A Middle Option for Travel
Okay, so the picture above isn’t a horse, and who knows if you could ride a Brahmin. But, the point still stands. However good Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas’ worlds were, there were times when exploration sometimes felt a bit too sluggish. Of course the fast travel option allowed us all to jet from point A to point B in a matter of seconds but that really takes away from some of the beauty of having an open world game. The moments of exploration and discovering some of the incredible areas these worlds have, for example the UFO site at the very top of Fallout 3‘s map, are some of the most satisfying and enjoyable parts of Bethesda’s game.
However these areas sometimes required a fair bit of travel through…well, uninhabited wasteland. Of course this should be expected in a post-apocalyptic world, but wouldn’t it be great if we could ride a mutant horse (…or a Brahmin) to make the traveling a bit faster? Maybe, just maybe, we use the dog to speed across the wasteland of Boston before bringing us back to a human perspective with the click of a button. Whatever method of travel Bethesda includes, there would be no harm in adding the option in for those times when we wouldn’t mind exploring at a faster pace. And for those other times when we’d love to just wander the wasteland and blow three hells out of someone’s face with a plasma rifle, we can leave our speedy companion behind and bring him back when we see fit.
The Witcher 3 and Skyrim both offered this option one way or another, and it’s certainly appreciated in the former when the world is so vast and would take hours to get from one side of the largest region to the other, without our trusty steed.