My first TES game was Oblivion. I only brought it after I got Fallout 3 though, since I heard good things about it. I ended up Liking it more then F3, and it convinced me to try Morrowind. At the time though, I prefered Oblivion. Then, after my PC crashed and I could no longer run Oblivion, I decided to give Morrowind another go, thinking it wouldn't be anywhere near as fun as Oblivion was.
It has become one of my absolute favorite games of all time.

Back in the day when the PlayStation 3 and the XBox 360 where just mythical things which had just come out, a friend of mine told me he got a new roleplaying game called Oblivion. I had never heard of it, but he showed me it. I first saw the cover and relised it was part of The Elder Scrolls series which I had heard of before, but never played a game. Turns out he didn't even notice the full title and thought it was only called Oblivion. lol.
Anyway, he showed me the gameplay and I really liked it, even if he did just fool about and kill people randomly. I thought about getting it later after looking it up more and thinking that it would be worth it, I got it for my new 360. In fact, it was the first game I got for my 360 (along with Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter) The reason I didn't get in on PC is because I hate getting games on PC unless you have to. Who know what can happen with them. lol. What I really enjoyed was reading the books which told me more about the in-game history which I found really helpful, since Oblivion was the first TES game I had ever played. I must have spend ages reading the books. I think Phintius wanted to charge me for staying and reading everything. xD
After that, I wanted to try the older titles and I was able to get my hands on a GotY verison of Morrowind, and that made me understood the older and classic TES games.
Then I joined the forums and became a really devoted fan. The end. xD

There's an end?

I'd been playing NWN for a while and some of my PnP RPG group recommended MW to me as a much better CRPG. Happily they were right.

My first time? Well, it all started back in the summer of '06. I was walking around Gamestop at a mall because my mom and sister were shopping. I was perusing the various X-box (original) games and I came across a game called Morrowind. The back said something about living another life in another world, so I was intrigued. Opening up the box, I started reading the manual. Instantly, I was hooked. Reading about all the classes and seeing the cool looking Argonians and Khajiit, I knew that I HAD to get this game. Unfortunately, I didn't have any money, so I left the store wishing that I could have bought that cool looking game.

Over the next month, I spent all my time looking up info on this game. I read manuals and guides to creatures in the game, and none of it made sense to me. Finally, after a month, I talked my mom into taking me back to the Gamestop. Luckily, they still had the same copy of the game I had looked at before. Picking it up and showing it to my mom, I started talking eagerly about the game, explaining why it looked so cool. I bought the game that day and ran eagerly home. Popping the disc into my X-box, I started a new game. After enduring the long loading screen, I finally started the game. I don't remember what I named my first character, but I do remember it being a Khajiit.

Starting the game by stealing everything in sight, I headed out into the world. After the intro was over, it hit me. I could go anywhere in this world. So, being new and young and inexperienced, I headed out into the wilderness, where I was quickly killed by a mudcrab, while I wondered why the heck wasn't I hitting it with my dagger. After that experience, I learned to fear the wilderness until I gained a friend and compainion in Hlomer Wine-Sot. Me and him wandered the vast wilderness of Caldera, gaining at least 5 levels in the process. I realized that I loved this world that I had stumbled onto . . . I was home.

One year later I had bought the GOTY edition of the game, and in 2008 I bought Oblivion. I don't play Morrowind as much as I used to, but still, to this day, nothing can ever make me forget or replace that feeling of the first time I played the Elder Scrolls.

I was watching Toonami on Cartoon Network(back when it was actually GOOD), and they ran a game review for Morrowind. It looked really cool, so I got it for Christmas.

My first TES experience was Arena sometime in late '94 or early '95. I thought it was pretty good, but it was the sequel Daggerfall that really captured my imagination. I still play Daggerfall to this day. You could say I've spent more time with that game any other.

I also loved Morrowind and Oblivion (I just started playing through Morrowind again over the Easter long weekend), but Daggerfall is still my favourite.

It was a very boring day at school, I kept thinking, as I always do, "It's strange to think I won't remember this day in a few years.". My friend walked up to me, and asked me when my birthday was. I told him in July, so he shrugged and said "Happy Early Birthday." I looked at the box, and it looked far too violent and hardcoe for me. I liked games like Harvest Moon, Animal Crossing, The Sims, and Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles; and this guy was shoving an "M" rated game in my face, he told me "Make sure to run into the water if you get attacked by a troll." and walked away. I took it home, and put it into my low-quality computer. I looked at the Menacing Cover of the Shivering Isles expansion pack. "Am I really going to like this?" I asked myself, and I finished installing Oblivion without the expansion pack.

