All of us had our first taste of TES, what about TES specifically got you hooked? and which game was your first?

For me it was Morrowind/Bloodmoon. Im a HUGE werewolf fanatic, always have been since i was a kid, most werewolf games prior to TES royally svckED!! game plays and designs were just a disgrace to werewolf fans everywhere. Then one day i saw Bloodmoon at the mall and read about werewolves in it and decided to give it a try. I was not dissapointed cause TES made an amazing game, the werewolf system was brilliant and old school style. Skyrim by far is my favorite, werewolves in skyrim not only look terrifying but there insanely tough. So for me the werewolves is what originally drew me to TES, years later and I still love Bethesda for there work of brilliantness.

In the summer of 2001 I was a first-person shooter gamer who had just finished his fifth play-through of Half-Life and was looking for a new game. I went on Amazon and stumbled across screenshots of Morrowind. I'd never heard of Elder Scrolls and had never even played a roleplaying game. I wasn't even sure what a roleplaying game was, to be honest. But the screenshots looked fantastic so I pre-ordered a copy of the Collector's Edition. It arrived the next year and I've been here ever since.

Yeah, that's right. I was a shooter gamer who only bought Morrowind because of the shiny graphics. Sue me.

Oblivion was my first. October 24, 2008 is the day I discovered Oblivion.

I bored one night, and was wondering if there were any new games out for the PS3. I didn't actually own a PS3 at that moment, but I figured if there were any cool games out, I would buy one of these. I had some money saved. So I went on gamerevolution.com and went through all the PS3 games which were out at that moment, starting with the letter A. Assassin's Creed was not out at that moment; if it had been, I probably would have gotten that game.

I wound up going through most of the alphabet (A.. B....C ... D.. ) until I got to T. I started to read the article which features The Elder Scrolls:IV Oblivion, STARTED, that's the key word here. I only got maybe halfway through this article before closing the Internet grabbing my keys, and literally driving to a local mall, buying a PS3, and this game I'd never heard of.

TES: 4 promised several things I had been looking for since the 1980s: large, open world without persistent barriers (a lot of PS2-era RPGs are linear), a medieval setting, and one which seems inspired by DnD. I also wanted a game which actually lets the player create any sort of character they want: male OR female. Once I discovered Oblivion, I was instantly hooked. I called in 'sick' the next day to work.

I grew up with pen 'n' paper games, and even back then, I figured that someday, somebody would create a game which features all the stuff I imagined during combat, and even peacetime, without the dice rolls, and so there ya have it.

I played AD&D back in the 1980s but then took a 20 year hiatus from gaming. Then, sometime in late 2008, my then girlfriend, now wife coaxed me back into gaming, and for Christmas 2009, we got a PS3 and some RPGs, including Oblivion. The reviews for Oblivion sounded the best for us because it was described as a big open world game that may be too complex for some players. Having come from a background of pen and paper D&D where we used to play in a self created open world, this sounded perfect.

We had a week off for Christmas and played nonstop in shifts. Never even tried those other game we bought, well I think we played DA:O for all of three hours before saying "Nah" and going back to Oblivion. I remember picking up the cup and other clutter in the tutorial, only to drop it later when I started to run out of carry capacity before even finishing the tutorial dungeon. Couldn't believe you could pick mushrooms!