This is exactly what I do every time! And then I finish the game with something like 15/20 potions I never ever use neither ones, and a lot of health potion that I've no used cause maybe I'll need a lot for next scene!
LOL Good to know I'm not the only one!

I wish I still had those Morrowind screen shots of all that Daedric stuff stacked up everywhere. But I wasn't a hoarder or a kleptomaniac. No. You see, that stuff belonged to me. All of it. I bought the damn game. Not those stupid NPCs. Therefore I owned Morrowind and everything in it. They're lucky I so graciously left them with so much.

Maybe the items you have are "To Awesome to Use"...

Yeah, and then you hit that point in the game where you have like a bajillion gold and can buy a half dozen of the most expensive items in the game immediately. I have that problem in Phantasy Star IV right now where I have so much money that I can't even spend it all as there's very little to buy.

FO is another one where early on there's nowhere near enough bottlecaps, but by the end you've got far more than you can actually spend.

I never hoard money in games, I tend to hoard items. I hate the idea of using an item and then needing it later on. Because of this I love games that allow for one to have infinite items (not all at once, but they will sell infinite and you can farm the money to buy them).

I tend to never use the powerful weapons in FPS because of this.

Sorry, I missed the meaning of this phrase. You mean what these weapons ammunition is harder to find and so you save it? To the point of not using?

Says the dragon.

Yeah pretty much. I avoid explosives mainly. They seem to be the ones that are often limited.

The illusion of life Fallout creates may make you repeat actions and adopt attitudes remembered from real life. Ex. when I was little, I used to save every single zloty my mother gave me and didn't spend much, I acted the same in video games, saving every credit in Raptor.

Now I spend more, up to the point that there are short periods when I'm forced to eat only chinese noodles and cheap pierogi from supermarket. The same with Stalker - I go shopping every finished mission, giving away the last RU I have.

This is like a group therapy session. You're all pathetic!

Okay, my worst habit is with enchanted weapons in elder scrolls games. I'll have a stack of super-powerful enchanted weapons but I don't want to use up their charges so I keep hacking away with "Crude rusty iron longsword" instead.

Actually it's totally opposite :P

but hoarding in video games makes sense. Mostly at the end of the game you will meet shopkeeper with UBER stuff, also UBER expensive.

Like in NWN HotU , where the demon shopkeeper holds the best items in the game.

Also known as the "it's too awesome to use" syndrome :D

I am cheap but in a different way. I am playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup heavily these days and I'll do things such as:

Scroll of Acquirement scumming where I save the game before I use the scroll and copy the save to a different folder and reload until I get something that satisfies me.

Mutation scumming where I'll drink potions of mutation and reload until I only get the good mutations like being able to teleport short distances, spit fire and/or poison etc. etc.

As fas as money in games goes, my hoarding or spending thereof depends on the game. If it's a hack and slash along the lines of Sacred then I go on shopping sprees, if it's a real RPG then there is some hoarding going on when I need to buy 99 of every healing potion in the land...
AFAIK, most of those weapons can be recharged if you have a decent Enchanting skill, a few gems, and some spare daedra.

Yeah but I don't want to use up my gems!

Still, it was useful for someone like me who skipped page 2.

I don't hoard in games because I don't have much time to play games. What I do hoard is games in real life. That's just so when the big boss comes at the end of the game I'll be able to say: "come on, I still have 800 games to finish, just give me some more time."

One game which made me lose some of my hoarding tendencies for a bit was Everquest II Extended (they've since dropped the Extended). When it came out I started playing free, and the limited bag space forced me to sell my useless stuff. But after a few hours I just paid the $10 and upgraded to Silver and went to improve my crafting skills, so that I could store ten wands of whatever in my house and never used them. Only problem is they upgraded the house vault with more space and I'm no longer playing much, which means I have tons of free space to fill, and I feel incomplete.

Somewhat accumulate bottle caps in Fallout adds further realism to the game. If we were living in a situation like that, sure we would do the same. Although I doubt that we might become rich that way, unlike in the game. And sure we not'd keep the ammo and the best weapons for later, but quite the opposite.

*Um, look, a mutant. I will shoot with the pea-shooter. Wait a moment... Am I crazy? Those bastards really hurt. Where I got the rocket launcher? KA-BOOM!*