DR1988'S PROFILE

After their 3 minutes of romance, Yuna left the spring and returned to the group.
Tidus on the other hand, treasured the moment and delved into his obvious sensitive profile. Tears kept running down his cheeks while he watched fireflies mirror on the water's surface. There was only one wish he had that night: moments like this shouldn't cease so quickly.
Despite him sobbing like a baby, he noticed the sound of breaking roots under someone's sneaky steps. Hoping Yuna had turned around, he uncovered his torso still facing the other way towards the tree.
Tidus took a few slow steps and leaned towards it's stem before he felt the sensational touch of breasts firmly pressed against his back.
"Oh Yuna, dem tits are so good... I want to see them, caress them and maybe motorboat a little..."
"Hush darling. Do not spoil our fun with your foolish words", kory - who happens to sound very samiliar to Yuna - whispered.
"You know, whenever you open that mouth of yours you ruin the arousement your brave actions cause within me.", she added and reached around his slender waist between the legs. "I see your arousement hasn't been ruined yet"
"It certainly hasn't. If I may take another aproach at conversation... I wonder how it affects me when your mouth opens wide, and swallows your pride along with my..."
"Heh, turn around and we'll see. Best not let Yuna know about this, though.", kory responded.
"WTF!?" Tidus shouted on the turn, grabbed his legs and cried even more

author=slashphoenix
For the same reasons I'd recommend Cowboy Bebop. You've probably already seen these shows, but if you haven't...

you better not believe it pepsi :p

So are you a item hoarder?

kind of, it depends on the game really. 50/50

If so, why?

a) Great game you want to have those "perfect game" states saved, including every item as often as possible. In that case it makes my heart bleed if you have to trade rare items one for another and the "perfect game" can look different

b) Pretty much along the same lines of a, but then again... another issue:
having too much money and knowing you don't need it anymore, or at least not as much as you have/ will get. Mainly post-game money reducing xD

c) First playthroughs where you actually "think" (not expect, but who knows) you could end up using some (mega)lixirs in boss battles. I hardly ever use uber-healing because most of the time it feels like wasting something good :D

d) You already pointed out that most of the time you have white mages/healers who take care cheaper, faster and reliable. ANY menu healing is done by vita+co and like dyhalto, I stick to 'em during battle as well. Cutting down an mp potion instead of 50 healings seems natural and yeah, if needs be you can stick that phoenix feather I-don't-know-where.

e) Sometimes you do not have the effective healer in you party and actually throw plenty of potions to stick to your offensive plan. I had some occassions in ff13 where bosses(think it was an esper fought with light+hope or so?) actually took me 20 potions so I could stick to simply attacking otherwise. Having them with me made me happy :p

f) I hardly ever buy potions, I find them/ battle rewards

There are dozens of reasons, but if I had to decide it's because white magic has more appeal, you get plenty of healing items, and hardly ever need them - but some occasions might prove you wrong. As far as old gear is concerned

a) see "perfect game"

b) piggy bank. There's this new sword for me and it costs 10 000 gil. Unfortunately I only got 3000 left after buying all the armor. I could go grind for 7k, ignore the update OR sell my wood sword + iron sword + demonslayer + ... to buy it. Might be the right moment if I don't deem leveling necessary

c) confusion about it being outdated. The game won't display the stat increase/decrease for everyone. 8 char game with 4 char party. The menu will let me know my active party gets -1/-2 from this helmet, but it's possibly an update for the reserve.

d) blacksmithing ff9-way

And if you're not, how come?

If I'm not I either feel confident about myself, know the whole game already, or want/need the money from selling items. Maybe some combination of those. Because unless it's a "perfect game", or I wanna be on the safe side, I don't give a rats about the stuff ^.^

And is there any other way we can stop all the item hoarding?

There are plenty of ways. First of all:

make your game freakin tough. You can remove/heavily reduce monster drops (because again, most potions of mine aren't bought), increase prices (for people who DO buy a lot - also rewards selling more), reduce effectiveness/availability of healing skills/spells...

you could do away with healing completely, stressing the mage even more.

you can cap itemnumbers yourself as mentioned, or go the "diablo" way - and have limited storage for items altogether(read diablo 1. Or "maybe 2". Not really 3). If each healing potion takes 1/20 space of the chest where actually good items should sit... they'll be tossed/sold, no? ^^ (

However, most alternatives do not seem like steps forward. I remember games where items didn't stack that maybe should (like phantasy star online/blueburst). people can get pretty mad when they have to store hundreds of photon drops (kind of a "currency" paid in items) in a 200 slot box and each pd takes a seperate space. Why wouldn't they stack!? :D
Although some games do handle this well (I like the weight approach better than number cap or storage-slots), I wouldn't give it too much thought. Hoarding isn't so bad :(

Unfortunately the idea of "not being the bero" isn't any newer than "being the hero".
It's so damn hard to be creative nowadays :D

anyways, best of luck to you ;)

Might not be your taste since I don't see too many similarities (not exactly "new" either), but if you haven't done so already I always advice to -at least- take a look at my favorites :p

Record of Lodoss War (and/or chronicles of the heroic knight) for a fantasy adventure that, unlike one piece, actually starts and ends somewhere - more or less.
The box says "anime version of lord of the rings" and although I don't love lotr all that much (it's ok, but overhyped) + saw rolw before lotr, it's pretty much what you get. knights, elves, dwarfes, good v evil, for several hours (but again: not 4646565464 episodes). Also, there's less "super-duper-heroe-abilities" but rather realistic stuff, if you can actually believe drawn medieval stuff xD

Elfenlied
Some people like to always stress the gore and say that's the important part... but it certainly isn't. Elfenlied is funny as hell, cute and romantic at times, action packed some other time. You wouldn't expect it in the beginning "Oh yeah, body parts flying around, most of the screen is covered in red (blood), I get why people say it's awesome...", but some stuff actually makes own grown men cry :D