Yes. It made me hardcoe.

No, but close. Civ, Zelda and Mario all just pip it to the post.

yeah and I enjoyed it for what it was. I'm just one of those people that loves the exploration/open world side of things, and mass effect felt claustrophobic in that respect for me. Definitely not one of my favourite games

Oboy.
Not a question to ask me.....

YEEEESSS!!!!!!

It began one day at the game store....a place where once there was not a console in sight; just these boxes of floppy disks and manuals. There I found Arena by this upstart Bethesda Softworks. Cool box art, if a bit generic for a CRPG. At that time, Ultima Underworld was shaking things; a CRPG from a first person perspective. Before Underworld, nigh onto all CRPG's were God View isometric. Arena was first person, I liked Underworld, so what the heck. Take it home, load the 6 floppies into the rocking 486 with 512 megs of RAM and boot the game up. The Imperial dungeon was a little tough to finish out as a newbie character, and the textures weren't quite as crisp and pretty as Underworld's.....but gamesas also didn't have Garriot's multi-game money pool to draw on, either, so it was forgiveable. Then came Ria Silmane's escape gate.....

You were Outside.
That had never really happened before; not in first person. You could walk in any of 360 degrees. There was day and night. You had an overarching quest structure....but you weren't forced to do it until you wanted to. You had a continent to check out, cities to poke around in, castles and dungeons and whatnot within a days walk of most of those cities. And a sense that there was a lot of backstory behind all of the nations and races. And it had replay value.


Then Came Daggerfall....

That is, to this day, what all CRPG's should aspire to be. Yes, it had problems (considering you could fill up what was then a state of the art hard drive by doing a complete install, they were really pushing the envelope...as well as getting caught in the Farewell to DOS that Microsoft was in the midst of). You were not bound to the story; so long as you didn't trip the main quest timer, you could go anywhere, do anything, and not have to worry about trashing your endgame. The openness and scale was, and still remains, unique. The cities felt alive. The taverns had music and atmosphere. You could be as good or as bad as your wanted. Create you own spells and potions.

Battlespire, while technically not part of the main series, was fun. It was more like Ultima Underworld...but it was slammed with the change in video technology that came about due to hardware advances, making it hard to run on a lot of computers.

Redguard also got caught in the shift after that, when Direct X was making a mess of OpenGL. BUt again, a fun game.

Morrowind was a bit of a disappointment; not the design, but the scale. Hopes were high of rampaging all over the province....and we were stuck on a tiny island off the coast. An island that couldn't have been a true representative of Morrowind Proper, just because it was ground zero for a pouty deity. And you couldn't build soaring architecture on so small a place.

Oblivion gave us the visuals we wanted, and showed us the direction the series was going in (although personally, I would have traded all the voice acting for a major increase in landmass in this and the previous game).

So far they have managed to keep hold of the lore and shape of the Elder Scrolls universe....even if landmass keeps getting smaller.

Skyrim has a lot to live up to.....and eye candy is only part of the challenge. What will be interesting to see is exactly how it plays and develops. As I recall, Ken Ralston only had things rough plotted through Oblivion (which actually was supposed to take place on Summerset Isle, if I recall correctly). So this is all on the new team.....

1. TES
2. KOTOR
3. The Legend of Zelda

1. TES/S.T.A.L.K.E.R
2. Fallout
3. Age of empires

1. TES
2. TES: Adventures
3. TES: Travels

Yes, i mean there are so many types of games and series. But for the series i have the most hours in the TES, the most fun most likely too. No other games that i can think of has the lore behind it with the game play to back it up. And i personally don't like the Mass Effect series (if two games is really called a series) but i know they get huge reviews. Just as The Elder Scrolls has it's die hard fans i understand other games do too. And for the Mass Effect fans to acknowledge that it's great is an accomplishment. I mean not very many other games can be put into the same category as Zelda, Civilization, Mario ect.


But i mean come on it is definately a yes from me with no close second especially because there just isn't a game with the same kind of replay value.
Bethesda Game Studios has to be one of the best ever. How many developers can say they have three straight games and counting with Game of the Year?

Hallelujah :foodndrink:

There are other game series I like more, such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Shock (which launched the same year as TES). But yeah, TES is near the top. Big fan of the Suikoden series too.

TES
Fallout
GTA
Assassin's Creed Series
Splinter Cell Series (excluding conviction, that wasnt splinter cell)
Ghost Recon (First one and expansions, and I a looking foward to Future Soldier)

anyone who says TES isnt the best gaming experience is Blaspheming

Yes, but the Fallout series and Neverwinter Nights come darn close.

Meeeeh, I couldn't really comment about the series (I haven't played them yet :whistling: ). Oblivion is probably one of my favourite games ever though.
After that though...

2. Fallout New Vegas.
3. Mass Effect.
4. Scribblenauts.
Edit: Ooh, ooh, and Kingdom Hearts would be 5. I love that series :teehee:

Of course asking this on The Elder Scrolls forums is a bit biased. But, yes, it's my favourite game series.

Second best, Half life is better IMO

Baldur's Gate. Then 'the rest' (incl TES).

1. TES
2. Fallout
3. Battlefield series.
4. Mass effect
5. Half Life/Portal.

1. TES(always)
2. GTA
3. Mass Effect
4. Diablo
5. Sims

Capital yes.

Very close for me. I voted the small yes. Close between TES, Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros.

LONG LIVE THE ELDER SCROLLS!!!! :rock:

Sadly I must say that while I love TES it is not my absolute favourite game series. It has quite some competition from Bioshock, Half-Life and ironically Fallout (both old and new ones. Well, I never played the first one, but the second. And I haven't played NV yet, but I remain confident that it must be awesome).

1. Bioshock
2. Half-Life (because)
3. Fallout
4. The Elder Scrolls

What are these Cliff Racers?

I use to get goosebumps/chills when the opening music of oblivion would start, only your favorite game can do that.

Never played Morrowind I'm guessing, http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Cliff_Racer#Cliff_Racer