Comments on: Short arms, long pockets

By: Andy Turner

Andy Turner — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:51:11 +0000

I too become some terrible hoarder of items and cash when it comes to games…currently I’m only a little way into the epic story of Fallout, chances are I could be further along by now if I didn’t stop at every derelict shack in the wilderness fill my pockets with all the tat inside and then crawl back to Megaton to sell on my scrounged goods (and arm loads of rat meat) to the local shop owner.

In contrast to you however GTA 4 was one of the few games in which I have been frivolous with my money…or at least I became that way after I got tired of a police car magically spawning behind me the second I steal a car usually when I only have 10 minutes to play and really wanted to progress on the story a little. No my Nico soon became a man of leisure rarely sullying his own hands on a steering wheel unless there was work to be done…and letting taxis ferry me from door to door the rest of the time, keep the change…

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:36:37 +0000

That irked me in Lost Odyssey too.

Sometimes I’d realise I just did something really stupid in a fight which meant I was going to die in twenty or so turns and I’d want to just quit back to the load screen without having to go back to the dashboard first.

Alas, we were offered no such luxury :(

(absolutely mint game otherwise!)

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:46:42 +0000

It’s in the options in the menu. Yeah I find the lack of a quit option unsettling in games but I suppose it’s no longer really needed.

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:57:37 +0000

I’d say whisht you but I have a question – where is the quit option in Lost Odyssey? The (apparent) absence of that in some games annoys me

By: Kirsten

Kirsten — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 07:44:04 +0000

Knife licking? How disgusting! I’m very tight in RPG’s with potions. I can’t bare to top up my HP/MP if I’m going to come out of a battle and go into a cutscene and get my health restored.

In Lost Odyssey I’d get a magic user who wasn’t in my active party to top up everybody’s health and then quite the game after saving at the save point. When you reload all your characters are back to full health and full MP. By the end of the game (just like I find in every RPG) my inventory is chockablock with high level potion snd ethers that I’ve never touched.

By: Carole

Carole — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:07:55 +0000

Thank you Tony In answer to your question I believe that its more likely Jake owns approximately ten times more games than you however I am not in a fair position to comment as generally he hides about half of them from me :-)

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:55:21 +0000

I find it funny, Jake, that you of all people would be tight in-game. Your gamer score implies you have bought at least twice as many games as I have at home, and that’s assuming you’ve got every achievement on every single game you own!

If you’ve only got the same achievement-to-games-owned ratio as me though, you should own 6 times more games than me!

Maybe the in-game frugality is the ying to your real world spending yang?

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:16:05 +0000

I didn’t think I had finished the escort missions – I’ve had a pimp hat for a while though. Well, even better if it was a free hat!

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:29:21 +0000

I’m terrible for licking my knife…

I got quite bad for hoarding stuff in Morrowind, so much so I had to divide all my loot among maybe three houses in Balmora. I even had a pot of money that I would add to every so often but it absolutely had to be a round figure so I kept whatever would’ve disrupted that on my person

I think you got a free pimp suit, with hat, as a reward for completing the Escort side missions in Saint’s Row

But in some games, I’ll spend like a thrifty maniac – the skills and all that stuff in FFXII, weapons and upgrades in RE4. Though in that game I made my money back with selling the Broken Butterfly, infrared scope and some other stuff I kept getting after my first playthrough.

I always see infrared as one word