![]() ![]() Within about five minutes of concluding and gobbling up all available trophies for the last two games I played through, T he Evil Within 2 and Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus, I had purged them from my hard drive and was 75% through installing the next game on my backlog. No longer do I go into a game without having first consulted its trophy list, no more do I play through a game without having a consistent nagging feeling in my mind about a potential miss-able trophy. Where did it all change?įast-forward to the current day, however, and my affinity for Sony's reward system has changed quite dramatically. Before, I could become wrapped up in an experience, whether it was good or shockingly terrible (looking at you, Stormrise). My point is, I remember those moments and single experiences more so than I do most of my recent trophy successes. I fell into a roughly 360-hour abyss of MGS4's Metal Gear Online mode (and finished its campaign roughly 18 times, even earning Big Boss rank!), I had 6 days of play time on Modern Warfare 2, once getting an 81-0 record in a match. Despite the allure of trophies, I still would play games I enjoyed simply because I enjoyed them. I hadn't discovered PSNProfiles, trophy guides, or any of the related sites that are now so popular in people demonstrating their greater pull with the mini, virtual statues. Indeed, trophies for me then were something to feel proud about, and I excelled at earning them like very few others around me at the time. At the time, I thoroughly enjoyed most of the games I played (though not you, Brink you were awful), and gathering up trophies felt like a rewarding way of showing my willingness to earn their completion, gleefully informing my school or college friends whenever I hit another milestone in my collection. ![]() Over the years, this trend continued, passing over into the PS4 era and into the present day, where I currently stand with 114 platinum trophies, and almost 9,000 total.Įach time I heard that compulsive ping of the trophy sound, each time I saw that little gray icon, each time I worked towards getting that full blue or white bar on the trophy screen, I found myself getting excited, becoming notably enthused and experiencing a surge of motivation to keep playing and pushing forward. Trophy - including particularly rare platinums of Aliens vs Predator, Red Dead Redemption, and Alpha Protocol. The first 14 games I played on the new console were devoured by my attention and focus, and for each one I achieved Every. Early satisfaction, initial buzzįollowing my dearly heartbreaking yellow light of death on my first PlayStation 3 (RIP Borderlands disc), I picked up a slim PS3 and had to create a new account, spawning a fresh start for my gaming obsession. Basically, I've been wondering whether I still do it because I enjoy it, or just because it's something I've become so used to doing that I don't know how to play any other way. More recently, though, I've started to wonder if my desire to hunt trophies and hoover up those elusive platinum figures has been something I've actually wanted to do, or whether it's been driven by a more habitual, routine, or automatic instinct. ![]() Collecting and hunting trophies has been a very time-intensive hobby of mine since they were first introduced by Sony, building upon my already established eagerness to plow dozens of hours of my life into the virtual world and generally into video games. ![]()
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