Restarting: For or against

Started by GenuineCorruption January 21st, 2013 12:55 PM
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Hikamaru

Age 30
Female
Australia
Seen January 24th, 2019
Posted September 4th, 2018
50,214 posts
12.2 Years
I never restart (the sole exception was Platinum cos I had a bad team) cos I want to try and collect loads of Pokemon for my Pokedex.
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Sweets Witch

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Age 30
Male
Old People Community, USA
Seen December 10th, 2014
Posted December 10th, 2014
1,388 posts
10.4 Years
I do if I can regain everything that I would be losing. Shinies tend to be the only things that make me stick with a game after I beat it. I just want to play through with see if I can do it with a different team.
Female
Seen June 30th, 2013
Posted June 20th, 2013
139 posts
10.9 Years
For me, I have some permanent, some I will restart. If I do restart, I trade some Pokemon and items to another game so I may keep them.
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Brendino

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8,567 posts
13.5 Years
A majority of the games I have are all their original save files, except for my Gold and Sapphire (the first because my sister saved over the original file, and the latter because I wanted to play through it again). In the case of Sapphire, I made sure to trade all of my valuable Pokemon and items to FireRed before I restarted, since I hate erasing all of the hard work I've already done (which is mostly why my other save files remain intact).

Starry Windy

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Male
Liberty Garden
Seen April 28th, 2020
Posted April 28th, 2020
9,307 posts
10.4 Years
I never restart my Pokemon gaming because I want to keep my journey and my Pokemon in the save file.

Captain Gizmo

Monkey King

Age 29
Male
Canada
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4,842 posts
10.7 Years
I don't restart my DS games. Since I have them for my trading thread. Except for my HG, I use that as trading/battling. I also wanna complete the Pokedex in every game.

I do however restart the games on the GBA cartridges, since I use them for challenge runs and once I finish the challenges, I transfer them to either my Heart Gold or Diamond version.
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Age 25
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Seen July 14th, 2021
Posted June 14th, 2015
1,959 posts
12.6 Years
I do however restart the games on the GBA cartridges, since I use them for challenge runs and once I finish the challenges, I transfer them to either my Heart Gold or Diamond version.
What LilJz says, but except, I don't really do challenge runs, but I do occasionally.

I don't really restart my DS games cos I am a lazy bastard who doesn't like replaying the game.

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Male
Seen January 2nd, 2014
Posted May 25th, 2013
33 posts
10.4 Years
I would like the option to have a few more save files. that would be nice.
I absolutely agree with this! Of coarse Gamefreak would never do this as they'd sell fewer copies that way since multiple people could have save files on the same cartridge.
Male
Seen January 26th, 2013
Posted January 26th, 2013
29 posts
10.3 Years
yes, i do it all the time, even deleted events and shinies due to only having one game at the time.



i play pokemon mainly because i enjoy trying all different kinds of challenges and honestly, if i ever feel the need to fill a dex, which i probably will seeing as i have some spare time and managed to get my hands on every single version since platinum, i can simply borrow or hack the few events i'd lack and give them back/release them afterwards since i have no use for such pokemon even on a competitive level.

i only like legends for story purposes and don't really care about shinies especially with the new rules brought by 5th gen.


oh and by hacking i actually meant pokegts. i never owned a cheating device nor will i ever own one. just wanted to make that clear

dragonfly_dust

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Seen February 18th, 2017
Posted October 13th, 2013
318 posts
10.3 Years
Yes. I use my Pokemon Diamond as a giant storage center for my 3rd and 4th generation games that I replay over and over. Pretty soon I'm going to make my Pokemon White become my storage center as well.


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Guy

just a guy

Age 31
Male
Florida
Seen March 26th, 2016
Posted January 22nd, 2014
7,127 posts
14.7 Years
I have a habit of restarting my games quite often. By memory, I've restarted my Pokémon Ruby more than I can remember. Maybe over fifty times, and I'm not even joking. While I've restarted on LeafGreen and FireRed more than enough.

I've replayed Diamond and Platinum numerous times as well as my SoulSilver. My Pokémon White is probably the only game that I've restarted on a mere three or four times total. Although, I'm fixing on replaying it again eventually.

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Male
The star known as Sol (Virginia)
Seen August 24th, 2014
Posted July 18th, 2014
605 posts
10.8 Years
I only restart my old games, HeartGold, Diamond, Leafgreen, and Firered. White and White 2 I don't restart because I've transfered all the Pokemon I've collected over the years to those two games.
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Gyardosamped

entering snake habitat

Age 29
Male
Florida
Seen November 14th, 2014
Posted August 21st, 2014
1,462 posts
18 Years
I restart my games all the time!

Usually what I'll do is I'll play and complete one of the games and move on to another. Then, sometime later, I'll come back to the game and restart the adventure all over again. I never, though, restart the same game right after I complete it.

Autaven

Gamer Girl

Female
Scotland
Seen January 16th, 2014
Posted January 4th, 2014
248 posts
16.1 Years
Noo restarting for me because I always attempt to complete my National Dex. I do hate it if I go back to a game half way through after like 3 months and completely forget what I was doing though - in that case I might restart. But if I've finished the E4 and I'm just breeding and catching then no :)
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alisaie

they/them
Seen March 14th, 2023
Posted February 3rd, 2022
13,598 posts
14.8 Years
I don't restart unless it's an extra copy of a region I already have a permanent copy for. So for Johto I kept my save on Silver and restarted Gold and Crystal. The only exception to this is White which I have restarted twice now despite me not having a Black Version (but I do have Black 2 which works well enough).
Age 33
Female
UK
Seen January 29th, 2013
Posted January 26th, 2013
458 posts
12.9 Years
I've only ever restarted once, and that was Diamond because I picked Piplup and regretted it. Otherwise, I never have the heart to restart my game and lose everything from it. That's why I usually buy both versions of the games; so I can play it again, do some things differently, yet keep my original progress on the other cartridge.
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Treecko

the princess without voice

Age 31
He/Him
St.Louis,Missouri
Seen November 30th, 2021
Posted November 29th, 2021
6,311 posts
11.2 Years
I don't normally restart my games cause of all the memories I have on my games and all the progress I make on my save files. It makes it too hard to restart cause of all progress I made that I don't want to lose. Plus I'm too lazy to bother with transferring all the time.


I do however restart the games on the GBA cartridges, since I use them for challenge runs and once I finish the challenges, I transfer them to either my Heart Gold or Diamond version.
This too. I only tend to restart my GBA games for some reason but I've never really done a challenge. Though I plan to restart my Firered soon and start a challenge. Plus it's easier to transfer Pokemon from the GBA games to the DS games too cause it doesn't require too DSes or a DS and a Gameboy.

The only time I really restart most Pokemon games is if I'm not that far and want to change something like my starter choice or my PC's name or if I have the other version. Like I plan to buy a copy of Soulsilver soon which I won't mind restarting cause I've already played through HeartGold.
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