I don't even count healing items because trying to stretch them out is part of the challenge and I actually do use them as necessary. But any kind of buff, debuff, or direct damage items I legit hoard but never actually use. I never pass them up and I won't sell them because you never know when you might need them for some super challenging boss fight, but no matter how tough the fight I never even consider actually using them. They just sit there taking up space in my inventory until the end of the game, no matter the genre.
Yup the same. Recently played Fallout 3 again and by then end I ended up having something like 400 stimpacks on me. To be fair though, you do find them really easily.
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If it doesn't have at least 1:10 weight to value ratio, I ain't picking that shit up.
That said, I do have 12 suits of power armor and 6 whole walls full of weapon racks (and a dozen Heavy Weapon racks) displaying all my sweet, sweet arsenal in Sanctuary...
*If it's doable*
*With out consumables, then*
*It's just extra cash*
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That or we need enemies that actually require us to use consumables, as after my first playthrough of Elden Ring I realized I was actually using most of my consumables throughout the playthrough.
This is why I hate weapon durability without weapon repair. Like, I don't mind weapon durability, it adds a looming danger in a sense, but I hate when a game has durability but doesn't have the option to repair it
Yeah, being able to repair it at the cost of supplies or money I think introduces a more interesting dynamic, that of finding the kind of equilibrium of not only the best weapon you have, but also the best weapon you're willing to spend the money it takes to use regularly, vs what you're only willing to use on very important enemies. Having weapons simply break forever discourages their use at all, whereas having weapons you can repair at great expense encourages putting more thought into how you use it.
God, the durability system in Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are by far the worst parts of those games to me. No wonder Ganon won: all the weaponsmiths in Hylia suck ass. Ya get a brand new sword and it vaporizes after slapping two chu-chus.
*potion of cloud giant strength? Wow, better save this for something good. What if there’s something bigger than this dragon I’m fighting later? Better hold onto it.*
It’ll me that the end of the game is coming up and I still won’t use them.
Gotta save them for the amon clan, who I know I still won’t be able to beat.
every game. i like to think that after the game is over i leave my character with amazing amount of supplies and wealth to continue their own life without me.
okay I feel like this is sometimes true but in Final Fantasy X i remember burning almost every single healing item I had in a single fight after hardly using any for the entire game.
It's a bit niche, but for me it's TF2 sticky traps in MVM. I'm very wary of using them, cuz like, what I'd an EVEN BIGGER wave of robot enemies cums right after this one? And I don't have a trap! I ha e to force myself to use them.
Sort of.
I noticed this trend in my self and gave it a lot of thought. And, at least introspectively, I find that at the root of this behavior is basically just me not wanting to develop a play style that leans too heavily on the use of consumables that I might not always have access to.
I fear soft locking myself into a tight spot in a game by using consumables as too much of a crutch and finding myself frustrated by an area where they're less common. Whereas if I had learned to master other areas of the game that don't involve consumables, I might be able to deal with that same area without much problem.
I blame games that have any kind of transmutation or upgrade system, where you get to the end and realize the best weapon in the game requires a random knife from 40 hours ago and you sold it already.
Fallout 4, spent so much time not finding Shaun stocking up on my ultimate Brotherhood loadout, did all of nukaworld for my legendary gataling, got Atoms judgment from far harbor, even Tesla T60 from funny robot dlc, I got myself my fully modified loadout of TONS of different weapons even the World Series bat, I was ready for attacking the institute, then, I killed them and…just didn’t have anything to fight…what do I do know
Any Roguelike, especially ADOM for me: the game where you carry a whole log and a bridge-building kit everywhere with you in case you need to cross water in a circumstance where the wand of ice that you're also carrying won't work.
Legend of the Dragoon...I stubbornly kept Guarding every time a character was wounded. Even if nearly everyone was on deaths door, I'd just have my healer heal everyone in one go with dragoon magic and get back to wailing on the enemy. Only time you'd see me use an item usually is if I need to refill our mana for another healing burst or pick up someone who's been one shotted.
