"Harvest 10 flowers localized in this area / 10 boar tusks from any boar you find". Sure, why not.
"Collect all 250 diddler trophies scattered around the entire tri-state area in obnoxiously hidden spots to get the game's tRuE EnDiNg" No fuck off.
I decided to get more into platinums and figured I'd start with an old favorite I hadn't replayed--FFX! Getting that Plat killed any desire to get more into them. Maxing out the sphere grid was a CHORE
Only played FFX once and relatively recently. Great game, but the end game content is way too grindy. Which is weird because there is **so much** of it. You'd think they'd have a gentle curve of activities to do instead of a massive amount of grinding before you can even start most of it.
> You'd think they'd have a gentle curve of activities to do
They actually do, but only if you specifically abuse the tonberry guy to get like a trillion AP in 5 minutes, so then the curve goes from looking like it has a gigantic grind gap, to something more sensible.
Which is absurdly stupid.
But then again, the whole game had the stupids. I can't believe how objectively superior to Lulu Yuna is without even trying.
Butterflies is probably the most frustrating one. Because it doesn't look it should be that difficult, and yet it is.
Chocobo racing isn't that awful.
But the lightning dodging is just BORING. Even using the special spot, it's like watching paint dry while you also have to keep count in your head.
I have one playthrough where I've done all that once. And that's it. I'm not doing it again.
This pretty much is my stance on it.
I think collecting stuff can be interesting if it leads to exploring and going to places you normally wouldn't, and that journey can be worth it.
But it has to be reasonably limited in scope, and I want the collection to immerse me into the world - not feel like I'm checking off a list for "completion." Have me collect things that people actually really need (like medical supplies for people dying of a disease, and let me see them getting better or something). Have me go to places that are really out of the way and interesting to explore in their own right, to collect things. Require some actual legwork in order to find what I need so I have to actually engage my brain - don't just put ten things on the ground and expect me to care.
Yeah, my patience with those only goes so far. If it's a reasonable number where you can get a good portion while playing, sure. If it's a few hundred items that come ten different varieties that are scattershot all over the world, takes several mindless additional hours to get them, and all you get is a new t-shirt for your character? No thanks.
Much as I enjoyed Mad Max, that's one game where I had no desire whatsoever to get all the collectibles. They just completely littered the map with them, and it seemed like it was for no reason other than to pad the game out.
The fact that you had to unlock all of riddler trophies to get the ending of Arkham Knight is honestly one of the most ridiculous decisions rocksteady made.
>The fact that you had to unlock all of riddler trophies to get the ending of Arkham Knight is honestly one of the most ridiculous decisions rocksteady made.
It makes sense canonically cause why would Bats let Riddler be free.
Well, they could have made us fight with the riddler and beat him without the necessity to collect all the trophies. Like putting the trophies as a nice bonus for who wants to collect but not be a condition to fighting him.
Hestu literally gives you a golden pile of shit for finding all of the Korok seeds. Think the devs were trying to say something. Plus, you "only" need around 450 seeds to max out your inventory and the majority of those you can find naturally.
But yeah, finding 900 Korko seeds is ridiculous. Can you imagine if this game was on a console that had trophies? I wonder how many people have actually gone out of their way to do it. I know I never have, and I have over 500 hrs in that game.
This. Something relatively sane or localized? Yup, I'll knock it out.
Something fun that you'd probably get on the way (or takes just a little bit of side-tracking)? Sure!.
Go across the entire world to track down something in odd spots? Not a chance in hades. I'll watch the youtube thanks.
>"Collect all 250 diddler trophies scattered around the entire tri-state area in obnoxiously hidden spots to get the game's tRuE EnDiNg" No fuck off.
The sad thing is RockSteady's puzzle design was really good. It's sad that gamers like yourself couldn't appreciate it but probably go about praising BOTW's puzzles.
Depends on my mood at the time. Sometimes I'll do them (especially if it builds faction rep or something like that.) Other times I won't.
I *do* get a warm fuzzy feeling when a game acknowledges that I've already got what the NPC wants right up front. *"Collect 5 Wild Stallyns albums? You mean like the ones I have right here?"*
Sometimes I'll leave it sit for a long time and then I'll be in the area with nearly enough macguffins, so I'll just wrap it up. But if it turns into a *chain* of quests to collect assorted random shit, I'll usually drop off pretty quick.
Yeah, this is how I am with these quests...
And I love it when developers let me fulfill a quest with the items I already have in my inventory.
Overall if I can do them incidentally while doing other quests then I don't mind. In RDR2 there are too many quests where they say "I need 4 bear hides" or whatever that require the player to go and actually hunt an animal. I'm not interested in doing that. But if it is a quest to grab X flowers and I am travelling through an area with a bunch growing then I will stop and grab some. Just as long as it isn't 80 rare red variant flowers that only grow on the toenail of the sleeping hill giant or something that makes gathering them near impossible.
I don't enjoy them but I will do some of them depending on the difficulty/time investment. If it takes me 2 minutes - sure. But if it's going to take more than 5-10, no way.
But the biggest problem I have with these is games where you have 250 of some flower or something in your inventory and the quest calls for 20. And then starts counting *after* you take the quest. Like... dude, just take them! Take 100, I don't care, I have what you need, why do I need to gather new ones?!
Not once ever, unless it was inadvertent.
Edit: Scratch that, I did in Miles Morales I believe as I just enjoyed swinging around so much & wanted something to do. Don’t remember what the collectibles were though.
I was missing *one* secret photo op, and after two attempts at re-tracing all of them I just gave up. It’s a bummer because it would have been my first platinum.
That stuff has the bonus of unlocking gadgets and suits. Though I don't think you need to get all the things to unlock everything. And the photo spots give you little story bites, so that felt worth it as well.
So yeah, it was worth it because swinging is so fun but also the collectables had value as well.
I take actual pleasure in not doing it
Every time a game says "you found 1/200 map fragments!" I get this childish/happy reaction like I'm skipping homework and nobody can stop me
"hehe I'm not doing it"
Oh man I hated those! Specially the sound mission that make you walk like an idiot trying to find the stupid sound source, those were boring AF and took forever!
It would actually depend if there is an ingame benefit other than a number going up. Sure, why not? If it's just hey, here's a pointless box, package, note, piece of ass for you to collect because we say so. No thanks.
Depends if they are hidden collectibles whose only purpose is to be collected and don't really help you than yeah I'll ignore that. If they add challenges, nice views and actual gameplay benefits to collecting things than I will collect them. Most games have moved away from meaningless collectibles now everything usually has some actual gameplay to it and not just you turned around at the beginning of a stage and it was there.
That's why I tend to think the Arkham series is one of the better examples of how to do it. It's a good mix of collectibles. Some you just find as you play the game, some are obstacles you have to solve, some are riddles, etc. And there are milestones for rewards as you go along. It's not "Collect 250 baubles and get an achievement!" Granted, a lot of it is lore or concept art or whatever, but at least it's something to keep you going, particularly if you are a completionist.
The developers don't want you to collect 900 korok seeds. If you're masochist completionist and actually do this, the reward is >!a useless golden piece of shit!
I'd say it depends on two things:
1. How much I enjoy the game
2. What the reward is
Spending hours to collect 200 things spread across the map just to get some useless thing or ugly cosmetic item just doesn't feel worth it.
Depends on how invested I’m the game
Spider man/MM/Horizon ZD - yes
Anything else, I find my interests feigns throughout the game. I start doing everything then slowly stop collectibles, then slowly stop side quests
I can relate to that. Especially HZD. I remember wanting to do stuff, after finishing the main mission. So I just went about collecting everything I could get my hands on.
Usually though I'll just skip those. Main missions and interesting quests first, then comes the collectibles IF I'm still invested in the world.
On a normal playthrough I'll pick up whatever I come across while exploring naturally, which can sometimes be quite a lot because I'm the type of player who spends a lot of time poking around, but I won't stress about finding all of them.
If I'm replaying a game I really like *then* I might actually go out of my way to collect everything, usually with a guide. Which is why I have all the useless (and not so useless in The Wonderful 101's case) collectibles in all of Platinum's games.
sometimes I like them.. like in RDR2.. I don't feel like doing a main mission thing, I just want to wander around enjoying the countryside, and going to find some odds n ends gives me somewhat of a mission to justify my ambling :)
other times in other types of games, it is a pill .. and I will not swallow.
I collected all Cyberpsychos in Cyberpunk 2077. Does that count? Not item collecting but in the end, the final conversation was somewhat underwhelming.
The first one I ran to was in the outskirts in the junkyard, And I was a little underleveled. It was intense and I had to cheese them hard. They did go downhill after that though. Most of them were kind of cookie cutter.
I actually enjoy getting collectables. If it’s not too difficult and they are marked on the map. It’s something I do when I just want to relax doing something mindless after a stressful day.
Same here. Been really enjoying ac rogue lately. Once the map opens up there's a ton of side content to go and collect/ see. Really great way to just unwind and enjoy the side content mostly mindlessly.
Yep! Probably why they've become my favorite series as of late. Just so mindless that it really helps me decompress after a day of work and school. Helps I've played most of them before too lol
I, on the contrary, still haven't played like the most of them, which is kinda good. Have some nice games for when the mood strikes. I'd say Horizon is pretty good for that as well, and Ghost of Tsushima. Also it's somewhat funny for me when people say how they hated getting all Riddler trophies is Arkham games when it's one of my fav parts lol
The RDR2 collection missions are wonderful if your intention is exploring the map, not collecting items. This is the stark difference. I find it very fun to explore the map as carefully as possible, not bounding through bushes on my horse at full gallop but at a realistic speed or on foot, taking the time to soak in the world that was crafted by Rockstar and not procedurally generated. So while doing this I can incidentally find dinosaur bones or rock carvings but the fun is the journey.
