I don't know what it is . . . maybe the insidiously perfect marketing campaign that drew me in last year . . . the tantalizing screenshots . . . the articles . . . I really can't wait 24 more days to play this game!

I'd never heard of TES games before Morrowind. I'd been the DM for an aging group of gamers whose game-time was dwindiling to nothing as we all had more birthdays, had more children, tried to be responsible with our free-time, etc., so I'd played a few computer games like Baldur's Gate. We'd purchased the original X-Box for our young children, and I'd received an Amazon gift-certificate for X-mas. It was actually my lovely wife who said, "Do you want to buy a game? This looks interesting." It was Morrowind.

From the moment I started playing, I knew this was how I would make a game . . . if I had majored in something useful like computer science instead of education . . . The first time I said to myself, "How the hell do I get to this Balmora place?", I knew I was going to have loads of fun. Morrowind made me assume (wrongly!) that all the "RPG" console games were like TES. Sadly, I found out just how unique Bethesda games really are.

From Morrowind, came Oblivion--my children and I have logged embarrassing amounts of hours playing Morrowing and Oblivion. From there, I conquered the wasteland with Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas. Truthfully, for the amount of money I spent on these games, they have to be the best entertainment dollar I've ever spent. I can spend $60 dollars taking my family of four to a movie, and the fun is over in less than 3 hours . . .

So after rambling for far too long, I find that I can't take the anticipation anymore! Each post I read makes me "jones" for Skyrim! I haven't felt this way since I was 6 and staring at the presents under the tree two weeks before Christmas! I work for a college whose clientele is primarily military members, so we're officially closed on the 11th for Veterans Day. I told my wife, "I'm buying this game." She tried to respond with some sort of "wait until X-mas nonsense." I informed her the 11th is "Veterans Day, not Excuses Day" and the game will be mine . . . luckily, my son's now 16 and working, so he "manned-up" and promised he'd buy me the game . . . the plan's in place--a 3-day weekend and Skyrim . . . how the hell am I going to make it 24 more days?

Am I just being a weenie (please treat that as rhetorical)? Is anyone else starting to "feel the anticipation" a bit too acutely?

Yes, you're a weenie

Just like every other single member here :icecream:

I've already started searching for a way to time travel.

I'm getting Skyrim 33 seconds earlier.
At last living in such a [censored] country paid off!

It's seriously a bit embarrassing . . . a 40 (ish) year-old man anticipating a video game like it's the birth of a child . . . scratch that, I think I wasn't as excited so much as nervously-nauseous when my children were born.

I guess it's a credit to how entertaing these games really are--in the end, that's why we all play, right?

there's a good method called sleeping :snoring:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCnbbGzOaz0

23 days. Not 24.

:nod:

Yeah knowing my luck I'mma die two seconds before my husband gets back from midnight release so I will have to become a ghost and invade his body just to play it. Seriously though yeah I'm with you though its like being in a hallway and going towards a door that keeps moving further away, time seems to have slowed to a crawl now, my days are long even with cleaning and other games. Also having insomnia doesn't help.

Do you suggest I put myself into a coma? Yes... yes that will work! Thanks!

Embarrasing? Logging in less than 15 hours is embarrassing, if you played it very much that's fantastic, not embarrassing!

11th November is the new Christmas

Agree

Go to the UESP and refresh your memory on the TES lore. Should keep you busy for a while.

I am with you brother. Thank God I had the SW:TOR beta to distract me for a little while. Now that's over. I have to tide myself over with Arkham City for now -- but -- my heart aches in anticipation as well!

11-10-11, the longest day of my life.
Actually all this wait, it feels eternal but in the 10th that day, will never end, and then knowing my luck, a unicorn is going to stab me.
But yea, I feel your pain, I never been this excited about a game..ever..ever...ever...

Perhaps you need to "man up". It's sort of pathetic your son buys you video games outside holidays.

Curiously I never heard of Morrowind, until I bought a new computer, and recieved a number of new games along with it. Lo' and behold! One of those games where Morrowind... At first I didn't really think of it, as the images on the disk didn't do much to awaken my curiousity... Then one day, I was bored; I had completed or put on ice, every other game I had... So I plugged in Morrowind, and... I was hooked. Since then I have only experienced one game better (in general - some games have better graphics, some have better gaming engines, some have fewer bugs, but Morrowind is the height of all the qualities I look for in a game), but what really hooked me about Morrowind was the level of detail (at the time), the extensive storyline, and particularly the music.

Though I also bought the Bloodmoon and Tribunal expansions, I never really got into them... Compared to Morrowind, Oblivion doesn't even come close in quality, in story nor gameplay, still it is enjoyable, when you've experienced everything there is to experience in Morrowind. The Shivering Isles was an awesome expansion to Oblivion, however, and the story of Sheogorath actually came close to reaching the same level of genious as Morrowind.

The Fallout series I started after I played Oblivion, when I came across Fallout 3... Again Bethesda showed true brilliance in the making of the plotline... I am hoping, that Skyrim will match the level of Morrowind, however, and not be another Oblivion.

If that's the case i'll go tell my mom to return all the stuff that I bought her, after all we are only suppose to buy things for someone else when we are forced to and not because we want to.
Your Logic is silly.

:lmao: If only.

Well, I know I played Morrowind more than Oblivion, and Oblivion more than Fallout, and according to Steam I've played Fallout approximately 647 hours...Soo..Yeah. It's fantastic!