Welcome to my first poll here at chorrol!
I started my cyrodilic journey in Februari 2007. I was fresh home from the horrors on Mars where I battled demons from Hell which really wasn´t my thing. So coming to Oblivion was absolute Bliss which is kind of ironic as Oblivion is the name of Hell in Cyrodiil
I have kept playing it ever since with only a few games in between. It´s as someone once said; "You don´t stop playing Oblivion. You just take various long breaks."
This truly is the case for me as I now approach the 1800 hrs mark with my one and only Oblivion character you know as Lothran.
So when did you start to play this masterpiece?
A few months after you, mirocu, in the summer of ’07. I played quite a variety of characters as I learned the game.
The Oblivion version of Buffy first walked Cyrodiil on April 19, 2009 and I have not played another character since. Although she and I have taken a small number of short breaks to return to other games, Oblivion is pretty much welded into my CD drive. I’ve traveled Tamriel with the elf now for nearly 2100 game hours and see no end in sight.
I've started in 2006 but didn't play very regularly and ended in 2007. I didn't RP at that time either and I don't even remember most of the characters I created. I returned to extensive (role)playing in 2011 and with short breaks that never take more than few days (except when I'm on holidays, then breaks usually last for few weeks) I play Oblivion almost daily.
Before I returned to OB in 2011, I was playing Morrowind for about a year but never got really attached to my character so I switched to OB. My two longest lasting characters are my only CoC Amadeus (whose save got deleted) and my current character Falador.
My first attempt to play Oblivion was in either 2006 or 2007, I am not sure which anymore. My computer at that time was not much to write home about, and literally could not play it. I could not even create a character in fact. I would move the mouse, and five minutes later the cursor would start to move. So that was the end of that, or so I thought at the time.
Years later, in the summer of 2009 I discovered the anime Claymore, which I simply loved. While looking for Claymore stuff online I came across a mod that added some of the Claymore armor and swords to Oblivion. So I dusted off my copy of Oblivion, found that I could play it on the computer I then had, and loaded up the mod.
My oldest save is from August of that year, of my first character Clare at the prison sewer exit. I played her for about a month or, just walking around bashing things with her sword, and using cheat codes when she got in trouble. Then in September I created Teresa of the Faint Smile, who was the first character I tried to play seriously.
I don't remember if it was '07 or '08, but I've logged in like 400-500 hours altogether and worn out 3-4 discs doing so XD
And I still panic whenever someone asks me about a quest XD
I started around 2008. I played it before then at friends houses, and loved the game, but didn't own an Xbox of my own. I bought an Xbox in 2007, but then Oblivion's rating got changed from T to M and it took me a long time to convince my parents to let me buy it.
I didn't RP at all for a long while. Just ran around in 1st person killing things. Making lots of money was my main goal, so I'd clear dungeons until whatever character I was playing couldn't carry anymore. Then fast travel to the Imperial City and unload. I'd then fast travel back to where I'd left off. I had characters with millions of septims.
We first got Oblivion in the summer of 2010...I then proceeded to ignore the NFL on the sports channels I was paying for in order to play it...I love that game with a passion...
The same thing happened the next year however, with Skyrim... ...
Yeah, go willpower!...
I almost feel I should start a second poll on how long it took people to 1) make their first mod for the game and 2) write a fan-fic about it or in my case 3) write some fiction about the mods you'd made.
In my case it was 1) about a week and (2&3 together) about a year.
I can't remember when I got it. 2009, maybe? Maybe 2010? 2008, perhaps? I dunno, don't ask me to remember stuff.
I'm quietly astounded by the sheer volume of playtime some people have clocked on that game. I think I've probably racked up a grand total of 30 hours on Oblivion in all; I did what I always do on sandbox games like that where I just blaze through the main quest, prat about sidequests for a bit and then just forget about it. I do remember that a friend showed it to me and that I could play as an Orc, and that I was sold on that alone.
I should probably go and do some more at some point, but I have just found a way to make my shotgun shoot flaming buckshot on Fallout: New Vegas, and considering how much I love fire and shotguns this is up for negotiation.
30 hours on Oblivion? By that time I hadn´t even left the tutorial dungeon!
I'm still using the original 2007 disc (PC). 'Course like I said, it almost never comes out of the CD drive tray.
I played it in 2006 around the time it first came out. I then wrote a review at that time going over what I thought was good and bad about the game. There were lots of people who agreed with me that Oblivion was disappointing right after it was released. There were even more that really loved the game. Basically I got the feeling that lots of people were upset (myself included) that the game had been built up by Bethsoft to be something more than it was.
