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Posted by: mirocu Feb 15 2013, 05:24 PM

Welcome to my first poll here at chorrol! smile.gif

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 laugh.gif which is kind of ironic as Oblivion is the name of Hell in Cyrodiil tongue.gif
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?

Posted by: Acadian Feb 15 2013, 05:39 PM

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.


Posted by: mirocu Feb 15 2013, 05:42 PM

QUOTE(Acadian @ Feb 15 2013, 05:39 PM) *

A few months after you, mirocu, in the summer of ’07.... I’ve traveled Tamriel with the elf now for nearly 2100 game hours

Which goes to show how many other games in between I´ve played compared to you tongue.gif

Posted by: Lopov Feb 15 2013, 05:48 PM

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.

Posted by: SubRosa Feb 15 2013, 06:35 PM

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.

Posted by: mirocu Feb 15 2013, 06:57 PM

QUOTE(SubRosa @ Feb 15 2013, 06:35 PM) *

My computer at that time was not much to write home about... I would move the mouse, and five minutes later the cursor would start to move.

You just described my first Oblivion computer. You also just described the reason why I´ve never seen the intro in-game; I just clicked on the mouse and hit every key on the keyboard to make anything happen. I really didn´t get a good start but I got a much better continuation happy.gif

Posted by: Elisabeth Hollow Feb 15 2013, 07:10 PM

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

Posted by: King Coin Feb 15 2013, 07:14 PM

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.

Posted by: mirocu Feb 15 2013, 07:14 PM

QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Feb 15 2013, 07:10 PM) *

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

Really? 3-4 discs on 400-500 hours? I´m on 1800 soon and I´m still on my second disc! laugh.gif

Posted by: ghastley Feb 15 2013, 07:32 PM

QUOTE(mirocu @ Feb 15 2013, 01:14 PM) *

QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Feb 15 2013, 07:10 PM) *

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

Really? 3-4 discs on 400-500 hours? I´m on 1800 soon and I´m still on my second disc! laugh.gif

I have about a dozen characters that have 150 hours each, so my total's about the same. I've not had to replace the disc at all. I suspect it's all down to how often you swap games in the drive. My Oblivion disc stays where it is, as the other games I play (like Daggerfall) don't require it to come out.

Posted by: Elisabeth Hollow Feb 15 2013, 07:33 PM

QUOTE(mirocu @ Feb 15 2013, 12:14 PM) *

QUOTE(Elisabeth Hollow @ Feb 15 2013, 07:10 PM) *

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

Really? 3-4 discs on 400-500 hours? I´m on 1800 soon and I´m still on my second disc! laugh.gif

My brother also played it. He was less-than-careful with the discs. Being ten or so and all XD

One disc, our dog got ahold of it and chewed through it. Another got stepped on and scratched. The other two I just wore out. I bought all of them "previously owned" at Gamestop. Except this last copy. My brother bought it for me. So there's that, lol

Posted by: McBadgere Feb 15 2013, 07:44 PM

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... biggrin.gif ...

Yeah, go willpower!...

Posted by: ghastley Feb 15 2013, 07:51 PM

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.

Posted by: Colonel Mustard Feb 15 2013, 07:55 PM

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.

Posted by: mirocu Feb 15 2013, 08:00 PM

30 hours on Oblivion? By that time I hadn´t even left the tutorial dungeon! laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif

Posted by: Lady Saga Feb 15 2013, 08:19 PM

QUOTE(mirocu @ Feb 15 2013, 11:24 AM) *

Welcome to my first poll here at chorrol! smile.gif


Heck yeah! Now the ball's rolling!

2008 for me. Matter of fact, I can actually quote the exact moment of game installation on the PS3: October 24, 2008 at 10:24 PM. How about thaaat?

I've already stated in some other thread the story about my drug addiction, and how I was bored one night, and bla bla bla...otherwise I'd tell the story again in this thread.



Posted by: Elisabeth Hollow Feb 15 2013, 08:24 PM

QUOTE(mirocu @ Feb 15 2013, 01:00 PM) *

30 hours on Oblivion? By that time I hadn´t even left the tutorial dungeon! laugh.gif laugh.gif laugh.gif

Me neither I had to see EVERY race and ANY mixtures of facial expressions and see the skills and etc etc XD

Posted by: Lady Saga Feb 15 2013, 08:27 PM

QUOTE(King Coin @ Feb 15 2013, 01:14 PM) *


I didn't RP at all for a long while. Just ran around in 1st person killing things.


This is pretty much me with the first Renee Gade, although I played in 3rd person instead of 1st. I didn't RP at all until 6 months after buying TES: IV. I grew up RPing with tabletop games, but had no concept of applying RP to videogames. I had my Lara Croft /Tombraider mentality (action/adventure) at the beginning of TES: IV.

There's a page over at UESP that has a list of roleplay ideas, like there's one for a bandit who takes over a camp in the wilderness for instance. I read through all these ideas and it spurred my imagination to make a second Renee Gade, who didn't carry around a half-dozen weapons (Tomb Raider style), 3 or 4 armor suits, and was trying to do all the quests in the game.

Phew...

QUOTE(mirocu @ Feb 15 2013, 01:14 PM) *

Really? 3-4 discs on 400-500 hours? I´m on 1800 soon and I´m still on my second disc! laugh.gif


That is odd. I've only used one disc on my PS3 for all these years. ...Maybe Miss Hollow's disc got scratched up or something?


