So today i realized i was seriously abousing the save/load function. If i commited a crime and got caught-load, if i fail to kill all the witnesses-load, if i pick the wrong dilogue choice-load. So i stoped doing this, only loading really when i die, makes the game a lot more fun

Glad it's more fun for you.

Personally I like to use lots and lots of quicksaves and find it frustrating otherwise.

To each his own.

Good on ya, deadby.

We're in an RPG, in the mindset of trying to achieve a particular goal. It's easy to get into treating save/load as one of the tools available to achieve the goal at hand. But it's more rewarding, I find, to go without it as much as possible.

Here's a shout-out to Braid, by the way, for capturing the genre's Reload mechanic into the game world. If you screw up, you rewind time to a point you'd like to continue from and try again. Now that's design!

I do that constantly.. not so much with dialogue since that makes it kind of fun to see how it plays out. But sometimes there are certain quests I want to do in a specific way.. If I mess up, I reload.. Since I'm building my own story in my head as I go, reloading allows me to play it out exactly as I want. I also like to use a reload to see how something would play out if I did it a different way.. I don't think of it as abusing.. I think of it as writing.

I also recently stopped abusing the save/load function. I now have bounties in nearly every hold, have broken out of jail, and massacred all the guards in Dawnstar! I'm definitely having more fun.

I save constantly for reasons that are not my fault.

For example.....I beat a dragon then walked a ways to a quest. Fought a couple of bandits then started fighting the bandit leader. I was winning then I walked up some steps I was running up. I had done the run up steps>fall over side>run around bandit> repeat routine all while using shock.

I was winning and I would have won, but I got snagged/stuck on the top of the steps one time.....where there was nothing and should not have been caught. I got one shotted.

Those reasons and crashes if and when they happen.

I agree. This is the way I'm sort of playing now too. If i cant pick a lock and destroy all my picks I dont pick the save and reload game. I do save and reload of course when I die. Havent decided if I should do it when my companion dies

LoL i do that all the time like for everything, even if i can caught sneaking up lol, i guess i need to stop

I'm always reading about people somehow abusing poor Skyrim.

Imagine the therapy that it's going to need later in life.

Saving often is a good idea but using the save function to redo things you failed or didn't like the outcome of feels cheap to me.

I've never bothered reloading when things go wrong to be honest, not in Morrowind,Oblivion or Skyrim. I have a friend who reloads even if he breaks one or two lockpicks and i always think to my self what is the point?

One of the reasons i don't reload is that i believe it helps inspire me to make another playthrough after i am finally done with the first... if i choose 1 dialogue option this playthrough then i choose the other next playthrough... if i run out of lockpicks and fail to open certain chests in dungeons i may never go back to then i'll try again in my second playthrough etc.. same with companions, if they die i leave them dead. Watching a few lets plays i notice that a lot of people reload straight away if a companion is killed or they are caught stealing. That is fine its their game and they can do what they want. for me, i leave things as they happen which helps to ensure a different and just as exciting second,third and even fourth playthrough. Although normally by my third playthrough my game is heavily modded.

The only time i reload is if something buggy happens which basically forces me too.

It does feel cheap, but it is a single player game and i don't think there is a wrong way to play a TES game.

I'm with orchish.

LOL I guess I'm also sorta abusing it, but it's mostly the time when my follower died and things like that.
One time I wanted to reload cuz I got caught and was sent to jail, but I didn't, so it became a new experience for me in Skyrim, not bad at all.

^^^^^^^^^^ Yep.... This one right here! Nothing pisses me off more than a boss that vanishes, a door/quest that doesn't work, or getting snatched up by a dragon while I'm at full health and eaten.

I save quite a bit, but only because I like an extra safety net besides the Autosaves and when testing something that I think is suspect about the game's integrity. Like when I was supposed to break into a place but had a companion, I was nervous that they would report me so I saved beforehand. I just didn't want to get ****ed over by some unloyal Housecarl.

I have 178 Saved games and 2809 quicksaves. God knows how many quickloads.
Beat that.