What was your first ES experience and when did you Realise just how special ES is? For me my first experience was Oblivion I thay it was a cool gam all the eay through the opening dungeon but the first time I really realise d that this series is special was as soon as I got out of the dungeon the sense of scale and pure size of the world took my breath away at that moment I relised this game is special ther is noyhing else like this in the entire world. Wgat was your forst time loke when you popped your ES cherry?

My first game saw me waking from a dream, looking at a very weird looking guy with an earring in his ear and him asking me what my name was. I typed in Sh'Doh. Then a guard came and rudely told me to get moving.

I exited the ship to a beautiful sky and saw a dark skinned man in armor and he was nicer than the guard, directing me to go to inside the building at the end of the docks. I started walking there (noticing a strange beast off to the right of the docks) and another guard asked me who I was. I went through character creation (making a Kajhiit) and entered through the door, as instructed.

Soon an old man was asking me all kinds of questions. He gave me a package (I think) and told me to go on through the door near another guard. As I went into the room by the exit, I was prompted (by the game) to try out the dagger on the table and pick a lock, so I did. I also got a case of sticky fingers and cleaned out that room I went through and out of that building and was instructed (by the game) to check out a barrel near the door. So I did.

Through the next door was a man in fancy armor and he told me about lots of things. When I left that building, I was accosted by a strange looking man (mer). He asked me about a ring. Since there was a dialogue option to give the ring I found in the barrel, I gave it to him. Suddenly,he was my best friend

I made my way to the weird looking beast and took a ride to Balmora. I arrived at night. It was "darkity dark dark." The architecture was strange to me. I did ask some people where to find the person I was told to see and found I needed to go the "Southwall Corner Club." I found it and asked again, and was given good directions to Caius' house.

Once inside, we had a great chat about anything and everything.

For some odd reason, the game just did not "click" with me so I quit and did not go back until a year or two later, where the game DID click with me and I had a blast playing it for years (and still do)

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That was Morrowind, by the way...

Daggerfall was pretty much my first hardcoe RPG. Before that, i had played the Quest for Glory games before it, but they didn't offer the same versatility in terms of experience as Daggerfall did. I was smitten with the ability to essentially do whatever i wanted, even if i was, early on, frustrated with how absurdly easy it was to get killed (coincidentally, my first day playing Daggerfall is also what led to a morbid fascination with the Bubonic Plague... When something kills you 5 times in one day, it tends to stick. Also, a hatred for giant rats) and it's stuck ever since. When Morrowind was released in 2002, i knew i had to have it, and i will admit, my grades kinda slipped because of the time i spent playing it (also because of girls, i was 15 when Morrowind came out... but i blamed video games).

Still, despite not getting into the background until Morrowind, Daggerfall holds a special place in my heart. Oddly enough, i think it was the stubborn determination to beat the Plague that burned it into my memory.

1st TES game was Morrowind. Before that the only CRPG I'd played was Neverwinter Nights.

Such a joy to play a CRPG that gave me my own choices about where to go, what to do rather (even if what I chose doomed the world or messed my character up) than funnelling me along a predetermined path. TES is still unusual for that even if they haven't managed to match MW since IMO.

When I realized Vvardenfell was an open world I decided to take my character on a hiking/swimming trip around the coastline of Vvardenfell. I will never forget that. After playing linear first-person shooters the game world felt so huge. Somewhere up north my character stumbled across a dead Ordinator. She took the armor (which was much better than the armor she had on) and she ended up wearing that armor for the rest of the game.

I think it took about fifteen real-world hours to get all the way around Vvardenfell that first time. By the time my character got back to Seyda Neen she was over level 10 and I was hooked on Morrowind.

I began a tradition after that: each new character took this rite-of-passage trip around Vvardenfell. When Bloodmoon was released they went around Solstheim, too.

First Elder Scrolls experience was Oblivion. I was even impressed by the first dungeon. Being able to play just the way i want and then the open world were just amazing. What i loved was that the game was in first person what is not a common thing in rpgs.

How did you survive the slaughterfish? (And later, the dreugh...)

Well, my first elder scrolls experience was Morrowind. The moment I got really hooked was being so excited to just(for the very first tme) make my character and for the very first time in any game open a map that came with it. When I saw Vivec for the first time...I was like...I'm saving this bad boy for later when I have enough supplies. LOL.

My first TES game was Morrowind, and I started it with doubt, because the cover pictures did not draw me in, but when I started the game and realized that it was an open world where I could go anywhere and do anything I like, I got hooked.

I understood that it was a huge world, but I did not realize the scope, until I paid enough attention to the World Map, and realized that after hours of exploration and doing quests, and the lot, I had just uncovered but a tiny bit of the land.

After that, I was completely, unconditionally, and hopelessly sold out.

Pity that it did not happen again, and I fear would never happen again.

My first experience was answering some questions and being told im a Witch Hunter. Then I walked out of town, to a nearby dungeon with a silly name. I promptly died.

Daggerfall. Played it on my screaming 133MHz 8MB RAM machine. I remember it filled up my hard drive so that I had to uninstall everything else just to play it. I think it was a 500 MB HDD. This was back in 1997

Oblivion, you all know how that starts, that moment when you exit the sever.

The world drew me in, I made a sneak orc and used berserk whenever I'd shoot arrows. Not the smartest move, considering the effects berserk has on your agility... Buuut what did I know back then?

Convinced me to buy a PS3, and the game with it.