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!

[Lady Saga]

It definitely is. I literally had no idea what Oblivion or TES was when I was handed it as a thank you for driving a couple of buddies home from a party the day after.

Ha ha you've told this story before and it still amazes me!

I've probably asked this before but did those buddies give you Oblivion and say something like "heh, this game is kinda cool, you can have it." Or were they more like "this is the BEST game in the world, and you can have it!"

i dont know anything about drugs , again like with beggars i cant comment but you seem to of done really well for yourself , COOKIES!

It's amazing and true: a videogame really did change my life for the better.

i honestly think that your favourite ES game is your first , because you get something unique , something raw , from that which you can never have again

I disagree. I like Skyrim and Oblivion equally, yet OB was my first. Both have flaws and both have better points, and that's just how it is with me. *shrugs*

Skyrim's questlines are shorter (true) but I still enjoy the writing of them. Skyrim is "dumbed down" in lots of ways, but so was Oblivion (in comparison to Morrowind) and what too many people do is they ignore Skyrim's better potentials. Yeah, it's dumbed-down, but there are also plenty of areas where it's not, or where it's got new features.

The wilderness is better-fleshed with peaceful creatures, for instance, which is something I've wanted in Cyrodiil for a long time. I like seeing bunnies and foxes hawks and goats, not just deer. This makes the wilderness more believable to me. Fish in the streams, birds in the air. I like watching butterfiles, moths, and dragoflies flit around one another as my character walks by. ... I can also make a charcter who has a mundane job, and he or she make money this way if they want to without me having to "RP" it. Not all characters have to adventure/spam potions for sale, now we can make money chopping wood! Or mining ores! Or farming!

Skyrim has a better system (in my opinion) of leveling too; I much prefer the static leveling system over Oblivion's dynamic (everyone levels with you) system. I like the fact that some areas are too dangerous to go into, and some are easier. It invites new methods of strategy. Enemies in Skyrim also won't just chase you to the far points of the globe if they see you. Wolves, bears, bandits (etc.) usually give us a chance to keep off their turf before they attack. I get sick of being chased by multiple wolves in Oblivion/Cyrodiil! I'm glad Beth changed this.

I could go on but you get the point, I hope. Maybe if I had access to mods in one game (but not the other) I would prefer one over the other, but if they're both vanilla? I like 'em both about equally. And for a variety of reasons.

This post has been edited by Lady Saga: Feb 10 2013, 03:11 PM

[mirocu]

It definitely is. I literally had no idea what Oblivion or TES was when I was handed it as a thank you for driving a couple of buddies home from a party the day after.

Ha ha you've told this story before and it still amazes me!

I know! If I hadn´t done that, I wouldn´t be here right now!

I've probably asked this before but did those buddies give you Oblivion and say something like "heh, this game is kinda cool, you can have it." Or were they more like "this is the BEST game in the world, and you can have it!"

The former. He said he was done with it (I guess he meant the MQ) and he actually offered me a choice for two games. Oblivion was one that I took, and Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines was the other. I say it was two for two!

[Lady Saga]

The former. He said he was done with it (I guess he meant the MQ) and he actually offered me a choice for two games. Oblivion was one that I took, and Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines was the other. I say it was two for two!

Oh, so he beat the game, huh?

Glad you took Oblivion over Bloodlines. I wonder if Assassin's Creed was out back then if I would have bought it instead of Oblivion. I don't own AC to this day, but my nephew does and it is the type of game that I potentially could get into. But I'm glad I got 'stuck' with Elder Scrolls.

:biggrin:

This post has been edited by Lady Saga: Feb 11 2013, 04:30 PM