Why organizing in games is so much more fun
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2020
- What makes organizing such a chore in real life, but so much fun in video games?
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#Tetris #ResidentEvil4 #WilmotsWarehouse - Hry
Clayton is really just out here guilting folks into cleaning their rooms huh
Half way through I genuinely, absent-mindedly picked up some worn socks that "missed" the laundry basket and threw them in. Now the video is over, I'm taking a wider assessment of the floor and have deemed it unsatisfactory.
Thus my goal for June is set.
@@violetnhz No, do it now.
Wanted to like but also wanted to leave it at 666
@@Sam-iu8nb haha good luck with your cleaning endeavors my dude
"In a game like Skyrim, you can defeat a dragon while unintentionally carrying 18 wheels of cheese"
Um, unintentionally??? Wheels of cheese are a necessary object to have in you inventory. The more you have the stronger you are. It's completely intentional!
No, you need. BUCKETS!
Nah man, you gotta get that apple cabbage stew. I've got like fucking 200 of them at any given time.
No no no it’s Wooden bowls eaiser to just pick it up so you don’t accedently pick it up collecting coins
no no your getting it all wrong.
you need actual knowledge of the game cause I have never played an elder scroll game sorry (I have seen it though)
😂 it's been out for almost 9 years and he doesn't even know the basics
clayton bullies me into cleaning my room asmr
ikr
Pfft. Nice one.
big mood i'm staring at a pile of quilts on a chair that i left there after i changed my bedsheets but didn't put back on the bed
@@snowyyyyyyyyyyyyy Maybe you should start a quilting circle.
I will concede on cleaning the Junk Chair™ but nothing else!!!
Me hearing the words “virtual hoarding”: * side glances over at my switch with animal crossing where my house storage is almost full*
I’ve been selling my stuff on Nookazon trying to get my storage under control. I’ve got it down to half capacity but there’s still so much junk I’m hoarding that I’ll never use.
I’m such a hoarder in every video game except Animal Crossing where my issue is prioritizing fashion items. My house inventory is half-full of just clothes and Ables hasn’t started selling summer things. I’m scared
@@laurafrakinroslin GODS WHAT A MOOD, my entire storage is full of clothes and now they're all bleeding out into my yard and the beach around the Able Sisters' shop. That game REALLY needs chests...
I'm so out of space, i basically can't put things down on my island anymore, because there's so much stuff lying on the ground everywhere....I have a serious problem.
i'm in the process of upgrading a second house just to have enough storage for everything. gotta have three of every bug and fish so i can have Flick make models of them all, and most of my main character's storage is my wardrobe.
my minecraft inventory is quaking
Is it wrong that I have that problem in the form of a shit ton of chests on Terraria?
Legit i played survival a while ago and you see i have this problem where i carry all my important stuff with me so i died and all my stuff burned in lava and i havent forgiven myself
C3p0 Works at Burger King omg same when I play survival I legit carry so much with me and then I inevitably die and lose it all
Sage drop box
Food
Misc blocks (2x)
Tools & Armor
Vaulables
It's funny. I'll happily let a room slowly slide into utter chaos, but give me a box of assorted Magic cards and I'll happily spend hours sorting them according to six different criteria.
Lol, same!
Out of curiosity, what criteria do you use to sort? I sort by card rarity, card type, color, converted mana cost, and then finally alphabetically. Though that method does screw me over as soon as Wizards makes a new card type like when they print colored artifacts or mix instant and sorcery on the same card, so I'm wondering if you happen to have a more resilient way of sorting.
@@jamescolvin8429 I go rarity, color, CMC, mana cost (thus including colored symbols,) most recent expansion, and name. Type doesn't enter into it; by the time I'm looking at specific cards, it's fairly narrowed down.
Ah, that makes sense. I tell myself I need to find the cards later for making decks/a cube (not that I ever do, lol) which is why I set it up by type when I'm looking for specific interactions.
Floor: undetectable
Club penguin trading cards: Perfectly sorted
Loom bands: Manually put into like 20 different chains, one for each slight colour variation
Laundry chair:
I think a lot of it has to do with physical space. It is easier to spread out Magic cards to be organized than it is to spread out everything in your room to then be organized. That is the problem I run into when organizing my room.
I have never spent so much time enjoying feeling personally attacked.
