The idea of riding dragons just sounds ridiculous to me. (Hey, just my opinion.)

If horses are done right -- and serve as an effective means of travel in lieu of fast travel -- it would be one of the greatest steps forward in this game for me. Horses have been so well done in other games recently that it would be a shame if they did not get the overhaul they deserve. If they are clumsy and inefficient, I'd prefer they are just furniture tied to a post in the towns.

Dragon

But not for the oooooh and aaaahhhhh or the meglomaniacal aspect. Rather, for the practical reason of being able to go as the crow flies and over mountains. Sigh, I hope levitate is in....

It's hard to remain in awe of a creature you use as a mount ...

I haven't used horses in Oblivion because I found steering too awkward, but they're clearly aware of the issues surrounding their implementation so I'm confident that if we get mounts at all in Skyrim they'll be much less problematic. As far as mounts go, horses would be nice, but I'd be happy with another "ordinary" animal, e.g. in Morrowind it would have been great to have my own pack guar, if they decide that would fit the setting better.

the only way id ride a dragon is if i was on its back and using my sword in its spinal coulomb as a joy stick

very much this

dragons should be the baddest dudes on the block yet i managed to make one my [censored] . . . i dont like that idea at all

Horse. Why go for a gritty realistic feel, and then completely undermine it by being able to only ride dragons?

I suspect that the majority of the "I want to ride dragons" enthusiasts are the same ones who want to be able to cast 1000 point area-effect damage spells at level 1, be handed a 200 damage per swing sword at the start of the game (enchanted, with infinite charges), and be able to summon 30 dragons simultaneously to fight for them (each of them higher level than your character), and who would then complain that the "bosses" are too easy to beat. To me, making them ridable would reduce dragons to "taxicab" servant status, waiting on your whim. It was bad enough that FO3 degraded "Supermutants" into generic weak opponents at low level, and only had them become a threat late in the game when their stats increased to "dangerous" levels. Doing the same to dragons would border on a crime.

Riding horses could have been done better in OB, but overall, the very fact that it was possible was an improvement. FT is going to stay, whether we like it or not, because many players either don't have the playing time to spend 2-3 hours of real time trying to get somewhere, or don't have the patience to play beyond the fight sequences. Alternate "believable" in-game transportation options are also important, because it was ridiculous in OB that there were no functional wagons (but several broken ones lying around in pieces), no hirable boats (you could rent a room on one, but it didn't go anywhere), no caravans or traders (aside from a couple of individuals who evidently walked between cities with about as much merchandise as their pockets could hold), and not even any in-game magical means for the majority of the population to carry on normal trade, travel, and business besides walking the whole way, or rarely riding one of the scarce horses, which weren't much faster (or even slower in some cases). From an RP perspective, it was just "wrong", and saying "it's OPTIONAL" ignores the fact that there were no viable alternatives. So NO, it WASN'T optional, because the game was designed around it, and it was needlessly tedious to have to cross the entire map on foot repeatedly when you should have been able to pay for a ride, teleportation services, or SOMETHING besides clicking the personal "magic map" that only your player character had. I could also reply that "breathing" is optional, but what are your "viable" alternatives?

So, a big "NO" to dragon mounts, and a "yes" to horses.

Dragon Riding will NOT be in this game, i promise you, i will also tell you why. (this isn't something i heard officially this is just pure logical common sense)
They said the world is about as big as oblivion in scale, but with mountains to make it look and feel bigger

oblivion was tiny compared to morrowind and in morrowind, a dragon mount mod was nice, it'd take me at least an hour on a dragon to travel across vvardenfel while it'd take me an hour to run on foot across all of cyrodiil in oblivion. but someone made a dragon riding mod for oblivion anyways which i didn't even bother with.

If you have flying mounts it completely removes the size of the game and turns it from elderscrolls into more of a world of warcraft kind of game, since you can just fly over the mountains that make the game feel big.

This is why there will not be dragons, and i'm hoping if they'll have horses they wont be as unimportant part of the gameplay as in oblivion, in morrowind there was both a dragon riding mod called Reign of Fire and a horse riding mod called Pegas Horse Ranch both of which were tons better than oblivions horse riding feature. (they had mounted combat at least to some extent, altho i don't remember about the horse ranch mod)

i prefer they just skip mounts completely and make us run like in morrowind and fast travel with stilt striders than to give us some useless horses that run slower than you which don't support combat and a fast travel system with no penalty for usage except for removing some of the exploration from the game and making horses 100% useless instead of the 80% they would've had without the fast travel. i also hated the oblivion gates. especially the one in kvatch, those things were boring as hell!.

If horses are done well, yes. I hope dragons aren't in as mounts either way... That would just be ridiculous.

If they add that then I am all for that. Hopefully they will have some walrus armor DLC we can put on it too.

Horses are for riding.

Dragons are for slaying*.



*or questing or other such things.

As long as you cannot fight mounted,mounts are only good for screenshots.If there will be combat (unlikely) I'd prefer horses.Otherwise,I'll leave mounts to mods.

Riding dragons would be absurd.

I really hope they have flying pack walruses to store our stuff.

I agree with your main point, I wouldn't want dragon mounts as it doesn't seem to fit with what they are in the game and it would make the world feel smaller. I should just point out that morrowind was smaller than Oblivion though. :wink_smile:

A horse, definitely. Dragon mounts aren't going to happen as then the game would need to include mounted dragon combat as well. An then you'd just kind of be the dragon and use its fighting abilities (dragon breath etc.) instead of a sword. And TES is all about YOUR character.

If you want mounted dragon combat play this game:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dragonstrike_amiga_game_screenshot_in-game.png


Yeah, and then you should be able to send your mount to a city to sell your stuff while you're elsewhere doing other things...Not.

If the horses are better, that they WILL be then it will be a great joy to ride a horse. Or then again, maybe not. Idk yet

Would rather ride a horse to be honest. Not sure I want my Skyrim turning into the Dragonlance Chronicles <_<

Not at all. Mounts are for role playing the same as walking. It comes back to the 'optiona'l discussion of fast travel that some people don't think exists. I never fast travel personally.

I don't ride anywhere without my horse.

Riding a dragon would be cool and if they made it fly they could get rid of fast travel. just fly everywhere

wasn't there an oblivion mod where can ride akatosh?

A dragon to ride WILL be in Skyrim at some point, be sure of that. Either it's included in Vanilla, or definitely added by mods. I profetize another one to turn you into a dragon, too.

Although it would be fun, I doubt they'd be able to pull off dragon riding in a believable and non-cliché way. Leave it to the modders, I say.

I just want to say that mounts in oblivion were not pointless! You use them when you have to get to a destination that you have no been to before and don't feel like waisting time walking there!
And i wouldn't mind riding a young orphan dragon but it makes more sense if an advlt just wants to rip your head off!

ROFL, that's a zinger!