When you get Oblivion (and presuming it works) what is the first thing that you are going to do? apart from stare at the awsome graphics.

Here's mine.

1)Find this house ( it SHALL be mine...)
2)Hunt deer
3)Gaze in wonder at npc's as they go about their lives.
4)Start fights in the street.

1) look for easter eggs
2) see if I can use a table knife as a weapon (it made me mad that you couldn't in Morrowind)
3) join the Dark brotherhood.... :evil7:
4) beat the game

1) get some sword and try the new fight system
2) test the Havoc-Engine (like smashing bottles and picking up chains)
3) find the nearest wood and start drawing it, as if I was doing a picture of a real landscape
4) get to the local pub and see what new stuff they've added since Morrowind

it's just gonna be sooooooo awesome! :lickinglips:

1)Spend hours fiddling around with character creation
2)Get invitation from thieves guild
3)get bow and arrow and hunt deer, rabbits and sheep.
4) Become amazingwonderfulgladiatordude46 at arena guild

Ooh...for me, it depends on the character I'll role-play as...

Celia (female Altmer):
1) Play around with character creation/face sliders, etc.
2) Talk to many NPC's to check out Radient AI
3) Check out the Nine Divines
4) Become a healer-type person, and help people
5) Explore caves, etc. and find/talk to vampires

Lilim (female Dunmer):
1) Play around with character creation
2) Locate nearest Thieves Guild hangout or just steal like crazy
or
3) Join Dark Brotherhood
4) Become a kind and ditzy assassin, who usually doesn't like following the rules
5) Look for Argonians and Khajiit and become best friends with them
6) Look for a nice house. (Kill the owner of it, first, of course!)
7) Get rich! and go shopping!
8) Become a werewolf (if there are going to be werewolves in Oblivion)
9) Check out all of the handsome Dunmer and kill off any competition AKA other pretty female Dunmer

Might not happen, but still hoping --> Emma (female Breton):
1) Play around with character creation and try to make character as young as possible
2) Join Arena?
3) Learn Necromancy and gather as many corpses as possible (if possible)
4) Hunt all vampires
5) Explore everywhere
6) Get rich and go shopping!
7) Fight zombies and cute undead skeleton warriors!

Marigold (female Bosmer):
1) """"character creation
2) Join Thieves Guild immediately
3) Ignore all Khajiit
4) Try out bows and arrows and test out physics
5) Take quests with best rewards
6) Steal a horse
7) Explore, get rich, and go shopping!

1)Explore
2)Buy horse
3)Kill things
4)Break random things to test Havoc engine
5)Complete game

[quote=LoneWolf]1)Explore
2)Buy horse
3)Kill things
4)Break random things to test Havoc engine
5)Complete game[/quote]

Buy a horse? That's so boring! (Just kidding!)
Oh, and killing things? As in monsters or people? (My Dunmer girl's going to kill off any other Dunmer females in the area).
What kind of character are you going to be playing, as LoneWolfie? A Redguard?

Yup, my favourite race. And by killing things, i mean creastures, bandits, so on and so forth.
And i could steal a horse but my guys are always honourable knight type guys, who only steal right at the start of the game from the customs and excise place. After that i try to avoid stealing

And besides, what makes you think the stolen horse won't through you off and break your ribs?

Because ashley cheng(I think) said you cant break ribs!


Anyway what makes you think a bought horse wont throw you off and break your ribs?

Well, if its a good horse it won't like you stealing it and hence throw you off. Possibly alerting its owner in the nearby tavern. Breaking your spine perhaps in that case.

1) Read entire manual while my brother installs/begins the game.
2) Spend aeons creating a character.
3) Try out the magic system.
4a) If magic system is bad, cry and create a fighter instead.
4b) If magic system is good, use said magic to incinerate all local fauna.
5) Explore. A lot.
6) Never complete the main quest .

1. Create a redguard.
2. Walk around town, cry because of the beuty.
3. Steal and sell from and to stupid imperials.
4. Join fighters, arena and mages guild.
5. kill some bandits with the new combat system.
6. Do some side quests.
7. Get a house. No, a church.
8. Make a bunch of people admire my awesomeness.
9. Do thieves guild quests wearing full eboly and a dae-katana.

1) Make a Knight
2) Join the imperial Legions
3) Hit something with my sword
4) Look for the elder scrolls... I KNOW THERE, THERE SOMEWHERE!!

1.well I like chumbaniya's #1 (but i will be installing it)
2.like everyone, play with the character creation
3.make a backstaber theif (if I have enough patience to pull though with it )
4.join the theives guild and/or the DB
5.become the master of each and kill all who pissed me off
6. Take over a town(if possible that wo8uld be cool, kind of like Al Capone but larger)
7.beat the MQ

1.)Look for Daedric Shrines
if there are any
2.) Look for shrines of Sheogorath
3.) Dedicate myself to the shrines; protect them, furnish them, etc.
4.) Join the Mage's Guild
5.) Beat Main Quest

1) Screw with Character Creation
2) Get lost in main city
3) Buy basic supplies and live out in the woods for a bit
4) Join Thieves guild
5) Start on main quest
6) See where the world takes me
7) Play with CS

I'm going to make a mod with a re-made fargoth in it and see how many people download it.

