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00:00 Now since the 1980s, games have been centred around collecting, well, collectibles.
00:05 Whether it's Pac-Man gobbling up pellets or Mario gathering power stars, many games
00:09 can only be completed by obtaining a required amount of baubles, trinkets or jewels.
00:14 Hello.
00:15 But that doesn't mean that they haven't gone absolutely crazy from time to time.
00:19 And some of these collect-a-thons really do feel like that.
00:22 So let's take a look at them today as I'm Jules, this is WhatCulture.com, and these
00:26 are the 10 video games with the most collectibles.
00:29 10.
00:30 GTA V, 404
00:31 Now Grand Theft Auto V was praised upon its release, not just for its fluid gameplay,
00:36 interactivity and in-depth story, but also for its gargantuan size.
00:41 The map of Los Santos is an overwhelming 49 square miles, making it 7 times larger than
00:46 GTA IV's Liberty City.
00:48 With so many missions and side quests, GTA V was guaranteed to keep players entertained
00:52 for quite some time.
00:54 But for completionists, it's going to take a lot longer, since this rock steady sequel
00:58 contains over 400 collectibles.
01:00 And you can't just walk around and talk to everyone to find them all, you need to
01:03 drive, fly, cycle and swim through every place imaginable in order to find all of the spaceship
01:08 parts, letter scraps, epsilon tracks, hidden packages, sub-parts, photos, monkey mosaics
01:13 and nuclear waste barrels.
01:14 And because of the staggering size of the map, finding everything seems like a herculean
01:18 task.
01:19 There are many people who love GTA V to death and have played it for years, and have still
01:23 never obtained everything this game has to offer.
01:25 9.
01:26 Marvel's Spider-Man 511
01:29 In Insomniac's award winning game Marvel's Spider-Man, the quipping wall crawler is tasked
01:34 with traversing around Manhattan to stop the evil schemes of villains like Kingpin, Mr.
01:38 Negative, Tombstone and Shocker.
01:41 But webbing around the city is so much fricking fun, that there are times that you just want
01:44 to get away from the story to explore.
01:46 And while you're thwipping about, you'll be sure to procure one of the hundreds of
01:49 collectibles including J. Jonah Jameson's archives, backpacks and Daily Bugle newspapers.
01:55 The most common collectibles in this game are the tokens.
01:58 This 2018 action adventure boasts 259 tokens, and you're going to have to acquire every
02:03 single one of them in order to unlock all of those juicy upgrades, wacky gadgets and
02:07 alternate costumes.
02:09 You can collect different types of tokens by performing certain tasks like taking pictures
02:13 of landmarks, stopping crimes, destroying enemy bases, completing challenges, winning
02:17 lab minigames and so forth.
02:19 But that's not all.
02:20 If you include the DLC, The City That Never Sleeps, there's another 24 archives and
02:24 12 recordings to find as well, bringing the grand total of collectibles in Marvel's
02:28 Spider-Man to 511.
02:30 8.
02:32 Batman Arkham Knight - 516
02:35 The Batman Arkham series has become famous for its gameplay, but infamous for its time-consuming
02:40 side missions, especially the Riddler trophies.
02:42 In Batman Arkham Knight, you can attain these prizes by achieving missions within a time
02:46 limit, disabling traps, using gadgets or through timed races in the Batmobile.
02:51 And some of these trophies are so painstaking to acquire that it's nightmarish to earn
02:54 all 243 of them.
02:56 But guess what?
02:57 If you get them all, you're not even half finished.
03:00 Upon completing the game, you'll unlock New Story Plus, which allows you to replay
03:04 the game with all of the experience, gadgets and abilities from your previous playthrough.
03:08 And you will need to beat every single mission and find every Riddler trophy all over again
03:13 in order to achieve 200% completion.
03:16 And that was everything the game had to offer, right?
03:18 Well true, up until the Season of Infamy DLC was added in.
03:21 Although there are several DLCs, the 30 items found in the Season of Infamy side mission
03:26 are the only ones considered official collectibles, since obtaining them affects your completion
03:30 rating.
03:31 If the player finds everything in the story mode, New Story Plus and Season of Infamy,
03:35 it will bring their completion rating to a mathematically impossible 240%.
03:40 7.
03:42 Crash Bandicoot 4 - It's About Time - 557
03:46 It wasn't long after Crash Bandicoot It's About Time was released that players said
03:50 that they'd finished the game, but for completionists, they looked at them, laughed and said "oh,
03:54 you ain't seen nothing yet".
