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]

When I first played Morrowind I didn't want to stop, I played it on the Xbox the first time.

The open world was just so unlike anything I'd ever seen in a console game. Those types of games just didn't exist in such great detail for console gamers, maybe not for PC players either. Morrowind was something really unique and that is what dragged me back to it so many times.

When I look back on the first time I played it, I was at a friend's house and acted like a total dirt bag by tying up his Xbox with a single player game for several hours. I felt guilty but then he fell asleep and I played MW all night until the sun came up.

As soon as I got an Xbox I grabbed MW and played it constantly. When they released the GOTY edition with the expansions I was sucked back in again. I just never get the same feeling with current games. Oblivion and Skyrim were fun but never felt the same.

Personally I think that it is because both Oblivion and Skyrim are too generic. There's just not enough originality in these current games. The landscape, architecture, creatures, and people aren't distinct enough in the last two installments IMO.

[Lady Saga]

When I first played Morrowind I didn't want to stop, I played it on the Xbox the first time.

I am pretty sure I saw Morrowind at a friend's house in the early millenium. I was at some party in 2002 or '03, and the Xbox (the original one) was still relatively new. Anyways, I remember being awed by this game, whatever it was. I remember there was a lot of fog or mist in the air, and it had a fantasy theme to it. And it seemed to go on and on forever.

But back then I did not have an Xbox, and my memory is terrible; if somebody told me "this game is called The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind" I would not remember that sort of a name (too weird!) unless I wrote it down. But I probably asked the guy playing the game what its name is, and since TES: III was not on Playstation, my luck ran out.

So that's one thing to think about. Assuming I had an Xbox back then instead of a Playstation, chances are I would have discovered Elder Scrolls years before 2008.

This post has been edited by Lady Saga: Feb 16 2013, 08:16 PM