Kombo: I take my good sweet time with games and have also built myself up quite a backlog of games to get through, but excuses aside, I am yet to finish Mass Effect 2, so if there are any late-on surprises that conflict with anything I say in this blog, please forgive me.
In Eric Frederiksen's recent article he was spot on about almost everything, but he was so wrong about the inventory side of things. Now, I'm a hoarder. In Fable, I owned every item in the game, absolutely every piece of clothing and every weapon, no matter how powerful or weak. The traders had nothing left to sell me.
In Oblivion and Fallout 3, I took over fifty hours in each just scrounging around for cool things to hoard, sell, trade, swipe and swap with before finally attempting the main missions. I have pretty much everything in Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2, Mass Effect, Resident Evil 4 & 5 and all the other appropriate games. I know my inventories.