Quote Originally Posted by Buffalobiian View Post
The sense is in rewarding players who master difficult things in a game. Who would ride a horse when a buggy is faster and easier to use? That would be like... retarded!
A person who would truly go off-road, which would mean terrain rougher than deserts, smooth plains or grasslands. A walking vehicle is always highly more forgiving with terrain than any wheeled vehicle. The only error in this episode was the horse being faster than a wheeled vehicle, but I suppose that could be explained if the buggy was cheap (a lousy, underpowered engine?) and the horse highly expensive and powerful. It would be quite a jarring ride in RL, no doubt, but since this is a game, it can actually be as smooth as the programmers wanted.