The first time I played Oblivion, my grandma was around. I played it on my PS3 downstairs, and after "Wowing" at the Imperial City, I went into the Arena. I killed people, my grandma was like "OMG BLOOD" and overall it felt good. Then she went into the kitchen and made me some strawberry jelly (She actually made it the day before, it just had to change from liquid jelly to solid jelly). I ate jelly, killed and laughed. She laughed. We laughed together. My parents later come back from work and they laughed too. We all laughed throughout the whole night. It was a laughter festival. Okay. We didn't laugh.

But anyway. Every time I eat, think or see red strawberry jelly, I think of Oblivion. Unfortunately I do not have the same food memories with Morrowind or Daggerfall. BUT! There is hope. Skyrim is coming in 11 months! I shall do the same once again, but with some other food/drink... Nutella, peant butter, a basket full of figs I do not know yet.

Do not think of me as mad! Try it. Sit in your chair/sofa/space ship, grab your favourite piece of food and begin playing Skyrim (Or liquid. Just nothing too exclusive like a proper meal. For example, try something simple like a bottle of Tabasco). Forever, you will remember that piece of food as "The piece of food I ate when I first played Skyrim". Ahh the memories :thumbsup:

What's YOUR food/drink going to be? Mead?

EDIT:

What about your Song of Remembrance?

Object of Remembrance?

Did you have an experience like this in the past?

Not sure.

You ate jelly? Plain? By itself? Eww. I don't eat while I play video games, so I don't have any Foods of Remembrance.

Of course not! The jelly was filled with whole strawberries. :hubbahubba:

EDIT: I do not eat-n-play either, it just happen that the jelly was ready when I played Oblivion. And it felt gooood.

I do not have any Food of Remembrance, but I will be well supplied with drinks of forgetfulness. :foodndrink:

Fun you should mention that. During my Oblivion binge, it was stiffling hot, so after work, when I started the game, I tended most often than not to open a bottle of Blue Chimay.

Some times later, when I had the occasion to drink another one, whooooooosh ! Cheydinhal. :blink: Never had so strong a flash-back.

You have one cool grandma. I remember when I first did the tut on christmas day and I once killed a mud crab and my grandma kept saying how cruel I was.

Never really had anything like that for Oblivion :confused: though I did have a song of rememberance for Fallout 3.
Might get another song of rememberance for Skyrim. It could possibly be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpfhcljJ9bQ&feature=related by Three Doors Down.

I plan this for everything, books and games work the best though. So awesome. There is a particular type of chocolate that reminds me of the Otori Trilogy (awesome in book form). This can also be done with music, which is why so many of us love the theme song of any Elder Scrolls.

Actually I will add a poll. Muha. Ha.

EDIT: I can't add a poll.

The only thing I've ever had like that was with a TV show. The very first time I ever watched the Oblongs I was eating a chicken pot pie. And for some reason my brain likes to associates them. If I think of one it's immediately followed by the other.

Do coffee and cigarettes count? I pretty much associate them with everything.

Didn't have special food for Morrowind, but yeah, a song. "The end of the return", from Rick Wakeman's Return to the center of the earth - Symphonic/choir album, very fitting for TES. That song was playing when I finally got out of Red Mountain.

Well San Miguel will forever go down as what I was drunk on when I checked for news on Skyrim from the VGAs and was finally vindicated :foodndrink:

And the smell of new game manuals really reminds me of the day I first opened Fable 2 having awaited it for two years.

But my Skyrim sense? It will have to be something appropriate to the Nords. Beer maybe. Or meat.

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or both

Food of Remembrance? Nah... Music of Remembrance on the other hand might be possible. There are some games that I play while listening to a song I like. For instance, everytime I listen to Depeche Mode I remember Torchlight. When I got that game I kept listening to DM all the time.

Was it worth it?



I hate beer and I'm a vegetarian, but I might have to try some sort of a brew with Skyrim. Maybe I'd learn to like the stuff if I had a happy association like that.

Well I once listened to the "Someone somewhere" by the Simple Minds in my early Oblivion play. Now this amazing song totally reminds me of Elder Scrolls and Oblivion in particular.
Don't know why, always thought that song fit the freedom you get in Elder Scrolls.

All the years back I still remember that the night I bought my first 360 with oblivion I came out of the imperial sewers and went straight into battle at Ayleid ruin Vilverin, rockin out to Twisted sisters I wanna rock because its what my friend had on a burnt disk he had brought over.

I dont have any food or drink. But back in the day of Morrowind I put my own music in the game. Till this day everytime I hear "heaven beside you" by Alice in Chains It reminds me of Morrowind right away.

...was there a drunken duet with the Dunmer?

Yes. Fable 2 did some great things for the franchise.

Fable 3? Don't even get me started on that [censored] piece of [censored] [censored] sorry excuse for a [censored] videogame.

for morrowind ut had to be any kind of left over in a tupperware container with a blue lid.. I had a mini-fridge and microwave in my room and my mom would put leftovers in it to make sure i ate. Many meals just thrown between bread and eaten quick to get to the game.

For oblivion it was usally Original monster, and speedway sausage gravy stuffed biscuts. I was working at a Speedway and would be working from 9pm to 6 am grab 4-5 monsters and a bagfull of expired sandwiches and get nuts for the few dayts i had off

Definitely agree with this.

I think I will have a beverage of remembrance for Skyrim, maybe a nice mead or ale, but I'll have to see. Especially if I get it first thing in the morning, drinking alcohol may not be the best idea. A bowl of Brazil nuts could also be good. Not salted so I don't wreck anything.

Food of Remembrance?

FISHY STICKS OF COURSE!!!

Fishy sticks ain't a bad idea.