Oh i know what would be epic!

Be able to find a little dragon that is wondering some high mountains alone. Take him as your companion and after a while, have his mother or father come after you! You can either leave the baby dragon and run or fight the parent and keep the little one!

I hate bringing animals into battle. I love them too much to tolerate the concept of endangering their lives against their will, and whenever I take an animal companion, whether it be a dog or horse, I always feel a huge burden of responsibility to protect those animals. Despite the common argument that 'they're just pixels', I simply cannot let them die, for I feel atrocious and have to reload. And with the companion AI as it usually is, this happens a lot, so I end up feeling bad for the whimpers of the companion and reloading too often to make gameplay enjoyable :violin:

As for human companions, I'd love to have an actual relationship with a companion in both interaction and combat. Sure, backstory and character are absolutely essential, but the essence of a companion for me should be equality, and the sharing of a dangerous journey together. As companions have been in Oblivion mods and in Fallout, it unfortunately devolves into a one-sided relationship where it seems I'm babysitting them most of the time, where they follow me like idiots, engage blindly in combat and get in my way, annoying me to no extent. I help them more than they do me, and so they're more of a hindrance than help. In other words, I'd like a capable, independent companion, not a slave that fights for me. What I've seen so far doesn't cut it for me.

Because of these factors, I walk alone. Sure, the camps at night are incredibly lonely, but I don't suffer from the burdens of protective responsbility :ermm:

I will be just making a simple companion mod if there is already no dog/wolf pet in the game.

Being able to buy or train a companion would be epic, as long as there not O.P., different types of animals getting different types of abilities would be cool to.

One of the houses should have a quest to get a pet that lives there. Just for rp reason I would like that. It's good the games 1 player but it feels loner/empty without some life in your home, a pet, maid or gang/friends would be great.

I want a timber wolf to go hunting with as my partner if I can no haz co-op. Dogs/wolfs are mans best friend.

I wouldnt mind a dog or 5 for companion, but I would rather have 3-5 fodder replaceable characters, then 1 tough character that actually takes some of the fight in tough spots, I play these games to role play, me not me and another, this is not fallout, it is not mass effect, it is TES skyrim.

Maybe obtaining a wolf from a quest or something.
But if not, I'm happy with just conjuration

I'd love to have a wolf or dog.

However I'd also love to have a bird (Falcon/eagle type, bird of prey). One that can be useful, scouting for me or taking down an animal at range (IE in mogolia they hunt with Eagles).

People underestimate the power these birds have, here's a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re644qgnCtw

I'd just love to be riding along, having my bird flying above me, then landing on my arm when I stop or whatever.

I have this problem too. Which is why I think I'd prefer a bird, despite loving cats more, so they can fly away out of danger easier.



EXACTLY!

A wolf would be awesome! Especially for a hunter type character. Kind of off topic but I hope we get to fight treants.

I want my Khajiit character to have his sister a Alfiq (a Khajiit breed that resembles a domestic cat) as a companion.

The renown thieving duo.

I said other because I'd love to have a wolf, "large cat", or a bird. Only problem is that I would never use them. Just like Dogmeat in Fallout 3, I love to have them, but won't use them for fear that they might die... so I just keep them at home. :sadvaultboy:

I like the idea of having companions in RPG's however they would have to have a purpose rather than just follow you around.

I think a dogs/wolfs purpose just like in fall out or fable, would be to help you in battle and alert you of enemy presence as well as finding hidden/buried objects.

A horse is obviously to help you travel and get around at a faster speed as well as maybe carry extra weight.

A birds only advantage is that it can fly over head, so i would say for it to have any purpose at all it would be usefull in things like traveling or hunting, alerting you to either an animals, enemys, new town/village/building known location (this could apply to detecting dragons as well).

A cat is small and good at climbing as well as being quite, so my guess is it could sneak past guards to retreive items. For example it crawl through small gaps in walls/windows to retreive a key that unlocks that door thats just too hard to pick.

Human companions can be usefull no matter what style your play, if like fall out, you can get them to hold extra equipment if your over encombured and they also can prove usefull when fights ocur... however I personally find them to be incredibly annoying making too many mistakes ie. not taking cover, running head first into battle armed with fists etc. but maybe an AI increase for Skyrim will fix that.

I doubt they'll put companions into the game, but if they did I think it would be smart if you could buy the animals... this way if you have a change in tactics (each animal has its own advantage over another) half way through the game, you dont suffer a loss, just maybe some cash.

I like the idea of a call/subdue sort of spell, where the animal only leaves if dismissed. Would be given to Bosmer as a racial, giving them control of any one animal at a time, and other races could get it as a spell. Maybe other races would have a time limit, whereas Bosmer would have that companion either till it died, or till the dismiss it.
Sorry, it's just that I've always found Beast Tongue to be a joke, and it has a lot of potential.

A wolf seems appropriate. Wolfmeat! If not then a bird of prey.

I hope horses can carry stuff this time.

I'd love a hawk personally

What? I love birds

None at all. Pets are stupid.

does no-one remember how awesome pack rats were in tribunal?

i would take pack rat over dog any day.

Cats and dogs.

A pet would be interesting

I would absolutely love a wolf companion. A big, white wolf. Wouldn't be too out of place in Skyrim either. (I'm reading A Song of Ice and Fire, and that has made me always want a great, white wolf as a companion. In any game).

I voted other as I would like to have a hybrid wolf companion..along the lines of the "Joinings" from David Gemmel books.

i liked dogmeat from fallout i wouldnt mind a dog not a fan of humanoid companions but i want my horse as well