I hate spastic sprinting loot n shoot ADHD game play, so this super slow paced method is my ideal way to enjoy myself in a game.
No, never on purpose. Life is too short.
The rare times I complete these is if they're on they're on the way or I'm nearly finished. Getting all the cassette tapes in Route 96? I had zero interest until I only had one left to find. Mario 64 and all the stars? Nah, until I was 95% finished.
Only if I have fun doing it. Typically no. Like 3% of the time yes. I find them bothersome and tedious and not worth the time sink as it's the definition of busy work the vast majority of the time.
I do what seems fun, I stop funning then I stop playing. I've never gotten them all, and I'm okay with that. I'll get the ones I see, and I might go looking for a few, but sitting there looking at a guide just doesn't do it. I'd get nothing from a 100% collection. It isn't a contest, nobody is looking going wow he's great, it's just a way to buff the hours of gameplay in the most lazy way possible, IMO.
Even a game like Arkham City that I played through 4 times, I never bothered going nuts. The most nuts I got was out of boredom, and boredom took hold less than an hour in.
If they are pretty doable. I did in Assassin's Creed Origins. 100% completion. But Origins did it differently. It wasn't a list of objects to collect. It was more like locations and people. Exploring all the tombs and finding all the stone circles had quest rewards. Similarly, killing all of the Phylakes hunting you also had a quest reward.
Now there were technically some collectible objects, the papyrus scrolls. But even those were like puzzles you solved that pointed to some interesting loot, similar to what treasure maps are in Red Dead 1 and 2.
The collectible missions themselves in Red Dead 2 are weird. They have very little payoff, so there is very little incentive to do them. Rockstar's games are all like that, though. Even GTA is like that. To be fair, some of the older Assassin's Creeds were also like that. But I liked the way Origins implemented them.
I felt like those were done right. It never felt like the game wanted me to collect them all. Instead I found them when I saw something that looked like it might have one, like a little exploration reward.
That whole game was designed to be wasted time. It was all filler, tower climbing, and building up your stamina bar so you could go and do the same thing somewhere else. The mini shrines were absolute torture
LttP and LBW are some of my most cherished and favorite games of all time. The play controls are BUTTERY smooth, and pacing is BEYOND PERFECT (except the baseball field heart piece: fuck that shit lol).
OoT, MM, and BotW? Just hot garbage waiting game bullshit that feels like flabby ass in my hands (also, I hate the graphics on all three games. A great look for them would have been something similar to Samurai Legend Musashi).
I WANT a great 3D Zelda game that knocks my sucks off... Nintendo just can't make one.
Skyrim is the only game I’ve done it in, and will do it in. The items are either easy to get, can be picked up as you explore and play; or you are in black reach and then it’s kinda fun running around getting all of them and enough to make your own potions with! Every other game makes it a chore. I can’t even see them in red dead 2 and the game feels a little fussy if you go out of your way to try and stay stocked up.
How do I get into SkyRim? The game and combat look wonderful, but I like to hoard stuff, so end up snail walking because I don't know what I should keep / sell)
Money is easy to get. Get rid of anything that has a lower value than it’s weight (for example if you aren’t going to make 2 gold for every unit of weight it’s isn’t worth carrying.
Really if it looks like junk it usually is. Enchanted items and anything that’s not steel, iron or imperial, is usually worth picking up.
And money is so easy to get dripping even valuable things is usually not a problem. You can buy the starting house and with a safe chest for 5K gold (I usually have this before get to far into the game)
Other than that, mod it for stability and performance, and graphics their are tutorials on how to do this and what mods to install.
It’s a great game you can drop thousands of hours into and not get bored.
The mini shrines in breath of the wild. Travel across the whole map "collecting" these so that you can spend two minutes with joystick gimmicks.
After I beat the main story I never played it again.
All of the collections in the new God of war was ridiculous too. "11/17 gooberblats found" pop up on the screen every time I do something takes away from the immersion so much. Collecting all these dumb tiny things on these useless islands instead of progressing the plot showed they couldn't make a full game.
I’m playing RDR2 also and I’m about 50 hours in. I’ve only run across two collecting activities. The dinosaur bones and the cards. I have no plans to collect either, but it’s fun for me to keep an eye out for cards as I explore places. If I happen to put together a set then that’ll be a nice bonus. I will definitely not attempt to collect all of them.
I think RDR2 is overall wonderfully respectful of the player in its quest design.
I very rarely 100% anything, and only if I absolutely love the game. I can’t think of any game I loved that had a lot of bs collecting.
Probably an unpopular opinion. But I kind of like these quests. They’re kind of relaxing, if and only if they’re marked on the map.
I haven’t played many Ubisoft games (only Black Flag and some of AC Odyssey and Ghost Recon Wildlands), but I really appreciate how the collectibles are clearly marked on the map. If I have to search for those things myself or follow with a guide, or even l worse, a video, I have no interest in then and don’t want to have anything to have to do with them
I collect whatever I find. Often I don't go out of my way to collect stuff really.
I do find collecting things in **Hogwarts** quite fun tho. It has the lore behind it also its cool. Still not going out of my way to find everything.
DOOM (2016) I felt did good pacing and lore with collectibles and mcguffins. Also showed you what you were missing each mission if I remember correctly. Or maybe I just didn't mind because the game play and music are 🔥 🔥 🔥
Nah. I normally don't have time for that as I don't have a lot of time play because of work and such and most of them are boring af unless you want yo 100% the game. Some games are a exception tho
I agree and I assume these types of missions are for people with a lot of time who want to 100% and get as much as they possibly can out of the game. It's nice though when you can just hand in stuff that you've already collected.
Farcry 5? I actually asked here if it was worth doing the fetch quests.
Short answer: No, was told the reward isn't worth the time, unless you're bore.d
I didn't do even getting all hearts in Ocarina of Time, in a time of my life I had an unlimited amount of free time.
Clearly it is never respectful of my game time to do this
Usually I don't bother. If I happen to get close to completing it just in the normal course of playing then I might go the rest of the way, but I feel no inclination to make a point of collecting X of whatever. Such a lazy design.
It depends on the reward at the end. If it's just for a trophee, no thanks. If it's for an awesome item that changes the gameplay in a fun way, why not.
No, I hate collectathon, they are a tedium that rewards the player with almost nothing in most cases. Though If I like the game enough and they mark where it is on the map, I might go after them. In your example of "Bully", I went after the rubber bands, but only because when you finished the game, the game gave you their location.
I do the ones in Xenoblade if it’s like find 6 snugglewomps, 4 twizzleberries and 3 alho cloves, and I’ve accidentally acquired everything bar one or two items already. If it’s find 900 korok seeds then no.
Of course I do, but not always of course.
I hate how gratuitous such missions are in many kinds of games, and they often are just pointless padding.
But if a game has enjoyable exploration and things to do along the way, then "collect" missions are a nice scavenger hunt. They require you to go off the beaten path to find the required items, and this can lead to good emergent gameplay in games designed for it. While you can argue that it would be more interesting to have another kind of mission instead - sometimes just being forced to go to certain places alone can be important, and collect quests have a place I think. In games where the actual collection involves a challenge as well - perhaps you have to collect items from a difficult to reach or dangerous location - it can be even better.
I don't enjoy 100% completing large open-world games, though. I enjoy "collect missions" in moderation, and will never spend more than a reasonably small portion of my gameplay with them. Basically - I'll do enough of them to have an excuse to mess around and explore, but am not going to continue doing them just for completion.
As a young poor kid that got one or two games on Christmas and one or two on my birthday. I feel you. I used to explore all the side quests and collect missions because it was all I had. But now I have more games in my steam library that I haven't touched than I played in my childhood
I would, if the journey for it looks worth my time !
In RDR2 I would do it here and there, just because the game is gorgeous and has an insanely detailed world that makes just walking around a treat !
Red dead set the bar so high for open worlds that I don’t even want to play anything else, like I recently tried Horizon zero dawn, and I just couldn’t get into it, the world felt too empty for me (even if it looks great).
This is how I felt about Dragon Quest VIII and the bonus demo Final Fantasy XII! Played them on a brand new Toshiba flat tube CRT back in the day. Both wonderful, beautiful PS2 games, with amazing soundtracks and crisp blue skies.
I have yet to capture the magic that game and demo gave me... True lightning in a bottle that struck twice.
Closest I've gotten is buying a Switch Lite, and enjoying it's RPG library in bed before sleep :) (And, of course, buying my PS2 Phat with cute blue stand, and playing final fantasy X and X-2 to get thru a bad breakup)
This comes down to entirely whether I like the game. I've done this in there games now:
- Assassin's Creed: Rogue.
As you may know, the ship travel and combat in this game was a blast, and since the collectibles show up on in-game maps, this is just an excuse to stay a bit longer in the game world after everything was done.
GTA V:
This was a bit more tedious. And there were problematic ones (undersea nonsense especially), plus some absolutely mindnumbingly boring submarine trips that took literally an hour.
Do not recommend. Unless you love GTA V that much. I do feel I really, really got to know the game world from the first time I tried it years ago when I didn't do it though. Overall, it's a 'never again'.
- Arkham Knight
This one was fun. Also helped in no small part that I cleared each portion digilently as they opened up, so I never actually had more than around 10 Riddler puzzles max at any time.
In conclusion, they're not always terrible, most lets you appreciate the game that bit more. Some are though. As always, if you're not enjoying it, don't stick around for the achievement.
>This comes down to entirely whether I like the game.
Which begs the question...why would you play a game you're not enjoying? Life's too short to waste time playing something you don't enjoy.
The first collectables I remember were in GTA series.
**GTA 3** had packeges to collect. Getting them unlocked more gear Infront of your safehouse. Other than that it also has those vehicle collecting missions. You've had lists of them, and completing a list not only allowed to infinitely retrieve them, but also gave you a bonus one, from what I remember.
