And then when I get to the next boss, I save them all in case I need them for the boss after that. For the final boss its in case theres a second/third/fourth stage. Really I just think I like challenging myself.
I feel attacked
Better use that health potion.
health potion is the least of my worries. If BG was a proper rpg game, I could probably accidentally take down a small town with the amount of explosive potions I was carrying on my person.
Nah I’ll save it
Finished Gothic1 Remake:
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50 Minor Healing Potions
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50 Moderate Healing Potions
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50 Major Healing Potions
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30 Minor Mana Potions
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85 Medium Mana Points
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30 Major Mana Potions
How did I heal the damage the final boss gave me?
Healing spell and ratty swampweed which costs 10 ore.
I could have been running around the game facetanking everyone with the amount of potions I had
I just got the remake. This makes me excited to start it
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Do people do this outside of videogames? For me the main reason was always that, instead of burning finite resources, I could always solve the problem burning infinite resources (retrying with quicksave)
When I was little I saved all the stickers the doctor gave me since I’d use them for something really cool in the future. When I was in college I rediscovered my hoarde.
Those fine China tableware grandma kept in her cabinets for special guests that never saw the light of day. I guess no one was special enough. :'(
I read “my Chinese grandma” first and I thought oh, that guy also has a Chinese grandma with a hoarding problem.
My Chinese grandma would save all good and expensive food like foreign chocolate until it has gone absolutely bad and then give it to us to eat or gift it to other people.
Yes. It’s worse with niche hobbies that used to be popular because you can still get older parts that are still good but no longer made. If you pass up something now you may never have a chance to get it again.
Vacuum tubes would be an example.
Interesting! What hobbies require vacuum tubes, and they are not made anymore at all?
Guitar pedals and amps would be one example of a place where tubes are still used. Audio or RF amplifiers, etc. Honestly the wikipedia page isn’t that bad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_tube#Vacuum_tubes_in_the_21st_century The transistor largely replaced vacuum tubes.
And it’s not that they aren’t made anymore, they’re just not made in the quantity and variety they used to be. You can find auctions on ebay where there are random assortments of tubes that are probably part of some estate sale. If you know the numbers you can get a picture of the person’s life: some tubes for ham radio person, some for audiophiles, but carefully curated and held onto until the end, just in case.
audio tech sounds better with vacuum tubes
Do people do this outside of videogames?
All the time. Check that bottle of fancy liquor in the cabinet, the one that’s being saved for a special occasion … but ends up never opened, covered in dust, because its owner died before a special enough occasion ever came.
Those bottles have names.
Trump, Putin, McConnell … etc
I don’t think many people drink health potions, no.
I meant like, since this is posted in TabletopRPGs
Doh! I’m an idiot! Lol no that was good.
We play permadeath, so I wasn’t thinking of quick saves
You grind enemies to get more powerful.
I grind enemies to get enough money to buy 99 of each consumable.
We are not the same.
The big bad is coming. Must. Not. Waste. A. Single. Potion.
I have never felt more seen.
All those wheels of cheese finally caught up with the dragon born’s arteries.
Chugging my estus flasks
There’s no consequence for that, in a classic jRPG you either have to grind or there’s a finite amount of consumables.
And if he dies he just respawns at the last save point right?
You would have no hope of rending the gates of heaven and casting out god without at LEAST this amount of full revives, Werner Von Dipshit
