Most annoyed by collectables youve been?
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You don't need to collect them it just makes life easier in battles if you have. You can also start a new game + and keep all the ones you have collected. And since there is 4 endings you could just go for 500 per game and max out. It really isn't the number so much as the boring time you waste getting them. It is so hard to see a collectible 5 feet away from you and not go after it. Although if you do go after it you are bound to see another one and the circle of boredom continues. And if you are inbetween missions all you do is fight the same generic baddies who are always set up the same way as you look for these blasted things.Kukakkau said:
It is the absolute worst case of artificial lengthening of a game I have ever encountered. I could probably run through the story in a few hours. Stupid generic optional sidequests (save 1 civillian, well done, now save 2 civillians but you have saved 0/2 and this went up to 10 so far. I am sacred it could reach the 100s) and 2000 collectibles to find can boost that time to 20 hours easy.
Spyro 3, I collected 149/150 eggs. Guess what. The last one gliched out on me, everything I tried left me unable to collect that last egg. I don't know why, but it made me cry. CRY.
And then of course spyro died and plunged into crap games. So I felt the smug satisfaction of Karma.
And then of course spyro died and plunged into crap games. So I felt the smug satisfaction of Karma.
Pigeons. Stupid 198/200 pigeons. The problem with the map that they give you in GTA IV is that it doesn't tell you which pigeons are LEFT. So... not very useful.
Most recently those bloody orbs in the new Prince of Persia. Ubisoft just HAS to have collection minigames don't they?
That happened to me too. Got it in the end though. But then I got even MORE pissed off when I completed the game only to find that I'd missed the achievement where you have every possible conversation with Lucy. Turns out I missed out one conversation near the start of the game. I made a point of completing it again just for that achievement. NO GAME WILL EVER BEAT ME!!!Kukakkau said:
(Except for .hack//, that game series was just so tedious with boss fights that I got bored and sold it...)
The Silver Keys in Fable and Fable 2.
Also, not quite the same thing, but the essence fragments in Titan Quest. You need them to either upgrade items or to produce artifacts, but there for a while every artifact recipe that dropped required spectral matter which is ridiculously rare.
Also, not quite the same thing, but the essence fragments in Titan Quest. You need them to either upgrade items or to produce artifacts, but there for a while every artifact recipe that dropped required spectral matter which is ridiculously rare.
Pigeons in GTA4. There are 200 of them! 200! I had a map of the city with locations of them all printed out and everything, and I crossed them off as I found them. However, when I was down to about 20 I counted the ones I had left on the map and turns out I had crossed more off than the game says I killed. I suppose that I hadn't saved the game after killing some somehow or something like that, but there was no way I was going back to every single location to see which ones I did and didn't get. So I quit. And I was so close!
POKEMON.
Seriously, it's bad enough you have to own or have access to most of the games to catch them all... but to get the legendaries you either need to hack or... be at Nintendo events to get key items, which they don't really have in Canada as far as I know.
Seriously, it's bad enough you have to own or have access to most of the games to catch them all... but to get the legendaries you either need to hack or... be at Nintendo events to get key items, which they don't really have in Canada as far as I know.
Finding all the precursor orbs in Jak 2. To my knowledge there are some that can't be collected once you've passed a certain point in the game. At least 4 of them are in the tutorial level of the game. But you might be able to get them after that, I dunno, I didn't find a way to get them.
I can beat that:devilondemand said:
499/500
Green orbs
Never found the last one. Mainly because that save file crashed... ¬_¬
But yes, fuck you Realtime Worlds. Also for punishing us for running over civilians.
(IT'S UNAVOIDABLE!)
Another related one is the hidden packages in GTA. Even with a guide it's hard to find them all.
Oh and the Poes in Twilight Princess... GODS THE POES! Not only are they hard to find, but one or two require you to go into the hardest dungeon in the game...
I totally got them all though. ^_^
And beat that dungeon.
Oh god, I completely agree. By the time I finished the game, I was around the 900 mark, and thinking to myself "only 100 more!" Imagine my frustration and horror when I finally reached 1000...squid5580 said:
On the plus side, once you reach that milestone, the collectibles start appearing on your minimap, so it's at least a bit easier to find large clusters of them. Still, 2000 is just excessive. And what really gets me is that they're not even really hidden. They spawn randomly based on where you are, and often in plain sight. Inexcusable.
Oh thank god I am not the only one who is suffering through this travesty. I knew about the 1000 thing but I can't see it helping. They are just everywhere. I don't need a minimap to tell me they are everywhere. I need a magnet to attract them to me to them. I already have them destroying my view of the city (which is very perty) I don't need a bunch of red dots cluttering my already hard to read minimap to help me find something I can clearly see right in front of me.
It is a shame. If they had thought this out better they could have had a triple A title on thier hands (except for Peter's voice actor he is awful and may have cost it an A)
It is a shame. If they had thought this out better they could have had a triple A title on thier hands (except for Peter's voice actor he is awful and may have cost it an A)