Forsaken Lover
06-24-2015, 05:35 AM
This is a rather peculiar thing I have noticed myself doing, and I've seen others do it as well in LP's. The LP'er HcBailly even dubbed it the "too good to use club" which is where I got the inspiration for the topic title.
In RPGs, especially JRPGs, you will get items and you will horde them. You will find an Elixir and be like "oh yeah! That's awesome!" And then it will proceed to languish in your inventory because "I might need it someday."
For me, I always take this approach with Magic/Mana restoring items as well. In a lot of games you can't buy them so my game plan is to do everything possible to restore MP during normal gameplay without having to waste the item just in case I eventually find myself in a really long fight where I need to refill my MP. True, eventually I might feel more comfortable about using Ethers or whatever but it's only in the later game. Early game, I am as stingy with them as I am with Elixirs.
Do you do this?
In RPGs, especially JRPGs, you will get items and you will horde them. You will find an Elixir and be like "oh yeah! That's awesome!" And then it will proceed to languish in your inventory because "I might need it someday."
For me, I always take this approach with Magic/Mana restoring items as well. In a lot of games you can't buy them so my game plan is to do everything possible to restore MP during normal gameplay without having to waste the item just in case I eventually find myself in a really long fight where I need to refill my MP. True, eventually I might feel more comfortable about using Ethers or whatever but it's only in the later game. Early game, I am as stingy with them as I am with Elixirs.
Do you do this?