@RUINISM role playing a petty thief who collects near worthless household items is objectively a wildly ineffective way to play the game. Understand that this is not a criticism, this is part of what made these games Holodecks, and turning all of these items into crafting items for upgrades to weapons in Fallout 4 is an example of moving away from the holodeck towards creating a more ordinary videogame

@RUINISM I didn't say picking up objects was a useless mechanic I said picking up spoons was worthless, which it is, there's dozens if not hundreds of clutters items with an atrocious weight/value ratio, it would have been easier to simply only to make some objects collectible by the player and generally this is the model followed by other games where stealing is a mechanic. This oddity of Bethesda games where you could collect countless useless objects was such a weird element that the huge minds at penny arcade deigned to comment on it back in the day

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