Skyrim

Nahtal · July 2019

May i say it here?

Skyrim is for me the game why i really love the Elder Scroll series.

Skyrim is for me one of the best games i have played on many platforms.

Still i was little disappointed when they announced to make ESO, but now i love it also.

How about you? Why do you love the series?

Yellow_Monolith · July 2019

Oblivion. When I first started playing it, I had never played anything like it. You could go literally anywhere and the music was amazing. The first game I felt truly immersed in.

Nahtal · July 2019

Cactus316000 wrote: »

Oblivion. When I first started playing it, I had never played anything like it. You could go literally anywhere and the music was amazing. The first game I felt truly immersed in.

Yes! the music of these games are always beautiful!

ArchMikem · July 2019

This forum is supposed to be about ESO.

BomblePants · July 2019

Yeah I’m a Skyrim fan gal too.....

emilyhyoyeon · July 2019

I started playing with Oblivion when I was 11 years old. It was my first real experience with high fantasy and I fell in love with the TES world. now I suck up all the TES stuff I can

barney2525 · July 2019

Bought skyrim

Never got past character creation because iMHO there was not a decent looking character to be made. Just can't play a game where I can't stand looking at the character.

Nahtal · July 2019

barney2525 wrote: »

Bought skyrim

Never got past character creation because iMHO there was not a decent looking character to be made. Just can't play a game where I can't stand looking at the character.

Lol really

Sylvermynx · July 2019

I love all the TES games, been playing them since Arena released. For Oblivion and Skyrim, you really need body and hair mods....

Vlad9425 · July 2019

I just love the Elder Scrolls series so naturally I've played most of the games in the series but I'm still patiently waiting for TES6 to come out but sadly it looks like its still a long ways off.

Nahtal · July 2019

Sylvermynx wrote: »

I love all the TES games, been playing them since Arena released. For Oblivion and Skyrim, you really need body and hair mods....

Yes! there are massive addons available for that things.

Sylvermynx · July 2019

Nahtal wrote: »

Sylvermynx wrote: »

I love all the TES games, been playing them since Arena released. For Oblivion and Skyrim, you really need body and hair mods....

Yes! there are massive addons available for that things.

Especially for Oblivion. I couldn't stand the potato heads at all. Skyrim wasn't as bad but there's just so many cool mods for it out there.

Nahtal · July 2019

Sylvermynx wrote: »

Nahtal wrote: »

Sylvermynx wrote: »

I love all the TES games, been playing them since Arena released. For Oblivion and Skyrim, you really need body and hair mods....

Yes! there are massive addons available for that things.

Especially for Oblivion. I couldn't stand the potato heads at all. Skyrim wasn't as bad but there's just so many cool mods for it out there.

Lol yeay the graphics are for the time now very very out-dated lol

Michae · July 2019

Morrowind's still my favourite. It had unique atmosphere and less straightforward story. But I love Oblivion and Skyrim too, don't get me wrong. I spent countless hours with each of those games.

Sylvermynx · July 2019

I estimate I've spent around 20k hours over the years in TES games.... SO much fun!

Nahtal · July 2019

Sylvermynx wrote: »

I estimate I've spent around 20k hours over the years in TES games.... SO much fun!

lol thats alot

Hellmasker · July 2019

I got into the series with Daggerfall back in the day... buggy as all hell, but it was still somehow... a wonderful experience. Like a medieval/fantasy sim.. you could really "live" there. Since then I did catch up on all the other games. Did beat Arena, Redguard and Battlespire fairly recently... All the games are good to some extent... or have atleast some redeeming qualities.

As a bonus, I made a pic of my Daggerfall character

Nahtal · July 2019

Hellmasker wrote: »

I got into the series with Daggerfall back in the day... buggy as all hell, but it was still somehow... a wonderful experience. Like a medieval/fantasy sim.. you could really "live" there. Since then I did catch up on all the other games. Did beat Arena, Redguard and Battlespire fairly recently... All the games are good to some extent... or have atleast some redeeming qualities.

As a bonus, I made a pic of my Daggerfall character

Lol nice.

Sylvermynx · July 2019

Yeah, well, I've been retired several times since Arena released. I retired for a 2nd time in 2005 just before Oblivion landed - I spent most of a year playing it (and WoW as well); and a 3rd time (from my own web design/management business) just before Skyrim (I was still playing WoW at that time too). I played Skyrim after I left WoW in 2013, and played Rift and Skyrim until 2016.... and then just Skyrim until I started ESO a year ago.

