Poll: Rpg and open world hoarding?

[bladax]

Are you like myself? As Shamus Young put it, a hoarder? Are you one of those people that in about any game, want to pick up literally EVERYTHING you see? And eve if not do you have a certain item that you just MUST collect? Like me, on fallout 3 I collect everything I see, even the pencils, then dump them. But on certain games I collect like 1 certain item. Such as In Deus Ex I collect nothing but cigarettes or 40's depending on what I want during the playthrough.

 

[Jedoro]

I don't even know why, but I just enjoy hoarding the little things. Fallout 3, I collected Metro Tickets, among other things.

 

[Disaster Button]

Too many times I have gotten to the end of a game with an invetory packed full of health/mana potions, spare armour, weapons and miscellaneous books. Nearly all of these items would have helped me get past a boss that I got stuck on for awhile but I can't help but preserve the order of my inventory.

 

[Lineoutt]

Yeh, its kinda inconvenient tho

 

[Carlston]

I'll sell anything worth selling...

Least till I have a nice bank roll then I don't horde so much.

 

[TerranReaper]

I tend to pick up everything, and anything I can't use will be sold.

 

[Walkchalk]

God, I tend to keep everything I find. Key to a chest that I opened and cant possibly have further use for? Keep it. Hell, in Oblivion I was picking up all the bones off the floor on the off chance I decided to use them. I had to buy a house rather early on to store all the bones I was finding. Talk about skeletons in your closet.

I also seam to hoard mana/health potions. I always tell myself "Dont use that potion, you may need it later." So i tough the battle out without the potion, then by endgame I have tons and tons.

 

[Cody211282]

Too many times I have gotten to the end of a game with an invetory packed full of health/mana potions, spare armour, weapons and miscellaneous books. Nearly all of these items would have helped me get past a boss that I got stuck on for awhile but I can't help but preserve the order of my inventory.

This happens all the time with me, not because I like the order, but because i might need the items later. Hell if the games tells me there are only so many of X item and you can't but it, I almost never use it, I would rather restart then needing to use it later.

 

[blaqknoise]

If its worth money then I pick it up and sell it. so technically yes, I guess so.

 

[thatonekid]

I sell everything and anything to make as much money as possible and suck every last penny from all the vendors. Which usually I don't end up using because I go by the rule "Whatever the shops are selling is most likely vastly inferior to what you will find on your quest". Not to ention the 5 or 6 different weapons and 3 different armour types I was carrying around in Oblivion...so yeah...

 

[-Samurai-]

I usually take 1 of each useful item(weapons, armor, etc.), then put it in a drawer/cabinet according to its purpose. Weapons in one, armor in another, ammo in another.

I have a friend that collected skulls in Oblivion. He dumped them all in a small shack and crashed the PS3. He finally managed to drop them all, and it was like he was swimming in skull.

 

[KingArmery]

When I first started playing Fallout 3, I horded EVERYTHING. I stole everything in Metaton that wasn't nailed down, every plate, every fork, every cup. After a while, I just had to start ignoring things that were less important, because it's annoying to only be able to move at a pace of 10 feet an hour when you're overburdened.

It breaks my heart every time I have to leave a hunting rifle behind after I kill a raider, just because I don't have enough room for it on my person.

I had the same experience with Fallout 3, and one day (being bored) I managed to figure out that I had about 200 000 caps worth of stuff. In F:NV it's going to be much more difficult though because in hardcore mode ammo has weight.

 

[Dr.Sean]

Too many times I have gotten to the end of a game with an invetory packed full of health/mana potions, spare armour, weapons and miscellaneous books. Nearly all of these items would have helped me get past a boss that I got stuck on for awhile but I can't help but preserve the order of my inventory.

This happens all the time with me, not because I like the order, but because i might need the items later. Hell if the games tells me there are only so many of X item and you can't but it, I almost never use it, I would rather restart then needing to use it later.

This reminds me of a certain Zero Punctuation where Yahtzee talked about the exact thing you two are talking about. I think it's a form of paranoia.

 

[Weaver]

At the start of games like oblivion and morrowind my character is packed full of useless crap like plates and utensils and other things, just because they sell for 1 gold each and I really want gold.

I'll strip someones house as absolutely bare as it can get.