I only ever used to Hoard when it was useful. But than there is this case.
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In-Game Hoarding Addiction
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I have about 30,000 pounds of loot in Fallout 3 at my megaton house. So yeah, if there was a TV show about it, I'd probably be the star XD
It depends on the game for me. If the slots are limited, I'm as conservative as I need to be, but otherwise I do hoard everything in case I need them later. Yahtzee touched on this in his Mercenaries 2 review, I never spend a penny on air-strikes and always use a sniper rifle/light MG combo. Because the shit might hit the fan in the next level, and I need someone to wipe out a few tanks for me.
I always do that. I can't bring myself to use the stuff I have, so I'll never use it. On Dead Island I keep using my weakest weapons until they break to use them up because I wan't to save my bigger ones for later. Of course, when I get to later the better ones are now the obsolete ones and the cycle repeats.
Hehe Yay for Awkward Zombie comics.SonofaJohannes said:
I'm like that too in the case of using items. I MIGHT NEED IT LATER.
As opposed to the whole junk thing, I don't really do that. I'll sell stuff if it literally does nothing.
I tend to have predefined goals for my hoarding.
Such as "I want one of every weapon in the whole game, on 100% condition .. so I'll collect a bunch of these for repairing with" or "this is a rapid firing weapon, so I'm not going to use it until I have enough ammo for it. Say, hmm, 50000 rounds." or "oh hey, teddy bears come in various sizes. I'm going to collect as many as I can find and furnish the house with them."
The last one crashed my Fallout 3 save permanently.
Such as "I want one of every weapon in the whole game, on 100% condition .. so I'll collect a bunch of these for repairing with" or "this is a rapid firing weapon, so I'm not going to use it until I have enough ammo for it. Say, hmm, 50000 rounds." or "oh hey, teddy bears come in various sizes. I'm going to collect as many as I can find and furnish the house with them."
The last one crashed my Fallout 3 save permanently.
Depends on the game, I know when I played LOTR:The Third Age, I hoarded stuff badly. Well, hoarded's probably not the right word, more of a "I never used anything that I didn't absolutely have to use" type thing. In NV I only hoarded unique weapons n such and in Oblivion I usually just hoarded Armor, I had almost every collectable armor piece in the game.
I hoard in Borderlands and Fallout. In borderlands it's usually a weapon I used to use but is now useless because the enemies are too strong and I'm adamant that it's still awesome. In Fallout I'll be like "hey a shitty pool cue I don't have one of these I'll take it"
I guess I might qualify. Mostly I just hoard cosmetic stuff and what I think is cool. One man's junk is another's treasure and all that.
I tend to hord teddy bears in New Vegas, but that's because I find it tragic that they don't have a home. So I put them in my Novac home.
But what I honest-to-god hoard is powerful weapons, awesome armour and anything that can be sold for cash later on.
By the end of New Vegas I had enough weapons, ammo and stimpacks to survive ten Battles at Hoover Dam and STILL have enough left-overs to survive five more.
BUT I STILL HAD THE BIGGEST ***** OF A TIME KILLING one DEATHCLAW WITH ALL THAT SHIT IN LESS THAN TWO MINUTES.
But what I honest-to-god hoard is powerful weapons, awesome armour and anything that can be sold for cash later on.
By the end of New Vegas I had enough weapons, ammo and stimpacks to survive ten Battles at Hoover Dam and STILL have enough left-overs to survive five more.
BUT I STILL HAD THE BIGGEST ***** OF A TIME KILLING one DEATHCLAW WITH ALL THAT SHIT IN LESS THAN TWO MINUTES.
I?ll confess that I show several of these symptoms. And yeah I?m gonna talk about Fallout 3 (sur-fuckin?-prise.)
I feel like I?m doing something wrong if I don?t collect everything from a particular battle. I need to grab every suit of Talon Company armour, every piece of raider armour and then sell it. Yeah I can sell the armour. And I can sell the crap as well. Maybe I have ?scavenger? disorder or something as I devoted large parts of the game to ?hauls? (as I called them) where I?d go back and forth between an area collecting all the useless crap (bent cans, milk bottles, tire irons, burnt books, etc) and then just sell them. And then I?d do nothing with all the caps! And pre-war money literally covers the floor in whatever house I?m in at the time.
