this comes from the gamespot skyrim forum topic what the skyrim trailer means to me
"It takes me back to the first time I put Morrowind into my original Xbox. It was Christmas and I had just gotten an Xbox along side
Halo, Morrowind and that 2pack case with Jet Set Radio Future and Sega Rally.

I sat in my room hooking the system up, I turned it on and at first put in Morrowind, I saw at the loading screen and waited for the game to start. I made my first character, a wood elf hunter, I stepped off the boat into Seyda Neen and was amazed by the graphics, and the voice acting. I continued on my little adventure, exploring Seyda Neen, talking to people, stealing stuff. I stepped out of the town and wondered off into the forest. I came upon a small stoop and a door. I went inside and was almost Immediately attacked by a terrifying ghost. I quickly turned around and left that place. I continued down the road killing a few rats and worms as I traveled. Finally I got bored of just walking so I thought to myself "What else can I explore?" I fumbled around with the buttons until I opened the map. I sat there, amazed as I zoomed out on the map. The world was utterly immense, it was so overwhelming. I sat dumbfounded... I had no idea what I was supposed to do. I was completely taken aback by the size of the world. I turned off the game at that moment and played Halo.

I played Halo for some time before I ever picked up Morrowind again, but one day I told myself "I am going to play this game!" I started it back up and made an Orc warrior, I figured he could take on any monsters I might face. I looked at the map and felt that same sense of wonder. What was I do to? Where was I supposed to go? How as I supposed to get there? I was brought up on traditional RPGs that had fully structured stories and driven narratives. Games that took you mostly by hand and led you from town to town, and from boss to boss. I swallowed my dread and ventured off into Vvardenfell blind and without an idea.

Those 2 years I spent playing Morrowind shaped my idea of video games, and what video games can and should do. They should give the player a sense of wonder, not of "Oh this again... I've played this only it had a different name". Every time I entered a new cave, crypt, or castle I was intrigued by what I might find inside. The Skyrim trailer brought back to me that feeling I had when I finally took my first steps into Morrowind. That feeling of wonder and amazement. When the Dragonborn shouted and the fantastic Morrowind music started to play I nearly cried... honestly. It was amazing... it brought back all those memories I had of exploring Morrowind for hours on end. While I know Skyrim, or any future Elder Scrolls game will not fully capture the feeling of Morrowind, I have faith that Skyrim will do so better then Oblivion."

I love hearing things like this.

Hmm, Morrowind and Halo were my two first games for xbox too. I think Skyrim will be an amazing game, probably the best in the series so far.

I had a very similar experience, and its nice to see these experiences being voiced.

Unfortunately, I don't think we will ever have that experience again because we already had it with Morrowind. We had no idea what to expect and were completely overwhelmed and satisfied when we really got into Morrowind. But now, we have already had that experience and will never be amazed and overwhelmed by a game. We already know that we can go into Skyrim and do what ever we want. We already know that we can explore anywhere we want, steal anything, kill (almost) anything, wear, drink, eat anything etc... SO I think that as unfortunate as it is I won't be completely immersed and amazed by Skyrim the way I was with Morrowind.

HOWEVER, I think that, like Fallout, Skyrim will be a completely satisfying, interesting, creative and addicting game, despite the lack of wonder that I experienced in Morrowind.

The OP is an :angel:

Seriously, Im wiping away the tears as I type this. TES was such a magical, wonderful place when I first discovered it in MW. God....my video game life has forever changed since those days.

TES shows me how a game should be. Im so dissapointed when I see other linear, boring, and depthless rpgs on the market. I feel like NOTHING has ever lived up to ANY TES game. Its so sad to say well "MW was like this when it came out years and years ago.....why are games still being released that are so [censored]?!?!"

TES spoiled me and I loved it. It really made me look at other games and wonder wtf the developers were thinking when they released such garbage.

