Yeah the Champion’s arms were great…mounted on the wall of my house. That what everyone wanted right, the Zelda equivalent to $100 wall hanger katanas?

Exactly my issue. Honestly the weapon durability system of BOTW ruined the game for me and is the only reason I can't finish it.

Well they copied it from Tim. 😂

Yeah durability was way too low in that game.

​@@Chiefofbrickscan I ask why? Is owning a particular weapon that important? It seems like a really good way to make players engage with the world by constantly having to find new weapons. I appreciate it's not for everyone, I'm just interested in why it was a problem enough to make you give up on the game? It's not a criticism, just a genuine query.

And, please, don't encourage player creativity, then call every creative solution to a dilemma an "exploit," whether it is or not, and patch it out of the game. Some developers are doing just that and shooting themselves in the foot in the process.

A better idea would be to burn down every university game dev department since games have generally gotten worse since their inception.

Also no invisible walls

this isnt really true, there is just a large volume of games today, many of which are lackluster or worse, but the overall ratio of good - bad is the same.@@desertdude540

​@@desertdude540So about half a century?

Seeing someone mention thief again making me want to replay them for the 20th time.

Mgsv has a system like that, every weapon has a resource cost so you don't wanna bring stuff you don't need until you develop a base

Baldur's Gate also have quick item slots, to let you prepare wands, scrolls and potions beforehand. Makes things a lot simpler.

There should never ever be a junk items. Every item should have at least one use - for example as a substitution in craft recipe or at least it's possible to get resources out of item disassembly. Player first time playing don't know the real value of the item so they hoard in hope that it will be useful down the line. Game should recognise when player hoarded specific item especially if it's not 100% clear what this item is good for at the start of the game and generate a easier path in one of the next quests if your use all of your stock. This way you don't feel bad for hoarding "just in case" and opportunity never come.

@MrMpakobec well if the game generates an easier path by using your Horde of trinkets, then all it does is reinforce the idea of holding onto stuff because the game has already shown to have a need for it. Crafting, quest, and consumesbles should be flagged and separate. No use trinkets should also be flagged and given little value. Eventually, the player will learn there is little value in holding 30 calipers

Another nice thing is that looking around gives a sense of how mutch you have, both in your 'dragon piles' and the bulk weighing you down, so it is easier to not take what you do not need, especially since most items are craftable and can also be broken down.

Yes, keyword filters are the best. I am ultimate hoarder and I like it a lot. Wish more games would use it.

Is there any mods for FNV that do this yet? That mixed with the quick loot mod would really fix up things.

DA:O had really lovely combat, I wish more games were inspired by it, but I think few are cause it's kind of a weird fusion of modern and traditional combat

or they would switch to potion flask made from leather or metal instead

I agree, TW3’s system is great, it reminds me more of “researching” mechanics from other games rather than “crafting”

Playong on harder difficulties also made me use all those potions. It was exactly like in the books - I used particular ones, up to my abilities, coat my sword for a specific monster etc. It worked great!

I've always preferred Witcher 2's potion system, which gave you a long lasting effect rather than a 30 second boost. The problem was that you needed to be out of combat to use them, which made it horrible for boss fights.

​@@matheusorth5365that's the reason I hate outer worlds food. Save for a few food items, most only last 15 seconds. I typically only delved into items that had a base effect of 2 minutes.

Yes that was a good solution for the alchemy. Often alchemy is left aside because the effort to find the ingrediencies is not yielding the payout in usefulness compared to other activities. In the Witcher it was more rewarding to unlock a potion, because it was not a constant grind to use the potion type.

Morrowind is cursed, the only way I can play now is by using INT alchemy to feather everything and find some poor souls corpse to stash my loot in. Poor thing must be looking like those people trying for the most t-shirts worn world record.

yeah, it was fun in dark souls

This method was actually one of the core mechanics in Dark Souls. When you rest at a bonfire you get a maximum 5 Estus Flask charges for an unkindled bonfire. Now you could kindle up to three times on every bonfire. But there are 3 restrictions: For the first level you have to be human, restoring humanity costs a humanity, AND you have to spend a humanity to do it. That gives you a maximum 10 charges on your Estus Flask. To go past that you have to be in the fairly late game and beat the Catacombs boss Pin Wheel. At which point you can kindle each bonfire two more levels, giving a maximum of 15 and 20 Estus Flask charges respectively. Each level you kindle a bonfire requires another humanity and you can only do it when human. So if you die, thus respawning as an undead hollow, you have to spend a humanity before you can kindle a bonfire. Also humanity isn't a common thing. You get a humanity directly for killing enemies in an area, before you defeat the area boss. After the boss is defeated, that area will no long yield humanity directly to you. This direct active humanity is something shown on your HUD next to health and stamina. It's a trade off to spend this active humanity. You can only restore to human at a bonfire. Being human gives you a damage boost and it boosts item discovery, meaning better drop rates for items. Along with that when you die, you respawn as a hollow, so the humanity you spent to be human again is lost, PLUS any active humanity you had is dropped with your souls upon death. Which you can recover by getting to your bloodstain and recovering it before dying again. Still that means active humanity, which you need to kindle bonfires too, is hard to get and hard to keep. There's item humanity too, a pair of consumables provide it. Humanity an Twin Humanities, they both do a ton of healing when you use them too, but both are rare as both static items and enemy drops. All of this means you have to be strategic with which bonfires you choose to kindle. Since you spend a rare and highly beneficial resource to do it. Also as the game goes on, enemies get much tougher. Meaning acquiring and keeping active humanity becomes more difficult over time. It's honestly a very elegantly simple mechanic, that's also punishing if you mess up. Edit: I forgot to mention that not only does being human boost item discovery, but so does having active humanity. The more active humanity you have, the better drop rates are for items. Though it does have diminishing returns, based on the more active humanity you have. So you can't get a 100% item drop rate. Also drop rate doesn't effect the items you get exclusively from cutting pieces off bosses strategically. Such as the Gargoyle Axe you get from cutting off the tail of the Belfry Gargoyle that has a tail. Or if you want monumentally difficult, the Obsidian Great Sword which you get from cutting off the tail of Black Dragon Kalameet. An easily missed and extremely difficult boss from the DLC, so getting that tail cut is really hard, but the reward is more than worth it.

