Why It’s Tough Being Addicted To Trophies

Addicted To Trophies

Like a lot of other gamers this gen I love trophies and achievements I’m a total trophy whore I cant even remember how I put so many hours into games on the PS2 when the games didn’t have them. While the overall experience of unlocking trophies is a lot of fun there are a few things that when you are addicted to trophies become an issue.

Collectibles

You have spent the entire day following a guide perfectly to find every last collectible in a game, you get to the final 1 pick it up and……it doesn’t pop. 99.9% of the time this is because you have left 1 behind but the problem is you don’t know which 1. Collecting all 300 or so blast shards in infamous 1 springs to mind here. When this happens a normal gamer might forget about it but when your a trophy whore its more like “AHHH!! This f*c&!ng game is $#!% where’s my f*c&!ng trophy!!!”. Having to go back to the very start of the guide and do it all over again…just sucks!

Multiplayer

By far the most annoying thing is when a developer realizes that they have spent months making a multiplayer mode for their game and its turned out shit! So they slap on a pile of trophies knowing that the whores will play the multiplayer anyway to unlock them which will bring up the number of people actually playing it. Games like Wolfenstein really went to town on this it was impossible to get them all without boosting mainly since the servers couldn’t handle more than 1 player in a lobby at once. From someone who has platinumed that game all I can say is thank GOD for the level 50 glitch!

Hardest Difficulty

Beat the game on the hardest difficulty is 1 we see in almost every game and most of the time its fun. Getting the unlock for games like World at War on veteran immediately lets people looking at your profile know that your a fearless beast! Assuming the game is fun and the challenge is fair there are no problems but when your playing a game that was rushed out of the studio and rather than time being spend making clever enemy AI they just make it so the AI can kill you from 5 miles away using a shotgun. Games where you no sooner spawn and a Nazi has his MP40 up your ass (world at war was a devil for this) just take all the fun out of playing the game. Another thing is when games with multiple difficulties make you play the lower difficulty before you unlock the higher 1. WET had about 7 different difficulty levels and you had to play them all to unlock the next that’s not fun!

The Commitment

You start playing a game and you like it your flying through the trophies your about 30 hours down then bam you get hit with the beast! A trophy that’s gonna take 25 hours worth of grinding to unlock. You cant stop now you’ve already put so many hours into the game the commitment to platinunuming the game has already been made there’s no going back now. The trophy whore within wont let you give up but you know that that’s gonna be such a waste of time when you could go and platinum terminator salvation a load of times in the same amount of time it takes to get that 1 trophy but it HAS to be done there is no other way about it!

Terminator salvation

This game is why being a trophy whore can be really annoying and the reason is trophy whores actually WANT to play this game or even they NEED to play the game. Garbage like this shouldn’t be played by anyone but just because you can play the game once which lasts about 3 hours and unlock the platinum we will play it. I played it and platinumed it and I hated every second of the game it was terrible but unlocking that gold at the end of every chapter just did something magic for the motivation and kept me going on until I got the platinum.

Not playing games without a platinum

Yea yea i know it says 5 reasons but i didn’t have the heart to cut 1 out and no 1 wants to read “The 6 reasons..”. Anyway the final reason is when a great game appears on the store its gotten awards, its well reviewed and looks and plays great but it doesn’t have a platinum the thought of spending money on it and putting in loads of hours just doesn’t seem worth it. There is no drive to complete a game 100% when there is no reward for doing so. This is annoying because back before achievements playing a game 100% just for the pleasure of seeing the 100% was great but once you become a trophy whore its not enough you must get a platinum for your time!

So if anyone thinks I left a reason out or that I’m a trophy whoring troll leave a reply in the comments section below!

1 COMMENT

  1. I don’t know who you are but it’s freaky to read about so many things that were exactly the same for me. Like the Call Of Duty World At War on Veteran (also known as “grenade hell”) or the 300 shards in Infamous, I actually did all 300 and missed one and had to go back to check every single one, just like you said.

    And yes I am a trophywhore and I am addicted to it, I even daily check the leaderboards on PSNProfiles and PSNTrophyLeaders just to know if I ranked up. I even check for rare or extreme rare trophies. However I will never be a trophyhunter who just buys games for trophies or downloads “kiddy games” for easy trophies, I only play games I really want and then I try to get as much trophies in those games as I can and platinum ofcourse.

    I often wonder myself why I keep collecting, or why I keep grinding for a certain game just to have it “pop-up” on my screen. Sometimes like playing on hard or extreme makes me actually hate the game and the only reason I am still trying is to get that one trophy, and here I thought games were meant to be fun.

    Thanks for your article and good look with the trophythunting! If you ever need a helping hand, just ask. PSN = MrSoKoLoV

    Greetings,

    Axel
    Flanders – Belgium

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