Thank god for games like FO and TES.

yep never again will we know the feeling of being truely blown away by the sheer size of your first elder scrolls game. but still i will enjoy exploring the great highlands of skyrim and seeing the new faces and mechanics the future of the elder scrolls shines brightly like a new star

heh and here i go remembering one of my moments in morrowind during my first time playing as my orc barbarian Urgak-gro-shurnag i was once lost in the ashlands for 3 days. then on the third day i stumbled into ald-ruhn with only about 10 hp almost all my armor and weapons either broken or on the verge of breaking and just about every disease and blight in the game to my name. then heard one of the local dunmer say you should have a healer tend to those wounds. i knew then i would own this game for however long the disc lasts which by the way i still own and it still works

There jus simply isnt another game out there that does to me what TES does......My was I so happy when Fallout came out. Its pretty much the same game/concept just a different story and setting.....

Im glad that we now have SOMETHING that can compete with TES coming out in between TES releases. Its like now we get to go back and forth, and cut some of the wait times down in between games.

MW blew me away.....there was just nothing like it that I had ever seen before. It was the largest game I had ever played, and I loved that about it.

I hate how nowadays even rpgs are small, linear, and have hardly anything to do. I pretty much NEVER felt that way in MW or OB.

This rocks as I had very similar experiences.

I had a very similar experience. I had heard about Morrowind on Extended Play on TechTV...thought it looked really cool. Got it for the xbox, tried playing it three separate times but each time I got this feeling of near anxiety...I had no idea what I was supposed to do and it scared me a little. RPG's to me were JRPG's. Highly structured. Finally one day I decided that I was going to hunker down and play it. Close to 400 hours later my gaming life had changed for the better and I never looked back.

Thanks for the thoughts. Brings me back to a great time.

this thread is full of win, because its full of TES
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Very good story and I can definately say I had the same experience. Thats what so great about these guys, they never get boring. I can put Oblivion back in right now and still have a fantastic time

I hated Morrowind (Xbox) when I first played it. It ticked me off to no end. I barely left Seyda Neen.

I gave it a second chance about 2 months later and fell in love with it so much I bought a PC and the another copy of the game. (My first PC ever.)

I was just awestruck after that. The people felt so alive. I felt like I was really there. I had never seen/played anything like it.

Man, it gives me nostalgic goose bumps just reminiscing about it.

Nothing has, or ever will beat the TES and Fallout games for me. Though TES has the bigger share of my heart!

P.S.

Oh yeah, forgot. As others have mentioned, as excited as I am for Skyrim it can't compare to the bliss that was discovering Morrowind for the first time.......er, second time. :whistling:

I'm glad so many other people have had the same experiences that I had when first playing MW. I started it up, got overwhelmed and set it aside for about a year. When I picked it up again something was different and I just dove right in. 3 years later I was getting close to my quest of removing all the black "fog of war" on both the mini map and large map....my singularly favorite moment in MW was when in a drunken haze I stumbled upon the Fat Lute. I collected so much that my Telvanni stronghold looked like it belonged on an episode of hoarders (well until that area spawned an overflow loot bag). What a great game, and now as I get ready to start back into OB one more time before SR (SkyRim?) comes out I'm looking forward to loosing myself in a TES game again.

I had a similar feeling playing Morrowind, and quite honestly, I never did any quests in it lol. I just... went out and explored. Although, having not been used to RPGs, the combat system really pissed me off, but I got over it very easily. It was a fantastic feeling.

5 years after getting rid of my original xbox, I FINALLY could play Oblivion, which had already been ou for a while. I was struck by the same feeling again, only this time, it only lacked more elaborate environments. But then again, I still oved it, and I still do today. Also, I love what they did to the combat system, and love how they're going even further about it in Skyrim.