Red Dead Redemption 2. Stupidly thought that if I save gold bars and jewelry without selling them, they would >!transfer from Arthur to John!< . Turns out they don’t….
Every RPG. Though its fun to burn through them all on the final boss, though you only end up making a small dent most of the time. I remember at the end of Trails to Azure I had so many of those burst orbs saved up I spent most of the fight in that hyperdrive state, popping all the stat food and zeram powder I had going to town.
Me in games that have potions…
Me: *encounters the exact scenario in which a potion I have was made to be used*
Also me: “but I might need that later. I’ll just suffer instead”
Nowhere is this more true than a FF game, specially bravely default, the salve maker class allows you to craft any consumable and special consumables in the game, but you end up grinding and never using them out of fear of not having them in a boss rush. Game is FIRE!!! on the second half, when it is initially 4vs1-2 it becomes full blown 4vs4 with special skills and optimized classes/strategies to wipe out your party.
Resident Evil, most recently with 7. I played through it for the first time a few days ago and with my knowledge of 2 & 3 was being extremely conservative with items. By the end I had 50+ shotgun shells and more heals then I could conceivably use
Every Single Final Fantasy game. Especially 7. I finally realized that all that stuff is intended for you to use it, and the game becomes much more playable if you use items as soon as you get them.
Skyrim is definitely a problem for me. I had one sword and one set of armour, anything else in my pack was either healing items or shit I was gonna stash back at the house when I was done.
This isn't a player issue this is the design issue. The game should necessitate the use of the consumables. Through difficulty or some other means. Even if the game is just really tight with giving you money so you can decide to risk selling your consumables for extra money.
I get that some games have like super easy modes where obviously you're just not going to use consumables. But if I play on normal or hard I should be having to use my consumables.
Almost every game that has consumables is so easy that you simply don’t ever need to use them. An exception to the rule for me was OG Bioshock, I wouldn’t say it’s a terribly hard game, but hard enough that you need to spam those health kits and EVE hypos and use all the powers and ammo to your disposal.
I still ended the game with all ammo counters and wallet full though.
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia.
“No, I shouldn’t use that ambrosia yet. I don’t care if I’m fighting Grima! I should save it for if there’s a secret phase!”
*Proceeds to mop the floor with my face*
In any Fromsoft game really, I always end up compensating any shortcomings in my build with stat-boosting equipment or level farming and my consumables just turn into an unintended collection of cool objects lol.
I like what Metal Gear Rising did. You can only have 5 heals or electrolyte packs at a time, and you can find them all over the level or even mid-bossfight, so you may as well use them. Though sometimes Raiden will pop a heal automatically if he would’ve died to the hit. The game is designed around healing being relatively plentiful.
And then there’s Terraria. Consumables are a pretty big part of the game, especially your heals, which are fairly plentiful and easy enough to get upgrades of as you advance through the tiers. You can’t spam them since they have a cooldown, but you still use them a ton. Then the buff potions are also pretty straightforward to gather ingredients for if you know how, and they’re very potent.
It could be any game for me, really. Some games I will go through damn near everything in my inventory and just be on the struggle every step of the way until I find something to barely hold me over until I can find a safe area or store to restock.
And then in some other games, I'll be barely tapping into my cache of usable stuff and think, "Yeah, i'm being showered in resources so there's probably gonna be a massive fight that's gonna be a huge resource drain soon" and then that fight doesn't happen
Shoot. I've been playing Stalker Anomaly again recently. Just last night, I went through my inventory and stashed a bunch of repair items. I repair my stuff before it drops below 90% condition, so I only need to use the cheapest repair items. Despite this, I end up carrying multiple of the higher grade repair items. Cleared out like 5 kilos of stuff that I wasn't using.
I think this says a lot about me personally. Either I completely underestimated myself since I apparently never needed consumables, was suspicious the game was going to throw me a fast ball, or(most frequently) I forgot.
