Poll: Skyrim: how often will you be using fast travel?

[WanderingFool]

Well, in oblivion, I used it alot of the time as it was easier than trying to drive (and drive is the perfect word here) a horse. You get a little rock jutting out, and the horse fucking stops! But fast-travel doesnt detract from my experience in Oblivion or either fallout games, as I still explore; Fast-travel just allows me to complete quest quicker as it seems most quests in oblivion where basically fetch or "go here and talk to A, than go here and Talk to B, than go back to here and talk to A again".

 

[Swiftkillz]

i will probably use it every time, there was nothing to do in oblivions open world

 

[Akytalusia]

it'll be just like the previous games for me, i'll swear not to use it, but my willpower won't last. i'll start using it eventually.

 

[jixser]

Never used it in Oblivion or the Fallout games, won't in Skyrim.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Pretty much all the time.

I mean, I've not no aversion to getting all my loot out of a dungeon raid quickly.

 

[brunothepig]

By the sounds of things I'll be waiting for some nice modders to put some alternatives to travel in there. I hated Oblivion's system, and no I couldn't just not use it, because the only other option was walking. Morrowind had spells, silt striders, boats, so there really wasn't as much walking as people say. And what walking there was really served to make the world feel big.

 

[staika]

I admit the first time I played oblivion I didn't know there was a fast travel system so I made my guy walk everywhere but once I discovered there was a fast travel system I basically used it to travel to the closest area I could to the place I was going all the time, and I might start abusing it in skyrim as well.

 

[Dravus]

since I'll be playing to make as much money as possible....I'll end up using fast travel only really to go to town and sell the loot and go back to where I was....like the old Mark and Recall spells from Morrowind

 

[BloatedGuppy]

I use it on those occasions where it's a place I've already been back and forth from 100 times and I'm being sent on some ridiculous courier mission of "there and back again". That's the only time I use it. My appreciation of and affection for Oblivion/Fallout 3 rose dramatically when I stopped using fast travel.

 

[GundamSentinel]

Depends on how interesting it is to walk/ride everywhere. If it's like Oblivion or Fallout 3, I doubt I'll use fast travel very often. If it's like Far Cry 2, I'll horribly abuse it whenever I can.

 

[WouldYouKindly]

I will to get me to the general area I want to be in. Once there, I'll explore and find what I can. For me, immersion takes a back seat to fun and walking 500 miles while killing the occasional wolf is not my idea of fun.

 

[RuralGamer]

Ultimately it depends on how accessible locations are and how much work has to be done to get from place to place; if I'm constantly having to stop and kill dragons, I may find it more tempting.
I do hope though that you can't fast travel from the start and have to find locations first, as in Fallout 3 and New Vegas; the fact all the towns were easily reachable from the start in Oblivion kinda broke the immersion a bit.

 

[baddude1337]

Probably a lot. It can get really boring and I don't have a huge amount of time to devote to gaming, so an hour walk across the map is a bit of a kill-joy for me, it's one reason I can't really get into Morrowind (that, and the shitty combat).

That said, I am usually in the mood for some good adventuring so will explore a lot just as I did in Oblivion, it's just mainly quests involving long walks I will use it.

 

[Epona]

In Oblivion I would run by foot everywhere until I got my athletics skill up pretty high. The horse was useless because you could run faster than the horse before too long. It was fun to take a slow character and watch his speed increase. If Skyrim has the same system I'll run everywhere, if not, I'll fast travel most of the time.

 

[The Hero Killer]

I'll use it whenever I know that everything between the two areas I'm traveling from has been explored.

 

[WolfThomas]

Probably ocaisonally, I have no problem with them putting it in for some players, but in doing so they cut stuff like teleports, boats, silt-strider equivalents, mark and recall. I wish we had both features, any redunancy can be hand waved by them being quicker (like in hours passed in game). Hell I'd love if Mages (or yourself) could telport you to a random spot on a map that'd be awesome. Also bring back slowfall, jump spells and levitate.

I really, really hope they include an option to turn it off, because if it's there, I lack the willpower to not use it, despite knowing full well that doing so will detract from the experience.

This a hundred times this. I don't want to use it, but I know I will. I liked in Morrowind that you really had to plan any long expedition out of the main cities.

 

[Magnum700]

On my first playthrough, I'll be using it a alot. When I get new games I feel the need to complete the main storyline as fast as possible. I end up regretting it though.

 

[StormShaun]

Ill use it when I need it, basicly Ill use it if I have to get somewhere in a hurry, and if the horses are much more fun to use, ill use them all the other times.

 

[ImprovizoR]

I hear fast travel will cost money. I will probably not use it until I explore entire Skyrim.

 

[Knobody13]

Pretty simple, really, there are purists out there who hate the addition of fast travel and there are some who think it's a useful tool. I think it's okay, I use it when I'm just too lazy to go from one place to another by foot, but I do try to explore as much as possible since we're given this massive, open world and it's a bit of a shame to just skip through it.

It is tempting, sometimes, to just skip the journey and go somewhere, but Morrowind had some decent ways of getting around and I think I preferred that as it made the experience a little richer because when you couldn't be teleported to a place, use recall or hop on a silt strider you were forced to walk which meant that you might accidentally run into a side quest or find a nice bit of loot you would've otherwise skipped with fast travel. Plus, sometimes it's just nice to take a stroll and look at the scenery.

However, that's just my opinion it's obviously different for different people. So, what's your opinion?

I really hope that there will be a siltrunner esque mod