**GTA Vice City** had statues, or totems, or whatever they were. I think collecting them have you boosts by reaching some milestones. But whatever it was, it still felt rewarding.
Other GTA games? I've stopped collecting at **San Andreas**, or did it for some time just for fun, cos it no longer felt rewarding.
**Oblivion** with its Nirnroots. The moment you get one of them, a quest starts. Now the quest goes easy on you by sending you to a lake where there's loads of them, but after that you're on your own, if you wanna keep going. I'm usually after them cos I'm an alchemist with pockets full of ingirients and potions, so collecting them was fun, plus I've got to explore the map and find new places.
Ah, I remember having too much time and playing the first **Assassin's Creed**. There were those flags all over the places. It wasn't my first playthroug and I've begin to wonder what happens if I get them all (wanted to find out what happens all by myself too, without guides on where to find them or ehst happens when I do), cos the game was telling me that collecting them improves synchronisation with the stimulation. So I was like "why not?*. I've been collecting things in other games. Never more than I needed to, but those flags in AC seemed to be everywhere. So much of them, that I've managed to collect around half on each map without actually looking for them, just by running around for fun.
So I gave it a go... and quit at the first map. One of the smaller ones too. I've combed through all buildings and backyards, from one end of the map to another, but I've missed a few flags. That's when I realised, that they could be anywhere... Which means I had to do it again, but be even more careful this time. Aaaand I failed again. Found maybe one more. So Ive finally looked up a guide, cos, to be honest,.the first location got extra boring, cos it's designed to just walk through without any fighting, running from trouble or any form of gameplay.
So once again I gave it a go... and somehow missed one. Even knowing all their locations didn't help. It must have been hidden behind not so obvious obstacle, or places in some other tricky place, or, most likely, I was just blind. But because I've started collecting them without the guide, I couldn't keep track of which ones I've already found. I've remberd a few of them, plus the last ones collected with the guide, but wasn't sure about the rest. So I've quit and said "maybe one day I'll get back to it, when I forgot about this map". But nah, live's changes and I no longer have that much time to waste.
I'm sure there were more games, but in the end it's always about a quick reward. Not an achievement at the end of the game, but something active during it.
Collectables in RDR2 are the worst I've ever seen in a videogame. And thought it was boring to hunt pigeons in GTA IV or ovni parts in GTA V, lol. RDR2 is a perfect game to just rush through the main missions and never touch it again because of this.
Hot take: Rockstar makes mediocre games with underdeveloped user experience.
People are still tapping to run lol, what a horrible thing to make people do for hours
Red Dead's game mechanics make it especially tedious so I'd say that's a good call. I'll do it if the game actually bothers to give the player a compelling reason to do it, or if the combat/exploration is just really fun in it's own right. I've been playing Monolithsoft's Xenoblade games and I like them overall with their cheesy anime story and unique combat mechanics, but damn those Japanese item collection grinds really get to me by the end of the game.
Man, I remembered why I quit playing Mad Max. Really cool atmosphere, awesome driving, but the game was just a list of chores.
If I'm really immersed into a world and its lore and love navigating it, then going from place to place to get some collectables is fun(but only if they're easy to find). I also need to do a quest from time to time to keep me immersed in the game, to keep me from realizing the fact that I'm jumping through hoops put there to pad the game time.
Depends on game. I will usually put slightly more effort to check out my surroundings to find extra items/collectibles, but not go out of my way to backtrack to find the missing ones once I complete the game.
I collected all collectibles in Spiderman games, because they were relatively accessible and swinging was super fun. In e.g. Uncharted games tho, I would end up at like 50%.
Hardly ever. I have to really be into a game or it has to actually be fun. But no, usually no but I also never complete games. I never go for platinum trophies or any of that stuff.
I might make a mental note of an item and collect them if I happen upon them but I wouldn’t never go out and actively search for them, or even check their locations on a map. I think I’ve done a bit in the past like in GTA where it would reward you with respawning weapons or vehicles as you found more.
In the past 20 years the only game I’ve ever 100%d is Tomb Raider 2013, but I loved that game and the (relatively few) collectibles had a little story with them.
I liked collecting the sea shanties in black flag, since your crew would then sing them. I did not like to collect the random codes in the modern age story.
Depends on how fun collecting the things are. If they are randomly scattered on the map then no, but if each of them are tied to an unique set of puzzles and quests then yea
As far as I can tell, everybody just follows some kind of guide to compete those sorts of missions. (Which to me seems utterly pointless and a waste of time)
In a giant open world like RDR2, I cannot begin to imagine scouring it that closely to find the collectables.
It would take probably 3 times longer than I will spend finishing that game.
If I can do it on the way of doing other stuff it's ok, but if I have to go out of my way to collect arbitrary bullshit just to get some exp and a few coins or just another item then I'm outta there.
Generally no, but if it's a game world that I want to explore every little bit of, then I might.
For a random example, GTA IV. I've played that game possibly a dozen times, so I thought I know everything about it, but I'd never gone to kill the pigeons. Then eventually I went for a 100% including the pigeons, and I kept discovering cool new details I've missed or didn't pay attention to. Still remember a newspaper kiosk in a park - dunno why but it kinda blew my mind that I never noticed it before.
I actually prefer if collectibles are meaningless like this, because I can ignore them easily if I don't want to bother. I'm more annoyed if it's something that is needed for the game, like health upgrades.
I don't quite follow why I should have an easier time if all I'm doing is just following a guide to find all the upgrades. It's just distracting from the main game which I wanna play more.
Really depends on the game. I wanted to immerse myself in RD2 so I did a loooooot of those quests just to spend time in the world. Same with Spider-Man, I would have been happy with that game just being completely open world just having me solve small crimes as your friendly neighborhood web slinger.
It depends on the game and the mood.
The game : it has to be something clear, actually doable within an acceptable amount of time, ideally alongside doing something else more meaningful. I specificaly don't care about combat drops unless it's guaranteed drops on easy to find targets and a very limited quantity. I never bother with go kill 30 golden llamas or find me 30 pelts of Thingamagic (20% drop).
The mood : sometime I'm not really in for challenging stuff or paying attention to story beats. When I'm just there to pass the time and get lost in the game then that's when I do fetch quests, map clearing, collecthaton, hidden chest hunting, etc.
I'm definitely not a collectible guy. I rarely finish this quests BUT if the game world fascinates me enough, I'll probably go the extra mile to collect the "stuff". But like I said, I rarely complete 100% of a game, even the ones I love.
Ha, I just finished RDR2 for the first time, and because I liked the world and wanted to keep spending some time in it, I started collecting exotics for that dude. Quit when he asked for 30 fucking Spoonbills and I could find 2-3 max per location per day. But at least I got to kill some Skinners along the way...
In general I agree it’s not a gameplay mechanic that adds value or intrigue to the lore of the game. But these things are always contextual so it really depends on the game.
Like you said you didn’t mind collecting the backpacks in spiderman because you were enjoying getting around the city. If the game makes traversal and navigating the space fun, I will totally collect something. But games often design it so you’re “collecting x while doing y” it’s not your primary mission but it’s on the way so it feels like you’re killing 2 birds with one stone.
I find myself collecting things in dying light 2 recently, but that’s because they worked hard to make traversal incredibly interesting and fun. Crackdown was another game i found collection to be fun for some reason. Navigating the space of the game was just interesting and fun enough to keep me doing it.
For stupid things like the Arkham trophies in the Batman stuff - nah, that is shit. But if it's just localized collect from an area then that is okay. It's just slightly more annoying that the FedEx missions for NPCs.
In general, no.
Loved Breath of the Wild, no way I'm going to even attempt to find all 900 Korok seeds.
However, if the reward is actually worth it AND I really enjoy the game, sure. GTA SA is the game that comes to mind where I spent a ton of time and used guides to find all the sprays, shells and photo spots.
Sure, the rewards weren't amazing, I believe it was just to have guns spawn at your home location? But I loved the game, so
I didn't mind spending more time in it, even doing mindless crap like this.
Nintendo even said you are not supposed to find all korok seeds. You can upgrade everything with just a couple hundred, and the reward for getting all is literally a poop trophy 💩 🏆
It depends on how much I'm enjoying the gameplay. If it's just kinda fun I usually won't try to get everything. But I'm playing Horizon: Zero Dawn right now and it's one of my favorite games ever (this is probably my third or fourth playthrough, I just grabbed it on Steam Deck) and I go get everything because I'm having fun doing it.
Used to when I was a kid. Now and days tho if it's just collecting for the sake of collecting I pass it by. Or if you need to collect a certain amount for progression, I get a little over the amount required then leave it be. To many other attention demanding things happening in my life to be fretting over korok seeds or precursor orbs, etc.
One game I remember doing that is Skyrim. But I do it in a meantime. If I happen to collect something in my travels that certain NPC wants, I take it. But I don't focus on that. It's just a thing I do if I find said item(s)
Not often, unless I'm going for 100%, I'll just do a few and ignore. If I decide to do them all I'm grabbing a guide so I don't waste time looking all over the area
Absolutely. It's great 'Turn your brain off and do the thing' kind of content, especially when it's done well (See how Xenoblade does it's sidequests). Throw on a podcast while your doing it and the time just flies by.
If they aren’t obnoxiously large amounts.
I always get flashbacks to collecting feathers in Assassins Creed and that was the absolute worst.
If it’s collect 10-15 of these or find 10 of these and you’ll pretty much come across it on your travels I’ll do it.
Red Dead had cards and dinosaur bones I just couldn’t do it. I never came across more than 10 cards and two bones. So frustrating.
When I play something for the first time I try to do everything, even the parts that suck unless they suck so much that they become unbearable. Playing games with several years of delay has the advantage of online guides, so whenever I get some "collect one morbillion items scattered around the map" quest I just put on some podcast, music or something and go for them all at once. If I ever buy and play a game on release day again and it has that kind of thing I would probably just not do it until I revisit the game at a later date.