03:55 You see, the most common collectibles in the franchise are gems, which are usually obtained
03:59 after breaking every crate in a level.
04:02 Even though each entry in the original trilogy only had a few dozen gems each, this was still
04:06 a pretty arduous task.
04:07 But Crash 4 takes the cake, or Aussie equivalent, because instead of each level having one gem,
04:12 there are now between 6 to 12 which can be obtained by achieving certain requirements.
04:17 But even after you find all 228 gems, you are still not done.
04:21 You'll have to do it all over again in the inverted mode, bringing you up to 456 gems.
04:26 With 4 more hidden gems, that brings it to the grand total of 460.
04:29 But remember, that's only the gems.
04:32 There are also 21 tapes hidden throughout the game as well, and on top of that, you'll
04:36 need to collect 38 perfect relics and 38 platinum relics in time trials mode.
04:41 Anyone who thought the original trilogy had a lot of collectibles had no idea what Crash
04:45 4 had in store for them.
04:46 6.
04:47 Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag - 557
04:51 Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag's main campaign is composed of 42 missions, which takes about
04:56 10 hours to complete.
04:58 But while you sail the seas and infiltrate hideouts, you'll also have to rummage through
05:01 every nook and cranny to find the plethora of Templar keys, manuscripts, letters in bottles,
05:06 maps and naval contracts.
05:08 What really keeps players busy in this swashbuckling adventure is collecting the 200 treasure chests
05:13 and 200 animus fragments.
05:15 It's not the quantity of these trinkets that's the problem, it's their locations.
05:19 Many of these valuables are buried underwater.
05:21 And we all know how much the video game community loves water-based levels, right?
05:24 Navigating through shipwrecks and dodging great whites while seeking out every chest
05:28 through murky waters takes forever.
05:30 And what's worse is that you always have a time restraint, since you can only hold
05:34 your breath for so long.
05:35 More often than not, you'll be within arm's length of attaining a rare item, only to drown
05:39 and lose everything.
05:41 5.
05:42 Banjo-Kazooie - Almost 1169
05:46 After Super Mario 64 was praised for focusing on exploration by having an open world rather
05:51 than a linear structure, it wasn't long before other platformers followed suit.
05:54 And what's the easiest way to encourage players to explore?
05:57 By filling the levels with stuff.
05:59 Only two years after Super Mario 64 was released, Rare created their own little 3D platformer,
06:04 Banjo-Kazooie.
06:05 However, Rare raised the bar exponentially in terms of collectibles.
06:08 If you thought that grabbing 120 Power Stars in Super Mario 64 sounded daunting, Banjo-Kazooie
06:14 has nearly 10 times more to attain.
06:16 The colourful and cartoony adventure game was groundbreaking upon its release, since
06:19 nobody had seen a platformer with so much content at the time.
06:23 You need to find Jiggies to open up new worlds, Musical Notes to access areas of Gruntilda's
06:28 base, and Honeycombs to boost your health bar.
06:30 And the only way to find all 1169 collectibles was to search absolutely everywhere.
06:36 Now, there are some games that shove a ton of obtainables in an obvious attempt to stretch
06:40 out their gameplay.
06:41 Thankfully, Banjo-Kazooie found the right balance, so it never stopped being fun seeking
06:45 out hidden items, even after completing the main campaign.
06:48 4.
06:49 Breath of the Wild - Over 1,200
06:52 Since the first Legend of Zelda, the beloved franchise has been filled to the brim with
06:56 side quests and collectibles.
06:58 And when Nintendo promised that Breath of the Wild would be the largest Legend of Zelda
07:01 game by far, gamers knew that it would be littered with more content than any rational
07:05 player would be able to find.
07:07 And not only does Breath of the Wild have a gigantic campaign, it has dozens of helmets,
07:11 armours, trousers, and horse accessories to find.
07:14 The game also has 120 mini-dungeons which reward the player with a spirit orb upon completion,
07:19 and these orbs are needed to maximise Link's health and stamina.
07:22 However, the real completionist challenge is the Korok Seeds.
07:26 If you bring enough of these seeds to a Korok named Hetsu, he'll give you pouches for more
07:29 slots allowing you to hold more weapons, shields, and bows.
07:32 But because there is a punishing 900 seeds scattered across Hyrule, only the most hardcore
07:37 players have ever found them all.
07:39 But surely the game rewards you if you grab every seed, right?
07:41 Oh yes it does, because you get a giant pile of golden poo.
