Hi, My name is Sebastian and I am a recovering trophy addict

"Hi, My name is Sebastian and I am a recovering trophy addict. I hope my personal journey may help some people who may be in the same boat I was." | Sebastian Hawden, The Digital Fix

[ps3rider]

i enjoy the game first before i do a trophy hunting even if take multiple walkthrough.
Its not a sickness as author tried to describe but yes it kills the enjoyment

[rlow1]

Not for you, but you can't speak for everyone. Their are people out their obsessed with getting these trophies/achievements. They will put off important things in life just to get them. Plus spend money on games that they don't care about playing, they just care about the bragging rights........ Again, addiction/obsessions come in many forms and it a real thing. So to minimize it because you don't have that issue, doesn't negate it being a real problem for others.

[ps3rider]

Bro i did not speak for everyone ... i am a trophy hunter but if you see my list you can understand i play games before i do the journey of trophy hunting.

[BrettAwesome]

@rlow1
There's a big difference between "there" and "their". You should look into it.

[P_Bomb]

I know a gamer that hasn’t beaten a AAA in years. All their time goes to quick NeoGeo fodder or Barbie du jour. I don’t know what they’re chasing, but when each Double Dragon gives you 100g just for turning on reverb... 🙄

[rainslacker]

Same here. Although if I'm aware of some trophy I might try harder to get it during a play through. Usually missables, or sometimes grindy type trophies. But I try not to read the trophy lists on my first playthrough.

[monkey602]

Funny story, I couldn't be bothered with most platforms achievement system. Both on Xbox, Steam, Wouldnt care for Nintendo to implement one. However trophies I love for some reason. I think it's the fact theres an individual reward for completion with the Platunum trophy at the end opposed to a numerical value

[gold_drake]

oh i totally agree

[mandingo]

def prefer numerical value

[MrVux000]

"It got really bad at this point, I was missing out on games that I deemed the platinum to be unachievable and I was buying games that were cheap and easy to complete."

Yup I've seen a lot of fellow trophy hunters like this one. They tend to miss out on really great games and as a result they turn a really fun little hobby into an prestige hunting job.

[Mr_Writer85]

See I've done the latter but not the former.

If I wanted a game I'd play it, if the platinum was achievable that was a huge bonus.

However even if the platinum seemed impossible I'd still buy it.

But, I would be play awful games because they were cheap and had an super easy Plat like that Orc game.

I have also enjoyed a couple of easy plat games.

However I too have retired from Platinum hunting, I will still get them, but only if its a game I want and is an easy Platinum, for example Spider-Man, I enjoyed getting that plat, and I enjoyed the game anyway.

[monkey602]

I've never let a trophy list persuade my decision. I've never bought a cheap game because of a trophy. If I dont enjoy a game, I stop playing it. If I do enjoy a game I'll probably try the platinum. At least for as long as I'm having fun with it.

I am 1 trophy away from getting the plat in Sekiro but it's for getting all the skills and a skill point seems to be unlocking at a rate of 2 per playthrough and I cant be bothered with that. It would kill all enjoyment I have with it so I stopped.

[rainslacker]

Yeah. That's the wrong way to approach trophies. At most, if I know a game I want to get a plat in is going to take a really long time, I might play something else first. But if I care enough about a game, trophies wont keep me from playing it.

[neutralgamer1992]

I play like normal and whatever trophy unlocks i am happy

[UltraNova]

Same here. Some games though I play on hard from the get go.

[CaptainOmega]

I play an Insane difficulity from the get go.

[UltraNova]

Most games have "insane" difficulty locked until you go through the game once though...

[shaun mcwayne]

I believe you Captain Omega, with a name like that, insane difficultly is a walk in the park. Im with ya Bro.

[rainslacker]

I usually just play the game regularly the first time. Then if I really enjoyed it, I'll go for the plat, or at least do some clean up. I dont ever feel I have to get a plat if I stop having fun with the game. I have a few games where I'm one or two short of the plat, and I just leave it. On occasion I might boot it up in the future and knock it out, but that's kind of rare.

[REALAS]

Geez. I get the whole obsessive behavior thing, but, really. Get some priorities and deal with the real world. Unplug once in a while.

[Retard]

says the person on a video game news commentary site. Smh

[MoonConquistador]

Lol, touche

[REALAS]

Yeah, reading a gaming website is equal to basically being addicted to psn trophies. Perfect user name.

[mandingo]

Why does being on this site mean you can't unplug lol. Must be you with the obsessive behavior.

[Lilrizky]

Hi, my name is Joshua and I am a recovered trophy addict

[BrettAwesome]

Hi Joshua

[Majinzo]

Dam, I suffered from this addictive and painful experience. Lol, it almost ruined my love for gaming.

[InKnight7s]

Platinium is great way to squeeze all your money from a game or play your favourites till last possible way. For it is only for very special game I love like GOW or most of FF games, other than that I just ignore it.

