Do you use rare healing items like elixirs when the situation calls for it?

Do you use rare healing items like elixirs when the situation calls for it?

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no, rares are for feeling a sense of accomplishment. i stock up on max amount of purchasable healing items and use magic for emergencies

i always just level up to the point where healing spells are just as good, and mana is no longer an issue

Isn't that the chick from Titan A.E.?

Against a super boss or the final boss, yeah.

Yep. I used to horde them, but ending the final fight with a bunch of them doesn't give me any satisfaction. I just use them when I need them now, I'd rather use an elixer to get through a challenging fight than go grind for 15 minutes and steamroll it.

Used to horde them for a tough spot. Usually was never an issue and had a ton.

Now I just use them whenever.

titan A.E. is underrated as fuck, great movie

HOARD
THE WORD IS HOARD

I work so hard to earn rares and then I don't want to use them because they feel too special. I keep it as a memento instead. What the fuck is wrong with me...

Yes, why not? That's what they're for after all. I mean I guess I could grind until I'm 10 levels higher than the boss and easily win but where's the fun in that? Not to mention it just makes the game a giant slog, way more than it needs to be.

Seriously, do people refuse to use their best weapons, armour or spells as well?

>you will never live on planet bob
>it will never be your turn to fly
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doing god's work, user

im an items guy
me me an items guy

I use powerful bombs, mighty potions and all sorts of devices becauase I know game end soon!

>Play Fallout 4
>Stimpaks look like great healing items
>Sleep/Drink and eat shitty rad food for healing
>Hoard dem Stimpacks
>Im at 134 and recently got to know 3 dog
>Friend who apparently already "finished" the game visits me
>Wants to play on my file
>The outside of the radio tower is full of mutants
>Friend thinks is a good idea to kill them
>Goes through half my ammo and about 40 stimpaks in the span of 20 minutes
>Saves game because he leveled up

That's when i stopped playing Fallout 3, this was on PS3 so no quicksave/quickload and i had very few save files.

*Play Fallout 3
Fucked up right in the beginning.

>typical items guy post

Yep, no modal verbs. Yeah we don't want your kind here kiddo. Remember to steer clear of the Smash threads bud.

Oops, that's a little embarrassing. I've never fucked that one up before. I can hardly bare the shame.

Jokes aside though thanks for pointing out my mistake.

Almost never. If it's the final boss then I will, but I will almost certainly have a large excess of them by the end of the game

And that's why you never let your buddy play your games that you didn't finish, doesn't matter if they played or not because most will be bitches at it anyway

I used to be that guy that would save them for the toughest situations and then never use them, but now I use consumables like mad. It's much more enjoyable to simply keep progressing through a tough cave through potions and the like instead of going back to town 3 towns until you're so overleveled it stops being a challenge. And all the money you spend on consumables takes away from your money for equipment, so you can't just autobuy the best shit from every shop because you've been hording every piece of gold.

The issue here is "when the situation calls for it".
The situation almost never calls for it, because if people who knew what they were doing needed to use them then bad players would get their shit wrecked so hard that they'd quit the game.
And the majority of people are bad players.

So eventually you learn to just use them whenever.

Yes, thing is the situation just never comes up

I fapped to her growing up.

Titan A.E. was 90s to the core.

Yeah I used to do this too. But its stupid. They give them to you throughout the game to use throughout the game. Everytime I hoarded them I just ended up never using them, even on the final boss, because at that point you have healing and enough MP to last

dumb movie. ruined don bluth's career

About 99% of the time, usually not. You are usually powerful enough to deal with shit, and once you figure out the pattern, you sorta win in most rpgs, but I remember I used just about all my big healing items, sometimes for extra insurance when I fought Ose in Nocturne.

So only at the point where heals are not full heals for everyone, and the boss gets to the point where he can potentially throw out a 90% hp damaging move.

That's why I always kept 15 save files at minimum.

No, unless absolutely necessary, and it's against either an endgame boss or a superboss. Anything else I take as an utter failure of my tactics, and thus need to git gud.

>play Fallout 3 on PS3
>save file goes beyond 4mb in size
>impossible to play because it crashes every few minutes
Nice one Todd.

depends on scarcity and how much they are worth. if a rare healing item is worth ten thousand fun bucks then I'm just gonna sell it so I can afford better gear, and not die in the first place. otherwise I save them for boss fights

>hard battle
>low on hp and more
>Boss near death
>can either risk it and hit or heal
>use an elixir
>hit him next turn
>he dies

LOSE MY HEAD TO THE CHEMICAL FREEWAY
COMING UP I'M OVERLOAD
YEAH LOSING SURE IS EASY
BUT I AIN'T NO MORE

>save up mp/focus/limit break/chain burst for one deciding attack on the boss
>hits 283489237847238 damage, plays epic animations and amazing visual effects
>boss survives with 1 pixel of lifebar left
>a single normal attack kills it

BUT I'M NOT BROKEN
IN MY DREAM I WIN
OUT HERE I'M NOTHING
A COSMIC CASTAWAY

The situation never calls for it if you plan properly.

