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When were you acquainted with "The Elder Scrolls"?
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Pre-Morrowinders101284b14_ESO wrote: »ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »There are 3 types of ES players. Those that started at Morrowind, those that started at Skyrim, and those that pretend they played Arena or Daggerfall.
that so then explain this,
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the average player age being 25-35 but the average age of the player who would have played Arena would be around 45 or so puts the likeliness of someone playing either one at a very small percentage.
That's the average console gamer, the currently listed average PC gamer age is now 42!
That's because all us old gits grew up on Elite on the BBC Micro and ZX Speccy Games and moved on to Amigas/ST's then in to the good ole days where building your 286/386/486 out of components was so much cheaper than buying an Elonex box unit..
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Pre-Morrowinders101284b14_ESO wrote: »
Yeah I know other people that use Photoshop also
It was a joke but most people who play ESO never played Arena or Dagerfall when they came out mostly due to the fact that games where harder to get distributed, a smaller market, and not being as well known of a company. Skyrim sold... (what was it something like 20 million copies?) No way that Arena or Daggerfall would have even a fraction of those numbers, and the average player age being 25-35 but the average age of the player who would have played Arena would be around 45 or so puts the likeliness of someone playing either one at a very small percentage.
So not that no one has ever played either one but the percentage being so low I doubt that its 30% of the people here.
I will be 45 this year.
Edited by gclifton58ub17_ESO on June 1, 2014 12:44AM3 -
kip_silverwolf✭✭✭✭✭Oblivion'Oblivion' first introduced me to the ES series and I was instantly hooked! As soon as I could drag myself away from it, I got into Arena, Daggerfall and Morrowind, and then, of course, along came Skyrim!
Of all the RPG's I've played, I have to say the TES is the only series where I love every single game. I still enjoy going back to any of them now - when I can drag myself out of TESO!
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isengrimb16_ESO✭✭✭✭✭Skyrimers101284b14_ESO wrote: »There are 3 types of ES players. Those that started at Morrowind, those that started at Skyrim, and those that pretend they played Arena or Daggerfall.
that so then explain this,
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I dislike being called a liar! That game is only 21 years old darn-it! I still have all my games dating back to my Apple IIe days, ie. 1978. Gaming isn't just for youngsters anymore my friend.
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Wow, I remember 5.25 floppies. I always got upset when people referred to the 3 inch or so hard diskettes as "floppies".
I've mentioned DarkSun before. Has anyone played either the tabletop or the computer version? I loved both, which I think would be unusual.
Know how I got to play the tabletop version? My boyfriend's birthday was coming up, and I wanted to give him a good present. I'd heard him mention a Darksun box set (tabletop) - so I asked our local RPG bookseller about it. She told me that TSR was in bankruptcy, and that the presses had been shut down for six months, but she'd try her suppliers. One of them found it in some dusty forgotten corner of some warehouse, and I bought it, for sure.
At least I got to play it a little bit before I left the city. It was worth it.
Edited by isengrimb16_ESO on June 1, 2014 1:04AM2 -
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yiasemi✭✭✭✭MorrowindMorrowind about the same time as Neverwinter Nights. That makes me a fanwoman now. The OP doubtless will call me a soccer mom then. Which is partly true, I am married to a footballer. She plays ESO too. 1 -
isengrimb16_ESO✭✭✭✭✭SkyrimAvalonRanger wrote: »I'm Bethesda Game Studio fan.
This game developer taught me what is genuine RPG.
You ain`t never played an RPG unless you did it tabletop, focused on the communal storytelling aspect (and not just one-shot, let`s fight each other to get out of a Plane of Hell kind of kid game that we used to do just because attendance was too low to continue the real game.)
But yeah, I`d swear Bethesda people are old-school tabletoppers at heart.
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KracsNZ✭✭Pre-MorrowindArena for me. Was 20yo when this came out.Edited by KracsNZ on June 1, 2014 1:38AM1
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✭✭MorrowindStarted with Morrowind from a guy that started with Daggerfall.
Suggested I never play Buggy-fall.
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isengrimb16_ESO✭✭✭✭✭SkyrimStarted with Morrowind from a guy that started with Daggerfall.
Suggested I never play Buggy-fall.