[Good-Smurf]

I never cared that much for trophies it just made game enjoyment into a checklists to execute and I don't enjoy hunting it down it anyway so why bother.
Unless they can turn this into reward system like points I can apply on PS store to buy stuff or get discount and voucher then it would be a different story.

[philm87]

Never really got the addiction to trophies. I've platinumed a few, but only because I really love the games. But then again what do I know? I'm addicted to Fifa Ultimate Team.

[DreadGara]

I only platinum games that I really enjoy, it helps discovering in depth secrets & easter eggs sometimes.

[BioShockGX]

I discovered a lot of hidden bosses in bloodborne thanks to trophies.

[rainslacker]

Yeah. I do things I would never have done, or thought to do because of trophies. It was rare before trophies I ever tried to 100% a game. Now it gives a nice list that you did such a thing. My life isnt ruled by that list though, nor do I care if others want to compare themselves to me because of it.

[l33t_haxx0r]

i wish next gen got rid of trophies. most games I dont care about them, but some games I am obsessed and its annoying lol

[MadLad]

I don't go out of my way for trophies. When I was younger, during the 360 days, I was an avid gamer score addict. I know I was 70k something, going out of my way to get it as high as possible.

Now I just play to play. I like it that way lol

[ElementX]

I don't really bother with difficult or time consuming achievements/trophies. At a certain point of the game I will look at a list to see what I need to accomplish, but if it involves getting a gold star in every challenge or finding every collectible, forget it. I have started caring more about my Steam completion percentage, which averages out the percentages of unlocked achievements. I will go back to games I never finished to get a few more but I rarely replay games, so any that involve taking different story paths will also get skipped.

[Bismarn]

If PlayStation trophy addicts need a half-way house for your recovery, switch to Xbox. There are no Platinum equivalents in Achievements, so there is no drive to grind a game completely. Instead you get as many easy-medium achievements you can milk out of a game and then find another game. In PS's trophy system Platinums are the only way to really build up score and rank, forcing you to grind a game long past the time it is fun. But in Xbox Achievements 200 points is the same 200 points whether you grinded GTA IV multiplayer for 3 months or played a indie platformer for 20 mins.

[rainslacker]

So...xbox is like the patch?

[NotoriousWhiz]

Once free time becomes a luxury, you don't worry so much about trophies and instead worry more about just finishing the game you started and starting the unplayed games in your backlog.

[rainslacker]

I've been trying to find things to do besides gaming. Fixing up the house with stuff I dobt have to go buy. I am having some concrete delivered next week for my garage, so mixing that all up should kill a few days.

I still have to work at home though, but without the interruptions from the office stuff, I'm usually done with my tasks pretty quickly, then I have to wait for testing. Usually by 11 I'm done for the day. Asked my boss if I should keep working and he said I was fine because I'm so far ahead.

I'd go crazy if all I did was play games though

[Mr_Luke]

I never cared for achievements, unlockable titles or whatever. But since they added the trophies, i keep aiming at the platinum :O

[BioShockGX]

Hunting trophies since 2009. I never bought easy games for easy platinums and i never not buy a game because the platinum is hard. I always buy games that i like, play first walkthrough for fun and second for trophies. So i guess it depends on the person.
Also trophies makes you discover hidden areas and bosses that a normal gamer wouldn't discover otherwise so that's a bonus.

[JonTheGod]

Currently working on my 91st platinum. I get a kick out of it. It makes me play a game to its full potential rather than rushing through it; it also pushes me harder as a gamer. The grinding trophies can be a pain, and often make me lose interest into a game and move on. I'm not obsessed; I just enjoy the extra layer that trophies bring

I have 90 platinums on PlayStation and an Xbox gamerscore of 105k. I can say without a doubt that the PS Trophy system far surpasses the Xbox Achievements. The number score attached to Xbox is meaningless; but the number of Platinum trophies says something extra. I love the segregation of main game and DLC trophies; Xbox just chucks them in the same list so you can complete the main game to 100% but then DLC comes out and reduces it to 85% or whatever. PS trophies show 100% main game completion then separately tracks your DLC progress. Far superior.

I wonder what changes the PS5 will bring to the trophies. PS4 added rarity tracking. I hope PS5 shows progress tracking like the Xbox currently does (e.g. 600/1000 kills).

[LMosche]

Sony killed trophy hunting when they stopped adding difficulty trophies. It's not a challenge anymore, which defeats the purpose.

[JonTheGod]

Each developer/publisher decides on their own trophy requirements. Third party lists are usually the same across all platforms.

[LMosche]

Only Horizon, Spiderman and God of War did it all of the sudden. Im pretty sure it was Sony's call.

[JonTheGod]

@LMosche
Horizon & Spider-Man added Ultra Hard difficulty trophies in New Game+ patch trophies.

