Have you ever been complimented on your mountainous collection of cabbages? You, a person who undoubtedly owns such a collectionbecause who doesn't, right? What about your pile of Stimpaks so large it could smooth Frankenstein's Monster over? And have you seen what people have done with BioShocks' hundreds upon hundreds of chips, snack cakes and sodas? Now that's art. There's certainly something to be said for amassing a collection of books or paintings and so on, but there is a very different word for the senseless scavenging and resource collection seen in so many games: hoarding. However, the compulsion that has somehow been given a slot in today's infinitely worthless television airtime has no place in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim or Fallout: New Vegas; we need that stuffyes, all 46 of those Frost Defense Potionsand will absolutely, positively get use out of every last one. Thank goodness for near-bottomless inventories though, otherwise we'd never be able to lug it all around.
A freelance games writer, you say? Typically battling his current RPG addiction and ceaseless perfectionism? A fan of horror but too big a sissy to play for more than a couple of hours? Spends far too much time on JRPGs and gets way too angry with card games?
Well that doesn't sound anything like me.