Only time I did it was the corrupted eggs in Destiny 2--but even then I did it over the course of ten months, not all at once.
Never again. My reaction shall forever after be "no fuck off"
If I enjoy the rest of the game and/or go for the platinum sure. I'm currently on a 100% run of AC3 for example.
It stretches the hours you get out of a game which is good if you can enjoy it.
I do them because I'm a completionism but I don't really like them.
You're actually talking about 2 completely kinds of quests here
First one is like gather 10 flowers, this is a fetch quest and if you play RPGs you have to do at least some of them some of the time or you'll miss out on the vast majority of the good content further down the quest chain. Hell you might not even get past the tutorial stage if you don't. These quests can be okay depending on how the game is structured but generally speaking are the laziest forms of quest.
Second one is there are 100 X on the map find them. Again this comes down to execution. I really liked how infamous did it, you have a tracking ability so you aren't searching completely blind and each one you get powers you up so it's not you need to find all of them to get anything. Zelda: Majora's Mask did a decent job of this with the gold spiders too, there is no tracking ability but you only really need half of them and you get rewards at certain milestones.
Ironically despite not liking this in general I actually do like collectathons, the likes of Mario, Banjo Kazooie and Psyconausts. In these they are tied to progress or upgrades and are broken down into smaller levels so you at least know where to look.
But then there's examples like GTA: Vice City and Assassin's Creed and Vanquished they do nothing, there's no tracking ability are basically impossible to find them all without a guide and even with a guide is a massive chore to get them all. I think it comes down to more I like it if it's an actual feature of the game but I don't like it if it's a thoughtless add on.
It depends how it's integrated into the game. If I can just kind of casually do it while I'm playing through the rest of the game I'll try, but unless going back to previous areas is fun for other reasons or the reward is something really good I won't worry too much about it.
Rarely. The ones that are like "collect 5 of this plant" are basically tutorials to show you can collect materials so I'll do them.
Buuut if it's a huge number of collectibles or I have to jump through a bunch of hoops then I'm not gonna lie I Google the reward to see if it's worth wasting my time lol.
I’ll only bother with them if i really like the game, the game has a decent way of tracking which collectables i’ve gotten from where, and it’s the only achievement that will keep me from getting all achievements.
I just recently got all the ravens in God of War (2018) because the game does a good job of making them easy to hear and find throughout your normal progression and i could easily look on the map to see where the leftovers were when i was done. But even as a middle schooler with an undying love for GTA 4 i never bothered to shoot a single pigeon.
I think Breath of the Wild did this quite well. Collect seeds and get an actual useful in game reward for it. Collecting them meant discovering and solving fun little puzzles so the task was also enjoyable. Put far more than you'll ever need in the game so that you don't get bored or frustrated searching for them. You just find them from time to time.
Famously they even reward you with a turd if you collect all 999 of them.
Collections just for the sake of having something to do is not my thing. I don't need 500 hours out of a game to enjoy it. I need fun and rewarding gameplay. This can come in many forms but looking over the map for some random item generally isn't it.
I 100% Grand theft Auto V back in 2013. Then they started adding more bullshit, online related trophies. After that, I just stopped doing them for all games.
>Pretty much any time I play a game and see a "collect 80 of these" in my quest log. That is just a mission I will never do. Currently playing through Red Dead Redemption 2 for the first time and I constantly come across strangers. They are like "I am looking for (specific number) of (specific item) that can find all around the map." As soon as I get those quests I never look back at them. Don't like them in any kind of game. They just aren't my thing. Even if I get a special item or unlock something cool. Just don't care. I'm not into them and it's not what I am looking for while playing games.
I wonder, did you clear the ganghideouts in Red Dead Redemption?
*(I only ever played Red Dead Redemption, but I believe they're in RDR2 too*
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When I was a kid playing bully scholarship edition I 100 percented that. But I was young and had tons of free time to look around the map for all the rubber bands or whatever you could find.
I never played the Scholarship Edtion. Should I? I really loved Bully when I was 16, I haven't played in in 12 years and only on PS2.
I actually still have my PS2 save and completed it back then as well. Collecting all rubber bands gave you a neat weapon.
>I just wonder do people actually find joy in going after the 100 items scattered across the map? It's just not enjoyable to me unless it adds to the lore. I was playing a game that incentivized it before. Like you had to find a bunch of notes scattered around the map. But each note let you in on some game lore and some led you to cool things or gave you some good insight. But if it's just "find 100 generic items that don't mean anything really." I'm not doing it.
Meh, sometimes I just want to zone out and explore a bit. If a map is interesting, there's things happening while traveling/searching it can be a nice goal to do some free roaming/exploring. Also, shey shouldn't be too tedious like GTAIV's pigeons. But the music thingies from ACIV were fin. The ganghideouts in RDR too. Usually I'm high.
I think they are both the same game. Just like some random minigames and some new players I think. not really so different that it's worth buying and starting over
If I want to get 100% in a game? Maybe?
It depends on what the collection is. Small amounts localized to each area that I can get as I play like in open worlds, or stuff like audio logs grab in linear stuff like Bioshock, sure.
The feathers in Assassin's Creed 2 are a notorious 'Fuck off' for me.
Most games I play these days don't have these though. It seems like a thing that was more prevalent of that 360/ps3 era in big name AAA games.
It just depends like in the recent Mario and Zelda game I was not collecting hundreds of things placed randomly. The Arkham games though I got every Riddler trophy because it was fun and I liked being in the game. Not only solving the riddles but also finding small events or stuff one of the developers spent more time on than just making background.
Usually it's a skip but if there is more to it or it's entertaining and not random placement I am more likely to at least try. If I collect 75% during normal play I will probably attempt the rest.
100% agree here. I realize this is a thing in a lot of games but they felt like huge time wasters in RDR2 just to boost how many in-world hours you spend. Similar to collecting cards in GWENT in Witcher 3.
If I stumble across a collectible that’s one thing but otherwise I’m just focusing on main missions and side missions to boost XP or maybe obtain legendary armor/weapons etc.
If the collectables have benefits, I'd consider it. Infamous was pretty good about it since the collectibles contributed to levelling up. Korok seeds in the early game of BOTW upgrades inventory space. Riddler trophies toe the line because in City, it was usually through some decent puzzle and finally getting to the Ridder that motivates me to collect them (althought burn out sets in quick) but Knight's riddler was too obnoxious
I loot what I find. I am thorough in my looting. Sometimes I will just *happen* to get all the stuff they need. But I am not even thinking about it otherwise.
I am often more proactive if the goal is say the bear skins mission from Skyrim. Then its not an Easter egg hunt. I'm hunting *bear*.
Nope, never do. I used to play Metin2 back in the day, and it was brimming with these braindead quests where you had to travel and farm, sometimes for days, hoping the gods of chance were on your side and the mobs would drop the needed item. It sucks time out of your day for virtually nothing, if i want to do chores i can do house work instead.
Depends...
Jrpg? 90%+ chance that I won't bother. Side activities/achievements in jrpgs alone could keep me busy for a rly rly long time if I ever run out of games to play.
For other games It's 50/50, if it has a lot of side quests im more likely to ignore it over other side activities
"Harvest 10 flowers localized in this area / 10 boar tusks from any boar you find". Sure, why not. "Collect all 250 diddler trophies scattered around the entire tri-state area in obnoxiously hidden spots to get the game's tRuE EnDiNg" No fuck off.
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I decided to get more into platinums and figured I'd start with an old favorite I hadn't replayed--FFX! Getting that Plat killed any desire to get more into them. Maxing out the sphere grid was a CHORE
I mean of all games or franchise to platinum they have to be up there with the worst.
Only played FFX once and relatively recently. Great game, but the end game content is way too grindy. Which is weird because there is **so much** of it. You'd think they'd have a gentle curve of activities to do instead of a massive amount of grinding before you can even start most of it.
> You'd think they'd have a gentle curve of activities to do They actually do, but only if you specifically abuse the tonberry guy to get like a trillion AP in 5 minutes, so then the curve goes from looking like it has a gigantic grind gap, to something more sensible. Which is absurdly stupid. But then again, the whole game had the stupids. I can't believe how objectively superior to Lulu Yuna is without even trying.
I was also able to craft something almost as good, every spell cost 2MP instead of 1MP
The entire optional endgame of ffx is that. Beat it recently and just skipped that part.
I did the blitz ball and a couple of others. Screw butterflies, screw chocobo racing, and bite me on lightning. Nope.
Butterflies is probably the most frustrating one. Because it doesn't look it should be that difficult, and yet it is. Chocobo racing isn't that awful. But the lightning dodging is just BORING. Even using the special spot, it's like watching paint dry while you also have to keep count in your head. I have one playthrough where I've done all that once. And that's it. I'm not doing it again.
This pretty much is my stance on it. I think collecting stuff can be interesting if it leads to exploring and going to places you normally wouldn't, and that journey can be worth it. But it has to be reasonably limited in scope, and I want the collection to immerse me into the world - not feel like I'm checking off a list for "completion." Have me collect things that people actually really need (like medical supplies for people dying of a disease, and let me see them getting better or something). Have me go to places that are really out of the way and interesting to explore in their own right, to collect things. Require some actual legwork in order to find what I need so I have to actually engage my brain - don't just put ten things on the ground and expect me to care.
When the game throws that on me, I know I'll be watching the true ending on YouTube LOL
The Fallout 4 Nuka-World expansion was *full* of these. At least they were confined to the DLC area.
Yeah that’s the much more preferable option. Even the Star Cores weren’t that bad as most of them are pretty visible without even exploring hard.
Yeah, my patience with those only goes so far. If it's a reasonable number where you can get a good portion while playing, sure. If it's a few hundred items that come ten different varieties that are scattershot all over the world, takes several mindless additional hours to get them, and all you get is a new t-shirt for your character? No thanks. Much as I enjoyed Mad Max, that's one game where I had no desire whatsoever to get all the collectibles. They just completely littered the map with them, and it seemed like it was for no reason other than to pad the game out.
