just wondering...

Nope, they haven't.

When asked, Bethesda said they weren't yet discussing mounts

hm, i think that saying "mounts" implies we'll have more than just horses.

Damn my eyes, if there aren't big yaks.

Yes. There's a pic of one in the Game Informer mag.

Read my mind. But yes, I think we can jot down horses as immediately confirmed can't we? Unless mountains raise up and show themselves to be gigantic rocky serpents that are actually moving bridges and hold a dark sec- Wild Imagination for ya.

But most likely the chance that horses are in is as much as your going to run into some snot-nosed hardass

I wouldn't be surprised if they implemented horses again because we had them in oblivion. I just hope they improve the way horses walk/run though, looked like crap. Also combat from your horse should be possible (although it's a lot lamer than man to man combat).

I heard somewhere that there will be rideable dragons. but its probably just a rumour.
Not sure about horses tho. I'm sure there will be, since Oblivion had them.

I read a quote saying that horses will be in game......I don't think a false quote would be up for too long.

And yes there is a picture of a wild one standing in a forest in the February GI.

That's not a horse. That's a deer. And there has been no official quote saying horses will be in game. The only thing we have to go by is Todd saying "We're not ready to talk about mounts."

It's a deerhorse.

I think it was something about horses in either the spanish or italian cover story(there is threads somewhere on the forum), but I could be wrong.

I don't get why so many people mistake a deer for a horse.

But anyway, it seems unlikely to me that horses will not be in the game. They were in Oblivion, and while classes and mysticism were also in Oblivion, therefore proving that "It was in Oblivion", or any past Elder Scrolls game, for that matter, is not proof that some feature will remain in Skyrim, in the case of horses, I see no reason why they'd be removed. It's not like anyone complained about the very presence of horses in Oblivion, what people complained about was that they weren't implemented so well. I think the question we should be asking is not "Will there be horses?" but "Will horses be done better this time?" and also "Will there be other types of mounts besides horses?" But I could be mistaken, of course. I just assume Bethesda wouldn't remove horses.

I really hope they've built on top of Oblivion's horses -- by allowing a greater variety of creatures to be used as mounts -- rather than simply keeping horse mounts with minor improvements, or worse, taking what would be seen by most as a step back in features and sophistication by not including mounts at all.

I don't know what (if anything) can be gleaned from Todd's evasive response to the question, though.

If they don't have mounted combat then i'd rather just not have mounts at all.

Practically nothing was implemented well in oblivion.

Horses/mounts I think would be returning in skyrim though, just don't let us eventually run faster than them and make them a pain in the a**. I never bothered with one half the time. If I wanted to explore I could endlessly run at an equal or greater speed to the horse anyway

Hose MEAT is featured in a concept art.

I would say that Dragon mounts are probably almost a dead cert. And if they are doing dragon mounts, theyll probably do horses too...

they've probably never seen one in real life.

they were in daggerfall but they cut them from morrowind. and considering how useless horses were in OB it isn't inconcievable that they would cut them from Skyrim.

Mounts are a money maker.. didn't WoW make a ton of $$ on mounts alone? It would be a financial mistake to not include mounts. Ofcourse the whole Horse Armor DLC might have shunned them away from mounts.

Snow Striders all the way

I don't think horses are going to be in. I have no evidence proving they aren't its just what I think.

I don't think they are going to be in either.