Considering im very into MP, TES is my singleplayer love. It used to be FF7, 8 and 9 but i've beaten them. And man do I love a good fight to the death in the arena.....I think i'll go create a nord just for that now!

yes I'm always more interested in TES lore Bioshock was second most interesting for me
EDIT:of course free roam!1!!

YES!!!!

Right before the release of the first Skyrim news I wondering if and when they were going to release a new TES. I was actually getting bored of gaming in general and I was considering hanging up the controller.

Now that they have, it has destroyed every other game I own as when I play them I think....I could be playing Skyrim now. Also I am going travelling to Malaysia in September and although I am still massively excited, I can't wait to get back for Skyrim. Still its a month of excitement and a "fast month" that I wont have to count the days on.

Two games for me this year, BF3 and TES V: Skyrim.

I actually may never buy another game again.

Top two reasons: free roam, and mob-ability
Bottom two: story and gameplay

It's definitely special. Oblivion marked a shift in my taste in games. It opened my eyes for the roleplaying genre. I am 26 year old now and have been gaming since i was 8 or something like that. So i discovered the Roleplaying genre very late. This is partly due to the fact that i was always exclusively a console gamer (though this is changing) but even if that hadn't been the case i am not sure i would ever have fallen in love with the genre if it wasn't from Oblivion. I mean i enjoyed Morrowind but only because i had played Oblivion first and was able to understand it and didn't run screaming away the first time the game gave me any problems. I know many fans felt that Oblivion was dumbed down (and i don't necessarily disagree about that) but it had the perfect learning curve for me to enjoy and consequently i am now able to appreciate deeper roleplaying games. Every Roleplaying game i have bought since then can in some way be traced back to Oblivion and Bethesda so that's gotta count for something. So yes The Elder Scrolls (and Bethesda) is special to me. That dosn't mean that i am not able to enjoy other games just as much though. But i do that for other reasons, no other developer give me the same experience as Bethesda... but i could say the same thing about BioWare.

Yes, with Fallout as a close second.

Yes it is. There's really no alternative game series focusing on this style of gameplay.

Glorantha will always be my 1st love for a fantasy RPG world but TES is my favourite CRPG setting. Partly down to liking sandbox more than linear games but mostly because of the lore which in MW especially was not just another generic fantasy setting.

What other singleplayer game series can swallow up hundreds of hours of your life..
Only TES can do this. There is no other comparison.

Well okay, FO3 came a close second.

My very first original, bought game on PC was - Daggerfall. And I've been lost since then:-) Daggerfall, Morrowind, Oblivion - I have never finished them, actually my highest reached level was something like 7 in Daggerfall, 5 in Morrowind and 3 in Oblivion (so I suppose I won't be leveling up in Skyrim at all:-)), as I spent my time by downloading mods/testing them/uninstalling/reading the forums and the same over and over again. Even now, I'm just experimenting with my Oblivion install (and trying to mod myself here and there). But the experiences like getting lost in the Privateer's Hold or the first step out of Imperial Sewers or from the boat in Seyda Neen...this is something that I cannot forget. Ever. And I just have to go back there again and again...

Yes, definitely. The Elder Scrolls is more special to me than any other game I've played. I'd say Fallout 3 and FNV are right behind TES because I call myself an open world gamer. The TES world offers me more than any other game. Oblivion was my first and I still remember how I felt the first time I saw it - I was simply blown away. After exploring the TES4 world multiple times, the feeling is even stronger. It's a world I'm comfortable in and it doesn't get boring. Some very eloquent posts on this thread say it much better than I and thank you for expressing it the way you did. I'm just trying to patiently wait for Skyrim now to explore more of the world of Tamriel.

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Elderscrolls is my favorite series of all time. The story telling, the openess of the game, and before Oblivion the depth and complexity of the game. It was the best RPG series ever, I hope they go back to making it that again with Skyrim.

Yes. The Elder Scrolls games have the most presence of anything I've ever played before. I can literally lose myself for hours in them and totally forget where I actually am. Not many games do that.

There are great games and then there are Elder Scrolls games.

On an individual game basis, only Freespace 2 and No One Lives Forever can be mentioned in the same sentence as TES or Fallout.

On a franchise level, TES and Fallout are leaps and bounds over everything else. KotoR and Mass Effect are thorns in their side, nothing more.

yes elder scrolls is super special to me, i took english class just so i can play morrowind back in 2002, becus my english was bad hehe:)

The Elder Scrolls, Morrowind in particular, rank as some of my favorite games ever. Diablo 2 is the only game I might rank higher than TES, and that's just because I grew up on that game. That being said, I'm looking forward to Skyrim far more than I'm looking forward to Diablo 3.

I can already feel the flames I'll get for this: I'm more excited for BF3 and MW3. I was a long time TES fan and liked it more than any other FPS...but this time round I'll be getting MW3 and Battlefield 3 first, and then see if I can muster funds to buy Skyrim.

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Very few games have raised the bar as much as Oblivion.I can only think of Far Cry,but that's old now.
How other games such as DA2 are getting rated as high as Oblivion is a mystery-I`ve not seen
anything single player that's deserved 90%.I suppose the reason is they wouldn`t sell any magazines.

I can't think of any other first-person RPGs besides TES.Yeah, I prefer the FPS view
Morrowind and Oblivion are the first open-world games I've ever liked and now they've become my favorite games ever (up there with the HL series).They are also the first RPGs I've ever played.
I love how subjective the lore is, it is one of those things that make the games come to life.The TES games always impress the gamers through graphics, among other things, but there is much more to TES no matter how good the graphics are.The atmosphere just drags you in.The stories are never cliche, yes, not even the Main Quest of Oblivion.Another thing I love about Elder Scrolls is that those new to the series can easily get tricked by in-game political propaganda, gods etc.

I wanna get the GOTY edition of Skyrim.

There is nothing, NOTHING, out there that lets me play the way elder scrolls does. I know Fall Out 3 has a similar design, but I'm not the biggest fan of the "Destroyed wasteland" landscape. There is literally nothing that compares to ES imo.

I think the Elder Scrolls is different because when you do something, it is not because the game is telling you that you should do it. You simply do things because the characters say they need help or this needs to be done. No objective bar tells you what to do. Everything is just written down in a journal. You don't have to do them. You are living an alternate life and there is nothing you cant do. Name your character "Sinbad the Vegetable Thief" and you could wear nothing but breaches and sneak into people's houses and steal their food. You don't have a set game resting there for you. You have a world where you can do game like things inside of. Other RPGs simply have multiple ways of completing the same game.