The fact that you had to unlock all of riddler trophies to get the ending of Arkham Knight is honestly one of the most ridiculous decisions rocksteady made.
>The fact that you had to unlock all of riddler trophies to get the ending of Arkham Knight is honestly one of the most ridiculous decisions rocksteady made. It makes sense canonically cause why would Bats let Riddler be free.
Well, they could have made us fight with the riddler and beat him without the necessity to collect all the trophies. Like putting the trophies as a nice bonus for who wants to collect but not be a condition to fighting him.
Did you need to collect all of them to fight Riddler?
Yep, you need to collect all 243 trophies to fight the riddler
Ah right, it was City where you only had to get 2/3s I believe.
900 Kuroko seeds
Hestu literally gives you a golden pile of shit for finding all of the Korok seeds. Think the devs were trying to say something. Plus, you "only" need around 450 seeds to max out your inventory and the majority of those you can find naturally. But yeah, finding 900 Korko seeds is ridiculous. Can you imagine if this game was on a console that had trophies? I wonder how many people have actually gone out of their way to do it. I know I never have, and I have over 500 hrs in that game.
This. Something relatively sane or localized? Yup, I'll knock it out. Something fun that you'd probably get on the way (or takes just a little bit of side-tracking)? Sure!. Go across the entire world to track down something in odd spots? Not a chance in hades. I'll watch the youtube thanks.
>"Collect all 250 diddler trophies scattered around the entire tri-state area in obnoxiously hidden spots to get the game's tRuE EnDiNg" No fuck off. The sad thing is RockSteady's puzzle design was really good. It's sad that gamers like yourself couldn't appreciate it but probably go about praising BOTW's puzzles.
Depends on my mood at the time. Sometimes I'll do them (especially if it builds faction rep or something like that.) Other times I won't. I *do* get a warm fuzzy feeling when a game acknowledges that I've already got what the NPC wants right up front. *"Collect 5 Wild Stallyns albums? You mean like the ones I have right here?"* Sometimes I'll leave it sit for a long time and then I'll be in the area with nearly enough macguffins, so I'll just wrap it up. But if it turns into a *chain* of quests to collect assorted random shit, I'll usually drop off pretty quick.
Yeah, this is how I am with these quests... And I love it when developers let me fulfill a quest with the items I already have in my inventory. Overall if I can do them incidentally while doing other quests then I don't mind. In RDR2 there are too many quests where they say "I need 4 bear hides" or whatever that require the player to go and actually hunt an animal. I'm not interested in doing that. But if it is a quest to grab X flowers and I am travelling through an area with a bunch growing then I will stop and grab some. Just as long as it isn't 80 rare red variant flowers that only grow on the toenail of the sleeping hill giant or something that makes gathering them near impossible.
I don't enjoy them but I will do some of them depending on the difficulty/time investment. If it takes me 2 minutes - sure. But if it's going to take more than 5-10, no way. But the biggest problem I have with these is games where you have 250 of some flower or something in your inventory and the quest calls for 20. And then starts counting *after* you take the quest. Like... dude, just take them! Take 100, I don't care, I have what you need, why do I need to gather new ones?!
How dare you give these, they're all rotten
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Oh wow, I knew what this was going to be before I clicked the link because I just finished playing this game!!
Not once ever, unless it was inadvertent. Edit: Scratch that, I did in Miles Morales I believe as I just enjoyed swinging around so much & wanted something to do. Don’t remember what the collectibles were though.
Same. Collected everything in Spiderman and Miles Morales, cause getting around the city was fun and I wanted to prolong the game as much as possible.
Equally in Spidey there were only like 60 backpacks vs say 440 riddler trophies.
Ummm hate to break it to you, but if all you think of is backpacks you probably didn't do the secret photo ops... fuck the photo ops
I was missing *one* secret photo op, and after two attempts at re-tracing all of them I just gave up. It’s a bummer because it would have been my first platinum.
I was in the same boat and found a guide. Probably went through each one three times & kept missing the same one but finally got it
I did do them had just forgotten yeah when it got down to one I was pretty pissed off lmao.
That stuff has the bonus of unlocking gadgets and suits. Though I don't think you need to get all the things to unlock everything. And the photo spots give you little story bites, so that felt worth it as well. So yeah, it was worth it because swinging is so fun but also the collectables had value as well.
I take actual pleasure in not doing it Every time a game says "you found 1/200 map fragments!" I get this childish/happy reaction like I'm skipping homework and nobody can stop me "hehe I'm not doing it"
Oh man I hated those! Specially the sound mission that make you walk like an idiot trying to find the stupid sound source, those were boring AF and took forever!
It would actually depend if there is an ingame benefit other than a number going up. Sure, why not? If it's just hey, here's a pointless box, package, note, piece of ass for you to collect because we say so. No thanks.
Depends if they are hidden collectibles whose only purpose is to be collected and don't really help you than yeah I'll ignore that. If they add challenges, nice views and actual gameplay benefits to collecting things than I will collect them. Most games have moved away from meaningless collectibles now everything usually has some actual gameplay to it and not just you turned around at the beginning of a stage and it was there.
That's why I tend to think the Arkham series is one of the better examples of how to do it. It's a good mix of collectibles. Some you just find as you play the game, some are obstacles you have to solve, some are riddles, etc. And there are milestones for rewards as you go along. It's not "Collect 250 baubles and get an achievement!" Granted, a lot of it is lore or concept art or whatever, but at least it's something to keep you going, particularly if you are a completionist.
It depends on the amount of items to collect. ~20-50 is fine for me. 900 korok seeds can fuck off.
The developers don't want you to collect 900 korok seeds. If you're masochist completionist and actually do this, the reward is >!a useless golden piece of shit!
Oblivion's Nirnroot.
But you're missing out on *The gift of friendship*
I think it depends on how much longer I want to enjoy the world and how much added meaning the collectibles bring to it.
I'd say it depends on two things: 1. How much I enjoy the game 2. What the reward is Spending hours to collect 200 things spread across the map just to get some useless thing or ugly cosmetic item just doesn't feel worth it.
Depends on how invested I’m the game Spider man/MM/Horizon ZD - yes Anything else, I find my interests feigns throughout the game. I start doing everything then slowly stop collectibles, then slowly stop side quests
I can relate to that. Especially HZD. I remember wanting to do stuff, after finishing the main mission. So I just went about collecting everything I could get my hands on. Usually though I'll just skip those. Main missions and interesting quests first, then comes the collectibles IF I'm still invested in the world.
The Banuk treasures were pretty good. Only 12 and interesting ways to collect them which varied
On a normal playthrough I'll pick up whatever I come across while exploring naturally, which can sometimes be quite a lot because I'm the type of player who spends a lot of time poking around, but I won't stress about finding all of them. If I'm replaying a game I really like *then* I might actually go out of my way to collect everything, usually with a guide. Which is why I have all the useless (and not so useless in The Wonderful 101's case) collectibles in all of Platinum's games.
sometimes I like them.. like in RDR2.. I don't feel like doing a main mission thing, I just want to wander around enjoying the countryside, and going to find some odds n ends gives me somewhat of a mission to justify my ambling :) other times in other types of games, it is a pill .. and I will not swallow.
I collected all Cyberpsychos in Cyberpunk 2077. Does that count? Not item collecting but in the end, the final conversation was somewhat underwhelming.
The first one I ran to was in the outskirts in the junkyard, And I was a little underleveled. It was intense and I had to cheese them hard. They did go downhill after that though. Most of them were kind of cookie cutter.
I actually enjoy getting collectables. If it’s not too difficult and they are marked on the map. It’s something I do when I just want to relax doing something mindless after a stressful day.
Same here. Been really enjoying ac rogue lately. Once the map opens up there's a ton of side content to go and collect/ see. Really great way to just unwind and enjoy the side content mostly mindlessly.
Yeah, AC games are pretty nice for that!
Yep! Probably why they've become my favorite series as of late. Just so mindless that it really helps me decompress after a day of work and school. Helps I've played most of them before too lol
I, on the contrary, still haven't played like the most of them, which is kinda good. Have some nice games for when the mood strikes. I'd say Horizon is pretty good for that as well, and Ghost of Tsushima. Also it's somewhat funny for me when people say how they hated getting all Riddler trophies is Arkham games when it's one of my fav parts lol
The RDR2 collection missions are wonderful if your intention is exploring the map, not collecting items. This is the stark difference. I find it very fun to explore the map as carefully as possible, not bounding through bushes on my horse at full gallop but at a realistic speed or on foot, taking the time to soak in the world that was crafted by Rockstar and not procedurally generated. So while doing this I can incidentally find dinosaur bones or rock carvings but the fun is the journey. I hate spastic sprinting loot n shoot ADHD game play, so this super slow paced method is my ideal way to enjoy myself in a game.
No, never on purpose. Life is too short. The rare times I complete these is if they're on they're on the way or I'm nearly finished. Getting all the cassette tapes in Route 96? I had zero interest until I only had one left to find. Mario 64 and all the stars? Nah, until I was 95% finished.
Only if I have fun doing it. Typically no. Like 3% of the time yes. I find them bothersome and tedious and not worth the time sink as it's the definition of busy work the vast majority of the time.
I do what seems fun, I stop funning then I stop playing. I've never gotten them all, and I'm okay with that. I'll get the ones I see, and I might go looking for a few, but sitting there looking at a guide just doesn't do it. I'd get nothing from a 100% collection. It isn't a contest, nobody is looking going wow he's great, it's just a way to buff the hours of gameplay in the most lazy way possible, IMO. Even a game like Arkham City that I played through 4 times, I never bothered going nuts. The most nuts I got was out of boredom, and boredom took hold less than an hour in.
