User blog comment:Blood Reaper/Todd Howard Hinting at Future DLC's and Patches/@comment-66.191.127.199-20120218175607/@comment-72.138.220.102-20120219045735

horses are pointless. you can fast travel to every major hold capitol without discovering it so why travel by horse at the begining. every time you want to fight you have to get off your horse. no mounted combat and if there was mounted combat, no mounted enemies to speak of to fight. no npcs on horseback at all. (there was in oblivion which is just sad) if you have followers then they get left in the dust or you wait for them which makes no sense. by the way you can reach boethiahs shrine by fast traveling to windhelm then walking down one single road to the shrine, i was there in five minutes. easy.

personally, i dont enjoy manipulation mods. i like to immerse myself in the Role Playing Game and i think it takes away from the experience. (having a cheetah fast horse or increasing my health to ridiculous levels for example) working within the confines of world is more realistic anyways.