Originally posted by Grailoch:

Originally posted by zxzc77:

Dropping your items on death actually wasn't a very common mechanic until around the time Minecraft came out.

Not sure what games you played, but Any RPG I ever played dropped items or left a corpse.

Everquest, Dungeon Siege, WoW, and many other RPGs were this way, all around year 2000

Most RPGs from before that time were just permadeath and you restart the game when you died.

You don't drop your items on death in those games. In the first two you don't even have to do a corpse run. In Dungeon Siege specifically you just load a save. In current WoW there are only corpse runs in the open world and even then I think you can avoid it.

Again there really aren't many games before minecraft that had item dropping. There are some for sure, but it wasn't popular.