The best and worst inventory's in gaming.

Hey guys, welcome to plug in for Player 4.

I'm your host Brandon, and I'm with the two chaps.

Say hi. Hi I'm.

Chap. Two say Chap 2.

Yes. Oh, OK.

It's like, you know, 1 ring evening.

How are you doing, fellow associate?

Oh, he's tired enough to be speaking elegantly.

This ain't good. That that's, that's horrifying.

I don't know how I feel like. I don't think horrifying would

be the right word to use. I think we have to use.

I don't fucking know. Oh come on, man.

You can set it up and then now you don't do it.

Like not not now. I'm just upset.

Just straight up boner kill there.

Boner kill. That's a good way.

God damn well how have we all been doing?

I've been doing stick all year so far.

My last episode, I believe it was my last episode, I was like,

oh man, predictions for 2026 are going to be so good, no.

No. Against the Super flu.

For 10 days I was sick. Yeah, you were.

Yeah, you were pretty sick. Yeah, I still am, but I'm

recovering. That's.

Why? Literally, I'm finally getting

there. Yes, OK.

And we took the liberty of just deciding to record this over

Discord, just to be safe for everybody's well-being and

health. Yep.

And we should be back in the regular studio two weeks for.

Two weeks. That's so far away I.

Don't feel like a flash? Yeah, you know these weeks go by

fast. Nope.

But what about you, Mark? How you been doing?

I've been doing OK, just keeping myself busy.

Been really enjoying the steam state sale or winter sale a bit

more than I should probably. But you know.

Been adding a lot of different games to my steam list.

I have a grand total of 12 games at least, which is like double

what I had. We got Outlast Trials, we got

Generation 0, we got Void Crew, we got a whole bunch of stuff

and on top of that we have started doing playthroughs for

our YouTube channel. Yes, we have.

They, whether they have not, whether or not they have come

out by now, we have started recording.

We have. We're going to have a game for

me and Mark. We're going to have a game for

Brandon and Mark and we're going to have a game for me and

Brandon. Yes, we've.

And then and then hopeful, sorry, but but hopefully we have

also a game for all three of us. I don't want to say what it is,

but hopefully it comes out too along with those.

Start getting a little bit more one-on-one time with each of the

pairings of friends in this podcast.

I did not have good words to describe that.

That's all right. No, but you were right about the

one on ones because I've I've learned recently that I like the

the one-on-one with my friends. I still like playing games with

everybody every so often, but I prefer the one on ones.

Plus I think this is a good way to like pretty much learn one

each other's friendships, both for the viewer or player 4 and

each other as well. Yeah, and a little bit more of

our interpersonal dynamics on a one to one level.

Yeah. Oh yeah, when we started

recording the game, me and Ether doing that shit was funny.

I. Don't know game, I don't

remember. I'll remind you later once I say

it. Yeah, up there it is.

There's dude. There's Dude on me.

There it is, God damn it. Let me let me tell you the game

that me and Mark are playing. That was a lot of puppies.

God. Yes, I've been editing that and

like I got to get that. I still have to get that edited,

which I've started on in part. Where I finally go like we need

to go. You should add like the the

Metal Gear. Like what sound?

That's what I need, yes. Yes, there is a sound.

Difference what happened? Oh wait, oh wait, we got to go.

We got to go. Now, there is a sound effect

that I have put in there in the episode so far.

I'll have to show you it later, but it was just the way you got

on that bike that just fucking floored my ass because it was

just so dumb. It wasn't.

Like you got on it and you were like, so well, I kind of gave it

away now, but yeah, it's, yeah. That's all right.

Oh. Dude it was funny as fuck.

I know, I know. The first time I saw that, like

when Mark got on it and like, you know, seeing the actual

player model, I'm like, what the hell is happening?

What? Dying.

I'm dying. But As for me, things have been

good besides my part of my tooth deciding to just say see you

later bucko and fella. You know, just a second for the

viewer, not in pain or anything. I'm getting it taken care of

next week. It's fine.

They can do a filling or whatever.

But yeah, that was not fun. I.

Nobody has had quite the experience with that as well,

and let's just say it's not fun for her either.

Oh, she, oh, she's had that happen.

Oh, I understand. She said that happened recently

and like, it's just like, oh great, here's another piece she

got early. Tell her I I I send my

condolences to her tooth. I understand what she means man.

Like I said, doesn't hurt, it's just the fact that happened.

That's, you know, dismantling and then, you know, like now

there's a hole in her mouth and she can't 2 on that side for,

you know, things getting inside that hole.

That's like a great again, you caught her early.

Yeah, I'm lucky that it's just a piece of the tooth that could be

replaced or put a cap over it or whatever, you know it.

That's, you know, I'm lucky. I'm also lucky it doesn't hurt.

So that means the nerve didn't get fucked up so they can do

what they need to do. But I want to make AI just want

to make this funny for a second because it kind of isn't out.

I think about it the way I found out it came out.

I'll tell our mythical man Jack later.

