I do. I made an Imperial, gave him this absolutely terrible blueish "beard", and after I got out of the sewers the first thing I did was to try to get to Morrowind... I spent at least 30 minutes trying to get across until I ran into the border. When the "You cannot go that way" message came up, I was pissed.

Imperial-spent 30 mins doing the tutorial then started again with a dumner.

Cycled through the races on my friends laptop, with absolutely no backstory on them, came across Argonian, I said, Rofl, a lizard. named him RoflLizard. And after exiting the sewer, I went about killing everyone non essential in the IC with god mode. Then I bought the game the next day, where I took it more seriously, of course.

Did you name your one on your version of oblivion RoflLizard as well or is your name inspired by that one day?

Yes, I remember leaving the sewers and heading up to the market district to sell my stuff, I went into one of the stores and accidentally knocked a bowl over, I apologized and put it back for them. Next thing I know I'm Cyrodiil's most wanted, I ended up in jail and spent ages trying to figure out how that blade opened the passage for the emperor.

That hour of playing RoflLizard inspired my forum name.
I might do a resurrection of that character, when i'm really bored.

I think my 1st time through I was a female Imperial I restarted after LV 10 when my one friend who also played Oblivion told me what the heck are you doing. I restarted went with my Breton Male got him up to LV 26 then I restarted again after I accidently killed the Count of Bravil. My 3rd Time through I struck gold I played as a Dunmer Male and beat the game I loved that character he could sneak up on people, hack them, and then blow them away with a destruction spell.

ha ha ha, excellent topic - always funny, creative stuff in here!

I chose a male Dark Elf. I read "75% resist Fire? Ancestor Guardian??? RIGHT NOW!" ANd tried to make an Arcane Blade type of chap (I always wanted to make an excellent Magic Dai-Katana horror-show damage dealer).

Then I went sneaking a lot and after 5 minutes fighting rats, restarted as a Wood Elf sneak-archer female (Haydeh), and loved the build. Thought that cool ruin was some temple and the guys outside were some 'friendly chaps' to talk to....

I also remember my first "serious" character. I read the best birthsign was Atronach and breton was the best race. So I made a Breton, suited for combat, that had light armor and heavy armor skills, and sneak skills. Oh my god that was a terrible character.

I made a white-skinned red guard because I liked their stats, did the main story until cloud ruler temple until I realized how awful my character looked.

First time a Bosmer thief called Fingers.
Whom is pretty much is the first character I build in all rpg's to test what limits on player and role actions you can do in game.

Second a breton mage called Sarius as a power build.

Third an Argonian called Sssethly who normally is a gnome in other role playing games, as another power build.

I made an Imperial Assassin. Still play with him today, and as a matter of fact, just got off the 360 right now..

Being my first character (and my first TES game) I messed him up miserably in the beginning. He used to run around in heavy armor and chop stuff up with axes, neither of which were his major skills!

As a result, after 4 years of real world play, 200+ hours, and 500+ in-game days, he's only level 33... :facepalm:


He's an expert in almost all skills though, both minor and major.

Hmm, well it was about three years ago, at a friends house. I saw them playing it on their 360, said "Hey Can I try?" and ended up making a 14 year old imperial assassin. Needless to say, she was less than impressive. Meanwhile, a few months ago I finally got the game for myself. How time flies.

I remember bits and pieces of my first-ever time playing, almost exactly 2 years ago.

I was bored with all my PS2 games, and frustrated because I had never found a reallly good (and true) RPG on the PS2. Wel, there was Baldur's Gate and Champions of Norrath, but both of those are linear, and I didn't feel like playing them again. Lol. I had some money saved and decided to check out if anything was worth buying on the PS3. I went to www.gamerevolution.com and literally thru all their PS3 game reviews, starting with the letter "A". I'm not sure if Assassin's Creed was out yet, but i'm guessing not because i certainly would have bought it if it was.

So I went from A to B to C to D....finally got to "T". There's an RPG with a grade of A-. hmm, wonder what that's all about.

So I read the review, and within an hour (no joke) I had my brand-new PS3 and TES: IV. Rushed home.

I really don't remember much of my first game...I had no idea what was happening when a skill leveled-up, for instance. I was jsut blown away at the graphics, the free-form feeling. The interaction with all the various objects, and OH, the combat!

My first character was "Lady Anne" because I coulnd't think of a better name! I got her as far as delivering the Amulet in Chorrol, then I decided to just start all over with a new character. Lady Anne was sort of a trial-run I guess. I REALLY wish I still had her gamesave, though...I'm curious at what she looked like.

So I read the manual, saw Orc, instantly though "umg orc dude im gona pwn sum n00bz!!!111". I proceeded to make my orc, and play the main story. After I the sewers, it tells me to go to Weynon Priroy. I proceed to walk. All the way there. It takes me about an hour. So, I FINALLY GET THERE, and Jaufree tells me to go to Kvatch. I proceed to WALK. AGAIN. I get there, and I get to the camp, and that crazy elf guy tells me how Kvatch got owned. I'm like "well w/e crazy psycho", so I get to the camp, see a female Orc, say "hello orc broth- OH CRAP IT'S A GIRL" so I walk and that monk drones about random junk that I don't care about, so I keep walking... then I see the Gate. bliviongate:

I was terrified the first time I played, I'll admit it, I was used to Nintendo and stuff like that around the age of 14. My friend gave me the game when I was 13, and I never touched it until the winter of 2007. I imagined it was going to be a fantasy Horror game based on the case of the game, and especially because of the case of SI, which was 3 screaming faces.

