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I love hearing about unique takes on game mechanics. Someone recently convinced me that limited inventories are kind of abused currently and that unlimited inventory systems would give more player choices.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

limited inventories are kind of abused currently and that unlimited inventory systems would give more player choices.

In some sense that's correct. You'd have more options, but you wouldn't take them. Having a limited inventory forces you to make choices. Yes, you can use that scroll/potion/whatever, because you're gonna run out of room, so feel free. On the other hand, I think that many devs don't consider inventory management enough! I think that it's often an afterthought and could use more dev attention.

What game mechanics do you love and hate?

Hate: instakills. Diablo 4 and Risk of Rain 2 are my current games that have this. ROR2 is not as bad, you can prevent this by getting enough defensive items. D4 is worse about this. You can be chewing thru trash mobs just fine but get to a boss and immediately die. There's no ramp up to this.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you play RoR2 on PC, you owe it to yourself to install some Quality of Life mods, like one that fixes or improves the game's built in one shot protection. Also, auto sprint.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I do. Thanks! I didn't even realize there were mods.