Oh geeze...how am I supposed to remember that far back? I remember the confusion as to why there was an M rating on the box, but a T on everything else...and then realized that the M was a sticker. XD And then I went through the tutorial...I played a Bosmer, I believe, named Ethrele. Based it off an already-existing RPG character I had, so she ended up with purple hair. I'm actually surprised, when I look back, how well she looked for not having yet got into using mods.

I also remember getting incredibly frustrated because I was crap at it. ^.^() 2006 seems like it was so long ago...

Well.. wow, we have to go back to 2006 when it was first released.

I recall spending a good chunk of time messing with the way my character looked then doing the whole sewer thing. After that, being completely floored of how amazing and open the game was once you stepped out of the sewers. Simply breathtaking.

Then I pretty much just wondered around for a while and started the main quest.

I'll be honest, my first day playing Oblivion, I was completely overwhelmed by both the freedom and the beauty of the game.

I spent about six hours jumping from hill to hill going, "LOOK AT THE JUMP MECHANICS!"

The first thing I did was make a mage character. I saw online about how the cities in Oblivion were really awesome looking and had a lot going on ( shops + arena + lots of residents etc ). First thing I wanted to do was go to Imperial City but I had no idea how to get there! I just walked aimless east until I found my self being attacked by some hard stuff, then I checked my map and noticed the Imperial City and how far away it was, but I didn't even know how to fast travel ( until much later ). I spent around 20-30 minutes walking to imperial city, went to the trade district, and nearly ironed my self over how realistic I thought it was at the time.

Shaked those shackles in the cell like crazy!

Played The tutorial fo about an hour to two each and recreated my character before the finish becaus ei didn't like something. Made a Highelf ranger idea and beat the tutorial...noticed that I could remake a character to my desire...swore alot...then gave up for the day. Day two finally left sewer and since 2006 still go back and have a blast

i never left the totorial, i went into the cave, got spooked by the fight music and darkness, quit and didn't play again until six months later.

I did not know what I was doing or have a clue. Coming from The Witcher I try to play it like The Witcher. That work abit then I said to myself 'pace yourself this is a different game'.
Also where are the monsters? Everything is too quite.
Then I go bitten my a vampire and went to sleep. It was cool for a while and after getting shun after the 3rd phase by every Tom, dike and Harry and there is no quest with it I did not like it. I try for the cure quest so long winded and say to myself "Stuff this I started a new character" which is my third one pass three real days of playing the game, and pace myself. The 3rd character is a Breton with a unmodded game said for skin textures and spent 350 hours with her.

Here is the last time I seen http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r11/Gerza71/Oblivion2008-09-0621-07-49-98.jpg after she taken over a pirates ship in Anvil which is her last quest. She is no thief though.

Heheh that is something I still remember! I plopped Oblivion in my 360 and became intransed with TES! I remember taking 20 minutes to select my race lol. Spent ages looking in disbelief at Argonians thinking "the hell is this thing?". I settled on a wood elf and did tutorial dungeon. I ended up making a VERY weird class for that race, he was a like a heavy armored thief LOL. I then headed out and walked to Chorrol to do the main quest, not realizing it was a sandbox game. I shut er down for the day and ever since then I havent stopped playing!

Hahahaha, I made this thread a month ago and it's survived, I feel proud of myself.

Do you guys remember the first time you died? That's always a great story.

Didn't get it on release day, as I only got my 360 back in 2008..


First thing I did, was to follow the quest compass, but almost getting lost as I kept looking around at how pretty everything was (hell, I had just come back from years of PS2-gen graphics, to me OB's graphics were photo-realistic!)

First thing I did was stop playing oblivion after the first zombie in the tutorial. Came back after one minute, quit two more times along the way and was crying with happiness when I got out of the sewers.
..I proceeded to Chorrol immediately, went to the castle, punched the countess in the face until she was unconcious. I then stole a Varla stone, killed two guards and attempted to run away. I realised that I was wearing heavy armour and then ran in my undergarments to Gottlesfont priory, joined the Dark Brotherhood after a little snooze and got arrested when I was going to the Imperial City. So I joined the Thieves Guild.
Was pretty fun. :laugh:

The very first time I tried Oblivion I didn't have a clue what I was doing. My hubbie insisted on getting Oblivion (we had just gotten a PS3 and that was one of the first games we bought for the console). I had never heard about Oblivion nor TES, and was sceptical. My only experiences with RPGs up to that point was FF-games, which are very different and much more story-driven and linear.

So I remember fighting rats in the tutorial dungeon, feeling awkward with the first-person view. I got out of the sewers, and didn't have a clue what to do. I saw some ruins just outside and figured they must be there for a reason, so I imagined that was what I should do. I raided one level in there, and found nothing quest-worthy. My hubbie suggested I should leave for a town, but I had no idea where that was, what direction to go and what on earth I should do in a town. Sufficient to say, I had no clue how RPGs like these worked and turned off the game in pure frustration and confusion.

