That’s how you realize you’re in too deep. It’s like I enjoy this game but now I need to sit down and do a bunch of administrative work that I do not enjoy doing so I can just keep playing
Inventory management can be fun. But sadly a lot of games absolutely butcher it by having bad UI or annoying controls. But if done right. I really enjoy it.
Tears of the Kingdom.
Fall out
That moment when I’m playing a video game and realize I have to do inventory management and get really excited.
What do you mean? Going through inventory, sorting chests and containers in Minecraft, Skyrim or Fallout 4 is part of the fun.
Ran into that with Starfield recently.
After like 10 hours of play, and constantly having to run back and forth to store and sell stuff, I just used console commands to give myself an unlimited carry weight. I would only play for like an hour or two most times, and on some of my shorter sessions, I’d start the game and immediately have to do inventory management, and I’d end up spending all the time I had free running around selling and storing stuff. It was ruining my experience, so I fixed it with console commands.
I’m currently playing through Alan Wake II, and it has a Resident Evil style inventory. I’m fine with that, because you’re not picking up any and everything, and you use most items pretty quickly. I’ve had to do minimal inventory management on it.
Or…find a merchant and sell everything. Problem solved.
This is the kind of thing I’m cool with for a little bit but will ultimately be the sole reason I’ll put a game down for something else in the end.
Division 2 have used all characters as mules. Now my kids want a character and i had to go through and find what i wanted and didn’t 300 pieces of gear almost 2 hours. didnt get to shoot one dang bullet
That’s me every day playing Division 2. I love the game, but I have to run dailies and such and pick up loot and open crates and check 40 pieces of loot to see if it’s 1% better than what I have. Love/hate.
Bg3 for me.
I was real happy when I realized I could dump everything on Karlach.
As a Diablo 2 player, I have come to embrace and accept this. It sort of becomes like cleaning my house after a busy week. I dread it, yet once I get started (and put on some good tunes) it becomes enjoyable in of itself. After, I get to enjoy a highly organized stash tab and I feel like a god. All this until it becomes a jumbled mess again and I go through the same thing. Such is the cycle of life, and the inevitable progression of entropy.
Witcher 2.
That or base building in a game that has nothing to do with bases