Whats your first elder scrolls game and what impressed you the most and how does it impact Eso?

geekboy09

I was very late to the series so my first one was Skyrim. I never heard of elder scrolls before then. I was impressed how big the world is. Stepping out of the cave was a sight to behold. I found this main quest lackluster so I never finished it. I found the dark brotherhood quest much more satisfying because you get to murder the emperor. What is carried over to eso is having good storylines.

opaj

My first TES was Oblivion, but I tried Morrowind soon after and that quickly became my favorite. Still, I love all of the games in the series, and play the modern ones (Morrowind and later) regularly. While each game has its own strengths and weaknesses, the main feature that brings me back to the series is the sheer freedom to do what you want.

At this point, I've probably played more ESO than any one of the singleplayer games, which is strange, considering that ESO didn't give you that same level of freedom when it first launched. However, ESO has some of the strongest writing in the TES series, in my opinion, and I was drawn in by the imaginative quests and intriguing stories. Since One Tamriel, it's easy to completely mess up the continuity of the stories, but the freedom to go off in any direction and play the character exactly how you want is about as good as it can get in an MMORPG.

Gythral

Arena
been here since the beginning!

^ ESO's strong point is the quest writing is much better than all the single player games but obvoiusly you are a lot more restricted by the MMO setting and it's 'class' system

TheShadowScout

My first TES game was TES-II:Daggerfall. I found it... nice, but nothing special (except maybe falling through the dungeon floor every now and then - TES roulette, back in the day)

But it had dark elves, and I like dark elves, so when the next TES game came out, I also picked that one up. And that was... TES-III:Morrowind.
And it blew me away!
The rich history of the dunmer, making them a race of dark elves quite distinctive from the classis D&D drow, made me love them in their own right, and kept me forever loving the elder scrolls universe! The really nice questlines there, not as boring as some of the daggerfall stories had sadly been, was grandious, especially the main quest unraveling the dark secrets in the dunmers history, and resolving them through twists and surprises - I enjoyed it immensely. I also really loved the way how you could join one of the three houses, but had to choose... I always love games who allow your character to take different paths in different playthroughs... raises the replayability value, a lot.

And obviously I have been a fan of TES games ever since, from there over oblivion to skyrim and finally ESO. Where I dearly loved to revisit, or rather, previsit, the known regions in a different form (even though I truly wish technology was advanced enough for ESO to have the level of detail and size that solo TES games could afford, though sadly, our computer technologies are not good enough for that yet)

Hal_Moore

Morrowind was my first Elder scrolls game and I loved it because it was one of the first open world games i played and explored gave a real sense of freedom of choice.

Eso likewise has so many different things you can do and it keeps you busy theory crafting and trying new builds.

ArchMikem

Unfortunately that was Skyrim like many others. I tried to play Oblivion with graphics mods to make it look better but it was still much more clunky and difficult to manage.

When i first played Skyrim i remember geeking out to my brother about how pretty the stream flowing out of Whiterun was. The game's environments enthralled me and i fell in love with the sense of wilderness every time i got lost in the woods. I was enjoying the world much more than the gameplay.

VaranisArano

Skyrim. I started playing ESO as my first MMO because it was a chance to play "Skyrim with friends."

I've since played Oblivion and Morrowind, and still boot up Skyrim for another hike up to High Hrothgar every time my internet goes out.

TheCyberDruid

Morrowind was my first TES game and the level of being able to interact with the world was amazing. I played Gothic before Morrowind and thought that Gothic had an amazing open world (which it has), but Morrowind really nailed the 'go and do whatever you like' bit. I got into ESO after the One Tamriel update and I'm really glad I did because it has a similar feeling. I do really like how ESO gives you a lot of places in Tamriel to discover and get to know.

bloodthirstyvampire

The surprises in Oblivion. I really liked taking my time just wandering into a cave here and there. I remembered one time I walked in to a cave full of vampires, east of the Imperial city, the first Vampires I had ever met, I killed all of them, and in 3 days I had become a Vampire out of nowhere, after seeing the poetic yet rather dark dream, just like oh I'm a vampire now.

