Skyrim then Oblivion then Daggerfall then Morrowind then ESO.

I read about Morrowind in a forum and thought: "That sounds nice. I'll give it a try."

So I bought it, put the disk in the drive, the installation started... and I was immediately hooked. The theme melody of this game is so amazing, I was completely overwhelmed - and I am addicted to TES since. I think my husband still curses the day I read about this game!

Morrowind was my first computer RPG ever and I loved it from the start. I remember my first walk from Seyda Neen to Balmora - it was night, I couldn't find the silt strider (I didn't know yet that those wonderful sounds were coming from those amazing animals) and wandered around in the swamp, heard a man falling from the sky, was several times nearly killed by kwama foragers, cliff racers, mudcrabs... I was nearly dead when I stumbled into Balmora at dawn - and it was just great, I loved it! For me Morrowind is still the queen of computer RPGs.

I also played Oblivion and of course Skyrim. The main reason I decided to play ESO... well... I love the Bosmer. I just love them, I can't help it. They are a wonderful, complex and very interesting people - I loved them from the start and I can't imagine playing another race in these games. Well, so Valenwood is the main reason I bought ESO. I really wanted to go to Valenwood and see the home of the wood elves. I always had my own ideas about this country and ESO does not really meet my expectations in this regard, but it is a good start.

Daggerfall. Since then,all games between a TES release are just to try to help the waiting for me.

first game was tesa: redguard actually and truth be told, while I loved the story, it was god awful trying to play. Like superman 64 levels of frustrating control wise. I may have spent more time reloading after missed jumps than actual playing. The writing, however, along with few owned alternatives, saw me complete the damned thing. Sadly I don't own any of the associated material that came with it, oh to have that now.

A while later my friend got Morrowind for xbox and I watched him play it for a while, completely entranced by it (And unaware it had anything to do with Redguard). Eventually he got the PC version and I would play the Xbox version when I went over to his house. I fell madly in love with the game, staying up all night playing it many times. The story, the environment, even the limitation induced fog conjured feelings I've since had only two videogames give me, Shadow of the colossus and Oblivion. The freedom to run off and steal the sword of white woe or to clear a sixth house stronghold to use as a base, the detail in every corner of the world, the expert world building in the books, the oh *** feeling of getting corprus for the first time and thinking I had messed up, when dreamers started appearing randomly in town, even getting my rest interrupted by a scrib, I loved it all.

I used to go on the fledgling UESP and stare at bad scans of Kirkbrides concept art for large swaths of time. It shaped my art style growing up, you can still see it in my ****.

The alien howling sounds and music while running around the bitter coast with its glowing blue mushrooms and draggle tails still gives me all the feels. The dunmer voice still sends shivers of excitement down my spine.

Oblivion and subsequent replayings of MW bred the lore love in me and I've been a lifer ever since.

I long for the day that Bethesda (or even Zenimax) pushes the stranger in a strange land feel of Morrowind. Bring back the alien cultures guys! Keep trashing the tired elf tropes!

Mine was actually Daggerfall ( but I didn't know it was an ES series game, I didn't really play it as in depth as I did Oblivion and Oblivion remains one if not my all time favourate game).

So I picked Oblvion for the thread since it got me into Morrowind & Skyrim as well as this.

I remember watching the trailers/features bts footage on a magazine disc and how they were going to make all the NPCs have daily routines, have to eat ect. The original imagining of it was insane, the technology was a bit lacking I think. But the medieval fantasy feel and the atmosphere was just so wonderful. I still have Oblivion's sound track on my phone.

Arena

Sorcerer had more skill too, in comparison to ESO
Were really large dungeons where you need to search, and you need to be able to read a map and descriptions to get your goal.

Oblivion was the first for me. But I had tried to get Arena when it came out. It looked interesting but my ex husband refused to let me get the game. It would have taken the time from him being able to play the computer. Besides, he said it was my job to raise the kids and women didn't play games, despite the fact that we met playing AD&D.

Then, years later, my youngest son asked me to come watch him play Oblivion. As soon as I heard Sir Patrick Stewart, I was hooked.

Arena for me, I enjoyed it enormously and have happily played all the others since - culminating in ESO which I've purposely taken slowly as I see it very much as my main MMO "home" for years to come.

Morrowind, and it is still my favorite too.

Daggerfall for me. The game blew my friggen mind.