Oh, yes. Put Morrowind's placed items, Skyrim's phenomenal dungeons and Oblivion's Attributes into the same game and I swear I would never look at another game for the rest of my life. That would be my perfect game.

While I'm not sure the above would be part of my "ideal mix", for the sake of argument I'll let it stand but throw one more thing into the mix: Daggerfall's truly immense physical 'world'. I'm of course not talking graphics quality here (gak!) but sheer size. Any ideal TES game will for me require such vast landscapes (which of course means there will be no ideal TES games in my lifetime. But hey, a fellow can dream.)

-Decrepit-

I hated going into caves and things when I first started playing, they were too scary as I didn't know what I'd be facing. I didn't mind Oblivion gates so much, since they were kinda like an outside environment, until you got into the towers anyway.

heh heh. I think I was the opposite. I loved dungeon-diving, the scariness and intensity of it all, but hated Oblivion gates. At least at first I hated them. I grew to look forward to them after closing about a dozen or so.

As with many of you, Oblivion was my first TES game.

I was a huge fan of RPGs and none of the RPGs in my collection were satisfying for me. I didn't like the fact that most characters in RPGs wern't createable and you just had to live with them, like them or not. Once i heard that you could create a character from scratch it peaked my intrest. I did alot of research on the game before i purchased it to make sure i wouldn't waste my time, and once i was convinced i bought it.

The first thing that amazed me was the character creation sytem, then the graphics, then the gameplay, then the open world. It was a new experience for me and i was so excited to get started.

I also was too afraid to enter the IC with fear of being arrested again, so I avoided it until the Bravil Mages Guild reccomendation quest.

I played two characters just for fun before i found my beloved Tara.

Everytime i play the game i feel the nostalga i felt when i first played it

As with many of you, Oblivion was my first TES game.

I was a huge fan of RPGs and none of the RPGs in my collection were satisfying for me. I didn't like the fact that most characters in RPGs wern't createable and you just had to live with them, like them or not. Once i heard that you could create a character from scratch it peaked my intrest. I did alot of research on the game before i purchased it to make sure i wouldn't waste my time, and once i was convinced i bought it.

The first thing that amazed me was the character creation sytem, then the graphics, then the gameplay, then the open world. It was a new experience for me and i was so excited to get started.

I also was too afraid to enter the IC with fear of being arrested again, so I avoided it until the Bravil Mages Guild reccomendation quest.

I played two characters just for fun before i found my beloved Tara.

Everytime i play the game i feel the nostalga i felt when i first played it

Same here. I′m very used to sneaking around in games so the dungeons were right up my alley

I think I speak for all of us here by saying "welcome". And has anybody given you a fishy stick yet? If not, somebody should.

Oblivion is my first TES game and I still haven't completed it, in fact I'm only about 5 hours into it. While you guys are talking about distant memories of your first playthrough. lol.

I think a lot of us envy you a bit

One could say you never finish Oblivion! We've got a few people round here with 1000+ hours with a single character who have no intention of stopping quite yet. How are you finding it so far? I wish I could be totally new to Oblivion again, I practically know the whole map by now.

I remember the 1st time I saw this game, when my one friend went into the map menu, my jaw hit the floor. I couldn't believe how large that map is. After I got my 360 3 years ago I made sure that my 2nd game was Oblivion and it was easily the best purchase I ever made.

Standing in my cell, looking at the light comming threw the window, looking at the stone walls, admiring the detail, fiddling with the chains.

Now thinking back the Emperor would have probably faired better had he not taking that underground secret passage in the prisen.

Ahhhhh my first memory of Oblivion was when it was not yet released and I had a dream that I played it and was standing outside of an inn.

The first time I actually played it was quite a good story. I had just bought my Xbox 360 (because I wanted it, but moreso that I could play Oblivion) and Oblivion. This was back when it was rated T. I tried hooking it up with my dad but our TV was too old to hook it up. So what do we do? Go to Target and get a new TV just to hook the thing up. I'll never forget laying on the floor and starting up Oblivion on my new https://www.google.com/search?q=truflat&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=KgJ-T9HfA46g8gTfzPGhDg&biw=1366&bih=636&sei=MgJ-T6TYDYWg9QSRqqG1Dg (which I thought was HD because I was 12 or 13 at the time and thought that anything with a flat screen was HD) and it was pouring out with lightning and thunder and I created my first character. I remember spending about half an hour in the Market District; mostly in Thoronir's. Once I got out of the prison I first wanted to sell all of the loot I got. I forget what I did after that. I believe I joined the Arena. That was one of the best feelings of my life. That, and starting up Skyrim for the first time.

what a great story, Captain.