I was using one of those like little floss things and I was

because I thought I had a piece of like like food stuck, you

know, So I'm like getting in there, you know, and I guess

when I lifted it took the tooth, some of the tooth and it's I

heard. Wait, what?

Took another tooth? Fucker He's.

A new shit. No, like when I lifted like I

guess, yeah, that that piece came out and I heard an audible

tick, tick, tick on the fucking floor in my kitchen.

Let me tell you, when I heard that, I went ghost white.

I'm like, there's no fucking way.

And I checked and I'm like, oh, nice, this is bad.

Now I, I know this like, like, Oh my God, you know, that's not

funny. It is kind of funny now.

When it happened, I couldn't tell you how much anxiety filled

my body. I am now finally chilling out.

Well, yeah, when your tooth kind of just, you know, dismantled

out of your body, you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,

whoa. It committed Honorable squirrel

yeah that was that was something so yeah take take care of your

teeth get regular cleanings get an electric toothbrush

apparently those are actually really good from what my brother

has told me it really does clean your teeth the.

One that I got, I got it for my birthday last year, was fucking

nice. They really do a good job.

I would love to get a water pick too.

A water pick would also, yeah, but yeah, now this ain't my

first rodeo. I've had a tooth actually crack

in half and they had to take it out.

So this is nothing. You know, I am thankful for my

dad's teeth 'cause that's what I have, Not actually my dad's

teeth. No, it's just for my dad's side.

Shut up. My brother and my mother aren't

so lucky with that because like they'll I think it's way, I

think it's my dad's side. But yeah, anyway, their teeth

just no matter how what they do, it's just bad.

My teeth though, like I, I guess I just had the right genes that

I just didn't need to brush my teeth for like 8 years and not,

I know it's going to sound gross, but I just like I've just

always been lazy with it. It's always been hard for me to

develop a, a pattern to brush my teeth.

Even now it's still pretty hard to even get like 3 * a week.

Anyway, yeah, I'm lucky I have the teeth that I have.

I mean, I'd probably be missing all of that.

I mean, I'm lucky as well because my like my mom, my mom's

side, like she had kind of soft teeth.

So she just like, what are you talking about?

Like they're softer than what your teeth should be, so they're

easier to break. So she, you know, ultimately she

had the rest of her teeth removed at this point.

I mean, she's, you know, got dentures now, but the, the, the

thing she had to go through with that was not fun because the

place we took her to, they don't really numb you much.

Oh. So.

Yeah, but Mom's trooper, she got it done.

This was last Christmas, so. But I'm lucky I, I really

haven't had too much trouble with my teeth lately.

Like I really after that one tooth cracked, I had removed

that was really it. So I've been lucky and I, I

usually what I do cause a lot of my teeth, they don't produce a

lot of plaque from what I can tell.

So I usually just brush at night, but I'm probably going to

have to start, you know, doing the mornings or whatever, or at

least twice a day just to keep everything going.

And I just, I want one of those electric toothbrushes after all

this is said and done is that I need that.

I need that in my life. Vibrate.

Anyway, getting to what games we've been playing recently, I'm

sorry, go on. Do you have one more thing?

No, not no. Go ahead.

I was just going to talk about how I started Secret of the

Mimic. Yeah, I'm only like a couple

months late compared to, you know, security breach where I

was four years late. Yeah, you'll get around to it.

That was fun, but I keep telling myself that it's not going to be

like Security Breach, even though I keep thinking it's

going to be like Security Breach, even though I know it's

not going to be like Security Breach.

I'm I'm powering through the game.

I really am trying, but so far it's it's OK.

I'm not sure if I like the idea of a Five Nights at Freddy's

game having one enemy. It's kind of like Five Nights at

Freddy's 3. Yeah.

Where it has, yes it has a scary moments but it's also like

boring for the most part. You want more out of it than

just having one. I think, I'm not exactly sure

what I want out of it, you know, other than being secure security

breach. But yeah, I don't know.

It's definitely a 180. Yes, it's, you know, very

different. I'm like, I'm having fun with

it. I'm I like getting the

collectibles. I think I just need to see more

of how the game plays because really all I've seen is like two

instances where I have to hide from the mimic and a chase

scene. That's all I've really like done

in the game in terms of facing an enemy.

So we'll see how that changes. Yeah.

I mean it, it's one of those things you just give it a little

bit more time. But also I mean it.

It just might not be for you which.

That's fine. You wouldn't be the only one

'cause I know what Markiplier I think said that after his play.

Theories like this just isn't. This is not the fnaf for him.

Yeah, I think that's what I'm thinking.

Like I, I definitely liked, I mean, obviously the mainline

games, but also just I have a whole document on security

Breach that, you know, in case the time ever arises to talk

about it. I have all my feelings of when I

finished it, but so to kind of save on that.

But like just I think what I missed most was the atmosphere

and the animatronics of security.

