Am I the only ESO player who never played any other Elder Scrolls game?

AnonomissX · August 2018

I watched someone playing one of the games back about 15 yrs ago on a Playstation. I got dragged into this game kicking and screaming off of Destiny, which i got dragged into kicking and screaming off of Halo...so now I don't play ESO, I live in Tamriel

Valabrog · August 2018

Minyassa wrote: »

I'm just curious to see if I may in fact be the only one! Everyone I ever talk to mentions the other games as if they're a given. This game is my first Elder Scrolls game, period. I intend to get the others at some point, I feel like I need to catch up now. xD

Never played any other TES game except ESO

Since WoW came to life I play only mmos and some Total Wars from time to time. When you are used to play against and along with real people, single players games isnt fun.

bloodthirstyvampire · August 2018

Beardimus wrote: »

Same.

I played ten mins of Skyrim and killed a chicken that's about it.

I can see why

DuskMarine · August 2018

Minyassa wrote: »

I'm just curious to see if I may in fact be the only one! Everyone I ever talk to mentions the other games as if they're a given. This game is my first Elder Scrolls game, period. I intend to get the others at some point, I feel like I need to catch up now. xD

probly one of the only few

Gythral · August 2018

AnonomissX wrote: »

I watched someone playing one of the games back about 15 yrs ago on a Playstation. I got dragged into this game kicking and screaming off of Destiny, which i got dragged into kicking and screaming off of Halo...so now I don't play ESO, I live in Tamriel

Also worth noting that you can get the 1st 2 games free (Arena, Daggerfall), with one of the newer 3 on GOG sometimes (atm with the sale for example) and maybe without as Bethesda gave them away a few years back on one of the Anniversaries

Ostacia · August 2018

First Elder Scrolls game for me is ....this one. It's fascinating!

JaZ2091 · August 2018

The only reason I play ESO is because of past TES games and the lore. If I didn't, I would have deleted this game a long time ago lol.

DaveMoeDee · August 2018

There are a lot of MMO people here that haven't played any other TES games.

Also, there are a lot of people like me. I have never played another MMORPG and probably never will unless another IP I really love comes out with one. I'll play FO76, but that feels like a different genre to me.

MMOs I would play: Mass Effect, The Witcher, Dragon Age, Fallout.

AcadianPaladin · August 2018

I played Oblivion and Skyrim each for a long time. ESO is my first multiplayer game. I love the mass and scale of the game and enjoy its combat system. I will say that I consider the fact that ESO is multiplayer to be a drawback.

Ydrisselle · August 2018

I had Morrowind and Oblivion before, but I played both for less than 1 hour (and I sold both a long time ago). I have Skyrim, but I have never installed it.

So yeah, ESO is really my first Elder Scrolls game.

Sevn · August 2018

DaveMoeDee wrote: »

There are a lot of MMO people here that haven't played any other TES games.

Also, there are a lot of people like me. I have never played another MMORPG and probably never will unless another IP I really love comes out with one. I'll play FO76, but that feels like a different genre to me.

MMOs I would play: Mass Effect, The Witcher, Dragon Age, Fallout.

I would love a Mass Effect MMO!

vometia · August 2018

AcadianPaladin wrote: »

I played Oblivion and Skyrim each for a long time. ESO is my first multiplayer game. I love the mass and scale of the game and enjoy its combat system. I will say that I consider the fact that ESO is multiplayer to be a drawback.

I'm a bit blah about the combat: Oblivion with FCOM worked well for me. Same balancing as Morrowind but more involved.

One thing I really miss in ESO is the ability to mod stuff on a whim: don't like that house/outfitt/levelling quirk/position of random object/etc? Just change it. I probably spent as much time modding as I did playing.

Ragebull · August 2018

I tried one of the oblivion games when I was kid back in like 05 or something. I stopped playing after the first day. I remember thinking “this is really nerdy and the combat feels cheap”, but I didn’t know any better, all I played was gears, CoD and god of war lol. I gave Skyrim a shot just because, ended up being obsessed with it and that’s what got me into the whole open world rpg thing. Been playing eso a couple years now, but I still know close to nothing about lore

Kram8ion · August 2018

Wait what? Isn’t this ET online I had to dig for my copy

Khaeon · August 2018

I never even knew these games existed until I heard about ESO and that was just last year lol

Lasinagol · August 2018

Played at least 5k hours on morrowind, same with oblivion...then Skyrim luanched and it jumped to around 8k hrs to date...In ESO I added up all the hours on all the characters and finally broke a hundreds days...2.4k hrs...