I started up, and I was terrified. I ran into rats, goblins, and a zombie. And as we all know with most cases of Zombies, when you find one, you find hordes of torn flesh and stolen spirits behind it. I made my way through the beginning, and went outside. It was dark and raining. My immediate impression of the game: A Sadist Developer's Torture Chamber. Everything in the game had been dark and morbid, and I was used to growing my Apple Trees in Animal Crossing, or raising a cow in Harvest Moon. I decided to make my way towards a city, because my friend had told me about one, but I couldn't find it. I didn't know it was right behind me, so I crossed the river without looking back. I saw a woman outside of a cave, and I thought found it amazing because 90% of the Fantasy Games I've played didn't include Black people. I never understood why video games never had Black people, and I'm biracial myself, so I was curious how the rare inclusion of minorities was depicted. I approached her and at first I thought she was interesting. She was sitting on a stool in front of a door. And then I got close, she screamed, I was confused, and she pulled out a war-hammer and started chasing after me. I ran for 3 minutes, and a wolf gave chase as well, I used Command Creature on the wolf, and kept running. The wolf caught up to me, and it ate Wood Elf stew for dinner. I turned off the game, and didn't touch it for about a year.

My step-brother heard about TES: IV from his friend, and remembered that I had it, so he started playing it, and it was a much different experience because when he started it was sunny and happy, and he immediately made his way to Imperial City. I decided I'd play it again, and then I met Cyrodiil.

I haven't stopped playing (for more than a week or two) since.

there are more of us out there, ya know.

and i began with Arena too in ...winter/autumn 1994 when i was about 14, but i stopped playing after a couple of staff pieces because Doom II and Wingcommander III was out too, so it took til about 1995 for me to get to Jagar Tharn.

first RPG FPV game with real-time combat, i had played Eye of the Beholder and Might and Magic 1-5 before that.

then it continues on with Daggerfall, Redguard, Battlespire etc etc.

all of this talk about morrwind gezze i'm going to have to buy it and as for daggerfall can't get past the first quest!!!!!!!!

I was watching Toonami on Cartoon Network and the little blue guy was talking about Morrowind, I remember seeing a guy in glass armour running over an ash hill. The following weekend was my birthday got the money up and bought it for me and my dad (who had played Arena and still had a copy of Daggerfall Amazingly!) on his PC. Played both of them then heard about OB and it was coming out my birthday March 20th. That was my best birthday to date!

My first Elder Scrolls game was Oblivion, which I purcahsed a few days after it's release and after I spent an hour or two creating my character and getting out of the prison-sewers, I became depressed - There was a huge world all around me and I didn't know what to do first. So I just took the Amulet of Kings to Jauffre in Weynon Prior.

I was hooked, then I improved my game by installing a number of small mods. I still play to this day.

My first TES was Morrowind, because my little brother played it on Xbox and i was already amazed at the huge freedom.

Then he pointed out where he was on the paper map... turned out to be Seyda Neen. I was in shock that that huge freedom was more than 100 times bigger than i thought.

Later i began to play DF for a while and later on OB. Both games couldnt hold my interest for as long as MW did.

I think I bought Morrowind when I was looking in a game store, hoping to find a new RPG. Morrowind was recommended to me, I think I recall being told that it lets you do whatever you want, or something like that, so I got it, I think looking at the screenshots on the back and through the manual only made me look forward to getting to play it more. So when I did get to play it, I think if I remember correctly, not long after getting out of the Census and Excise office, I accidentally stabbed someone with my iron dagger... And then I also recall going to find Caius Cosades (I did't have that much trouble finding him, I never got why anyone would, if you do as your told and ask about him in the South Wall, the directions seem clear enough.) I couldn't progress in the main quest because I had accidentally sold the message I was supposed to give him.

After I got over some of the stupid things one tends to do as a new player, though, I found myself enjoying the game quite a bit. Now that was probably back when it was still fairly recent, that, I think, was when I first learned about the Elder Scrolls, since then, I've played Daggerfall, and Oblivion, though not Arena, and I've enjoyed all three. I just played Morrowind yesterday as well, of course, I havn't been playing it constantly, and I've installed a lot of mods now, I doubt I'd be playing it if I could only play the Xbox version, but there are few other games I've played as much as Morrowind, so that certainly says something about it.

-97 or -98 with Daggerfall. Once I woke up early to play it a couple hours before going to school. I delayed the school, first one hour, then another, until it was over for the day. Then I played the afternoon and whole night. 18 hours maybe, with a piss break and a quick snack. I still play it occasionally.

Morrowind kept me busy too, but not nearly THAT busy. For starters, there was not a single place you could spend half the day exploring. It had many shortcomings compared to Daggerfall, but the things it added makes them almost equal in my book.. It's not installed atm and I haven't played it in a year or two. The main problem is that all the play throughs tend to be identical. Same quests, same locations, too few people and cities.

Oblivion felt good for the first few days, and I still enjoy the things it improved (Physics, ragdoll, melee, archery), but you just can't ignore everything that's been cut or mainstreamed. Also not installed atm, but when I get a new PC and courage to go through a thousand mods again, I'm playing it once more.

Arena, Redguard and Battlespire were fun, but not great. I would still buy Battlespire if it was available on Good Old Games. Been keeping my eye on Shadowkey, too...

