I thought it would be nice to do start a post concerning how we got into TES. What game did you first started playing,favorite? Did you see it long before you bought it or was it a blind buy? If you are a rookie, you can tell why you found it interesting, if you are a veteran of the series, what made you stick around? what do you find the best aspect of the game, lore, gameplay, setting etc etc etc...
I know I am probably leave some aspects out but feel free to share your TES experience.

I received Morrowind for my birthday. I had no previously knowledge of any Elder Scrolls game. It simply looked interesting, and I enjoyed other roleplaying games of that nature around the same time. Unfortunately, my PC at the time was not at all capable of running a game like Morrowind (this was several years ago, mind you.) It wasn't until a solid year later that I got a better PC capable of running it. I played it for hours and hours and hours and loved it. Eventually, I stopped playing and moved on to other things. I never even considered the possibility that another game in the series would be made. Several years later, I found out about The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and that it had already been released. I remembered how much I enjoyed Morrowind, and then saw the trailers for Oblivion and was blown away by how advanced the AI was. I bought it a couple of weeks later and was blown away. From then on, I went from being a Morrowind fan to being an Elder Scrolls fan.

I went back and played Daggerfall and Redguard, and I've also played a little of Arena and Battlespire, but have not beaten either.

A big part of my enjoyment of TES comes from the lore. It's such a rich, vibrant, believable world. Familiar but different. It works. I also really enjoy the direction that the series has been heading since the start; allowing the player to roam freely in an open world and to enhance feelings of immersion and roleplaying to truly get the player svcked into this world of Tamriel.

I was at Best Buy one day and stopped to look at the XBOX games,(original XBOX ),and I saw this game called Morrowind. Something was telling me to look at it, and an employee noticed. He came over and began telling me about Morrowind. He said it was HUGE so I put it back and left.
I actually went back several times to Best Buy for certain things, and would always find my way back to the games to see if Morrowind was still there and then leave. Finally one day I couldn't take it anymore and bought it. Morrowind ended up being the game etched on my heart forever. An open world like never before and taking me back to the days I traveled.
I only bought an XBOX 360 because of Oblivion, and to this day I still have not done the main quest because I would wander off.Though I did watch my husband do the main quest. For some reason when I first played Oblivion I just wanted to go steal everything, and then I ended up on a Dark Brotherhood Quest. I realized they were REALLY bad and went back to stealing! You can end up anywhere doing anything in TES. Tamriel will be my home until Bethesda decides to move on to some place new.

My parent's friend's son had Oblivion, and I played it there.

Then I bought Oblivion and Morrowind because they looked interesting.

Morrowind, plain and simple. I had never really played any Open World RPG's (or any open world game) and it svcked me in straight away. i played it for over 2000 hours on the Xbox version alone, so no mods, no console commands. I still remember where everything in the game is.

To me, this was the single biggest game in my life that affected how i view them. It was artsy, dark, mysterious, and a TONNE of customization. (this is also the game that got me interested in DnD)

Well, the first game I played was Oblivion. It's the only TES game I have played, but I am probably in the future going to try out others. I am definitely getting Skyrim, since I loved Oblivion.

I guess it was when I was quite younger, just when Oblivion came out and I was playing it on the PS3 round my mums boyfriends at the time.

I was playing the prologue of where you're going through the sewers and all, I just found it amazing,
Games I were used to was games like Dune 2000, Halo 1, Battlefield 2, Command and Conquer, so visiting TES Oblivion was really a new thing. I loved going through the sewers, hacking away at the odd zombie, giant rats, and then the Mythic Dawn assassins after the emperor. I thought the detail at the time was brilliant.Now the details for Skyrim, they look brilliant. After getting the key and escaping the sewers. I was shocked by a massive lush open world, filled with ruins and everything.

So, my mind, was like woah... so much to do! Where should I go? the imperial city? the mysterious white ruins over there in front of me? For what I didn't know at the time was Ayleid ruins. It was just the opportunities that brought me in the game. Traversing through Oblivion more, I am shown the siege of Kvatch, the many books which are in the game, the Oblivion gates popping up everywhere, the dark brotherhood, vampirism, so on, so on.

I spent so much of my hours playing that game, and I think, (think? I know!) that I will be spending a hell of a lot more in Skyrim. I love the approach it has on Skyrim. Where it's more rugged, more dynamic. the engines been re-created. Animations are fluid. Thirdperson looks so much better, I find myself using it a lot, and first person is so much better as well. Nothing really bad to say about it.

Since Oblivion, RPG's have become a major genre I prefer to play now. Great job they're doing at Bethesda. <3

very interesting post. Let's see for me, It was definitely the setting that hooked me in. I've always been into the whole knights and mages branch of fiction, I even love going to renaissance faire and learning about stuff from the medieval era to the renaissance period. I unfortunately never got to play Morrowind, I first remember seeing Morrowind on Toonami(before advlt swim) and they were talking about the premises of the title; Be who you want to be and do what you want to do in a gigantic world. I remember being 11 and some kid having the game and letting me play but the furthest point I got to was getting off the boat. Then I forgot about the series entirely till I was 17 and some guy I was in a band with at the time had oblivion and my first thoughts were "This has got to be THEEcoolest game since that one game I saw all those years ago(I didn't remember the name of Morrowind). It took me about a year to remember the name of Oblivion and get a 360(I looked up Morrowind, but you know D:)So one day I was at the store and I seen Oblivion and was like "goodbye birthday money" haha
Ever since then, Oblivion has been my all time favorite game. I tried playing Arena but I could never get the game to play at a decent speed and I tried to play Daggerfall but it would never work right for me so I gave up on both accounts.

Like I said the setting was what got my attention but the HUGE world was what really made me fall in love. All the choices you could make as a character were unbelievable to me(I've never really played rgp before TES so it was something very new to me.)
The design of the game was very important to me. Everything looked like it tried to be real, one reason I could never really get into some JRPG and WoW.
Another main factor for me was also the music, I can't get into a game if it doesn't have good music and I found that Oblivion had incredible, I do think Morrowind's main theme is better though.

Back like in 2002 when I was 15 I bought Fable. My buddy and me were looking forward to that game for 2 or 3 years (I think for a while it was called Project Ego). After I played it and beat it I was so disappointed. I decided to buy Morrowind just because it seemed interesting to me when I was at the store. It is still the best game I have ever played imo.