The First Thing You Felt About Oblivion (or Morrowind), ... When you were a Newbie. Options

[ureniashtram]

Title says it all. What was the first thing you felt about Oblivion(or Morrowind) after playing for the first time? For me, I was lost and amazed. The view, forests, lakes.. It was simply amazing that I broke 20 hours in my first playthrough.

Also made a couple of mistakes.

First, I mistook the Roxey Inn, THE ROXEY INN, for the goddamned Fighters Guild. Probably because there was a Legionnaire and the Breton and his crew. The Innkeeper giving out the bounty for the necromancer's head just about made a fool out of me.

AND, mistaking Bruma for Bravil. Ha! I also took the Atronach birtsign for an Orc, 'cuz it looked cool and all that stuff. Got turned into a vampire the second I entered Barren Cave.
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How about you guys? What sort of newbie mischief did you make when playing OB or MW for the first time? List 'em all!

[haute ecole rider]

Unless one considers the Rainbow Six series an RPG (yeah, right) then Oblivion was my first RPG as well.

On the XBox, no less. I was so terrified through the entire tutorial dungeon, I remember how relieved I was when I finally stepped out onto the shore of Lake Rumare in the dusk. It was like a breeze of fresh air moved through the room when I saw the stars.

Then I was totally awed by how I could roam freely over this brave new world. No invisible walls or anything. I could walk into the water and end up swimming, or move underwater if I wanted to. The flexibility of movement within the game world was totally inspiring. But even more so was seeing how the grass and the leaves moved in the breeze, how the sky changed with every passing game hour.

I still remember my first sunrise in Tamriel. I just stopped and stared at it, my mouth open. It was so realistic!

And yes, I got totally lost trying to get to Weynon Priory. I thought that little northern bridge was the Great Bridge at Weye, and was totally confused as to where the inn and settlement were on the other side of the lake, until I realized uh, there's a compass, and uh, it's telling me I'm going north, and uh, I ought to be heading west and - oh, there's the quest arrow!

I know people complained that Cyrodiil was so small, but believe me, walking to Weynon Priory I couldn't get over how long it took!

And of course, seeing my first horse. Like the sunrise, I couldn't stop staring at this realistic clump of pixels and trying to figure out how to get one of those!