DOWNTIME BREAK: My thoughts on the Elder Scrolls and Fallout series

So, my Samsung laptop (the only laptop I have capable of handling New Vegas well) no longer has a power cord, so I'm on my Dell laptop until the replacements come in from Amazon. In the meantime, I've tried my hand at the early Fallout games and Elder Scrolls. However, try as I might to get into them, I can't. I've never played the early games until now, and some aspects, such as the real-time mouse moving combat in Arena and Daggerfall, and the lack of true controller support in Oblivion and Morrowind tend to make it hard for me to get into those games, especially Oblivion, which I enjoyed on the PS3. I know I can just use something like Joy2Key or Xpadder to map the key controls for the games to a controller, but really, it's not the same. I'd need some sort of mod (official or unofficial) that adds the Xbox/360 control scheme to Morrowind and Oblivion before I can enjoy those games, as I'm not used to using a keyboard for gameplaying. Fallout 3 and New Vegas have that support, which is why I keep going back to them. As for Fallouts 1 and 2, my first Fallout game was 3, so moving from the awesome First Person Shooter/RPG hybrid of 3, that really got me to want to play more single-player FPSs, especially with RPG elements, to the turn-based point-and-click isometric RPG of the first 2 Fallout Games is really a big leap in gameplay. I'm not bashing the classic Elder Scrolls and the Interplay/BlackIsle Fallouts, I can see just from the new ones why the series are loved so much. Elder Scrolls and the Bethesda Fallout games have a basic "Do whatever you want" motif. You could do the missions, yes, but half the fun is going to a dungeon, wiping out everyone inside, sell the loot, rinse and repeat, with maybe the optional "Wait until the dungeon respawns" step, which I hated was left out of Fallout 3 unless you use a mod for the PC version, or you can just do what I loved to do and just hang around your house, having the character sit down somewhere you know is safe, and just leaving them there as if the character was truly relaxing after a hard day of dungeon raiding, and the Elder Scrolls series can be very engaging if you can get into it. The Fallout games basically revolve around life after a nuclear war, and how what is left of civilization is trying their best to get back on their feet when they aren't holing themselves up in bomb shelters called Vaults. It's just...well, I'm used to the current-gen way Bethesda does things, and I'm used to having a controller in my hand instead of a keyboard and mouse, or in my case, touchpad. Yeah, the touchpad thing really does not help. But yeah, I really want to get into the early Elder Scrolls and Fallout games, and heck, I want to get back into Oblivion, but with the early limitations and the lack of an actual pre-programmed controller configuration tends to hurt just about any third- or first-person shooter on the PC I can think of, as a laptop is not the best way to experience those games.