I was totally ignorant of RPGs of any kind though I played adventure games like Myst and puzzle games. My son told me to check out Morrowind and I was hooked. It is still my favorite Elder Scrolls game and I would so buy an update.

Wow, judging by the results, player base is kinda matured. (age wise)

Morrowind for PC. It is still my favorite.

Arena... back in the good old days where you still had to use a hex editor to move a temple of Bhaal to the right town or you couldn't finish the game... so yeah, I'm not that bothered by bugs. Atleast nowadays they release patches and fixes on the internet

Ages ago while at a friend's house they showed me a game called The Elder Scrolls: Arena and its sequel, Daggerfall. From that moment I was hooked. I own one of the last printed copies of Daggerfall's original CD (and now that I got the anthology, a modern-day copy as well).

Morrowind may be my favorite game of all time, but one of my fondest earlier memories is rolling a Khajiit through Daggerfall (cheating profusely, of course).

At the time Oblivion cam out for Xbox 360. I always bought Xbox for Halo and decided to try Oblivion out. It didn't really disappoint me initially. Though I ended up not liking it a whole lot. Later I bought the complete edition on PC and modded it heavily. While it can be fun, the boring quests, terribly flat procedurally generated environment, simplistic combat system and lack of any real rpg element prevented me from enjoying it. The shivering Isles expansion was much better though.
I decided to try Skyrim out when it was released, and I liked it a lot better than Oblivion. It retains many of its problems, but the improved environment and interesting exploration kept me playing. Along with the thousands of mods that can do wonders for immersion. Still not viable for me in the long run due to the lack of any meaningful choices, especially during quests. I always admired Bethesda for their modding policy. I decided to try out TESO beta with a friend. I didn't like it at all, while my friend did. I bought the game so we could play together anyway. Ironically my friend quit after the initial free game time and I subscribed again.

Morrowind was the first video game I played that I loved. I was about 12 years old. I like Goldeneye and FFVII before, but Morrowind really grabbed me and I played it for years.

My first TES game was Morrowind. I initially hated it, thought it was the most boring piece of junk, and basically just let it collect dust on a shelf- at first. Then one day I got a weird urge to actually play it and after a lot, and I do mean a lot, of time actually trying to learn the systems and figure out what the game was actually about it quickly became one of my favorite games. Up until that point I was used to FPS like Halo and 007: Goldeneye. No real freedom, but no thinking required either.

That philosophy has stuck with me through the years, and I haven't had any real "bad" feelings about a video game since then. The same thing happened with my copy of Too Human (the much maligned and unfortunately misunderstood). Hated it at first, but grew to love it after getting to know how it really worked.

Games like Morrowind and Too Human taught me lot about actually giving games a solid chance before writing them off as "bad" games.

Daggerfall for me.

Arena! And I still remember the months I waited in desperate anticipation whenI heard Daggerfall was coming. Or the shock when it dawned on me just how big and detailed the world was in Morrowind.

I started out with oblivion when a friend brought it over to my house one day after it released and the next day I went out and bought it for myself. To me, Oblivion was a fantastic game whereas I felt Skyrim was a fairly good game (not great, but good). If only I had known about the series pre oblivion and experienced the older games..

Daggerfall was my first TES love. Looking at screenshots of Daggerfall next to ESO or Skyrim makes me chuckle fondly.

I played Elder Scrolls back in the early days hoping for something similar to one of my favourite games ever (The Eye of the Beholder series), elder scrolls: arena and Elder scrolls Daggerfall not exactly the best of games in the world, but then when Morrowind came out I was quick to buy it up and I enjoyed many many months of it.

The game depth, the extreme amount of space to explore the skills everything about it screamed play me more. Then with subsequent releases I bought them and got the same pleasure.

This is a game I will play for a long time to come yet and it doesn't matter if there are bots or some stuff is broken the game will carry on, those who do complain about little things spoiling their fun are obviously just people who want a mmo and not people who love the game and the series.

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I did a poll like this earlier I found it odd (though not surprising) the people that enjoy the game and stuck around are from as far back as arena and the people who started in skyrim usually quit.

why that is? i dont know. I'll be curious to see how this poll goes.

It's a millennial vs Gen x thing. Gen x know what patience is and millennial by and large don't REALLY understand that that means waiting more than 5 minutes for something.

I had just finished "Might & Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven", and was discussing with a friend how awesome that series was and how impatient I was for the next one. She smiled evilly and handed me her copy of Daggerfall. Game over, man, I'm HOOKED!
Hey there, modders... you gave us Skywind and the like, why not Skyfall? lol