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Should fast travel be in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
I know that many people argue that fast travel ruins the whole point of games like TES as it takes the edge off of exploring and ruins immersion, how you can go from one side of the map to the other in under 5 seconds. Tell everyone what your opinions of fast travel are.
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Old 20-11-2011
Nimos Nimos is offline
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Re: Should fast travel be in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Morrowind system was just perfect, if you ask me. If anything TES V is the perfect game to reintroduce it, since Skyrim's environment could allow for some pretty interesting modes of transportation, such as ships that "skate" across the surface of frozen lakes using wind power. Or hell, how about snowboarding down a mountain using your shield like the Gauls did.
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Old 20-11-2011
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Re: Should fast travel be in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
I think Skyrim should have fast travel like in Morrowind. I shouldn't be able to instantly teleport to any place in the game, but I should be able to go from town to town pretty easily. On paper, fast travel sounds like a good idea to me. But Morrowind mechanics of paying for travel from boats /silt striders/ teleportation was far more fun and immersive for me. But, they have to appeal to a large audience, and some people can't be bothered to be immersed and walk places, so I wouldn't hold it against Bethesda if fast travel is in the game.
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Old 20-11-2011
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Re: Should fast travel be in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Indeed, they should use a more realistic mode of fast transportation, rather than teleporting through the use of nothing. Using a realistic method of transportation opens up a whole world of unique possibilities. There's no way they would get rid of it completely, but I could see the MW system making a comeback. But if that does happen, I bet there will be a lot of topics complaining about it after it's been released. I quite like it either way - normally I just walk, but if I'm feeling lazy, it's there.
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Old 20-11-2011
Orochimaru Orochimaru is offline
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Re: Should fast travel be in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
At least give us a travel system alternative. Most people for the fast travel system told us to just ignore it, but we still had to always use the same damn roads and always walk all the distances, something we usually tried to avoid in Morrowind regardless.
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Old 20-11-2011
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Re: Should fast travel be in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
I think it depends on the size of the game world. If the game is as large as Daggerfall or Arena then fast travel is definitely needed, as in those games it's almost impossible to travel on foot, and in the other it is impossible. However, if the game turns out to be similar to size to Oblivion or Morrowind then I feel it isn't needed, at most I could see some of the upper-mid to large size cities having transportation that can take you to similarly sized areas, but no more. In the smaller games I feel that it only serves to let all of those hand placed dungeons and cool hidden places go to waste, never being touched by the PC because he can just instantly teleport to his objective.
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Old 21-11-2011
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Re: Should fast travel be in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
I would like to see a mechanism that perhaps ties Fast Travel with a practical means. For example: Open up the map, click one of the locations you would like to go, and a GPS style list pops up, telling you how to get there be it in the form of a compass marker, a list of mage guild teleporters (only if you've traveled with them before), silt strider style transportation (again, only if used before), and perhaps the option of just skipping the walking, but in the process losing a large amount of health, endurance, and magicka (as to mimic real life traveling on foot).
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