for me it's RE4, but this question came to me as I was demolishing a backpack battles run last night (pyromancer OP)
For me personally it's Morrowind. I would have to make supply trips mid-dungeon crawl to sell all the stuff.
Deus Ex comes in a close second.
Tying carry weight to your strength stat is just wild. Oh you're a caster? Good luck carrying that ebony cuirass out of here.
Then again, it is morrowind, so you can just cast Feather on yourself to carry more stuff OR even cast Burden on the enemy and suddenly they are overencumberd. Or drink strength potions. Or just fly. Or make a stupid amount of money in various ways, making loot kind of neglectable.
Diablo 2, you want to pick everything up but you can't!
Baldurs Gate 1/2, and KOTOR gets an honorable mention for worst inventory interface in history
Path of Exile, Diablo 2, and System Shock 2 in roughly that order
Ultima 6
You find a spear, a spear, a spear, a spear, a spear, a club, a spear, a spear, 3 gold, a spear, a ring, a ruby, and a spear
Don't forget how you have to pick up everything on top of the ruby before you can pick up the ruby!
Great game: Minecraft (Inevitably end up with an inventory full of cobble at the end of each mining trip. Mods like AE2 with remotely accessed storage solutions save the day.)
Shit game: pokemon legends arceus (the inventory is too small and upgrade costs are too high, one of the many things wrong with that wretched turd of a game)
i still like how the default trash bin in minecraft is a pit of lava that you vomit ur shit into
pokemon legends arceus.... that wretched turd of a game
That game is a fucking travesty, because the core gameplay loop is incredible. You get to fill out a pokédex with... actual pokémon facts! Like observing them performing their signature moves!
And it has Playstation 2 texture quality. And calling the inventory and crafting mechanics dog-brained would be an insult to dogs.
the core gameplay loop is incredible
I thought it was acceptable at the start but then it rapidly became a grindy, unfun and dull slogfest for me. I'm glad that you could find enjoyment in it, though it's not my cup of tea at all (I'd rather eat my shoes than play legends again lol)
I feel like a lone defender in a medieval fort here, but I loved Arcaeus and it's my favorite Pokemon title since the Colosseum games. Pokemon needs more games that take the usual Pokemon game loop and do different things with it.
Pokemon needs more games that take the usual Pokemon game loop and do different things with it
Agreed, we just have different opinions on whether legends succeeded in doing this well or not.
Hot take but I believe that scarlet/violet and let's go games did do different things and did them well (though scarlet/violet clearly needed more development time).
Nobody knows what legends-za will be like but it's a possibility that the game will fix legends arceus's problems.
Whenever you see the words "inventory management", what is the first game you think of?
ESO and Guild Wars 2.
System Shock or any games where you have to play inventory Tetris. It’s surprising how common that was in games for a long while.
Honestly I kinda miss inventory tetris in genres where scarcity makes sense. Like, I'd never accept it in Minecraft; but games like Resident Evil? Absolutely. You could probably cut down heavily on the action heroism vibe by massively cutting down how many weapons and how much ammo you can carry at any given time across horror gaming, but nobody wants to do that because everyone in the horror sphere's chasing COD player money and COD players can't handle not being armed to the teeth in any function or facility.
I fucking hate what Resident Evil has done to horror
Surprised nobody mentioned Terraria, especially old Terraria before they added a bunch of QoL improvements to crafting where you'd have to find which small chest holds your iron bars mixed with the million and one pieces of loot you refuse to let go of.
