I started playing in July or August 2008 when I finally got a new PC. I had already spent some time over at UESP examining the races and classes so I already decided in advance to play a Breton Spellsword with the Mage birthsign. I'm not sure whether or not I visited Vilverin after emerging from the sewers, but if I did I only killed the bandits outside and never went in. I do remember walking up the hill to the IC market district and trying out the persuasion minigame on a guard. I think the first quest I did was Unfriendly Competition. Then I went to pay Jauffre a vsiit and I remember picking Morning Glory from the walls of the ruined fort and thinking how much easier that was compared to Morrowind where plants functioned like containers.

"ooh, look, I can tinker with his face!"

"this imperial guy seems nice enough, I won't pick another race."

"how do I open this gate?" (punches the cell door)

"ahh, now it makes sense! ok, I know this guy's voice from somewhere..."

"rats! rats! kill! kill!"

"a zombie? OMG I'm going to die!"

"heh, sneaking is cool."

"damn goblins"

"the emperor again!"

"what? here? why wait here?"

"NOOOOO!!!!!" (reloads and tries to save the emperor)

"the tutorial is over? what do I do? what do I do?" (panics)

"is that the end of the tunnel?"

"..." (completely and utterly awed)

;)

Installed mods (I didn't start until 2010)
Died more than once at the paws/hands/claws of the rats/zombies/goblins.
Fired many missing flares.
Broke many lockpicks (I love/hate that lockpicking mini-game; I still svck at it to this day . . .)
Strangely, unlike most, I did not go to Vilverin for a long time.
Went almost immediately to IC to sell the loot.
Was immediately enamored with the NPC schmoozing mini-game and quickly perfected my skills (I rock at that mini-gamez!)
Stole hundreds of metric tons of junk.
Got arrested for pickpocketing (Wholly Pants Pockets Batman! Pickpocking it WAAY harder than just plain pilfering!)
Went down a manhole and killed monsters . . . got killed . . .
Died in the Arena
Decided, "Ah what the heck! Lets be an EVIL Bosmer Chickie!"
Tested just how much I could get away with in crime . . .
Stole a horse . . .
Committed murder . . .

It was downhill from there

I was on the store and i say Oblivion for PC, PS3 and Xbox360...
I only had PS3 and PC but i choose the ps3 version because my computer svcks D=
well i buyed the GOTY edition and i runed to home to play it!
I created a character named Sepht Volturi, a Nord middle aged, Knight Class.
I did the main quests only to the cloud ruler temple and then i went to the Dark Brotherhood, i didn't complete the questline, then Arena, i reached Grand Champion title and and met the adoring fan.
and that was my first day on oblivion =D

i remember i was in my sophomore year of highschool. I was at home because I'd just had surgery on my knee due to a meniscus tear. I've never had my parents coddle me more than that week where I did nothing but play Oblivion and eat scones. I created my one and only character, a Redguard named Othello and to this day I have not finished his quest to shut the gates

I remember getting smashed by a trap while charging a goblin-after spending at least an hour or two playing with my characters face.

I got out of the sewers, killed those two bandits outside of Vilverin, took the Amulet of Kings to Jauffre and promptly got killed by the bandits in the Crumbling Mine.

I got the game on a recommendation from a friend, not knowing anything about it other than that you could be cat people or something. The tutorial level wasn't confusing, but it was linear. "Go where you haven't been yet and do what Patrick Stewart tells you to do." The game world proper was too open at first, I didn't know what to do. That paired with my confusion over what the little icons in the journal mean because I hadn't read the instruction booklet yet made for a rough start. I stumbled around the Imperial Isle naked, (I couldn't see myself and I somehow unequipped everything) wondering how to switch to third person. I wandered around until I found Aleswell, and finding people I couldn't see, thought the character meshes were having trouble loading and quit for a while.

The first day I played Oblivion I played my brothers character. I was walking around the Market district and going to the random shops and then I took something by accident and got arrested. Then when they let me go I got the invitation to join the Thieves guild but it took me ages to find them.

And I was afraid of the sewers.