Yeah, I can see. My main gripe of Security Breach

is that I wish we got to see more of all the animatronics

before they went haywire. And I know each hour makes them

dirtier. You don't get to see them like

up close begin themselves. Yes.

Before they get dirty other than Freddie and even then it doesn't

last long. Like you can pretty much do like

hours one through I think 3 in like an hour or two in real

life. Something like that, yeah.

It's not not that long of a game in all honesty.

It's not it's a pretty short and then there's just a whole thing

of Five Nights at Freddy's. Where's the Five nights

bullshit? I call bullshit.

The. Only thing with the mimic is

where's Freddy? Yeah, there's no.

Fretting the game, really, it's just, hey, here's the mimic,

which I get it, it's a different story, whatever, but it's just

like I would. Oh, that's what it was.

It's the definition of mascot horror without having a mascot

like a set mascot. So like takes the gimmick of the

series and then just doesn't even do it.

Pretty much. Because I, I mean, I haven't

seen a single Freddy costume. Yeah, like, I mean, yeah,

there's like, what Penny or whatever her name was Jackie.

That's what her name was. Yeah, Jackie.

She's kind of like the face of it, but even then, so far I saw

her once. I'm not sure if that comes

later, but yeah. I I can probably say or answer

that like. That's all right.

Well, not any spoilers because I want you to go through the game,

but this game does. It's technically a prequel I

think. Yeah, I think it's a prequel to

a security breach. It's a prequel to, I think not

just Security Breach. So why I say that?

As you saw a poster, Fredbear's Family Diner, that's that's

before actual like Fazbear Entertainment.

So just so you have that that knowledge going in again, once

you go through the game, a lot of questions will be answered.

Oh, of course, for sure. Even if it's, you know, you play

through the game or you watch somebody play it.

I decided to watch somebody play it before I played it because at

the time I don't know if I was going to get it so and I wanted

to know the story. Right.

But it is definitely a complete 180 from security breach and I,

I really want to see the glam rocks again because they were so

fucking cool, dude, they were. Cute.

I really wish that I got to see more of them, you know, as

themselves and you know, not dirty.

By the time, by the time the game is opened up, it's like

3:15 AM. That's like more than 1/2 of the

game. And by that time the the glam

rocks are really fucking dirty. Yeah.

There's like no more scripture. Well, relatively no more script

like scripted stuff. You can go wherever you want.

No. But that's my great.

I don't know if this will be incentive enough to get to have

you go back to security breach. Somebody made a mod?

That Oh yeah, we're adding all the stuff that all the cut

stuff, yeah. And Jesus Christ, there's a lot

it like, like I said, it's probably not enough sensitive

for you to go back, but I just want to make sure you knew that.

I'll probably go back there at some point 'cause I I just love

the atmosphere. Yeah, as much as I got really

upset with fucking what was a fucking chica fucking finding me

in my hiding spot even though she didn't see me?

Yes, I quit the game after that. I got pissed.

But no, watching you play it really made me love it more.

I'm telling you, when I finished it, there's like I, I think I

talked about in the episode where I after I finished it is

there's a gem in there somewhere.

There's a charm. Yes, I I wholeheartedly agree

with that. It's God damn man.

Fucking security breach. But the episode is not about

Five Nights at Freddy's. Maybe it won't point with it.

We might do it. I like this.

I'm definitely talking about the security breach on that episode.

Yes, now today, the theme of this episode is the best and

worst inventories in video games.

Who wants to go first? I'm gonna defer to Mark, see

what he's got to do. OK.

We don't normally start with Mark.

It's a It's a nice refresher. A point, yeah, No.

There it is. Decreed on T's mouth.

Thank you anyways. Yeah, I know. 1 inventory system

that really just kind of irks me is Planet Crafters inventory

system. Oh, that's a good one.

That was on my mind and we initially brought this up,

Brandon. That was on my mind.

It pissed. My God, yes.

But like, nothing bad about The Cave or anything but the

inventory system just fucking sucks.

It really does. It's.

The the controls are not intuitive and then the the way

that the implemental weight based system is kind of

annoying. There's a weight based system?

What? Yeah, so, so each of the

objects, it is like a certain weight.

That must be for the harder difficulties because I just will

carry whatever I wanted. Interesting.

No, I can't remember off the top of my head.

It's been, I haven't played Planet Crafter too much

recently. It's not a weight base, isn't

it? It's just an inventory base.

Yeah, it is as inventory full. I I, I was thinking of a Space

Engineers for a second there with the because, Oh my God.

But still, yeah, the controls are very unintuitive.

When you get to the point of the game where you're doing

automation, you have to play around with the inventories a

lot to make sure it doesn't choke itself.

Yes. And it's, it's, it's just a

little weird be having to set priorities for everything in

order for machines to still be able to take resources and then

being able to just ferry stuff around and it, it's just weird.

My problem with the game with the inventory is because you

know in planet Grafter you get different tiers of items and

that includes what is it backpack storage.