I still play Skyrim.... I've gone back and played Morrowind and Oblivion too in the last couple of years.

jainiadral · July 2019

I enjoyed Skyrim but ESO's more my game. Storylines are far more coherent here, and the questing has Skyrim beat by a mile. If it weren't for seeing other players, I could almost imagine this game as the RPG I wanted Skyrim to be.

I like freedom, but Skyrim was a little too free. I like a nice, linear story far more. By the time I finished Skyrim's main story, I'd already forgotten how it began

Sylvermynx · July 2019

jainiadral wrote: »

I enjoyed Skyrim but ESO's more my game. Storylines are far more coherent here, and the questing has Skyrim beat by a mile. If it weren't for seeing other players, I could almost imagine this game as the RPG I wanted Skyrim to be.

I like freedom, but Skyrim was a little too free. I like a nice, linear story far more. By the time I finished Skyrim's main story, I'd already forgotten how it began

I'm actually not much into the MMO genre. I prefer an open world SPMR game like Skyrim. I did the MQ a couple of times, then I started adding in quest mods. In the last couple of years, I've kept Legacy of the Dragonborn in my load order permanently. Love it! Probably won't do Odyssey unless something changes and ice decides to make it available for SLE - I really dislike SSE (and CC of course).

Actually it's unlikely in the extreme - he's even ending Legacy updates for LE. *sigh*

DarcyMardin · July 2019

Morrowind was my first ESO single-player game. I spent countless hours in that game. I’ve liked the others a lot, too, but Morrowind was my favorite.

jainiadral · July 2019

Sylvermynx wrote: »

jainiadral wrote: »

I enjoyed Skyrim but ESO's more my game. Storylines are far more coherent here, and the questing has Skyrim beat by a mile. If it weren't for seeing other players, I could almost imagine this game as the RPG I wanted Skyrim to be.

I like freedom, but Skyrim was a little too free. I like a nice, linear story far more. By the time I finished Skyrim's main story, I'd already forgotten how it began

I'm actually not much into the MMO genre. I prefer an open world SPMR game like Skyrim. I did the MQ a couple of times, then I started adding in quest mods. In the last couple of years, I've kept Legacy of the Dragonborn in my load order permanently. Love it! Probably won't do Odyssey unless something changes and ice decides to make it available for SLE - I really dislike SSE (and CC of course).

I feel like I've kind of gotten stuck with MMOs to a certain extent. What I love are nice, linear single-player RPGs without open worlds tacked on. The kind of games with a good 30-60 hour storyline with crafted and story-relevant side quests. Unfortunately, those are a rare breed these days. I'd die for another KOTOR or Dragon Age: Origins or Mass Effect, or, heck a Kingdoms of Amalur. A lot of story-oriented MMOs have a light enough storyline that I can remember most of it despite the massive worlds. They're not the best substitute for my kind of RPG, but they're almost close enough

What's Odyssey-- a Skyrim mod?

validifyedneb18_ESO · July 2019

Skywind waiting room.

Morrowind (if I might say) clearly has the best world, the most 'poetic' lore and setting. But its also a terrible game, not only mechanically, where walking diagonally makes you go faster, but even the design of quests, the way the world and game presents information to the player. Big yikes.

But yeah, morrowind, vvardenfel, best part of ZOS lore IMO, everything else pales in comparison. And to top it off, since the Oblivion Crysis, the provice/free-hold of morrowind is basically primed for an amazing story to happen there again.

Sylvermynx · July 2019

jainiadral wrote: »

Sylvermynx wrote: »

jainiadral wrote: »

I enjoyed Skyrim but ESO's more my game. Storylines are far more coherent here, and the questing has Skyrim beat by a mile. If it weren't for seeing other players, I could almost imagine this game as the RPG I wanted Skyrim to be.

I like freedom, but Skyrim was a little too free. I like a nice, linear story far more. By the time I finished Skyrim's main story, I'd already forgotten how it began

I'm actually not much into the MMO genre. I prefer an open world SPMR game like Skyrim. I did the MQ a couple of times, then I started adding in quest mods. In the last couple of years, I've kept Legacy of the Dragonborn in my load order permanently. Love it! Probably won't do Odyssey unless something changes and ice decides to make it available for SLE - I really dislike SSE (and CC of course).

