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)
ultimateownage said:
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.
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."
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 just needn't have saved 50 or so... heh heh