Imo oblivion had the best vampires, the sun damage was truly debiliting, I felt so powerful, all my skills went up by 20 I was faster, stronger and more durable, nothing could stop me.. and yet the sun was still there, in my way, like an unstoppable unkillable final boss who I could never defeat.. only run for my life.

Plus the way you feed in oblivion felt more genuine, It actually felt good knowing what if these people wake. It felt satisfying to feed in general.

Thus began my obsession with the vampire lore of the elder scrolls, and why I enjoy eso so much to this day

jedtb16_ESO

morrowind. got it free with an agp graphics card.

the take on open world reignited my interest in gaming.

Tasear

Skyrim

It gave me the sense of making my own adventure. In Skyrim I was a bow bandit killer yet couldn't hit a bunny who the dark brotherhood was after often. At last game gave me vitural motion sickness so only had 30 hours, but that was enough to inspire me years later to come here.

geekboy09

Gythral wrote: »

Arena
been here since the beginning!

^ ESO's strong point is the quest writing is much better than all the single player games but obvoiusly you are a lot more restricted by the MMO setting and it's 'class' system

I’m curious how long is it to complete arena?

geekboy09

Tasear wrote: »

Skyrim

It gave me the sense of making my own adventure. In Skyrim I was a boe bandit killer yet couldn't hit a bunny who the dark brotherhood was after often. At last game gave me vitural motion sickness so only had 30 hours, but that was enough to inspire me years later to come here.

Did you like the main quest in Skyrim? I found it so boring. Oh a dragon and civil war crisis. that’s so interesting

Gythral

geekboy09 wrote: »

Gythral wrote: »

Arena
been here since the beginning!

^ ESO's strong point is the quest writing is much better than all the single player games but obvoiusly you are a lot more restricted by the MMO setting and it's 'class' system

I’m curious how long is it to complete arena?

Not sure I have, 25yrs on
I still find something to do, or something I missed
Arena, and Daggerfall have randomly generated dungeons & encounters but more open that all the the later games since Morrowind where the dungeons are better modelled but static, downside with the first 2 is that they are buggier than the last 3
(and yes I still have Arena, Daggerfall, Battlespire and all but Oblivion installed on the PC)

Androconium

Morrowind.

The Construction Set was the absolute killer feature. This was the only game in 2002 that you could customise in this way.

The flaws with it gave rise the what we now know as the 'modding' community.

So many basic and fundamental (if there's a difference) modding issues and techniques were honed out by the Morrowind modding community. Some are still here playing with ESO.

ESO Players owe so much to the hard work done by the TES modding community, including the ability to now roam across large tracts of the Tamriel world in one timeline. This was a dream for Morrowind players.

One team of dedicated players spent five years recreating the entire mainland province of Morrowind.
I won't mention them, as the last time that I did, the post was removed. Thanks for that...

Sylvermynx

Arena.

ESO has, as with the other MMOs I've played, a non-static world - which is why I play them.

Enemoriana

My first was TES III Morrowind. I was 9 years old, I think, and I didn't have much games to play: my brother was bringing games, and he likes just to shoot and slash, both then and now, or mother, who prefers strategies. So I played mostly because it was only fantasy RPG game I had.
But I played it a lot.
Even with main quests of Tribunal and Bloodmoon not working (it was almost pirate copy), half of texts in english (not my native language. I even learned some words. My teacher was very surprised that I knew what heather is) and big yellow triangles in some places - not all mods are good...

Later classmate gave me - pirate copy again, and only for a time - Oblivion. I liked it, mostly because of Dark Brotherhood, and I LOVED russian voice of Lucien Lachance. I also played a lot, though sometimes I was returning to Morrowind.

When Skyrim came, I already had normal copies of Morrowind and Oblivion (though I still carefully keep that old disc of Morrowind I played so much) and preordered Skyrim. I started to discuss it with others, and it was also a time when I tried much more games then before... and that was when I understood how much TES and especially Morrowind means for me. I can't name something that impress me... it's just everything, from first rat that killed me to "who killed Nerevar?" question, from Crassius Curio dialogs to voice (russian again - it's absolutely different) of Dagoth Ur.

Now I still play Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim sometimes. I collect things related to TES - books, official items, not official, handmade... And, of course, I could not refuse to give ESO a chance, despite I absolutely don't like MMOs.

