In-Game Hoarding Addiction

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Rossmallo

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You should have SEEN my Rosethorn Hall on my X360 save on Oblivion. I collected LOADS of stuff. My basement had dozens of bits of alchemy apparati, the table in the Dining Room had 3-4 baskets full of strawberries, and my desk upstairs was strewn with huge piles of Rings and gold nuggets.

So yes. I hoard :v
 

Chase Yojimbo

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I only ever used to Hoard when it was useful. But than there is this case.

http://www.darklegacycomics.com/97.html
 

MisterDyslexo

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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
 

Randomologist

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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.
 

ultimateownage

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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.
 

AwkwardTurtle

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SonofaJohannes said:
Hehe Yay for Awkward Zombie comics. :D

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.
 

Danceofmasks

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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.
 

JaceArveduin

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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.
 

Total LOLige

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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"
 

Adventurer2626

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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.
 

Durgiun

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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.
 

darkfox85

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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.
 

FernandoV

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I hoard till a point, then sell to everyone who has money. I have fallout in mind because the inventory system basically lends itself to hoarding.
 

Quaidis

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I'm not speaking for every game, but some games you have to hoard. I found out with quite an upset that some items that don't seem important whatsoever in the Monster Hunter series end up being important in bulk for the best weapon upgrades.
 

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Fatscalyman said:
I tend to hoard specific items in Fallout games. In 3, it was baseballs. New Vegas, it was scrap metal, spare electronics, and Nuka Cola.
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.
 

David Huff

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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.
 

Techno Squidgy

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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.
 

Double A

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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.