just to throw a cat into the pidgeons
i hope they removed the athletics skill or else everyone not using fast travel will have a mandatory perks line they can't avoid if there is no mounted travel.
Why remove a skill that is obviously useful? Indeed, why remove more skills than is strictly necessary?
those of you telling everyone else thier foolish for wanting dragons, don't. it'll be modded into the pc version within a month anyway. you claim it's silly. but really it's a pretty big assertion in that gameworld that your unstoppable. you can use dragon shouts to call forth a dragon allie but you can't hitch a ride? that's not a great arguament.
It's most likely going to be a temporary summoning and if their size are comparable to http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/wiki/Category:Pet_Wyverns it would not make any sense if they could carry the weight of a full grown humanoid plus all their gear.
those of you saying their intelligent and wouldn't WANT you riding them. intelligent creatures can be reasoned with and reasonable creatures can have symbiotic relationships. dragons opposed to the "eat the world" fiasco...conscientious objectors if you will, may form alliances with certain cities and MAY concede to supplying transport for high value targets.
Intelligence is (unfortunately) not the same as consciousness.
my opinion is i dont care. fast travel is still far faster. i dont care how the lore explains it i'm playing the quest bits of TES not picking flowers.
I've said once, I said it a thousand times. People who moan about fast travel are almost all Morowhiners and are complaining for the sheer sake of complaining. Fast travel was in before Morowhine, and you could even fast travel to places you never even been to before.