I feel like I've kind of gotten stuck with MMOs to a certain extent. What I love are nice, linear single-player RPGs without open worlds tacked on. The kind of games with a good 30-60 hour storyline with crafted and story-relevant side quests. Unfortunately, those are a rare breed these days. I'd die for another KOTOR or Dragon Age: Origins or Mass Effect, or, heck a Kingdoms of Amalur. A lot of story-oriented MMOs have a light enough storyline that I can remember most of it despite the massive worlds. They're not the best substitute for my kind of RPG, but they're almost close enough

What's Odyssey-- a Skyrim mod?

I dislike linear story-line games. I started gaming with AD&D in the mid-70s, writing and running my own scenarios for my daughter and her friends. No linear stuff for us. And my novels are anything but linear, because that's what I love to read (Tolkien, Misty Lackey - yes, they have over-arching story lines, but getting there is certainly not linear!). So when I found the SSI Gold Box Games way back when, I fell in love. That's been my prime focus ever since.

I have a few peculiar requirements for games besides that: no "you play the story the way the writers want it played" (ICK), and no games where there's only one protagonist, and it's male. YUCK. I want to play a game's story my way, period.

Nope. I never played the Witcher et al.

TheShadowScout · July 2019

I started with TES-II:Daggerfall. It was... eh. Okay, I guess, but way too random at times, too much dungeon crawling, not enough story... too much empty world, not enough difference. Also, falling through dungeon floors? Not cool!
But... I could play a dark elf, so I did, and had my share of fun.

Then I got TES-III:Morrowind... and the story blew me away! Not just dark elves, but, the dunmer homelands, with a rich history that set them apart from the generic "D&D drow template", and a super neat plot besides? I was hooked.

And the rest... is my personal TES history, playing a dunmer or two through the Oblivion crisis or Skyrims troubles...
I still love Morrowind best! That story was just so nifty... how it tied the ancient history with the current troubles - grand!

jainiadral · July 2019

Sylvermynx wrote: »

jainiadral wrote: »

Sylvermynx wrote: »

jainiadral wrote: »

I enjoyed Skyrim but ESO's more my game. Storylines are far more coherent here, and the questing has Skyrim beat by a mile. If it weren't for seeing other players, I could almost imagine this game as the RPG I wanted Skyrim to be.

I like freedom, but Skyrim was a little too free. I like a nice, linear story far more. By the time I finished Skyrim's main story, I'd already forgotten how it began

I'm actually not much into the MMO genre. I prefer an open world SPMR game like Skyrim. I did the MQ a couple of times, then I started adding in quest mods. In the last couple of years, I've kept Legacy of the Dragonborn in my load order permanently. Love it! Probably won't do Odyssey unless something changes and ice decides to make it available for SLE - I really dislike SSE (and CC of course).

I feel like I've kind of gotten stuck with MMOs to a certain extent. What I love are nice, linear single-player RPGs without open worlds tacked on. The kind of games with a good 30-60 hour storyline with crafted and story-relevant side quests. Unfortunately, those are a rare breed these days. I'd die for another KOTOR or Dragon Age: Origins or Mass Effect, or, heck a Kingdoms of Amalur. A lot of story-oriented MMOs have a light enough storyline that I can remember most of it despite the massive worlds. They're not the best substitute for my kind of RPG, but they're almost close enough

What's Odyssey-- a Skyrim mod?

I dislike linear story-line games. I started gaming with AD&D in the mid-70s, writing and running my own scenarios for my daughter and her friends. No linear stuff for us. And my novels are anything but linear, because that's what I love to read (Tolkien, Misty Lackey - yes, they have over-arching story lines, but getting there is certainly not linear!). So when I found the SSI Gold Box Games way back when, I fell in love. That's been my prime focus ever since.

I have a few peculiar requirements for games besides that: no "you play the story the way the writers want it played (ICK), and no games where there's only one protagonist, and it's male. YUCK. I want to play a game's story my way, period.

Nope. I never played the Witcher et al.

Well, by linear I mean that they have a vague sequence that feeds into the overarching storyline. All of the Bioware games I loved had flexibility in the order you do things early to the middle of the big storyline.-- tired of humans in DA:O? Go visit the elves and dwarves first. D&D passed me by; I was a total loner in middle school. So for me, games gave always bern about exploring different facets of the storyline, playing as a male or female toon, and just seeing what the authors and devs intended as the holistic vision for their games. Kind of exploring the art, I guess.

