Poll: Massive Weapons Stockpile

[Infinatex]

Now I'm not usually one for saving things. I find it very hard to hang onto something when there is a perfectly good use for it. At Easter as a kid, I would always eat all of my eggs as quickly as possible, whereas my sister would save hers for weeks and weeks, taunting my egglessness. This behaviour has continued on into more 'grown up' life, and my bank account definitely shows this with it constant lack of funds.

It's strange then, that in pretty much every game I play, I have a tendency to stockpile my weapons like a paranoid conspiracy nut hiding in his basement, wearing foil as a hat. I remember by the end of Fallout 3 I had a weapons stash to rival the participating nations of the cold war (I think I had about 40 unused Mini Nukes, and had only fired that thing once!) and realised that I could have probably made the game a hell of a lot easier (and fun) had I actually used it all. I mean it's not like there's a bonus at the end for every bullet in you inventory.

So my question is, do you horde your munitions, eyeing off strangers who look at you funny or do you fire off every possible round, at every given opportunity?

Oh yeah, 1000 posts!

 

[jpoon]

Yeah, I had a huge stockpile in Fallout 3, but then again I had a huge stockpile in Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 also. That game just begs for a large stockpile, neatly organized and bloody dangerous!

Love those kinda games!

 

[Commissar Sae]

Oh yeah, I horde ammo like some sort of highly militaristic magpie in most games. I always tell myself that I'll run into a threat that requires more firepower, but always end up killing everything with a basic gun or a melee weapon to conserve ammo. The only games I really open up in are ones where I have effectively unlimited ammo since I can pick more up fairly consistently. But unless I have insane amounts of a particular ammo lying around, a gun tends to go un-used.

 

[LongAndShort]

Depends on the game, but usually yeah, I do. I stockpile everything. Occasionally I'll come to a particularly challenging boss fight or something and burn through that stockpile, but I'll just start collecting again.

 

[HT_Black]

Lately, whenever I play Alien Swarm, I'm usually the only one who has a spare clip or two by the end of the game-- even when I play special weapons.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Hell yes, in reality and in games.

My weapon stockpile in Oblivion is enough to kill someone with it's weight alone, and it takes me a solid minute to scroll past my keys.

But I'll never run out of arrows...

 

[Klagermeister]

Well, if you count Oblivion, yes, I stockpile weapons.

I had over 100 full sets of Daedric armor in my house (not even in cupboards, just a big jumbled pile).
I also had hundreds of each Daedric weapon, at least 4 dozen sets of glass armor, and enough arrows to kill everyone in the game at least 10 times over.
All the non-daedric weapons I stockpiled in an empty room upstairs, all neatly arranged.
Not only that, I even kept items I couldn't use! Axes, warhammers, and the lot...

Come to think of it, had I sold it all, I'd easily have over 20mil coins in that game...

EDIT: Damn, ninja'd!

 

[Betancore]

I definitely horde ammo - I get pretty bad sometimes, I'm literally unwilling to fire sometimes just in case I miss. I'm pretty much the opposite - every shot fired that doesn't actually hit a target is a shot wasted. I have to tell myself that it's just a game and it's okay to use the blasted gun sometimes.

 

[Spygon]

I stock pile until the final fight as it always good to wander the battlefield at the end of a game bringing the appocalpse to the final boss stage with every heavy weapon i have picked up.

 

[Postman667]

Same here. Sometimes I wish the developers of Fallout 3 would have given you the option to display your weapons and armor like they did for that Oblivion DLC. You literally have more weapons and armor than you will possibly ever use. Heres hoping FNV will let you do that.

 

[oppp7]

I normally horde my munitions, especially Bioshock. Just used a wrench except for Big Daddies, and that was on the highest difficulty.

 

[Larkin99]

Usually I hoard. Like in Fallout 3, I have 600 rounds of Magnum ammo and about 5000 of 5.56. I also usually go for the weapons that take the least amount of bullets to kill people, like sniper rifles. But I do also very much enjoy "going loud" and emptying my stockpile from time to time.

 

[Johnnyallstar]

I hoard a bit, but I'm not afraid to use when the situation arises. When I see that I have excess of something, like the mini-nukes, I'll sometimes just burn one off for fun somewhere.

 

[Jasper Jeffs]

In RPG's, I save absolutely everything in case I need it, that goes for those special arrows on Oblivion, as well as mini nukes on Fallout 3. In FPS's though, I don't care. I have that Unreal Tournament mentality where every bit of ammo you have on you when you die is wasted, so use it all or at least as much as possible before your inevitable death. "What if you don't die?" I hear you ask. Fuck you, that's what.

 

[The Procrastinated End]

Yeah, my Fallout 3 experience went a little like this;
Get a bat, kill everyone with it until I get something bigger to hit people with while keeping every weapon I pick up in my house..

 

[Neotericity]

I do this so much it's a problem, I pretty much just used the pistol and gravity gun in HL2

 

[Banana Phone Man]

I am paranoid about saving bullets (and guns if needed) in games. I am a "one shot one kill" kind of guy so if possible I will just take everything out at a long range so just stick a scope on every gun and aim for the head. And of corse kep a minigun with the thousands of bullets as a 'plan b'.

Then again I usually try to play most of my games a stealthy as quiet so killing with weapons if needed, steal everyones guns and run instead.

 

[DanDeFool]

In most games, I horde. I usually rely as much as possible on weapons which have infinite ammo or are less powerful (e.g., blaster, shotgun, super shotgun in Quake II), and only switch to my more powerful weapons when I have a large surplus of ammo or am in danger of being overwhelmed.

I also tend to be more conservative with my finances in real life as well. After my first decently-paying job, I've tried my best to keep at least $10k in my savings in case I need it.

 

[Infinatex]

I am paranoid about saving bullets (and guns if needed) in games. I am a "one shot one kill" kind of guy so if possible I will just take everything out at a long range so just stick a scope on every gun and aim for the head. And of corse kep a minigun with the thousands of bullets as a 'plan b'.

Then again I usually try to play most of my games a stealthy as quiet so killing with weapons if needed, steal everyones guns and run instead.

Yeah this is how I played Fallout (with the Sniper rifle) and Oblivion (as an archer). High stealth points and then critical hit everyone to conserve ammo. Also being able to collect you arrows helped heaps lol

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

In every game, I conserve every bullet, med kit, whatever I can. You never know when you'll turn the corner and find a helicopter, ogre, what-have-you.

I never do, though. I always save my shit in games like Halo or Assassin's Creed and run out of stuff in Half-Life or Dragon Age.