Loved it then, can't get into it now. The combat system.. /barf
The old ES combat system would have been great with a Wii controller. Too bad they were about a decade too early for that, and we still don't have that kind of control system for PCs.
Bow combat seems to have always been a PITA, frankly, I like it better in ESO than Skyrim.
I want a holodeck-style TES MMO, frankly. But then, I also want a robot that can do housework, with me just supervising. Dreams are great as long as you don't take them too seriously.
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Blackhorne✭✭✭✭Pre-MorrowindArena, 1994. First time I played it I didn't know about the fast travel network so I spent an entire day travelling across a randomly-generated landscape trying to get somewhere which would have taken weeks of game time to get there manually.
Then I got poor for a while, so I missed Daggerfall, Reguard, and Battlespire. But once I got Morrowind, it's like I never left.
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Khivas_Carrick✭✭✭✭✭MorrowindI came in at Morrowind on the Xbox when I was a mere 15 years old, waiting on Fable to be released thinking that game was going to be hot ***.
God was I wrong, and damn did Bethesda have be ever since.Bobbity Boop, this game might become poop, but I'll still play because I'm just a pile of goop!1 -
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Getting way OT here, but I remember when all of my games were on cassette tapes for my dad's Commodore 64. It was a really big deal when we got a 5 1/4 floppy drive.isengrimb16_ESO wrote: »ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »There are 3 types of ES players. Those that started at Morrowind, those that started at Skyrim, and those that pretend they played Arena or Daggerfall.
that so then explain this,
[img][/img]
I dislike being called a liar! That game is only 21 years old darn-it! I still have all my games dating back to my Apple IIe days, ie. 1978. Gaming isn't just for youngsters anymore my friend.
edit: to fix picture
Wow, I remember 5.25 floppies. I always got upset when people referred to the 3 inch or so hard diskettes as "floppies".
I've mentioned DarkSun before. Has anyone played either the tabletop or the computer version? I loved both, which I think would be unusual.
Know how I got to play the tabletop version? My boyfriend's birthday was coming up, and I wanted to give him a good present. I'd heard him mention a Darksun box set (tabletop) - so I asked our local RPG bookseller about it. She told me that TSR was in bankruptcy, and that the presses had been shut down for six months, but she'd try her suppliers. One of them found it in some dusty forgotten corner of some warehouse, and I bought it, for sure.
At least I got to play it a little bit before I left the city. It was worth it.
And yes, I played the tabletop version of Dark Sun briefly, but my friends and I never really got into it. At the time we preferred Forgotten Realms. Actually, for a long time my favorite computer game was Hillsfar on the Amiga. In some ways it was similar to the ES games in that it was somewhat open world. You could go around and do what you wanted. If you wanted to try to earn money fighting in the arena, you could go and do that - fighting tougher and tougher opponents for bigger purses. If you wanted to pick locks and steal from people's houses, you could do that too. At the time I thought it was amazing that they had this game where you could go and do pretty much whatever you wanted.
Bringing it back to the ES games, when you get down to it I think the degree to which I like a game largely depends on how open world it is, and how interesting I find the lore to be. That's why I like the ES games.
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raudfsfolley✭✭✭Pre-MorrowindI started in Daggerfall... when Bethsoft pretty much coined the phrase, "Buy the box and download the game in patches." You couldn't do the first quest without crashing the game, so you had to wait on dial-up for the patch to download, just to play the game!
ESO coming out with so many bugs was just carrying on the proud tradition, is all.1 -
Blackhorne✭✭✭✭Pre-MorrowindI did a poll like this earlier I found it odd (though not surprising) the people that enjoy the game and stuck around are from as far back as arena and the people who started in skyrim usually quit.
why that is? i dont know. I'll be curious to see how this poll goes.
I think it's classic Lore/RPG fans vs Metagamers. ESO as it currently stands is not a great game for metagamers (there are still too many balance issues right now), but the lore and environment are quite well done.2 -
Blackhorne✭✭✭✭Pre-Morrowindisengrimb16_ESO wrote: »ers101284b14_ESO wrote: »There are 3 types of ES players. Those that started at Morrowind, those that started at Skyrim, and those that pretend they played Arena or Daggerfall.
that so then explain this,
[img][/img]
I dislike being called a liar! That game is only 21 years old darn-it! I still have all my games dating back to my Apple IIe days, ie. 1978. Gaming isn't just for youngsters anymore my friend.
edit: to fix picture
Wow, I remember 5.25 floppies. I always got upset when people referred to the 3 inch or so hard diskettes as "floppies".
