Fallout New Vegas

That is cool, yeah. I had all my neat-but-heavy equipment on display in the fighter's guild in Morrowind, and they never disappeared.

Though I think Larian's games can also do that. Speaking somewhat naively because I've never worked on video games, it doesn't sound that hard to persist the state of items in a region if you're already loading a bunch of stuff.

It also highlights a bit of bethesda jank- an NPC will have a totally sincere, heartfelt, conversation with you while surrounded by 300 wheels of cheese, and not remark upon the cheese at all. To be fair, I don't think anyone else has NPCs that react to the environment believably, either.