This movie was supposed to mark a golden age for the 2000's.
We're in the alternate universe where 9/11 happened instead.

>9/11
>dad dies
>other family members dying
>favorite celebrities dying before old age
>general vibe of suck surrounding every aspect of entertainment media

This is the bad ending I know it

Only if it would be a huge pain in the ass if I died. Permanent stat loss, inventory or money wipe, haven't saved for a long time, character deletion in the rare games that have it.

>Face boss
>Decide to win regardless of item use
>Get fucked up repeatedly in the fight
>Use ALL of the shit you got
>Inventory is completely EMPTY of any kind of defensive and healing stuff
>Beat boss and win
>Right after that boss there is a way to go back and farm up all that shit you lost so you do it for 4 hours straight at least before facing new boss

what celebrity.

shitty fucking movie

the kangaroo was hot tho

>le strong angry woman meme
>nice guy character does a complete 180 and becomes a complete asshole and beats the audience over the head with it
You aren't entirely wrong.

>le strong angry woman meme
Still better than shit nowadays, either way that didn't stop her from getting brutally shot in the shoulder with blood gushing out everywhere
>nice guy character does a complete 180 and becomes a complete asshole and beats the audience over the head with it
Not really, he starts the same and ends the same, the film implies a change ? kinda? but it doesn't happen mostly because of Sensitive Joss Weadon's fantastic writing

Naw. You're forgetting about the 90's.

He fools his crew into thinking he is a nice guy, he fools the protag into thinking he is a nice guy. But as soon as the protag is gone he starts acting like an asshole setting off a lot of alarms for the rest of the crew. It was obviously done just to bludgeon the audience to death with the fact that he is a bad guy now and we are supposed to hate him because OMIGOSH WHAT A TWIST HE WAS SO NICE B4!

Oh I thought you were talking about the main character

Either way it's still something from the 90's, remember the ''discovery'' trope, you know, when the side characters discover that the main character isn't what they think he is and the film spends an HOUR solving that shitty plot out? same thing.

I wonder if he ever answered why everything after All Dogs Go To Heaven all his films were utter fucking garbage.
>Rock-a-Doodle
>Thumbelina
>A Troll in Central Park
>The Pebble and the Penguin
Are you fucking serious?

Isn't she from the movie Mulan?

I don't do it even in games that I've played a couple of time and know where it would be a waste and I would actually need them

in games like final fantasy it's often the case that you have good enough healing spells as soon as you run out of the potions and hi-potions the game gives you.
mega-potions are only needed and harder boss fights.
i can't remember that i ever had to use an elixier or ather.

in games like elder scrolls or fallout i use alot healing items but the reason might be that i only go back when my backpack is full or i run out of any healing option.

i've played witcher 3 only on deathmarch. in the beginning i've used all my money on healing items. the further i got into the game the less items i had to use.

Ng+ bosses

Correct. This thread is now about Titan A.E.

I'm with this guy, if something is rare and I can't get more of it, then I don't use it since it's not reliable.

>having friends

>Hoping we'd get some content based off that whole situation with the Slavers.

>Practically nothing.

>Slavers
who?

> tfw father is dead
Underrated as fuck movie, though.

>Get ultra rare item midway through game
>Hold on to it
>Get to final boss
>Use it because it's end of game and boss is pretty tough
>Item is awesome
>Beat boss
>Sorry user now it's time for the REAL final boss that's even harder!

Or better yet
>Get one of kind item
>Hold on to it
>Get to final boss
>Use it
>It's fucking useless

>Consurve potions thinking I'll need them later
>Complete the game without using them
EVERY FUCKING TIME

Naw that's that one chick from Avatar.

no most games you honestly dont even need to use them even in critical moments. shit like hi-potions would suffice.
outside of speed runs, high profile items like elixirs tend to be more of a luxury. if anything if you needed to use it you fucked up hard someplace else and it becomes a get out of jail card.

>not whittling boss hp down with regular attacks then ending with an ultimate move

Pleb

Man, that kangaroo alien chick gave me the weirdest boner.

how the fuck does the pilot even sell out
I mean, from the start? was he contacted mid way during the movie?
the aliens call up this kids dad's old friend just to get the kid?

At some point during Monster Hunter 4U I went back to my 3U and Tri saves to check things out, and found my piles of ancient potions, mega demondrug/armorskin, mega dash juice, etc. It made me pretty annoyed at myself, so now I just use stuff.

Wanting stuff in a game is an important mechanic. If I have 99 of something because I never use them, finding one more doesn't mean much to me. If I'm all out of stuff because I'm constantly using them (appropriately) and then I find more, I'm happy.