» Tue Dec 06, 2011 8:09 am
From the dragon's point of view, that's like having a "monkey on your back", quite literally. It would be "degrading", unless the dragon considered it a convenient way of transporting his "pet" human.
In my opinion, adding this to the game would cheapen dragons to the point of making them pathetic taxicabs for the player, even more than scaling Supermutants in FO3 down to your fresh-meat character's level turned them into big wimps, especially compared to what they were in the original FO. It's a fine way of making insecure kids feel "uber", but terrible for the overall story and series. I wouldn't care about it in a cheap, disposable combat game that doesn't need to worry about long-term implications or consequences, but that shallow standard is not acceptable in TES.