What was your first TES game?

Sausage · February 2016

Arena

Arena but gotta say Curse of the Azure Bond and Pool of Radiance were much better than it, at least Ive alot more memories from them than Arena, Skyrim was really first ES game what really rocked my socks off as Neverwinter Nights owned the early 2000. If asked from me, Skyrim was major thing to the series.

SHADOW2KK · February 2016

Morrowind

Loved Morrowind, still play it every so often with mods to make the graphics better and shizzle, spent so many hours on it in 2001 or so when I started playing it.

Loved Oblivion/Skyrim too, vanilla and modded to my tastes.

Faulgor · February 2016

Morrowind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG_fV0r4cX0

BabeestorGor · February 2016

Morrowind

Morrowind. Best crpg I've ever played.
I've played the later games in the series and gone back and tried the first 2 and although I enjoyed them all I doubt I'd've become hooked on the series if any of them had been my 1st experience of it.

Xerosus · February 2016

Morrowind

Lysette wrote: »

Xerosus wrote: »

Morrowind

I'll always remember thinking about how difficult it was, yet i still kept playing. It was also pretty creepy.

I'm looking at you Sixth House caves/Kogoruhn.

I think creepy is not the right term, it was a truely foreign world in Morrowind. Starting with the 2 moons in the sky, the presence of magic everywhere and performed by anyone to a certain degree. These giant mushrooms and the floating Netch. And then again it felt familiar as well, more like in a dream than that it would have been creepy - at least to me it was like that.

Edit: what I liked a lot with Morrowind was that your choices had consequences. You had to be careful which of the offered quests you are actually doing and which to reject - otherwise you could have messed up another quest line for another guild or faction really bad. You had to think in Morrowind.

In a way this concept of consequences has returned in fallout 4 - there it matters as well, what you are doing and for whom. It will change the way factions are relating to you and how the game play will evolve. That was a good step back/forwards by Bethesda in the fallout series.

Like i said, the Sixth House bases and Daedric Ruins were creepy when i was a kid, now i just run through slaughtering everything. And yes, i miss actually having other factions ignore or turn hostile if you side with their enemies. And i loved how vague the directions to places were, it forced you to explore.

WalkingLegacy · February 2016

Morrowind

I spent at least 2000 hours into Morrowind between owning it on PC and Xbox.

Morrowind is still the only game I've made mods for. I went back and played arena and daggerfall but don't think I beat them. I remember Bethesda gave Arena out for free at one point.

Lysette · February 2016

Morrowind

Xerosus wrote: »

Lysette wrote: »

Xerosus wrote: »

Morrowind

I'll always remember thinking about how difficult it was, yet i still kept playing. It was also pretty creepy.

I'm looking at you Sixth House caves/Kogoruhn.

I think creepy is not the right term, it was a truely foreign world in Morrowind. Starting with the 2 moons in the sky, the presence of magic everywhere and performed by anyone to a certain degree. These giant mushrooms and the floating Netch. And then again it felt familiar as well, more like in a dream than that it would have been creepy - at least to me it was like that.

Edit: what I liked a lot with Morrowind was that your choices had consequences. You had to be careful which of the offered quests you are actually doing and which to reject - otherwise you could have messed up another quest line for another guild or faction really bad. You had to think in Morrowind.

In a way this concept of consequences has returned in fallout 4 - there it matters as well, what you are doing and for whom. It will change the way factions are relating to you and how the game play will evolve. That was a good step back/forwards by Bethesda in the fallout series.

Like i said, the Sixth House bases and Daedric Ruins were creepy when i was a kid, now i just run through slaughtering everything. And yes, i miss actually having other factions ignore or turn hostile if you side with their enemies. And i loved how vague the directions to places were, it forced you to explore.

Indeed there was still mystery. I remember that I was struggling to find out more about the dwemer, because I expected at first, that they might have been an alien culture which went extinct or something like this. The true story of them is still not revealed to the very day and might never come to light. Still I am always looking for hints about this culture. And there were rumors as well, which were pointless - this is as well something what is not longer present. Normally you can trust what NPCs tell you, but not so in Morrowind, they were as well telling lies or things for which was no evidence to be found.

