It was with great fervor that I picked up the collector's edition of Daggerfall some ten years ago now, and the seductive appeal of the Elder Scrolls series hasn't dissipated since, despite the bugs and long development times. It's surreal sometimes to look back upon those days before I became an editor, and now here I am looking at a cherished franchise as both an RPG gamer and an industry observer. I've been looking forward to ES4 more than any game since Half-Life 2 -- and that's a lot of games to wade through in the mean time. But it's finally on our desks, in our computers, and inside our heads, and we're here to give you a taste before Bethesda and 2K Games unleash Oblivion on the retail channel for both the PC and the 360. I'm the PC jerk today.