Having played Daggerfall and Morrowind and having purchased the Prima guides for those two games, I got the guide Oblivion same day I got the game. I'm just not adventurous enough to go out on my own I guess. So the guide told me what to expect but I was absolutely blown away when I came out of the sewers. A herd of deer ran past me and it scared me to death. I was standing in tall grass and could see water and other things way past that. I just stood there and looked. It's been quite a few years ago now so I don't remember for sure what I did then. I think I went to Weynon Priory first.

I can only imagine the awe on 11.11.11. Gonna be a long 11 months...

I started picking up everything I could pick up. Then I was almost killed by a fish, and got pissed off.

I went up to the Imperial City. I figured all the crap I found in the tutorial had to be worth something. While selling and buying stuff, I got svcked into the "Unfriendly Compitition" side quest. Met my first death facing Argamir. I am still trying to figure out how mudcrabs kill people. :facepalm:

I started Oblivion in mid 06 and couldn't work out why the audio kept fading in and out....
.......so my first job was to remove the disc and give it a good clean. After that everything was fine.

Eventually clearing the tutorial dungeon I took a look at the poorly populated Imperial City and thought yuck!
So I plunged straight into the wilderness, ignored the main quest and have loved the game ever since. :twirl:

I got out of the sewers pretty easily (I really don't get how people couldn't kill mudcrabs right away after playing through that tutorial) and went straight for the MQ. Of course, I was not going to use fast travel (I think I knew it existed, I always read the manual first). It took me quite a while to even get to Chorrol, and I proceeded on to Kvatch. Got killed many times in between, and I forgot to save a lot in between. Got lost in the first oblivion gate, and got fed up. I then started a new character, joined to DB quite fast by luck (didn't intentionally kill someone), and from there on the game became fun for me.

say "oooooooooooohhhhhhh pretty AND PEOPLE YAY!"and go over to the runes and say"hi" and die

Hmm...

... well, the very first thing was spending about 3-4 hours trying to make a character that matched my aesthetic preferences so that I actually cared about her. Still isn't quite there, but we suffer with the limitations of what we're offered.

After the whole tutorial (2 hours or so), Vilverin was right before her... and bandits... and death... I think Bethesda did that on purpose, personally.

This,not knowing they were bandits I walked up to say hello to the friendly campers by the fire.
Reloaded and had an epic battle with them before reloading again.
Ah the good ole days.

My first character was a female dark elf, I made her really pretty... from the front. Inadvertently I had given her an overbite. I didn't realize you could rotate the head during face creation. :facepalm:

When I first started playing Oblivion, it was really strange because I went through the sewers, learned about the emperor and the blood of Talos and whatnot; the emperor died and Baurus was sad so I gave him a healing potion to mend his broken heart. Anyways I left the sewers and was like "whoa graphics" shortly after I was all like "whoa ruins", then proceeded to swim over and found bandits. Long story short I got in one little fight and my mom got scared so she said you're moving in with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air.

I swear, if the statistics of every game of Oblivion ever played were compiled, those Vilverin bandits would come out as the top-ranked killers.

I just wandered around, amazed by how beautiful the game was.

I remember creating creating a VERY ugly character, and that started a tradition. I then went outside and tried to drive a boat. after about 2 min., I gave up. After that, I was bumbling around Cyrodiil, looking for Chorrol. I remember attempting to chase down a pack of deer. My friend who was there, who had also played Fallout 3, told me about fast travel. Chorrol became my favorite city. After that, my other friend came over, and he BEGGED to make a character. I told him it was to long and just let him play. He went to a city (I forget which one) and pickpocketed a guard and then ran around the city, spamming heal spell. He finnaly managed to kill a guard and then he died. I forget the rest.

I remember created a really odd looking Imperial male and then going around trespassing, stealing, and killing.

The first thing i did was the MQ up until when I had to decipher the book's message. I didn't know at first what to do, and when I read about what to do, I was too busy doing the Thieves Guild quest line to go back.

Another thing I remember from the first time I played was that I didn't know my character could swim. I walked into the water outside the Sewers, discovered that I was soon totally underwater and drowning, and backed out in a hurry. I found rings and amulets that let me breathe water, or walk on it, and thought that was the only way you could survive. I didn't find out you could just move up to the surface and swim until about a week later.