I don't horde either. I usually just have 2 -3 of the best weapons (usually melee or unarmed), the best armor equiped on me, any stimpacks I've collected and a few chems.

When things like ammo has weight in can be a lot more difficult to hoard. I usually roll with a load out of 2 pistols 2 rifle types. If I am in need of money, I usually go to town after every fight, if it is against say raiders or what not, who generally have a lot of weapons. For a FO 3 example, say I clear out the Super Duper Mart. I go in and kill everyone, kill the reinforcements, then when all dead I gather up loot and go sell. Makes it a tad more realistic as far as I not carrying around tons of stuff everywhere I go.

In NV with ammo weight my load out was a lot different. Generally I had a recharger pistol or rifle, a 10mm pistol with 50 rounds, and maybe a long range hunting or sniper rifle with maybe 20-50 rounds. I would loot the same way, just to get enough money for gambling, then I rarely looted anything except chems, cash, and ammo.

modav carryweight 5000

I have a habit of looting everything worthwhile I can carry. When I get close to my weight limit, I'll head to either home or establish a stash location. If I stash, then when I'm done doing whatever it was, I'll hump it back to base.

This is a wasteland and we all need continuing supplies.

But, when I leave home I only carry a few things as a standard load-out. The armor I'm wearing. A long and a close range weapon. What ammunition I have until I have a lot, then I'll carry 250 rounds, leaving the extra home. Half dozen stimpacks and rad-away/rad-x. I've never really gotten into using the other drugs. (Except that one character who needed a boost early in the game and used jet. *Boom* addicted on the first dose. Kinda fun having a junkie play-through.)

My goal has always been to come back with more than I left with.

I may have done this, but now that ALL weapons come out of your magical pocket space instead of being on your back or hip I don't see much point. :/

Embrace your magical pocket storage!

I think F4 is designed to make you horde this time around, what with the settlement tools we can now play with, gonna need a lot of screws & other miscellaneous items. Best go for that Scrapper perk.

I do horde half a warehouse. However, I never keep any of it on me. I always use storage containers in my home.

I mildly horde items I think I can use for decoration. I never end up doing much of any thing with them but I still do it.
I also refuse to leave behind anything that is unique. Hell I try not to ever give unique things away for quests. Example: Every Skyrim game I help the Whiterun drunk by stealing a bottle of Argonian Ale from the inn. Then I pick his pocket for it. The damn thing is no different from every other bottle of ale accept it has a different name but I can't stop stealing it!
I am also a huge food and drink horder. Last time I switched housing in Skyrim that stuff was over a thousand wight units.

you remember the cutsceen of the pridewyn crashing?

that was because the lone wanderer stuffed everything on him into a locker and fast traveled to the ground. . . .

I horde since I detest not having the materials I need to make what I want. Especially if I know that I just left a cave with the material but it was at the bottom of like 7 levels and I have to run through it all again. I keep weapons and armor relatively light but that's cuz I don't like scrolling when I'm looking for something.

I usually get a mod which handles carry weight because I also get put off by our character being able to carry 10 truckloads of stuff.

But it feels very fake if I put limits on myself without gameplay mechanics limiting me, I hate doing that.

In pc games with crafting i tend to horde all i find, mindset is might need this for something so better store it, and it could be lvl 1-20 crafting mats to lvl 50 you never know what you might need same deal in fallout my lockers in my safe houses were booming with weird stuff i did not need.

And with the crafting system in Fallout 4 i do not see my self just leaving stuff that could have very useful benefits for my crafting of weapons, armor or settlement items.

I think the most fun thing is get a house in-game, store any special supplies you don't want to weigh you down for the quest, and aren't going to sell there.

That way you can specifically set up your inventory for every quest or exploration.

You can even make a cabinet for stuff you are going to sell, then empty the cabinet go to vendors until sell it all. If a vendor runs out of caps wait 3 days in-game to replenish their caps and all stock.

You could make one cabinet that is always for crafting stuff/armour etc.

Ps I always hoard pre-war money, why?? because it doesn't weigh anything. Then at the end of the game, you can see 'oh I have picked up 200 pre-war money, lol'.

You could even drop all of the pre-war moneys on your house floor one by one to make yourself look rich lol.

Surely if you decrease your inventory to one melee/unarmed, one short range, one long range, one armour set, stimpaks, bare necessities, surely then you balance the game because your enemy don't have massive caches of different weapons or armour to choose during battle. That is why I will play hardcoe mode. It makes survival seem more like a part of the game, when even ammo weighs and you have to constantly manage your inventory, food, water, sleep + stimpaks.

In hardcoe mode, just assign stimpaks to a hotkey. So you don't need to open pip boy to use one every time. You can do this on consoles too. You can even do that to hotkey weapons to certain arrows etc so you can switch quickly.

Yes, I horde three full warehouses... not joking. But I usually only take one versatile weapon with me on my travels, like a laser rifle, and one hard hitting weapon, like a sniper rifle, it depends on my build.

I am a avid collector of Intact garden gnomes.

I hoard what i can.

When i started playing Oblivion i took item here and item there. Fallout 3 i had nice collection of teddy bears and whisky. when New Vegas came. My Hoarding got out of hand. I had to collect all the dinosaur toys and toasters. Skyrim i spend most of my time hunting daedric artifacts and cabbage.

I do the exact same thing. I only carry a believable amount of stuff. No more clothes and armor besides what I'm already wearing, one main weapon and one secondary weapon, and then a backpack with enough ammo for a couple of reloads, two granades and stimpacks, and then some water and food rations as well as a handful of bottlecaps.

Ammo is never a problem because I can restock from the opponents I kill. The fact that you need to use your defeated opponents and environment to resupply yourself keeps things interesting for me.

Ditto for me as well. Once I find a weapon or two I'm comfortable with, that's pretty much all I carry. I dislike hoarding stuff just to sell it. I'll definitely collect "named" items, just because I like this collector's part of it.

It'll be interesting to see if we can get free player housing in FO4 or if we'll have to buy it. If it's the latter, that'll change my game play strictly because I'm not going to wait for 50% of the game to be completed to earn enough caps to buy a house, like it was in Skyrim. I'll cheat.

I usually change my carryweight with the console commands so I can carry more. because I horde everything. I have a massive collection of raider gear, empty bottles, stock piles of weapons and other gear. I am looking forward to the settlement building options in FO4. now my hording might have a use.

Pretty much this. In the beginning of every game I take whatever I possibly can but the longer I play the more restrictive I get.

Though in Fallout 3 as I′m trying to amass as many caps as I can, I do take everything I can sell which is way more than a person could ever carry. Though as it is a game and not real life, I choose to do it because it′s fun.

I can't stand a cluttered inventory either! Heck, in FO3 and NV I remember obsessing over which weapons I would put in my quickslots, limiting myself to 3 armor sets (Gotta change sometimes right?) and selling everything else!

Agreed.

For me any mod that forces weapons to be carried (i.e. carrying on the outer body and not just some 'magic' bag) alongside of giving a realistic carry capacity is a must have.

Thank you for mods!

I hope we can move objects in the game like the others. I had my houses loaded down with pre-war money, teddy bears, mini nukes, magazines, and whatever else looked good when stacked or piled up. But as for on character, i only try to have 1 or 2 guns on me at a time, but i havent played 4 yet so im gonna have to see how it goes.