I also forgot to mention the other thing with bonfires that's a gamble. Whenever you rest at a bonfire all of the default area enemies respawn, same as if you die. This doesn't apply to all enemies though, like bosses and special enemies such as all of the Black Knights outside the Kiln of the First Flame and Havel in the Undead Burg. Edit: Keep in mind that default enemies are fully capable of kicking your butt, even when you're over leveled for an area. You need to approach them with a degree of skill. Dark Souls is a game series where tanking really isn't an option. Even when you have a high HP build with Havel's Armor. There are things you can just not tank. You need to know how to roll, block, and ideally parry.

Ah yes the Classic I have 1000 Gold worth of items from a Dungeon but all the Merchants combined in the City only have 300 Gold to give. Very fun

@@einholzstuhl252 Being an alchemist in skyrim is a bit of a nightmare because of this. I will end up collecting so many ingredients from regular travel that I can create hundreds of potions and each potion can sell for a hefty price anywhere from 50-100+ gold, and shop keeps just never have enough gold for me to sell my entire stock anywhere. At one point I realized I should just keep a handful of potions on me so I constantly save my gold and instead just barter for items with my potions being basically my new source of currency.

That is a great question. I would love to see a video about that topic!

That's a really good question

I can't remember was he in the original Fallout?

@@kyoujinkoYep!

I think it also resets all your money before a mission, so you have to spend your budget either way.

Darkest Dungeon does the same, the items you bring with you are turned into money, at a net negative. So you actively try to use it. Resources also use the same slots as treasure, so you are forced to balance greed and careful hoarding.

7 Days to Die does this to an extent. Pockets of various sizes (single, double, triple) can be crafted for individual items of clothing and armor to increase the number of inventory slots available. The recipes could probably use a little more thought. One shouldn't need 100 pieces of cloth to make a pocket for their jeans. You're making a *pocket*, not a quilt, for heaven's sake.

@@lrinfi How many to make a quilt? 🤣

@@benrositas8068 I'd shudder to think. lol I get the feeling they wanted to slow down upgrade progress early game and got a little rushed w/alpha 21, raising the amount needed of only the primary resource required for a few items because some of them and a few prices have been set to (what I think are) ridiculous amounts. Hopefully, they'll have a chance to balance them out a bit before alpha 22 comes out.

I like how Zomboid solves this in a very logic manner. Items can be put into bags (backpack, handheld plastic bags etc) Holding a bag in the hand will block you from using two handed weapons, holding bags in both hands bad will not allow you to use any weapon. But you can drop the bags at any time, and carry them later. So basically games could offer inventory that can be dropped quickly to get more agile, and picked up later.

I believe Neo Scavenger does this exactly in the way you've described. The player has several body parts / "slots" which can equip a piece of clothing. If the player puts on some pants, they'll be able to store objects in their pockets. If they carry a bag in their hand, they can fill it with items.

just treat the random food you find like a free health buffer and eat it all instead of using a med pack

That's a thing, in Thief on PS3 I kept my supplies at 60-70% when I went out into the world and stored the rest. I knew I could find items, so I wanted to be able to pick them up, and feel free to use them.

Yeah. In Dragon Age: Origins I was selling the gems and then didn't realise later I needed some of them after you finish Orzammar and get the dwarves on your side. Although to be fair, they're easy to come across and you can rebuy them if you know which vendors you sold them to.

I also kept every Tossball card in The Outer Worlds. I didn't know whether I needed a whole set for anything.

Long rests where kind of determined on when the wizard will blow his load, even if the other classes still had enough to go on.

What I find with buff items and potions to be the problem is that they often have too limiting timers. And in games like Dark Souls this extends to spell buffs. 15 seconds feels way too short, why should I bother doing something for that? That feeling is what overwhelms me with this sort of thing. I find it to be less an issue in MMOs like WoW, where your buff potion lasts 5 minutes, big buff potions for raids 2 hours and spell buffs also 15-30 minutes.

in the case of Bloodborne, those special items can only be used at specific places for a particular purpose.

I think there is a video on it already. I'm 's pretty sure it's from the point of view of money sinks.

That would be so much fun! Just one caveat: there's historically been so much pettiness surrounding stuff like that, it's probably not a good idea for people in the industry to go quite that far in helping and/or playing around with others. So, please don't be offended if Tim doesn't take you up on the offer. He's not really in a position in which he can due to the dichotomy between private property and public commons. That dichotomy is why Tim has a Fallout game outline tucked away somewhere. If he sees those ideas surface somewhere else, he'll know they didn't come from his outline. Alas, sheer pettiness is among the reasons why unsolicited manuscripts are not accepted by publishers. Too many people have falsely accused others of "stealing" their ideas; lawsuits galore have ensued. Not saying you would do something like that. In fact, I don't think *most* people would, but there are always bad apples around to spoil things for the whole bunch. It's just kind of an unspoken rule at this point with "intellectual property" being all the rage and as contentious as it is. It'd be nice to be able to share and bounce around creative ideas more freely than we can, atm, but I gather that's why the Creative Commons license was born. ^.^

Fallout 4 had a much better balance on when to pick up junk and common loot, and use for crafting than what Starfield implemented. In Starfield the whole loot handling, crafting and selling was just annoying.