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9397029 No.9397029 [Reply] [Original]

What are the best collectathons?

>> No.9397036

Vexx.

>> No.9397170

>>9397036
Teenagers went GaGa for Vexx back in the day

>> No.9397175
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Unironically

>> No.9397186

>>9397036
The best scotformer ever.

>> No.9397307

>>9397029
Rocket Robot On Wheels is good, but the camera really fights you.
https://youtu.be/FcxT5DyZG-A

>> No.9397423

THPS 2

>> No.9397432
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>>9397029
For me this one hit the sweet spot of complexity vs straightforwardness. I love many of them, Tooie is a great game but this one gets replayed by me every 3-5 years

>> No.9397448

>>9397175
underrated

>> No.9397450
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9397450

Not even questionable

>> No.9397505

>>9397175
>People say it's the worst collectathon
>Thousands of things to collect
How?

>> No.9397506

Pac-Man

>> No.9398620
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9398620

This is the only collectathon I really enjoy. Pretty much nothing else keeps my interest long enough to beat it, and certainly not long enough to 100% it, but Ape Escape is the exception.

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>>9397505
>knows the flaws of collectathons
>forces them on the player

>> No.9398634

>>9397175
Would be more fun if it didn’t have so many mini games.

>> No.9398647

>>9397450
Yeah, nobody can beat the king

>> No.9398708
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>>9397029
While not as good as Toy Story 2, A Bugs Life on ps1 will always hold a special place in my heart

>> No.9398715

>>9398708
Fuck those giant insects man, they were disgusting

>> No.9398720

>>9397029
N64 is the system for this kind of game. PS1 has some decent games too.

Mario 64
Banjo Kazooie
DK64
Rocket Robot on Wheels
Toy Story 2
Bigs Life
Banjo Tooie
Jet Force Gemini has some collectathon its dna. Same with Soace Station Silicon Valley.

And on PS1
Ape Escapes
Spyros
Theres some collecting in Croc but its largely linear

>> No.9398805

>>9397450
the goat. i also liked 100%ing gta3. never did it for the others and stopped caring about them anyway

>> No.9398813
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>>9397450
This and Jak and Daxter are the two holy kings of 3D platformers

>> No.9398820 [SPOILER] 
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>>9397450
>>9398647
>>9398805
Reminder

>> No.9398828

>>9398820
What am I being reminded of besides coin counts that aren't possible without being pannen

>> No.9398847

>>9398628
the design for this feels like it's from a modern game development mindset, where they make it unnecessarily tedious on purpose to force the player to spend money and unlock X easily, but for this game it's just there to waste your time, and justify all the new characters and character switching that the devs wasted time making.
it could've just been DK and Diddy with new power ups, it didn't need to be this spread out.

>> No.9398854

>>9398847
I wish they would have decided early on in development that it would be too ambitious of a project and scrapped it entirely in favor of something else they could have developed instead. What a fucking waste of talent

>> No.9398856

>>9398708
Getting that sweet golden berry was like leveling up weapons in ratchet and clank games and then getting the ryno. So addicting.

>> No.9398858

>>9398828
Thanks for proving this image's instacope summoning power

>> No.9398863

>>9398858
Ok. Sorry I'm not in the loop with your epic SM64 memes, I was busy actually playing it

>> No.9398869

>>9398863
Curse you anon stop being so calm rn

>> No.9399334

>>9398628
Fucking kek. They were having a laugh. Someday it'll come out that it was designed as a joke

>> No.9399389

>>9399334
>we designed it badly as a joke!
Yeah, that makes it good. Yep. Uh-huh.

>> No.9399431

Collect a thon is a disparaging term. Your thread is like asking who are the most based niggers.

>> No.9399438

>>9399431
If it helps you can get ideas about that in your dad's browser history

>> No.9399537

>>9397029
>What are the best collectathons?
- Rayman 1 and 2
- Beyond Good & Evil
- Assassins Creed 2
- Shadow Man
- Medievil 1 > Medievil 2
- Crash Bandicoot also original CTR (ignore non canon stuff)

Bonus
>Final Fantasy VI and VII

Over the Top
>Original Spyro the dragon
>Origina Rachet and clank

>> No.9399556

>>9399537
Featuring collectables doesn't equal "collectathon" anon. You've got some in there, but Crash Bandicoot, really?

