Starfield and Baldur’s Gate 3 Revive Age-Old RPG Debate About Encumbrance - IGN
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Starfield and Baldur's Gate 3 both weigh the player down with encumbrance. Love it or hate it, it seems like it's here to stay.

Starfield and Baldur’s Gate 3 both weigh the player down with encumbrance. Love it or hate it, it seems like it’s here to stay.

  • Lifted_lowered
    56•1 year ago

    It’s such a trash game mechanic because it forces realism where there is none. You have faster than light travel in your game? Why don’t you have teleporters? You have magic in your game? Why don’t you have a Bag of Holding? If you are going to impose the constraint on the player for balance or gameplay reasons then at least make it fun, have a mechanic that is interesting in some way. Maybe teleporters and bags of Holding are expensive to build or don’t get unlocked until you collect 10 flippityboos but at least reward progression and picking up objects and don’t turn every decision into agony.

    • ElectricMachmanEnglish
      13•1 year ago

      RuneScape has an excellent fast travel system. In fact, it has a whole bunch of 'em, and you have to work for them; either by completing quests, or by training your skills. You can also get items to expand your inventory somewhat, but they only work for specific item types.

      • Lifted_lowered
        2•1 year ago

        RuneScape did it pretty well for sure yeah I always felt like there was a good level progression for items like at level 60 in old school bronze items were just straight up trash lol

    • @[email protected]English
      8•1 year ago

      Even if they think it’s a fun mechanic, they fundamentally fucked the amount you can carry imo. Should be higher than it is by default, because I straight up don’t want to waste skill points on that.

      Then they’ve fucked the amount of cargo you can have on a ship. Either make it infinite, or ridiculously high even for a small ship.

      I’ve got multiple freight containers on my ship, and apparently each can only carry about the same amount as my character??

    • @[email protected]
      4•1 year ago

      Also you’re limited in weight but holding 5 heavy armors and 7 two handed swords in fine.

      Picking up that silver spoon can tip you over the limit however.