Spacemonkey · February 2016

Morrowind

Morrowind.

I somehow missed the part when in the census excise office he strongly suggests you visit caius cosade, i took it as such. A suggestion, and didnt follow it. Theres so little handhelding in the game that I played 6 months straight without knowing there was a main quest, piecing all these hints and pieces I kept hearing about the blight, dagoth ur, the tribunal and the corprus and started telling one of my freinds how I was pretty sure something would unfold etc.... so umm, he told me I was an idiot and was supposed to talk to caius cosades and give him his packages. I panicked a bit because I had no clue where that package was, scoured eastern Vvardenfell for it and eventually found it in Seyda Neens tradehouse.

Started Main quest at level 20+, that first 6 months was the most freedom I've ever experienced in any game - and Morrowind as a whole is still the rpg that offers the most. F**k user-friendliness in single player games I say. Be bold devs, be bold.

LoreRiley · February 2016

Daggerfall

Zorrashi wrote: »

....I was very (as in, super extremely) late with the Xbox generation. I had my PS2 and I refused to let it go for the longest time.
I didn't event want Skyrim originally, but it came with those console + game bundles that I only knew a marginal amount about. I thought it was shameless advertising......I was wrong. It was the best accidental purchase ever.

I booted it up, turned it on, and continued to play until my eyes were sore and bloodshot. I even took a loot at Morrowind and Oblivion, but alas--the graphics were too shoddy for me to grime my way through their story. Then steam sold them for dirt cheap.

Im guessing blackfriday bundle?
@Zorrashi

Lysette · February 2016

Morrowind

And what is still in me from Morrowind - I was a member of House Hlaalu. Whenever I hear "welcome to the Hlaalu treasury" in ESO, I feel at home, just like when I went to Skingrad in Oblivion to meet the dunmer alchemist. She introduces herself as a member of House Hlaalu, this made me buy and sell stuff from her more often than from others. She is just family.

nine9six · February 2016

Morrowind

Morrowind on the original Xbox. Follow that rabbit hole all the way to here. Love The Elder Scroll series!

Nikolas · February 2016

Morrowind

Morrowind "came to me" three weeks before my university exams. I stayed at home playing Morrowind the day I was supposed to give my exams for my last lesson. I passed the course 4 months later cause of Morrowind. No regrets though, I LOVED that game

Smitch_59 · February 2016

Morrowind

Spacemonkey wrote: »

Morrowind.

I somehow missed the part when in the census excise office he strongly suggests you visit caius cosade, i took it as such. A suggestion, and didnt follow it. Theres so little handhelding in the game that I played 6 months straight without knowing there was a main quest, piecing all these hints and pieces I kept hearing about the blight, dagoth ur, the tribunal and the corprus and started telling one of my freinds how I was pretty sure something would unfold etc.... so umm, he told me I was an idiot and was supposed to talk to caius cosades and give him his packages. I panicked a bit because I had no clue where that package was, scoured eastern Vvardenfell for it and eventually found it in Seyda Neens tradehouse.

Started Main quest at level 20+, that first 6 months was the most freedom I've ever experienced in any game - and Morrowind as a whole is still the rpg that offers the most. F**k user-friendliness in single player games I say. Be bold devs, be bold.

Great story! In Morrowind, if you sold something to a merchant it would stay in their inventory forever. I remember accidentally selling a quest item (a piece of clothing required for an early quest). Yes, you could sell quest items if you weren't careful! I was unable to complete the quest and I searched high and low until I finally found it at a merchant in Balmora, where I could buy it back.

Smitch_59 · February 2016

Morrowind

RDMyers65b14_ESO wrote: »

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.

Sir Patrick Stewart as the Emperor was awesome. I still love his line "and close shut the jaws of Oblivion." And who could forget Sean Bean as Brother Martin?