07:45 Totally worth it, right?
07:46 3.
07:47 Super Smash Bros. - Over 1,400
07:51 Because Super Smash Bros. Ultimate announced that every single playable character in the
07:54 franchise would return, the hype for the sequel was monumental.
07:58 And even though these expectations were unrealistically high, Ultimate managed to exceed them all.
08:02 Although fans were exhilarated the moment the game was officially announced, completionists
08:06 were a little worried.
08:08 Because since Super Smash Bros. Melee, every entry in the series has had a ton of items
08:12 to seek out.
08:13 Upon Ultimate's release, there were 1,297 collectibles, which were called spirits.
08:18 Equipping spirits to a character grants them special abilities during battle like stronger
08:21 kicks, faster recovery, immunity to electrical attacks, etc.
08:24 Now spirits can be bought when in challenges, or acquired in classic and adventure mode.
08:29 If 1,297 collectibles sounds like a lot, well that's not all, because new spirits were
08:33 added upon every update.
08:35 After Alex and Steve were introduced as playable characters via DLC, another 11 Minecraft-based
08:40 spirits were inserted into the game.
08:41 And that means that we're at over 1,400 collectibles.
08:45 Yeesh.
08:46 2.
08:47 Super Mario Odyssey - 1,999
08:51 In most of Super Mario's 3D outings, the gravity-defying plumber has to leap between
08:55 worlds in order to collect 120 Power Stars.
08:58 But in Super Mario Odyssey, Nintendo's mascot needed to obtain a staggering 999 Power Moons.
09:04 Technically, there's 836, but you can purchase another 163 Power Moons to bring you up to
09:09 999.
09:10 But even though you only need 124 to beat the game, Mario Odyssey is just too fun to
09:14 stop once you've acquired the bare minimum.
09:17 You want to explore every kingdom to seize as many Moons as possible.
09:20 Although the Power Moons are the primary collectible, they're not the only one.
09:24 Each level houses between 50 to 100 purple coins, which serve as currency for purchasing
09:28 hats and suits.
09:30 If you want to unlock all 82 pieces of clothing, you'll have to find 1,000 purple coins.
09:34 Technically, the clothes you purchase are considered unlockables rather than collectibles,
09:38 but even if they don't serve much purpose, you'll be driven to unlock every single one
09:42 of them.
09:43 Because, I mean, who doesn't want to play as a caveman Mario, or triple somersault around
09:46 a city as a mustachioed skeleton, or battle Bowser in a tuxedo?
09:49 Come on.
09:50 1.
09:51 Donkey Kong 64 - 3821
09:56 In the year 2000, Donkey Kong 64 achieved the Guinness World Record for the most collectibles
10:01 in a video game, with a grand total of 3821.
10:05 And it's maintained this record, which is a remarkable achievement considering so many
10:09 modern games are padded out with tons of items.
10:12 So how come DK's first 3D outing has so many things to obtain?
10:16 Well, early 3D platformers popularised the concept of collecting a large number of objects
10:20 to obtain an important collectible.
10:22 And DK64 follows a similar formula, since the tie-wearing ape can collect up to 100
10:27 bananas per level.
10:28 However, you play as 5 characters, meaning that you can collect a maximum of 500 of this
10:32 fruit per world.
10:33 And that's just the bananas.
10:35 You also have to collect 40 blueprints, 40 banana medals, 20 banana fairies, 8 keys,
10:39 10 battle crowns, 201 gold bananas.
10:42 A Nintendo coin, and a Rareware coin in each area.
10:46 And considering that Donkey Kong 64 has nearly double the amount of collectibles to the runner
10:50 up, it's safe to say that it will hold onto this record for a long old time.
10:53 And there we go my friends, those were 10 video games with the most collectibles.
10:56 I hope that you enjoyed that, and please let me know what you thought about it down in
10:59 the comments section below.
11:00 As always I've been Jules, you can go follow me over on Twitter and Instagram where it's
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11:12 Hope to see you over there.
11:13 But before I go, I just want to say one thing.
11:15 Hope you're treating yourself well with love and respect my friend because there's
11:17 one collectible that we should always look to snag each and every day, and that is just
11:21 to be kind to ourselves because we deserve the best, and we're not going to let anything
11:24 or anyone else tell us otherwise alright?
11:25 We're massive ledges, and we're going to go out there and we're going to smash our
11:28 life goals today, because I believe in you my friend.
11:31 As always I've been Jules, you have been awesome, never forget that, and I'll speak
11:34 to you soon.