I remember in Oblivion how blown away I was with my surroundings, how big I thought the world was, and how detailed everything was. I was somewhat overwhelmed and rushed all around trying to see everything the new world had to offer. Before I knew it, I had done just that. Not entirely, but I had been to every city and seen many of the marvelous things that Oblivion had to offer, relatively quickly. After doing so I slowed down my playing-style considerably. I walked and did not run from place to place. I stopped using fast travel. I began to understand what it meant to role-play and began to do it. The result was that I enjoyed Oblivion far more than I did in the first couple of months that I played it. But I couldn't help but wonder how much better my experience would have been if I had taken this approach from the onset. This is exactly what I plan to do in Skyrim.

I will never fast travel. I will walk, not run from place to place. I will take my time and I hope that the result will be a much richer experience. I'm hoping that I will not have even been to every city by December. Hopefully even into January. Did anyone take this approach in Oblivion or Morrowind? How soon had you seen every city?

I've never played Oblivion or Morrowind so I didn't take that approach, but I can say that I did the same thing with Red Dead Redemption, which I still have a lot of fun roaming around in.

I spent my first playthrough doing pretty much what you did and i found that once i slowed down, the world got a lot more settled and it felt better, more like i was living in it which felt better. I walked more and stopped running and took the time to enjoy where I was. I want the exploration of Skyrim to be awesome as long as it can be for me, so I will definitely take my time and try to experience the game more as if I was role-playing and not just trying to get through a game.

I seem to be going to go with a similar approach. No fast travel. (except carriges to cities I've already been to if I truely need to.) And this time around, I will delve into the dungeons that I discover. (In Oblivion, I just discovered them and ignored them.) And I plan on enjoying all of the scenery.

Hopefully doing this will slow down my overall progress through the game and allow me to garner more enjoyment from it.

That's a good example and I've done the same thing in that game. That might be the game that I pick back up until Skyrim comes out. I still haven't even made it into Mexico in Red Dead Redemption. I was going at a tremendously slow pace in that game and it was great. I don't really remember why I quit playing it.

To me walking in Oblivion was slow, slow, slow. It takes forever to get anywhere and the first thing I did was buy a horse. If walking is that slow in Skyrim, I won't be doing it. I don't have the patience for that.

I'm going to try to avoid the cities for as long as possible. Because the first time I see them will be the best :tes:

Same here with the dungeons, at least at first. I did, eventually, explore pretty much everything. I just want November 11, 2012 to roll around and still be at a point where I haven't seen everything. I'm going to hold off on going to major cities for as long as possible.

One thing I tried to do in Fallout was complete each quest before getting a new one (on my Pip-Boy). I always hated in Oblivion how you'd get 15-20 quests on there and forget what some of them were. The only bad thing about this is that some quests will require you to travel to new, unexplored cities. We'll see.

This is pretty much how I feel.
I honestly don't mind them level locking if it's a bit too difficult. Thats part of the RP experience. If I can't do it I will come back when I think I can. That way you get a feeling of growth and accomplishment. I cant wait to walk into every dungeon. :tes:

I ruined oblivion for myself by using fast travel and trying to do several guilds on one characther.


Was planning on not using Fast travel or even carriages in skyrim, and only do the guilds the characther is suitable for.
Not too sure about the walking everywhere bit. Id love to have the patience to do it, but i dont think i would last very long.