Memes

But I might need 99 of every potion for the last boss!

So I decided while playing Fallout 4 (around the time it came out) that I was going to try to break this habit, because it meant I never got to use any of the cool shit.

I made this decision while retaking the castle, fighting the queen crab thing. I used all the mini nukes I had on it.

Those who have played the game knows what happens next... after killing the queen, the king emerges. Way bigger, way harder to kill.

I've been a hardcore no exceptions hoarder ever since

Final boss fights are for experimentation. "Well, I don't think I'll need these five thousand items, what does this do?"

Anybody who's ever played a classic Resident Evil-style game knows the feeling of getting to the final monster with all the hoarded ammo for your ultimate weapon (magnum/hunting rifle/flare gun/whatever)... Only for the monster to die in like at most a single-stack of shots because it turns out that the "ultimate lifeform" is weaker than a moderately sized car -_-

Heck, forget rare items, I even hoard stuff thst isn't rare. The only thing I use most of the time are things that cure ailments, healkng stuff and revive pots when needed.

But I also have the tendency to overlvel so I don't need much else. Why use strategy when raw firepower does the job?

In my first run of Pokemon Ruby, I used a Master Ball on Groudon. I was forced to be creative in catching Rayquaza (Pokeball) and Latios (Net Ball)

This is actually why I'm so simultaneously good and bad at Resident Evil. Because I am too scared to waste a single bullet, so much so that I taught myself how to use the knife. Becoming convinced that killing every enemy with guns that blocks an important hallway is not feasible.

Even though I've seen Let's Plays where that is absolutely the case and there are no ammo shortages, about a million times.

I'm good because I can actually get a good ways through the game while doing this, I suck, because I will spend most of the game in caution because I did this. And we'll waste a lot of time as I will need to leave a room and reenter if the zombie gets too close without falling

Me after finishing every RPG I've ever played ever: "Well I guess I could have used all those really powerful items I've been saving the entire game in that last fight if I had known it was the last fight... " If you tell me an item is super powerful and in extremely limited quantity, I will essentially never use it before the game is over out of fear of needing it later.

LOL I'm doing this right now in BG3. I think Shadowheart is trucking around with about 400 potions of every thing conceivable. And Gale has a bag of a thousand scrolls.

I never use X-Cell or Daytripper in fallout 4.

This is why I like roguelike mechanics. Permadeath encourages me not to hoard and the hunger clock encourages me not to grind.

I'm getting to the battle frontier with 30 revives I have not and will not use

Yea

It took me close to 100 hours of Elden Ring to find out that the single, one-time-use buff item I got for someone hugging me very early game was reducing my max HP just by being in my inventory. I thought that was a neat way to incentivize using said item. If I had known it was doing that without having to have a Wiki tell me anyway. Screw you too Elden Ring!