Then I'll make a second mod countering your mod that remakes your fargoth into a giant talking toad.

[quote=Khaan]I'm going to make a mod with a re-made fargoth in it and see how many people download it. [/quote]

There will probably be about a thousand mods that will do that.

[quote]mod that remakes your fargoth into a giant talking toad.[/quote]

Lol

[quote=Chumbaniya]1) Read entire manual while my brother installs/begins the game.
2) Spend aeons creating a character.
3) Try out the magic system.
4a) If magic system is bad, cry and create a fighter instead.
4b) If magic system is good, use said magic to incinerate all local fauna.
5) Explore. A lot.
6) Never complete the main quest .[/quote]

Just realised I hadn't added the last points:

7) Play around with CS
8) Give up after making half of a mod
9) Play an RTS

1. Create Character/Install game... etc.
2. Steal with honor... as in being clever and stealthy...not just taking everything you see out of a poor man's cottage.
3. Morag Tong and Thieves' Guild all the way
4. Get lost. That's always fun.

[quote=legere_delibo]
3. Morag Tong and Thieves' Guild all the way


The Morag Tong won't be in. It's a Morrowind only faction.

Perhaps you were thinking of the Dark Brotherhood?

[quote=Rane]
The Morag Tong won't be in. It's a Morrowind only faction.

Perhaps you were thinking of the Dark Brotherhood?[/quote]

You're right of course, but for the record, I would join the Morag Tong if I could.

Kirai - - Male Dunmer

1) Find a way to learn the Telekenesis spell, and have some fun with that.
2) Buy/Steal a horse and ride it around for a few hours.
3) Get into some fist fights with by-standers.

Until the game's released, that's all I can think of.

1) Reading up on the pros and cons of the different birthsigns and races
2) Fool around with character sliders again and again and...
3) Try to complete whole game solely as a magic user
4) Wandering in the forest and be awed by the beauty
5) Watching the RAI in action
6) Ride a horse, but prefer walking (I think)
7) Disabling traps and use them on enemies instead

In short: Putting my real life on hold for as long as possible so I can devote all spare time to playing.

1.I would make a dunmer, breton, or altmer male. Probably altmer since I enjoy being really tall.
2.Find facy clothes. I gotsta look good.
3.Have my character take a nap in the street and see how many people kick me.
4.Play with physics.
5.Join the mages.
6.Try and find Caius Cosades(spelling) and hope he will share his house with me.
7.Join every other guild after I defeat the mages guild quests.
8.Find Sheogorath.
9.And 2 years after getting the game I will defeat the main quest just like I did with morrowind.

1) Read the manual (and any guide books if they are published...see #2)
2) Try to figure out as much game mechanics as I can to see if their are limits as to what I can learn as a character (I'd like to be a stealthy mage, so I hope their are no skill caps)
3) Play around with character creation for a few hours
4) If I have a guidebook, I'll lock it away so I dont spoil the fun of actually playing.
5) Sleep (since I'll have been up 24 hrs straight reading, installing and creating a character)
6) Explore town and observe the npc behavior AI
7) Test out the exciting things I can do involving ranged and magic combat
8) Really try to sleep this time since it's now been 48 hours and I skipped #5

I am going out to the woods and live like Walt Whitman.

-Toss Amulent of Kings in lake
-Start stupid a trivial fights
-Attempt to pickpocket someones pants
-Start life as a commoner

I know this is kinda old but I had to post here. The first things I hope to do in Oblivion are,

-Visit every single town to view the different environments
-Visit woods and look for ingredients
-Get a bow and shoot at a deer(I'll probably miss though.)
-Join arena guild and fight
-See if you can really bet on fights like the devs said
-Try main quest and if I don't like it I'll go back to doing my own thing
-Get horse and make money to buy houses
-Take what I need from people but no more than I can use

1.) Read manually several times.
2.) Spend several hours on charater creation.
3.) Create a complicated and interesting PC...and fool around with the aesthetics.
4.)Do the Dark Brotherhood, Mages Guilde quests ~ Maybe start MQ.
6.) Explore.
7.) Travel, on foot, from one end of the land mass to the other, almost like the silence oath quest at the Dunmer Temple.
8.) Find little randomn quests to do.
9.) Get lost, and do randomn things.
10.) Finish #4.

I think I'll just walk around in Cyrodiil Region for a moment, doing what ever I feel like before starting on the quest

1) Mess around with CS
2) Be a tourist..and walk really slowly in front of others.
3) Pillage here and there.
4) Join the Dark Brotherhood..evil..indeed.
5) Main Quest
6) Run around and do everything imaginable.

