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Hello everyone, I hope you are well. I wanted to share an experience that I have with games and possibly receive some specific advice. First, I hate collectibles in games. I suffer from the compulsion to collect everything before continuing the best parts of games, and it is driving me crazy. I know many people also suffer from this.

The story drags because of me, the combat drags because of me, and the music and atmosphere are lost to pixel hunting because of me. While I would love for developers to help me by reducing the amount of collectibles in games, it seems more feasible to ask all of you for advice.

I just finished playing Dishonored and Dishonored 2 and I spent so much time looking for runes, bone charms, and whale bones. I know this is a problem for me, so I wish I try to minimize my time spent collecting stuff. Again, this is a compulsion, so…

Does anyone know of any games made after 2006 or so that do not include collectibles of any sort? I would settle for not having collectibles that play into the story (Alan Wake pages), play into character progression (Dishonored runes), or are not overabundant in collectibles (open world games). I remember liking Bioshock a lot and being able to focus on the story, but I don’t remember why.

Thank you for your help!

(We can talk about the problems of collectible design if anyone wants to, but I didn’t want this to turn into a complaining thread, haha).

This has always been a personality-focused, subscription-based website, and the quick looks, podcasts, wiki, behind the scenes videos, and excellent Game of the Year content have been the underlying structure. Without the personalities, quick looks, wiki focus, and behind the scenes videos I really question what this site is going to offer besides YouTube and Twitch type of content. Without the staff, I wonder how Game of the Year content will go. I worry that without the underlying structure, they have no way of enticing people to subscribe and enjoy what they feel is their best content (although I guess several people question even that content's quality).

Personally, as that sounds 100% exactly like what I watch from my Twitch streamers and less creative than the YouTube channels I follow ... that will not be worth any money to me. I hope this business model is more sustainable than it seems in my head - for the health and wellness of the people working here that have families and loved ones to take care of. I also am just wondering where the RV funds are going, but not so much that I am going to threaten anyone or start speculating about the staff's motives. All I will say is that from the recent content I have seen (from the last year and a half), I have not felt the enthusiasm and excitement I am getting elsewhere and that I have felt here before.

@mellotronrules I feel you on your opinion about branching out to other mediums and interests. I have recently become more invested in comic books, books in general, and music. The unfortunate part of that is that I still watch video game-related content, but it is just not on Giant Bomb. Watching a Twitch streamer or YouTuber is often very engaging, because you can feel the interest and excitement in their hobby. It is similar to when I watch a musician or comic book enthusiast on YouTube. For some reason, that excitement and engagement is not felt here, personally.

@takayamasama Out of curiosity, how has Jeff interacted with the older fans in a negative way? I do not watch every piece of content, especially because I did not renew my subscription and there is almost no free content, and I am genuinely curious. If this is actually the case, that's kind of sad and not a great way to grow a subscriber base.

@grayfox666 Regarding your comment about Jeff being the most jaded and pessimistic on the site, I agree. It was never really an issue because there were people willing to have a debate with him about that stuff. Now, there really is not anyone left to check his comments, so it just comes off dismissive and short-sighted. I have never really connected with his attitude toward things, but I could usually respect the conversations that came from Ryan, Dan, and Vinny.

It depends if the game is fun. I will happily beat a game that holds onto my attention. But I recently put down, and deleted, Horizon Zero Dawn because the story just wasn't doing it for me and the combat felt tedious. I have no issues with never returning to a game that is not fun for me.

I replaced it with Smartless. Really like that podcast.

That's cool. Is there anything new and exciting about CS:GO that gets players to come back?

Is GameStop directly involved in the creation of this thread? It seems suspicious that GameStop has vehemently tried to F me and many others through the resale of used games at high prices, and then this thread is shouting that we need them. I have been to local shops in the LA area, Amazon, Ebay, and Target/Walmart/Best Buy and I have always been able to find what I need/want.

Most of the time, GameStop is the last place I go, because I do not trust that they prefer quality over quantity. The amount of unplayable games and bricked systems I have happened upon thanks to GameStop is ridiculous. I am not saying that Amazon or Ebay are better, but they certainly are not worse. I have a couple of things I want to get rid of, and I want to price them fairly, and I have not checked GameStop once for this process. Rather, I sell to the people directly.

We do not need middlemen for the sale of game products. That is all GameStop was - the middle man. All they did was devalue our products and then flip them for a higher value later. ScamStop?

If you do not think we understand, you need to find a more appropriate way to explain it. You did not, and us 80's and 90's kids understand games, sales, and GameStop very well. Thank you for your assumption, though. It won't particularly be remembered.

I always love the discussions every year. I set time aside specifically for GB GotY stuff. I do wish there were articles about each day again, though. Hopefully, they will bring those back next year.

I had no idea that this was on GamePass! Thanks for the heads up!

I think the wiki had some good incentives but now it’s just kind of dead. While this could have been the one-stop shop for all things games, the cool stuff about the site besides the videos kind of went away.

Sadly, googling or searching via any search engine “Last of Us wiki“ doesn’t even show Giant Bomb’s wiki for it on the first few pages (I didn’t want to keep looking for it after that). Note that The Last of Us DOES have a filled-out wiki on GB. But at least 3 other wikis show up for it on google for different websites. If people aren’t finding these there’s not even the base incentive of eyes-on-page to keep people writing for them, let alone staff interest or their incentives. It would be nice if they kept the quest stuff cause that’s pretty unique to this wiki, but as of now there just aren’t any parts that aren’t readily available elsewhere.

I’d imagine losing the personnel required to keep the wiki evolving just left it static, but who knows...

@theunseenshadow: Yeah Idk why people still think that PCs use a ton of power. A quick google search will show that PCs are so energy efficient and cost barely anything while idling.