Yeah there was a bit of a learning curve. I still wish I were half as enamored with any other game as I was with Morrowind. It was my first real open world experience so it left a strong impression.

Oh sweet baby Jesus I have a story for you guys lol

I played oblivion first, and when I did, I wasn't too sure what was going on. I didn’t have a customised character (he looked default) because I couldn't figure out HOW to customize him, and I was just sorta blundering the whole way until I escaped the sewers.

Well. The FIRST place I went was that Aylied ruin right outside the sewers. I killed the bandits and took their stuff. I wandered around Cyrodiil for a bit, completely disregarding the main quest, and looted caves and ruins and stuff.

So, here’s where it gets interesting. Somewhere along the way, I got infected with porphyric haemophilia (the vampire disease), and wasn’t aware so I turned. But I didn’t KNOW what I was, and got REALLY confused when I kept dying in the sun. I was getting really upset about it too, and I ended up fleeing into a cave near the Inn of Ill Omen. Every time I tried to leave, the sun killed me! I was so frustrated and ended up getting lost in the cave to top it off.

I put the game down and gave up because at the time, I was more into Two Worlds. I didn’t find out about my character being a vampire until like two years later when I picked the game back up and played it with more understanding.

That, is how my first experience with Oblivion, and elder scrolls was lol

That´s even worse than me missing out on the opening cinematics

Kobby . . .

Oh Kobby, that is so funny !!!

Oblivion was my first TES game too; I had no idea how far Bethesda went with the AI; at first was afraid to enter cities because my character was an escaped prisoner. When I found the rambling notes Glathir left in his basement naming my character as his accomplice - was afraid the Legion would find them and I'd find the guards at my door; so took them and hid them in a dungeon chest,

My son was in hysterics watching me play, the first time I saw a zombie I screamed, lol. It was a whole lot different than Kid Chameleon; Gex; Sonic; Echo; and the Super Mario Bros, lol.

Good question. I played Arena at launch. But was that my first encounter with the game? It is possible I read pre-release hype or saw an ad in one of the many computer / computer gaming magazines I subscribed to back then. I certainly did NOT learn of it on the internet, since I did not join it until circa 1997.

Me too. That is, I didn't try the Internet until 1997, and wow I was hooked immediately, mostly chatting though. I loved the concept of chatting with people, all over the world, that used to blow my mind. But I wasn't gaming at all back in those days, I was more of a party girl, imagine that? I'm sure if I knew of TES back in those days, I would have jumped on it.

My first internet experience was Myspace,

Aww, how cute. What got you into gaming? Or were you already gaming in your MySpace days?

I never gamed online before playing ESO this past June, and up until 2009 never played on the PC either; but gaming itself - I've been playing video games since the first Mario.

My X-husband that died in 2010 was a gamer too, we had the Nintendo system, the Super NES, the Sega Genesis, the PlayStation 1 & 2; the GameBoys and converters for them, the XBox, the 360, the Elite, etc. We had consoles in every room but the bathroom,

Our entertainment center was filled to packed full with different video games, it could have been a store there were so many different games for the different consoles, lol.

Oh okay, you had a lot of the same consoles I did. I had an Atari 2600 (1983-ish), Atari 7800, and original NES (1989). After that, I went into a Dark Age with my gaming; didn't do any gaming during the '90s at all, unless I was at a friend's place who had a Sega or whatever.

And then I was homeless by choice for 8 months in 1999-2000. Yes, by choice. I went through a phase during which I got sick of paying rent to live in some box. Hippy stuff. I lived in an old van, but I also had a lot of friends in those days, so I'd often crash at one of their places.

Lara Croft is one of the people who got me out of this weird phase. I had a friend who had Tomb Raider on Playstation, and I was baby sitting his kids one day, and one of them was playing Tomb Raider, and I was like .... totally blown away, because I had not been keeping up with what was going on in the world of videogaming. Last I saw was isometric & side-scrolling, I had never seen one which featured 3D before. And also, the tombs were HUGE. I couldn't believe they fit all those tombs on a compact disc.

So I had this sudden desire to have my OWN Playstation, you see? And to have this, I needed my own place to live again. Lara Croft .... she saved me.

Very cool life story, I'm glad for Lara then so I was able to meet you! Yeah, I had Atari too, but kind of don't count it because the only thing I did with it other than a few really boring games was to program messages and lightning on the TV to mess with my husband.

*Lightning flash, thunder roll*

"Steve, pay the electric bill..."

*Lightning flash, thunder roll*

mALX = the perfect wife!!

Not when you have to fight me to get on the PC or game you want if it is my favorite,

Aww. How kind.



Lightning on the TV?

Yeah, the Atari connected to the TV, and you could program codes into it and commands; one of the first things I learned was the different code strings to make visuals and sound - the easiest to learn was the one to make lightning crackle across the screen and a thunder clap.

The easiest thing ever was to use it to post messages across your TV screen; so if my husband hadn't fixed the running toilet and there was a game on, I'd set it up so when he turned on the TV all he'd get would be the lightning and thunder; then a message to go fix the running toilet (then more lightning and thunder, etc). And he didn't know how to make it stop showing that, so he'd have to call me to shut it off so he could watch his game,


I was just messing with him, I'd shut it off even if he didn't fix the running toilet, it was just to tease with him.

