Got Skyrim because there was an anime race mod for it (Yes, I hate myself too) and it looked fun enough for my tastes. Then I got invested in the series and lore, ditched the anime mods entirely, got the other games in the series and the Elder Scrolls is now one of my 3 main fandoms.

Happy birthday !!!!!!
I started with Oblivion and I really fell in love with this game, the lore, the humour, all the story lines etc.
Then Morrowind-Skyrim-ESO.
I still play Oblivion regularly with so much pleasure even if I've done all quests probably over 15 times
It's the game of my life !!!

Gee don't I feel old now....

I was 13 years old when the game came out. I hardly see how I could have been introduced with an other game.

Been on this journey since the start...

Still have almost all the games on my PC, with, only Oblivion currently not loaded.

Interesting to watch how Tamriel has lost the wheel, spell crafting has become more and more restrictive & dungeons more predictable, while the graphics have got better, but interestingly the amount of bugs seems unchanged!

Happy Birthday, and may the journey continue for another 25 years

wow 25 years! Happy Birthday Elder Scrolls!

Actually I started with Arena, but did not really play it, but Daggerfall really grabbed me. I played many many hours, did many quests and dungeons, raised into the ranks of the Fighters Guild, knightly orders and Mages Guild, but did not finish the main quest. It is hard for the people who started with Morrowind or later, to grasp how large was the game world in Daggerfall, a world (Illiac Bay area from ESO) which contained hundreds if not thousands of towns and places to visit.

I remember buying a cart because I could not carry all the loot from dungeons, and later I used the cart to store the gold I got (coins had a very realistic weight), until I found out that you could store the gold coins in a bank and get a letters of credit. Also, from a poor adventurer sleeping in inns, I became the aspiring hero, buying a cheap house in the outskirts of Daggerfall, to later become the famous hero who owned the largest manor in Daggerfall, near the palace. I had houses in other cities as well, including a boat which wasn't of much use.
My char had a full set of daedric armor (the best in that game) and was very powerful.

I think after more than 15 years since I have last played the game, I found the save games, and remembered that haven't completed the main quest. It took me a while to get used again with the clunky dated interface, but finished the main quest, which is great., btw.

The Elder Scrolls games are amazing, it is probably the series I love most!

Happy birthday Elder scrolls! I started with Oblivion, when I was really young! It was pretty much my childhood, I spent hours upon hours playing it. It will always have a special place in my heart! ❤️

Morrowind got me hooked and was the reason I've decided to buy a Xbox as a kid ^^ (and yes i bought it myself with my savings just for this game)

And since then in love with Saxhleel because who wouldn't fall in love with giant bipedal Lizards

Daggerfall, was a nice break from FPS mayhem

Arena!

Got it as a present from a friend ... who then (while I unpacked it) told me "...but I don't think you will like it as it's not your type of game."
Ooookay. He had received it as a birthday gift dupe.
Well, what did I do? Install it and then not touch it again. I had other games to play, was still fooling around with many 1993 games, and this friend knew my taste in games.

A few months later, my HDD controller crashed, wiping all my games and save games ... including my beloved Syndicate. I had made it to level 49 of 50, needless to say I threw a tantrum before I broke down in tears .
But three games had miraculously surevived the disaster: Warlords 2, Space Hulk and Arena.
I was basically done with Warlords and found Space Hulk way too hard, so there was no alternative. I had to play Arena. And I soon discovered that I really, really loved it ...

A friend of mine from work got me started looking at MMOs. He is a huge gamer. He was buying games from Steam in bundles just to beat them and then move on to the next one. He got me interested in skyrim, however, I never got past character creation. My quirk is that I cannot stick with any game that I do not like the look of the character. And skyrim characters, IMHO, were all Butugly. Male, female, race - did not like the looks of any of them.

So when he told me about ESO, and it was kind of an extension from Skyrim, I had reservations. But I bit the bullet and got the game and found out the characters are much better. So I stuck with it.