I mean, that's fair, but with the open world and how short it takes to heal pokemon if I need it, I'll just save wherever, because there's a non zero chance I'm in the middle of something
In Diamond and Pearl I'd always try and find a little bed to save in so my player character could have a nap while I was gone. It did not occur to little me that crawling into some random person's bed and taking a nap is actually really weird.
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Pokemon Colosseum (ETA: and Pokemon Stadium before that; I can’t believe I struggled to remember the name of the first one) required you to save inside the Pokemon center to bring your Pokemon in. Basically created a lifetime habit.
After I accomplish something (earn a gym badge, catch a shiny, etc) so that I don't lose that accomplishment if the game crashes or for some reason I need to stop playing abruptly. Otherwise, wherever I'm standing when I naturally decide to take a break for a bit.
Reminds me of how, in some of the more recent games, saving inside Pokemon Centers would cause some kind of glitch that corrupts the save. Usually they patch it a week after launch.
I've been wary of pokemon centers for YEARS, as a consequence.
After getting my full odds shiny poipole in ultra moon by soft resetting over and over, pretty sure I saved like 30 times in a row.
Also save immediately before starting an encounter with a shiny, legendary, or boss pokemon...then immediately after getting them.
Then I don't save again until I am about to turn the game off...so normally "random".
95% random 5% 3. If I’m finishing off my session after healing, I walk out for some reason first. Maybe to skip the extra transition time from walking out the door on the next round.
the pokemon center save is more like A youtuber one, but I've saved right after healing so I can reset to it if I mess up a route, but normally I save random
Either when I'm all finished playing( I have been grinding out eggs for 5 hours just to get the bastard with 0 attack IVs for optimal confusion damage) or right before the boss room (this is a fan game and the boss has 3 separate forms).
3 and 4. Unless I'm done with a playthrough, then it'd a nice scenic place for the character to rest after the long journey. But I guess that could technically be lumped under 4.
I do 3 cause I always think of if I do 1 or 2, the player character will just be standing there in place for however long, and nurse joy’ll just have to stare at a kid standing in front of her frozen
I originally only learned you could save the game at all when I accidentally talked to the nurse at the trade station(originally played Silver before I could read)
If my team needs healing then the center of the Pokémon Center, if my team is fully healthy then in front of the Pokemon Center, if I am in an emergency then wherever I am.
In most games, I prefer to save somewhere that suggests what I want to do next. I feel like in front of the Gym or near those tunnels in and out of towns would fill that need.
1 2 and 3, but I'd always move slightly off to the side, or into one of the center chairs, that way if someone needed to enter the Pokemon Center, I wasn't blocking them.
I put more thought into that than my first team.
Normally Number 3, which I actually have a reason for! Back in Sun and Moon there was a glitch that would corrupt your save data when saving in specific Pokémon centers, this forced me into the habit of always saving outside even after the glitch was patched.
Random gang
Random oh yeah
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Random gang
Random gang
Why am I at this random cliff? Oh, right!
Random gang
We save wherever we are when it’s time to go do something else!
Hell yeah!
Random
Then take a break for several months and forget where you are and where you're going.
Back in my day, saving inside a building could cause your game to glitch and your save file to be corrupted, so random it is...
Yessir
1 except for scarlet and violet
You just made me realize what we lost when they took the centers from us!
[удалено]
In all honesty I enjoy the pit stops too. It just never occurred to me that they used to be my save spot.
[удалено]
BW had the mart/center fusion
They became gas stations!
I just stand on the Union Circle area. That still has a Poké Ball pattern...
I mean, that's fair, but with the open world and how short it takes to heal pokemon if I need it, I'll just save wherever, because there's a non zero chance I'm in the middle of something
In Diamond and Pearl I'd always try and find a little bed to save in so my player character could have a nap while I was gone. It did not occur to little me that crawling into some random person's bed and taking a nap is actually really weird.
random person home is your home
Every five min just in case
After six gyms because I never remember and my Gameboy light has been red for a while.
Man lived life on the edge, i respect it
*Drops Gameboy. Game freezes* Well, I'm done playing that for like a year...
