Quite often I'll go for hours at a time running or at least riding on horseback everywhere I go. I've come across a lot of cool things by doing this that I would have otherwise missed by just using fast travel. Not going to lie, eventually it gets old but I try to cover as much ground on foot as possible. It just gives me a much more emersive feel by doing it this way, even just hint along the way or collecting ingredients is pretty cool. How about you guys? Anyone else who likes to do this on a regular basis?

I almost always do it the first time if I have never been to the location before but it does get rather boring after that. I've discovered every place in Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Fallout: New Vegas just because I love exploring the landscapes. Skyrim is the only one of them that is apparently 100% hand crafted and I'm sure it will be 10x better looking than any of its predecessors. This might cause me to revisit places more often and use fast travel less.

Edit: Unless the dragons are too scary. :shakehead:

As much as I hate to admit it, I am addicted to fast-travelling. I wish it would be taken out completely, that way I won't be able to use it. But of course that won't happen. I just simply want a more genuine experience that allows me to discover the world. Leaving the quick-travel option, though, will inevitably just give my lazy [explicit] a reason not to travel on foot/by horse.

The best I could hope for is having to discover a city before being able to travel to it.

It's about free choice I guess. If they would have brought back the old Morrowind transit system or taken fast travel out, too many people would complain about walking everywhere. This way you can choose if that's what you want to do instead of the developers.

I'm like you, Snatch. I can count on one hand the number of times I used fast travel in Oblivion in the hundreds of hours I played that game--and all of those instances came in the beginning, when I was just starting to play. After a few trips, I realized that it wasn't that much fun (or, to use a popular phrase around here, "it broke my immersion"--which, as you know, can get pretty messy). Once I realized this, I decided to give up fast travel entirely.

The positives of this are becoming intimately familiar with the land, which was nice. It also gives you the opportunity to find places you might not otherwise find. The downside, as you mentioned, is that it can get a little old at times, but to turn that around and look at it in a positive sense, I definitely thought carefully before I set out on a journey of any length. I tended to try to do as much as I could in one area before going to another area, rather than hopping back and forth across the map.

I don't mind that fast travel is in the game, and I really don't have a problem with the system itself (or anyone who chooses to use it). It won't bother me too much if we have a similar system in Skyrim, I just won't use it.

I haven't used fast travel at all in Oblivion and don't plan to for Skyrim. It's not hard, I just pretend that it doesn't exist

I never use fast travel when I am rp'ing, (unless its something like I get knocked out and wake up some where else), but I always play nearly all the content before I role play so that I don't come across some surprise that ruins my rp and I usually fast travel when doing long quests that jump across the map. its a choice, there is no situation in which you have to fast travel. if any one has troubles with fast travel its their problem and every one else should not be affecte by some one elses lack of self control.

I usually fast travel everywhere I can, unless I haven't discovered the location yet, then I ride my horse there. When I first got the game it was impressive to look at the landscapes and nature and stuff (and it still is, now that I'm running max settings and 1080p) and it was all new, but I'd rather spend my time completing quests than riding my horse from Bruma to Leyawin in 15-20 minutes, or whatever it takes.

I like the fast travel system. I go about the game on foot when I can, but when I want to finish a quest and I already walked all the way across the map to some place out in the middle of nowhere, I cant help but use it. It's too damn convenient. If they put something like the stilt riders from Morrowind in the game though, I'd probably use those more often then fast travel. You know, for the immurshun.

I am addicted to it.

But i am going to try my hardest not to.

When I'm traveling alone I never use fast travel, but if I'm trying to escort some NPC somewhere as part of a quest, I get tired of having to defend them against every mudcrab we meet along the trail, so I'll sometimes use fast travel just to get where we're going.

Well basically if I would have used Fast Travel much in Oblivion, F3 or NV I would have missed dozens of cool locations which aren't actually listed on the map or random encounters. The thing that really motivated this trend with me playing Bethesda games was Alchemy in Oblivion. Always on the hunt for ingredients most times purely for profit I ended up finding a lot of very cool locations and random places. The thing I'm hoping there is more of in this game, and it may sound stupid is more indepth NPC's and followers.

In Oblivion out of all the houses I had the one I liked the most was the shack lol, it was just so warm, cozy and homey, like camp. I know it sounds lame but I'd like to be capable of making any area I want more homey and warm. After hours of running around, exploring, killing, and saving the world I'd like to return somewhere that is my own where I "know" people. That's one thing from the previous 3 titles I mentioned before was that after I'd done all of the interactions with my followers or completely all the quests I felt "alone in the world". Don't think it's because I'm some dungeon troll or anything, I have a wife and baby girl and I have it pretty good. It's just that the games are so real feeling that you get used to being an epic hero and don't want it to end. On top of that you get somewhat attached to your character and the land/cities and once you've "done it all" it feels like he's as good as dead =(

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I use FT indiscriminately throughout the game. It does not (cannot really) interfere with the role playing aspect for me, as it is totally within character for my PC to travel (on foot) from one town to the next ~and thankfully I don't have to sit through it when he does. FT is a boon. :goodjob:

**FT should really be changed from meaning "Fast Travel" to "Foot Travel" IMO ~as that's all it really is, and "Fast" is a misnomer.

The only time I use fast travel in OB was for companion escort/follow so I could quickly end the torture of crappy AI and shuffle off a mortal parasite.

Strangely enough I used the [censored] out of mark/recall in MW. I dunno... It's just seemed a natural thing to do. :shrug:

Being a massive packrat who picks up everything and always needs to sell off or store all the junk I've found, I use Fast Travel constantly.


But, since you have to have walked somewhere to be able to fast travel to it (besides the main towns in OB, of course), that's fine - anywhere I can FT to, I've already walked to and fought/searched/harvested. Which means the only thing I might miss is respawns of some world mobs.

In Oblivion and in FO:3 I never used fast travel until I had uncovered most of the map. I also never did many quests during that exploration phase of my game. After I had walked to most of those places I then used it quite extensively. I enjoy uncovering the map prior to using fast travel.

The only time I ever used fast travel was if I had already found most of the locations along the way, or if it was going from somewhere like Bruma to Leyawiin.

Its all going to depend on if the environment is exciting to me. In oblivion, I used it almost all the time because the environment is just about the same in every area you go, so exploring is quite boring.

If there are more interesting areas, I'll skip on fast travel most of the time.

A bit of both I dont want to spend hours walking around, but its fun when only a 10 minutes journey.

Good idea for that hardcoe mode i'm going to play.

It depends on my character. Usually if I have to get from Point A to Point B and back to Point A I take a direct route, then zigzag back to discover more stuff.

Don't have the time to do that. I'd spend most of my time going places and less doing stuff. Instead I enjoy looking around for places I haven't been to yet. You get to see a lot if you take time out to explore. Seeing the same road over and over bores me.

I like to explore as much as I can, and I like to look at pretty things. But Im methodical about it and commit most to memory so I never travel an area more than once. In Oblivion if I needed to go back to an area Id been before, Ill fast travel and take as many shortcuts as possible.

One thing I did once I was done all of the quests with my last Nord character was basically retired him. He no longer wore armour, he just carried a short sword and bow and lived off the land primarily. It was a very loose RP but it was a decent amount of fun. Basically just hunted, gathered ingredients and acted as a travelling merchant. He was powerful enough that he didn't really need armour anyway and would still dominate any foes who came across his path.

Usually when im doing quests or say i want to get to Winterhold in a flash ill use fast travel

If Ive got nothing to do and feel like a jog or looting dungeons ill travel on foot