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.

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

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

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!

My characters in BG3 can barely walk they’re carrying so many potions and scrolls, The weak stuff isn’t worth wasting a turn using and the strong stuff might be useful later…

I remember the same from when I was a kid, though BG was the only time it paid off because you can start BG2 with your party you finished BG1 with so I had loads of stuff I could carry through the whole geme without using.

“Here BUTT, this POKÉBALL can catch any POKÉMON. It’s called the MASTERBALL.“

[Trows it onto an ABRA]

[25 Years later]

“Why is there not a single Masterball used in your whole living Pokédex?“

So what you’re saying is I’ll never actually need it and it’s just for players trying to make the game easier

And that if I use it I’ll be without it in the presumably increasing difficulty to come

Divine blessings are not for me to use during tough boss fights, they are for my opponents in PvP to spam knowing they can just save scum from a backup save.

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)

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?

Reminds me of when I finished the first Max Payne.

I was all kitted out. Rocket launchers, full deagles, you name it. I used my little starter pistol all throughout this fight on the tower that I thought was leading up to the very end… only to have credits roll while I sat there with a full fat armory of glorious destruction - forever unused.

I’m really bad with this in games. I even hoarded iron back when I still played Minecraft simply because it was a resource I couldn’t infinitely produce.

Cobblestone generator = use only cobblestone tools

System Shock 2 was brutal with this one. Lots of great weapons that were hard to find ammunition (or maintenance tools) for so the ol’ wrench/rapier kept getting used instead.

Yea