How often do you restart?

I've always wondered this and since I was considering restarting my HeartGold version.

How often do you restart Pokemon games?

As for me, I never really restart my games alot. All the progress and memories I have made on that said game makes it hard to start over. It's why I decide not to restart my HeartGold yet. Whenever I do start a new game, it's usually because I'm bored with the current save file. I usually have a reason for restarting a game such as I didn't like name I gave myself or the starter I choose and it's usually only when I haven't made a lot of progress on a game.

How about you guys? Discuss.

I don't usually restart my games at all. I only restarted once, with Platinum, but I guess that's cos I was disappointed with my starter choice (which was Turtwig) so yeah, I wanted to start with Chimchar (my fave Sinnoh starter) which explains that.

However, the reason I don't tend to restart is because I collect a lot of Pokemon and I don't want them to go to waste.

I tend to restart every game I get (but roms more often). At the moment, I send all my pokemon over to my Black version (the only one I never restarted) and then restart. I'm currently playing a challenge on HG, one on Black 2, have a dead postponed one on Emerald etc. I only usually restart for challenges.

Never at all...there's no such thing as me restarting. I only restarted once, because I was testing my HeartGold to verify its legitimacy. It's just not worth it because I've done so much.

I don't really restart my game. I only restarted my Soulsilver after fainting Raikou by accident.

I actually start over quite a lot. I don't really have Pokemon that I need to save or anything.

Curtis talli said:

I don't really restart my game. I only restarted my Soulsilver after fainting Raikou by accident.

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Wow, you must've been pretty dang far.

I tend to restart more often than I ever thought I would. Even if there's something rare on the file or I if have put lots of time into it, I always end up telling myself that I can get it all back -- and more -- if I ever really want to.

The source of the restart tends to be the feeling of starting fresh after not having played for a long stretch, also from the notion that I could have played through the game better.

I never restart, the thought of losing all my progress has always refrained me from restarting.

I always save before important battles and restart if I lost or even when the pokemon which could have sweeped the other pokemon died.

Never, ever. I think its dumb :>

Never, ever. I think its dumb :>

Too many times for you to worry your pretty little heads over.

I think I've restarted only once on one of the games I got new, and that was Sapphire (after having my original save file for about 4 years). I did restart on any of the used games I got (Gold, FireRed, Platinum, HeartGold), but that's just because I wanted to start my own game from scratch.

I might try restarting Sapphire again since I've done basically nothing on that file, and I think I'll to do some challenges or something. The rest of my games will probably stay the way that they are, since I've put in countless hours into each, and I don't want to just throw that away.

I don't think i've restarted any game except my HeartGold version,I already had the first badge but i screwed something up so i had to restart.

A soft reset? Many times, I always screw up somewhere.
A hard reset? After a year or so unless I've grown too attached to my Pokemon, as ridiculous as it sounds.

Not as often as I used to.

Whenever I restart a game I can send migrate Pokemon from, I usually do that, then restart.

I haven't restarted Pokemon White or Black 2. The last game I have restarted though was Heartgold.

I usually never restart my games. Although one time I restarted my Sapphire version for the heck of it.. Also, if I get a game from someone else that was used, I tend to restart those as well.

Way more times than I should. I actually plan on beating B/W2 again and trying not to start over from sheer boredom so I can actually complete the Pokedex.

Alot. I beat the game do all the side stuff afterwards and restart im on like my 12th playthrough of bw2

Nowadays I barely have time to finish one playthrough of a game, let alone multiple. Because of that, the only time I restart is at the beginning if I make a colossal mistake like picking the wrong starter accidentally or something similar. When I was younger, and had more time on my hands, I'd normally restart older games as soon as I'd finished them just to go through the joys of playing them again. I've probably started my Blue version more times than I can count! :D