I know that horses are in Oblivion but is there any to other
information regarding them. Like if there is a new equestrian skill. Do the horses throw you off if the skill isn't high enough. Will they buck you if you steal them from someone. Will they require any care or lodging? Will NPCs treat you differently if you're riding to horse. Can horses step on small creatures to kill them? I realize this is to long list of questions, but Íve always wanted to
horse in MW under I want to know if they're good in Oblivion.

i agree we want info

I doubt there will be any more skills then the trinity 7-7-7 (combat-magic-stealth). What I do know is that you will be able to armor your horse, even to the extent to make it match your own armor.

From the interviews, I got the idea that you would have to stable your horse while you were in town, but that might be optional. Since there is no mounted combat, I'm also assuming that the horses won't be able to kill anything, even by stepping on it. I suspect you won't be required to do too much "taking care of" the horses; that might get a little nit-picky and repetitive (something Bethesda seems to try to avoid). Anyway, that's my opinion on horses.

Horses are pretty boring for me. It just doesn't seem all that amazing. I had a horse in Daggerfall and now I will in Oblivion. Nothing special.

If it is possible to stable your horse at cities then it most have some benefit. Possibly your horse would have a disposition like NPCs and will obey you more with a higher disposition. So leaving it in a stable would make it happier so therefore more likely to obey you. What do you think?

Stables are located outside cities and you have to put them there because you can't enter a city on your horse.

great, more invisible walls or a voice saying "you cant enter here on horseback."

why cant you enter a city on horseback? since there is no mounted combat why would it matter?

personally i feel that horses are a pointesls addition to this game. i'm not one of those guys that says "oblivion suxorz cuz u cant fight on a horse" but i am saying that it is pointless to have horse if you cant ride headlong into a group of dremora and knock them all down. No, instead you ride headlong into a group of dremora, jump off your horse and attempt to fight them.

I think that horseback combat could have easily been balanced into the game.

They probably have pretty tight spaces in cities where the horse/rider could get stuck and because realistically you would eventually have some horse poopies lying about. I really don't care, horses are so useless I'm going to walk the whole game.

Do you have to or can you just get off you horse before entering the city. Can someone steal your horse and putting it in a stable would keep that from happening. Maybe your mount would run away of not kept in a stable.

No you can leave it outside but I don't see why, NPCs can take stuff lying around.

I wouldn't be too sure about that. I think that's also something Todd mentioned, it's rather difficult to integrate horseback fighting because all of a sudden there wouldn't be any point in walking around and fighting enemies without a horse

They'd have to make horses like something really hard to achieve and give the player really bad accuracy when using a horse. That's all I can think of. In Mount & Blade I always just did runs and made kills as I rode by, they couldn't do a thing to attack me.

i think we can trust bethesda on this one. mounts are absolute must to this game, and i really really dont think it does spoil the fun in any way, i rather think it adds to the fun greatly.

right now, i really hate to walk for so long to reach any city in MW or just any location.

i just dont see your points of complaint here. if you dont want a horse, dont buy one. no ones gonna push you up that thing, and yell "ride or die" or whatever.

and about horses not being able to be used in towns. my guess is, there are guards who hinder you to use horses in SOME towns, NOT ALL towns. thats what they said in some of those interviews. so i assume its NOT a technical issue (like they werent able to implement horses in towns or something) but more of a design / realism issue. like you arent allowed to ride in big and clean cities, or, as someone else mentioned, in cities with tight streets and such.

and that makes perfect sense for me.

Why couldn't you leave it outside a city? Obviously you can get off your horse so you can fight. So before you enter a city you just get off it and walk to the city gates. Again I pose the question: Can your horse run away and what are the advantages of the stables?

no, your horse cannot run away.

the advantage of a stable is simple = realism. in real life you wouldnt want to let your horse standing somewhere outside a town, with no one looking after it, now would you. i bet you wouldnt.

You don't realize NPCs can probably take horses as for many of them its in their nature to take what is left lying around. The ourpose of stables I already answered, not just realism.

i really really dont think, that the developers havent implemented a small routine that checks if the horse which is standing there, belongs to you. i really really doubt that a npc will take your horse and ride away. no sir, its not going to happen.