I recently came across a post about horses, and it seems that there are some of you out there that don’t like horses. In fact, one individual went so far as to say that they were afraid of horses even more so then they were of giant spiders. To this first of all I would like to say WHAT! Secondly, if you find that you have the fear of horses in common with that person then maybe this game is not for you. Needless to say I love horses and I think that without them the game would be very much lacking, so I am very thrilled that there are horses. It would be nice though if horses are not the only rideable creatures in Skyrim, a Mammoth mount would be very cool, however, if it is that horses are indeed the only mounts it would not bother me as much as if there were no horses at all. :thumbsup:

My cats are absolutely petrified by horses. The neighbors just got some. It's pretty hilarious.

Well, I'm not so hyped. Without mounting combat, horses lost a lot of charm. Almost all for me.

I'm all for horses and think the game would be lacking without them. However a fear of horses is probably more rational than a fear of spiders.(Neither being very rational)

I like them to be in the game but I can't say I'll use them much. The world (roughly as big as Oblivion) is pretty small imo. The horses make it even smaller.

I don't mind actual horses, although I've never dealt closely with them.

But I honestly don't care for them in TES - the ones in Oblivion were horrible (bad controls, bad framerates, bad interactions with NPCs & monsters....). I've no interest in dealing with them again, especially not for some probably-really-annoying-to-control "mounted combat". Bleh.

(No, I haven't played Mount & Blade - everything I've seen about the games sounds uninteresting, from the mounted combat to the "managing a warband/kingdom". :shrug:)

Well, you can trade, make different misions, take a walk in each city, castle or village... the game is oriented to battles but it's not the only thing there.

I personal don't like horses. While they don't "scare" me, I think they look creepy and ugly. That said, of course I want horses in the game! I'd prefer some cooler more fantastical mounts, but I would never say no to horses in Skyrim!



Mount & Blade is fantastic (although not the newest one). It's hard to explain why it's so great unless you actually play. It's probably the closest medieval warfare simulator you'll find (where you actually fight alongside troops that is).

Riding into battle alongside hundreds of troops, knowing one of the countless arrows flying through the air can end you life in one shot, that initial clash when cavalry hits cavalry... there is no other game like it out there atm. Managing a warband/kingdom just gets you more attatched to the things that you can oh so easily lose if you drop your guard or don't play your politics right.

Of course I play heavily modded, just like how I play Oblivion and will play Skyrim

Oh and Mount & Blade multiplayer is the S***. I know many people who only play that and never touch the single player. It is just 100% awesome.

Yo dawg, I heard you liek horses so I put horses in your horses so you can horse while you're horsing

Yeah, that's the thing.... that doesn't sound interesting to me. Sorry.

(never been a real fan of "mass combat" games, and the micromanagement of running kingdoms/cities/etc just gets tedious. Never got very far with games that are about that.)

Im not exactly afraid of horses, but they do unnerve me.
Its the way they stare at me with their teeth.

As far as it goes for the game, I like the horses I have seen in the trailer. I like how their tail flicks and other little details like that.
And I liked the stockiness of the one we saw. Seemed to fit mountainous terrain.

Horses are useless especially in Oblivion.. if they were removed I wouldn't care I just want to be able to get horse meat from the ones I kill this time around so they have some value.

I don't get the desire for mounted combat. The only game that had enjoyable mounted combat that I've played is Ocarina of Time.

I'd much rather fight on my own two feet than on an unpredictable animal.

I actually would have preferred they just left the horses as beasts of burden than to let us ride them and not give us MC too. However it will not affect my game in the least. It's just another detail lost in a sea of them.

Ok if someone is afraid of horses, then they need to get their head checked. It's just the fact that horses were completely useless in Oblivion.

1. They don't run very fast
2. They can die
3. They cost too much money
4. Fast Travel
5. I have to get off my horse just to kill some wolf in the road

Honestly my character could run faster than horses...

Horses never really did anything for me and I don't understand what's so exciting about them being added into Oblivion other than having a little dose of realism. On the other hand if we could ride giant spiders... :happy:

I like they put the effort in to make them look nice and detailed but without mounted combat I find them fairly unappealing. I wasn't big on using them at all in oblivion so I doubt I will use them much in skyrim, I usually enjoy just walking around to keeping a horse alive and mounting/dismounting to fight enemies all the time.


I find teeth that stare at me unnerving too lol

I'll just stick to walking to my destinations. You tend to find things when you're able to freely move about without having to cater to where your horse can and can't go.

Horses in OB were an unessacary luxury. Riding the felt unatural, you had to get off to defend them against bandits and wolfs. Way too expensive, and they just wandered off whenver you exited a dungeon.

No I don't like horses, I prefer pounding the dirt on foot.

Why is everything basing Skyrim's horses on oblivion's? How the hell does almost everybody in this thread know that they won't have much of a use, has everyone in this thread played the game already because I wanna know were you all have.

If they cant equal or surpass the horses in RDR then there is no point. The horses in Ob were stupid. sure at the time they were a nice touch, but worthless

We are answering the OP. We don't like horses because they svcked in Oblivion. Is that too hard to understand?

I'm not a fan of horses as much, although that's not so much a problem with the animals themselves so much as the way people think of them. Now, back in the eras when we did not have cars and such horses were the best way to traverse long distances in a short time. That's fine, and therefore they were worth putting up with the stench, foul temper, tendency to urinate on everything and those big weirdo human teeth in an animal face.

But today, people still give them respect even though they basically have the same utility as that old man who works in everyone's office who used to be very useful but is now senile and gives you no practical benefit in exchange for his stench, foul temper, tendency to urinate on everything and big weirdo human teeth in an animal face.

Good eats, though. Horses too.

EDIT PS: From a gameplay perspective, I just hope they are better than Oblivions. I recall someone saying there is no mounted combat, so I kind of doubt it, although at least the animations are significantly better and they look to go faster at a gallop than the average player character going at a mild stroll.

Who says they will svck in Skyrim?

They did svck in Oblivion, but the animation seems a little improved in the video. Anyways if they don't have saddle bags they're pretty much useless to me, I don't need to be fast when exploring, and when not exploring I use carriages.