[P_Bomb]

I just recently replayed Days Gone in Survival II, Spider-man on Ultimate, TLOU on Survivor, UC on Crushing, SOTC on hard. Sometimes games require you to play on hard even if there isn’t a dedicated trophy for it. If you want to platinum Death Stranding, you have to play on hard or you’ll never meet the highest S rank requirements.

[rainslacker]

They've been doing them through crushing mode type updates after release. Normally just 2-3 trophies for new difficulty modes. Been kind of nice since it gives a good reason to revisit a game if you like it. Kind of sucks if you didnt like it that much, but got the plat, but now you dont have 100% on the list...like with most dlc I dont buy

[Smokehouse]

Maybe you can get the government involved and ban trophies. You know, to protect the kids.

[AnubisG]

When someone becones a trophy "addict", it's not the trophies but the personality of the individual. If it wasn't trophies, it could be something else.

People can become addicted to anything where they miss out on other things in order to feed their addiction.

It's not a problem to like getting trophies but it shouldn't come before everything. Know the priorities in life and you will be fine.

I have a 110 platinum trophies that I been collecting since 2006. Just got the 110th a few days ago from Death Stranding. It's fun collecting them but you can't let them consume your life.

[Segata]

Trophy data is the very reason I hate reinstalling games with DLC. Nier Automata is esp annoying. Put the game disc in. Won't play because optional DLC has trophy data. Install DLC and load up game...DLC is missing in the game. The only thing that works is uninstalling the game. Deleting the save data. Installing the DLC first then the game then download the save data off PS+. I went through this twice and now I refuse to delete the game to save space. I won't even install DLC that comes with games anymore. So fucking annoying!

I don't give a shit about trophies. I just want to play my god damn game!

[Gameseeker_Frampt]

I think that you are confused because none of what you wrote makes any sense. Perhaps you meant to say that you were playing a game's DLC and then when you went back you couldn't play just the base game with the same save file without having the DLC installed. That happens and that has to do with the save file version and has nothing to do with trophy data.

[Segata]

Fuck off. Not confused at all. I earned trophies while using some of the pod skins. You sony fans can not accept all you want but that bullshit I went through twice. You cannot load your save in NA if you do not have the DLC installed if you played the game with the DLC first. I used the grey PS1 pod skin and the Wiess Podskin in my playthrough. When the DLC is not installed you cannot load your save file for the MAIN GAME. To get it to work you have to delete all data off the HDD including save data. Then you download the DLC first from PSN website click download to PS4. PS4 downloads it and has the message "Waiting to install" Then insert disc. Install the game. When the disc is installed then the DLC starts installing and I would get a million pop ups "started download" "installed" as there is a lot of it. Costumes. Skins and such. Then I go to PS+ download my save data and then the game will launch and DLC working. I'm not the only person who had this issue. I was confused as hell but I had to google it and this is how to solve the issue.

[Gameseeker_Frampt]

"Fuck off. Not confused at all."

and then goes on to repeat exactly everything that I pointed out as the actual problem. You just typed 100+ word response and not once used the word "trophy" when talking about your problem and the solution to it. "You cannot load your save in NA if you do not have the DLC installed if you played the game with the DLC first" is just a reworded version of what I wrote. Did you even bother to read what I posted or did you just jump to immediate defensiveness at someone saying you were confused?

[P_Bomb]

Nier Automata doesn’t have DLC trophies.

[Profchaos]

I try and get as many trophies as possible if I've already finished the game and enjoyed it. I can go back easily and unlock any missing ones without replaying the entire game if it's not to long. And I'm already close to fully unlocking everything.

Some of my biggest trophy grinds were rdr2 and fallout 4 but there's lots of really easy platnuims that take minimal effort like modern warfare 2019 could be done in one playthrough and just replaying a few levels here and there veteran mode was the easiest veteran in the series

[PurpHerbison]

I have to reaaaaally like a game to chase trophies.

[kreate]

Sounds like gaming became work instead of entertainment.

[franwex]

I try to get Achievements and Trophies for the added challenge. I do tend to obsess to secure a trophy on something that otherwise I won’t get on my own-such as achieving a high score on a mini game (most recently FF7 remake...). It does get annoying, but I must have it for bragging rights, and to see what percentage of gamers have wasted their time like me in the same stupid task.

The easily achievable trash games that simply give them away I wouldn’t touch. I would feel embarrassed to show the world those achievements. Everyone knows that those are easily achievable and are trash games.

If you are trophy or achievement obsessed, I feel that there is a prestige to it and hard ones carry more weight, rather than number.

[DoubleYourDose]

Does anyone actually look at other players trophies? I don't. I do have someone on my list that is level 57 which is insane. I did look at his game history and most of the games I never heard of.

[mandingo]

I mean i love achievement hunting. i have 130k which is decent but i don't buy games just to get points. I try not to let the achievements list affect whether i get a game. The games i buy are ones i want to play and yes i try to 100 percent every game but if I can't then i just go for as much as i can.