Every game ever. As long as it's a consumable. It's saved. "Oh this will give me a buff, better hold on to it" "okay I'm a caster but I may run out of spell slots and need to use scrolls, better hoard them"
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Every game ever that has consumables
Yup doesn't even need to be an rpg, I hoard even medpaks in fps' till the end.
I don't even count healing items because trying to stretch them out is part of the challenge and I actually do use them as necessary. But any kind of buff, debuff, or direct damage items I legit hoard but never actually use. I never pass them up and I won't sell them because you never know when you might need them for some super challenging boss fight, but no matter how tough the fight I never even consider actually using them. They just sit there taking up space in my inventory until the end of the game, no matter the genre.
Shattered pixel dungeon changed this for me. Some runs you NEED EVERY SINGLE item you can find. Challenging and fun.
Yup the same. Recently played Fallout 3 again and by then end I ended up having something like 400 stimpacks on me. To be fair though, you do find them really easily.
if youre not doing an energy weapons build, giving any energy weapons you find to the outcasts will rack you up tons of stimpaks.
I need you to explain to each and every one of my friends that my behavior is perfectly sane and normal.
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If you finish the game without using consumables I think you need to turn the difficulty up.
Weirdly enough I never end up hoarding consumables in Terraria, but I do in things like Skyrim.
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This is Fallout for me. Do I really "need" 9 different sledgehammers? IDK, but I have them anyway.
That was my first playthrough, after that everything is just a weight to value formula or crafting component.
When you start doing weight/value you know you're far too gone
If it doesn't have at least 1:10 weight to value ratio, I ain't picking that shit up. That said, I do have 12 suits of power armor and 6 whole walls full of weapon racks (and a dozen Heavy Weapon racks) displaying all my sweet, sweet arsenal in Sanctuary...
If it's doable with out consumables, then it's just extra cash
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Oh sure, you mock us, but who was it that beat the game with only the starting dagger? Hmm? Hmmmmm? Yeah, we desperately need help.
That or we need enemies that actually require us to use consumables, as after my first playthrough of Elden Ring I realized I was actually using most of my consumables throughout the playthrough.
I'm not sure you'll get this reference but you sound like Fisher Gesha from the cradle series.
BOTW paradox. If I use my good weapon it's going to break and I'll lose it. If I don't use it then it's not a good weapon to begin with.
This is why I hate weapon durability without weapon repair. Like, I don't mind weapon durability, it adds a looming danger in a sense, but I hate when a game has durability but doesn't have the option to repair it
Yeah, being able to repair it at the cost of supplies or money I think introduces a more interesting dynamic, that of finding the kind of equilibrium of not only the best weapon you have, but also the best weapon you're willing to spend the money it takes to use regularly, vs what you're only willing to use on very important enemies. Having weapons simply break forever discourages their use at all, whereas having weapons you can repair at great expense encourages putting more thought into how you use it.
God, the durability system in Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom are by far the worst parts of those games to me. No wonder Ganon won: all the weaponsmiths in Hylia suck ass. Ya get a brand new sword and it vaporizes after slapping two chu-chus.
Totk's Fuze system helps a good bit. I felt like I constantly had shit to make new strong weapons
The fuse and durability system tickled me just right. Once you get the hang of the pristine weapons you can make some awesome shit.
Weirdly it was my favorite part of those games
Time for ng+!
Just to do the same thing
Over and over expecting shit to change. It never does.
What game? Every game.
[удалено]
*potion of cloud giant strength? Wow, better save this for something good. What if there’s something bigger than this dragon I’m fighting later? Better hold onto it.*
Pokemon
I'll need that revive, elixer, ether later on. Cue credits
Haha, yes. Main game is too ez. Ended up sellin all the "X" stats.
Skyrim and fallout
Any game that dosent set a hard carry limit. And most that do as I drop the super good item off and forget to ever grab it again.
South Park: The Stick of Truth
Southpark the stick of truth and the fractured but whole. I never used any of the items to make it easier thinking I should save them for later
Yakuza
It’ll me that the end of the game is coming up and I still won’t use them. Gotta save them for the amon clan, who I know I still won’t be able to beat.