Posted by: Acadian Feb 15 2013, 09:06 PM

I'm still using the original 2007 disc (PC). 'Course like I said, it almost never comes out of the CD drive tray.

Posted by: Kiln Feb 15 2013, 10:42 PM

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.

Posted by: Grits Feb 15 2013, 11:55 PM

I started some time in 2010. Probably. It may have been Christmas of the previous year. Anyway I voted 2010.

Posted by: King Of Beasts Feb 16 2013, 12:58 AM

I found the disk laying around in the summer of 2010

Posted by: Grits Feb 16 2013, 05:49 PM

Nope, it was 2009. I forgot about the old PlayStation dying. I guess I started on the new one in 2010.

Posted by: Pseron Wyrd Feb 21 2013, 07:45 PM

11:30 AM PST, March 20, 2006.

Posted by: mirocu Feb 21 2013, 09:16 PM

QUOTE(Pseron Wyrd @ Feb 21 2013, 07:45 PM) *

11:30 AM PST, March 20, 2006.

But which second was it at? I need to know if it was closer to the 30th or the 31st minute. You can´t tell us that? For shame, mr Wyrd. I expected more from you wacko.gif







hehe.gif

Posted by: Lady Saga Feb 23 2013, 04:21 AM

QUOTE(Pseron Wyrd @ Feb 21 2013, 01:45 PM) *

11:30 AM PST, March 20, 2006.


Hey you!

10:28 PM EST, October 24th, 2008


Posted by: Renee Feb 7 2016, 04:49 AM

BUMP

Wow, I never voted on this poll.

Posted by: mirocu Feb 7 2016, 09:12 AM

QUOTE(Renee @ Feb 7 2016, 04:49 AM) *

BUMP

Wow, I never voted on this poll.

But maybe Lady Saga did? hehe.gif


Seems like 2008 was the big year amongst people here. Nice to know I wasn´t last to join the party laugh.gif

Posted by: Decrepit Sep 12 2016, 02:50 PM

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.)

Posted by: Kiln Sep 15 2016, 02:11 AM

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. laugh.gif wacko.gif

Posted by: gpstr Sep 15 2016, 08:51 PM

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.

Posted by: mirocu Sep 16 2016, 03:41 PM

And to think, my foray into Oblivion was Bliss from the get-go kvleft.gif

Posted by: SubRosa Sep 17 2016, 12:06 AM

QUOTE(mirocu @ Sep 16 2016, 10:41 AM) *

And to think, my foray into Oblivion was Bliss from the get-go kvleft.gif

You mean you immediately went to the Shivering Isles? wink.gif

Posted by: Renee Sep 17 2016, 07:42 PM

QUOTE(mirocu @ Sep 16 2016, 10:41 AM) *

And to think, my foray into Oblivion was Bliss from the get-go kvleft.gif

Me too. I called in "sick" to work the next morning because I wanted to keep playing. I do get what gpster is talking about though, about the in-game walkthrough. It's designed for people who want to b34t the g4m3 as quickly as possible, but offers no further options for those of us who wish to think our way through.

Posted by: mirocu Sep 18 2016, 03:05 PM

QUOTE(SubRosa @ Sep 17 2016, 01:06 AM) *

QUOTE(mirocu @ Sep 16 2016, 10:41 AM) *

And to think, my foray into Oblivion was Bliss from the get-go kvleft.gif

You mean you immediately went to the Shivering Isles? wink.gif

No, but I just can´t pass up any opportunity to make a reference biggrin.gif

QUOTE(Renee @ Sep 17 2016, 08:42 PM) *

I called in "sick" to work the next morning because I wanted to keep playing.

I didn´t actually do that but boy did I consider it! laugh.gif

I was so occupied playing it in the evenings though that I seriously neglected my otherwise thorough tooth brushing. I made such a poor/hasty job for months that my dentist started to complain tongue.gif

Posted by: Cain Sep 28 2016, 04:53 PM

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.

Posted by: Renee Sep 29 2016, 01:48 AM

QUOTE(Cain @ Sep 28 2016, 11:53 AM) *

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.

ha ha I also binged X-files a couple years ago. Netflix, man!

What platform are you on, Cain? PS3? Xbox? PC? I'd also be overwhelmed if I discovered all these Beth games at once.


Posted by: SubRosa Sep 29 2016, 01:57 AM

I bought the entire http://i.imgur.com/UDbS0r2.jpg a few months ago. I am still watching it (about half way through).

Posted by: mirocu Sep 29 2016, 07:43 AM

QUOTE(Cain @ Sep 28 2016, 05:53 PM) *

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.

Going backwards, eh? Just like I did; started with Oblivion and went to Morrowind tongue.gif

Posted by: Cain Sep 29 2016, 01:21 PM

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.

Posted by: mirocu Sep 29 2016, 01:51 PM

Just a kind reminder, this is not a thread for Netflix smile.gif

Posted by: Winter Wolf Jul 25 2018, 10:21 AM

Jumping in a bit late (like 5 years too late laugh.gif ), but I have just noticed this thread.... tongue.gif

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 blink.gif ) 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? laugh.gif

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. smile.gif

Posted by: Renee Jul 25 2018, 01:53 PM

Aw, what a great story. Good to see you WW.

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