One of my favorite stories was rolling a male Republic trooper in SWTOR and making him the ideal hero in the eyes of Forex, a hyper-patriotic, authoritarian droid you end up with as a companion. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard playing games.

I never got into The Witcher-- the first one's camera made me queasy. Tried the third one and expected an easy tutorial I could start while I was waiting for my hubby to be ready to go somewhere. Instead, I got stuck in a hardcore fighting drill that threw three games worth of knowledge at me in five seconds, then dumped me off into the open world when I broke off the fight. I guess I'll have to pick it up again one of these days

Elsonso · July 2019

jainiadral wrote: »

I enjoyed Skyrim but ESO's more my game. Storylines are far more coherent here, and the questing has Skyrim beat by a mile. If it weren't for seeing other players, I could almost imagine this game as the RPG I wanted Skyrim to be

I was recently playing Skyrim (old-rim, not SE) and I was reminded of something. Skyrim is LONELY. My character is the only important thing happening. Everyone else in the world, what few of them exist, is there because I am. They serve me. They have no life outside of mine.

For years, I have been adding Follower Mods, and whatever passes for state-of-the-art follower control frameworks, into my Bethesda games. It isn't so much that I want to make the game easier, or have some other character do everything, but that I got so damn lonely playing those games that I was adding a friend to the game just so that I wasn't alone. Of course, I went for the complicated "semi-intelligent" followers with custom VO with something to actually say. Followers of lesser intelligence, and other NPC mods, add static life to inns and taverns.

I don't group up a lot in ESO. Actually, I almost never do. I am a die hard solo player that just does not want to feel ALONE running around some huge empty open world. ESO is the first Elder Scrolls game where I have not felt alone in the world.

disintegr8 · July 2019

barney2525 wrote: »

Bought skyrim

Never got past character creation because iMHO there was not a decent looking character to be made. Just can't play a game where I can't stand looking at the character.

I only ever played Skyrim in first person mode, so didn't care about looks.

jainiadral · July 2019

lordrichter wrote: »

jainiadral wrote: »

I enjoyed Skyrim but ESO's more my game. Storylines are far more coherent here, and the questing has Skyrim beat by a mile. If it weren't for seeing other players, I could almost imagine this game as the RPG I wanted Skyrim to be

I was recently playing Skyrim (old-rim, not SE) and I was reminded of something. Skyrim is LONELY. My character is the only important thing happening. Everyone else in the world, what few of them exist, is there because I am. They serve me. They have no life outside of mine.

For years, I have been adding Follower Mods, and whatever passes for state-of-the-art follower control frameworks, into my Bethesda games. It isn't so much that I want to make the game easier, or have some other character do everything, but that I got so damn lonely playing those games that I was adding a friend to the game just so that I wasn't alone. Of course, I went for the complicated "semi-intelligent" followers with custom VO with something to actually say. Followers of lesser intelligence, and other NPC mods, add static life to inns and taverns.

I don't group up a lot in ESO. Actually, I almost never do. I am a die hard solo player that just does not want to feel ALONE running around some huge empty open world. ESO is the first Elder Scrolls game where I have not felt alone in the world.

I know exactly what you mean. I'd get so tired of my followers' silence that I'd deliberately click on them and play with swapping inventory just so I could get a "hello"

I love having lots of NPCs or AI squadmates around, or even having a player ride by on a flashy mount with a funny name. I really hate that feeling with open word games. Skyrim turned me off that kind of game forever.

Once I was done playing it, I was totally finished. I never picked up the DLCs or the new edition, so I could keep modding beyond the basics.

Urigall · July 2019

Morrowind put the hook into me. I bought a s/h copy for 99p in a charity shop and played it for months on end. Needs the MGE graphics pack or it looks blocky and drab. The opening them is beautifully haunting. Sheesh, I'm waxing lyrical.

Oblivion was a natural progression. Loved it to bits. Never modded it. I didn't even use the unofficial patch for the main game or the expansions.

Skyrim was next. Loved it too. Again, no mods.

I must have logged upwards of 5,000 hours - at least - on these games. Still replay all of them from time to time.

TES experience was what pushed me towards ESO.

I'm a single player type, so I'm probably biased. Nostalgia probably kicks in too. TES...probably prefer them to ESO but ESO far exceeded my expectations.

If I found a genie lamp I'd use up one of the wishes on the spot - give me the forthcoming release of TES series now. Oh, and a rig that'll play it. Probably counts as two wishes.