Skyrim: To reload a save or not.

[Demix]

First time actually posting in these forums so hello everyone!

Anyway I love playing Skyrim as I'm sure many of you do but I recently restarted my game.
I only got to level 15 and didn't get all that far but there is one thing I was considering doing just to change things up. In Oblivion I almost always reloaded saves when situations didn't go in my favor, It was a fun challenge but now that I'm playing Skyrim I'm wondering if I should simply let events happen as they should.

I got into a brawl and accidentally punched a woman watching us, I reloaded but I have to wonder what if I went to jail? what if I broke out and lived my Skyrim life as an outlaw? Spend some time in jail and get out with a psychotic hatred for guards?

So what do you do? Do you reload saves for your preferred end to a quest, or do you let it play out and live with the twists the game throws your way?

 

[MrCollins]

I understand your dilemma fully, as I had it while playing Morrowind and, more recently DXHR, I played sneakily on both games but found that I spent a far larger amount of time doing the same sections again because I was caught than I wanted to. So I simply stoped loading saves every time something went wrong, in DXHR that meant using silencers to kill guards that I failed to sneak past without alerting everyone and in morrowind it meant spending a lot more money convincing the thieves guild to get rid of my bounty.

Try it, it's good fun and if ever you find you don't like it.
Why, so can simply reload your last save

 

[OldAccount]

I've never really thought twice about reloading when I go to jail or something. Perhaps I'll try that on my second playthrough.