I went to join the Companions in whitIerun. Shortly after I joined I noticed that Farkas would not stop talking to me. As if I had clicked on him, a chat dialouge box opens all the time. He follows me everywhere. Right now I am in Solitude and still unable to wait or fast travel because it says a guard is pursuing me. I'm sorry Bethesda, I love the game, but this really really svcks. It's near unplayable for me right now. I already served my time in the hold that I was aware of having a bounty in, and even gained a bounty in whiterun, just so I could be jailed and see if that stopped Farkas, but no. Please someone help.

I have the same problem. lure him far out of whiterun and kill him. however, if you ask him to follow you and kill him he may show up somewhere else which means you can not get another follower. I'm now having this problem. Vilkas will do the same thing

I have also run into this problem. I've noticed that when he runs after you, he has his weapon drawn like he's going to attack, but sheathes it when he initiates conversation. I don't know if that is a clue as to why he's chasing you, but its just something that stood out to me. He is very obnoxious, especially since he will interrupt anything you're doing, whether its talking to someone else or smithing or whatever. I tried to lead him out into the plains to kill him, but he must be vital for something because he just doesn't die. I've learned to just stay away from the companions hall and avoid him like the plague.

Happening to me too. I'm only just starting the companions missions, is it going to mess anything up for me if I kill him?

I am having the same problem with Vilkas, Its actually boardering on unplayable. Especially in Whiterun he follows me around weapon out and keeps aproaching and starting dialog. I can't use the skyfordge becuase his questions inturpt the process. He followed me half way to Riverwood earlier and inturpted a dragon fight. This is getting really annoying.

are you guys sure he is not following you because you need to do one of the companions quests? he is a follower for the beginning quest line...? just a thought. double check your journal and see if you have finished those quests etc. only thing that I can think of or it is some kind of bug.

I'm 100% sure he's not following me for a quest. I've finished all the companion quests and have killed Farkas and Vilkas numerous times. And he doesn't just follow you, he talks to you over and over and over making very difficult to play. They've stopped respawning for me but now i can't take on a new follower. I'm suspicious that a quest that automatically replaces your follower with a required follower will solve this problem, However, i can't think of any quests that do such a thing that i haven't already completed. One i know of is Proving Honor in which Farkas is your Shield Brother. Unfortunately i've completed that one already.

I am thinking the same in my similar circumstance. The missions for the companions are done, at least after the major turning point in their story arc, and when coming back to their base it asked me to check the companions for work so I did. I talked to Farkas and he wanted to see if Dragons were real and gave a location of one he knew about high in the snow mountains of the North. I took him there and got wasted several times by the Dragon so I backed off and did other quests to level up. I never could get anything out of Farkas other that training, so he kept following me making himself useful when he could. Well, I go back to that mountain and finally slayed the dragon but after I complete it, he still hangs around...only now he talked about me killing the dragon and his amazement. So we left the area and he reverted back to before, still following me and still not allowing me to dismiss him. I hate to kill the guy but I want another companion...at the least give be able to give him armor and equipment! I'll look through my quests and see if there is another I looked over that he is supposed to be attached to, but it's probably a bug.

I anyone else has seen what happened to me and got rid of him, without killing him and ruining companions following for the rest of my game, please post! Thanks!

OK, I was wrong...I was killing the wrong Dragon. At some point I must have had the wrong quest activated so I was looking in the wrong place on my map. Farkas is now gone and I have Lydia back now. No bug, just my error...

You're lucky, to me he won't talk at all so I can't advance the quest line.

Perhaps tell him to Fark off?