😶😐😑
"virtual hoarding" plz don't @ me and my 12 terabytes of locally stored movies, games, and tv shows that i refuse to delete
"BUT WHAT IF I WANT TO WATCH IT ONE DAY?! OR SOMEONE NEEDS TO SEE IT AND I CAN GIVE THEM A THUMBDRIVE WITH ALL 5 SEASONS?!"
Me, but also with tabs
With the rate that torrents are being shut down, your hoarding is god's work
@@s.colins2050 don't do that on my old computer I had so many tabs open for such extended periods of time that it completely wore out the hard drive use a bookmark folder saying visit later or something else instead I don't know but let this be my warning to you as somebody who lost a computer to this very problem
@@toekneemart5597 I appreciate the thought, but it's on an old ass Chromebook that I bought 5 years ago. It literally means nothing to me, and I've put it through the ringer for half a decade. I almost want this thing to die at this point so I can scrap it for parts.
stardew's popularity has always been interesting to me, i find it super stressful bc of the fact that time is a limited resource. i prefer minecraft where u don't have to worry abt how fast days and seasons go by
it's not THAT stressful, because you have as many days as you want, but having a tiny bit of stress is good, because it drives you to make an objectively better farm for time management reasons. all the things that make pretty inventories fun applies to making farms nicely organized.
when your organization makes you more efficient, it's exciting to be able to do more and more in a day.
also, i think the time stress slowly builds on you right? in a slow and reasonable way?
at first, you are really weak, and tire out easily, and can't really make it through a whole day. (well, your tools are weak, but it amounts to the same thing).
so you aren't stressed by time, you are limited by energy, and when it's out, you restart.
so time as a limit, rather than work, doesn't jump out of nowhere and ambush you.
also, you get to organize your time!
if you do all the critical upkeep stuff in the morning when you wake up, you have the entire rest of the day to work on long term projects that you don't necessarily expect to finish that day. at least, i never got to a point where daily upkeep took so much of the day that it was stressful.
@@keysmash_roa actually in my current world that i just started i don't have a bed yet and i like it bc i can use the night to do stuff i can't do in the day
I love love love Stardew, but the time management aspect is why I prefer games like animal crossing
i agree! i enjoy the concept n the graphics etc but it's too stressful n overwhelming for me with how fast the days/energy levels/seasons go.. i hardly play anymore :C
I get that! I tried it and enjoyed the mechanics but would get so overwhelmed by how short the days are and the real penalties that happen if you try to work through the night
Monkey brain like color next to color
i missed clayton so much and ngl,, i’m so happy he’s bullying me to clean out my desks
Smh he’s not bullying
He’s educating
The way simone organized her warehouse reminds me of how I organize the apps on my phone: by color. And everyone always tells me im crazy...
I do this! My friends laugh at me but we're not alone
I do this too! It’s just.. nicer
Fittingly, I also organize my apps by color - Simone
If yall dont do it by function then you're not a real person
i do this! it's so cute & pretty
disappointed this wasn't about unionizing
This one is about organizing. Hoping the next videos are about educating and agitating
"What video games can teach us about collective bargaining" is next week.
Had the exact same thought
They’d get caught by polycorp
Funniest thing is that I didn't even question Polygon drawing a parallel between videogames and unionizing, in fact I got really excited.
Next video: "Why living through a depressingly realistic life full of debt is more fun in Animal Crossing"
no replies about how "I see you everywhere"? On a Christopher Moon comment? After 3 days? what witchcraft is this
In real life we don’t get to talk to our cat neighbour or run around hunting for bugs for three hours.
It's probably bc, in Animal Crossing, it's easy to get horribly rich through the stock market, while in the real world, attempting to multiply your money through stocks is insanely risky.
Index funds
Him: "Virtual hoarding"
Me: leave me and my thousands of downloaded memes alone!
@@Madhattersinjeans so i can share them with my friends (im use a tablet not a computer)
He’s a fun fact, I have spent the past couple of months in Animal Crossing collecting and writing down every single item I’ve ever gotten in the game. I even have a spread sheet, with colour coding! Man. I love organising.
I feel it, I've got a chart of all the fish in stardew valley and where/when they are available
idk if ur interested but there r multiple apps that can help u do that very thing !! the one i use is called acnh life, it is very fun to check off all the items u have (and villagers and diy recipes and museum items....)
Isnt that what the catalog is for? It does that for you. (Not that you cant have fun doing it by hand too!)
i did that with my story of seasons (the new harvest moon games) file. it feels SO GOOD while i'm doing it. 😊😊😊
i suck at organizing in real life, but i love doing that kind of thing in video games. i absolutely made a huge list of where i could find all the resources in dragon age inquisition and how, using which advisor, and where they were most common, etc (one color for each thing - i ended up needing a lot of pens to get all those colors). also, spending the destiny 2 cookie event just making a diagram of what ingredients i need for each one of them and who it goes for. i KNOW that stuff is already online but i don't care i'm still gonna have a pretty and color-coded list or whatever for it! it just looks really nice and i like to do it, i gotta choose which color to use for what thing, etc, it's great, i don't care if it's technically unnecessary
Can we address how Clayton implied he gets random combat encounters in his own house
Does he live in a dungeon
Clayton do you need help
You're acting like you don't have regular combat encounters in your living room. Honestly, what would a living room be without combat encounters.
@@IndigoGollum Well the _living room_ sure but not the entire house. Can't be having enemies using Sludge Wave in your kitchen, that's unsanitary!
hey, he seemed to be doing fine. he even managed to defeat that skeleton while recording a video!
It's how he builds up his stamina, something bdg could learn a thing or two from
**gasp** it’s kappa ross
Okay, I love the fact that you guys put that little squiggle as “Libra” and “sailor’s knot”, because I put it down as “angel-hair pasta” so it it goes in the pasta subsection of my food category!
I didn't want to do schoolwork so I organized my room. Then my room got too messy so I started playing Stardew Valley. Later in Stardew Valley there were so many things to do so I just focused on my vegetable garden in real life. I wonder what stage is next...?
Me, has adhd: wow organising sounds fun
I don't have adhd but I'm autistic and get symptoms similar to it (not sure what the similarity is called) and...it's been maybe half a year. My floor is not visible yet but the shelves look REALLY good now that I've perfected them! I juuuuust have to empty out these three other drawers, so I can find somewhere to put this thingy
SOS
big mood, ngl when I do it I love organising things (so I love it in video games) but actually doing it is another story lmao
@@Madhattersinjeans So you've never known the joy of having Somewhat More Organised stacks of boxes? Of having the equivalent of labeled Minecraft chests in real life? Mama Mia...
I just downloaded Wilmot's warehouse yesterday, and my ADHD self was actually able to focus on it so much I lost track of time, especially the untimed sections when you get to just organize.
When I conisder how I organize the files in my PC vs how little care I give to anything I have on my cellphone... Man, a meme is the least important thing until you are having a conversation where it's relevant and you suddenly remember it and want to share it.
Ah yes, serotonin, my long-lost friend! I see Clayton has received you at my door.
I love that you brought up skyrim's inventory system as less enjoyable when I literally just took 2 hours to organize my (300hr+) save's house with thousands of different items and I loved every minute of it, separating each category of item per each area of the house, plus placing my favourite armor and weapons on racks for them to bee seen everytime I enter that space felt rewarding af. And yes I am one of those "why not keep it" guys
Tiago Coelho - I prefer Fallout in general but Skyrim’s houses do make shuffling items away in their proper spaces so satisfying. And I’m even worse because I set my carryweight to 5000 at the start of every game so I end up with a lot of garbage I don’t want to let go of
I used a mod house that has a bunch of bookshelves so I have a spreadsheet of all the books I want to collect and what topic they are about so when I finish my list I can place them all on the shelves in sections like empire history, aedra/daedra, dragons, fiction, dwemer, etc. It will be so satisfying when my library is complete.
I find more satisfaction in singular inventory management in Skyrim. Never call a place home. There's never a place you "hang your hat" because you keep it on you at all times. That way, when you have unnecessary items, you either drop em or sell em, and you never have to worry about too much stuff.
Darrark Elaborate?
I play the tetris theme when organizing stuff.
Yes!! I start singing it (sometimes unintentionally)
Thank you for the bullying, I'll go deep clean my house now!! Executive dysfunction who?
We're just going to breeze by "Post-Apocalyptic Grubhub Simulator"??
From what I've seen, he isn't wrong lol
he really did just describe the entire game lmao
What?
Saw a screenshot from Resident Evil 4- I have been summoned
the job is done
SOLIDARITY FOREV- oh.. :(
Arise, ye pris’ners of starvation!
Thumbs up for featuring best dog.
HAH JOKES ON YOU I ALREADY ORGANIZED MY STUFF YESTERDAY
I AM ONE STEP AHEAD OF YOU
"I did it thirty-five minutes ago." :P
am i the only one where cleaning- doing repetitive matience, picking up after a project, etc. is super stressful, but organizing is only stressful if i cant do it completely?
I was way too happy when you mentioned Korone
Thank you for spreading the gospel of the God Doggo Korone
Korone, worldwide doggo!
This guy is one of us!
sorting the yubi collection by home country
*ONE OF US ONE OF US*
the koro-chan reference
Thank you Clayton. Tara this is good content.
Game organizing speaks right to my soul. I used to tidy store shelves as a small child while my mom shopped.. It is at the core of my being.
I believe that virtual streamer organized everything upside down because the attache case technically upside down from our viewpoint, if that makes any sense. I guess sorting things in games by our real life logic is one way to do it.
I have ADHD and when I worked at a grocery store deli, my favorite task was restocking the drink cooler. Something about lining things up and facing them and having things organized in my own little system just makes my brain so happy. I also used to work in a mail room and sorting mail does the same thing for me. But sorting my own stuff just makes me overwhelmed and I DON'T KNOW WHY.
I can't describe how incredibly much I wish irl inventories had organised lists omg ... I literally just itemized my entire pantry last month because of wanting this so bad
This is exactly why I've spent hours frustratedly trying to organize all my stuff in Minecraft, and then wonder why I haven't actually progressed in Minecraft. I'm supposed to be mining obsidian and going to the Nether but instead I'm feverishly constructing a separate building aside from my house to just house chests.
Seeing this video in my notifications inspired me to put down Animal Crossing and clean my real room instead
This is really interesting and probably explains why I don’t mind cleaning other people’s spaces but can’t clean my own for the life of me
2:54 ALL HAIL OUR LORD AND SAVIOR DOGGO
Expected it to be about revolution.
At first I was a little disappointed, but I don't think it's possible not to enjoy this video no matter what you expected.
In dicey dungeons, you need organize your attack moves just like resident evil 4's inventory. It forces you to strategize your attack options a lot whenever you learn a new move or get an equipment.
6:16 What a nice surprise to find out Clayton is a Jayhawk- Rock Chalk!
Wasn't expecting a best doggo mention
I appreciate that all of the Polygon video creators are great so that I'm always pleasantly surprised by who's making the video of the week
Was really hoping this would be about forming a union or something
7:20 That's not right, Death Stranding had missions that kinda required manual inventory sorting. Sometimes it helps on certain terrains, like avoiding building a tower so that the wind doesn't blow against your cargo.
Clayton, did Tara’s well-documented love of inventory management inspire this video?
Ahh yes, this good good Clayton content is exactly what I needed today 😌
Also this video is fascinating and so well put together! I really appreciate the more serious game-design-analysis side of Polygon!
shoutout to all my other ADHD havers out there with messy rooms bc cleaning in real life is too overwhelming a task but who obsessively manage inventories in games bc it's a smaller, easier task and incredibly satisfying to be able to organize SOMETHING
yesss. scratches my brain itch, meanwhile my bedroom closets are out of control
* executivly dysfunctional high-five *
polygon "link simone's whole warehouse tour" challenge
I would Love if my fridge acted like that kind of inventory system. I would put So many non food based items in there. Imagine freshly laundered and still warm clothes being selected from your refrigerator in the middle of winter!
"Virtual Hoarding"
Aka
The reason why I put so much points in either Strength or Stamina or both.
i would love a full tour of simone's warehouse
I love that Korone was in this video. Her reaction to the wolverine enemy was beautiful
Great video. Always happy to see Wilmot's get attention. Also, my Animal Crossing storage, Destiny vault, and collection of external hard drives are all full.
I've spent 2 hours on Wilmot's Warehouse and I didn't even notice that much time passing. It's so satisfying reorganising the stuff and deciding on how to group new unlocks
Organising and labelling all my Minecraft stuff was... More satisfying than I expected it to be
Clayton and his videos arealways just the most precious and informative
I see that Hobonichi 2019 poster on your fridge, Polygon host... Explains a lot about why this whole video is about organization! ^^
Hey, nice spot. Also his name's Clayton.
OH moonlighter's inventory was such a fun addition, exactly like a game inside a game
This video was just so satisfying overall... I love the idea of organizing in games, and I’m so pumped about that warehouse game
This legitimately helped me with direction on the kind of game i want to make! Thank you to everyone involved for the inspiration!
Sorting my inventory to fit 5 guns and a heli battery is what keeps me coming back to dayz tbh
I straight up sighed in Nostalgia at that D2 inventory. That was my childhood right there
So adorable. I automatically though of Viscera Cleanup Detail which makes me feel so relaxed
I had gotten around to organizing my clothes in my drawer a few weeks ago and while I won't get into ALL the details finding pants or a shirt, or socks has gotten WAY easier now.
Virtual hoarding: I feel called out
Hastily trying to get your pals' uninsured Good Shit to fit in your own bag in Escape From Tarkov while hearing bullets in the distance was really one of my most favourite experiences, honestly
2:49
Korone lol
I wasn't expecting to see her here.
Was NOT expecting a polygon video to mention Korone, but i am very pleased it did.
You know, it’s good to know I’m not the only one that actually has fun organizing my inventory in RE4. They should never have moved away from a system similar to this
best inventory system in a game is pathologic 2, resident evil 4 style except the items are so vitally important and you cant carry all of them and its wonderfully stressful and satisfying
My browser's Favorites bar just stared smugly at me throughout the whole video.
Love the content, Clayton!
2:54
Actually she is organizing it the correct way, look where the handle of the bag is.
When you hold the bag in your hand by the handle the items are in correct orientation.
The thing about video games is also that the items are meant to fit into the space. Nothing is gonna be just 5mm to large for the shelf.
Love to see love for wilmots warehouse. Such a good simple little game that constantly overwhelms me lol. I'm so bad at organising but I love to it.
Organizing in videogames is also great because usually, you can just pick up whatever without it being limited by how it'd interact with the rest of your stuff or how fragile, heavy, or awkward to carry it might be. You pick it up and it's completely safe until you put it down somewhere where it will also, likely, be completely safe. I do not have this luxury with my real clutter and if I could start by throwing everything on top of my drawers into hammerspace, I would've gotten my room properly organized AGES ago.
RE4 inventory is perfection
Something that I think might be related in RPGs especially is gathering and organizing quests. One thing I like to do sounds kind of like what Natalie Schrier says by getting as many tasks as I can and sorting them by importance to the main story and by general locations that they're asking me to travel to. I just finished playing Pillars of Eternity and as much as I loved the story and characters, my favorite things was that it had great pacing with the quests especially when you get to the hub areas with the number and complexity of the tasks given without feeling too overwhelmed. My brain loves the rush of clearing out all my tasks in one fell swoop. Just wish I could take my game tasking and apply it more to real life tasks...
This video was so informative. Thank you.
I just have vague categories that I barely even follow and just remember where things are
I actually SCREAMED when you got around to Wilmot's Warehouse!! The way I organized mine were in single lines according to color order (hot vs. cold) then size order (largest to smallest). It didn't help when I had a majority of blue items at one point, but it got the job done. I always found it interesting to see how my friends decided to organize their warehouses though
Someone in the writing department really love Virtual CZcamsrs.
THEY BROUGHT BACK THE RESIDENT EVIL 4 INVENTORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
whoa dude, this is super well made, definitely the good content I signed up for
I love Wilmot's warehouse! I organised it completely based on color: Big columns based on the background color and then from top to bottom organised based on the item's main color
Clayton is such a gift
Flipping ammo boxes around in Resi4 so the back of the box is facing up is the best because the solid colours are much more vibrant and pleasing and distinct than the tiny text and logos on the front
I'm so glad you mentioned Moonlighter!
I've been replaying Terraria, and the Quick Stack feature is a godsend. I don't know how I've ever played a video game without automatically sending all of my stuff to every nearby, custom-labeled chest around me to empty my inventory.
Wilmot's Warehouse looks amazing! It's on Nintendo Switch, so that's a must buy for me.
Shout outs to Korone
The personal preference aspect of organizing is the #1 reason I wanted to fight my coworkers at my last job
Love that he showed Divinity cause that was EXACTLY what I was thinking of
The people who have never ever run out of inventory space in minecraft are gods and should be worshipped forever and ever and basically ever