realy good article reminds me of my first ever elders scrolls adventure oblivion god dam it was scary

Amazing article. You should really make another.

Hay there! Thanks a lot you guys! :-) I'm glad that you enjoyed it.

That's funny you mentioned Oblivion because I had my first experience playing it back in January. It seemed like a really neat game but I couldn't get into knowing I could play Skyrim instead! I can definitly see where you'd be overwhelmed though!

I'm finding it's a tad more difficult to start a "Part 2" but I will figure it out! :-)

you see, this is why accessibility is such an important part of designing games, particularly role-playing games, it's all well and good to create a world of numbers and spread-sheets, but some people just want to get into it and immerse themselves.

I am glad you are having such fun.

i actualy started oblivion one time hated it then 5 months later i had completed all my games had another try this time reading the instructions and then was instantly hooked

Great article, I'm also a fan of RA Salvatore's Drizzt series, you might also check out Ed Greenwood's Elminster series, also part of the Forgotten Realms universe. The Warded Man & The Desert Spear by Peter V. Brett is also great and highly recommended!

Yeah, no black panther, but perhaps Aela can be your Cattie-Brie?

Pretty cool little article, you have some writing talent!

I think I'm having a little TOO much fun! Haha!!! I seriously don't have much of a life anymore, especially now since I'm adamant about checking this page!

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll have to save them for when I run out of Drizzt books to read! :-) I would feel like I was betraying him if I read anything else! Haha!!

:-) :-) :-) I feel like my head just swelled up to the size of a watermellon when I read your comment! That was really nice of you to say and I appriciate it tremendously!!! :-)

i can understand you, but you started a fantasy RPG with Skyrim is a very very very big challenge LOL and in fact compared to mine, i started with Neverwinter Nights first edition. I also was like you when I played NVN for the first time and took tons of time trying to figure out controls and stuffs.

Then I moved on with Diablo 2, Dungeon Siege 2 action RPG games and well got the hang of it.

Nicely written article^^

I'm glad you enjoyed my article!! Yes, it was definitly a big challenge; to say the least! Well worth it though!!!! I am still figuring things out and I have a lot of time invested in Skyrim! It just makes things that much more interesting!

Great article, I also have a book from the Drizzt series if you can call it that. It's more 3 books put into one huge 1200 page book. But I think i'm gonna attempt to start reading it again after reading this

You really should!!! They're awesome! I'm in the midst of reading "The Thousand Orcs" right now, but it's been put on the back burner since I got Skyrim in November! I also own 3 trilogies and those books weigh a TON which makes it very hard to get comfortable when reading! I hope you do end up rereading them! I'm glad I was able to remind you of how awesome they are! :-)

The 1st major rpg I remember playing was Myst. I did all the Myst to Urn (it insisted on blue screen crashing). My daughter and her husband gave me Baldur's gate where I got stuck on the roach bug things just before the bridge into the better part.
I was trying to play Morrowind on my laptop (unsuccessfully) when son-in-law gave me and suggested I jump to Skyrim for the xbox 360. This is like a fantasy series come to life! Normally I read Urban Fantasy but started in what Jim Butcher calls Swords and Horses which is the type that these Elderscroll RPG games are. I am hooked big time. My novel reading is falling way off. One night I started playing Skyrim after supper, around 6 0r 7 pm. Had to force myself to turn it off in order to get ready for work, where I have to be at 7 AM.

Right now I am terribly frustrated with Lydia-NOT about her dying or disappearing but with her hording apparel!

wow what a great read, i cant wait for part 2. don't take to long to write the 2nd one

Sounds like me, Skyrim was my first real in-depth RPG. I liked the storyline of Oblivion but for some reason I enjoyed watching my GF and roommate play it rather than playing myself.

Decided to give Skyrim a shot back in Nov and I love it. One of the first things I did was go dungeon crawling (big mistake). Went into a 'secret entrance' to some big fort, spent an hour and a half dying and reloading saves till I cleared it...only to find out that if I went to the front, there was a side quest where a group of 4 people were asking me to help them lol.

Bahahahaaha!!! That's awesome!! I also made that same mistake on the quest for the "golden claw"! LOL! I bet you had a good laugh though!

hahaha i didnt charge blindly into skyrim, i spent time learning the basics and controls from videos and friends so i got comfy rather fast! that is a very funny story though! i probably would have done that as well!

Nice i loved it

I probably would've done the same but I haf no one to really show me what to do, and I had no clue where to start...so I dove in head first and landed flat on my face several times!

Thanks Dallis! Glad you enjoyed it!