alt Hacker NewsI've noticed this a few times where I've hoarded items to use later only to find I've finished the game before that challenging "later" arrives.
For some odd reason, the specific game that comes to mind for this was Horizon:Zero Dawn PS4/5.
Conversely, I'm playing Half-Life:Blueshift right now, and I didn't try to save anything, now I've hit a couple of points where I'm out of ammo or health and can't progress without loading an older save.
I had one fun experience in Black Mesa (HL fan-remake) where I was knocked off of the edge of a "cliff" by a large enemy (no spoilers) and it auto-saved mid-air, so it reloaded me falling forever >_<.
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solyin • today at 11:27 AM
Oh god that was the worst. And then Trine came out.
I'm definitely the type to always be saving items "just in case" and the Half Life series is definitely one where I felt the most paranoid about that.
I played HL1 on the PS2 recently with a memory card that was really limited in space so I was only managing a single save for most of the playthrough until I soft locked myself in a room I couldn't leave using my ONLY save and had to start at least carrying a second backup save to prevent that happening again.
Half Life 2 felt like it almost made fun of me at times for building that hoarding mentality, always dumping health and ammo on me when I had already been preserving it as much as possible right before. Meanwhile the few things I would run out of it would never give any more of for entire sections.