Skyrim and past TES games had horses and creatures that you could ride.

While I completely understand the difficulties of adding motorized vehicles like cars and motorcycles (don't want FO to be borderlands 2.0) why can't we have creatures to ride around the wasteland?

It makes no sense that after the world has changed people have no domesticated pack animals. They don't require gas like a vehicle and could help carry things. Brahmin caravans for example were all over FO3.

So why no mounts? It wouldnt break the game and it wouldn't be tough at all to implement. Shooting a rifle from an animals back would be pretty rad! I am not keen on perma-sprinting everywhere.

Well horses and such are out, they where hunted into extinction like cats (and for the same reason)

So far as we know the only animal big enough to be ridable are either Brahmin or Yaoi Guai bears, the former is to slow to be useful the later, to dangerous and possibly not built for a rider (folks forget there are more reasons then just speed when it comes to riding horses)

It simply isn't a setting that supports a mount system.

Right there, mate. Don't you think that Bethesda / BGS should make at least some differences between their TES and Fallout series other than setting?

Personally I wish I could ride a Bighorn

How about instead of rejecting game mechanics wholesale just because they're in Elder Scrolls, we talk about the stuff that would work best for Fallout regardless of what any other games do?

Well, horses are pretty much extinct from what I understood and bighorners are slow.

Oh, rejecting the ideas because they're in TES is bad, but suggesting them because they're in TES is totally OK? Please.

The fact that it doesn't fit the universe one bit is not even worth discussing. The closest thing there was was the car in F2, but that was just for equivalent of modern day's Fallout fast-travel.

Well you can potentially call and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t_YHgo_HN4&t=28m0s

^{Disclaimer: Speculation, may be in scripted event.}

Wasn't there a word that you could fly around and mow everyone down with the minigun? Speculation as well? (I'd think so)

Doubt it, to much control to be scripted, if it was, why could the demoer summon it in the middle of nowhere with a flare? Or have commands while in the chopper like land and jump out?

We had a vehicle in fallout 2, And we will get to some extent by the look of the videos they have released get to ride in a vertibird or what it is called, a Motorcycle or Car in Fallout 4 would not be a viable idea for the immersion and if we had a vehicle or even vertibird it would make the exploration not as fulfilling in my own view on the matter, you might miss something by just driving past everything.

But that is my own view on the matter they could come up with some short term vehicle with limited amount of fuel or something to get through a high radiation area or a way to avoid a radiation storm.

No

This is where modders will fix everything up for you, they cook you up a rid able mount yaoi guai or maybe even a panda bear, i don't see horses but i see giant butterflies.

They just lay down if you put packs on them, doub't they'd like someone sitting on 'em. But funny to shout RAMMING SPEED!

I think people in the fallout universe resorted to eating horses and cats a tad quickly, I mean there's a very obvious abundance of perfectly good Salisbury Steak. Hmmmmmm, Salisbury Steak.

You can ride Power Armor, since it is more like a vehicle now.

You can ride power armor? LOL

I feel like bicycles should not be out of the question

No, but saying "Beth did them in TES" isn't saying "We should use this feature because Elder Scrolls!", it's saying "we know it's not a technical issue, because Beth has done mounts in their other similar-engine games."

(Note: this is not me arguing in favor of a mount in Fallout. Personally, I think the world's a bit too small & cluttered to really need a mount. And I never bothered with using one in Oblivion or Skyrim, after seeing how clunky they were in OB)

How do you know it wouldn't be hard to implement?

Also, when it ones to development "hard" barely matters. It's all about what you have time for. I can guarantee you this: Bethesda hasn't budgeted a single time block for sitting around wondering what to do next. They have the features and story elements they want and they'll sprint like maniacs trying to get it in on time.

To you this sounds "not that hard". To a Dev team, depending on the studio, that could mean a few more nights away from family.

Easy or hard, ALL things cost time.

According to Easy Pete in New Vegas, bighorners can't be used as pack animals or mounts - they won't accept saddles or yokes. They're only raised for meat and hides.

Too many of those and people will call it "Skyrim with guns" for a reason.

If you haven't even tried one in Skyrim- they're worse than in Oblivion.

Skyrim, and past TES games being only Oblivion.

Meant to say brahmin, my bad.

And Daggerfall.

But more on topic. No, we don't really need mounts in a Fallout game because there are simply no viable candidate animals... yet.