>> No.9399705

>>9398708
BYE BYE BUGGY!

>> No.9399712

>>9399537
do i need to play rayman 1 to understand rayman 2? I got filtered as a kid and don't want to bother jumping back in

>> No.9399713

>>9398628
to be fair that's the only egregious example of this

>> No.9399765
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>> No.9399793

>>9399765
gex games are definitely nostalgia, they're boring af
secret agent clank is another bond parody that's bad

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>>9397036
>>9397170
>>9397186

>> No.9401057

Playstation had the best collecthatons BY FAR. Sorry nintendo fanboys.

- Jak and daxter series
- Ratchet and clank series
- Sly series
- Crash bandicoot series
- Ape escape series
- Medieval games
- Spyro games
...

>> No.9401083

>>9401057
Many good games in that list, but Crash is trash.

>> No.9401226

>>9401083
Crash is one of best 3d platformers, dumb

>> No.9401248

>>9398620
>all collectibles feel alive and unique
>combined with the best dynamic ost ever.
This IS the king of collectatons

>> No.9401250

>>9399389
It's that dry bong humor that we just don't understand

>> No.9401261

>>9401083
How is it trash? Crash 3 even got a 92 metascore and the remakes sold a TON.

Also CTR is the best karting game ever.

>> No.9401279

>>9401261
If you like CTR try Jak X

>> No.9402190

Collectathoning.
LEGO Star Wars probably counts.

>> No.9402256

>>9401261
>Also CTR is the best karting game ever.
Nah it's trash for contrarians like those Sonic games, Mario Kart is the king.

>> No.9402280

Here's an interesting question - which collectathon would you recommend for someone who generally doesn't like them? Like me.
For example, I adored Donkey Kong Country 1 through 3, but hated DK64. Thought Banjo-Kazooie looked and sounded great, but the game itself bored me. The first Jax and Daxter was alright, I thought, maybe because the world felt more straight forward and fun to traverse. Hated Jak 2 and 3.

>> No.9402357

>>9399537
>original Ratchet and clank
>collectathon

>> No.9402501

>>9402357
You collect potential designs for Ratchet's Lombax cock in your head as you play.

>> No.9402510
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9402510

Just want to call out this anti-frustration hack for DK64:

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4961/

It lets you switch kongs ANYWHERE - meaning the most tedious aspects of the builtin backtracking are essentially eliminated.

Highly recommended.

>> No.9402623

>>9402510
that would break a lot of the game's puzzles, though

>> No.9402656

>>9397432
This had a whimsical charm that Tooie never had

>> No.9403097

>>9402510
Souless

>> No.9403098

>>9402510
oh thanks, didn't know that was a thing

>> No.9403497
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>>9397450
STILL the king
No other 3D platformer is this free and open
You choose how you progress
You choose which Stars to get and how to get them
You only have to get 70 Stars and dont have to get any other stupid collectable, just you, the game's tasks, and your nutsack standing between you and Final Bowser
Banjo Kazooie may have more charm and nicer graphics and worldbuilding, but what it doesn't have is that true sense of freedom across every level of the game. Super Mario 64 almost never tells you "no, you have to do it like this". There's nothing gating you. All movement options are right there for you to learn to master over the course of your dozens of playthroughs
Super Mario 64 is a masterpiece, the true 3D successor to the original Super Mario Bros in every way. Everything SMB did for 2D platformers, SM64 did for 3D platformers. STILL THE KING

>> No.9403821

>>9397450
It's a great 3D platformer but not a great collectathon. There simply isn't enough to collect.

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>>9403821
Without SM64 the genre wouldn't exist so shut the fuck up. 3D Collectathons were built on the back of SM64's design.

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>>9398620
I got to the final level when I was younger but was never able to beat it. Now I'm a thirty something loser and I'm wondering how I even got that far

Not to mention killing myself trying to get all the Specter coins to unlock the mini-games

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>>9398813
Based

>> No.9405718
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>>9399334
>>9399389
>We apologize for DK64. It's a shit game. We purposefully designed it wrong, as a joke.