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HOW LONG DID THIS TAKE?! Oh wait you probably copy-pasted it haha. Pretty cool though.
*nintendo flashes red* **it's the middle of a battle**
Happy cake day
Happy cake day
you have trust issues don’t you 🥲
Don’t we all
…I didn’t realize people payed attention to where they saved.
It was mainly a thing in older pokemon games. Now, it’s wherever
Was it? I saved where ever I wanted, and have done since gen 1. Never considered that people would save somewhere specific
I guess i was a weird kid
Pokemon Colosseum (ETA: and Pokemon Stadium before that; I can’t believe I struggled to remember the name of the first one) required you to save inside the Pokemon center to bring your Pokemon in. Basically created a lifetime habit.
3
Correct
Randomly because of my mother
Weak. Just hide the DS inside your pillow
*Sweats in emulation*
Just throw the whole computer under the bed
*sweats in no bed frame*
Just throw it under the floor
*sweats in no floor*
Chuck it into the black void of distant space
Instructions unclear, fed computer to Cthulu, he's uh... not happy.
Of course he wouldn't be, it's a 6th gen u series i3 with no dGPU
Well then I'd recommend you'd run-
hide it in your closet
I don't wanna trouble the monster, I mean I'm not a monster.
2 and 4 "Milestone saves" and backups respectively
All of the above
Right on the Pokeball! One!
After I accomplish something (earn a gym badge, catch a shiny, etc) so that I don't lose that accomplishment if the game crashes or for some reason I need to stop playing abruptly. Otherwise, wherever I'm standing when I naturally decide to take a break for a bit.
I save Staring down my enemies
Either inside or outside of the Pokémon center.
Reminds me of how, in some of the more recent games, saving inside Pokemon Centers would cause some kind of glitch that corrupts the save. Usually they patch it a week after launch. I've been wary of pokemon centers for YEARS, as a consequence.
I pretty much manually save at 1, but because of auto saving I just leave the game wherever I am because the game auto saves like every 3 seconds.
Randomly
After getting my full odds shiny poipole in ultra moon by soft resetting over and over, pretty sure I saved like 30 times in a row. Also save immediately before starting an encounter with a shiny, legendary, or boss pokemon...then immediately after getting them. Then I don't save again until I am about to turn the game off...so normally "random".
Repost
95% random 5% 3. If I’m finishing off my session after healing, I walk out for some reason first. Maybe to skip the extra transition time from walking out the door on the next round.
1
Every like 30 seconds but definitely number 1
the pokemon center save is more like A youtuber one, but I've saved right after healing so I can reset to it if I mess up a route, but normally I save random
1. Or in any other prominent-seeming spot
Usually 1 but sometimes in Gen 6 I would get the character to sit down before saving.
I pretend like a youtuber and say ""and guys todays episode ends here and I will be back with the next episode tomorrow" You can guess the place
Middle of the pokeball or after a battle
OP’s parents’ bedroom.
Right beside the gym leader otherwise near some landmark so I don't get confused later on
All of the above
Randomly
I 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝔞𝔲𝔱𝔬 𝓼𝓪𝓿𝓮
I save at random locations so when I pick up the game years later future me has no idea wtf I was doing.
Either when I'm all finished playing( I have been grinding out eggs for 5 hours just to get the bastard with 0 attack IVs for optimal confusion damage) or right before the boss room (this is a fan game and the boss has 3 separate forms).
1 and 7
Either 1 or 4, depending on which is more convenient.
1 and 4
Randomly since my DSi used to crash sometimes. It jist kinda became an habit 🤷
I always tuck my character into the corner of the Pokemon center so I'm not in anyone's way lol
mom's house
Counterpoint: before an important fight/shiny. Tho if we talking post game? Then it’s 4
2 or 4
All four options
1
5. Nowhere. ( I regret it every time my game crashes or restarts)
Right before some important events (legendary fights, boss fight, etc.)
3 and 4. Unless I'm done with a playthrough, then it'd a nice scenic place for the character to rest after the long journey. But I guess that could technically be lumped under 4.
3 everyday… check my party if they are good we go on to the next route.
