Well it's the whole "back and forth" traveling, it can get annoying for people eventually. Remember the Morrowind main quest? You had to repeatedly go back to Caius Cosades, usually across *half* the map with areas you just seen before, Silt Stiders were sometimes far away from the NPC you had to talk too, but I can tell you that I do enjoy exploring new areas and landscapes when I go finding new dungeons. Since Oblivion, I adventure with no fast traveling in the beginning, but later in the game I pretty much had to use it.

The point'n click fast travel cheapened my experience in Oblivion, so I tend to avoid it by any means necessary these days. All I will use is the in-world travel options. I'm never in a hurry now, and do to all the traveling without a horse, so I got the time to take in all the sights. I need not be in a constant state of questing, looting, or killing to enjoy myself. I guess I'm just weird like that.

I understand what you mean, but to me, i could use the same gift to use FT, or with HUB, no problem to me.

What i see FT, it is just time passed with memories, if that's route i walked every day, i can walk my way ignore everything around me, not even a flash back, what's the problem? Don't you ever got experiences times passed without notice? Red dots on compass, if you actually played any combat game in real world, you should be able to sense enemy. I can sense enemy when playing airsolf game, in my mind it is exactly like how they make the red dot during combat. About crosshair, yes you don't have crosshair in real world but you do have a way to aim whatever it is a gun or a bow. especial you got your natural pointer which is your finger, in video game i don't have a finger, so i can use my imagination to replace the crosshair to my pointer finger. The compass it is actually similar thing to my direction sense, you don't see a compass but i can have that in mind when in real world to keep my direction clear. See i am just using the same gift start from the other end, no problem.

fast travel is fine
if you like it use it if not dont.

in large games there should always be a travel system, but skyrim is huge and many areas are no where near cities or towns,

if you look at a game like wow, there is 1, sometimes 2 fast travel points in one area plus you have mounts that fly...

Depends on which character I use

With my 1st/main character I never fast traveled unless i have already traveled there by foot at least once and even then i hardly used it because i wanted the experience of exploring and encountering dragons, etc etc. It wonderful not using fast travel, but it obviously makes the game way longer. Mostly my other character use fast travel a lot more because u want to complete things faster.

I am sure most people use fast travel to save time, which not all of us have the freedom of spending a lot of time on video games, or just don't want to explore the world. I can see the benefits of using and not using, hence why i do both. Like just about everything thing in this game its an option that you choose to use or not... freedom!

Of course. But either way, seeing the same area for the 50th time is too repetivitve for my liking. But as I say, it comes and goes in cycles. For x period of time I won't fast travel once, but then I'll start to use fast travel again for no apparent reason. You have your reasons for not using it, and that's great. I have my own for using it.

How about fast travel if want to but if you dont want to then well dont. Not doing so doesnt make you uber leet but not doing so and crowing about it does make you something.

I won't be using it soon, I'm with my second character already. I like slow paced gaming especially in RPGs so I don't mind traveling a lot. I only used the carriage once to see how it works.

Interestingly, even though I use FT a lot, I don't use the carriages. Which means that I do more exploring and skip less content. I didn't skip to any cities - I had to find my way to all of them on foot. (My first character didn't get to Solitude until she was somewhere in her 30's, for instance.)

This is very much how I've been doing it or, if I am at some location and need to go to X (to which I can fast travel) for a specific quest and there is some land between both places that I haven't explored I decide to go go on foot to explore the area and discover new places.

I mainly use it when going from one side of the game world to the other. For the record though, you still have to walk to places to be able to fast travel to them. Honestly for me a better question is why do people prefer carriages and stuff so much more when either way it's still a loading screen, it's not like you get the option to travel in real time or anything.

I don't fast travel. I am robbing myself of that extra enjoyment of random encounters.

i accept your response.

now, after you've played for a hundred hours without fast traveling and have gotten to the point where you are getting repeated random encounters and roaming over terrain that is either empty or been traversed dozens of times, what is your response?

I fast travel based on the amount of playtime I have in any particular gaming session. If I had all the time I needed to never fast travel, then I would never fast travel.

But in a hypothetical situation, where say I have completed a quest and just have to turn it in - and say the turn in point is on the other side of the map and I only have 10 minutes to play (quite often I play Skyrim in 10 to 30 minute chunks of time) - then yes, I'll fast travel to get the quest completed.

But that isn't to say I will miss out on content. Because like Oblivion, I plan to be playing Skyrim for years (played almost 5 years of Oblivion with a single character). Eventually, over time, I will experience the vast majority of the content available in Skyrim.