QUOTE(Renee @ Oct 31 2019, 08:40 AM) 
I am reading this thread, since I am proudly a noob now.
For me, first impressions were months of frustration, followed by a couple of hours of INSTANT addiction. I had to force myself to go to bed last night; otherwise I could have easily played until 3 in the morning.
But my first impression ever since May was frustration / ragequitting. Because I use Xbox controllers and they have to be set up a certain way, otherwise I'll never get used to playing any game. I've used the same buttons (attack / jump / sheathe / crouch, etc.) ever since the first Tomb Raider, which I played long ago in 2000. ESO gives the option for three standard templates which configure controllers to have some mouse/key functions, but me personally, I need everything customized.
So basically, if anybody else out there has trouble with controllers PM me. I've seen it all.
Last night my first impressions were exhilleration (however it's spelled) but also confusion. There's a LOT going on with all the menus and functions.
That'll take awhile to get used to. My game runs on High settings at best. My memory card (GTX 760, which was state-of-the-art back in 2013 but now it's ancient) was cooking along at 75 degrees C with this setting, so that's as high as I want to go! By default the game put me on Low settings though.
Lopov has told me he doesn't really roleplay (or at least in the same way as in SP games) but for me, I can't help but instantly start falling into old habits. My character runs a lot because of the opening quests, but also walks along here and there too.
She sits down. She ponders her new world. For now, Halloween is tonight and so it's going to take some Willpower to NOT play this game tonight!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT !!!!!!!!!! Renee is in the game !!!!! WOO HOO !!!!!!!!!
Yes, because it is real time in game and the game goes on whether you are doing something in it or not; it does cut out the NEED to sleep; however I still have my characters lay down and "sleep" when I'm logging off the game sometimes using the "sleep" emote (type /sleep into the Chat Box while standing in the middle of a bed facing to the right = it takes just a few times to figure out exactly where to stand just like it did with that emote in Oblivion Pose mods)
Roleplay is really easy in this game if you play solo; it just takes a little while to get used to the differences of multiplayer. Acadian found the Chat Box intrusive; but you can turn it off and advise friends to just PM you = that helps if you need to eliminate that from your vision; or you can just shut off all chatter in it except Whispers and Chorrolite Guild chat = that cuts down A LOT of its distractions.
Also: I think you can still hot key your emotes; but you can also just remember the ones you want to use a lot = you don't have to see the Chat Box to use it; because the instant you type in that forward slash ( / ) the game automatically does whatever you say next whether your Chat Box is showing or not. (And the emotes are fantastic for roleplay! )
Oops. Either way I'll have to catch the next meeting. 
In fact I figured a lot of RPers do this! 