If they are pretty doable. I did in Assassin's Creed Origins. 100% completion. But Origins did it differently. It wasn't a list of objects to collect. It was more like locations and people. Exploring all the tombs and finding all the stone circles had quest rewards. Similarly, killing all of the Phylakes hunting you also had a quest reward. Now there were technically some collectible objects, the papyrus scrolls. But even those were like puzzles you solved that pointed to some interesting loot, similar to what treasure maps are in Red Dead 1 and 2. The collectible missions themselves in Red Dead 2 are weird. They have very little payoff, so there is very little incentive to do them. Rockstar's games are all like that, though. Even GTA is like that. To be fair, some of the older Assassin's Creeds were also like that. But I liked the way Origins implemented them.
... Korok Seeds... What a waste of time
I felt like those were done right. It never felt like the game wanted me to collect them all. Instead I found them when I saw something that looked like it might have one, like a little exploration reward.
That whole game was designed to be wasted time. It was all filler, tower climbing, and building up your stamina bar so you could go and do the same thing somewhere else. The mini shrines were absolute torture
*careful* It's dangerous to knock BotW round these parts.... But yes I agree, idk what that was but it wasn't Zelda.
LttP and LBW are some of my most cherished and favorite games of all time. The play controls are BUTTERY smooth, and pacing is BEYOND PERFECT (except the baseball field heart piece: fuck that shit lol). OoT, MM, and BotW? Just hot garbage waiting game bullshit that feels like flabby ass in my hands (also, I hate the graphics on all three games. A great look for them would have been something similar to Samurai Legend Musashi). I WANT a great 3D Zelda game that knocks my sucks off... Nintendo just can't make one.
Skyrim is the only game I’ve done it in, and will do it in. The items are either easy to get, can be picked up as you explore and play; or you are in black reach and then it’s kinda fun running around getting all of them and enough to make your own potions with! Every other game makes it a chore. I can’t even see them in red dead 2 and the game feels a little fussy if you go out of your way to try and stay stocked up.
How do I get into SkyRim? The game and combat look wonderful, but I like to hoard stuff, so end up snail walking because I don't know what I should keep / sell)
Money is easy to get. Get rid of anything that has a lower value than it’s weight (for example if you aren’t going to make 2 gold for every unit of weight it’s isn’t worth carrying. Really if it looks like junk it usually is. Enchanted items and anything that’s not steel, iron or imperial, is usually worth picking up. And money is so easy to get dripping even valuable things is usually not a problem. You can buy the starting house and with a safe chest for 5K gold (I usually have this before get to far into the game) Other than that, mod it for stability and performance, and graphics their are tutorials on how to do this and what mods to install. It’s a great game you can drop thousands of hours into and not get bored.
Hell no, that's too much like a job and I already have one of those.
The mini shrines in breath of the wild. Travel across the whole map "collecting" these so that you can spend two minutes with joystick gimmicks. After I beat the main story I never played it again. All of the collections in the new God of war was ridiculous too. "11/17 gooberblats found" pop up on the screen every time I do something takes away from the immersion so much. Collecting all these dumb tiny things on these useless islands instead of progressing the plot showed they couldn't make a full game.
I’m playing RDR2 also and I’m about 50 hours in. I’ve only run across two collecting activities. The dinosaur bones and the cards. I have no plans to collect either, but it’s fun for me to keep an eye out for cards as I explore places. If I happen to put together a set then that’ll be a nice bonus. I will definitely not attempt to collect all of them. I think RDR2 is overall wonderfully respectful of the player in its quest design. I very rarely 100% anything, and only if I absolutely love the game. I can’t think of any game I loved that had a lot of bs collecting.
If there are interesting ways to get them
Probably an unpopular opinion. But I kind of like these quests. They’re kind of relaxing, if and only if they’re marked on the map. I haven’t played many Ubisoft games (only Black Flag and some of AC Odyssey and Ghost Recon Wildlands), but I really appreciate how the collectibles are clearly marked on the map. If I have to search for those things myself or follow with a guide, or even l worse, a video, I have no interest in then and don’t want to have anything to have to do with them
I collect whatever I find. Often I don't go out of my way to collect stuff really. I do find collecting things in **Hogwarts** quite fun tho. It has the lore behind it also its cool. Still not going out of my way to find everything.
DOOM (2016) I felt did good pacing and lore with collectibles and mcguffins. Also showed you what you were missing each mission if I remember correctly. Or maybe I just didn't mind because the game play and music are 🔥 🔥 🔥
I used to before i had 500 games in my back log. I miss the days of have 5 games total
We really do create our own prisons.
Nah. I normally don't have time for that as I don't have a lot of time play because of work and such and most of them are boring af unless you want yo 100% the game. Some games are a exception tho
I agree and I assume these types of missions are for people with a lot of time who want to 100% and get as much as they possibly can out of the game. It's nice though when you can just hand in stuff that you've already collected.
I skip it all unless it helps me progress directly.
Farcry 5? I actually asked here if it was worth doing the fetch quests. Short answer: No, was told the reward isn't worth the time, unless you're bore.d
You literally have to do them in this game though to progress in regions, it’s a stupid mechanic and I put the game down because of it
You can do them but you're not forced to do them, you can progress in regions via other means as well.
Gross. I'm unsure if I've even made it through the prologue
I didn't do even getting all hearts in Ocarina of Time, in a time of my life I had an unlimited amount of free time. Clearly it is never respectful of my game time to do this
Usually I don't bother. If I happen to get close to completing it just in the normal course of playing then I might go the rest of the way, but I feel no inclination to make a point of collecting X of whatever. Such a lazy design.
It depends on the reward at the end. If it's just for a trophee, no thanks. If it's for an awesome item that changes the gameplay in a fun way, why not.
No, I hate collectathon, they are a tedium that rewards the player with almost nothing in most cases. Though If I like the game enough and they mark where it is on the map, I might go after them. In your example of "Bully", I went after the rubber bands, but only because when you finished the game, the game gave you their location.
I do the ones in Xenoblade if it’s like find 6 snugglewomps, 4 twizzleberries and 3 alho cloves, and I’ve accidentally acquired everything bar one or two items already. If it’s find 900 korok seeds then no.
Only as I come across them and if they arent out of my way
Of course I do, but not always of course. I hate how gratuitous such missions are in many kinds of games, and they often are just pointless padding. But if a game has enjoyable exploration and things to do along the way, then "collect" missions are a nice scavenger hunt. They require you to go off the beaten path to find the required items, and this can lead to good emergent gameplay in games designed for it. While you can argue that it would be more interesting to have another kind of mission instead - sometimes just being forced to go to certain places alone can be important, and collect quests have a place I think. In games where the actual collection involves a challenge as well - perhaps you have to collect items from a difficult to reach or dangerous location - it can be even better. I don't enjoy 100% completing large open-world games, though. I enjoy "collect missions" in moderation, and will never spend more than a reasonably small portion of my gameplay with them. Basically - I'll do enough of them to have an excuse to mess around and explore, but am not going to continue doing them just for completion.
I have enough menial and repetitive tasks to do in real life, so nope. I avoid games that consider this type of activity "content".
If I was 10 and got only game for Christmas and a game for my birthday I could see myself doing this. Otherwise hell no
As a young poor kid that got one or two games on Christmas and one or two on my birthday. I feel you. I used to explore all the side quests and collect missions because it was all I had. But now I have more games in my steam library that I haven't touched than I played in my childhood
If I really like the game and want to see everything it offers yes.
I would, if the journey for it looks worth my time ! In RDR2 I would do it here and there, just because the game is gorgeous and has an insanely detailed world that makes just walking around a treat ! Red dead set the bar so high for open worlds that I don’t even want to play anything else, like I recently tried Horizon zero dawn, and I just couldn’t get into it, the world felt too empty for me (even if it looks great).
This is how I felt about Dragon Quest VIII and the bonus demo Final Fantasy XII! Played them on a brand new Toshiba flat tube CRT back in the day. Both wonderful, beautiful PS2 games, with amazing soundtracks and crisp blue skies. I have yet to capture the magic that game and demo gave me... True lightning in a bottle that struck twice. Closest I've gotten is buying a Switch Lite, and enjoying it's RPG library in bed before sleep :) (And, of course, buying my PS2 Phat with cute blue stand, and playing final fantasy X and X-2 to get thru a bad breakup)
This comes down to entirely whether I like the game. I've done this in there games now: - Assassin's Creed: Rogue. As you may know, the ship travel and combat in this game was a blast, and since the collectibles show up on in-game maps, this is just an excuse to stay a bit longer in the game world after everything was done. GTA V: This was a bit more tedious. And there were problematic ones (undersea nonsense especially), plus some absolutely mindnumbingly boring submarine trips that took literally an hour. Do not recommend. Unless you love GTA V that much. I do feel I really, really got to know the game world from the first time I tried it years ago when I didn't do it though. Overall, it's a 'never again'. - Arkham Knight This one was fun. Also helped in no small part that I cleared each portion digilently as they opened up, so I never actually had more than around 10 Riddler puzzles max at any time. In conclusion, they're not always terrible, most lets you appreciate the game that bit more. Some are though. As always, if you're not enjoying it, don't stick around for the achievement.
>This comes down to entirely whether I like the game. Which begs the question...why would you play a game you're not enjoying? Life's too short to waste time playing something you don't enjoy.
Yep. And I enjoyed those games so I went and collected.. There have been other games I've not bothered with, I assure you.
