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For me personally it's Morrowind. I would have to make supply trips mid-dungeon crawl to sell all the stuff.

Deus Ex comes in a close second.

yeah it's diablo

Diablo 2, you want to pick everything up but you can't!

Baldurs Gate 1/2, and KOTOR gets an honorable mention for worst inventory interface in history

Path of Exile, Diablo 2, and System Shock 2 in roughly that order

Deus ex

Ultima 6

You find a spear, a spear, a spear, a spear, a spear, a club, a spear, a spear, 3 gold, a spear, a ring, a ruby, and a spear

Deus Ex

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.

System Shock or any games where you have to play inventory Tetris. It’s surprising how common that was in games for a long while.

Diablo 2. Had so so so many mule accounts!

No man's sky. I want to love that game but I hate managing my shitty ass small inventory.

Escape from Tarkov

I think it was Torchlight 1 or two that had this cute animal companion you could send away to sell your stuff when in a dungeon? I want that in every game. Selling wasn't instant, you still had to click on items to sell and wait for the animal to come back, but it was such a nice, well thought out feature.

Surprised nobody mentioned Terraria, especially old Terraria before they added a bunch of QoL improvements to crafting where you'd have to find which small chest holds your iron bars mixed with the million and one pieces of loot you refuse to let go of.

The long dark

Carry too much and you'll be a slow and easy snack for wolves and bears

RE4 is the first thing I think of, then the old infinity engine games

Guilds wars 2. Players don't call it "inventory wars" for nothing.

Deus Ex, Diablo 2, World of Warcraft

System Shock 2

Just let me carry every single thing

Kinda obscure but I thought of NEO Scavenger, a post-apocalyptic survival game where you wake up with nothing and have to scavenge around for a plastic bag before you can carry more than what will fit in your hands.

Men of War Assault Squad 2 / Gates of Hell: Ostfront. It's like if Company of Heroes was a squad RPG with full inventory management/looting/vehicle capture. By the end of a campaign my infantry squads are superheroes with a mixed bag of all the best weapons from WW2.

Project zomboid

the game of filling trash bags with loot, putting the trash bags in the trunk of a car, or having a backpack full of bags of bags of loot

Subnautica, because it has the worst inventory/crafting system I've ever played and inventory management is such a big part of the game. Most of the other games people are mentioning don't have crafting and resource collection as a central part of the game, so the effect is lessened. Gathering and synthesizing resources in Subnautica is so bad that it hinders me from replaying what is an almost perfect game otherwise.

Minecraft's inventory system is actually pretty good and seems well integrated into the game, so it isn't actually as noticeable.

Re4

RE4

Sweet Home NES (only because I finished a play through of a fan translation last week)

Nethack. Though I've been playing D2R nonstop recently, Nethack came to mind firstly

Diablo 3, Minecraft, or Skyrim. Early-game No Man's Sky is a runner-up.

Edit: and Valheim. Goddamned fucking Valheim, every time I go into a crypt to gather iron and max out my carry weight and have to figure out WTF I'm hauling back to my safe house with the smelter, all while dodging slimes, skeletons, and draugr.

Neverwinter Nights 1

terrible terrible system for a pretty good game that i played way too much

Stardew Valley

recently it'd have to be Baldur's Gate 3 since that didn't have the ability to view your companions inventory while in camp without having to invite them into your party at launch.

Forklift simulator.

Resident Evil Outbreak and it's sweet piano music

The first hour of Stardew Valley

Noita