The Oblivion Fast Travel System: Does Anybody NOT Use It?

[wfpdk]

i played through the whole game without using the fast travel system, because i'm a noob and didn't know that there was a fast travel system. now i use it all the time unless i'm RPing for immersions sake and then only fast travel if the trip should be uneventful, like escortng martin back the priory, i just came from there so all the bandits should be dead so the hike seems like a waist of time.

 

[WouldYouKindly]

Sometimes I'll go out exploring. Can't use fast travel for that. Generally, I only use it to go to cities.

 

[RanD00M]

I didn't use for two or three of my many, many, many playthroughs. Found many glorious picnic spots and beautiful waterfalls. Was tedious but well worth it.

 

[Naix99]

although i did use the fast travel through most of the game, but when i found myself a unicorn i decided not to.

Hahahahaa yeeeeeesss!! It felt like looting my first holocron in SWG !

 

[TheKruzdawg]

It depends on where I'm going and how much time I have to play. I used to use it all the time, but now I actually enjoy exploring and finding all of the caves and ruins and stuff I would miss by fast traveling. I usually only use fast travel if I don't have a long time to play during that session and am trying to finish something really quick.

 

[Echo136]

Ive played the game enough that Ive know where everything is, so I dont bother walking anymore in Oblivion.

 

[Above]

although i did use the fast travel through most of the game, but when i found myself a unicorn i decided not to.

The unicorn was EPIC!

 

[Snotnarok]

Yes because Oblivion didn't have any nice varying environments without mods. Fallout 3 I did a playthrough recently with no towns, no fast travel and did ...insanely well. I wish they didn't scale, that's what made New Vegas more fun.

 

[Biosophilogical]

I'll use it when I'm in quest mode (like trying to bash out all the mage-guild initiation quests AFAP), or when I need to off-load some loot (which includes both the start of the game, where I'm trying to make money, and later in the game where I've wandered off to a far-away lair, killed everything and don't have the inventory space to raid another hide-out).

... That sounded weird "Sorry bandits, maybe next time. I've got too many swords to kill you right now."

 

[Inkidu]

I think you should have the option to fast travel, and the option to turn it off if you so choose. I use it, after I've walked there once as a rule of thumb. Yeah, maybe it kills the depth of it, but you know what? Stats also kill immersion because it's a fourth-wall break.

Morrowind though isn't the answer. Just because you can spend hours walking to a place doesn't mean you would. If they added a hardcore mode like Fallout: New Vegas (I'm talking for Skyrim here) then I wouldn't use it so much. Being out on the road having to eat and drink is a lot more fun than just being out on the road to be out on the road.

 

[maturin]

Of course I use it. There's no alternative.

Instead of choosing between Mark, Recall Divine and Almsivi Interventions, Guild Guides, the Tribunal Quest Ring, Ships and Silt Striders, you get faux teleport vs. endless walking.

 

[WaysideMaze]

I used it a hell of a lot, when its there Im too tempted not to.

I'd rather go back to the morrowind method of travel though, far more immersive.

 

[health-bar]

honestly, why would I spend about twenty minutes walking somewhere if a 20 second loading screen gets me to the same place?

After I hyper enchanted my gear so that it made me run faster than Ma'iq and shadowmere put together I used fast travel less. But mainly because I could literally run from Anvil to the imperial city in about a minutes with it on. God help you if I had taken skooma.

 

[Yeager942]

I did but only because the environments for Oblivion were so bland. Granted, they were pretty, but boring nonetheless. For FO3, however, I loved to trek across the wastes. I guess it all comes to how the designers made the environs.

 

[Imbechile]

Okay, so this might come as a shocker to some of the other Oblivion fans out there, but to be honest, i have never once in my entire career of playing Oblivion have i used the fast travel system. I personally feel like im cheating and its takes away from the escapism and immersion. I've always bought a black or white horse, depending one weather im playing a good or bad character.

So i was just wondering, is there anybody else out there that feels the same way i do, and doesn't bother to use the fast travel system?

I do, just to avoid seeing the same god-damn meadow and Oblivion's other bland and copy-pasted terrain. Morrowind solved the travelling excelently.

BTW: Love your avatar

 

[Vault Citizen]

It depends on my mood, sometimes I like to fast travel and sometimes I like to walk, the scenery in Oblivion is the part about it which has aged best in my opinion (visually).

 

[Panorama]

I did but only because the environments for Oblivion were so bland. Granted, they were pretty, but boring nonetheless. For FO3, however, I loved to trek across the wastes. I guess it all comes to how the designers made the environs.

This covers it well!

 

[maddness666]

I use the fast travel when I need to make a trip accross the entire map to get something I forgot at my house or something. But otherwise I tend to travel on foot/horseback.

 

[DustyDrB]

I use the hell out of it. Pretty much every time that the walking distance would take longer than a loading screen.

 

[Glaive_21842]

I used it. After playing Morrowind without the boots of blinding speed, I'll never manually travel again. Seriously, fuck that shit. No amount of "escapism" or "immersion" will cure the sheer boredom of jogging 4mph between towns...of course, once i got the boots of blinding speed and some spell resist, i wouldn't have it any other way ^_^. Blazing across the countryside was fun just for shits and giggles.

Besides, i got plenty of open world exploration in Obliv from finding me some random dungeons to raid. Considering that i usually came out of each one with full encumbrance, it's nice to be able to just warp back to town and get my shit done, warp back to my dungeon, and set out to find another. It kept the legwork for exploration (when legwork is actually fun), but cut it out for the busywork.