Item pick up: Instantaneous

Video game concept

Items are picked instantaneously as soon as player instructs the character to pick them up, either by pointing at specific items or simply picking up nearest.

140

games

platforms

Singularity

X360 2010-06-29

Diablo II: Lord of Destruction

WIN 2001-06-29

Deus Ex: Invisible War

WIN 2003-12-02

Left 4 Dead 2

WIN 2009-11-18

BioShock

PS3 2008-10-17

Recettear

WIN 2007

Ancient Domains Of Mystery

LIN 1994

BioShock 2

X360 2010-02-09

NetHack

LIN ? *

Turning Point: Fall of Liberty

WIN 2008-02

Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal

WIN 2001-06-21

Exodus from the Earth

WIN 2008-09-24

Item pick up: Automatic - Delayed - Instant - Normal
Excess items: Ignore - Partial - Discard
Variations: Attract - Scoop

Other than telling the character to pick the items up, there's no action from the character that indicates picking up anything. At most the character may press some button that sucks the items up, all in an instant.

Commonly this can be performed at dead run.

In terms of turn-based systems, this does not progress time.

This also includes cases where the item becomes attached to the pointer.

Parent group

Item pickup

Games by year

The first Item pick up: Instantaneous video game was released in 1983.

Blizzard, Beamdog and 2K Games published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows		51
Linux		29
Mac OS X		9
X360		8
MS-DOS		6
PS3		4
OS/2		4
Mac OS Classic		3
Pandora		3
NeXT		3
Unix		3
BeOS		2
GamePark 32		2
BSD		2
C128		1
Switch		1
PS4		1
PS5		1
Xbox One		1
Xbox Series X		1
Internet Only		1
NEC PC9801		1
Solaris		1
PS2		1
Tandy Coco		1

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