My first time playing I was a Wood Elf named Martut (I've used that name for everything since I was 11), I exited the sewers and wandered around the coast until I saw a Redguard woman sitting at a stool around a fire with leather armor on. I started walking towards her, and then she stood up and screamed "TO ARMS! TO ARMS!" I freaked and ran up the hill, and a wolf caught up with me. I used Command Creature on the Wolf, and then I tried to use Soothing Touch on it. The Redguard Bandit caught up with me, and they both beat me to death.

That was my first time playing it.

My second time I was smarter and listened more during the tutorial, played a Wood Elf Thief named Martut. I beat the MQ on him and the Thieves Guild. That is when I fell in love with TES. :]

No mods, nothing but me and a world I'd never explored. You really can't get that "first playthrough" feeling after you've done it once, and after you've played enough to have thousands of saves (two years) it loses that "Brand New" feeling. I still love and play the game, but I'm more psyched for TES:V.

I do remember it. Short after the game came out i bought it and started to play. My first character was a male redguard warrior, a pure melee character. So i spent some time with the guy by starting to ask those guards questions, perform quests and hacking the enemies and such.
Did the mainquest for a part and encountered the first obliviongate at kvatch and also closed it. Got also in contact with the sunken one. Then after a while and after reading about mods i decided to give him a rest and started over.

Actually, so was I! I forgot about that. :scared: I used to get spooked out all the time by this game. Even if the wind blew a little harder than usual or something...all a sudden I'd go WHAT WAS THAT? And shivers would go up my spine. I still get shivers (usually when I get surprised by an enemy) but it't not the same as it used to be.



So true.

I also had one of my friends telling me that I should learn to walk on water so that I could kill trolls easily. I was blown away by the possibility of being able to walk on water in a videogame with physics.

:nod:

But you know much more about the world and love it that much more once those feelings wear off.

I play Oblivion on the 360. My first 360 [I now have an elite] was a used XBox from a game store. That is important to the story, some of you may know why later.

So, I buy the GotY edition and bring it home. I load it up, without installing all the DLC yet. I start up the game, love the intro, and begin the tutorial. I get killed by the two rats you face at the very beginning... over and over again. I feel stupid for not being able to kill the two rats and losing to them with my mage. I try a fighter type. I lose. I don't like to mess with difficulty until I give myself a fair chance at the game and try different options. I get to a point though where i just give up. this is too much. I don't like how needlessly difficult this game is out of the box. I go to change the difficulty... which is set to 100%. [?!?] Apparently, there is a setting, or at least was a setting on the XBox where you can set the "default difficulty" of games you play. At some point the prior owner had set that option to "hardest" or "most difficult" or what ever. I wasn't using live at the time and the user profile had a lot of nice stuff, so I just kept that instead of making my own profile.

After going back in and resetting the options to default an trying again, I had fun. I played as a mage again, explored those ruins you see when you get out of the sewers and then went to the IC to trade and then ventured forth to deliver the amulet. At some point I was side tracked and put the game down for a while [days] and then that turned into a while longer [weeks] and I kind of forgot I had Oblivion for a while. It wasn't that impressive to me on my first run, on top of that, the memory of my frustrations at the difficulty crept in and overrode my memories after. So there was a long stretch that I didn't play "that stupid game." I didn't want to trade it in though, thinking I may come back to it after getting bored with other stuff. By the time I got my new XBox Elite I it again, and well, here I am at the forums from time to time. I enjoy it now, but I love Fallout 3 a lot more and am looking forward to fallout New Vegas Tomorrow. I don't dislike fantasy games, but I like the setting of fallout more. Some people say "it's just Oblivion with guns." I think "Oh yeah, it's Oblivion BUT WITH GUNS!"

Looking back, the scene of me sitting in my room yelling at he TV as I die over and over again to the tutorial rats must have been humors.

LOl...yea I can imagine getting killed by 2 rats must have been crazy!

I remember *intentionally* setting difficulty to hardest. Why? Ah, because thats how I played 'Neverwinter Nights', solo, without henchies. Actually, I always try the few games I choose to play on hardest setting (btw, my concept of Shadow Assassin class comes from a mixture of NWN's prestige classes Shadow Dancer + Assassin).

Oh, I was used to totally different sneak attacks system... So I stood next to that initial crumbling wall, where the two Mighty Mice pwn us beginners, thinking 'perfect, they have no line of sight', and I sort of :dead:

"So I guess I have to sneak without the running mode"... I dont know what I was thinking, some mysterious message saying "Sneak Attack 1d6", etc... ? and the mice take me in one hit, sometimes in 2...

Went to hang out over at my best buds place and saw him playing through the Dark Brotherhood questline :drool: (when the game was first released) that was it. I have been hooked ever since :foodndrink: .

Oh, yes. Made it through the sewers with very little...immediately got a disease from a mud crab, hence my name! Wandered into the IC, it started raining, and I just stood there, staring up at the falling rain. Many hours and characters later...I am still in total awe of this game's open world: you can do whatever you want, whenever you want. I will forever kill every mud crab in sight!

It was the warm summer day of February 2007, my cousin had come up for some reason I forget now, and he'd brought his XBox, and a couple of games. One of them Was Assasin's Creed. One of them was Oblivion.
I played Assasin's Creed first, and fell in love with it.
So if that ^ was love, when I played Oblivion it was worship. I remember my cousin taking me through character creation, and I saw a cat-man and immediately yelled 'Him!', despite not playing much of that game, it was absolutely epic, and I've never looked back, heck, I even got my parents to buy a new computer so I could play Oblivion, I did, and still do think that that game is Ub3r l33tness.