Mine is fighting through the starting dungeon and stepping outside to see the lake stretching out before me. I was quite impressed
I've been keeping an eye on the combination of OpenMW and the province mods for Morrowind for a while. All of Morrowind, Cyrodil and Skyrim being built into one game at Morrowinds scale. Not quite Daggerfall but still quite big
Awww, I never got one

My first memory of Oblivion was runing out and buying it in the sunner of 2006. I was already hooked on Morrowind (an addiction I have yet to get over, not that I would want too) and was excited to play the next game in the series. I couldn't afford an Xox 360 so I decided to get the PC version. I bought the game, got it home and immediantly went to install it. Now I was still really new to PC gaming at the time and I didn;t think to check to make sure that my computer met the minimum requirements to run the game. Well not only did my computer not meet the minimum requirements it was so imcapable of running Oblivion that the game wouldn't even install. The instaler would just crash whenever I would try to run it. I created an account for Bethesda's official message board (not my current account. I can't even remebber what the user name I created was) and was told that to even get the game running at all on the lowest settings I would have to spend $150 on a new grapics card. I'm glad I didn't spend that money because my computer died on me less then a year later. I eventually would get to play Obilvion in December 2008 when I finally got a computer that could run it, and I learned a valuable lesson about checking to be sure that you meet the minimum requirements before you buy a game as well.

^ Ha ha, see, that would be me. Buying a computer to play a game, rushing home, hooking it up wrong, hours go by, having to call someone to help me, getting frustrated...finally getting it all to work

....only to find I've got the wrong requirements.

Come to think on it, one of my earliest Oblivion memories is similar to yours. I too owned a computer so ancient it would not run the game on release. Thankfully I was quite knowledgeable on such things at the time and had kept up with pre-release news, so knew as soon as the specs were announced that my goose was cooked. Saved me a good bit of money. I wouldn't build an Oblivion-capable system until mid 2007, and was then heavily committed to an MMO. I wouldn't buy Oblivion until spring 2009, getting the GOTY edition for $20! Can't beat that.

This reminds me of another early memory. Prior to purchase I had of course watched a number of videos related to the game. The one that made the greatest impression on me was http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjbx6-KQoRgNeedless to say I was disappointed to discover that what we ended up came far short of what was promised in that demo. To this day it remains a sore spot.

-Decrepit-

My first attempt to play Oblivion was the same as Matoya's and Decrepit. My computer was not ancient, and it installed Oblivion just fine. But it got bogged down in the character creation screen at the very start. I would move the mouse, and it would literally take 5 minutes before the cursor on the screen moved. Obviously I did not get any farther. It was not until years later, and a new computer, that I tried again with success.


I cannot see you having that problem with Oblivion on a new computer you buy today. Skyrim maybe, but not Oblivion. It is a six year old game now. While it was the bleeding edge of technology then, that time has passed. For just $300 - $400 you can buy a box with 4gb of ram, from 500mb - 1tb hard drive, and a decent video card. Just avoid laptops and anything with integrated video. Laptops cost more and give less in performance, and offer little options to upgrade them. While integrated video simply = crap. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/HP+-+Pavilion+Desktop+-+4GB+Memory+-+500GB+Hard+Drive/4957833.p?id=1218583710036&skuId=4957833 (although I am not the most savvy on its AMD video card, but with 1.5gb of memory I expect it can handle Ob and Sky just fine). Toss in a monitor for another hundie and you have a decent rig for just $400.

One thing I remember is how surprised I was when I found out I had a "medkit" with infinite uses, the Heal Minor Wounds spell. I felt invulnerable!
Of course that spell isn′t enough by a long shot, but coming from games where I was always on the lookout for medkits this was a huge thing! I didn′t have to look for them in Oblivion