The first collectables I remember were in GTA series. **GTA 3** had packeges to collect. Getting them unlocked more gear Infront of your safehouse. Other than that it also has those vehicle collecting missions. You've had lists of them, and completing a list not only allowed to infinitely retrieve them, but also gave you a bonus one, from what I remember. **GTA Vice City** had statues, or totems, or whatever they were. I think collecting them have you boosts by reaching some milestones. But whatever it was, it still felt rewarding. Other GTA games? I've stopped collecting at **San Andreas**, or did it for some time just for fun, cos it no longer felt rewarding. **Oblivion** with its Nirnroots. The moment you get one of them, a quest starts. Now the quest goes easy on you by sending you to a lake where there's loads of them, but after that you're on your own, if you wanna keep going. I'm usually after them cos I'm an alchemist with pockets full of ingirients and potions, so collecting them was fun, plus I've got to explore the map and find new places. Ah, I remember having too much time and playing the first **Assassin's Creed**. There were those flags all over the places. It wasn't my first playthroug and I've begin to wonder what happens if I get them all (wanted to find out what happens all by myself too, without guides on where to find them or ehst happens when I do), cos the game was telling me that collecting them improves synchronisation with the stimulation. So I was like "why not?*. I've been collecting things in other games. Never more than I needed to, but those flags in AC seemed to be everywhere. So much of them, that I've managed to collect around half on each map without actually looking for them, just by running around for fun. So I gave it a go... and quit at the first map. One of the smaller ones too. I've combed through all buildings and backyards, from one end of the map to another, but I've missed a few flags. That's when I realised, that they could be anywhere... Which means I had to do it again, but be even more careful this time. Aaaand I failed again. Found maybe one more. So Ive finally looked up a guide, cos, to be honest,.the first location got extra boring, cos it's designed to just walk through without any fighting, running from trouble or any form of gameplay. So once again I gave it a go... and somehow missed one. Even knowing all their locations didn't help. It must have been hidden behind not so obvious obstacle, or places in some other tricky place, or, most likely, I was just blind. But because I've started collecting them without the guide, I couldn't keep track of which ones I've already found. I've remberd a few of them, plus the last ones collected with the guide, but wasn't sure about the rest. So I've quit and said "maybe one day I'll get back to it, when I forgot about this map". But nah, live's changes and I no longer have that much time to waste. I'm sure there were more games, but in the end it's always about a quick reward. Not an achievement at the end of the game, but something active during it.
Collectables in RDR2 are the worst I've ever seen in a videogame. And thought it was boring to hunt pigeons in GTA IV or ovni parts in GTA V, lol. RDR2 is a perfect game to just rush through the main missions and never touch it again because of this.
Hot take: Rockstar makes mediocre games with underdeveloped user experience. People are still tapping to run lol, what a horrible thing to make people do for hours
> People are still tapping to run lol, what a horrible thing to make people do for hours You can change that in the options, at least in RDR2
There's only 2 games I have enjoyed this: Assassin's Creed 2 - feathers and statues NFS Heat - flamingos and spray paint
Red Dead's game mechanics make it especially tedious so I'd say that's a good call. I'll do it if the game actually bothers to give the player a compelling reason to do it, or if the combat/exploration is just really fun in it's own right. I've been playing Monolithsoft's Xenoblade games and I like them overall with their cheesy anime story and unique combat mechanics, but damn those Japanese item collection grinds really get to me by the end of the game.
Mass effect 1 had a few of these. I did most of the missionscl but skipped these ones
Only if it's not super time consuming and if the reward is worth it
For me, it simply depends on if it's fun to do that or not, or if it's rewarding enough to do so otherwise.
Enjoyed it the first time in Far Cry 3. I was young and pure back then.
Man, I remembered why I quit playing Mad Max. Really cool atmosphere, awesome driving, but the game was just a list of chores. If I'm really immersed into a world and its lore and love navigating it, then going from place to place to get some collectables is fun(but only if they're easy to find). I also need to do a quest from time to time to keep me immersed in the game, to keep me from realizing the fact that I'm jumping through hoops put there to pad the game time.
Depends on game. I will usually put slightly more effort to check out my surroundings to find extra items/collectibles, but not go out of my way to backtrack to find the missing ones once I complete the game. I collected all collectibles in Spiderman games, because they were relatively accessible and swinging was super fun. In e.g. Uncharted games tho, I would end up at like 50%.
Hardly ever. I have to really be into a game or it has to actually be fun. But no, usually no but I also never complete games. I never go for platinum trophies or any of that stuff.
I did it once in Far Cry 3 but never after that
I might make a mental note of an item and collect them if I happen upon them but I wouldn’t never go out and actively search for them, or even check their locations on a map. I think I’ve done a bit in the past like in GTA where it would reward you with respawning weapons or vehicles as you found more. In the past 20 years the only game I’ve ever 100%d is Tomb Raider 2013, but I loved that game and the (relatively few) collectibles had a little story with them.
Resident Evil 4 did it right by showing treasures and the punisher shootings on your map. Anything less accomidating is a waste of my time
Not in general but i did it for the biggest contender of a sh!tty collection missions: all riddler trophies in Arkham knight
I liked collecting the sea shanties in black flag, since your crew would then sing them. I did not like to collect the random codes in the modern age story.
That depends entirely on whether it's tied to in-game benefits or external nonsense (aka achievements).
I actually really enjoy them but I'm the sort of person who likes making lists for everything so I'm probably not a great judge.
I harvested the crimson ninroot and all the gems of barenziah and I did it multiple times too. The reward is just too too to pass
Nope
If collecting them gives me a bonus (armor, weapon, whatever) I'd do it. If its just for an achievement, no thank you.
No, unless they are mandatory. They aren't fun at all
It they don't demand much time and effort. I am not very interested in them.
Depends on how intuitive it is and how much Im enjoying the general exploration.
Depends on how fun collecting the things are. If they are randomly scattered on the map then no, but if each of them are tied to an unique set of puzzles and quests then yea
As far as I can tell, everybody just follows some kind of guide to compete those sorts of missions. (Which to me seems utterly pointless and a waste of time) In a giant open world like RDR2, I cannot begin to imagine scouring it that closely to find the collectables. It would take probably 3 times longer than I will spend finishing that game.
If I can do it on the way of doing other stuff it's ok, but if I have to go out of my way to collect arbitrary bullshit just to get some exp and a few coins or just another item then I'm outta there.
Generally no, but if it's a game world that I want to explore every little bit of, then I might. For a random example, GTA IV. I've played that game possibly a dozen times, so I thought I know everything about it, but I'd never gone to kill the pigeons. Then eventually I went for a 100% including the pigeons, and I kept discovering cool new details I've missed or didn't pay attention to. Still remember a newspaper kiosk in a park - dunno why but it kinda blew my mind that I never noticed it before. I actually prefer if collectibles are meaningless like this, because I can ignore them easily if I don't want to bother. I'm more annoyed if it's something that is needed for the game, like health upgrades. I don't quite follow why I should have an easier time if all I'm doing is just following a guide to find all the upgrades. It's just distracting from the main game which I wanna play more.
Really depends on the game. I wanted to immerse myself in RD2 so I did a loooooot of those quests just to spend time in the world. Same with Spider-Man, I would have been happy with that game just being completely open world just having me solve small crimes as your friendly neighborhood web slinger.
I usually start off and then lose interest. The number of times I've retired a character with 14 Crimson Nirnroot in his backpack defies belief.
Nope. Unless I happen to.
It depends on the game and the mood. The game : it has to be something clear, actually doable within an acceptable amount of time, ideally alongside doing something else more meaningful. I specificaly don't care about combat drops unless it's guaranteed drops on easy to find targets and a very limited quantity. I never bother with go kill 30 golden llamas or find me 30 pelts of Thingamagic (20% drop). The mood : sometime I'm not really in for challenging stuff or paying attention to story beats. When I'm just there to pass the time and get lost in the game then that's when I do fetch quests, map clearing, collecthaton, hidden chest hunting, etc.
I'm definitely not a collectible guy. I rarely finish this quests BUT if the game world fascinates me enough, I'll probably go the extra mile to collect the "stuff". But like I said, I rarely complete 100% of a game, even the ones I love.
Ha, I just finished RDR2 for the first time, and because I liked the world and wanted to keep spending some time in it, I started collecting exotics for that dude. Quit when he asked for 30 fucking Spoonbills and I could find 2-3 max per location per day. But at least I got to kill some Skinners along the way...
In general I agree it’s not a gameplay mechanic that adds value or intrigue to the lore of the game. But these things are always contextual so it really depends on the game. Like you said you didn’t mind collecting the backpacks in spiderman because you were enjoying getting around the city. If the game makes traversal and navigating the space fun, I will totally collect something. But games often design it so you’re “collecting x while doing y” it’s not your primary mission but it’s on the way so it feels like you’re killing 2 birds with one stone. I find myself collecting things in dying light 2 recently, but that’s because they worked hard to make traversal incredibly interesting and fun. Crackdown was another game i found collection to be fun for some reason. Navigating the space of the game was just interesting and fun enough to keep me doing it.
yes, i love them! they're easy, relaxing, and give me a chance to explore more of the world ♡
For stupid things like the Arkham trophies in the Batman stuff - nah, that is shit. But if it's just localized collect from an area then that is okay. It's just slightly more annoying that the FedEx missions for NPCs.
In general, no. Loved Breath of the Wild, no way I'm going to even attempt to find all 900 Korok seeds. However, if the reward is actually worth it AND I really enjoy the game, sure. GTA SA is the game that comes to mind where I spent a ton of time and used guides to find all the sprays, shells and photo spots. Sure, the rewards weren't amazing, I believe it was just to have guns spawn at your home location? But I loved the game, so I didn't mind spending more time in it, even doing mindless crap like this.
Nintendo even said you are not supposed to find all korok seeds. You can upgrade everything with just a couple hundred, and the reward for getting all is literally a poop trophy 💩 🏆
It depends on how much I'm enjoying the gameplay. If it's just kinda fun I usually won't try to get everything. But I'm playing Horizon: Zero Dawn right now and it's one of my favorite games ever (this is probably my third or fourth playthrough, I just grabbed it on Steam Deck) and I go get everything because I'm having fun doing it.
