In-Game Hoarding Addiction

[SteewpidZombie]

Has anyone ever met someone who could be classified as a "In-Game Hoarder"? Now if you don't know what that means, let me explain it.

Basically a In-Game Hoarder is someone who plays a videogame and spends absurd amounts of time collecting useless items to completely fill up their inventory. Often these Hoarders will use the excuses "These are useful later in the game!" (Which they never actually use), or "Well I'm just cleaning up the game world, it's so cluttered/messy with all this junk lying around" (Which is a excuse for picking up everything from empty tin cans, or items with literally zero value), and my favorite excuse "It has no weight on my character, and it's value is zero, so there is no point in getting rid of it" (A direct translation of "I wanna hold onto this junk").

Now I hope it's understood that some people will collect some junk in games because it is neat little trinkets, or reminders about awesome adventures, but when I call someone a hoarder of useless items...I literally mean that they are picking up "EVERYTHING" that they possibly can and trying to store it all in their inventory or ect.

The person I personally know who is a Hoarder, plays ALOT of Fallout: New Vegas. This person whom I will refer to as "Tim", he has spent quite abit of time playing and will often spend up to 20-30 minutes in a store while trying to figure out which items he is willing to sell, and what he won't let go. Tim tends to sell maybe 1 or 2 weapons or sets of armor if he has multiples of them, yet he has a inventory CLUTTERED with things like 7 teddy bears, 38 burnt or wrecked books, empty bottles, and items that have 0 value in the game itself, stores or in use for anything else (aside from just existing uselessly). Now Tim won't admit that he is hoarding the items, he will often use excuses such as the fact that he will NEED or USE the items later (which he never does), or he will say things like "Well I will use some of the useless stuff to decorate my player home (which he never does, nor ever visits), or Tim will even argue that simply because the item has no weight/value that it can't hurt to have it tucked away in his inventory.

So if you know anyone like this, post a comment or leave a story. Or if ya just have an opinion on the matter then leave a comment.

 

[Fatscalyman]

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.

In Minecraft I store away all my flowers and saplings, for no apparent reason other than I'm OCD.

 

[Xeros]

I wouldn't say hoarder, but I am a pack rat. My inventory in almost every game I play is filled to the brim with an absurd amount of stuff no human being could conceivably be carrying at one time. Yes I do need my silenced pistol, a revolver, a shotgun, a carbine, a machine gun, a minigun, a rocket launcher, a grenade launcher, a sniper rifle, a rail gun, 5 of each type of grenade and mine, ammo for every one of those weapons, antidotes for illnesses I never contract, an insane number of medpacks, practically I library worth of reading material, a full refrigerator worth of food, a food sanitizer to keep it all somewhat fresh, and a pallet of bottled water.

However, I do recall holding onto the dino toys which had no weight, or value because usually something like that having no weight means it'll be important later, but I dropped 'em all as soon as I found out they weren't for anything.

 

[james0192]

Specific things I horde. whenever i play fallout 3 I pick up every bottle of Nuka Cola I see and stick them in a filing cabinet in my megaton house. I don't use them - just want to see how many I can collect.
I also tend to collect armour and weapons. Like one of each armour item and one of each weapon. And of course every unique weapon.
In oblivion I do something similar. If a weapon or item is Enchanted I will ALWAYS keep it (but no on me, back at a house). No matter how shit the enchantment is I will keep it.

 

[C117]

Well, I'm not that extreme, but I do have a problem with inventory management. I always truck around a ridiculous amount of items of varying level of usefulness, convincing myself to keep them with the legendary phrase that goes "but I might need it later".

For example, in every Deus Ex game I've played so far (count them, 2) I've tried to be a sneaky hacker, maybe armed with a silent rifle or stunning weapon. And yet I continue to carry something like 5 other weapons, including but not limited to, a shotgun, a standard pistol, a heavy rifle, some frag grenades and a crowbar.

Granted, this strategy can work in my favor from time to time. I doubt I would have made it all the may through Deus Ex: Human Revolution without occasionally using some slightly more lethal firepower (I tell you, that tranquilizer rifle do jack shit towards those pesky bosses).

 

[lolreaper]

yes i have
in fallout new vegas i have just over 500 pre war money piled ontop of my bed in the presidental suite in the lucky 38

 

[SonofaJohannes]

Spoiler: This is me in every game ever.

 

[NotSoLoneWanderer]

In fallout New Vegas I collect only things that I know are useful food and all weapons, armour, and clothing that I get fixed to 100% and keep in the lucky 38. When I finish exploring the wasteland I get drop everything where it belongs (Armor, Clothing, Guns, Energy weapons, Explosives, Melee weapons, Unarmed weapons, Medicine, Food, Crafting items, Selling items, and unique weapons each having there own respective containers. About the same in Fallout 3.

 

[revolutionaification]

I hoard actively useful or valuable items like there's no tomorrow, but in a handful of games have specific items I hoard just for the sake of it. In Oblivion, if I kill any animal (wolf, deer, boar etc.) I absolutely have to take the pelt/meat. And in Fallout 3/New Vegas, I've picked up my father's habit of collecting every teddy bear I come across and leaving them on my bed. It's...comforting.

 

[Pat8u]

Im not a in game horder,But hannah from the yogcast is, seriously those FO:NV vids were painful to watch.

 

[Lerasai]

In Fallout 3 and New Vegas I cannot leave a single teddy bear to fend for itself in the Wasteland. I collect them until I get over-encumbered, then go to a room of my player home where I dump them all into a big pile. It's like a ball pit except with teddy bears.

 

[Erana]

What you describe does kinda sound like the mentality of hoarders in reality, and worries me a bit.

Have you tried showing the terminal spawn item commands to Tim? It'd be interesting to see his response to being able to have any item whenever he asked, making item hoarding unnessary.

 

[SundayRoast]

Play a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. mod with a carry limit of 30 kg, your in-game hoarding will be cured.

 

[JesterRaiin]

No uniqueness here - Fallouts.

For example, Fallout 3 : Lev 30, all important stats/skills maxed out, able to take Deathclaw down with one-two shots from weakest gun in my arsenal, more caps i am willing to spend... And i'm still clicking that damned "TAKE ALL" button.
I don't have any excuses other than... naaaah. I don't have ANY excuses.

 

[dickywebster]

Fallout 3, my house is full of weapons and weapons to be used for repairs, ammo, stuff to make weapons from and the stuff like scrap metal that u get loads of cash and xp from certain people for.
Otherwise unless u count stealing eveything that isnt nailed down and flogging it to the nearest trader, i dont always horde in fallout =P

 

[Jedamethis]

"Does it way anything? No? Holy shit I'll take all of them!"
The only time I ever hoard things is when it doesn't inconvenience me in any way. So I always have a huge amount of weightless stuff in Fallout.

 

[Knusper]

In Oblivion, my massive orc warrior carried bouquets of flowers and bits of crumpled up paper just for some odd characterization. I hoarded health potions in that game, too. Although they were fairly unnecessary when between fights you can repair armour and use health spells so I ended up with enough potions to use up fifty pounds (or kilos or whatever)

 

[LITE992]

I usually never use the best abilities with either rare ammo or a long cooldown because I always think I'll use it later. I usually end up finishing a level never using these abilities.