Don't get me started on other games...especially from Bethesda in general...

Chrlynsch · August 2018

You did play the the games, but alas that was before the Dragon Break...

KingofAnnwn · August 2018

Never played a single one. ESO is my first.

Sylvermynx · August 2018

Gythral wrote: »

You're probably not the only one
but I wonder which group is smaller
only played ESO or 25yr vets from Arena on?

Played every Pc game related to TES here

I bet there aren't many of us who started with Arena. And Minyassa, my daughter and granddaughter never played TES (and still haven't) though they did beta ESO. They both went back to WoW and RIFT. Well, eventually g'daughter quit playing entirely while she finishes college.

zaria · August 2018

Lieblingsjunge wrote: »

I played them a little bit. But I'm afraid of spiders and there's things you can't avoid in RPGs.

Don't do random dungeons

Sylvermynx · August 2018

zaria wrote: »

Lieblingsjunge wrote: »

I played them a little bit. But I'm afraid of spiders and there's things you can't avoid in RPGs.

Don't do random dungeons

In Skyrim, for instance, you have spiders in the overland area too. Well, also in ESO.

zaria · August 2018

Skogsalf wrote: »

I played the heck out of Skyrim, 2000+ hours, and a little less of Oblivion. I sometimes think I should go back and play the old Morrowind, but when I see the grafics I always back out...

Played all of them to the death outside of Arena who I just tried a bit.

Daedric_NB_187 · August 2018

I knew about TES back in the days, but never played any of them cause I was into the gold box AD&D games and later Bioware's Neverwinter Nights. I used to have Morrowind and Oblivian, but never played them. I bought Skyrim last year cause my sister and neice used to always play it. Got me interested and I was hooked. I knew about ESO for awhile, but never was interested in playing cause I didn't want to start over in a new MMO. Was playing SWTOR at the time. Well. Since I got hooked with Skyrim, I figured I would try it out. Been playing since September and I really like the game.

AbysmalGhul · August 2018

This is my first Elder Scrolls game

ArchMikem · August 2018

There are those who arent Elder Scrolls fans and only came to ESO just because its an MMORPG. Thats understandable, when people prefer the genre over the story.

Me, ive put hundreds of hours into Skyrim and dabbled a tiny bit in Oblivion.

xCryBxbyx · August 2018

I finished most of Skyrim and put in hours of gameplay. It was after this that i noticed eso even existed. It wasn't what i expected but I've loved it ever since.

FloppyTouch · August 2018

I played 3 of them I thought they where bad but loved eso I'm more of an mmo player then a single player rpg fan.

wenchmore420b14_ESO · August 2018

I started off with TES3: Morrowind in 2004.. Played Oblivion, Skyrim, and some of Daggerfall.
Played a little of WoW, but hated it, so technically, ESO is my first MMO.
TES lore and the world itself is why I play ESO.
Just in case anyone didn't know, ESO is the 11th TES title.
Here is a list of all TES games, release date, and where they reside in the time line.
Huzzah!
3E399 – TES I: Arena ~(1994) ~ {712 years after ESO}
3E405 – TES II: Daggerfall ~(1996) ~ {718 years after ESO}
3E 398- TES Legends: Battlespire ~(1997) ~ {711 years after ESO}
2E864 – TES Legends: Redguard ~(1998) ~ {281 years after ESO}
3E427 – TES III: Morrowind ~(2002) ~ {740 years after ESO}
?E ???- TES Travels:Stormhold ~(2003)
3E 397- TES Legends: Shadowkey ~(2004) ~ {710 years after ESO}
?E ???- TES Travels: Dawnstar ~(2004)
3E433 – TES IV: Oblivion ~(2006) ~{746 years after ESO}
4E201 – TES V: Skyrim ~(2011) ~{948 years after ESO}
(**Note: Unable to find time line for Dawnstar & Stormhold~Approx 3E 397-3E 400 I believe**)

boggo · August 2018

Never played a TES game before.
Love ESO and its lore.

ccfeeling · August 2018

You are not alone