A few months later I was taking History classes in my uni and while reading about the medieval times. I rememberd Oblivion, and gave it another go - and was hooked immediately. I have never looked back (although it still took me hours of gaming all over Cyrodiil before I ever dared return to Imperial City - I figured being an escaped convict, I would be arrested on sight if I set foot in that city, so I did the main quest, raised ranks in guilds and went all over Cyrodiil for many hours while avoiding Imperial City).

I waited, inpatiently for months for Oblivion to be released, the last 3 days (when i knew it was in the post) were the worst . All my friends said "go Breton" "breton is awesome". No had idea what any of the Races did, i didn't even know that they had bonuses.

In the end of it, I became a Breton thief - it was only when I hit level 20 (after finding the game ultra hard since it was on the highest difficulty and i hadnt discovered the difficulty slider) was i actually able to sneak past monsters and kill stuff with a bow.

Now i'm an Orcish mage

I heard the combat music kick in again (from the nearby mudcrab I later found out) and I panicked and just sprinted towards the green arrow, not realizing the Imperial city was right behind me. :mellow:

Oblivion was the first RPG I ever played. I remember spending an hour creating a Nord who looked perfectly like me. I also created a nice combat/stealth class, my only regretful choice was making hand-to-hand a major skill^^. I also remember being owned by goblins. I wasn't familiar with the dungeon concept so I thought the door on the other side of the river was the entrance to a city or land called 'Vilverin' (I was pretty disappointed by what I found^^). When I came out of that dungeon I was amazed by the nocturnal sky.

I played wide-eyed though the tutorial, thinking how awesome and new it was (Oblivion was my first TES, I played them in backwards order, really. Oblivion, then Morrowind, Daggerfall and Arena).

After getting out of the tutoral with my generic Knight class Imperial, I stared at the view from the sewer exit, wandered around the outer-wall of the IC, went into the IC, spent about 20 minutes stealing from Rohssan and walked out of the shop, thinking I was cool and street-wise....until I was greated by "Stop right there, criminal scum! You have violated the law!!".


Of course, me being a TES noob at the time, thought "Haha, stupid guards! My stolen Iron Longsword'll own you!", and pick Resist Arrest. I died.

Reloaded a save before stealing from Rohssan. Did the MQ, started a new character.

Good times....

I ran out of the sewers, and somehow didn't notice the Imperial City right behind me. I ran for around twenty minutes until a reached a cave full of Goblins. I ran out after killing a few of them, and continued to run around aimlessly. I eventually came upon Bravil and began learning how to play.

Cried because everything was washed out white and I couldn't move or see anything. Then I downloaded Oldblivion. I think I began with a Redguard Fighter, probably went up to the IC and found that Woodelf's shop. But I ditched that character after a while and have been all magic since.

When I escaped the sewers, I fumbled about till I came to the Imperial City and tried stealing everything I could because I thought it was funny :') I was unaware that I could become overencumbered and was soon brought to a halt outside a Jewellry shop, greeted by the guards. Great.

2005
Was at my friends house after school (6th Grade) he got one of these crazy new xbox 360 things. He let me play Oblivion, I literally had never played an RPG before so i was going insane creating a character. The graphics, oh man that was like seeing [censored] for the first time for me. Then the hanging cuffs on the chains, THEY MOVED WHEN YOU TOUCHED THEM OMG. I remember playing with them for like 10 minutes. Never did get out of the dungeon. Fast forward to 2007 - PC version, after a hardcoe stint of CSS and its brethren I come across oblivion in the store again.

Remembrances of my first play-session are somewhat vague. I recall struggling to reacquaint myself with traditional w-a-s-d keyboard movement, having used arrow-keys almost exclusively with a variety of MMOs for a good many years. I also recall looking in vain for a Fighters Guild recruitment office within the Imperial City.

I remember watching my friend play first, so I knew what to do and everything, and my first death was against that f***ing zombie. Still hate it to this day...

found a horse, got on it, rode it through the great forest on a dark rainy night, and didn't like it,
and my crappy laptop was stuttering and groaning so i didn't play again till i got a 360 about six months later.
not a great first day.

First I got killed by the Zombie in the sewers. Then the Goblin Sorcerer killed me. I got killed at the end of the sewers protecting the king by a Mystic Dawn Assassin. I got through all of that finally and thought that this TES installment will not be a cakewalk. I left the sewers as a Bosmer Assassin and was awestruck by the wonderful landscape. I walked around and was attacked by a mudcrab.( I killed it ) I found the Sideways Cave and was immediately attacked by the Imps guarding it and killed them. I decided to go into the cave and explore it. Got through it just fine and found a nice robe that boosted my personalty. I decided to go to the Imperial City because I had a nice new robe to wear ( Surely no one would recognize me as an escaped convict) and I had a lot of junk to sell.