Would you ever try a no-fast-travelling playthrough?

Post » Tue Aug 24, 2010 2:56 pm

You mean Oblivion style?



There is a slight difference. In fallout none of the other towns were accessible to fast travel until you went there on foot first.

I generally use fast travel when I need to resupply or to find a bed to sleep. I see no need to waste time traveling the wilds for ten minutes to an hour before I can level, nor is it much fun to need supplies and wind up fighting off half a dozen things without ammo, potions, or a decent weapon.

I also use fast travel when I have a short time to play and don't want to waste half of it trudging cross country to get to a dungeon or to finish a quest.
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Nick Pryce
 
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Post » Tue Aug 24, 2010 4:54 pm

I generally try my best not to fast travel, as it adds to the fun of exploration. But if it's a route I have already run many many times and it simply takes time to run it again, I will fast travel instead. So I guess no I wont try a 'no fast-travel playthrough'. But I will always do a 'very limited FT' one.
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Josh Sabatini
 
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Post » Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:10 pm

Nope.
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John Moore
 
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Post » Tue Aug 24, 2010 4:10 pm

I'm doing this my first playthough first, yes. Not at all with my first character, even after I discover every landmark, camp etc. But the following characters I will use it.
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Bethany Watkin
 
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Post » Tue Aug 24, 2010 4:44 pm

The post is assuming that you fast travel alot there should be a "I don't use Fast travel anyways"
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Adrian Powers
 
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Post » Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:08 pm

I'm doing this my first playthough first, yes. Not at all with my first character, even after I discover every landmark, camp etc. But the following characters I will use it.

Same here. No fast travel for my first character.
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Amiee Kent
 
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Post » Tue Aug 24, 2010 11:07 pm

I didn't use it in Oblivion lol
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Lynette Wilson
 
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Post » Tue Aug 24, 2010 3:15 pm

Let me put it to you this way: I run and swim everywhere. I get around like that so much my Athletics is up to 100 before I even realize it's gone up at all. I've run and swam around the entirety of Vvardenfell six non-consecutive times, and plan to do it again soon. You know the teleporters in the Mages Guild? The boatmen? The strider-riders? Never use them. I've sprinted across the road from Balmora to Caldera so much that I don't even notice I'm doing it any more. Any time I need to get from the ruin I just pillaged to Mournhold to sell crap (I don't like using the Mudcrab or Creeper any more), I run/swim from wherever I'm at all the way to Ebonheart. Hell, I'd run straight from there to Mournhold itself if I could. :P

I am the love-child of Forrest Gump and Michael Phelps.
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Post » Tue Aug 24, 2010 4:04 pm

Just as it is a very rare story (book, movie, tv episode, etc.) that doesn't have scenes with transitions that indicate elapsed time, it would be a very rare game that didn't provide for and require some means to "skip past the boring stuff". When I've just walked from Bravil to the Imperial City, I'm very likely to fast-travel back to Bravil. Where's the excitement of walking back along the exact same path I just took when I can fast-travel to Bravil and then walk cross-country to Skingrad instead? I see no reason to suffer through the boring parts.
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suzan
 
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Post » Tue Aug 24, 2010 10:58 pm

I did it on fallout. I just had to time my quests on where I was going.
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Post » Wed Aug 25, 2010 1:02 am

When I was younger I probably would have. Now after I've explored an area I don't want to spend the real life time I could be spending exploring someplace new on backtracking. I will backtrack sometimes for the fun of it, but never fast travel? I just can't justify that real life time expenditure anymore.
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Post » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:39 pm

I already have tried a no-fast-traveling play through. It was called Morrowind and it made me happier.
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Johanna Van Drunick
 
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Post » Wed Aug 25, 2010 5:12 am

It's the only way to play. I usually play without using fast travel. I find different things that way.
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Post » Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:44 pm

Not once did I fast-travel in Oblivion, and the game world then was much blander than I expect Skyrim to be. So no, I will not be using the fast-travel function.
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Post » Wed Aug 25, 2010 12:21 am

your question was "would i EVER" so yea, there's a chance that i would so i voted YES!
i tried to do this in oblivion but then the loot hording guy took a hold of me and i had to keep fast traveling to attain all my loots :D hehe!
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Charlotte Henderson
 
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Post » Wed Aug 25, 2010 5:47 am

do you mean magic map fast travel or any fast travel including the carriage system they are putting in?

if its the first then absolutely since they have the carriage system. if you mean all fast travel, i probably wont use it much if any on my first play through. after that however i will be using the carriage system for places i was at in my first game but not for areas i didnt go to. i figure that by the time i get to my third or fourth play through i will have been pretty much everywhere except out of the way dungeons and caves etc.
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Samantha Jane Adams
 
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Post » Tue Aug 24, 2010 11:03 pm

No, I really don't have that kind of time on my hands.
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Post » Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:14 pm

If visiting the testing hall and using fast-travelling to get out of Hawkhaven doesn't count, then yes, I have.
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Roberto Gaeta
 
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Post » Tue Aug 24, 2010 9:05 pm

yes if i get pay for it.
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Post » Wed Aug 25, 2010 4:58 am

i don't mind fast traveling, as long as it is realistic. Have mages teleport you, have boats transport you, even have beasts transport you. As long as i'm not clicking on a city from my map to teleport, (with no mage teleportation skill), then I'm fine with it. If not, good riddance.
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Cat Haines
 
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Post » Wed Aug 25, 2010 6:58 am

skyrim is a new land with new terrian so I will be running everywhere
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Post » Wed Aug 25, 2010 12:28 am

Im doing what could be called "90% no fast travel" game of Oblivion at the moment. The only time im using it, is when a quest requires me to cross more than 75% of the map.

Other than that, I ride everywhere and have realised how nice a modded up Oblivion can look. Nothing looks as cool as riding aling a forest trail early in the morning, when its all misty, and there are god rays shining down through the trees. Like this http://i.imgur.com/dBszX.jpg
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Post » Wed Aug 25, 2010 7:52 am

I can't think of a reason to adhere to a no-fast-travel rule, but that doesn't mean I won't eventually discover a reason. So, maybe I will try such a playthrough. No fast travel doesn't make sense for role-playing. I suppose it might prove useful as an exercise in patience, though. Maybe I will try an Only-on-Saturday-between-10-AM-and-noon playthrough too.
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Post » Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:13 pm

No, I will try to avoid fast traveling as much as possible but it's always nice to be able to fast travel back to town when you don't feel like walking back the way you came from
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Post » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:37 pm

No, not since we now got a good and immersive version of fast travel - carriages. Doesn't mean I'll still walk A LOT, much more than use carriages. I'll only use that when I have a tedious feeling, which usually comes later in the game.
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