I’m also trying to avoid joining the fighters guild this time. Previously I’ve always used them as one of my first sources of income in Elder Scrolls games, but in this instance, I’m trying to take myself out of my comfort zone, so I’ve joined both the thieves and mages guilds and I’m curious to see where their missions take me. Certainly in Oblivion the thieves and assassins guilds offered some of the more interesting quests, so I’m looking forward to it.

I bought Morrowind years ago, but missed out on the expansions. I’ve never played that deeply into it, so I’d never bothered buying them, however I decided I’d pick up the Game of the Year Edition so as to have all the expansions now.

So now I’m being a complete Elder Scrolls geek, and I’ve got the disc for both Oblivion and Morrowind sitting in the DVD drives on my main PC.

Playing Morrowind again is a bit of a wakeup call. With the compass, and fast travel system, Oblivion gives you a fair bit of hand-holding (partly, I suspect to entice console gamers), however Morrowind is far more about the immersion.

Sadly, my gaming session last night didn’t go as planned. I rolled my usual longsword/archer, started to find my way around the first town, and was promptly slaughtered by a bandit mage in the first dungeon. And I’d forgotten to save. Nuts.

However, I think restarting may be a blessing in disguise. I always tend to roll archer/swordsman characters, so I think I’ll be a bit different this time, and roll some sort of mage. I last did this ages ago for the Shadows of Undrentide expansion to Neverwinter, and it was a lot of fun. It should take me out of my gaming comfort zone, and force me to approach the game in a new way, which I figure can’t be a bad thing.