I just can't wait to just... lose myself. Go out in the woods, get lost, then try to find my way to some town or city, without the map. I ALWAYS do that, and I ALWAYS get good sights at least, awesome places if I'm lucky

Ok, this does two things for me... First, it makes me nostalgic... I do miss the first time I played Morrowind, as does everyone here, I'm certain... Second, it makes me feel old. lol I began my addiction with TES with Daggerfall. I had never seen an open, expansive RPG that totally went against everything the other RPGs tried to do. It was a brilliant concept, brought to life with the best technology we had at the time. Morrowind came out, and it took that same idea and added graphics and immersion. It was an eye opening experience to say the least. At any rate, I'll raise my glass with the rest of you in hopes that Skyrim comes anywhere close to that.

Reading that has made me extremely happy, and taken me on a trip down memory lane to the time involving my love affair with Morrowind.

<3 Akaryu
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I don't know how long Morrowind had been out when I first saw it. I was browsing the xbox games at blockbuster. I saw a mysterious brown cover. I was so intrigued. I was willing to try anything, so I took a look at the back and doubted the boasts. I can be anyone? Do anything? Certainly exaggerations! As soon as I saw the intro cinematic, I was forever entrapped. There's no escape. Each iteration of the elder scrolls becomes my most anticipated and favorite game. Of course, Morrowind will always have a special corner of my heart. It certainly spoiled us.

Back in 2008 I discovered Oblivion. I now know firsthand that it is fairly bad compared to Morrowind, but Oblivion will always have a place in my heart as my first Elder Scrolls game.

I was at my cousin's house reading a book, and when I glanced up, he was playing this really good looking game on his Xbox360. So, I asked if I could have a go, and he took me back to the main menu and started a new game for me.

Hoooooooly [censored], was I blow away. I was, and still am, a huge RPG fan, but somehow TES managed to slip under my radar.
I made a Dunmer mage, and continued to play in awe at the first person view, real-time combat, ragdoll physics (I played with a dead body for five minutes before continuing), magic system, voiced dialogue, and everything else that makes TES awesome. I approached the grate leading outside and finalized my character, excited for what was to come.

Now, up till then, I had only ever played linear RPGs, so I expected the grate to lead to a walled off city where I was shuffled forwards into being the hero that would save the day. Boy, was I wrong. I literally dropped the controller when I saw how huge the world was. I asked my cousin if you could actually go everywhere you could see, and when he answered with a yes, I almost peed myself. I wasn't sure what to do or where to go, so I just picked the place where most people go after starting the game. The Ayleid ruin across the lake from where you were. I dispatched the bandits with ease, then spent a while shooting arrows into their corpses. When I figured out that you could grab and move the leather shoes sitting by the tent, I picked them up and ran down to the river, where I tried to beat a mudcrab to death with them. I was a little disappointed that it didn't work, but not much deterred. I decided it was time for a swim, took off my clothes, and dove in, emerging on the other side just as an Imperial Legion guard on horseback rode by. Needless to say, I hit his horse with my fists, then stole it once he got off. Sadly, at that point it was time for me to go, however I was determined to get this game. Two days later, I had my own Xbox and a brand new GOTY edition of Oblivion.

Since then, I must have sunk 2-300 hours into the console version of Oblivion, and over 400 into the PC version, which I picked up two years ago. Last year I decided to research all that is The Elder Scrolls, and played through Morrowind and Daggerfall. The experience was slightly dulled by Oblivion, but it was incredibly fun, nonetheless.

When the Skyrim gameplay trailer was released, I got the same feeling I did when I first stepped out of the dirty prison sewers. The anticipation of exploration, fun, excitement, and roleplaying. I've been in a constant state of excitement since then, and plan to continue until long after Skyrim is released.

You hit the nail on the head with this one!

I felt just the same. And I only started playing MW 2 years ago... it was art.

Thanks for the post OP. :tes:

Morrowind amazed me too when it was released. It really felt like an adventure. In there exploration was exciting, and the game didn't hold your hand too much so you had to put more thought into it. This made it much more rewarding after you finally found something interesting. In Oblivion the compass and waypoint system ruined the excitement of discovery, and the map and caves were less exciting as well. In Skyrim the map is again going to be hand-made, and there are more dungeon makers, so I've feeling that Skyrim is going to feel like Morrowind again...an adventure.