But I can?t get rid of the weapons. There?s a small desk next to my bed in the Megaton house which, if you could go into it, would essentially be that scene from The Matrix where Trinity and Neo load up. I think to myself ?I can use the parts later when the gun I?m using wears down? or ?if I get enough of them I can sell them safely? even though I never do. This is legit if we?re talking about sniper rifles or those sexy scoped magnums but hoarding about 100 hunting rifles and pistols can?t be defended. Leaving a weapons behind after a fight is just... wrong! I admit that the desk next to it was where I kept many clothing items but it wasn?t as bad as the weapons. How many bloody missile launchers does one man need when he never takes them with him on his ?hauls? because it might take up to much space and you might find another blood missile launcher that you?ll still never use!
A few folk have been talking about the ?I might need it later? syndrome. As someone else pointed out, Yahtzee spoke about this in his Mercenaries 2 review and I for one empathize with it. For my first two play-throughs in fallout 3 I never used a mini-nuke! Not even once to try it! Eventually on my third play-through I went a bit mad, went to DC, and used all 30+ of my bombs killing all the super mutants. They?d respawn before I needed to back there for mission I forgot or something, but it felt great!
I made a mod to address some of my problems. Items yield less than half the price when sold and cost more than twice as much to buy thus making my lengthy grinds more productive, and I?d wind up forcing myself to buy excessive amounts of ammo since ammo can?t be given a weight (easily) and caps were starting to make me over-encumbered since they now had a weight. I made weapons deteriorate faster as well and giving weight to other weightless items (drugs/meds etc) to force myself to make a decision of what to keep and what to leave and what to ?stash? to come back for later.
I feel like I?m doing something wrong if I don?t collect everything from a particular battle. I need to grab every suit of Talon Company armour, every piece of raider armour and then sell it. Yeah I can sell the armour. And I can sell the crap as well. Maybe I have ?scavenger? disorder or something as I devoted large parts of the game to ?hauls? (as I called them) where I?d go back and forth between an area collecting all the useless crap (bent cans, milk bottles, tire irons, burnt books, etc) and then just sell them. And then I?d do nothing with all the caps! And pre-war money literally covers the floor in whatever house I?m in at the time.
But I can?t get rid of the weapons. There?s a small desk next to my bed in the Megaton house which, if you could go into it, would essentially be that scene from The Matrix where Trinity and Neo load up. I think to myself ?I can use the parts later when the gun I?m using wears down? or ?if I get enough of them I can sell them safely? even though I never do. This is legit if we?re talking about sniper rifles or those sexy scoped magnums but hoarding about 100 hunting rifles and pistols can?t be defended. Leaving a weapons behind after a fight is just... wrong! I admit that the desk next to it was where I kept many clothing items but it wasn?t as bad as the weapons. How many bloody missile launchers does one man need when he never takes them with him on his ?hauls? because it might take up to much space and you might find another blood missile launcher that you?ll still never use!
A few folk have been talking about the ?I might need it later? syndrome. As someone else pointed out, Yahtzee spoke about this in his Mercenaries 2 review and I for one empathize with it. For my first two play-throughs in fallout 3 I never used a mini-nuke! Not even once to try it! Eventually on my third play-through I went a bit mad, went to DC, and used all 30+ of my bombs killing all the super mutants. They?d respawn before I needed to back there for mission I forgot or something, but it felt great!
I made a mod to address some of my problems. Items yield less than half the price when sold and cost more than twice as much to buy thus making my lengthy grinds more productive, and I?d wind up forcing myself to buy excessive amounts of ammo since ammo can?t be given a weight (easily) and caps were starting to make me over-encumbered since they now had a weight. I made weapons deteriorate faster as well and giving weight to other weightless items (drugs/meds etc) to force myself to make a decision of what to keep and what to leave and what to ?stash? to come back for later.
This, but I tended to collect anything that was completely useless. I had teddybears, toy cars, trucks, basketballs, baseballs. I even have a pile of all the meat I've collected in the game. This includes the body parts found in the gorebags. Half of my megaton mouse is literally mutilated body parts.Fatscalyman said:
In Oblivion I would collect ink bottles and sack cloth clothes i probably have enough of both to earn 4000 gold i have three houses completely full of them.