So you get like what do you think for all right cool, you

have 4 for a really long time. Then you have then you finally

unlock tier 5 at the end of the game and by that point you've

can really just sit there and wait for the the planet, the

like complete terraform. It's kind of stupid just how

fast you get 1 tiers one through 4.

Granted 1 is, you know right there because can't go anywhere.

But anyway, there's just how how spread apart those are compared

to just the 5th tier alone. And.

You can pretty much with tier 5 you can pretty much hold a half

a Tier 2 locker or maybe like 2/3 and it holds a lot.

Yeah, but again, by the time you progress that far, you don't

really need too much of the Tier 5 tech.

Like you don't, you don't need tier 5 oxygen tanks because by

that point you have a breathable atmosphere.

Right. Only thing that's sort of useful

is tier 5 exoskeleton because that just gives you more

inventory slot or just more equipment slots.

Yeah, I mean, there's also like the the higher tiers of the

jetpack. True, but.

Yeah, the like in term because you have you have like, you

know, jetpack, flash, flashlight module, destruction,

deconstruction module, all that kind of stuff like backpack, gas

tank, whatever, whatever. All of those go on your person

inventory, which is why you need a bigger exoskeleton.

And then you have your everything else inventory where

you have your magnesium, you pretty much your basic resources

or uranium rods or stuff like that.

And the exoskeleton is fine. You you pretty much are never

going to worry about stuff for the year exoskeleton.

It's your actual inventory that's the problem.

Yeah, with just how much of this is the game has you go through

to go explore out, collect resources, bring them back to

your base before you die of oxygen, water or food exposure?

Just. To make a little bit of progress

here or there, the the inventory system probably could have been

done a little bit differently. All right, but that's as much as

I've really got for Planet Crafter.

You guys want to take it over? Yeah, I can talk about one all.

Right. We're actually like 2 on my

mind, but I'll talk about this one first as Astro near.

So I have talked about this game a little bit before where you go

from planet to planet and you get like different resources on

those different planets and like pretty much that's how you make

stuff first year on Sylvia. And then you can go to like the

solo or that street. I think one of them is called

anyway, but there's like 5 planets sold and there's two

moons. But again, these these resources

are spread across these planets and moons.

So you have to go to different places.

But then you have your backpack, which is a physical backpack.

It can't change how many items there are, and the farther you

get into the game it kind of reduces how much backpack space

you have. I'll explain.

So on the back of the backpack you have 8 slots.

And let's say, let's say you go out, collect grass and you

eventually get organic material. Or you you pick up some resin

and you have resin. Now you have two slots filled

and these. Depending on what material

you're trying to collect, it can be pretty damn fast.

Yeah. But then you also have what's

the the bumpers? I would call them if you're

using a controller, you have your bumper inventories, which

you you can use to like put down tethers if they're on one of the

two sides or turn on and off your work light.

So you can like look see in a radius better around you at

night or in caves. And you can just turn them on

and off with your bus. So that's 10 total.

Then you can craft very basic stuff with a very basic

resources on your backpack and depend like you can like go left

and right on the D pad. Did like change what items like

this? It'll take compound or organic

or resin or whatever. That can potentially be another

resource slot if you need one, because even if you don't craft

anything, it'll still be like, oh, you have the you have the

resource you need in order to build it.

Let me put it there for you. Let me let me bring it on down.

So that can be what 11 slots now at the need of your Terra

formation gun, which has three slots.

This is what I mean by it reduces as you play because you

can get mods for your gun. That's like, oh, drill size or

drill speed, getting through the harder materials to dig through

and stuff like that. Or like depending on old, you

want to make it flat so you can change instead of boring into

the earth or putting stuff down. You can make.

You can like a change to the flatness of the planet if you

wanted to, but you have three slots there which are split like

exclusively for the drills. So you could have 14.

You do have 14 slots, but once you get far enough into the

game, those three get taken up by mods and you can't really do

anything there. So you're down to 11.

But you also have soil canisters.

So if if you ever want to, you know, use that while you're

digging through the earth, you can use the soil to for that

flatness or making material, that's another slot down.

And again with the tethers, that's another slot down or a

work light that's not like on the bumpers, that's a slot.

So like at the end you basically have 9 slots.

It's just so constricting. And yeah, as you go, you get,

you have a spaceship, you eventually get a spaceship and

then a bigger spaceship which can hold items than an even

bigger spaceship which can hold more items or even like just

bigger item. Like for example, you can bring

like a smelter with you if you really wanted to.

So you have your spaceship storage, which is cool.

That's, that's pretty cool. But like on your person when

you're out exploring, again, depending on which resources

you're collecting, it's just you can, you can collect them really

fast or some certain ones are really slow.

But if you're going for one of those fast ones, it's like, all

right, I got to walk 9 miles. All right, I'm full.

I got to walk 9 miles back. Oh man.

That's the. Worst.

Yeah, annoying. Yeah, that's all right.

It's it's for the most part manageable.

There's just times where it's like, oh fuck, I want to carry

all these back but I don't have enough space.

All righty, I guess it's my turn.

