Weight management can be a fun strategic consideration. There’s also something to be said about having some limits on what you can drag along with you in the game. It can be time-consuming and unreliable, and there’s always a chance something could disappear. Of course, there are all sorts of problems with using a mule. And as usual, I barely have the room to carry them. The new Effervescent tier has a trio designed for Haderax the Invincible, reminding me of my set hunting days in Diablo II. Whereas once it felt impossible to get a Legendary or farm enough Eridium to purchase the slots to store it, the game now is like an open treasure chest.

But Borderlands 2 did something in the years that I’ve been away, something I did not expect: It fixed the drop rates. The conflict of having limited storage and a desire to cherish every unique item in the game hasn’t come up for some time. And the recent Pathologic 2, which uses the gridlike space management system seen in older games (like my beloved Diablo II), encouraged hoarding by necessity rather than completionist fixation. I used to use console commands to get past the low carry weight in the last few Fallout and Elder Scrolls games. Until I recently got back into Borderlands 2, it had been a while since I ran into the problem of low inventory space. It doesn’t give us enough space to hold everything we want, just what we need. Alternately both friend and foe to the RPG completionist, the limitations it imposes on the tools and necessities we can carry in a game are often more of a curse than a blessing. It would be a completely benign figure in the ecosystem of game design conventions: the inventory system. If I had to choose a videogame archnemesis, it wouldn’t be a boss or an enemy.

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