ikanreed

And what, pray tell, is wrong with wanting artificial restrictions? That's game theory in a nutshell, games are a set of rules that guide and limit decision making to a player looking to optomize the results of those decisions. If one of those rules is going back to a previous state, that can be fun. If a variation on the game denies those rules, it's a slightly different game that requires a slightly different approach. In Baldur's gate, picking pockets can be a useful feature, and you usually don't think twice about doing it. In an ironman run, you'd heavily weigh the consequences first(but might still do it). The "best approach" is different in each case, meaning the game you're playing is fundamentally different. Wanting the ability to hard code interesting rules into the game is fun.