So. All right, so for me these are

pretty easy ones, but I'm going to start off with one Skyrim's

inventory. Oh so.

I don't have experience of this. You're going to.

You're going to have to explain this to me.

The only me, I just know it from the memes so go ahead.

So the inventory, it's not, it's not bad, it's just like

everything is in their own like dedicated slot.

So for like weapons, armors, ammo like like that or well the

ammo's with the weapons, your healings, your shouts, like

magic, all that shit. It can get a little confusing

sometimes when you are trying to look for something that you

think is in one category but actually isn't.

And then also that the inventory when you're going through things

can be a slog if you have too much shit.

And as a a Bethesda game, that's you know, you're, you're, you're

picking shit up. Fuck the weight.

You're going to pick everything up because that's what you do.

Like this is going to be a short one because Skyrim's inventory

is not like glamorous or anything, but it's it's one that

I can understand, you know, being from a game from 2011.

It works, it's functional. I just sometimes have a problem

navigating it. I might hit a button by accident

that completely closes the inventory.

So I got to go back into it and go fucking try to find the shit

I was looking for. Like it's, it's just, it's, it's

one of those just little pet peeves, I guess.

But once you get it down like it's, it's usually fine.

I it this might be a problem for me just because I'm so used to

other games inventories being better like other Bethesda games

inventories. Like Oblivion's inventory is

kind of similar to Skyrims, but not like it's has its own

categories and all this stuff, but I just feel like I'm able to

get through that inventory pretty.

Fast. So would you say Oblivion is a

good inventory? So I would say it was better,

yes. Now I'm going off of the remake

but. True.

But I believe the original Oblivions inventory screen is I

I don't want to say the same, but it's similar.

Like I, I prefer the way they did it in Oblivion.

But again, Skyrims is not bad. It is not bad by any means.

It's just it feels a little clunky and slow.

But that could be that could just just be me, you know?

Yeah, I don't. Have to think about it as as

probably it's Skyrim's an old game so it's it.

It's probably just the mechanics of the time just not syncing

well with. Yes.

Modern expectations. But that's actually.

Another point, yes it is. But still, I love Skyrim.

I do. I love it like I never used to,

but until like I like I play Fallout and all that and I'm

like, you know what? I want to try something

different and going through Skyrim was great.

There are some gripes that I have with it, but that's for

another topic. But inventory wise it's fine.

I'm just used to modern things now and it's, you know, not

really the fault of the game, it's just the time it was made.

But I consider it a good inventory for what it is.

So OK, what about y'all? And got got me more stuff.

I mean, I do got another one. I'm actually looking at it right

now. I just got a clarification.

Is this both good and bad or just bad?

It's both good or bad. OK, so there's this game.

Now I like my indie games, so few have probably heard of this

game. It's called Vulcanoids.

I know it's on me and Mark's list to play together.

So you may or may not see that on the YouTube's at some point.

But basically you, you have this drill ship and every so often on

a volcano erupts. So you have to go underground or

otherwise. I don't know what happened.

I don't want to find out, but as you get a bigger and bigger

drill ship, you can put more modules on this thing.

This could be turrets inventory. This could be like foraging like

a smelter or something like that.

But the storage actually in this game is not that bad like you

have. Oh sorry, you have 35 inventory

slots on your character, which that's actually a lot.

You can hold your like all your weapons and ammo and all that

and there's not much since you're so tied to your ship as

well. You're it's not like you're

venturing too far off and getting too many resources and

to come back and issues with no, I'm looking at the drill ship,

but it says inventory slots 92 out of R and 51.

I'm not sure if I would have to build more if I need that all at

1:51 or as I fill it up like there's 92 used because I see

one empty spot right now. So I'm not sure what the deal is

there. But honestly it's it's pretty

well thought out and like there is no weight limit or anything.

Like right here I have 1384 pistol turret ammo in a single

stack. So you're good.

You're set by honor. Like it's just because of the

restrictions that the game has of being practically tied to

your ship or visiting frequently your ship.

You're not really being weighed down too much by the lack of how

much inventory you have 'cause you can just be like, all right,

let me just do this real quick. You know, fight, fight.

If you get to meet is pick up stuff off their body is come

back to the ship, drop it off. Or even sometimes you're out and

about and then all of a sudden, hey, your ships taking damage.

So you got to go back. You got to defend your ship.

And yes, you could have turrets, but also sometimes the AI is

just too dumb slash smart, both the turrets and the attacking

enemies to like stay far enough away to where the turds don't

activate. She's like, oh God damn it, now

I got to deal with this. So you got to go back to your

ship, kill the enemy. Yeah, it's this.

It's actually like one of the one of the better inventory

systems I've seen in a game and I am very cool with that.

All righty, Mark, do you got anything?

I mentioned space engineers. I kind of want to talk about

space engineers for a little bit hurry.