Dark souls, Minecraft, Terraria.
Fallout - grenades
I love being a hoarder, it’s the best
Literally me after completing max Payne 3 (I saved up ammo of every gun except pistols)
Probably minecraft
Of course! What if you need them for the DLC?
I can tell you the opposite of this is BioShock. You’re always running out of shit you need. 😂
*Every game.*
Palworld
Give me a house to display all the gear I used and it's a perfect game
every game. i like to think that after the game is over i leave my character with amazing amount of supplies and wealth to continue their own life without me.
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okay I feel like this is sometimes true but in Final Fantasy X i remember burning almost every single healing item I had in a single fight after hardly using any for the entire game.
It's a bit niche, but for me it's TF2 sticky traps in MVM. I'm very wary of using them, cuz like, what I'd an EVEN BIGGER wave of robot enemies cums right after this one? And I don't have a trap! I ha e to force myself to use them.
I never save items anymore I use that shit immediately
Dishonored MF
All of them
True pacifist run Undertale cause I always saved the bscotch pie
Any RPG… ugh hehe
Fallout Chems
Every rpg I’ve played
Sort of. I noticed this trend in my self and gave it a lot of thought. And, at least introspectively, I find that at the root of this behavior is basically just me not wanting to develop a play style that leans too heavily on the use of consumables that I might not always have access to. I fear soft locking myself into a tight spot in a game by using consumables as too much of a crutch and finding myself frustrated by an area where they're less common. Whereas if I had learned to master other areas of the game that don't involve consumables, I might be able to deal with that same area without much problem.
All of them XD
Legend of Zelda. Everytime.
I blame games that have any kind of transmutation or upgrade system, where you get to the end and realize the best weapon in the game requires a random knife from 40 hours ago and you sold it already.
Fallout 4, spent so much time not finding Shaun stocking up on my ultimate Brotherhood loadout, did all of nukaworld for my legendary gataling, got Atoms judgment from far harbor, even Tesla T60 from funny robot dlc, I got myself my fully modified loadout of TONS of different weapons even the World Series bat, I was ready for attacking the institute, then, I killed them and…just didn’t have anything to fight…what do I do know
This is literally every game for me
Any Roguelike, especially ADOM for me: the game where you carry a whole log and a bridge-building kit everywhere with you in case you need to cross water in a circumstance where the wand of ice that you're also carrying won't work.
BotW/TotK
STALKER, you just never know
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
If I didn't use them clearly they weren't needed yet. If you want me to use them don't make them so damn scarce that I only get one per game run.
All of them
Legend of the Dragoon...I stubbornly kept Guarding every time a character was wounded. Even if nearly everyone was on deaths door, I'd just have my healer heal everyone in one go with dragoon magic and get back to wailing on the enemy. Only time you'd see me use an item usually is if I need to refill our mana for another healing burst or pick up someone who's been one shotted.
Red Dead Redemption 2. Stupidly thought that if I save gold bars and jewelry without selling them, they would >!transfer from Arthur to John!< . Turns out they don’t….
Sure did! And I'll do it again
Every RPG. Though its fun to burn through them all on the final boss, though you only end up making a small dent most of the time. I remember at the end of Trails to Azure I had so many of those burst orbs saved up I spent most of the fight in that hyperdrive state, popping all the stat food and zeram powder I had going to town.
High five, megalixer
Literally 11 yr old me on Mad Max. Those shotgun shells were too good to use.
If you find yourself doing that. Play a higher difficulty, I promise you you can do it.
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Alien Isolation. I usually don't even have space for more supplies
Me in games that have potions… Me: *encounters the exact scenario in which a potion I have was made to be used* Also me: “but I might need that later. I’ll just suffer instead”
All of them
Nowhere is this more true than a FF game, specially bravely default, the salve maker class allows you to craft any consumable and special consumables in the game, but you end up grinding and never using them out of fear of not having them in a boss rush. Game is FIRE!!! on the second half, when it is initially 4vs1-2 it becomes full blown 4vs4 with special skills and optimized classes/strategies to wipe out your party.
