i'm just saying if your major skills are based on what you use the most. and you avoid fast travel. if there is NO mounts, not sure if they have even confirmed them one way or another i avoid this place after the lead up to oblivion's hate fest, and the athletics skill is a perk based chain. the non fast travelers will be unavoidably railroaded into the athletics skill. probably not a bad thing if they'll be relying on it so badly but still it makes more sense to turf it out if people will be forced into a skillset they may not want.

to my other quotes, if dragons are intelligent they can be tamed/reasoned with. lore or otherwise the other 4.5 million people who will play the game will probably spend the game wishing they could use the dragon as a mount. even if the hradcore fans hate the idea. i know it's not an option anyway. i'm just saying bethesda makes this game for the silent majority not the people on this forum. they only announced the game when it was surely into it's beta stages given the timeline. i'd say it's more of a case the designers couldn't think of a non gamebreaking travel system using dragons.

Don't matter which of the TES games you play you unavoidably use a skill set you may not have wanted to when you made a character. This is a none-issue imho, that is usually the case of any given open world game.

And again I submit that intelligence is not the same thing as consciousness. Human beings, for example with, are intelligent. But some people can't be bought, bullied or reasoned with, they just want to watch the world burn. Heh, Dark Knight references aside, I don't think the dragons would be amiable to taming and riding.

And there are mods for dragon mounts (at least for Oblivion) but you never see them really catch on despite the fact that the other 4.5 million people want dragon mounts.

well if like in oblivion i became faster than a horse 30-40 hours into the game then walking alltough id like to have a pet dragon just for showing off *flexes*

Dragon mounts are so... lame IMO. I don't know why people want them. I don't want any docile dragons in my Skyrim.

Role playing perhaps? If you are role playing a corrupt dragoon lord than what better to belch out widespread destruction than a dragon mount?

Ew, a thousand times no to Dragon mounts, I'm going with horses.

Where is the option to ride a boat/raft upstream????

I would much rather ride a horse. Dragons are a cool idea, but they just seem too powerful and fast for my tastes. Horses seem like a much more reasonably balanced mode of transportation. I heard there'd be mammoths in Skyrim though. Is that right? Because that'd be an interesting mount much like elephants. Maybe not MUCH more reasonable than a dragon though, but horses are fine and obviously far more likely than dragons, and my suggestion especially.

Not true. You still have to get to the destination.

I chose neither, because I like to walk through the scenery, though I would still use a horse often also. No dragon...please no dragon mounts.

Not to mention you can't find other places along the way by fast travelling. And that you could possibly do mounted combat as well.

a horse as long as i cant run faster than it

A big no to dragons, maybe horses if they can be done well.

I prefer to just roam through the land by foot or on horseback.
I don't think I'd be able to appreciate a flying mount in a TES game, flying mounts take you away from the beautiful landscapes.

Horse . I don't really find the part about riding a dragon fitting in the series since it isn't Eragon, or Final Fantasy or whatever game-series that have a context that let that happen.

Dragons are the enemy so horses it is.

Neither. I would rather "ride" a wo... err, nevermind, need a mod for that :hubbahubba: .
Serious answer: prefer to walk.

Well, since they've already stated that we won't be able to ride a dragon, I'm gonna go with horse.

Horses yes, dragons no. I can imagine how small the province would seem viewed from the sky, while on foot/riding a horse it can be really impressive.

Horses are for riding, dragons are for killing.

Now this is more to my liking :disguise:

No flying mounts, please. As regarding horses, they svcked so bad in oblivion that it's hard to believe they can be radically changed now. No mounts is better and it makes the world feel larger.

Horses hands down. Horses with saddlebags.

Dragons seems to be awesome! of course i'll try the new things in Skyrim... Veronica rides a black horse in oblivion... in Skyrim everything will be diferent

Heheh, pretty sure we're NOT getting dragon mounts ~ala the podcast, but...

Really people?! No one wants to experience Skyrim on the back of a dragon soaring through the skies?!

Flight is like the most free thing you can do in real life! It's even better in masterfully crafted worlds like Bethesda makes!

It would be a neat reward for a player with 100 Athletics and like, 100,000 gold.

Random event: Stumble upon a dragon egg, care for it and eventually it grows into an advlt.

*shrug*

Besides, who really uses horses? It was like forcing yourself to ride a strange kind of train that didn't like turning quickly. (I know they plan to fix this for Skyrim, just sayin' since we dont really know what horses will play like, or if they will be rideable at all).

Disco says what I want to say.