Smitch_59 · February 2016

Morrowind

Lysette wrote: »

Xerosus wrote: »

Lysette wrote: »

Xerosus wrote: »

Morrowind

I'll always remember thinking about how difficult it was, yet i still kept playing. It was also pretty creepy.

I'm looking at you Sixth House caves/Kogoruhn.

I think creepy is not the right term, it was a truely foreign world in Morrowind. Starting with the 2 moons in the sky, the presence of magic everywhere and performed by anyone to a certain degree. These giant mushrooms and the floating Netch. And then again it felt familiar as well, more like in a dream than that it would have been creepy - at least to me it was like that.

Edit: what I liked a lot with Morrowind was that your choices had consequences. You had to be careful which of the offered quests you are actually doing and which to reject - otherwise you could have messed up another quest line for another guild or faction really bad. You had to think in Morrowind.

In a way this concept of consequences has returned in fallout 4 - there it matters as well, what you are doing and for whom. It will change the way factions are relating to you and how the game play will evolve. That was a good step back/forwards by Bethesda in the fallout series.

Like i said, the Sixth House bases and Daedric Ruins were creepy when i was a kid, now i just run through slaughtering everything. And yes, i miss actually having other factions ignore or turn hostile if you side with their enemies. And i loved how vague the directions to places were, it forced you to explore.

Indeed there was still mystery. I remember that I was struggling to find out more about the dwemer, because I expected at first, that they might have been an alien culture which went extinct or something like this. The true story of them is still not revealed to the very day and might never come to light. Still I am always looking for hints about this culture. And there were rumors as well, which were pointless - this is as well something what is not longer present. Normally you can trust what NPCs tell you, but not so in Morrowind, they were as well telling lies or things for which was no evidence to be found.

LOL! The Mages Guild quest when Archmage Trebonius tells you to find out about the disappearance of the dwarves; as if that's something you could really do!

MarrazzMist · February 2016

Oblivion

We had Oblivion on xbox in class room when I was studying. I played it with a friend while waiting our works to render, and got constantly killed by rats, as we were too lazy to learn the controls. Scamps were even scarier. But the endless open world was weird and worderful.

Later I found it from sales for pc. I had whole christmas holiday before I could actually install it, so I read EVERYTHING about the game. After careful planning I picked khajiit, made a class called Traveller, and headed to the sewers. I was lost ever since.

Jura23 · February 2016

Elder Scrolls Online

I'm huge RPG fan, but I never played any ES. I played mostly Kotor games, Witcher and Mass effect. Now I'm considering purchase of Skyrim, because it's sounds cool and doesn't look too outdated.

Hope499 · February 2016

Morrowind

morrowind....crazy fun.

So dark and open....

I miss flying over towns with the flying spell and shooting fireballs down at people.

Or this part, was so awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJq0iXOwb9Y

And doing this type of ***:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxRSr_JoPf0

Florial · February 2016

Daggerfall

Daggerfall (if that was the one after Arena). I may have played Arena but it didn't stand out. Been so long ago.

My spouse also enjoyed the games very much. The last one he played was Oblivion but for some reason, didn't get into Skyrim. I do remember how buggy the earlier games were. Loads of fun.

ThePonzzz · February 2016

Daggerfall

Daggerfall was my first, loved how massive the world was. To this day, nothing holds a candle to the size of that game. I played it around '97, so at the time, the depth you could do to create a class, create a character, and all the kingdoms within the game where you can get rep was just mesmerizing. Character creation was so fun back then.

Oblivion was breathtaking though. Loading that up for the first time was amazing. Just wandering around the world was amazing. Oblivion robbed any future TES title of that breathtaking view. Graphics were great in Skyrim, but they will never give the chills of Oblivion.

Ch4mpTW · February 2016

Skyrim

I had always heard of The Elder Scrolls, but didn't actually give the franchise a try until Skyrim. With all of the positive reviews from both acquaintances and critics alike, I figured I'd give it a shot. And I do not regret it in the slightest.