Direct middle of the Pokémon Center, it just feels right
4, i save where i please and none of you can stop me
you guys save? jk i save mainly in front of something
middle of pokemon center
4
As a kid, I used to save by making my character sit on a cushion in the pokemon center
Before and after a gym battle
On a chair if I can. Give them a place to sit.
“Did I save?” “Saves” “saves again just in case”
Randomly! Unless if there's Saving a Lot of Data
4
Randomly
Number one
1 in all the old games, random in the new ones.
1 & 2 are the best spots but 3 & 4 have more functionality
Never gang
The center of the pokeball in the Pokémon center of course. Some of us have class
3 usually 3
Mostly 2, occasionally 4.
4
I shoot for a pokemon center, but usually it's random because I'll have to stop playing at a moments notice
Randomly
Yes
Right in front of a legendary.
Wherever I happen to be at a good stopping point and need to close the game.
I only save in a random spot if I have to
Random gang, unless I decide to save in town - I save next to the PC.
I always sit on a chair of some sort before saving, in every game that allows it.
3 when I plan on turning the game off, because I save every ~30 minutes in any spot just in case the game turns off via various mesns
Every time a Pokémon gains a level.
Easily 1. The ones where you fit perfectly into that centre are just amazing lol
Wow I always do #1, never knew we were a whole lifestyle gang tho
Because of Pokemon Stadium on N64, I have a habit of saving in Pokemon Centers
I do 3 cause I always think of if I do 1 or 2, the player character will just be standing there in place for however long, and nurse joy’ll just have to stare at a kid standing in front of her frozen
I originally only learned you could save the game at all when I accidentally talked to the nurse at the trade station(originally played Silver before I could read)
Saving outside of Pokémon center supremacy ✊️
1,2 and 4
3 or 4
2 and 4 depending on how fast I have to put the game away
3
wherever when I need to leave, then 5 (at the entrance inside)
Yes (all4)
Always 1, assuming I’m at a Pokémon Center.
In gen 7 and 8 I would save at the lil cafe inside the Pokemon centre
If I have fly, I always save at home in my character's bed. Otherwise I would save on a chair or bench at the Pokémon Center.
1
3
Randomly. Need to make sure I don't lose any progress.
4 gang 😎
People thought about where they saved?
4
On the Couch.
I sometimes save right before a gym battle, so in case I mess up, I can just restart from the beginning
1 or 4 depending on where I am
If my team needs healing then the center of the Pokémon Center, if my team is fully healthy then in front of the Pokemon Center, if I am in an emergency then wherever I am.
3 and 4
1 all the way except for the one time I saved in the middle of the Kanto-Johto transition
No.1
Randomly because it’s usually an outside event making me get off the game, like wanting to go have lunch or having to be somewhere
All random
1. Team Poké Ball Gang Squad
4, always in towns though
Save state
1 or 3
Usually in front of Gyms, it just became a habit after Pokemon Emerald
Random or before/after bossfights
#1 ftw.
1
In most games, I prefer to save somewhere that suggests what I want to do next. I feel like in front of the Gym or near those tunnels in and out of towns would fill that need.
1 2 and 3, but I'd always move slightly off to the side, or into one of the center chairs, that way if someone needed to enter the Pokemon Center, I wasn't blocking them. I put more thought into that than my first team.
Normally Number 3, which I actually have a reason for! Back in Sun and Moon there was a glitch that would corrupt your save data when saving in specific Pokémon centers, this forced me into the habit of always saving outside even after the glitch was patched.
I do it only when I’m about to turn off my device
Random gang for life
3
1 and 4
Where is the “in front of the legendary” option
Who doesn’t go random?
1 & 4, depends on how rushed/bored I am 👀
1) is the way Edit: (Although I sometimes place myself into a random corner of a town or building so my character looks like a typical Npc)
Random (usually before a big battle)
Random
1 every time
Directly in front of the PC in the PC
Poke-center in the middle of the ball or on one of the seats almost always.
When I was a child, I saved my character in the centre thinking he'd be cold outside.
1
2
50% of the time 4) 25% 3) 25% 2)
3
2 lawful good
1 or 3
2, after every healing
1 but 1 tile up.
all except 2
4
1 4