How did you learn about Skyrim? Was it your first Elder Scrolls game?

War

It's not my first game, but I was very excited when I saw the first trailers released for it.

I remember seeing this trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjqsYzBrP-M The soundtrack is probably the most exciting part of it - previous Elder Scrolls games had great soundtracks, but Skyrim's gets me the most pumped. The trailer was no exception. I still get goosebumps from watching it.

For those of you who played Skyrim as their first Elder Scrolls game: What were your first impressions when you heard about it, or played it? What did you think the game was about? Did you know it was open-world, etc? Or did you just think it was a generic FPS sword brawling game?

Majoron

I heard about it from my friends, they were all raving about it, so I took a look at a few trailers and it looked really cool. I hadn't played a good open-world game in a while, so I said, "Screw it" and bought the Legendary Edition. Never had any regrets.

Sean-Bean

I was a frequent user of the UESP at the time, having started playing Oblivion late (circa 2008-2009, I guess), and as a result followed all the news. I was the guy who put fan-made Skyrim wallpapers on the computers in high school as soon as the first promotional artwork got released, and I was the one who sent the Skyrim trailer to everyone I had on Skype.

We all have our place in the great chain of information-spreading, don't we... 😉

Quadryc

Heard about it from a cousin, and other places on the internet - Skyrim was my first ES game. Mostly thought of it as a fantasy open-world game with magic & such.

astro

oblivion was my first TES game, my brother told me about it, absolutely loved it, i forgot how many playthroughs i had, then skyrim, then i went back to play morrowind.

Cozy

Oblivion was my first TES as well. That trailer+music gives me the goosebumps too, makes me want to replay Skyrim so badly, but I gotta wait for the enhanced edition to come out tomorrow first! I wish it was like a month away, so I could fit an Oblivion playthrough in there first lol

First exposure to TES, I think, was a Bethesda development feature. I don't remember much of it, but one thing I do recall was a bit of elven dungeon gameplay where the player tricked a skeleton into being impaled by a moving wall of spikes.

Wunis

I watched part of Paulsoaresjr's playthrough, but got bored of it and stopped. Fast forward a few years, and I checked out Zisteau's playthrough, which was called Lynx-O the Night Cat. I vastly preferred his style of gameplay, and later bought the GOTY edition of Skyrim.