Favorite Healing Item

[Mnixos]

That one goes way back but I liked the ring system in Sonic 1,2 etc.

Your health bar was also your loot, but even though you could collect any quantity of rings that you wanted, the health bar was binary: you either had coin (and then everything was fine) or you didn't (and you became reaaaally cautious)

 

[Shinsei-J]

Conker's Bad Fur Day, anti-gravity chocolate!

Taste the floatieness!

 

[Full]

First aid spray. I mean.. who could even argue? It's homeopathic, and it's a... spray. All the first aid-yness of a medkit, in the convenience of a spray. I mean, Sheva loved 'em so much, she'd use 'em literally every chance she got. They might even be addictive.

Pretty much this. Makes me wonder why humanity has not made strides to recreate it themselves. It just looks cool, sounds cool, and is always a surprise when you find it lying around.

 

[mjcabooseblu]

For nearly any game that has a finite, non-regenerating health system (and therefore, any game that poses an actual challenge-*COUGH COUGH AUGHOD MY THROAT*)

See, this is something I'm sick of. People often like to regurgitate Yahtzee's opinions, but this one often seems to be very misplaced. Games with regenerating health can be challenging, and to say that this one gameplay aspect removes all challenge is completely inaccurate and entirely ridiculous to claim. Games with static health and games with regenerating health just serve different purposes. Static health belongs in games that either use it to create tension (E.G. Half-Life) or RPG games where part of the game is simply inventory management (E.G. Pokemon.) Regenerating health belongs in games where there is a heavy emphasis on smart use of cover (E.G. Gears of War) and games where the point of the regenerating health is just to have you at your peak for the start of each skirmish, to maintain the flow of gameplay (E.G. Halo.)

Pokemon has static health, and Halo has regenerating health. Are you really going to say that Pokemon is more challenging than Halo?

Oh, and my favorite healing item is Absinthe in SOTD. What, you wanted an on-topic post?

 

[llubtoille]

Finkles Lava Dredger! - www.wowhead.com/item=18803/finkles-lava-dredger

Nah but really, LEMONS all the way.
Half a lemon sliced into chunks into boiled water with a dollop of honey.
always makes me feel better in the winter,
better than a morning coffee when you're at a desk freezing your tootsies off and feeling a cold incoming.

 

[Trig0n]

Green Jester needs food badly!

Always amusing that all you need is a three course steak dinner to heal all the burns, broken bones, and lacerations acquired in gauntlet.

 

[Panorama]

The ultimate in health recharging. Everyone together now. Sha-ta-ta-tEOOOWWWMMMMMEEEOOOOWWWMMMMMEEEOOOOWWWWMMMM!!!!

I always wondered what Gordon was sticking in that hole...

Beat me too it.

 

[KingsGambit_v1legacy]

Ring of Kangaxx from BGII. Amongst the best enchanted rings in the game, and clever players with quick thumbs could wrangle TWO if they were fast enough.

Combined with a Ring of Regeneration, an axe and Korgan, you got lots of dead monsters.

 

[WaReloaded]

The Herbs from the Resident Evil franchise. Green, red and yellow, they're all good. I'll give the First Aid Spray from RE an honourable mention. Also, the Painkillers from Max Payne and the Major Healing Potion from World of Warcraft, too. Those are probably the only healing items that really stuck in my mind.

 

[Karoshi]

Diablo 2 potions. The most satisfying "blob" that I have ever heard in my life.

Apart from that, the conjured food from WoW. Loved being able to create free stuff and stuff my mouth with delicious mana muffins.

 

[natster43]

I agree with the person who said First Aid Sprays. A Spray item that heals all damage and gets rid of poison, with slight regenerative abilities? I'll take it!

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

when you eat a chicken in Tekken 3 arcade mode and the announcer says CHICKEN like it would say Tekken. always made me laugh.

 

[King of Asgaard]

I'm sorry, I can't hear you over my

Ancient Potion.
Basically, this restores and raises your health and stamina limit to maximum.
The downside is its cost, because you have to craft them yourself, and really, if you ever need to use one, chances are you're fucked whatever you do.

captcha: look out! See, even the captcha gets it.

 

[ms_sunlight]

Blood! What can be better, when you're low on health, than to chow down on someone's neck like in Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines.

Spoiler

 

[TheProfessor234]

I always thought it was pretty funny making Solid Snake eat snakes in Snake Eater.

 

[necromanzer52]

I like the cannabis plants in resident evil 4.

And then there's this:

Spoiler

You smash it open, and nanomachines instantly heal you.

 

[snekadid]

The best answer is obviously the hearts in legend of zelda games. Because only eating the hearts of your enemies<fresh, or preserved and stored in jars and tufts of grass> should restore your health!

I don't like most uses for regenerating health, health regen in combat is stupid and no matter how much the gow people want to defend it, all it does is turn cover based games into whack a mole. There is no skill in ducking behind the wall to wait for full health if you did something stupid because all it allows you to do is do something stupid over and over again till you whittle down the enemy.

After combat, sure, it works great in games like GW2 because it allows the battles to be more close to the wire affairs since you can easily heal up between fights and it streamlines the typical MMO format of fighting and then sitting on the ground to heal....
After battle regen works in fps too because it allows the devs to make levels that don't scale down farther in to make up for potential damage you took earlier in the level.

 

[Psycomantis777]

Long Live the Health Drink and F. Aid Spray!!!

 

[OuendanCyrus]

The fruit flavoured Gels from the Tales series.

 

[PANTSONHEADRETARD]

The cooked chickens you can pick up in that weird mode in Tekken 3 that the (sexy sounding) announcer notify's you ate...

[HEADING=2]Mmm, CHICKEN![/HEADING]

Yeah, the Tekken 3 announcer was awesome when you pick up and eat an entire chicken.