I bought this game a week ago (never played any Elder Scrolls before) and am seriously enjoying it. So much so that I can't wait to get home today and play for an hour (or less) until the hubby gets home. Luckily, I think I've gotten him interested and he may start playing, too, so I won't feel as bad abandoning him for a video game haha! Anyone else suffer from this wait-all-day-at-work-thinking-about-playing-oblivion syndrome?

I used to get similar feelings about 4 years ago when I just bought it, but that happened to me with new games in general. Although, it hasn't happened to me recently.

Maybe when Fallout: New Vegas comes out, the feelings shall return.

Don't worry, that's perfectly natural once you get a new game you enjoy.
Or if you've come back to a game you enjoyed after a while.
I can't wait to help Kiva on her quest to become Archmage and help her with finding Kain Nightwatch ^_^

Hah, just got this game too and I blew my weekend on drinking =). Silly me.

Yea I still get these feelings and I've been playing for 2 years now. I have taken several breaks from the game, to be fair. But lately (as summer turns to fall) I've been getting really obsessed with Oblivino all over again.

I'll be at work for instance, and I'll sometimes start day dreaming of one of my characters. I got 3 solid characters right now. Then I'll go online and watch You Tube vids of Elder Scrolls games since I'm stuck at work and can't actually play. Then my Republican boss catches me watching a vid and he's actually thinking this game looks cool!

And sometimes I'll start playing for the evening, looking forward to all the fun, mystery, and spontaneous moments. Like I jsut started doing the Mage's Guild quests all over again with a new character (my first male). I'll think about all the fun I'll have over the next few weeks building my character when all a sudden there will be this feeling in my chest! :blush: It's a heart-feeling, if that makes any sense. and I'll think "what is that feeling?" Then I'll realize it's love. I'm in love with a videogame. Imagine that.

There came a time, with more decades behind me than ahead of me, that I could retire.

I now go to work every day in Tamriel.

See that's awesome. And you got mods, too. If I ever got a real computer and started modding this game, I'd probably wind up losing my job cuz of calling in "sick" all the time!

Bingo. Only a part-time job here though. Maybe 25 or 30 hours a week. So it can't be an addiction, right?

Count me in as having this syndrome. I remember back when I got it in the summer of '06, I used to play it for 9 hours a day and couldn't stop myself. I loved playing the game so much. And just when I was about to settle down and take a break, BAM! Shivering Isles came out. And it was back to playing for 9 hours a day again.

I stopped playing it for awhile after that, though I just recently got back into it because I have a decent gaming rig now (I had it on Xbox 360 before) and the mods just add so much more and so many things I wanted in the vanilla game.

I thought I had it under control, but the syndrome is coming back. What do I do guys? :ahhh:

Apply for a job as a tester for Bethesda? :wink_smile:

If only I lived in Maryland... :sadvaultboy:

If I met the requirements, I could be a tester for id Software though. I wouldn't mind testing Doom 4.

Heh, was like this as well, three years ago. Sadly it does wear off with time, I still love it however and will for a long time.

Haven′t been able to play for a few weeks because my computer broke down, but when the new one arrives and I once again visit Cyrodill... man, can′t imagine what I′ll feel then :celebration: :celebration:

Oh yes, OP, your symptoms are quite common around here. Welcome in the club!

Better get it out of my system before http://www.nanowrimo.org/ . . .

Hm . . . three and a half more hours of work.

I'd rather be in Cyrodiil. <-- (and if I were an out-of-the-closet nerd, I'd turn that into a bumper sticker!)

Yup there's a reason why I am playing this for the second time haha. PC mods make it way more addicting I just have OOO and its made the game so much fun and it doesn't get old quick like vanilla did.

It could be an addiction when... I lie to my girlfriend about having to work late. Too bad my affair was much more pathetic since it involved a video game and not another woman. :hehe:




Ha! Since I'm such a shameless TES devoted fan, I'll go as far as to have this bumper sticker read: I'd rather be on Nirn!

However my issue isn't whether or not I'm a nerd so much as it is that I despise bumper stickers.

The second time...*scoffs* ...you're just beginning. Come back when you've played the game twenty times. Then we'll talk.

I used to play this game 24/7 since 2006.
I got to start playing this game again.

I can't stop thinking of Oblivion when im in school, it has soul trapped me, , not that im complaning. Viva Oblivion!!

Indeed, many of us (myself included) would much rather be on Nirn. Alas, we are trapped on this plane...

Dudes (and dudettes): I was walking to work today, and passed a lovely display of flowers and plants that looked oddly similar to some of the ones in Cyrodiil. I kid you not, for the briefest of seconds I had the urge to get closer to them and hold out my hand as if to harvest something. Like, seriously. Ridiculous.

I used to be an anti-bullying prefect last year. I was once with my friends in school (who all play, or atleast know Oblivion), and we saw someone getting bullied.

My friend yelled "Assault! Assault!" and I stepped forward stopping the guy, in my best Wes Johnson voice yelled "STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM!" and all my friends burst out laughing.

They bully was like; what the hell?. The bully didn't mess with us though as we're all pretty tough.

It was so epic. :celebration:

this is ABSOLUTELY a timeless game.

a classic.

remember goldeneye n64?

well more classic than that.

If you have the imagination to ROLEPLAY, not even vanilla ob gets old. I spent atleast 1000 hours over 5 characters on ps3 oblivion.

Cant begin to fathom what I could do with a PC and mods.

All your base are belong to Oblivion :thumbsup: