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People certainly also play milsim like arma, but that's definitely a minority.

Meanwhile in Minecraft I'm carrying around 2000 cubic metres of gold in my pockets.

You don't have to go to milsim to not be able to carry an entire armoury of RPG-actually-full-blown-missile-launcher, grenade launcher, assault rifle, sniper rifle, DMR, submachine gun, multiple sidearms, plus various other alien weaponry, each complete with enough ammunition to fill an 18-wheeler trailer if desired to be stored with any sort of safety.

It was fine when I was playing Doom ][ but that's something that started bothering the hell out of me back when Half-Life came out with its believable sci-fi setting, as it kept breaking my suspension of disbelief.

"Can carry only two, maybe three tops with sidearm" seems to be the rule these days.

I think change was more so move from keyboard to also supporting controllers. Keyboards easily have 9 weapons on number keys and in some cases like quake nail gun even more on same key. Controllers just do not support this as easily. Thus move to things like wheels and other input methods.

From a fun perspective, this is unfortunate, because there is usually one or two weapons that are general purpose enough they should always be carried. The rest have some sort of gimmick that makes them useful only in certain circumstances (tank approaching, sniper area) or are just wacky (shrink ray, freeze ray, net gun). With the tiny weapon limit, the esoteric guns never get any playtime. Larger arsenal also encourages some kind of rock-paper-scissors resistance mechanism where critters take double damage against foos, but resistance to baz.

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