My friend told me about a game where could could sneak into people's houses at night, kill them, and steal their stuff. Later he showed me, only the dark elf he tried it on fought back with his fists. He said the clerk at the store he bought it used at told him you could get a horse and run around decapitating people. That never happened, but I still thought it was awesome. He let me borrow it, and I stayed up till 3 am during my first encounter with Morrowind.

Went to school bleary eyed the next day, fantasizing about getting back to the game. Even cleaned my friends room so that I could borrow it until I bought my own copy. I still play it to this day, but more often I just think about playing. The game makes me so nostalgic, it taps into memories that are not even related to the game itelf, like watching my dad play Myst when I was 5 years old. It's just rooted in my psyche.

I first got into Arena when it first came out. It was the second CD game I played when I got my first Sound Blaster card and CD drive combo, the first CD game I played was the 7th Guest which came with said combo. I'm pretty sure I still have it kicking about at home in storage somewhere. So far I've played Arena, Daggerfall, Battlespire, Morrowind along with Tribunal and Bloodmoon, Oblivion along with Shivering Isles and Knights of the Nine. For some reason I never fully completed Arena nor Daggerfall. I got pretty close but not all the way. I've completed the rest though.

I spent most of my winter break in 2008 playing Morrowind on Xbox, often staying up till 2 in the morning playing it. Knew I was hooked after the first week.

A friend back in 03 rented Morrowind and I came over and watched him play it. The graphics and gameplay and the shear amount of stuff you could buy/sell/steal literally blew me away. I ended up buying the GOTY edition some months later for PC and fell in love with all the mods

Siighhhh those were the days.

I remember reading about Morrowind many months before the game came out and thought it might be cool but I didn't know anything about the Elder Scrolls as never played the earlier games. Then the game shipped and my brother happened to pick it up shortly after it was released. I saw him play Morrowind. Hehe I remember watching my brother leave Seyda Neen and he was wondering about in the dark and saw a Kwama Worker, so he got up on a rock and was trying to shoot arrows at this creepy looking thing. So I got myself a good look at the game and had to get it for myself! I'll never forget walking off the ship at the start and looking around and knowing that I can walk off in any direction and just explore... that was awesome and still is.

I had no interest in playing Morrowind when my brother bought it, but I watched him play it and realized that I could do so much better than him.

It was after this point that I played MW exclusively for almost 5 years. Of course, I usually play only one game exclusively for long periods of time, but never that long.

My first experience with TES was Morrowind. A friend of mine had just gotten a copy of it and started playing it on his computer while I watched. He had gotten off the boat already and was trying to watch Fargoth sneak around at night to figure out his hidey hole. He never did find it, lost his patience. Meanwhile, I just was gaping at the graphics and freedom of the game. He then went to Bruma and started stealing stuff out of containers outside, while talking like he was there to the npcs around. "Oh, no I didn't just steal out of that crate. No you didn't see me hiding in the shadows. You had better turn around so I can take this money from your pocket." Etc. Cracked me up. Anyways, I was in the store not much longer later and saw it on the shelves and since I thought it looked cool I bought it. Never looked back...what permanently sealed the deal was when I had finished the game and then discovered that there were MODS out there to enhance and prolong the fun. Wow, hours and hours gone with that. BTW, my friend never played the game after that again, said it was boring, hahaha, oh well, his BIG loss.

my bro bought it because one of his friends was a big fan of morrowind. Other than that oblivion is still my favorite of the two since its more action and less rpg. (BTW oblivion and fallout have been the only rpgs i have ever enjoyed.)

I got a brand new PS3 and it didn't really have any games. I played my chest full of PS2 games and got Resistance one and my Brother got Oblivion (I refiused to let him play it for a while – I hate nerdy games.) But one day I came home from school and he just started playing it, so I joined in. He had a thief character and found Hackdirt on are way to deliver the amulet, stole a Weynon Priory horse, and were attacked by brother martin while shutting the Kvatch gate (an effect I still can't duplicate.) I loved oblivion and bought Morrwoind for my broter – who left it at our house. So I played it once and got hooked. Then came Arena when it as free. Then came Dagerfall. Although I started with Oblivion, I consider myself a Morrowind player at heart. One day on the UESP I came across remaining Septim bloodlines and created an account here to talk about it in the Lore Forum. Since then i have spent the same amount of time here as actually playing the game.

Oh, and my brother found out in a pre-release article about it in PSN magazine. The game looked awesome when he showed me, but kinda nerdish. I love it anyways now.

A friend of a friend (true story) in 2002 gave me some old PC Magazine CD's from his dad. They had many demos, including Star Wars, Betrayal at Krondor, et all, which I enjoyed. One of these was the DF Betony Demo.

I was so scared of the game at first, I wouldn't even leave the city you start in. Never mind dungeon crawling, or even fighting monsters from temple quests, and I guess I'm not alone in that regard. I spent most of my time merely admiring the features, and the vividness.

MW was a bore at first, but then *somehow* I got the drill of it, and couldn't stop playing. Still, it was not as great as DF in my book.