So speed Space Engineers, it's inventory system is kind of,

it's much more straightforward. Everything is weight based

though. So instead of each object is an

individual unit, it's all based, that's all based around with the

weight of the object. And you know, this makes sense

for it's a space sandbox game. As you pick up more resources,

it weighs down your craft and whatnot and you have to expend

more energy just to move it around and shit.

But the thing that I don't really like about that is that

for one thing, different resources require different size

piping to move. So like, say, if you, if you're

making a mining vessel and you need to move stone throughout

your vehicle, it's got a, it's got to be able to move through

small pipes. But if you need to move say like

resources like missiles and pods and stuff or ammunition,

sometimes that requires using large piping just to be able to

move it. And there's no real good

indicator on any of the items that says, oh, this could move

through small piping or this could move through large piping.

Another thing on top of that is that in order for the game to

not freak out, you cannot make loops in your inventory system.

So what I, what I mean by that is say you bring home or bring

back to base a slew of different resources and you want to have a

central large storage for all of your stuff.

And how I was trying to set this up was I was trying to set it up

with it starts at the central storage.

You have a feeder that says, OK, so you this this resource can

only go through this loop in One Direction using that using the

the sort of filter and it would take you certain items out, send

them through the processing machines and send the other

resources back. And the idea of that was to be

able to restrict certain resources from being produced.

Well what happens is that if you make loops, the games logic just

kind of breaks down on the inventory system and and it just

starts acting in weirder ways that you don't expect that it

just doesn't work anymore. All right, very good.

Yeah. All right.

You know it, It's nothing too difficult, it's just it could be

annoying. Yeah, it's just one of those

like mildly annoying things that, you know, could be

different just. Yeah, when when you're starting

on, you're not aware of it. It can be insanely annoying

trying to figure it out, but it's just one of those things

that you just kind of have to learn the quirks of it and just

go from it. Yeah.

Yeah. You got anything more, Brandon?

Yo, yeah. So I'm going to go with the next

one for me, the one of the ones that are kind of like, why did

you do this? So for most of us, I, I don't

know if you guys know like how Resident Wolf 4's inventory is.

It's like Tetris based. Yeah.

Yeah. So that was that was good like

that. You know that that that is why

I'll I will talk about. But then you go from resident

wolf four to five, took that away like took took away that

fucking inventory screen and gave you 6 slots.

That's it. That's all you can hold.

Yeah. And.

Oh, that's really dumb. I sounds like an older RPG, like

a JRPG or? Something dude, yeah, like, I

mean, I got through it, but like I and like, for the record, I'd

like resident will 5:00 But that was just one thing because you

have your inventory and then you have your partner's inventory.

So here, you know, you have that many slots, you know, like, OK,

that's fine. But also your partner, the the

AI, you know, might be like, oh, you're hurt just a little bit

here. I'm going to use a green herb on

you. Fuck.

Well, at least I have an inventory slot now.

But if you, if you take them out of the equation for a second,

like just the inventory itself, you're you you just dumbed it

down way too much. And it's it it took away all the

satisfaction of when you went and picked something up in RE4

and your inventory pops up and says, you know, you got to move

shit around. Yeah, it's like a little mini

game. Start moving the crap around,

turn things around. Can you flip that gun upside

down? Maybe that'll give you a little

bit more room, you know? Well, we're just going to give

you fucking 6 or is it 6 or or is it?

No, no, it's 9. I think it's nine.

It's been a little while since I've played it, but you give us

these nine slots or whatever and that's it.

Like this. This is kind of.

Shitty. Now, it didn't ruin the game for

me because if you put these, how this inventory works is the top

left, right and bottom slot. If you put your weapons there or

like any item you want to quickly take out, you can hit

like the D pad in either of those directions and you'll take

like your shotgun out or whatever gun you have assigned

to it. So it's kind of quick.

So you don't have to open up your inventory to get a weapon

out. The other thing too, when you

open up the inventory, the game does not pause.

Oh no. So I think this is probably

something to do with the fact that the game is multiplayer, so

you can have like someone else controlling the MPC or your

partner or whatever. So if you, you know, if somebody

opened up their inventory, it would pause the entire game.

It probably wouldn't have been good, but I have made that

mistake too many times where I think I'm OK when I open that

menu and then I come back and I'm dead.

You know, I just, I, I don't understand what Capcom's

reasoning for that was. Like, the whole Tetris thing was

great. Like you knew if you could not

fit this item, you were not getting it unless you got rid of

something. Every time that I've seen that

inventory screen whenever you played it, I'm like, what the

fuck are we doing? I fucking love it dude, it is so

good. And then they.

That takes up like the whole width of the thing and you got

like 30 more spots or not like 60 more spots, but then you also

have like 3 bandages or whatever and that takes up the slot.

And so you know, are you down to like what, 14?

No, you're down to like 10 slots.

But then, oh wait, you picked up this this thing for the puzzle

that you need, so now you're down to like 8 slots.

I mean like for because I know for.

No, I know. Yeah, Yeah.