DanteYoda

Daggerfall.. And tbh i was not really surprised. It felt like a poor D&D clone..

I play ES games mostly because RPGs have pretty much died and these are some of the only ones left.. ES lore is pretty silly but the games as a game is quite fun.

Not saying ESO is bad i just don't hype over the lackluster lore like many do here, and i enjoy the social aspect mmo's provide.

SHADOW2KK

Morrowind.

DanteYoda wrote: »

Daggerfall.. And tbh i was not really surprised. It felt like a poor D&D clone..

I play ES games mostly because RPGs have pretty much died and these are some of the only ones left.. ES lore is pretty silly but the games as a game is quite fun.

Not saying ESO is bad i just don't hype over the lackluster lore like many do here, and i enjoy the social aspect mmo's provide.

Agreed, the lore in this game is uninteresting to me in the main, apart from DB , the Blades etc, but try Witcher 3 or Kingdom Come Deliverance for rpg action, both good games.

fgoron2000

ArchMikem wrote: »

Unfortunately that was Skyrim like many others. I tried to play Oblivion with graphics mods to make it look better but it was still much more clunky and difficult to manage.

When i first played Skyrim i remember geeking out to my brother about how pretty the stream flowing out of Whiterun was. The game's environments enthralled me and i fell in love with the sense of wilderness every time i got lost in the woods. I was enjoying the world much more than the gameplay.

i had kind of a similar response with Oblivion my first game, and then Morrowind second. I only played MW through about 3 times, quite a few times less than either Oblivion or Skyrim. I did play Arena as well when it became a free download, and I tried Daggerfall, but after at least a half dozen attempts, I gave up on it, and it's the only one I never finished...

geekboy09

fgoron2000 wrote: »

ArchMikem wrote: »

Unfortunately that was Skyrim like many others. I tried to play Oblivion with graphics mods to make it look better but it was still much more clunky and difficult to manage.

When i first played Skyrim i remember geeking out to my brother about how pretty the stream flowing out of Whiterun was. The game's environments enthralled me and i fell in love with the sense of wilderness every time i got lost in the woods. I was enjoying the world much more than the gameplay.

i had kind of a similar response with Oblivion my first game, and then Morrowind second. I only played MW through about 3 times, quite a few times less than either Oblivion or Skyrim. I did play Arena as well when it became a free download, and I tried Daggerfall, but after at least a half dozen attempts, I gave up on it, and it's the only one I never finished...

Why is dagger fall hard?

Cloudtrader

ESO is my first Elder Scrolls game. I'm not very interested in solo video games.

Rohamad_Ali

Marrowind and it was amazing to behold on high graphics . Everything was so vibrant . Even the 3 million cliff racers eating my face .

Iluvrien

Morrowind. The sense of depth of the world building. That verisimilitude of something so other-worldly hasn't really been seen again. Oblivion's take on Cyrodiil, and Skyrim's take on... well... Skyrim both felt too close to stereotypical views of ancient cultures from home to be at the same level.

Sadly much of Morrowind in this game seems to have drawn from the Oblivion and Skyrim approach rather than the TES III route. The comparison doesn't really do ESO many favours.

Azuramoonstar

Elder scrolls morrowind was my first on the og xbox. It was my first large scale 3d game/ rpg. (my first 3d game was zelda Oot) i enjoyed the large scale open world, the class and quest system, ability to make your own class, and the guild system.

I enjoyed exploring and finding secrets being able to feel like i'm living in the world through my character.

around the time i was playing morrowind .hack started to become a thing and i was wanting to see a elder scrolls MMO. even keot telling mmp in ff11 how much id like to see it, maybe even get to see all of nations.

They told me it would never happen that the game world is too big.

with eso i waited till it got better, i wanted to play it at launch but when i found out they locked imperial behind CE, and saw reviews how badly they did the MMO part i passed. I enjoy it, and to me it feels like morrowind with the good bits of skyrim.

Jameliel

Morrowind is GOAT. It was before they started making things level with you for all the soft noobs.

geekboy09

Azuramoonstar wrote: »

Elder scrolls morrowind was my first on the og xbox. It was my first large scale 3d game/ rpg. (my first 3d game was zelda Oot) i enjoyed the large scale open world, the class and quest system, ability to make your own class, and the guild system.