Scrap anything ive said...1)main quest because then i wont have daedra running everywhere! Like getting rid of the blight from red mountain.

1) spend days and several false starts creating the perfect and unique character with a detailed background

2) Wander amlisly through a town watching the NPC's go about their lives and cry at the beuty of it all

3) Try out the new (stealth engine?) and rob blind every rich jerk I find

4) Test out the new bows and get lost in the woods living of the land for months (in game) before starting the mainquest

5) begin planning and desining all sorts of thing I like to make and hopefully be able to do it this time around

(didn't have photoshop untill two months ago, and far to late in getting interested in modling to get a Max that can export .nif -just can't work with Milkshape - sigh)

Read all the books after I've found a decent home.

Go hunting!

Reveal every square pixel on the map

Look for ways to make money (too bad there isn't a mudcrab )

I would Make about 5 different characters in close succession while having fun with character creation. This is what I would do with each
Honest Imperial Knight
1) Do Main Quest until stuck or bored
2) Do stuff for Arena and/or Fighter's Guild until stuck or bored
3) Get rich if not already
4) Use riches to get house, horse and cool stuff

Not-so honest Imperial Knight
1) Ignore Main quest
2) Join Dark Brotherhood and become leader
3) Kill my fellow assasin's
4) Kill people who look at me the wrong way
5) Kill the Emperor
6) Laugh Evilly!

Breton Archer
1) Ignore main quest
2) Get good bow and arrows
3) Get lost in the forest hunting for months only coming to town to buy arrows
4) Get killed by a minotaur then give up on character

Khajiit Thief
1) Ignore main quest
2) Join Thieves Guild and do jobs for them
3) Steal untill rich.

Dunmer Mage
1) Join Mages Guild
2) Do stuff for them
3) Do main quest only when bored

There are some things that I will do first no matter what character I have
1) Test physics system (throw stuff)
2) Be awed by graphics
3) Watch NPC's doing stuff
4) Test out archery system I've heard so much about

Oh, I forgot 3 very important things
SCREENSHOTS! SCREENSHOTS! SCREENSHOTS!

Is there any reason in particular that you took it upon yourself to revive this long dead topic?

Probably because he saw it and wanted to post in it. There's no rule saying you have to leave a thread after a certain number of days you know

1. spend christmas night on creating a Dunmer Ranger.
2. sleep(at least try).
3. Explore the cities and forests.
4. play around with the AI and physics.
5. Start questing.
6. reading books and get more into the story.
7. join thieves guild and the dark brotherhood.
8. finnish all the guild quests.
9. become the ultimate ranger god.
10. start playing the MQ and finnish it 1 year later.

Maybe because they never had a chance to say anything before and decided to now. So if other people and I read it (you obviously went out of your way to read it) that means it must be a worthwhile post. Now you're probably offended and therefore might decide that it's neccassary to give a retort. Don't bother though, because frankly I don't care.

It's funny, people tell you

1. You can't make new topics of the same thing that's been done before

2. You can't ressurect old topics

Catch 22, let them ressurect.

Besides, I changed my mind on my to do list anyway.

1. Do the first few Main quest tasks until it feels right that my character wouldn't feel obligated to keep going.

2. Join most of the guilds and integrate reading, exploring, screwing with the physics and doing a few tasks for the guilds now and then, as well as sidequests

3. Keep going on the main quest for a few more tasks

4. Finish a guild or two, giving my character the necessary perks to amke him more bad-boat on the mainquest, as well as on more dungeons.

5. Utilize those perks for some nice dungeon raiding as well as generally making trouble for people and some sidequests.

6. Finish all the guilds

7. Complete the MQ

Time spent: maybe a year

addition:

go into a shop with a very large claymore and knock all the stuff off the shelves then run away.

1) create a test char for exploration and testing
2) run across a river
3)steal ar ride a horse
4) experiment with the diseases found in the game
5) draw out a sword and walk next to a wall to see if i scrapes the walls
6)watch if npc's have specific walkin routes
7) see what happens when(or if) i can kill anyone neer or related to the emperor.
8)go all clepto and steal like a former movie star

1) Make argonian, custom stealth class
2) Do a bit of the main quest
3) Explore the forests
4) Explore the towns
5) Go and loot random caves
6) Join the thieves guild and do all the quests
7) Join the DB and do all the quests
8) Maybe join some other guild
9) Do some more exploring and get baddest loot
10) Finish main quest

1)break out of prison with the king
2)watch the king and his men die infront of me
3)put on the kings robe(which i hope is hooded)aswell as looting every corpse
4)sell what i dont want, then run off into the woods

1)Get lost in the woods and survive on rat-meat

2)Find a bandit cave and run out screaming because my character is useless

3)Ride a horse at full speed through a tangle of branches/ruins

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