OK. Yeah, I I know that the the

mission objectives don't take up inventors, but still, it's just

like eating bullets. Bullets take up two slots and

you have two guns 'cause you have your your gun and your

pistol. Or, God forbid, your rocket

launcher. Chicago Typewriter.

What are you doing? Chicago typewriter, hand cannon,

the fucking rocket launcher, and then my like 60 pieces of health

that is taking up most of the space in my attache case.

Oh, yeah, yeah. I just, I mean, it's a good

time. Like it it is.

It is so great. The only thing is with the side

objectives and the remake of RE4, those items do take space.

Now there's only like a a couple side missions that do that more.

So the fish you had to go like fishing and they get this big

ass fish, which you don't have to get rid of.

You can't keep it. It's a health item.

But yeah, it, it, it looks really odd to somebody who may

not play RE4. So I, I can, I can understand

that. I'm just so used to it.

And I just, I just love the fact of just thinking like, you know,

Leon has to get something out of his fucking case.

So he's got all the enemies. Hang on a second.

I got to get something out. And he opens up his fucking, he

puts his case on the floor, opens it up, you know, like, OK,

what the fuck do I need now? You know, it's just, it's.

Just. A will die.

I mean, I got, I got a controversial 1.

I feel like it's controversial. OK, I want to talk about

Terraria's inventory system, OK? Because you have like 160 or so,

like different slots. Like you have 50 for your

inventory, then you have 4 for ammo.

You have the trash space. You have the four for coins,

which surprisingly for a gun is ammo.

Then you have all your armor and all your accessories, but then

you have three sets of that because the game is just like,

well, here you go. So that's so you know, like 5

accessories, 5 vanity accessories, which they'll be

equipped, but they'll do nothing.

Same thing for armor, 3 armor pieces and three variant vanity

armor pieces. And again you have three of

them. But then you also have like your

mount, your hook, your what is it called mining cart, whatever

the one that you like, ride on the rails, whatever.

It's just like, but you simplified.

You have 50 inventory slots and the top slots are your hot bar

that you can scroll through. Otherwise you have to open up

your inventory. 50 sounds like a lot.

It's not. It fills up 'cause you have all

your all all the stuff, Yeah, but then the rest of your

inventory is like, you just kill so many item, like so many

enemies, or you break blades of grass, or you kill a critter or

catch a critter and it's just your inventory gets filled with

a bunch of different blocks with a bunch of different flowers or

mob drops or God forbid, that 276th thousandth banner of a.

Bat it's the most random ship. It's always just a banner.

Oh my God, always a banner. Like there's so much inventory

until you realize there's no inventories.

Yeah. And then, but then you can also

get like the the money through or the Piggy Bank, whichever

doesn't matter. Take your pick and you can store

items in there. But it's like, Oh well, I'm

storing all the items that I'm using for the future or all the

weapons I need for the future. Like for example, here's the

copper short sword, the Murasama, the seedler, the

Hellfire blade, the whatever, what nice edge, blah, blah,

blah, blah, all for the terrarie.

No. Is it called the sword?

Oh God, I can't remember. Terrarium or something like that

for those like pinnacles because you need like 11 different

swords to craft this one sword and you're just your, your Piggy

Bank is filled with that because you're holding on to that.

Or like quest fish, God forbid all the quest fish, even even

the chests you're you're building like 50 different

chests and you are going to fill most of those chests.

You will have to have spare chests for for your spirit.

Yeah. It's just insane the amount of

stuff you have to hold on to. Or just the amount of stuff you

collect in an hour's time. You play it like collect

everything you can in an hour and just put it in like just in

a random ass bum fuck nowhere, but like there's chess set up

and just see what you get. Yeah, just fucking Oh my God,

that's so much garbage. Again, that 275th thousandth bat

banner or zombie banner or the fucking floaty eyes.

I don't care. Like it's both a good and a bad

invent. It's good because there's a lot

of space, but it's just bad just because of how the game is made.

Yes. Because then you're looking,

it's like you find a chest, you're like, Oh my God, health

potions. I need the, or maybe a health

potion. But like, there's like a, like

an iron skin potion, Like, Oh my God, an iron skin potion.

I need that. But what am I going to take out

of my inventory? Because you're 2 hours into

like, you know, searching through the underground and

you've already been to like 7 underground like a huts or

whatever. That's a lot.

It really is. Especially when you get into

hard mode and I have even more enemy types to deal with and

even more drops to deal with. Oh my God.

Yeah. So much just you see, Brandon,

you'll, you'll, you'll see what I mean.

That's when I swear up and down, curse the game, and then die.

Clear your inventory. You keep, you know, your 10

items at least and then like whatever else in your room.

So let's say, let's say you have 2020 items on you.

Actually the inventory might be 40 instead of 50.

Nothing wrong. It might be 50 anyway.

But let's say you clear your your your inventory and keep 20

total items in your inventory. As soon as you step foot

outside, half of that is filled. Yeah.

