i start out saying "no fast travel" each time, but half way through i catch myself doing it annyway. It's hard for me to avoid the temptation of just quickly getting somewhere cause i dont feel like walking all that way back and forth.

I'm not a hardline "immersion" worshiper, but I do find that manually walking everywhere makes me feel more a part of the world, and it gives you the opportunity to experience new things. Say a quest takes you from A to B, then from B to C. A new quest sends you back to A. You could fast travel, but you'd miss out on everything in between. Maybe you'd experience that area of the world anyway later, but sometimes you'll find things that you would miss if you fast travel. I also think it makes every quest fuller. If there's a simple delivery quest, then fast travel would make it feel like just checking the box to complete the quest, whereas if you take the time to walk there makes it feel like a real mission. Maybe you get sidetracked by a stranger in need or waylaid by raiders - you won't enjoy dynamic encounters like that if you fast travel. To each their own though.

I will for returning from my trips as I tend to be at max carry weight then so not much for me to do returning but I will keep exploring the world on foot till I feel an area has been fully cleared.

In the beginning most likely yes, but that depends on whether enemies respawn or not. If they do, then it′s a definite no.

I am not sure I even understand this topic. Bethesda has always made you travel to a destination on foot before it became a valid fast travel destination. So you have seen the country already.

Not at first. I only start using it later in the game when I begin to constantly go back and forth between locations for a quest or whatever. That's when I realize I've seen certain areas of the game enough as it is and just fast travel past it.

This happened quite often in New Vegas when I found myself constantly traveling north to south and vice versa using the same road over and over again. Walking along the walls of McCarran again and again can get tiresome.

No. In Oblivion, all of the cities were unlocked at the start of the game.

My bad. I never played Oblivion. For me, it is sort of pre-history.

Nope.

Never have, never will.

I have no problem using it if it is part of the game world, like the carts in Skyrim.

I only Fast Travel in a very rare occasion.

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Also if you found a location by going from a via b and c to d, then fast travelled directly back to a you would miss that direct route if not explored.

Also Skyrim had the carts that went to every major city

It is however extremely useful if occasionally you get stuck between some rocks...

Sometimes. There's exploring and then there's trudging back and forth carrying load after load of possessions to a character's new home.

If that be the case, I'll drop a certain amount of bottle caps on the floor and fast travel. Think of some excuse for it. Can't say I've used a carriage like in Oblivion, so I'll think of something.

I won't fast travel if I can help it. I want to experience the world. I have time.

When I started playing Fallout 3 I used Fast Travel but soon after I felt as if I was missing encounters along the way to each destination. Once I stopped using FT, the game became much more enjoyable walking to each destination. Since then I haven't used FT in FO:NV and won't be using FT in FO4.

If I'm just quest hopping, running from one location to another and back again, I'll use it if I've traveled that way before. I've got better things to do than look at the same path over and over again. To new locations I'll always go on foot, being side-tracked by everything in my general vicinity.

I won't in the beginning of the game. .. but I imagine closer to end game. When I want to start building settlements and I'm more just messing about. I'll use it quite a bit.

At will and without a second thought. If my PC needs to be at a certain location, then I prefer it if I can send them their directly; and only bother with the interim landscape if they get ambushed en route.

I will not use fast travel in Fallout 4.

If I did, I would miss out on opportunities to receive hugs from the many Deathclaws that inhabit the landscape.

This could be true; but I hope not. Any PC traveling via the map past a troop of Deathclaws should run high risk of getting accosted to within an inch of their life... not magically bypass them with no risk of injury.

I'm glad this post is getting so much love and as a good chunk of you said I feel walk makes the world seem more real now if a mod comes out like the scenic caravans mod for skyrim I'll use that faster travel but still seeing the road lol

I will try not to but I have little self control.

I will. I mainly used it in FO3, to access Metro entrances (there were so many). Again with the GNR building. I do a walk around getting all the location finding exp for Reillys Rangers and then after that in the DC centre just get around via Fast travel. It was also a good way to spawn some epic Talon Vs Super Mutant fights.

I never used it strangely in Point Lookout even though that also had a relatively large DLC area.

In New Vegas I used it all the time. Mainly to just bypass some desert/ mountainous areas.

I always use Fast travel when I hit my encumbrance limit. Duck over to the trader and use it to sell my gear.

Otherwise I stay away from it and enjoy the slow walking experience.