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When did you start to play Oblivion? |
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mirocu |
Feb 15 2013, 05:24 PM
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Spam Meister
Joined: 8-February 13
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Welcome to my first poll here at chorrol! 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 which is kind of ironic as Oblivion is the name of Hell in Cyrodiil 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?
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Lol birdIt matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.
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SubRosa |
Feb 15 2013, 06:35 PM
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Ancient
Joined: 14-March 10
From: Between The Worlds
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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.
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ghastley |
Feb 15 2013, 07:32 PM
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Councilor
Joined: 13-December 10
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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! 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.
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Mods for The Elder Scrolls single-player games, and I play ESO.
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Elisabeth Hollow |
Feb 15 2013, 07:33 PM
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Ancient
Joined: 15-November 12
From: Texas
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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! 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
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McBadgere |
Feb 15 2013, 07:44 PM
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Councilor
Joined: 21-October 11
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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... ... Yeah, go willpower!...
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ghastley |
Feb 15 2013, 07:51 PM
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Councilor
Joined: 13-December 10
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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.
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Mods for The Elder Scrolls single-player games, and I play ESO.
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mirocu |
Feb 15 2013, 08:00 PM
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Spam Meister
Joined: 8-February 13
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Lol birdIt matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.
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Lady Saga |
Feb 15 2013, 08:19 PM
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Mouth
Joined: 20-February 12
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QUOTE(mirocu @ Feb 15 2013, 11:24 AM) Welcome to my first poll here at chorrol! 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.
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Lady Saga |
Feb 15 2013, 08:27 PM
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Mouth
Joined: 20-February 12
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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! 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?
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Kiln |
Feb 15 2013, 10:42 PM
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Forum Bard
Joined: 22-June 05
From: Balmora, Eight Plates
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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=0Oblivion 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.
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He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster. And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee. - Friedrich Nietzsche
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