something that many resort and is almost impossible to avoid as consumer or user.

It only remains to try to see the positive side (if it has) and accept it.

newtinmpls

Morrowind

Betahkiin wrote: »

I understand how you feel, so try to explain is that with the invention of the Dragon break can justify almost anything. A change in the timeline can justify evolutionary changes that in the original time line never happened.

No.

It can be used to justify weird after-the-fact political changes - drastic losses of entire countries/rulerships and so on. But not the evolutionary processes of a world.

Some of the changes are simply better or different graphics or physics engines or what "could" be done (i.e. the relative emptiness of Morrowind's cities).

But not feathered cliff-racers. That just goes too far!

Oh I get that I can't do anything about it, and I get that it's better to let some things go.

But I still find snickering pleasure in the fact that ESO is "in the past" compared to Morrowind so - HA - all your fancy/innacurate changes DID NOT LAST.

Yes, I'm petty when I'm not fully caffeineated. Sorry about that. Sort of.

Browiseth

Oblivion

Picked up Oblivion in...2011 I think? Mostly on a whim. I think I mostly liked it since I hadn't really played an open-world RPG like it before. Naturally picked up Skyrim, and it's in my top ten for favourite games.

Pretty recently I've gone back and played Daggerfall and Morrowind as well; I'm really enjoying TES: II, and can't stand Morrowind for even a moment, given how poorly it's aged. Imo, anyway.

Wolfshead

Arena

I start back with Arena and play it and i play Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion then i lost touch with Elder scroll due to thing that happen in my life and then i read about ESO and here i'm

Omg i feel old now when it come to Elder Scroll i mean i start play Elder Scroll back in 1994 and still have original boxs and everything

But i reminder gfx back then was good for that time but not like ESO is today but still it blow my mind away

HippieTheGreat

Daggerfall

Daggerfall. Still the best in the series

NskDen

Morrowind

For me it is Morrowind.

newtinmpls

Morrowind

Vahrokh wrote: »

Is there a way to have something like that with all the TES titles? A bundle of all games, made to work with Windows 7? I don't care to have updated graphics, just to play.

I think you can download Arena and Daggerfall for free from ES; and the GOTY verson of Morrowind that I (still) have works fine with Windows 7.

Speaking of Morrowind - now that I upgraded my computer, I'm going to go online to the "Morrowind-Skyrim" modding pages and see if I can play Morrowind with graphics from Skyrim.

carlos.trevisan.contatonrb19_ESO

Oblivion

Oblivion.

Ps: I want a Akaviri (Samurai like) sword!!

ArterionAU

Oblivion

Oblivion.

Immediately immersed me into the world of Elder Scrolls and played and completed (As much as you can complete an Elder Scrolls game) Oblvion, Skyrim. Got the Anthology Edition and plan on doing the same thing with Morrowind, Daggerfall, Arena.

Long live The Elder Scrolls!

Ojustaboo

Morrowind

Got Morrowind free with my new graphics card many moons ago, been hooked ever since.