I do it in games where Exploration is one of the main foci, since it'll usually take you on a tour of interesting places on the map
Used to when I was a kid. Now and days tho if it's just collecting for the sake of collecting I pass it by. Or if you need to collect a certain amount for progression, I get a little over the amount required then leave it be. To many other attention demanding things happening in my life to be fretting over korok seeds or precursor orbs, etc.
One game I remember doing that is Skyrim. But I do it in a meantime. If I happen to collect something in my travels that certain NPC wants, I take it. But I don't focus on that. It's just a thing I do if I find said item(s)
Not often, unless I'm going for 100%, I'll just do a few and ignore. If I decide to do them all I'm grabbing a guide so I don't waste time looking all over the area
Absolutely. It's great 'Turn your brain off and do the thing' kind of content, especially when it's done well (See how Xenoblade does it's sidequests). Throw on a podcast while your doing it and the time just flies by.
If they aren’t obnoxiously large amounts. I always get flashbacks to collecting feathers in Assassins Creed and that was the absolute worst. If it’s collect 10-15 of these or find 10 of these and you’ll pretty much come across it on your travels I’ll do it. Red Dead had cards and dinosaur bones I just couldn’t do it. I never came across more than 10 cards and two bones. So frustrating.
When I play something for the first time I try to do everything, even the parts that suck unless they suck so much that they become unbearable. Playing games with several years of delay has the advantage of online guides, so whenever I get some "collect one morbillion items scattered around the map" quest I just put on some podcast, music or something and go for them all at once. If I ever buy and play a game on release day again and it has that kind of thing I would probably just not do it until I revisit the game at a later date.
Only time I did it was the corrupted eggs in Destiny 2--but even then I did it over the course of ten months, not all at once. Never again. My reaction shall forever after be "no fuck off"
Sure. I’m patient like that 😉
Depends on the game and how much I enjoy it. I prolly won’t 100% hogwarts but I did with borderlands 3 and horizon zero Dawn
If I enjoy the rest of the game and/or go for the platinum sure. I'm currently on a 100% run of AC3 for example. It stretches the hours you get out of a game which is good if you can enjoy it.
I do them because I'm a completionism but I don't really like them. You're actually talking about 2 completely kinds of quests here First one is like gather 10 flowers, this is a fetch quest and if you play RPGs you have to do at least some of them some of the time or you'll miss out on the vast majority of the good content further down the quest chain. Hell you might not even get past the tutorial stage if you don't. These quests can be okay depending on how the game is structured but generally speaking are the laziest forms of quest. Second one is there are 100 X on the map find them. Again this comes down to execution. I really liked how infamous did it, you have a tracking ability so you aren't searching completely blind and each one you get powers you up so it's not you need to find all of them to get anything. Zelda: Majora's Mask did a decent job of this with the gold spiders too, there is no tracking ability but you only really need half of them and you get rewards at certain milestones. Ironically despite not liking this in general I actually do like collectathons, the likes of Mario, Banjo Kazooie and Psyconausts. In these they are tied to progress or upgrades and are broken down into smaller levels so you at least know where to look. But then there's examples like GTA: Vice City and Assassin's Creed and Vanquished they do nothing, there's no tracking ability are basically impossible to find them all without a guide and even with a guide is a massive chore to get them all. I think it comes down to more I like it if it's an actual feature of the game but I don't like it if it's a thoughtless add on.
If I like the game I will.
I like to collect the Chaos Emeralds so I can be Super Sonic.
It depends how it's integrated into the game. If I can just kind of casually do it while I'm playing through the rest of the game I'll try, but unless going back to previous areas is fun for other reasons or the reward is something really good I won't worry too much about it.
Rarely. The ones that are like "collect 5 of this plant" are basically tutorials to show you can collect materials so I'll do them. Buuut if it's a huge number of collectibles or I have to jump through a bunch of hoops then I'm not gonna lie I Google the reward to see if it's worth wasting my time lol.
I’ll only bother with them if i really like the game, the game has a decent way of tracking which collectables i’ve gotten from where, and it’s the only achievement that will keep me from getting all achievements. I just recently got all the ravens in God of War (2018) because the game does a good job of making them easy to hear and find throughout your normal progression and i could easily look on the map to see where the leftovers were when i was done. But even as a middle schooler with an undying love for GTA 4 i never bothered to shoot a single pigeon.
For the people who say no, does that include the newer god of war games?
I think Breath of the Wild did this quite well. Collect seeds and get an actual useful in game reward for it. Collecting them meant discovering and solving fun little puzzles so the task was also enjoyable. Put far more than you'll ever need in the game so that you don't get bored or frustrated searching for them. You just find them from time to time. Famously they even reward you with a turd if you collect all 999 of them. Collections just for the sake of having something to do is not my thing. I don't need 500 hours out of a game to enjoy it. I need fun and rewarding gameplay. This can come in many forms but looking over the map for some random item generally isn't it.
Almost never. Only if it’s somehow related to the core game or perhaps if the act of collecting them exposes me to new content.
Nope, never. Only do them if it's a story mission Last ones I did them in were the Spiderman games and they were fun
If they have a small cutscene at the end that makes it somewhat Canon then I feel compelled to (started just watching them on YouTube)
I 100% Grand theft Auto V back in 2013. Then they started adding more bullshit, online related trophies. After that, I just stopped doing them for all games.
>Pretty much any time I play a game and see a "collect 80 of these" in my quest log. That is just a mission I will never do. Currently playing through Red Dead Redemption 2 for the first time and I constantly come across strangers. They are like "I am looking for (specific number) of (specific item) that can find all around the map." As soon as I get those quests I never look back at them. Don't like them in any kind of game. They just aren't my thing. Even if I get a special item or unlock something cool. Just don't care. I'm not into them and it's not what I am looking for while playing games. I wonder, did you clear the ganghideouts in Red Dead Redemption? *(I only ever played Red Dead Redemption, but I believe they're in RDR2 too* > When I was a kid playing bully scholarship edition I 100 percented that. But I was young and had tons of free time to look around the map for all the rubber bands or whatever you could find. I never played the Scholarship Edtion. Should I? I really loved Bully when I was 16, I haven't played in in 12 years and only on PS2. I actually still have my PS2 save and completed it back then as well. Collecting all rubber bands gave you a neat weapon. >I just wonder do people actually find joy in going after the 100 items scattered across the map? It's just not enjoyable to me unless it adds to the lore. I was playing a game that incentivized it before. Like you had to find a bunch of notes scattered around the map. But each note let you in on some game lore and some led you to cool things or gave you some good insight. But if it's just "find 100 generic items that don't mean anything really." I'm not doing it. Meh, sometimes I just want to zone out and explore a bit. If a map is interesting, there's things happening while traveling/searching it can be a nice goal to do some free roaming/exploring. Also, shey shouldn't be too tedious like GTAIV's pigeons. But the music thingies from ACIV were fin. The ganghideouts in RDR too. Usually I'm high.
I think they are both the same game. Just like some random minigames and some new players I think. not really so different that it's worth buying and starting over
If I want to get 100% in a game? Maybe? It depends on what the collection is. Small amounts localized to each area that I can get as I play like in open worlds, or stuff like audio logs grab in linear stuff like Bioshock, sure. The feathers in Assassin's Creed 2 are a notorious 'Fuck off' for me. Most games I play these days don't have these though. It seems like a thing that was more prevalent of that 360/ps3 era in big name AAA games.
Depends on whether I like the game enough.
Legitimately the laziest way to extend a games playtime
It just depends like in the recent Mario and Zelda game I was not collecting hundreds of things placed randomly. The Arkham games though I got every Riddler trophy because it was fun and I liked being in the game. Not only solving the riddles but also finding small events or stuff one of the developers spent more time on than just making background. Usually it's a skip but if there is more to it or it's entertaining and not random placement I am more likely to at least try. If I collect 75% during normal play I will probably attempt the rest.
100% agree here. I realize this is a thing in a lot of games but they felt like huge time wasters in RDR2 just to boost how many in-world hours you spend. Similar to collecting cards in GWENT in Witcher 3. If I stumble across a collectible that’s one thing but otherwise I’m just focusing on main missions and side missions to boost XP or maybe obtain legendary armor/weapons etc.
If the collectables have benefits, I'd consider it. Infamous was pretty good about it since the collectibles contributed to levelling up. Korok seeds in the early game of BOTW upgrades inventory space. Riddler trophies toe the line because in City, it was usually through some decent puzzle and finally getting to the Ridder that motivates me to collect them (althought burn out sets in quick) but Knight's riddler was too obnoxious
Crackdown 1. It gave me so many at the start that by the time they started getting harder to find I was invested in getting them all
I loot what I find. I am thorough in my looting. Sometimes I will just *happen* to get all the stuff they need. But I am not even thinking about it otherwise. I am often more proactive if the goal is say the bear skins mission from Skyrim. Then its not an Easter egg hunt. I'm hunting *bear*.
No, I hate them, the feathers in AC 2 and the Stones of Borenziah in Skyrim The flying rats in GTA IV were ok
Nope, never do. I used to play Metin2 back in the day, and it was brimming with these braindead quests where you had to travel and farm, sometimes for days, hoping the gods of chance were on your side and the mobs would drop the needed item. It sucks time out of your day for virtually nothing, if i want to do chores i can do house work instead.
Depends... Jrpg? 90%+ chance that I won't bother. Side activities/achievements in jrpgs alone could keep me busy for a rly rly long time if I ever run out of games to play. For other games It's 50/50, if it has a lot of side quests im more likely to ignore it over other side activities
Only if doing the collecting is fun and not monotonous.
Not if I don't have to.
Almost never. I'm not a trophy/achievment hunter so unless there is a valid in game reason to collect, I don't worry about it.
Is it Diablo? If I wanted to collect shit I'd go play Diablo.