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Now just to figure out the controls to use them
“holup mister dragon
i just need to eat these 47 cheese wedges”
Hold on, you still don’t know if there’s an extra secret real end boss that’s harder. Better keep those elixirs a bit longer just to be safe…
# proceeds to never use them
Me, every damn time
Now those items are ineffective against the last boss, you need to use the plot weapon you picked up 10min ago.
I always hoard 99 bombs and have 87 of them after beating the game.
proceeds to dont use them there either to use them for the hypothetical super boss later.
*still doesn’t use them, just in case*
I feel like this is a ‘Self Help’ group.
Hi 👋,
My name is Jaysus and I too suffer from Precious Inventory Hoarding.
*final boss is resistant to explosion damage…
Really? What about second phase or the ever-frustrating surprise! 3rd phase
me; not wasting money and therefore not upgrading my guns in Bioshock 1
Proceed to use healing magic and spells because “I shouldn’t burn through my items just yet. The boss may have a second phase”
And you win without them because you were saving them for the second form
Except if the final boss is Detlaf. _He doesn’t care_.
And here’s me who forgot that i had them.
I would say that 99% of the time you do not need them for the final boss either.
I can recall a single instance in the past 25 years where I had to actually burn through the items I saved up, and that was the secret boss Culex in Super Mario RPG.
Most games seem to be balanced around the characters power levels and items, and not actually balanced around consumables at all, so you can pretty much make due without using them for the entire game with just a small bit of extra grinding. You could honestly completely remove consumables from most RPGs that have them and the game would still be fully manageable. There may be a few exceptions of course, but I would think they would be exceptions and not the norm.
And then you end up killing it without them
I have it more with best crafting materials, just keep them for better weapon/armor whatever.
Got to the end of Neverwinter Nights and hadn’t used anything big the various scrolls and potions I had.
Final boss was a dragon. There was a woman at the end of a long hallway that once you got to her started the event and she turned into a dragon and came after you.
I had a ton of timed release fireball scrolls I had picked up. Basically cast them on a square and when an enemy entered the square it would trigger a fireball.
So I set them the entire length of the highway. Walked up, triggered the event, then ran back down the corridor. Turned and watched as the woman transformed and started chasing. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
Dragon dropped dead at my feet. Took zero damage and didn’t fire a single shot. Most anticlimactic boss fight ever.
This is why I love games where the buffs regenerate or are once per battle. Otherwise, I don’t use them
When you beat the boss pokemon and catch it with an ultra ball and still have your master ball
In Kotor 2, when you get to Malachor, there was a boss fight that gave me a particulary hard time, think it was a tougher version of the monsters on that level. Anyway, I finally got sick of trying to fight it with my lightsaber, so I planted literally every mine I had disarmed from the beginning of the game. Never used mines up to that point. After a very laggy explosion, the boss was dead instantly.
Ghost of Tsushima: *Boss is a duel so none of your saved items can be used.*
By that time you’re already so powerful you don’t need em. Just save em for the end game loot pile.
And you still don’t use them on the boss because you don’t want to waste them if you die, or the end game boss is even harder
*credits roll*
Ah……fuck.
But what if i can transfer my save and character to the next game?
Then you can’t move because you’re over encumbered
Old comment of mine, but relevant:
>If it’s a final fantasy game, you should probably be holding back if you’re fighting the final boss only a mere four phases in and they’re still vaguely humanoid. If the stakes are as low as complete global domination, just be patient.
>
>You gotta wait until the whole world’s prayer is combining into a spirit shield to prevent the white-haired big bad’s ghost melded with the literal embodiment of the apocalypse from eating spacetime. That’s when you’re maybe getting close. Listen to the music. If you haven’t heard the main theme come on in an orchestral remix, you’ve probably got like six phases left so hang in there. You’re only safe to dump your good spells once it’s clear you no longer have any idea what exactly it is you’re fighting or what the stakes are anymore.
>
>If it’s Zandarr, the Arch Councillor of the Black Empire fighting you for control for the Omnicrystal, nope. You are clearly not done, have you ever played one of these games before?
>
>If you’ve killed Zandarr, the crystal broke, and now you’re spiraling through a shimmering abyss with Zarnganthnathvor Ascendant Prima, a mass of writhing black tentacles with the chiseled naked ivory torso of the mysterious stranger whose been chasing you throughout the game (now post a monologue vaguely about “becoming one with the universe,”) who just wiped half your party with an ability whose animation appears to have actually destroyed the planet the entire game takes place on (but it’s fine?), the time is now.
>
>Use -> ether.
Doesn’t work at all for people who are gonna play sekiro. Remember use everything you have cus you still gonna loose to headless.
Then you realize the potions and bombs do no damage cause they were for enemies half your level
Stinginess is when it affects other people.
If the effects of it are only on you, then it’s not stingy, it’s “thrifty.”
Me playing Skyrim lol
Play horizon zero Dawn. You’ll never run into this issue. You’ll use them all just trying to get through a single group of medium difficulty enemies. Run into two high difficulty enemies at once and you’ll need a new controller
*holds on to bombs for the later enemies*
​
*forgets I have them*
Something Something nuclear stockpile to shame North Korea…
Kill boss using most of your supplies.
Boss Phase 2
Just got done beating Darklurker on DS2. Worst boss I have faced so far mainly because you need to use an effigy for each try. Good thing I had this same exact mentality OP is talking about and saved 30 of them. Fuck that boss when he splits in two………….. >:( Manus and Orenstein+Smough were hard as fuck but at least you had infinite tries.
Be honest, you saved them still just in case there was a second form or post game boss