Started with Morrowind, but I'm still largely casual (I play for the fun of it, not for the challenge.)

Good 'ol Toonami. RIP unless CN realizes how big of an idiot they were to pull you.

Tried it on Xbox, then ran it on PC. It's the second PC game I've ever owned, and it got me hooked into PC gaming.

I actually played Morrowind on the xbox before I really even played video games at all. I had a hard time getting into it and I would usually end up using a cheat to raise my sword skills up high because I hated missing an opponent I had been swinging I sword at for a half a minute even though neither of us were moving. I just couldn't get into the mindset back then. I ended up having a lot of fun with it and me and my brother probably put 50 hours or so into it usually just messing around and getting some orcish armor then finding stuff to kill.

A few years later Halo had turned me into an avid gamer and I bought a 360 for Halo 3 but since it wasn't coming out I picked up Oblivion and got hooked. Loved it, finally combat I could enjoy. Played it to death, and I started modding a little for it after hundreds of hours of gameplay in it in anticipation of Fallout 3. It came out did a little modding in it. Mostly basic stuff like making some weapons and houses and stuff.

Currently back on Morrowind, decided I need to beat the game main quests and as many factions as I can in one play through which is difficult becuase the damn Fire Eyes wants me to steal from a fellow thief and it just ain't happening. Honor among thieves and all that.

Overall I consider myself casual because I end up playing game hardcoe for a few months then I get burnt out and I don't touch anything for a few months as well.

Started with morrowind on the xbox, and it was my first serious experience with a western rpg I've experienced. Since then I've been a fan of the series buying oblivion for 360, getting every single achievement, then getting it on my PC. I don't want to try and downlaod the DOS required to played Arena and Daggerfall, but I don't mind looking at videos of people playing them.

For me everything started when I was over at some friends and one of them was playing Daggerfall. I was so taken with the game that I rushed off to get a copy of my own. I practically *lived* the game

I started with Morrowind, then went to Arena, then went to Oblivion. Managed to find a copy Redguard at my fleamarket...but I couldn't get it working for my PC...

I've been up and about this community since Morrowind was released. I've forgotten accounts of the past and decided to rejoin after fallout 3 came out.

I own 3 copies of Morrowind for my Xbox, (2 of which are too dirty to work, which is why I bought a 3^rd) 1 copy of Morrowind GOTY (released after the purchase of my 3^rd disc) and the GOTY edition for my PC.

I have Oblivion GOTY for the 360 and PC and own a few DLC's exclusively for the Xbox. Sadly, Oblivion never had 360 controller support for the PC, so I found myself playing it on the 360 more often.

Hmm... Does 15 minutes with the Daggerfall demo count? Honestly I didn't realize Morrowind and Daggerfall were in the same series until well after Morrowind was released.

I started playing TES in 1998 when I was 8 with Arena and Daggerfall. Then I got Battlespire and Redguard. Then of course I bought Morrowind and Oblivion. I've played almost as many hours in Oblivion as I have in Daggerfall. I'll probably pass the hours I played in Daggerfall with Oblivion before Skyrim comes out. I consider myself hardcoe and made many mods.



Probably not lol.

I'm too young for Daggerfall and Arena... But Morrowind, ah, the days...

I started with the first Daggerfall demo and played the hell out of it. I wasn't able to get the game right away but when I did it came bundled with a copy of Arena - I didn't play Arena all that much but Daggerfall kept me busy for a long while.

I've played all of the core series and their expansions but none of the spin-offs.

Started with Morrowind on Xbox, but was too young to really appreciate it.

Got Oblivion on release day and ever since then it's been my favorite game of all time. Just played for a few hours today, actually.

Got Morrowind for the PC about a year ago and I've been having a lot of fun with it. Can't really get into it like I did with Oblivion, but it's still an amazing game.

I started with Morrowind and have played it consistently for the past 7 or so years.
Ive also played oblivion and Daggerfall and am thinking of trying out Arena. I used to get into the Pen and Paper RPG's but havnt done it for years.

I started with Oblivion and have been going backwards from since.
I don't consider myself too much of a hardcoe player.
I play on pc and xbox.

I think you should switch the Living Legend bit. Any one can go back and download Arena NOW(and Daggerfall) or buy the expansions, but only the Living Legends started out on Arena when it first came out, like myself. I've owned each TES game since it came out, when it came out(no more then a 3 day lapse). Hell, I bought Oblivion on release day despite the fact that I couldn't play it for over a year until I upgraded my computer.

First played Morrowind. I have Morrowind on the pc and Oblivion on xbox. I have Daggerfall installed, but I haven't gotten far into it.

I'm not really hardcoe or casual, a happy medium.

You didn't miss anything. Your just better off reading the story lol. They were decently entertaining but I won't play them again.

Oh, the demo. That's what really got me started. (The Betony Demo).

I'm surprised the demo disk didn't get burned in half I played it so much.

Then I suppose you won't object to an extended story of how I got into Morrowind? Here we go...