Sallington · February 2016

Morrowind

I still think it's the greatest game ever made.

Snowstrider · February 2016

Morrowind

Morrowind. And its still my fav game and fav tes game.

nine9six · February 2016

Morrowind

I remember playing Morrowind and coming across someone in a "shiny outfit". I just *had* to have this outfit so I did what any 17-year-old gamer would do...I killed the NPC and took it!

Didn't pay much attention to the "With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created." message that was flashed on the screen.

I played that save for years (seriously) before I got around to completing the Main Quest.

It was about that time.... (^ lol)...that I realized that person I killed back in 2002 was needed for the Main Quest... "Ohhhhh, that was what they meant by that 'Doomed World' message!"

Thankfully, due to the original version of the game having the infamous "200 block save bug" that I still had my OLD, OLD, OLD game saves. I looked at it as starting over without have to start ALL the way over.

Of course, I proceeded straight to Moonmoth to nab a Crossbow, swiped the Sword of White Woe from Balmora, and went straight to Ghost Gate to steal some Glass Armor. No seasoned Adventurer would be caught dead without also having the Boots of Blinding Speed + Cuirass of the Saviors Hide!

I'd give anything to re-play that game "for the first time".

*EDIT BELOW*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me9vQlRktVA

I spy (hear?) a Signature in that video!

And this video....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf0jiOpD-AQ

Made me replay it recently. So much

for that game!

Dark_Aether · February 2016

Skyrim

After discovering the beauty of Skyrim, I decided to experienced the older games for my self...but could not go back to DOS so I skipped the first 2. Oblivion was meh, I just did not expect to fall in love with a game as old as Morrowind. Skyrim is still my favorite though.

Spottswoode · February 2016

Daggerfall

Mind you, I had no idea what it was at the time. I actually had the game consolidated on a zip disk with a whole bunch other games.

Ilsabet · February 2016

Skyrim

Skyrim is the only other Elder Scrolls game I've played. I picked it up last summer when it was five bucks on Steam just because I'd heard good things about it and it seemed like something I might be interested in. Once I wound down with that I jumped over to the MMO side and here I am.

Xellos77 · February 2016

Morrowind

I've played them all but got my start on Morrowind. Years ago I happened to be at a buddy's house and he was playing this odd game that looked almost like an MMO. Huge, open world. Do/be anything. I was instantly hooked.

I've sunk more hours into Morrowind than almost any other game (that's not an MMO). I've played it sooo many times.

You N'wah.

I sometimes still hear it in my sleep.

Jsmalls · February 2016

Morrowind

Morrowind, but I didn't really get into it until Oblivion. Did virtually everything you could in that game. Even climbed the White Gold Tower with paintbrushes (they floated when you dropped them and you could stand on the floating paintbrush). Made it to the top to fall through the ceiling... Soooo upsetting.

Xellos77 · February 2016

Morrowind

Spacemonkey wrote: »

Morrowind.

I somehow missed the part when in the census excise office he strongly suggests you visit caius cosade, i took it as such. A suggestion, and didnt follow it. Theres so little handhelding in the game that I played 6 months straight without knowing there was a main quest, piecing all these hints and pieces I kept hearing about the blight, dagoth ur, the tribunal and the corprus and started telling one of my freinds how I was pretty sure something would unfold etc.... so umm, he told me I was an idiot and was supposed to talk to caius cosades and give him his packages. I panicked a bit because I had no clue where that package was, scoured eastern Vvardenfell for it and eventually found it in Seyda Neens tradehouse.

Started Main quest at level 20+, that first 6 months was the most freedom I've ever experienced in any game - and Morrowind as a whole is still the rpg that offers the most. F**k user-friendliness in single player games I say. Be bold devs, be bold.

That's what I truly miss about RPG's like that and other, older games. Little or NO hand holding. Go figure it out on your own.

Nowadays? Quest markers with explicit instructions, right down to automatically opening your inventory to hand out key items or showing you exactly what/how you need to do something.

Just give me the keys to the car and let me figure out how to drive.