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irstupid on 26 February 2018
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Ka-pi96 said:
KManX89 said:

You could still get them all in one game save via farming, you'd just need a friend to do it at no cost to him/her (or literally to yourself if you happen to have both editions and another console lying around). Let's say the Red/Blue edition(s), you could have 6 lv100 Mewtwos on your team when it's all said and done. You'd just have to trade the Mewtwo from each of the save files back and forth and voila! Oh yes, because this wouldn't cheapen the game at all. 

And no, I wouldn't be okay with only one character save full stop in MGS, either. There's a world of difference between only allowing 1 save (or having to pay for additional saves) in a game that allows you to have multiple unique characters and only allowing 1 save to prevent obvious cheating/exploiting in the case of the Pokemon example.

You'd still require a second console and copy of the game, regardless of whether they're yours or a friends. You still do it that way now, trading back and forth to get 6 Mewtwos. You have to pay extra to do that now and if the game allowed multiple saves then you'd still need to pay extra in order to do that. There's literally no difference. You're just being hypocritical by criticising Konami for it but not GameFreak.

And by the way, I'm not ok with only having one save file in Pokemon full stop. I get attached to my Pokemon and don't want to delete them all just to play through the game again. And I have no interest whatsoever in the multiplayer and they usually have very little end game content, so the only option is to delete my perfectly good save file and all of my Pokemon just to enjoy the game again which is quite frankly ridiculous. And even if I did like the multiplayer, trading back and forth to acquire multiple unique legendaries is as I mentioned still perfectly possible, and by the way is neither an exploit nor a cheat. As far as I'm aware and kind of competitive Pokemon multiplayer usually bans legendaries anyway, as well as having rules concerning having duplicates of Pokemon too, so you wouldn't even gain anything from replaying the game to get multiple legendaries.

Oh and actually, let's not forget that Pokemon games (with the exception of gen 3) always have options to transfer your Pokemon from an old gen to the new games, so if you do that you'll be picking up multiple copies of "unique" legendary Pokemon anyway, 1 from your old game and another from your new game. So the whole "people would "exploit" multiple saves to trade themselves multiple versions of one off Pokemon" argument really doesn't hold any weight whatsoever.

Well, since pokemon bank it has been insanely easy to make a new save. Just transfer all your pokemon to the bank super quick and create a new game. I also have been annoyed by no multiple saves. I'm not a huge end game pokemon guy. I do some breeding/iv/ect stuff and max out maybe a dozen new pokemon each gen, but then I get bored and want to replay the game with new pokemon or a max iv bred pokemon or something.

Yet it was a pain in the ass to do it. Had to trade to a trusted friend or oneself on a second console and trade back. With bank it made it super easy. Though in both cases, your old game is gone. So to go back to end game stuff I need to beat the entire game again.

THis should all be remedied on the switch. Seeing as games ask you (unless you turned it off) what user is playing the game, you should be able to create multiple users on your switch and thus even if the game only has one save you can still technically have multiple pokemon saves on your system. Thus you can have your 100% complete end game/farming/ect save and you can have other saves for fun nuzlokes, wonderlockes, ect.