In Mass Effect 1 I'd regularly hit the inventory limit. Not due to intentionally hoarding, just forgetting to sell crap.
Off topic: I personally consider ME1 superior to ME2.
Off topic: I personally consider ME1 superior to ME2.
I always end up with a shit ton of scrolls, magic weapons, soul gems, and potions in Elder Scrolls games, but never use them. I save them for tough battles which never happen or I'm too busy panicking to remember them. Or I know the next battle will be just as tough so I just fight, run away, and come back later (Morrowind only for obvious reasons).
I also had a big collection of situational weapons in KOTOR (ion blasters etc) I never used because... wait, no, that's because I barely ever used anyone who didn't have a lightsaber after I got multiple Jedi. I guess I would've used them more often if they had any use. I also had a bunch of potions and crap in NWN2 that I only used in boss fights because I could just rest after everything. I also didn't use a lot of buffs except pre-boss fight because it was such a pain stacking them up... So yeah, I'm just lazy when it comes to conserving resources because I ignore them outright.
I also had a big collection of situational weapons in KOTOR (ion blasters etc) I never used because... wait, no, that's because I barely ever used anyone who didn't have a lightsaber after I got multiple Jedi. I guess I would've used them more often if they had any use. I also had a bunch of potions and crap in NWN2 that I only used in boss fights because I could just rest after everything. I also didn't use a lot of buffs except pre-boss fight because it was such a pain stacking them up... So yeah, I'm just lazy when it comes to conserving resources because I ignore them outright.
In most games I'm very conservative with good weapons, saving my best for "when I really need it", but I almost never "really need it" - but this is a hold-over from the games of my youth: in modern games you're never short of ammo or powerful weapons, yet I still play this way.
In Oblivion I was a hoarder, particularly of unique items even if they were useless/only slightly different to others. I owned all the properties I could (inc. DLC) and they were absolutely filled with crap. My rational was: well something might happen to my PC and he might have to limp back to one of his supply houses to retool. Insane as this can't happen in game.* I expect it will start again with Skyrim: oddly enough I was nowhere near as bad in the Fallout games - but probably still pretty crazy compared to how most gamers play.
* I would've liked it if you had to randomly defend your home/castle/tower/dungeon from the occasional thief/murderer/bandits/raiders.
In Oblivion I was a hoarder, particularly of unique items even if they were useless/only slightly different to others. I owned all the properties I could (inc. DLC) and they were absolutely filled with crap. My rational was: well something might happen to my PC and he might have to limp back to one of his supply houses to retool. Insane as this can't happen in game.* I expect it will start again with Skyrim: oddly enough I was nowhere near as bad in the Fallout games - but probably still pretty crazy compared to how most gamers play.
* I would've liked it if you had to randomly defend your home/castle/tower/dungeon from the occasional thief/murderer/bandits/raiders.
I'm guilty of this. My house in Skingrad on Oblivion is decorated with every single unique item imaginable to an almost meticulous degree and my chest in the Imperial City is so full of items that it causes the game to crash when i try to open it.
I can't bear to throw a single unique item away, regardless of the game. I always have one of everything. The prime examples of this being Oblivion and the Fallout games, but Fallout is worse as the repair mechanic encourages hoarding. I'm always taking one or two extra guns of the same type (more if they're hard to come by) in case i "might need to repair the one i'm using", and even then i could be staring down the face of a Deathclaw and still wouldn't use the super powerful unique weapon because i'd be convinced that "i might need it later and i won't be able to find ammo for it / repair it". I also take one of everything in Fallout; armour, weapons, even miscellaneous stuff. I even go out of my way to do quests that provide unique items for the sole purpose of collecting it and stashing it in my hideout (or inventory if it's weightless).
I refuse to use any sort of healing items or consumables on jRPG / western RPG games because i have this perpetual fear of "running out". It also feels extremely wasteful. If i have say 5 full restore potions worth 10,000 gold, i'm never going to use them because to me it's a waste to simply blow away all that cash on something that's a temporary effect. I'll instead hold onto them and i could be on my last legs in critical health and i STILL wouldn't use them. The only game to force me to use my full restores is Persona 3, and that's because the final boss literally takes 45 minutes, so if you die halfway through you've got a long slog ahead of you again.
