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Do you save before you try?
I've just realized that saving before trying something is basically cheating.
You can go through the entire game without losing one battle in this way. You have lots of money. When you turn the gameboy off, you're essentially admitting a lose and turning it off to stop it happening. How many of you do this? I admit, I do but am considering starting anew to stop doing it - I'm sure it will make it that much more challenging. You lose, you make do with less cash! |
Yeah when I first started playing I was probably the biggest idiot, and I didn't even think of it. But now I do it when I remember to. I only do it before big things like: Somtimes Battling my rival ; Cynthia ; and Legends.
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I only save before them so I can switch off if the worst happens against Legends.
In a way, it is cheating. |
its cheating hands down :\
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I always save before confronting a legendary. I don't wanna waste all my ultra balls and then have to kill it, just try again.
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Cheating? Ok, I think that shutting down the power when you lose, it's cheating, because you are avoiding a punishment... but I don't consider it cheating when I save before a legendary. Mainly because it has been realy encouraged, even by official guides.
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Depends on the conditions. If I'm partway through the E4, and I'm about to lose, there's no way on this great, green earth that I'm going to fight my way through the E4 again to get back to the point where I was. (In other words, I'm lazy. Yes, it's cheating a little, but when the Champion decides to be a prick and take me down with him using status conditions and/or insane luck, I'd most likely be too blinking annoyed to go through four trainers again just to kick his tail for that trick.) Likewise, I always save in front of a legendary because I have a strange tendency to make a once-per-game Pokemon faint about fifteen times before I finally capture the stupid thing, thus meaning I fail at life.
For minor trainers, no, I don't save. |
I've always done it. Never thought about it, though.. I just thought it was a basic thing everyone knew about.
I do it on other games, too, like Final Fantasy. I don't really consider it cheating, or they would've some how changed it. |
i do it before legendaries, sometimes gym leaders too. i never thought anything of it though and still don't think it's cheating, i think it's being smart hahaha
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I only do it before confronting one - off Pokemon.
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You have to consider that when you reset you lose all the EXP. gained so far, so you're saving money but also wasting more time.
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nintendo, sony, microsoft consoles etc or any other handheld console games as well they give you the save option for a reason and usually encourage you to save before you go to a 'boss' or something similar...(there's only a few w/o a save option) |
i only do it for ledgenarys because the battles are really hard and the elite four
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Yes, i 'cheat' but i've never considered it like that. It's there for you to use, use it smartly. In other games and guides they encourage/force you to save before certain events. lol yes that's already been said and thanks for it lol. I do the same in GTA, never died once as a result.
Some times in Pokemon i let myself die, usually when i die near the end of the Elite Four and i ganied a good amount of EXP that is worth it. Anyway, does this mean Soft Reseting is cheating? You do save before a certain point and give yourself a better chance of getting a shiny. |
The feature is there so you don't lose your progress between playing and for hard games, so you can try multiple times.
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If Pokemon remembered the wins and loses of the game, most savers would have 0 loses. This is clearly not true, they turned it off to stop all those loses. |
Eh. No. The only time to "cheat" is before catching a legendary. =P
I think soft resetting could be considered cheating, but it really depends on what you use it for. I almost never reset before a fight, but I do save before an important battle. (Hate to run out of battery power at the wrong time, right?) |
I never lose to in game trainers, they are seriously way too easy.
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Besides, I hardly ever stop at pokecenters, so if i die, I dont wanna go all the way back!
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I save before Legendaries, and Gym Leaders.
so I guess I'm a cheater! |
I save before evreything and evrey 30 minutes. i tame pride in my game time.
But.. I havent lost a story battle in two years. Even the sinnoh "1337" 4 i creamed when i expected to lose with 1 lvl 55. |
I don't see how you can call it cheating. It was placed in the game purposely, and is encouraged by the makers of game. Last I checked, that would be defined as a feature. That would be like playing Grand Theft Auto, and getting through the game without weapons. They make the game alot easier, but calling using them cheating is just incorrect.
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i only save before legendaries, and before the champion the first time i i go through the elite four (no point, really, because i beat them every time) the only reason i save before legends is because i usually kill them once or twice before i actually catch them (i learned this the hard way when i killed suicune in my gold, so i never got one)
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Say you played baseball with someone named, say, Jon. Jon looses and is all upset, so he decides to reset time so he can practice more and win without you knowing about ever winning against him. Would you call that cheating? I would. And thats what saving does. You battle, lose, Reset the game so no-one remembers and its like it never happened, train, and finally win. |
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