I say maybe

I do it all the time.

I would try a no fast traveling playthrough, as long as the dev's gave us alternate means of travel, not just running or riding on horseback. Stuff like teleportation (either trhough personal spell, or hiring mages to do it for you like in morrowind) or stuff like the silt striders in morrowind (I imagine in skyrim it would be carriage rides.)

Typically, the only time I use fast travel is if I'm almost to my destination and the game crashes. Rather than running it all over, I often just fast travel there the second time. Or those stupid quest chains that force you to transverse the length of the game world multiple times (ie fighter's guild quests). Other than that, I hoof it.

i only really fast travel if a quest wants me to go clear across the map

I have tried many times in Oblivion.

I usually get really lazy after a while though and end up using it anyway, but I think this is only because I've played Oblivion so thoroughly that I've gone through almost every quest or dungeon or region of Cyrodiil a few times that traveling through Cyrodiil has lost its sense of adventure and fun to me.

I feel like if I try a no-fast-travel playthrough with my first character in Skyrim, I'll actually follow through with it.

I liked Morrowind's travel system. It seemed realistic. It'd probably be rather difficult to implement a similar system into Skyrim, though, because you couldn't go many places with boats like you could on Vvardenfell, and I don't see what animal you could fly on in Skyrim (imagine the Nords domesticating dragons and using them for transport). I don't think teleportation fits in with the whole Nordic culture, either. Well.

I pretty much always do that...

I only fast travel inside cities, when I want to bring my horse next to me, or when had to go trough the same route multiple times.

it will be limited but I will do it

dont rly use fast travel myself i hope they have something similar to silt striders etc....i know todd said there will be boats that can take you places but you cant sail.

Possibly, I may give it a try in Skyrim. Fast-traveled pretty much everywhere in Oblivion.

They're putting in, IMO, the perfect system. Fallout 3 style fast travel still included, along with the Morrowind style carriage system(I know they were silt striders in Morrowind, but whatevs).

It's the best of both worlds. I don't plan on ever using standard fast travel.

I will with skyrim now we have another option but I never do in oblivion. Its pointless I dont need thirty ohh pretty minutes just to feel immersed, I have an imagination.

I've tried and been relatively successful in Oblivion (besides between cities I've already been to) but it would likely be easier in Skyrim where there is more variation

You mean Oblivion style?

I would die of overtraveling

Well, it depends on the types of quests. For example, in Oblivion there are loads of Fighter's Guild quests (and other quests too) that make you travel to multiple different cities (sometimes just to talk to someone before travelling to a different city) or regions, and it just doesn't make sense to spend time walking half-way across the game world fivetimes just to receive a quest, find a contact, find the dungeon, return to the questgiver, and then return home to store that precious loot.

I always play with no fast travel. No exceptions.

Of course, being that this is the forums, half a year before the game even comes out, the population here is pre-selected in favor of the more "hardcoe" players. So, yeah - high percentage saying "heck yeah! I do that all the time!" Whereas a group of "average" players might have a different proportion of responses.


(Personally, I've got no issues with fast travel, and don't understand why you'd want to play with "walk everywhere". But, hey - different people have different opinions. )

If there was an achievement for it or something, I guess. Unless you mean a playthrough where you use the in-game things like boats or carriages but not the teleporter in which case, I probably will give it a shot.

My current playthrough of Oblivion is this. You would not believe how annoying it was to get Sean Bean from Kvatch to Weynon Priory to Bruma and the go aL the way back to the Imperial City. Definitely rewarding though.

If you FT, you miss so much of the game that beth built. I will not FT in any beth game. You miss too much exp and too many goodies.

It's something I tried to do for awhile while I was roleplaying, but after awhile I didn't want to be walking past the same things again for like the tenth time, so I came up with some BS that I could teleport to Frostcraig Spire and used the teleporters there. If Skyrims carriage system is any good, I'll be using it instead of fast travel. Atleast for awhile.

I don't use fast travel anyway :biggrin:

Fast travel is a necessary evil. I'll put hundreds of hours into Skyrim, but not thousands.

I try not to abuse fast travel, and travel everywhere and back on foot at least once, but sometimes it just becomes a chore, or I feel like I've already seen everything along the route. Then I fast travel, because life is too short to waste time doing the same thing over and over again.

And I hope Skyrim doesn't have any quests that make you repeatedly traverse the world like a less dignified Pony Express. The Fighter's Guild quests in Oblivion where horrible about this. There was even a quest chain that sent you between Anvil and the Imperial City like 3 times. That's criminal. Can't these quest givers think things through and tell you everything you need up front? And if it were real life, and you made me travel for several days or a week EACH TRIP back and forth, the third time you smugly told me you forgot something or to check back with the other person a continent away . . . I would stab you. Why is that our responsibility as characters? Letters exist, right? Make the quest giver write their buddy and confirm the quest has been completed. And NO, we will NOT carry the letter.

I use fast travel scarcely on a first play, because I never know what I might miss on the road or journey, but on new characters I often fast travel all the time, because I know what is out there and what I want to do.