My first Elder scrolls game was Daggerfall which I hated with the passion of a thousand blazing suns. I never would have picked up another TES game except my wife got me Redguard for Christmas. I loved it and was very hyped for Morrowind. I 've loved Morrwind , Oblivion and now Skyrim with the same blazing passion I hated Daggerfall if not more. I miss a few things from each previous game but in general I think they're improving as the new ones come out. Morrowind , Oblivion and Skyrim are all great games though and Skyrim is problably my favorite now becuase its fresher and newer to me.

MW was my 1st and my favourite (although thats with a lot of mods) but Skyrim comes a close 2nd.
I don't think its because it was my 1st that I like MW best, I'd played other CRPGs before it and prefer MW to them.
I also don't think I prefer it because of nostalgia, I was still playing and enjoying MW up until I got Skyrim, but when I tried to play Oblivion again last year I didn't enjoy it at all.

I think that the first TES you play will have the most impact on you. That doesn't necessarily mean you'd think it's better, but it might. I for one was amazed by oblivion. Mind-blown. Not so much with Skyrim, but it's a better game in some aspects.

Yeah, I had the same initial amazement, I'd never played an open-world game before. But now I look back on it I can see the flaws with it that I didn't noticed before and I can make a more informed anolysis of it.

Nope. My first was Daggerfall, although assuredly a good game (for the time) I personally found it tedious after a while, never finished it. Skyrim would be my favorite so far.

Morrowind was my first and clear favorite. When I see my love of Morrowind chalked up to being "nostalgia", it grinds my gears to no end. I have a laundry list of reasons why I prefer Morrowind, none of which are sentimental.

I'll be the first to say that Morrowind is an EXTREMELY flawed game. Some of it had the do with the fact it was made a decade ago and ran on the original Xbox. Some of it was poor decision making on Bethesda's part. Several issues have since been fixed, and I am glad to see it.

Morrowind was my first ES game back in 2002. I used to love it, but it hasn't aged well at all, unfortunately. Today I can't play it, because it becomes to tedious. Although it does give me nostalgia.

My first was Morrowind but Skyrim has now become my favourite.

It's worth noting that I've never played Oblivion (I took a 5 year hiatus from gaming) although I doubt that would affect my opinion of Skyrim much.

However Morrowind took my open world RPG virginity and for that alone I will always have fond memories of it.

My first TES was Oblivion. My favourite is Morrowind, with Daggerfall very close behind.
My list (in order of how close I favour each one:
1: Morrowind
2: Daggerfall





3: Skyrim



4: Oblivion

5: Arena

It's similar with Fallout, my first was Fo3, but my favourite is New Vegas or 2.
Fallout list:
1: Fallout New Vegas/Fallout 2
3: Fallout 1




4: Fallout 3/Fallout Tactics

Played order: Oblivion, Morrowind, Skyrim
Favorite order: Morrowind, Skyrim, Oblivion

I started with Daggerfall, and each time a new TES game is released it becomes my new favorite.

First: Oblivion

Favourite: Oblivion

And yes, that is due to the nostalgic value that this game holds with me.

This. I played Morrowind as my 1st, and while I enjoy Daggerall, Morrowind and Skyrim almost equally, I must admit I find Oblivion very boring. For me it has nothing to offer that previous mentioned games don't have, in a much better way. I do think of Morrowind as my favorite, but I do enjoy Daggerfall's open-ness, variety, same things in Morrowind along with it's alien-like feeling and very unique dark atmosphere I have yet to see in a game, and Skyrim that, in my opinion, executed action part the best of all action RPG games of that or similar type, and it also has a very unique atmosphere to it, not quite as good as Morrowind's for me, but still awesome in it's own unique way. They are all very different from each other too which is good, most game series suffer from a problem where all of them are exactly the same, there is no change, and sometimes that can be kinda bad, almost as if you play the same game with a slightly different content, which sometimes makes me feel it's not worth the full-game money I payed for but rather just a huge expansion. That's just me, thought, some people might like it.

Lol, sorry for my ramble, though I doubt anyone will read it anyway. /tongue.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' />


Why? Modding games can make them almost completely different from originals. So I for example like vanilla Skyrim more than modded Skyrim, even though I added mods I like. It's still a completely different experience. I don't see what's so hard to understand here, Pseron's original post was more than enough to explain this, but I see you guys didn't really pick it up. In short modded game =/= always better than vanilla. You say
and then you blabber out something like that. /tongue.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' />


And all I can say to this is that you're very, very narrow minded. /shrug.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':shrug:' /> Sorry, but you're stating your opinion, just because you think that way, doesn't make it a fact, and you certainly shouldn't push it into someone, and convince people they are wrong when they disagree with you.

I was probably too aggressive in attacking Pseron personally -- I have since found him to be quite a good poster -- but I stand by my original point. People associate mods with added fun/gameplay fixes, not as "almost completely different" experiences. If we're comparing some quest mod vs the main quest, then sure. But most people when they hear "modded Oblivion is awesome" will assume it means leveling fixes, graphical enhancements, etc.

Oblivion was my first, but when I got Morrowind I actually forgot about Oblivion for a very, very long time...

The first TES I played was Oblivion, but my favorites are Morrowind and Skyrim. That does seem like the common trend though.

Indeed. Maybe it shows people the fact that Morrowind and Skyrim are not as fantasy-ish as Oblivion was (In terns of LotR and such).

My first was Daggerfall, but Morrowind is my favorite.

My first was Morrowind and it is still my fav, skyrim 2nd

oblivion was the first tes game played, and i can honestly say i had the most fun with it.

No, Morrowind kinda svcks, to me, compared to Oblivion and Skyrim xD

first game I played was Daggefall, then I tried Oblivion (yep, no morrowind for me /tongue.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' />)
but I like Skyrim the most... stupid great graphics !!!!

Seems like your first TES is your favourite... if your first TES is Morrowind. Certainly true for me. There aren't any Arena fans, Daggerfall starters can stick but more often than not prefer the advancements, Oblivion starters often seem to prefer Morrowind or Oblivion, and Skyrim starters haven't even played the old ones. Morrowind is unique, so starting with it will make all of the other games feel like they're missing something, but if you start with another game and going to it will mean it goes against your expectations.Same reason that editing the Mona Lisa would only make it worse. Every Elder Scrolls game that I love, I love it because of its good parts as well as its flaws. Admittedly, I did add a mod to make Azura's Ring a little better and remove the Night Eye effect, and I'm probably going to download a immortal NPC killing mod for Skyrim when the patches and DLC stop flowing, but I can definitely see why someone wouldn't want to edit it at all. Modding has just never appealed to me.

My TES games: Arena, Morrowind, Oblivion.
My preference: Morrowind, Oblivion, Arena.

Brave words... brave brave words.