I too think it's quiet in here, as you say not many want to have casual conversations anymore. Personally, I'm looking forward to the end of this damn coronavirus thing. We have only just been allowed to leave our homes for non essential travel and are allowed to travel further for recreation and other activities than we could 2 weeks ago. We are also being encouraged to return to work but I'm still on furlough as the company I work for has no work for me as my job relies on sporting events with large crowds.  I've kind of got used to being at home and have mixed feelings about returning to work. I've not seen any family or friends since 23rd of March so I'm definitley looking forward to seeing them. I'm meeting up with my dad tomorrow but I'm not allowed to go within 2 metres of him but at least we will be able have a chat. Otherwise if I'm not going back to work till maybe October I don't have much to do other than play some more games. I'm an electronics hobbyist and I have spent the last couple of months finishing some projects I had been meaning to finish for a while. Games wise I'm looking forward to the ESO Greymoor chapter and I still need to get round to playing red dead redemption 2. I'm not sure what will happen over the next few months so I will have to wait and see. But I will be glad to get back to a normal routine.  

Here's my input on this. Been meaning to reply to this for a while so sorry for the late reply. What year you become involved with the TES franchise & what was your first TES game? Well that would be Oblivion back in 2007 when I purchased the game on the PS3 as my PC at the time was not up to running the game. It's the first open world RPG I'd played and put off playing it for a while as I found it a little overwhelming at first and thinking I would not have the time to play it. But glad I persevered with it and got the expansion packs too. It did take me about 3 years to fully "finish" the game as in I'd explored almost every part of the map and done every sidequest. I played as a Redguard in that game simply because of the starting statistics but I started a second playthrough as an Argonian but never finished that as my PS3 failed on me and I never replaced it buying a PS4 instead. When you started becoming involved in the TES fandom? Been a few years now with this site being the only fan site I participate on aside from the single post on the Bethesda forum. I've been here since the Ning days and partly came because of the fan fiction with Okan-Zeeus's Dragon of the East the first story I read and followed. Shame he never finished that story but with all things they take time to write and we all have other commitments that get in the way and sometimes maps, fan fiction etc are abandoned and unfinished. I've also been playing ESO and found the ESO community content on this site to be helpful in building a good character. What platforms you started talking to the fandom on, and what ones you interact on now? The PC and it still is systems wise. Software wise it's internet community sites such as this, nexus mods and steam as I'd made a couple of mods for Skyrim based on two of my characters used in playthroughs. Now there is the Tamriel Vault Discord server that I lurk on. How do you think the fans have reacted to new games? Well given the feedback on Fallout76 which lets just say isn't Bethesda's most successful game it seems to be a bit 'meh'. The news that Bethesda is using the ageing creation engine for Starfield and Elder Scrolls 6 didn't help any (if that really is true) and as Fallout76 was a disaster I think the fans are skeptical of the quality of the next two games. For me personally I'm looking forward to Elder Scrolls 6 and I'm waiting to see what Starfield is all about. I think the success of that game will be a make or break for Elder Scrolls 6 as if it's a flop then it isn't going to look good for Elder Scrolls 6. Bethesda are waiting for the next generation consoles to come out to make the games they really want but are currently limited by today's technology. But that will only delay their next games and they seem to be relying on the success of Fallout76 updates and DLC. How the communities you are part of are different from the ones you started in (are they?) Yes they are different from what they were a few years ago. This site especially has seen a big drop of content and fans online at once which is why fans don't continue their fan fiction as there's not as many to appreciate it. The next Elder Scrolls game will revive the site for sure but that's going to be a while yet. I run a fan site for another game which has gone the same way but I'm reluctant to let it go. As for this site the Discord server seems to be the hang out area rather than this site simply because of convenience and for me this site is very slow sometimes.

43 although I didn't play many games when I was younger (I had a BBC Micro - remember those? and my friends had more common home computers) so I'm not exactly what you would call an old school gamer. I don't play much other than ESO and other single player RPG's such as the Witcher 3 and the Divinity series.   This post was edited by Teekus at July 2, 2019 1:05 PM EDT

Aww nuts it's just a re-imagining and not being made into a full remake. https://screenrant.com/star-wars-dark-forces-remade-unreal-engine-4-looks-amazing/ "A note from the team upon booting up the demo explains that it is neither a game nor is a prototype for an upcoming game. Apart from listing known technical issues and disclaimers, the notes state the project serves as a test to see how much geometry and texture could be squeezed into Unreal 4." A remake would have been great :( This post was edited by Teekus at March 15, 2019 1:38 PM EDT

Paul - you are very close :) I live in Scholes, Cleckheaton. I'm from Leeds originally. This post was edited by Teekus at March 6, 2019 1:55 PM EST