I enjoyed exploring and finding secrets being able to feel like i'm living in the world through my character.

around the time i was playing morrowind .hack started to become a thing and i was wanting to see a elder scrolls MMO. even keot telling mmp in ff11 how much id like to see it, maybe even get to see all of nations.

They told me it would never happen that the game world is too big.

with eso i waited till it got better, i wanted to play it at launch but when i found out they locked imperial behind CE, and saw reviews how badly they did the MMO part i passed. I enjoy it, and to me it feels like morrowind with the good bits of skyrim.

When did you get eso?

barney2525

A friend convinced me to get skyrim. But I never got past the character creation. I can't stick with a game that I hate the look of the character, and every character in skyrim was buttugli.

So ESO is the first one i actually played. Got it back when it was Not adjusting everything to your own level. Just played it off and on initially because I was trying other games too.

geekboy09

barney2525 wrote: »

A friend convinced me to get skyrim. But I never got past the character creation. I can't stick with a game that I hate the look of the character, and every character in skyrim was buttugli.

So ESO is the first one i actually played. Got it back when it was Not adjusting everything to your own level. Just played it off and on initially because I was trying other games too.

Please go back to Skyrim just for the dark brotherhood quest. It’s amazing. You won’t regret your ten hours of the quest.

LadyHeloise

fgoron2000 wrote: »

ArchMikem wrote: »

Unfortunately that was Skyrim like many others. I tried to play Oblivion with graphics mods to make it look better but it was still much more clunky and difficult to manage.

When i first played Skyrim i remember geeking out to my brother about how pretty the stream flowing out of Whiterun was. The game's environments enthralled me and i fell in love with the sense of wilderness every time i got lost in the woods. I was enjoying the world much more than the gameplay.

i had kind of a similar response with Oblivion my first game, and then Morrowind second. I only played MW through about 3 times, quite a few times less than either Oblivion or Skyrim. I did play Arena as well when it became a free download, and I tried Daggerfall, but after at least a half dozen attempts, I gave up on it, and it's the only one I never finished...

Yep, me too. Started with Oblivion, then Morrowind. Morrowind was rich and in depth, with great stories, but frankly the movement bored me (until you get those boots) and I'm just not into dark elves that much, so preferred Oblivion. The stories I found rich and engaging. Skyrim blew me away though - it is just so pretty. And I enjoyed the main quest but I also liked Homestead, so I am very happy to have houses in ESO (though would like a garden!). Still play it now. I love the open world aspect of Elder Scrolls games and find I can't play games with linear storylines any more. I really like the feeling of serendipity that you get when exploring and you find something interesting.

geekboy09

LadyHeloise wrote: »

fgoron2000 wrote: »

ArchMikem wrote: »

Unfortunately that was Skyrim like many others. I tried to play Oblivion with graphics mods to make it look better but it was still much more clunky and difficult to manage.

When i first played Skyrim i remember geeking out to my brother about how pretty the stream flowing out of Whiterun was. The game's environments enthralled me and i fell in love with the sense of wilderness every time i got lost in the woods. I was enjoying the world much more than the gameplay.

i had kind of a similar response with Oblivion my first game, and then Morrowind second. I only played MW through about 3 times, quite a few times less than either Oblivion or Skyrim. I did play Arena as well when it became a free download, and I tried Daggerfall, but after at least a half dozen attempts, I gave up on it, and it's the only one I never finished...

Yep, me too. Started with Oblivion, then Morrowind. Morrowind was rich and in depth, with great stories, but frankly the movement bored me (until you get those boots) and I'm just not into dark elves that much, so preferred Oblivion. The stories I found rich and engaging. Skyrim blew me away though - it is just so pretty. And I enjoyed the main quest but I also liked Homestead, so I am very happy to have houses in ESO (though would like a garden!). Still play it now. I love the open world aspect of Elder Scrolls games and find I can't play games with linear storylines any more. I really like the feeling of serendipity that you get when exploring and you find something interesting.

You liked the main quest in Skyrim? Interesting. It bored me to death. I found the darkl brotherhood quest much more enjoyable.