Encumbrance - Old Hat or Core Pillar?

[SirJames]

I had a look at the Skull and Bones open beta.

I think there's room in a ship (or spaceship) game to have cargo heavy trading ships, etc.

 

[Maylander]

I prefer the approach of the Gothic series, where weight is irrelevant, but you can't pick up every spoon in the world. The actual interface wasn't great though.

 

[Carnifex]

Gothic did a lot of things well, that's for sure.

 

[JDR13]

I like items to have weight in immersive sims and party-based RPGs as long as inventory management isn't too much of a hassle. For action-RPGs, I'm fine with things being weightless.

 

[lackblogger]

Solasta has this - there's copper, silver, and gold.

Yes, but in Solasta it's relevance doesn't extend much beyond halfway into your 1st level. It's still very much an aesthetic rather than a key aspect of early monetary accumulation and trade.

 

[Alrik Fassbauer]

I personally thought that encumbrance is very good in RPGs which tried to simulate the world to some degree.