God. I love the game, the bits

though, it's it's not hard to manage, it's just the sheer

quantity makes it annoying. Yeah, it's like the amount of

starting you will have to do. Just a fishing task to keep your

inventory clean. And yeah, you can use that like

a that inventory lock or whatever it is item.

But then like the one time that you want to pick up an item and

there's like 50 other items on the floor with it, you're like

great. Pick.

Everything up lock. Yeah, I can see that annoying

the hell out of me. No, no.

Yep, to this day I wish banners were like exponential.

You're like, oh like you killed your 50th, now you're 100th, now

you're 200th, now you're 500th. No, it's just every 50th you

guys get any more? Anything else, Mark?

Personally, not really. Not that I can think of off the

top of my head at least. What about the bottom of your

head? Bottom of my head.

I'll, I'll go checking. Brandon, You, you got anything

vulnerable? God damn, it look like a bit.

So I mean, we're almost at time. We're about a minute before

time. But yeah, I can.

No, I, I, I haven't found anything at the bottom of my

head. Sorry.

I had to go down the steps, go check.

Oh. No, you're good God.

Damn it. If you're wondering what that

clapping sound was, yes. It.

Was clapping in the background trying to mimic steps.

Oh. OK, good.

That that's what I hope that you were going to say.

So yeah, I can. I can finish this off if you

don't have anything, Ethan. Just one thing, yes, the clamp

of my hands keeps alerting the car.

I hate you. God, God damn it.

All right, buckle in, kiddos. So probably out of everything

that we've talked about, so my favorite inventory, the fucking

pit boy. Pit Boy is fucking cool as shit.

I don't care what anybody. Tells me that's such a neat

inventory system. Just so unique to follow itself.

Yeah, like you've never. Been a fan of weight based

inventories too much 'cause like they always just get full way

too fast there. Yeah, no.

I I agree with that. That's.

I think that fits more in with the with the survival horror

aspect. That and like, yeah, any

Bethesda game, you're going to have that shit.

Yeah, true, but the like I thought they were Bethesda as in

relation to Elder Scrolls. Yeah, I mean, that makes a lot

of sense. Yeah, like the 'cause I know you

can get more weight and all that shit, you know, as you progress,

but no, I can see where it's annoying as fuck.

Believe me, I I get you. You know, I I don't know.

It was just such a unique take on, you know, OK, I need to get

something out, you know, again, everybody hang on.

I gotta look at my pit boy. Everybody freezes.

I took a look at my wristwatch. Yeah, you're over fucking

overcompensating. Fucking watch and shit.

Hold on, give me a second. Where did that come from?

I need to pull out my smartwatch.

Hang on, guys. I got to get my super sledge

out. Yeah.

All right, let's go. Or you just took a.

Bunch of drinks we're going to. A writer camp You got to get him

a power armor what let? Me take these like 50 pieces of

fucking buff out real quick. Let me eat some squirrel bits.

Hold on. Guys, I'm taking a lot of

damage. Just give me a second.

All the stim packs this much and hustling Oh.

My God. Yeah, no, I, I honestly, it's

like I said, it's unique. I will say yeah, it's pretty

fucking comical. Like it, it really is, but I've

always just had the the Pip boy just has a charm to it.

I mean shit, I have a fucking replica from the TV show sitting

next to me at the time. I was going to say, you have one

in real life. Yeah, that you can wear.

Isn't someone a can wherever you please?

Yeah, it's like, hang on, I got to get my Magic deck out.

Like it's. I don't know, it's just cool.

I just your magic check just pops out like a neatly packaged

cassette tape. Yes, yeah, just a unique

inventory screen and I haven't really seen anything that in my

opinion tops that. Yeah.

I think it's just something that if you're in the gaming world

and you see you see a pit boy, you know what it is, you know

what series it is. It's just that iconic.

And also like the the jumpsuits and ship like it, it is an

iconic series. Now it has its issues.

I will not defend that it it has problems, but I think that's

what makes it have that charm to it.

You know, when it's not completely breaking.

I've had that too many goddamn times.

I'm talking to you 76, you fuck. Please, I'd love you.

Come back. You turn it away for me.

Well, yeah, no, that's that's last thing I've got if you guys

have anything else. If not, I'll wrap up.

No, I think we're going to wrap up.

Fortnite's inventory sucks ass. You get 5 slots.

That's it. OK, I'm good.

Well. That's because that's Fortnite.

What did you expect? Yeah, it is a better reality,

right? It's it's, it's basic that

that's all I can say. I mean limited.

Yes it does. It is, like Mark said, a battle

Royale. Yeah.

Yes. All right, let's get this plugs

going. What'd you?

Say doesn't mean I can't be mad about it though.

Oh, I mean, yeah, you can be mad, that's fine.

I get mad every time I get fucking killed and danced on.

I get mad every time I get mad all.

Right, just get mad. Gur Gar, growl, sniffle, growl.

I don't know. All right, well, thank you all

for tuning into this episode of Plugin for Player 4.

In the comments, let us know what's your favorite inventory

or most hated inventory. What?

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