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  • In BG3 it is a balance mechanic. Heavy objects tend to be completely OP and are used to cheese combat. encumberance limits this and even allows building your character specifically for this playstyle.

    In Bethesda games encumberance is in part there to protect players from themselves. If every object can be picked up (and that is a design principle in those games) and every object has a Value, then the optimal strategy is always to grab every single object you can find and then sell everything at once. If that does not sound like fun to you that is because it is not, but still i know multiple people who play those games this way even with encumberance in place. Players will always find a way to ruin their own fun, the only hing you can do is to put systems in place that disincentivise these behaviors.















  • Absolutely. The appeal of an RPG for me is to be able to immerse myself in a story and decide for myself how i act and what i chose. It bothers me that it is so rare these days that i can control my characters attitude to a problem instead of just choosing the outcome of a situation. Like in Cyberpunk 2077 where the main char is a rude asshole with dumb ideas no matter what you do.


  • I noticed I have a really sharp motivation drop after ~300h that is usually the point where i would say I am competent in a game and would need to put a lot of effort into to bocome better and reach the top ranks. And that is just not worth it for me. I mostly enjoy learning a game, figuring stuff out on my own is a large part of my enjoyment. I only have two games on steam with 500+ hours and those are Factorio and Stellaris. Factorio just took me a longer time to get bored of. Stellaris I usually play in ~30h bursts twice a year after a new dlc drops and changes the game completely. So everytime is a new game to learn which I really like.



  • Star Trek: Strange new worlds is still doing ok after the first episode of the second season. Not amazing but much better than a lot of other Star Trek things in recent history. Also I think Star trek 5&6 can technically be called prequels, as TNG was already running at that point. And ST 6 is a movie I really like. (let’s not talk about 5)