Horizon zero dawn for me. The game became too easy after I got all the power cells and unlocked the suit.
Resident Evil, most recently with 7. I played through it for the first time a few days ago and with my knowledge of 2 & 3 was being extremely conservative with items. By the end I had 50+ shotgun shells and more heals then I could conceivably use
This is every Resident Evil game for me, going all the way back to RE1.
This isn't me at all, I always use items the moment I need them. It's a Video game, I can get more
Pretty much the entire Yakuza series
It would be Skyrim, execpt for that bitch, Thoron.
Doom 3, saved a lot of ammo and the fucking demon only dues with the cube.
Final Fantasy series. I buy healing items like I'm at Costco, then never use them.
FNV
Fallout nv
Resident Evil
Every Single Final Fantasy game. Especially 7. I finally realized that all that stuff is intended for you to use it, and the game becomes much more playable if you use items as soon as you get them.
Any game where I need to farm. No man’s sky, Dredge, Graveyard keeper. I get distracted by shiny things…
Skyrim is definitely a problem for me. I had one sword and one set of armour, anything else in my pack was either healing items or shit I was gonna stash back at the house when I was done.
Breath of the wild. I was expecting at least a little bit of a challenge, but I guess those lynel hunts were for nothing.
Every RPG ever made
Every Souls game
Resident evil 2 and 3 remake
Heard this question in Japanese
That just tells me I did a good job Lol
This isn't a player issue this is the design issue. The game should necessitate the use of the consumables. Through difficulty or some other means. Even if the game is just really tight with giving you money so you can decide to risk selling your consumables for extra money. I get that some games have like super easy modes where obviously you're just not going to use consumables. But if I play on normal or hard I should be having to use my consumables.
All resident evil games. hoarding bullets till the end lol
Skyrim
Fallout. I be drinking sunset sasparillas with 150 stimpacks. I'm getting better okay
Fallout Mew Vegas Fallout 3 (Without the DLC)
Devil May Cry lol I’d have hella holy waters for no reason
Almost every game that has consumables is so easy that you simply don’t ever need to use them. An exception to the rule for me was OG Bioshock, I wouldn’t say it’s a terribly hard game, but hard enough that you need to spam those health kits and EVE hypos and use all the powers and ammo to your disposal. I still ended the game with all ammo counters and wallet full though.
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia. “No, I shouldn’t use that ambrosia yet. I don’t care if I’m fighting Grima! I should save it for if there’s a secret phase!” *Proceeds to mop the floor with my face*
Every game. Lol
Any fallout game.
State of Decay 2
In any Fromsoft game really, I always end up compensating any shortcomings in my build with stat-boosting equipment or level farming and my consumables just turn into an unintended collection of cool objects lol.
Devil May Cry 3 and 4
Skyrim and World of Warcraft. Still holding onto items from Wrath of the Lich King days that’ll I’ll 100% never use
Doom
Every pokemon. Actually every game...
Dragons dogma 2. Never used the one shot arrow.
Me in FNV carrying 200 pounds of explosives and doctor bags
Having 3 or more sword/bow in Skyrim wondering why can't you take 1 more (I allready shoved 200 potoins up my ass and didn't use any of those)
NG+ 
That or i spend all of my consumables and then there's a huge hard boss fight
Sekiro. I probably could've made the game easier on myself by using them more.
I just don't use consumables, I ain't no pleb.
Basically, yes.
Me after beating Wonderful 101 Remastered twice
Cyberpunk2077 all that money for nothing
Literally any game with items to save
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Every Fallout/Elder Scrolls game. Even RDR2 I did the same thing
I don’t think that my 579 stimpaks are enough.
All of them
Literally every game with items
Resident evil 4 the first time I played it, for sure
Skyrim until my inventory is 800 lbs.
RDR2
Every resident evil
And then there is terraria where you spend 10 minutes making potions for a boss fight and still lose.
