Rant Thread

[Ghieri]

I'm tired of all of these whiny kids saying "OMG no inventory NOGOODGAME!"

Inventory management was a system developed to regulate player hoarding in games, so that players had to pick and choose which items they kept so as to focus on strategic item use. Mostly used in early dungeon-crawling RPGs, which are known for deep strategy and thought.

Nearly every item you picked up in TDD had a use in the game, so there was no advantage to keeping them in your backpack as opposed to introducing them near the puzzle area. In fact, I'd argue that if TDD puzzle design was more like MFP it would have been a much better game.

Actually, I'd be so bold to claim that every single system in MFP was superior to TDD. The particular use of those systems leaved something to be desired, but each individual system was an improvement on the original.