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[sigard]

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[rusty_shackleford]

Icon based inventory is for preschoolers who get excited by pretty colors and offended by text.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

Finite Tetirs Inventory + Ability to move and rotate items (à la RE4) + Weight Limit with several status effects = Perfection

/thread

EDIT - OP is a faggot for trying to argue otherwise

 

[Sotomonte]

Inventories are for pussies. A true man only needs what he can hold in his hands (and at most what he can grasp with his teeth).

 

[Cross]

The best inventory system is the one used in System Shock 2 and Arx Fatalis. Inventory Tetris in a simple bar that's fast and easy to use and doesn't interrupt the game.

Finite Tetirs Inventory + Ability to move and rotate items (à la RE4) + Weight Limit with several status effects = Perfection

/thread

EDIT - OP is a faggot for trying to argue otherwise

One of the worst inventory systems actually. Action games should allow you to use items and switch weapons in real-time. Letting you pause in the middle of a fight to play inventory Tetris is not great design.

 

[KeighnMcDeath]

You left out packrat freeform inventory like Anvil of Dawn.

 

[Gargaune]

The best inventory system is the one used in System Shock 2 and Arx Fatalis. Inventory Tetris in a simple bar that's fast and easy to use and doesn't interrupt the game.

Not an RPG proper, but the best inventory system is the one in STALKER. A single page of inventory tetris and encumbrance with gradual stamina effects.

 

[Peacefriend]

monocled text list:

For one thing, a good inventory system should display as much of your inventory on the screen at a time as possible. Your example has 10. This is horrible. It's worse than Skyrim inventory, consider that.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

One of the worst inventory systems actually. Action games should allow you to use items and switch weapons in real-time. Letting you pause in the middle of a fight to play inventory Tetris is not great design.

The game isn't fast paced enough for the inventory pause to hurt the action in a significant way
And those brief moments of levity give you a chance to rethink your approach

Besides OP is asking what type of inventory system is the best, not what implementation - as the flaw you described can exist in other systems and it's fix is simple (just don't let player access the inventory during fights, or make it real-time)

 

[Cryomancer]

Tetris inventory like M&M VII.

 

[jackofshadows]

I think that "dogshit" tetris grid system is the best simply because it allows to balance out items by its size too, not just weight. I dislike approach when you can hoard 10 breast plates just because your fighter is "strong enough".

From recent games by the way the best implementation of it I've seen if not RPG was in Escape from Tarkov.

It greatly shows how exactly possible to realize potential of this system.

 

[JarlFrank]

Tetris inventory you fucking faggot.

 

[JarlFrank]

THE BEST INVENTORY, no contest

 

[rusty_shackleford]

list-based is superior for an actual RPG, there's not even an argument against it beyond "muh fee fees" and "look at the pretty colors! just like... look at them!!!"

other inventory types are designed for games that aren't rpgs

 

[Storyfag]

Tetris. Or its excellant TW1 variant with limited slots for the larger items.

 

[Alex]

Best inventory system ever.

 

[Blutwurstritter]

I like rpg tetris in single character rpgs. But I prefer the list or icon variant in games with larger groups. Juggling items between the backpacks of characters of the same group is boring busywork.

 

[Storyfag]

Juggling items between the backpacks of characters of the same group is boring busywork.

That is indeed an issue. A common inventory pool, malignant though it might be, would be easier for the player to manage. Could still be of the tetris variety tho.

 

[Lim-Dûl]

List conveys more information in the same amount of space than tetris and you can imagine what the items look like instead of having to look at often poorly-drawn images that likely don't even match what you see on the character when you equip them. Icon is clearly worse than the other two options and not worth discussing.

 

[Melcar]

If you want Tetris go play fucking Tetris. Leave our inventories alone you faggots.

 

[DJOGamer PT]

If you want Tetris go play fucking Tetris. Leave our inventories alone you faggots.

No
Cope and seethe

 

[CHIN00K]

list-based is superior for an actual RPG, there's not even an argument against it beyond "muh fee fees" and "look at the pretty colors! just like... look at them!!!"

other inventory types are designed for games that aren't rpgs

Based take, king! But why stop at inventory? RPGs shouldn't have any visuals whatsoever! Everything should be text based and resemble a CYO adventure novel. No use of differing fonts, of course! Only Times New Roman allowed, because only simpletons obsessed with pretty colors care if their game looks like a excel spreadsheet!

If your rpg doesn't look like this:

Well....

 

[luj1]

monocled text list:

You call this monocled lol

who the fuck likes this

only consoletards and deranged weaboos

 

[Humanophage]

Not only is it aesthetic, but it makes pickpocketing fun because people can conceal objects under large objects (e.g., cover up gold with a robe or a piece of sheepskin). It also punishes disorganised people and disabuses them of the notion that they can function well, teaches people to be tidy and to invent their own systems for storage.

Otherwise, grid-icon atrocity is the best, but it needs good filters and sorting. Text list is good if it is sortable like an excel sheet, so it works for a game where functionality is above everything else, but it is ugly.

 

[Marat]

I don't care. The inventory system has to not irritate. That is all.