I couldn't agree more with the OP. I think most people who really enjoy(ed) Morrowind can relate to this person's story. I remember buying my first half-decent PC back in 2003 and receiving a copy of Morrowind with my video card. Being one of the few PC games I had on hand at the time, I installed it, played it and loved it. I think at the time I couldn't really get my head around how good the game really was, it took a while to sink in.

Viewing the Skyrim trailer last month (yeah I know, I've been out of the loop for a while) with no previous knowledge of the game itself, definitely brought back memories of when I first stumbled upon Morrowind.

This brings back memories for me as well, not of nostalgia and love for Morrowind, but regret. This is a different story, to be sure, and a sad one. I was in the 5th grade when I heard about MW. It had already become a platinum hit, and I was researching it and was totally engrossed in the idea of getting it, planning on spending my saved up $20 (lol) to get it. Somehow I even got my hands on a copy of the MW manual, and I vividly remember poring over its contents and imagining the possibilties for an entire schoolday, blocking out the rest of the world. I was convinced this game was really something, and then.....something happened. To this day, I can't tell you what it was, or how or why, but I didn't buy it. :shakehead:
I even remember being slightly upset that I hadn't gotten it when I had the chance, because I kept looking back at that window I had missed and regretting it. At the time though, it wasn't of great importance, and I soon forgot about the whole thing. I moved on to other games and other hobbies.

It was only 5 years later, when I was much older, wiser, and more game-experienced, that I remembered. The brand new Xbox 360 was coming out, and one of the advertised Day One launches was TES IV: Oblivion. When I saw that game, I was stunned. I thought, "Haven't I seen a game like that before?"

It struck my curiosity, and only then, upon recalling the whole thing, I suddenly knew what a mistake I had made and was very sad, but still feeling hopeful that I would soon redeem myself with Oblivion.

And so it was that my first REAL TES game was Oblivion, and I fell in love with its awesomeness to an obsessive degree. The learning experience was good overall, but ever since then I have returned to this forum under various names after OB and seen the talk of MW, and a hint of sadness nags at me about the chance I never got. I would basically relate it to a crush or real love that you felt and knew you had to act on, and then the opportunity passed, and it was gone. Many times over the years I have wondered if it would be as simple as just getting MW and playing it, but I know deep down that it just can't be the same after Oblivion and all the games since Morrowind came out, and I know even if I went back, I would only be diminishing my experience by being a jaded critic coming in 10 years too late.

Anyway, that's my sad and nostalgic story. I'm glad I could tell it on this thread, just to get it out there. More importantly than my past though, is what I expect from the future, and how I know that no matter what I missed from MW, and what I loved about OB, I know that Skyrim is going to take me to a whole new level, and give me some of the best new memories I'll make in my gaming career. Yeah, I'm that convinced already.

Good stories.

I'll try to write my story (but it will be rather hampered by the fact that I have not written much in English. Click on my name. The number of entries is equal to how many times I've tried this). Excuses completed...

I don't have a great story about what it was like to play Arena, Daggerfall, Morrowind or Oblivion for the first time. My first TES was Oblivion. I must have loved it since I took all the achievements and played 236 hours with one character, but years later all I could remember was the "go in to the painting quest" and of course the prison. Weird, I know.

I play a lot of games, always have.

Playing Fallout 3, hmm... This reminds me of Oblivion.

Fast forward a few years. I begin to read this forum. I don't know how i got here or why. After a while I feel like playing Oblivion again and buy GOTY for PS3. I played the expansions and had a pretty fun time, but now I noticed all the errors that I didn't see the first time (because of nice folks like you ). I even got Morrowind because of you and I thank you for it.

Now, why do I love TES so much? MODS! I can't stop playing Oblivion. Please Skyrim, release me from Oblivions claws.

Now you go, "wow that was different".

wow that was different



\I'm the same way though, my enjoyment of Oblivion/Morrowind is now dependent entirely on mods. I doubt I could play the base games anymore.