I also hoard in WoW. My bank is full of equipment and items that are virtually useless given my level, but that i think are either iconic or simply look good. For example, i always do the quest in Westfall that gives you the Kobold Candle, and i always make a point of stashing it in my bank. Because hey, you finally took it. It's a statement. It's iconic. You've just gotta have it. (Though regarding good looking gear and other novelty items and unique junk filling up my bank, i am a roleplayer and do play on an RP server so most of it is there for roleplay purposes, with the exception of unique items like the aforementioned Kobold Candle)
I tried to remedy this by trying out the duplication glitch, to see how it would affect my constant obsession with hoarding good gear by cloning the best gear i could find. It didn't change anything. I would clone say 8 really good baseball bats, then have one that i would "use", and when it started to get worn down i wouldn't just wait until it broke and move on to the next one. I would find somewhere safe to discard it, then clone one of the other many baseball bats, pick that up and use it. So imagine i have 8 really good cloned baseball bats. I use 1 until it's nearly broken, so i have 7 left. I don't use one from the other 7, i instead clone one of the 7 to make 8 again and use cloned weapon. I still hoarded, i just made sure to always keep as many cloned powerful weapons as possible instead of using them and cloning when i ran out.
I can't bear to throw a single unique item away, regardless of the game. I always have one of everything. The prime examples of this being Oblivion and the Fallout games, but Fallout is worse as the repair mechanic encourages hoarding. I'm always taking one or two extra guns of the same type (more if they're hard to come by) in case i "might need to repair the one i'm using", and even then i could be staring down the face of a Deathclaw and still wouldn't use the super powerful unique weapon because i'd be convinced that "i might need it later and i won't be able to find ammo for it / repair it". I also take one of everything in Fallout; armour, weapons, even miscellaneous stuff. I even go out of my way to do quests that provide unique items for the sole purpose of collecting it and stashing it in my hideout (or inventory if it's weightless).
I refuse to use any sort of healing items or consumables on jRPG / western RPG games because i have this perpetual fear of "running out". It also feels extremely wasteful. If i have say 5 full restore potions worth 10,000 gold, i'm never going to use them because to me it's a waste to simply blow away all that cash on something that's a temporary effect. I'll instead hold onto them and i could be on my last legs in critical health and i STILL wouldn't use them. The only game to force me to use my full restores is Persona 3, and that's because the final boss literally takes 45 minutes, so if you die halfway through you've got a long slog ahead of you again.
I also hoard in WoW. My bank is full of equipment and items that are virtually useless given my level, but that i think are either iconic or simply look good. For example, i always do the quest in Westfall that gives you the Kobold Candle, and i always make a point of stashing it in my bank. Because hey, you finally took it. It's a statement. It's iconic. You've just gotta have it. (Though regarding good looking gear and other novelty items and unique junk filling up my bank, i am a roleplayer and do play on an RP server so most of it is there for roleplay purposes, with the exception of unique items like the aforementioned Kobold Candle)
I did this too on Dead Island. Initially i'd just use weak junk weapons like a boat paddle and save the rare knife with good stats, never use it, then be so high a level that it's essentially useless and i'm forced to throw it away for another rare knife that i'll also never use because i'll be waiting for "that one moment where i'll need it."ultimateownage said:
I tried to remedy this by trying out the duplication glitch, to see how it would affect my constant obsession with hoarding good gear by cloning the best gear i could find. It didn't change anything. I would clone say 8 really good baseball bats, then have one that i would "use", and when it started to get worn down i wouldn't just wait until it broke and move on to the next one. I would find somewhere safe to discard it, then clone one of the other many baseball bats, pick that up and use it. So imagine i have 8 really good cloned baseball bats. I use 1 until it's nearly broken, so i have 7 left. I don't use one from the other 7, i instead clone one of the 7 to make 8 again and use cloned weapon. I still hoarded, i just made sure to always keep as many cloned powerful weapons as possible instead of using them and cloning when i ran out.