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Message: [QUOTE="Moth_Lobster, post: 193262, member: 291685"] I think limited inventory space also has its use to keep the game balanced. The older DQ games had an inventory limit, each character could only hold so many items, and this played a part because you couldn't just hoard healing items. There weren't many options for MP recovery in the early-game either, so you can't just spam healing spells. it was a really good way of keeping the player paced out, if you were running out of healing items and MP, it might be a good idea to head back to town, buy more items, rest up and try again. The fast travel spell wasn't useable inside dungeons and you usually unlocked it after you unlocked another spell that made you exit the dungeon, so you would need to manage your MP to make sure you keep enough on you to exit, and fast travel back if you were running low or if people were dying... or you could use a fast travel item, which once again doesn't work indoors, so now you needed to choose between saving an inventory spot for that wyvern wing, or using it for something else and saving the MP. It was an entire core aspect of the game design down to the small details and giving the player the option to hoard items just kind of risks ruining this. The newer DQ games let you use the fast travel spell indoors, which already ruins that balance, but from 5 onwards they also had an unlimited inventory bag you can place items in, where I pretty much consistently had backup healing herbs or whatever in that I would use when not in battle. It just messes with the flow. FFXV, a more modern game, also suffers from this because players can do sidequests and do other things to get extremely overpowered very easily and pretty much shows exactly why I have issues with this system. Money basically stops being a problem in the mid game if you play it right, which kind of ruins the traversal systems since they focus on money (refueling the car and renting chocobos). But also, you can just buy 99 of any item. anything. 99 phoenix downs. Why bother to learn the combat system when I can just use infinite healing items if I start to die? One of the postgame dungeons prevents players from using items and its noted as being one of, if not the hardest thing in the game specifically for that reason. [/QUOTE]

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