Khajiit's first experience with TES was way back in 2002 when he was told about a little game called Morrowind by his friendly neighborhood Electronics Boutique associates. Not having a capable PC for gaming, Khajiit got the game for original Xbox and fell in love! It was unlike anything this one had ever seen before! After that, Khajiit played Oblivion and Skyrim and enjoyed each of them for their own unique experiences.

Is Khajiit enjoying exploring all of Tamriel in one game with ESO? It is like a combo of Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim all rolled up in one game; with a bit of Arena/Daggerfall/and Redguard but with today's awesome graphics.

I love how Khajiit refers to himself in the third person.

Not yet!
This one hopes to get it when Steam has its next sale, since Khajiit will be saving money by not buying Skyrim: SE on the PS4 console, opting instead for just the free PC version.



This one is perhaps a little eccentric Lol
Khajiit may allow the other guy to take over for a while. We shall see!

I think you will love it!

By your profile name and wanting a specific image for your avatar, this is what I thought your avatar would be:

http://static2.milkcapmania.co.uk/Img/Flip...hestersmile.png

Heh heh, good ol' Chester Cheetah! Lol, that image is perhaps a little too... bright, for this one's tastes. Khajiit took this username from an early Morrowind character that was based off of "The Cheshire Cat" from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. He was a Khajiit Nightblade named "Cheshiir". A few different avatars have been used since first joining the Bethsoft Forums, including a screenshot portrait of a Cathay-Raht Khajiit warrior (obtained using Westly's Khajiit Diversity mod), an image of a crooked toothy grin and two green cat eyes on a black field, and finally this image of Maahes. This one adores this particular image because of its antiquity and that it seems to fit with Khajiit culture so well (it could just as well be how Ancient Khajiit would have portrayed themselves on their temple walls!). Khajiit has determined that this will be his avatar from now on.

Which platform do you play TES:O on, if you don't mind Khajiit inquiring? It might would be nice to have allies when this one finally gets it for PC.

I like what Maahes stands for; war and the protection of (Egypt) "he who is true beside her" - Awesome Avatar!

I play ESO on the PC; and most def yes - befriend me and have an ally in game! Any help I can be, I will.

Thank you, it's good to see someone else appreciates a bit of mythology! Khajiit will look for you in Tamriel, 2E, when the time comes!

I have been saving the names Sekhmet and Pakhet for future Khajiit characters. I get most of my character names from religion, myths, and legends. Persephone, Hecate, Mielikki, Banba, Cailleach, Loviatar, etc...

That will be great! It has been very cool meeting everyone's characters after years of hearing them talked about on here and at Bethesda - it really is like you come to know them in reading the fanfic stories about them, etc. And then to meet them and see them doing things just like you read about them doing = Awesome. I love that game!






Ooh, Sekhmet = warrior goddess of healing - really nice one!!! I got a kick out of Pakhet ("she who scratches") , now THAT sounds like the Khajiit guards in ESO! Their threat to you if you are misbehaving in their town is, "Where words fail, claws flail" - I laugh every time I hear that, lol,

Khajiit does the same sometimes. One Khajiit character in Skyrim, Tez, was inspired by the Aztec God Tezcatlipoca. Lol, he was fun! All black Khajiit with the jaguar/cheetah spots running around with a dragonbone warhammer!

The Jaguar gods of Mesoamerica are awesome figures to name a character by! I usually try to pick a name that is reflective of my character's nature. For example, Persephone is undead, Hecate a sniper (Hekate was called The Far Darter, for her ability to slay from over a distance with magic), Cailleach my Winter Soldier, etc... The various jaguar gods are great for shamans or warriors alike. Not to mention hand jobs from women you don't even know...

Bahahahaha!!!!

Hummm... This is hard...
I guess this would be my list in no particular order:
Baldur's Gate w/ Tales of the Sword Coast
Baldur's Gate 2 w/ Throne of Bhaal
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
Neverwinter Nights 2 w/ Mask of the Betrayer
Neverwinter Nights I w/ expansions and community modules
Fallout 2
Portal
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion w/ mods
Half Life 2
Sins of a Solar Empire

It was Skyrim, actually. Back in late 2013 in my undergrad years, one of my friends from high school had it on his Xbox 360 and I got to play it. I had heard a lot about the game and it sounded fun, but I wasn't able to play it because I did not have either of the requisite consoles or even know if my PC would be able to handle it (I actually might not have even known it was available on PC at the time). I did not even know it was part of a larger series until I played it and saw the full title. I had probably heard of The Elder Scrolls at some point, but if I did I had forgotten.

I greatly enjoyed it, even though I did not play a whole lot of it, and decided to get it on PC when I found out I could. Long story short, I decided to go back and play the other games in the series. First it was Oblivion, then Morrowind, then Arena, then Daggerfall, then Redguard. I played Online a slight bit on PS4 before I had finished Redguard, but after getting a new PC after my old one's Internet decided it no longer wanted to work (it would show a connection, but anything that required Internet would not actually load; coincidentally Redguard was the last game I beat on that PC), I got Online for it and have been having a blast with that too. Finding out about the impending digital releases of Redguard and Battlespire were actually what introduced me to GOG and got me to create an account on there, although Battlespire has largely remained untouched with only about an hour playtime. I hope to rectify that soon.

Kind of crazy to think about how this all started with Skyrim, knowing absolutely nothing about the series, to now having at least played every one of the non-mobile games. And what an incredible adventure playing through the games has been. It's become my favorite video game (and possibly favorite fictional) franchise in the process.