Digging up some oldies. First up is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion which I first played back around 2007. This shows the exit from the starter area (the City Prison Sewer) which puts you on the northeast corner of City Isle. Not a lot of action in the first 12 minutes of play, but it shows the user interface (inventory, quest journal) and gives a brief look at what the geography and graphics looked like back in 2007.

(Fallout 3 was also done by Bethesda, using the same engine as Oblivion.)



Exploring the Imperial City Prison area in the early dawn hours, talking to guards, going down into the cell block area.



Entering the Imperial City's market district for the first time. Reading a bulletin on the wall, talking to NPCs to get the latest rumors and gossip, and interacting with vendors. TES4 has a social mini-game where you had to use different conversational gambits in an attempt to curry favor with individual vendors to get better prices.



Note: This was originally FRAPS'd at 1280x720, but was sized down to 720x480 and stuffed onto a DVD using MPEG2. Then pulled back off the DVD using Handbrake and stuffed into a CRF 22 h.264/x264 format. So there's a little bit of MPEG2 "fuzziness" but the video is fairly clean and everything is still legible.