History Main / BlatantItemPlacement

** Part of the reason why the series can avert this is because you're encouraged to use your enemies' weapons (with several levels ''requiring'' you to do so). That said, sometimes getting that [[{{BFG}} Fuel Rod Cannon]] or [[DropTheHammer Gravity Hammer]] that you'll need in the next area will require you to kill whoever's currently wielding them.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Diablo}} Diablo II]]'', besides having equipment that RandomlyDrops, has beneficial shrines and healing wells that can be found even in the Chaos Sanctuary, Diablo's lair.

* Dr. Robotnik seems to love keeping rings around, even though they're the only thing keeping [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]] from being a OneHitPointWonder.

* The Zelda verse is given a canon explanation for it in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'', wherein the gnome-like Minish race is described in an encyclopaedia as having a habit of hiding goods in bushes and rocks.

* ''{{VideoGame/HypeTheTimeQuest}}'' has crossbow bolts, herbs, potions, magics, chests, and exploding barrels stacked up everywhere!

* The Video Game 7 Days to Die mostly subverts this trope, as guns and ammo are often found in gun safes, and specialized storage crates. Medical supplies are in medicine cabinets, food is in cabinets, and so on. Although the more recent updates make some buildings more 'dungeon' like in terms of loot layout.

** In a DeletedScene from ''Literature/RaisingSteam'', included in a book provided at the 2014 Discworld Convention, Moist meets a dwarf who had a job maintaining a dungeon complex for an eccentric nobleman who had been an AdventurerArcheologist in his youth and wanted to keep the tradition alive. While the dwarf's job was mostly maintaining the torches and resetting the traps, he came up with the idea of leaving weapons and food lying around, to give the raiders more of a chance.

** In a DeletedScene from ''Literature/RaisingSteam'', included in a book provided at the 2014 Discworld Convention, Moist meets a dwarf who had a job maintaining a dungeon complex for an eccentric nobleman who had been an AdventureArcheologist in his youth and wanted to keep the tradition alive. While the dwarf's job was mostly maintaining the torches and resetting the traps, he came up with the idea of leaving weapons and food lying around, to give the raiders more of a chance.

* In ''Literature/TheLastHero'' of the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series, Cohen the Barbarian makes a reference to the mysteriously-well-placed caches of supplies, spare weapons, keys, and such inside the dungeons he and his Silver Horde have visited over the years; it is heavily implied that The Lady and some of the other Gods playing games with the lives of mortals have placed some of these prizes around to support them when they served as their pawns.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'', weapons, shields, and mods can drop from animals as well as human enemies. Items are also found in "skag piles." An explanation is given in loading screen tips: they eat everything they can find but don't digest guns. Still doesn't explain why 17.4 million different guns exist on a [[CrapsackWorld post-apocalyptic wasteland]] with a permanent non-bandit population in the double digits.
** There has been a strong corporate presence on Pandora. Dahl and Hyperion have factories there, and according to previews for the Zombie Island of Dr. Ned expansion, there's also a Jakobs factory that met a terrible end. Given the attitudes the companies seem to keep in the Borderlands universe, it makes total sense that they would pump out more guns than there are humans on the planet...
** And more specifically, regular Rakks don't drop items, but Bloated Rakks do, as they have presumably previously eaten someone..
** The game also lampshades the reason you find better / more powerful weapons as you get higher in levels; the vault hunters that came before you got this far before they got killed.

** You can find money almost everywhere, including in the lairs of creatures who have no use for it (goblins, [[TheMorlocks Falmer]], undead, [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Daedra]]...) In fact, all coinage is represented by Septims (the currency of the ruling Empire for the first four games in the series which has been in power for around five centuries) even in places explicitly sealed since ''before'' the reign of the Septim Dynasty. ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'' provides a single exception in the form of [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Dwemer]] coins. However, these still aren't treated as currency. Instead, they are a particularly valuable form of antique VendorTrash.

* All of the ''Franchise/TombRaider'' games outside of ''Legend'' and ''Underworld'' use this; even in areas where Humans have apparently not been for thousands of years you find contemporary ammo, weapons, and first aid kits.
** Every once in a while (though certainly not often) they'll justify it by having a skeleton, obviously killed by a trap or animal, with an item lying right next to it.

** Probably the most egregious aspect of this has to be [[ComicBook/{{Doom}} The Great Communicator]], because it's really difficult to come up with any legitimate reason for why the hell there's a ''chainsaw on Mars''. The third game at least had the courtesy to [[LampshadeHanging lampshade this]] in one of the email logs, and {{handwave}}s it by explaining that an order for jackhammers got mixed up on Earth.

* In ''[[VideoGame/FiftyCentBloodOnTheSand 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand]]'', you buy guns from an arms dealer by contacting him on pay phones strewn throughout the levels. This despite the fact that some of the levels are set in [[strike:Ancient]] Napoleonic desert castles, or even in one memorable instance, ''inside a burning building.''
--> '''G-Unit member''': (In a burning hallway) "[[LampshadeHanging How the fuck is Amal supposed to deliver guns in here?]]"
--> '''50 Cent''': "[[HandWave How the fuck should I know? Shut up, I'm making a call.]]"

* ''VideoGame/FarCry''

** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'', which took place at a mansion, there's medical sprays and herbs everywhere, which makes sense since one can expect basic medical supplies and plants at a house. Bullets and guns are also found everywhere, though some of them can only be explained from your former teammates that tried to survive, but other weapon supplies are also found behind elaborate puzzles (such as a revolver behind a tiger statue) or inside desk drawers (lampshaded that the owner of the mansion was an otaku and probably would have placed the items weirdly).
** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2'' has weapons and ammo scattered all over the police precinct, which is hand waved by explaining that Chief Irons slowly went insane after Umbrella ditched him when the G-Virus overtook the town, causing him to have the police officers spread the munitions around to confuse them while he slowly killed them one by one. Other areas outside the police stations have items near bodies or inside locked cabinets.

** In ''Serious Sam 3'', weapons are scattered around more realistically, but ammo crates for rockets and C4 in particular are still placed in areas where they would be very helpful, such as, say, just before a boss that can only be damaged by explosives.

** ''VideoGame/DOOM2016'' notes that the chainsaw has no possible application in a mining facility on Mars, and notes that it thus must be there as contraband someone deliberately intended as a weapon.