I try to talk but no go... me like that horse a lot! Damn 360

Most all your issues are resolved with Mods. If you a console gamer and/or PC user who is clueless about Nexus...well you crap out of luck.

This is it right here. No point in having personal horses if I have to slowly dismount to fight, and my horse immediately decides to attack my enemy in a very un-horselike manner.

Yeah, I don't think this game needs a horse that does all the work for you. I think it needs to be... a horse.

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as this picture clearly shows horses are the most gravity defying creatures in skyrim.

Horses can climb perpendicular mountains, though.

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I love that there are horses in the game.
I think they are beautiful, add to the landscape and bring more life into the world.

I would never use one, but I like that they are there.

Sure they`re nice to look at and all that. I do especially like Shire horses which these are. they are your original medieval warhorses. the ones that were trained to take a lot of hassle.

I just don`t ride them since Bethesda has made them no fun to.

Yep, horses are like mountain goats. If I have to go up a steep cliff my horsey is coming with me

I never use them, and the forced 3rd person is probably the main reason, it kills the immersion.

Horses are useless.

I don't like the 3rd person view (although I can live with it) but having to get off everytime a wolf shows up, or a bandit, or whatever, is so damn annoying. Had the same "need to get off to fight" problem in Oblivion, and until that changes, I will never buy a horse.

To say nothing of the fact that they wander off and cant be found.

About the only thing they seem useful for is to let you fast travel when over-loaded with loot. And to me, that's not enough to overcome their general uselessness otherwise.

But this guy is asking for that Horse

After having my horse slaughtered at Sancre Tor in Oblivion, I never used a horse again. I can't stand it for that to happen.

In Skyrim, I was traveling down the road and came upon a Palamino with no rider and no Steal Horse option so I climbed on and went for ride down the road. It was great. After all that walking I've been doing, it was just wonderful...and funny when I didn't know how to dismount. I figured it out and got off and the horse trotted away. I will be getting a horse at some point when I can get a mod to make it essential and not before. I did have a question though. Is it like Oblivion and if you fast travel without your horse it'll be in the stable or nearby anyway? Thanks. Sorry, OP, loved the horse for the brief time I had it.

I think there should be a replacement for Shadowmere, maybe not as good as it but definitely better than your standard horse (I'm not talking about frost). The reason I say this is because

I am pretty sure the most recent horse you have ridden will fast travel with you. But in my case I guess the other horses that haven't been ridden in awhile stay wherever they were at.

90% of the time I travel by foot, even without shadowmere.

I wish the horse would just stay inthe stable IF i have to fast travel.

Like the hired help/followers ~ I only bring the horse if its really necessary. And for me 90% of the time it just isnt.

As i said before:
Headless Horseman horse is more then a better replacement.Even you not being able to get it on Consoles.
And horses are the best option when you are Over-Emcubered ...so no.Horses are excelent distractions and a good way of Traveling.

Here are a few must have mods to make horse ownership worthwhile

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1522 Cowardly Horses, Horse will no longer aggro and will run off a bit and stay put. Also has side options to make your horse essential as well

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=596 Enhanced Horse Skin, Look at before and after screen shots. Very well done and they look better in game

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1248 Essential Horses, Stand alone, makes horse essential so they can't be killed.

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=934 Faster horses, Horse sprint is far better then vanilla, horse actually feels like a horse should when sprinting.

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3145 Faster dismount

http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=1767 Horse Whistle (Need Script Dragon), You can whistle your horse and they will come to you, or you can teleport your last ridden horse if you can't find them as well.

This. I make use of my horse and I enjoy it. To me, it's the same thing as a car in a GTA game. Imho people look too much into some aspects of a game.

I might have bought a horse if riding was in first person...

Thank you, Treece and Sting. There's going to be a beautiful horse in my future and I'm looking forward to adding that to my game (Palomino or Black). I'm playing vanilla for the first game but I'm at Level 43 and a second game is percolating in the back of my mind already. I've really walked a lot in Skyrim and that's ok to walk sometimes but if my horse can't die, I'm riding sometimes!

Never heard of these mods.They look very usefull.Thanks for the links.

Your Orc isn't a descendent of Snak gra-Bura from the Imperial City stables is he?

Yeah, horses are just as useless (maybe more so) than they were in Oblivion. The sad part is you can increase your character's speed or athletics like in that game to compensate (so its slow going all the game through).

I liked Oblivion Shadowmere better cuz it was purple and probably had more recorded kills than me. Seriously, I'd go fight the strongest character while Shadowmere DESTROYED the rest.

In the next ES game needs to use the horse engine used in Red Dead Redemption.