Poll of the Day > why do so many games have collectibles that only exist to be collected

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and have no other purpose but to fuel someone's need to collect them all?

do these developers honestly think gamers will start collecting anything you call a collectible no matter if it's stupid ornot
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why do so many games have objectives that only exist to be completed
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NightMareBunny posted...

do these developers honestly think gamers will start collecting anything you call a collectible no matter if it's stupid ornot

Yes. Because it works.
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Because people got super hard about how long a game was, so devs padded their games.

JunkoEnoshima posted...

why do so many games have objectives that only exist to be completed

there's a difference between playing the game's objective and gobbling up useless little trinkets that have no effect on the game whatsoever
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NightMareBunny posted...

JunkoEnoshima posted...

why do so many games have objectives that only exist to be completed

there's a difference between playing the game's objective and gobbling up useless little trinkets that have no effect on the game whatsoever

What if collecting the trinkets is an objective?
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https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/189706-nintendo-switch/75908340
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Yojimbooh posted...

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/189706-nintendo-switch/75908340

Im glad people call out NMBs bullshit on other boards, too.
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In the end, what's the point of games anyway? They're just entertainment. Collectables are just another element to the equation that some players find entertaining

I blame banjo-kazoie
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Gotta collect them all!
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Yojimbooh posted...

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/189706-nintendo-switch/75908340

lmao, that dude who says 5 hours on videogames a day isn't a big deal.

Its busywork. The odd time you collect anything interesting, I get really excited. There were Spider-Man games with full comics to collect, about a dozen each, which was awesome.
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shadowsword87 posted...

Because people got super hard about how long a game was, so devs padded their games.

This.
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How can you not see the answer that's in the question you asked?
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I always wonder how many people NMB has ignored or if he just reads people's comments but doesn't bother responding to the ones that question his idiotic ideas.
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Smarkil posted...

I always wonder how many people NMB has ignored or if he just reads people's comments but doesn't bother responding to the ones that question his [great] ideas.

I think it's the latter.

It's like ICOYAR. If you want him to leave a topic, just ask him why he doesn't have a job or bring up Claudia and he'll disappear real quick.

What's the purpose of playing video games at all? Or collecting or doing anything that doesn't help you in some way?

On a related note, there are many people who buy and play games just to get trophies/achievements for them.
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Because some people enjoy hunting down collectibles.
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Yeah why do games have to have goals just let me sit
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How else is that one empty room in Dracula's castle gonna get decorated?
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I actually agree to an extent that collectables just for the sake of collecting can be annoying, but it's not like they inherently are. It's definitely a silly thing to complain about, though. Isn't it better than having to collect a bunch of stuff to beat the game?

The Korok Seeds in BotW are a good example of how to do this right. They aren't necessary to collect to beat the game, but they still do something that helps you in the game. And they stop having a tangible effect after a certain point, but that's good - it means you can miss a lot of them but still get the full upgrades.

everything op posts come across as a really dumb 13 year old that knows nothing about how the world actually works
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Because it makes the sheeple feel like a game is longer/has more content. Games that boast large quantities of collectables and side missions (which are rarely done correctly) but whose main story can be beaten in a few days of playing, are garbage.
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Peterass posted...

Games that boast large quantities of collectables and side missions (which are rarely done correctly) but whose main story can be beaten in a few days of playing, are garbage.

There are very, very few games whose main stories can't be beaten within a few days of playing. A few days is a lot of play time; a game lasting longer than that is almost always a consequence of padding that main story somehow, and I'd much rather see a game be fleshed out with interesting side content than pad the main story like that just so they can say it's longer.
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adjl posted...

There are very, very few games whose main stories can't be beaten within a few days of playing. A few days is a lot of play time; a game lasting longer than that is almost always a consequence of padding that main story somehow, and I'd much rather see a game be fleshed out with interesting side content than pad the main story like that just so they can say it's longer.

I agree. Just for the record, I didn't mean play time of a few days, but rather a few days of casual playing. There are also very few games that are actually good.
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OoT did it well with Skulltalas or whatever and Link's Awakening did it well with magic conches. There were goals and rewards.
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FellWolf posted...

OoT did it well with Skulltalas or whatever and Link's Awakening did it well with magic conches. There were goals and rewards.

once you got the giant wallet though the rest of the rewards where "meh" for how many more of the fuckers you had to find.
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Lego games are the worst of them all. Who actually plays as all 150 characters?

https://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/189706-nintendo-switch/75911315
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Rockies posted...

The Korok Seeds in BotW are a good example of how to do this right. They aren't necessary to collect to beat the game, but they still do something that helps you in the game. And they stop having a tangible effect after a certain point, but that's good - it means you can miss a lot of them but still get the full upgrades.

...Unless you're a completionist who tries to get all 900 for that 100%...and then get rewarded with literally a golden pile of shit. I think it could have been done better imo. But I understand your perspective.
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If you are a completionist then isn't getting 100% supposed to be the reward itself