Well, technically the 3.5" diskettes were floppy. Although they were in a hard cartridge, the disk inside was still floppy, and that's where the name comes from. I was always annoyed by people referring to 3.5" disks as "hard disks", as the term "hard disk" refers to a platter in a hard disk drive.
I've played both. The tabletop version is the only AD&D set I ever bought (I usually mooched off of my friends.) My best experience was DMing a game with my friend (and eventual best man) who played the most insane Thri-Kreen I'd ever met.I've mentioned DarkSun before. Has anyone played either the tabletop or the computer version? I loved both, which I think would be unusual.
I loved the computer version, but remember becoming very annoyed with the inventory bugs (although maybe it was my fault for equipping every inventory slot with chests, and every slot in the chests with bags, and then filling all of the bags, on a computer with only 4MB (yes MB) of RAM ...)
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Aoifesan✭✭✭Pre-Morrowindisengrimb16_ESO wrote: »AvalonRanger wrote: »I'm Bethesda Game Studio fan.
This game developer taught me what is genuine RPG.
You ain`t never played an RPG unless you did it tabletop, focused on the communal storytelling aspect (and not just one-shot, let`s fight each other to get out of a Plane of Hell kind of kid game that we used to do just because attendance was too low to continue the real game.)
But yeah, I`d swear Bethesda people are old-school tabletoppers at heart.
They are. I've had the honor of playing table top with some of them through out time.0 -
SkyrimMy boyfriend introduced me to Skyrim when it came out, but he's been playing the games from the very beginning. I instantly loved it and would play my own character whenever I could. Eventually I bought the whole set of games for myself to play at home. We're both having a lot of fun playing ESO. He and I play together sometimes, but most of the time we're playing our own characters and chatting online.1 -
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✭OblivionThey got me with Oblivion, so I backtracked to Morrowind. Bought a hot of the press Skyrim and never played it again when Companions bugged and just laid dead in Whiterun and at the time there wasn't a fix. (all console)
Moved onto online with LOTRO, tried and hated a variety of games between that and waiting for ESO. Still here for the moment If options weren't necessary, and everyone played the same way, no one would use addons. Fix the UI!1 -
Cazic✭✭✭✭✭Pre-MorrowindMy older bro had both Arena and then Daggerfall when they first came out. I think I was like 8 or 9 when I first got to play Arena and TES has been my fav fantasy RPG series ever since.0 -
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Esha76✭✭✭✭✭Pre-MorrowindOne day back in high school, I walked into the local PC video game store and saw this thing called Arena on the shelf. Maybe it was the chick with the tig 'ole bitties and giant sword on the center of the box cover, or just the fact it was a new fantasy game... I figured: "Ehhh.... what the hell. I'll give it a shot." I knew nothing about it. Turned out to be my favorite game of the time.
Elder Scrolls games have been at the top of my favorite games list ever since the day they were released. Each one has a special place in my memory. The only one I missed was the Redgaurd one, but I did play Battlespire.
Over the years I have watched how the ES games have pretty much pushed the limits of graphics and operating systems of their time. With all the changes that have come with the game, some I love, some I miss. I miss using the mouse strictly for interactive combat... But I will always play new ES games, just my favorite IP of the video game world (along with Games Workshop stuff). Change is not always bad. Stagnation always is.
And I love ESO. Despite some mistakes, and poor design or planning, I will be sticking with it. I do believe these devs are extremely committed and passionate about improving this game in every way they can.
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Morshire✭✭✭✭MorrowindI jumped in on Morrowind. I was not really into gaming till then. I have played everything since then. I was stuck on another online game till this came out. There are a few aspects I miss from the console versions, but I am here and looking forward to where this game will evolve..........It will evolve right? Follow me if I advance, Kill me if I retreat, Avenge me if I die.
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Mercurio✭✭✭Pre-MorrowindI started with Arena in 1996. It promised hundreds of kilometers of game world, but it was pretty blah. LOVED Daggerfall, though, when I borrowed it from a friend that following summer0