It was probably the beggining of 2003 (or ending of 2002? can't say for certain). I read up about this game called Morrowind in a Polish game magazine. To be honest, neither the screenshots nor the story description were really that impresive. So you're dumped on a gloomy island with several factions? Big deal. I would have probably not even considered Morrowind if it weren't for one magical phrase in the article: "... You are free to choose what skills your character has and in what combination. A warrior doesn't have to be an illiterate numbskull and a wizard doesn't have to be a geezer barely carrying the weight of his staff...". Now this is something I've never seen, but always dreamed about - we've all felt the frustration that a rigid class system imposes. So I got the game and started... Arrived at a dock and got off. Nothing flashy about the graphics... Created a custom character on the first time - good, the game does what it promised... Got out of the census office... Wait, I have to go where?... You mean I can go wherever I want, however I want???... And talk to any of a whole populationfull of NPC's???... The next several hours my jaw was on the floor. Even though my old-timer pc could barely handle it, I enjoyed every second. The most memorable things from then on was being caught the first time for stealing (I didn't realize that there were even laws, or that taking items from crates next to buildings were against them :laugh: ), getting lost trying to follow directions (and I enjoyed it - eat your heart out, fast travel ), catching my first disease and enchanting the hell out of my equipment .

I first saw Morrowind when I went over to a friend's house in sixth grade. Sure, I guess the graphics weren't anything to gawk at, but the freedom it gave you was purely amazing. Yeah, we spent the night killing everyone in the game, but the next day we started a save where we actually played.

Unfortunately, as I found out in the next couple weeks thanks to my local rental store, Morrowind didn't exist on the PS2. To put it simply, I was devastated and my life turned into a perpetual black hole with no happiness or joy...

"Wait, you can play this game on the computer?" And thus became my first game--besides Runescape --to be played on the PC. I've probably put at least 1,000 hours into Morrowind since then, modding the hell out of it to keep the graphics fresh and what not. I can't play Oblivion on my PC (it's an Omnibook 6100 with a 16 GB hard drive) so I had to get that for the console. I mean, I prefer Morrowind for a number of reasons, but I love the TES series more than any other, and I have to say I cannot wait to get Skyrim at the midnight release!

Played Daggerfall when I was quite young, Morrowind hooked me and I didn't think Oblivion was as deep, but I still really enjoyed it. I'm hoping Skyrim finds a balance. I am 23.

I started with PnP when I was a little kid. I think I managed to scrounge up enough to buy the entire AD&D collection from my paperboy gig and I became the neighborhood DM. In other words, I became the ringleader (no. 1 nerd) of a gang of the most nerdy kids in my entire elementary school (and it was a gifted program, so that's saying something). And I lived in a rough neighborhood.

A typical game went something like this:
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/10/04/101004fi_fiction_lipsyte?currentPage=all

Later, I learned how to code my own text-based BASIC game on a Vic20 personal computer that was the latest and greatest with, of course, 20k ROM.

This was my first computer RPG with graphics:

http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/screenshots/full/black_cauldron_01.png

Then I got bored with gaming in general, sold my NES and stopped altogether when I got to high school. Can't recall playing any other video games (RPG or otherwise) until many years later when a friend recommended FO3. It blew me away, even on my then-crappy laptop (perhaps this had something to do with the fact that I had just written a series of short stories with a post-apocalyptic setting).

Since everyone said that Fallout was "Oblivion with Guns," I had to figure out what the hell this Oblivion was. That was a couple years ago, and I have been closing Oblivion gates ever since, perhaps a few hundred hours, without using fast travel and without ever completing the main quest. After purchasing New Vegas and discovering the joys of hardcoe mode, about a month ago I decided to go back and try a heavily modded version of Oblivion, not only with all the best survival mods, but also all the FCOM overhauls, as well as Qarl's HD textures, OBGEv2/ENBSeries shaders and some mods like Tamriel NPCs Revamped and Elaborate Eyes, that drastically improve the appearance of NPC faces.

Oblivion has now become an entirely new game at 1920x1080 on my current laptop and I am eternally grateful to the folks on this forum who put so much time and hard work into creating so many excellent mods, and to the ones who helped me figure out how to get them all working together. I also bought Morrowind during a Steam sale about a month ago and started a vanilla playthrough but plan to go back and install some survival mods and HD textures before completing it.

Ive only played Oblivion.
Hopefully Ill try the others as well.

My first TES game was Daggerfall. I've played that, Redguard, Morrowind and Oblivion. I'd consider myself a fan of the franchise.

Started with Morrowind, around 2002. I play on the console, and consider myself to be hardcoe. I would play Daggerfall, but I 1) don't feel like downloading the necessities to run it and 2) I don't like looking at my laptop screen for long periods of time.

I got Morrowind for the Xbox for my 15th birthday, and was instantly hooked. I bought the Oblivion Collector's edition the week it released for pc.

Loved the game even though my computer couldn't run it as well as I wanted it too. Then later on I bought Morrowind for the pc because of the mods.

Then I began to hear rumors that Elder Scrolls V would be announced soon. I knew my pc wouldn't be able to handle new game so I built myself a new one.

It's kind of crazy to think that I built a computer for just one game, but that game is Elder Scrolls so I think it was worth it. :laugh:

And I also have the added bonus of playing Oblivion maxed out. :happy:

I was introduced to Morrowind and modded it madly. Then I got oblivion and... abandoned it and returned to morrowind mods. Then I went back to Oblivion mods which I have been playing for 4 years straight and I have been doing a bit of modding since and I can't wait to port a mod over to Skyrim. I would love to go back to play morrowind, but I feel its too retro for me to really enjoy now, but I'll try I think. The oblivion mods are just too encouraging to pass up.