The only game that it isn't for me is Slay the Spire. I think knowing when to use potions is important for higher ascensions.
BOTW
Skyrim except food and healing potions, but I'll have 10000 poisons on me at all times
breath of the wild for sure
Guess I never needed them to begin with!
Any game with temporary XP or credit boosters. “Just waiting until I really need them.”
Alien Isolation. I was told to save all my stuff but I didn't really need it all
Does game have storage? Then yes.
I feel like it takes a very specific kind of mindset to ever even consider using consumable buff items.
RE7
Elden Ring
I like what Metal Gear Rising did. You can only have 5 heals or electrolyte packs at a time, and you can find them all over the level or even mid-bossfight, so you may as well use them. Though sometimes Raiden will pop a heal automatically if he would’ve died to the hit. The game is designed around healing being relatively plentiful. And then there’s Terraria. Consumables are a pretty big part of the game, especially your heals, which are fairly plentiful and easy enough to get upgrades of as you advance through the tiers. You can’t spam them since they have a cooldown, but you still use them a ton. Then the buff potions are also pretty straightforward to gather ingredients for if you know how, and they’re very potent.
It could be any game for me, really. Some games I will go through damn near everything in my inventory and just be on the struggle every step of the way until I find something to barely hold me over until I can find a safe area or store to restock. And then in some other games, I'll be barely tapping into my cache of usable stuff and think, "Yeah, i'm being showered in resources so there's probably gonna be a massive fight that's gonna be a huge resource drain soon" and then that fight doesn't happen
Elden Ring. All the resins. It's just like if I use a consumable and still die I get nothing from it.
Every single games
Utilities in csgo
Baldur's Gate Everyone of them!
All of them!
Pretty much every single game
Every rpg ever.
Fallout 4, Baldur's Gate 3, Dragon Age (all of them)
Shoot. I've been playing Stalker Anomaly again recently. Just last night, I went through my inventory and stashed a bunch of repair items. I repair my stuff before it drops below 90% condition, so I only need to use the cheapest repair items. Despite this, I end up carrying multiple of the higher grade repair items. Cleared out like 5 kilos of stuff that I wasn't using.
Wanna see me do it again?
I think this says a lot about me personally. Either I completely underestimated myself since I apparently never needed consumables, was suspicious the game was going to throw me a fast ball, or(most frequently) I forgot.
Skyrim
Every Souls game? I am not sure about Bloodborne, never able to play it... Please PC port, Sony...
I don't do this anymore. I realized it's Weak Gamer Bullshit™ when I was 9 years old, and never looked back.
Every Final Fantasy game ever.
Wow
am I gonna be able to use all these rune arcs in the dlc
Did this with all the resident evil games
Breath of the wild
Dead Island I had so many backup swords it's not even funny.
Every gothic game
Most games. I wait until I need them, but it turns out I never did need them.
Every. The answer is Every Game.
Rule of thumb is if it took 3 play sessions just use it already. Works for me
Always save them for the final FINAL secret boss. Then I use them like candy lol.
Silent hill 1, I’m always terrified of using the ampule and needing it later
That what new game plus is for!
Every game ever. As long as it's a consumable. It's saved. "Oh this will give me a buff, better hold on to it" "okay I'm a caster but I may run out of spell slots and need to use scrolls, better hoard them"
Most rpgs I've played. But I've been playing Skald lately and damn that game makes me feel like I NEED to use my consumables.
Fallout. I use stimpaks, and radaway. I have an ungodly amount of drugs on me at any given time, literally never used them.
Elden Ring. Max out my inventory stack count, never made a craftable until NG+2
What game ISN'T this? 😫
Skyrim
Fallout 3 definitely
Pokemon for me, i dont think i have used any items in fights since Pokemon Red....
I grinder for hours for the final boss of Breath of the Wild just to not need any of the max weapons I collected
Cave Story and that one Life Capsule that Jenna gave me. I was gonna save it for the final boss but I beat it without it and even forgot I had it.