Ha, I remember always trying to work that out. I didn't figure out how it actually worked until the middle of last year I had just been bribing everyone.

That′s sad, you had to buy all your friends?

I did the same thing

Yeah. It's such an expensive habit, glad I got off it when I did.

My first memory is going deer-hunting with a bow and arrows--and failing miserably.
My second memory is riding a horse for the first time in-game, and being amazed at how realistic they looked. I was amazed that gamesas hadn't "Disneyfied" them. (For a realism buff and a used-to-live-in-a-rural-area person like me, that's a good thing).

Ahh. Nostalgia.
Well i remember my first ever experience. I had already played morrowind so i was expecting some kind of twisted native realm. But instead i was introduced to the beauty that is cyrodill. I got emmersed very quickly. I would stay the nights in the cheydinhall inn and then i would go outside and hunt for venicin which i would sell at the same shop everyday.

But then came the DB. At first i didnt know what it was but then when i realised they were assassins i was hesitant. But since they were located in cheydinall i thought i would give it a try. And so i absolutly loved it when i got to go out and kill people in these very well desiged quests and levels. But the time came when i had to do the cleansing of the sanctuary. Out of pure loyalty i completed the task. But after it was done i never returned to lucian and instead went on to become a more noble soldier. And so the main quest begun.

I swear I participated in a thread on this subject some time ago, but can't for the life of me find it now.

One of my earliest Oblivion memories is only incidentally avatar related. I had been playing MMO's almost exclusively for a good many years prior to purchasing Oblivion and had a heck of a time adjusting to the game's keyboard / mouse controls. I was sorely tempted to reconfigure it to resemble my MMO of choice, but recalled that I had had the same issue with Morrowind yet eventually mastered its controls. I of course did the same with Oblivion, but my first play-sessions were a bit sloppy.

(An aside: A few weeks ago, I added Minecraft to my tiny arsenal of actively-played games. (Just it, Oblivion, and Daggerfall plus a 'casual' remove-matching-tiles game at the moment.) From the get-go I set its controls to match what I use in Oblivion, since I switch between the two almost daily. Works out rather well.)

In-game memories of those early days have grown vague. I recall hitting the Imperial City early on to sell spoils and find a Fighters Guild recruiter. I also recall speaking with almost everyone I saw there -- which became my standard practice when entering an NPC inhabited area for the first time -- maxing disposition with each via pursuasion wheel. Wait...is that right? I know I worked disposition hot and heavy from the start during my second play-through. Seems to me I did so during my first play-through too, but maybe to a lesser extent at the very beginning.

My first avatar entered the Shivering Isles early on...level three. I couldn't have done much between exiting the prison sewers and departing for the Realm of Madness, but I did indeed join the Fighter's Guild during that brief timespan. Even did one Fighters Guild quest.

-Decrepit-

My earliest memories are of me fast traveling immediately to the Market District and proceeding to loot everything from the crates, boxes and barrels lying around, including the food to make into potions, then selling it all to buy steel armor

And then looking for the assassins guild in the IC that my friend said I just had to get in to if I was looking for serious fun.

This. I remember playing with the chains just to watch them swing around.

My first character was a throwaway I used to familiarize with all of the keyboard changes between Morrowind and Oblivion. As such, He was otherwise totally forgettable.

Oblivion was the first TES game I ever played. I hadn't even heard of it, or the series for that matter before I bought it, so when I first started playing I was surprised that such a huge, amazing game could even exist. Oblivion was to me what Morrowind is to many a soul on this forum.


To this day it's still my favorite quest in any TES game.

P.S. Another great memory I have is being absolutely blown away by the Shivering Isles.

We are not so unlike, you and I

I got my hands on Oblivion thanks to a buddy I drove home from a party once, him being pretty drunk. As a token of gratitude he gave me his copy as he was bored of it but I didn′t install it right away. I was still fooling around in Doom 3 and thought I′d finish that first. When I had installed Oblivion and started it....

Let's hope he doesn't ask for it back then!

I also found out about Oblivion through a friend I used to sit next to in science class. He was a quiet little guy and one day he mumbled something about a new game called Oblivion where you could be an elf or an orc if you wanted and travel all around a fantasy land. He made it sound so good I went home and asked my dad if it would play on the computer, not having an xbox at this time. My dad said it would play so I bought it. Science classes were a lot more fun after that, we were always jabbering on about Oblivion I half-heartedly played around with some console commands, but never installed a single mod, I just didn't know how.

I've still got the PC version, just for old times sake. I haven't seen the quiet little guy for years, but if I were to bump into him tomorrow I just know we'd talk about Oblivion. (And Skyrim now too.) Awww.

Thing is, he did after some time. Don′t know why as he gave it to me, he didn′t lend it to me. But I bought it from him. No way was I gonna pass that game up!

Addendum: Quiet guys possess the greatest secrets

That sounds familiar, i used to sit next to a "quiet little guy" in my maths class and one day he came in all hyper saying Oblivion was the best game he'd ever played and how you could just watch a farmer do his dailly schedule, i was barely into gaming at the time.

It wasn't til a few years later i got an xbox and seen it sitting on the shelf i was reminded of all he said, so i bought it... and it's my favourite game to date

Got attracted to this game because of the concept of Hunting. Just imagined myself playing a character who hunted Deer all through an open world To this day, in Skyrim, I am the master of the deer.

Hunting deers wouldn′t be fun in my game. With the Witchcraft mod, they don′t run away

Blasphemous

You know, in my whole six years of playing Oblivion I have never killed a Deer willingly. I don't think I could bring myself to do it. This is probably the only area where I, as player, take precedence over my character and control events.

I say "willingly" because I did kill one by accident once. I was aiming at something else nearby from a distance and hit the Deer. I can still see it in my mind. The poor thing keeled over with an arrow in its side. I covered my face with my hands and tried to pretend that I hadn't just done what I had seen myself do. Then I reloaded.

I can kind of imagine roleplaying that one is hunting for food, though. My partner Brash kills Deer and Rabbits and other inoffensive creatures in every game she plays. But I can't watch. I have to avert my eyes.

Neither have i, although I am gonna make a Skyrim character who'll do a lot of hunting.

I did have a deer attack me one time, though. I'm not sure why. Either it got Frenzied, or my character somehow hit it and it got agro.

I have never had a deer attack me even if I did hit it. Strange indeed I say

I never killed a Deer becauase they always ran off so fast, and Archery was pretty crap on the Xbox. But I don't think I ever left any Mudcrabs alive.

I love killing animals in games, but I love them in real life, the only times I ever felt sad about killing an animal in a video game was the sasquatches in Red Dead Redemption, and that magic Elk thing for Hircine in Skyrim, I don't know why, but it just reminded me of Bambi.

I know what you mean. With Skarsgard I had to put a deer out of its misery the other day, when he and that imperial forrester got drunk and went out shooting. Forrester lost his bow and started punching the thing to death in a pond, the deer was drowning/swimming away and being punched by Forrester. Skarsgard has a kind heart, so he thought it would be better to swing his war axe and end the whole thing than let it suffer any more. I felt really ashamed it had even come to that, though. Forrester's drunkenness meant a sloppy job.

As a hunter I must really object to someone getting drunk and then picking up his weapon to go hunting. Shame on you, Forrester

Heh. I feel weird killing Earth-like animals in the games. Some of my characters don't mind, though. If it fits the roleplay, I always try and Calm or put a Fear on certain animals, rather than killing them.

One of the mods that I'd least want to do without is SubRosa's Forest Friend Amulet. Most of my characters use it (Reebok is one exception; he uses no enchantments or magic.)