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!

[Kiln]

With Morrowind I was instantly dragged in by the foreign world and the interesting architecture. The uniqueness of the creatures and the ridiculously large world to explore kept me playing for hours on end. The storyline, guilds, and scope of the world was like nothing I'd ever seen in a game before. I think that Morrowind is probably the only game I ever played every chance I could literally for years. Now I can't play it. I've done everything over and over again so many times that when I get a quest I know exactly what to do and where to go. I still plug it in once in a while to reminisce but don't play for more than an hour anymore. I basically just explore the world and think back. It is as if I just stepped back into my childhood for a few minutes every time I hear the theme song though.

Oblivion's experience was bittersweet for me. It was a huge letdown from what I'd hoped it would be and what we'd been told it would be...at least one administrator here shared my opinion. I was part of the generation that had been sucked in by the hype machine with promises of amazingly intelligent NPC's and a unique world. When I first picked up the game I was amazed with the graphics and the game itself. Then the AI proved to be disappointing, with characters sharing news with their wife like they'd never met and never really doing anything like what had been shown by the devs. The creatures were all bland and generic like they'd been pulled straight from an old book of fairy tale creatures.

I still enjoyed Oblivion and ended up dumping quite a few hours into it but it wasn't like Morrowind, I was never really completely drawn in by it. The only thing about Oblivion that I fell head first into was the Shivering Isles expansion, which I felt was alien enough that I just had to explore it fully. It brought back that unique feeling of Morrowind more than Vanilla Oblivion ever did.