Here's the May 2006 poll and discussion so you can kind of get an idea of how people felt at the time: http://chorrol.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=2880&st=0
Oblivion grew on me over time. There are numerous good things about Oblivion despite all the things that I still feel were kind of dumbed down or things that were cut from Morrowind. I play it rarely much like MW but never clocked nearly as many hours into OB.
I started some time in 2010. Probably. It may have been Christmas of the previous year. Anyway I voted 2010.
I found the disk laying around in the summer of 2010
Nope, it was 2009. I forgot about the old PlayStation dying. I guess I started on the new one in 2010.
11:30 AM PST, March 20, 2006.
BUMP
Wow, I never voted on this poll.
2009 here, with PC GOTY a blissful $20US. Oblivion was the first Elder Scrolls title I did not buy and play at release. The reason? My then primary PC was some years old by then and far below minimum requirements. It was just as well really, as I was heavily into MMORPGs at the time. By 2009 I had a newish self-assembled computer. Online gaming had lost much of its allure. I credit Oblivion with breaking me of my MMO addiction (and reestablishing my single-play RPG addiction). My Everquest 2 account remained active for another year, but doubt I logged on more than a time or two for relatively short visits. It is fitting that Oblivion be the game that saw an end to my love-fest with MMOs, since Daggerfall was the game I abandoned for them upon joining the internet and discovering the beta to Meridian59 in 1997. (Yes, I ceased online gaming a few months to play Morrowind at release.)
I think mine was May 3 2006. I made the thread I'd linked previously probably two days after playing. Don't knoe the exact time though.
I bought my first copy sometime in late spring or early summer of 2006 - not long after release - but my first save for my first significant character is from August of 2009.
When I first got the game, I only played it for three days. On the first day, I made it most of the way through the tutorial dungeon. On the second day, I went up to the Market District and sold loot and shopped and stuff, and started Unfriendly Competition. I got stalled on that - I did all of the normal RPG things - talked to people, looked for notes or notices or any other sort of clues - and couldn't figure out what to do after getting stonewalled by Thoronir. On the third day, thinking maybe I missed something, I checked my journal, and that was when I discovered that the "journal" wasn't a journal at all, but an in-game walkthrough that told me what "I" had "decided" to do next. I shut the game off right then and there and didn't play it again.
I got the GOTY edition for Christmas in 2007 from a relative who knew I liked computer RPGs and didn't know I already owned the original game and disliked it so much that I'd uninstalled it. I went ahead and installed it, but didn't play it much. I'd try it every once in a while, when I had nothing else to occupy my time, but it was probably at least another year, and an awful lot of modding, before I played it with any frequency, and it wasn't until I got to the point that I not only could ignore or mod out the stupid bits like the walkthrough journal and the magic radar, but knew the game well enough to be able to just use Beth's often poorly designed quests as a basis for my own roleplaying, that I started to enjoy it and actually played it long enough to bother hanging onto a character.
And to think, my foray into Oblivion was Bliss from the get-go
I started playing about two months ago. I want to keep playing, but I can never find the time between FO4, Skyrim, and bingeing the X Files.
I bought the entire http://i.imgur.com/UDbS0r2.jpg a few months ago. I am still watching it (about half way through).
I'm on 360 for Skyrim and Oblivion, PS4 for Fallout, and my sad laptop is enough to play Morrowind.
My discovery of Bethesda games actually started with Skyrim in 2011, and then went Morrowind, Fallout 4, Oblivion.
Netflix is awesome, lol. We actually plan on cutting cable soon, and going Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu only.
Just a kind reminder, this is not a thread for Netflix
Jumping in a bit late (like 5 years too late ), but I have just noticed this thread....
I started playing Oblivion in August 2006. I can still remember walking into the old gaming store (which has long since closed down and become a ladies handbag store ) and sitting on the shelf and just staring straight at me was the limited edition box. I picked it up, turned it over. Oblivion eh? I said to myself.
Oh, that OBLIVION, that MORROWIND! Yes, please, I will have a go at this.
Taking the game home I put the disc into the 360 and was disappointed to hear that the audio for the intro music was cutting in and out. Oh man, what sort of quality control do these Beth guys have?
Exiting the game I removed the disc, cleaned it and started it again. This time things were perfect. Sorry Beth...
Half and hour later I exited the tutorial dungeon and thought- Damn!! Look at how big this game is!
I worried that somebody from the Imperial Guard would try to arrest my prisoner, so ignoring the main quest I rushed quickly into the nearest forest I could find.
And I have never looked back.
Aw, what a great story. Good to see you WW.
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