So in my experience, this game is pretty good, although it does seem somewhat ridiculous at times. Anyway, being a player of Baldurs Gate 1 and 2, it irks me to see that as soon as my defeated enemies hit the floor, they instantly vanish and leave a goody-bag behind. This makes no sense to me. Why would I not be able to pick up anything that an opponent left behind?

Also, In don't think corpses have to be persistent, but when people instantly vaporize it seems sort of anti-climactic. In Baldurs gate, you could tell when a fight just happened, because there would be fallen opponents or bits and pieces laying around immediately afterward, and after a while, just the body and their items, and finally just their items.

I tried googling a bunch of times for lootable corpse or persistent corpse mods, and its so frustrating since more than half of the links end up being for NWN and the other half seem to be about a NWN2 fan campaign that has "corpse" in the name. Does anyone happen to know of any such mods?

So this thread now has two purposes:
1) Why do games do the lootable goody-bags, and what sense does it make.
2) Is anyone familiar with a mod that makes the corpses lootable? The game still does this with really important people, but its a rarity.