Just imagine: It's been several years since the release of the last Elder Scrolls. But now the waiting's over. The day has actually arrived when TES:V is available for sale. Maybe you've queued at your local games store; maybe you pre-ordered from an online retailer. Either way, you now hold a brand new copy of TES:V in your hand. You remove the cellophane wrapper and make your first fingerprint on the case, the box art fuelling your imagination as to what the game may contain. With rising excitement you open it, pull out the booklet and inhale its just-printed chemical freshness. Finally, you remove the disk and insert it into your games machine of choice.

How downright awesome will it feel :mohawk:

It will feel great, but the first thing I do when I get TES V will be what I do with every game. I will read the manual and imagine all the possibilities of character creation. Then, I will look at the map provided with the game, wondering what this new, strange world will be like.

Due to my inability to acces my father's playstation for about a month after I got the game, I read the oblivion manual 103 times.

If I had to choose one manual to read 103 times, it would be Oblivion's manual. Morrowind and Oblivion have great manuals. I can't find any Arena or Daggerfall menus, through.

i would just play the game w/ a combat char, and see the game. that would be so awesome

It will feel like a green transparent dvd jewel case with a paper insert with some pictures on it containing a dvd and manual. It will smell like new plastic.

I'll get the console version first, the day it comes out. Gonna play it vanilla for a while before I start modding it. Will probably sit up all night unable to sleep then go but it the second the shop opens. Then I'll call work, tell them I have smallpox, crack open a beer and not leave the house for a month

It'll feel pretty amazing. Surreal. I'll read the manual, and then view the map for like, the entire way home while driving and almost wreck.
Then, I'll get home, and read the manual even more, and then pop it in, sit back with a few Strawberry Fantas, and play for 9 hours straight.

Haha, I'd play an Orc Assassin. http://ghostisland.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/lolwut.jpg

1) Get loads of cola and chips.

2) Wait for the weekend.

3) Tell my friends I won't be able to hangout for the whole weeekend.

4) Game the whole weekend without communication with others besides my family.

(Optinal) Skip school monday if the game is simply too awesome.

If it comes out at a school day I will.....
1. Be at the store when it opens , hopefully midnight release.
2.after getting it go home and play it until right before the bus has to go
3. read the manual throughout the day and ponder
4. Go home and play

Most likely I will shut my door too and make sure no one comes in !

I will be waiting in line, preorder receipt in hand for the midnight release (there had better be a midnight release). I will buy two copies- one to play and one to put up on a shelf and admire. I will read the manual on the way home and stay up all night exploring the new world I've been given. And I'll probably play TESV and only TESV for at least a year.

When I really wanna do something, or get totally svcked into a game over a weekend or a long period of time, i'll clean my room. I don't even know why. Perhaps the slightest mess distracts me and takes away from the sheer epicness which is The Elderscrolls? Who knows. :shrug:

Before I play for the first time, I'm going to make sure I find a central object- be it food, or something to use throughout my playthrough. That way, that certain object will always remind me of the first time I played ESV. The good times, and the first time you play an ES game, is always the best time.

The first time is always the best. ALWAYS. The first time I played FO3, I just was amazed by the sheer brilliance of being in a post-apocalyptic world. The next time... eh... kind of lame.

That's right. Cherish it folks.

It'd feel either of three things
1) It'd feel like my mouse and keyboard, because I just DLed it.
2) My phone because I am cursing at the delivery company for screwing up my address
3) A dead goat, because I just sacrificed a goat for its on-time arrival, like with FO3 for x-mas.

I love all the excitement for this game. So, when will people start crticizing the game and comparing it to Oblivion? I've read rumors of protests on these forums when a new Elder Scrolls game is released because it isn't a copy of the previous Elder Scrolls game. Is that true? Some of that is still floating around here, but how severe will it be when TES V first comes out?

Stop being such a kill-joy, Captain Kill Joy :sb: .

I don't want to be one, but what should we all forum activity to be like at and around the game's release? I'll make a new topic about it. Please ignore this.

Well, after having a nerdgasm, I'll pop in the disc, and while the game is installing, I'll read the manual.

I will drive like a maniac to get home, install it while reading the manual and do some dancing.

I'd probably go crazy laughing excitedly and a little on the hysterical side.

Once TESV is available for retail i will:

1) Start preparing to build up a new computer that meets or possibly surpasses the recommended settings for it (Yes its worth it and yes, my last computer that i prepped for Oblivion isn't gonna cut it anymore. TESV will be a good excuse to buy a new one. )

2) Start planning my leave so i can enjoy a full week of TESV goodness. (Enjoying for the weekend just isn't enough)

3) Buy both the Collector's Edition + Normal Edition and play using only the normal edition and leaving the Collector's Edition untouched. (As my way of supporting Bethesda)

4) Recommend how good the game is to my friends and definitely persuade them to buy it also.

5) After enjoying it for about 6 months down the road, start lurking around the Mod Forums for the fantastic mods that are being made.

6) Complete the game and wait in anticipation for TESVI

Let's see now:

1. I will call in sick. I'll say I have the plague or anything, but I will not waste precious time on going to school.
2. I will barricade the door. Anyone trying to get in will be met either with silence, or if they are persistent enough, a whole parade of curses. "No one ever enters, and no one ever leaves". Maybe I'll put up such a sign on the door... but the neighbours would probably start wondering.
3. Play the damn thing until the computer implodes.

Seriously though, I probably won't buy it immediately. I will watch and read IGN's review of it, and listen to other people's verdicts, although that probably won't change the fact that I will buy it sooner or later, no matter what they say. It's Elder Scrolls for God's sake.