DragoonKain
Neighbours from Hell
I know so many people are into getting trophies and I never have been. And I'm an OCD completionist. I'm someone who in RPGs likes to max out all my stats(if possible) get all my characters to 9999 HP(if possible) get all the best gear, recruit all the characters, do all the side quests, etc. But trophies are the one thing that have never resonated with me. I guess it's because I consider the tasks completely arbitrary. Like "Kill this random enemy 50 times." If it's something that I don't want to organically do in a playthrough then I'm not going to do it. Especially since my backlog is so long. It just takes up time I could be giving to other games. And listening to people talk about trophies, as much as so many people like them, I've noticed over the years hearing people talk about trophies, few actually seem to actually have fun doing it. It seems like for most it's purely an OCD completionist thing.
I always hear stuff like "God... getting platinum on [insert game here] is so annoying, it's taking me forever." It's totally different in my experience with how people talk about completing other things in games. Like completing a challenging puzzle or a difficult platforming section in a game.
I'm currently playing Eiyuden Chronicles and there's a mini game in this game you need to beat NPCs in throughout the game to get a trophy. And I saw a user on Reddit the other day talking about how much of a chore it was and how they're ready to pull their hair out doing this task and how boring and annoying it was. And I'm thinking to myself "Then why the fuck are you doing it???" That post encapsulates perfectly my belief that most people do it for OCD reasons and not fun.
I also listen to Colin Moriarty rant every so often about how games these days are too big and don't respect your time and how platinums take too long to complete anymore. And he's said that developers should make the games shorter for gamers. I'll always respect Colin's opinion and he's entitled to it, but no one's forcing anyone to 100% a game. To me that particular gripe translates to "I don't want to 100% this game because it's too long and I'm getting bored of it, but my OCD won't let me" and then blaming that on the game developers.
But maybe I'm wrong and people do actually enjoy trophy hunting. I just want to see where people stand on it. And if there are people who do it who will admit it's mostly OCD thing.
And for the record, I'm not trying to talk anyone out of doing trophies. You do you. If that's your jam, get as many trophies as you want. I'm trying to understand why so many people are into then as someone who is an OCD gamer but never had the trophy itch myself.
I always hear stuff like "God... getting platinum on [insert game here] is so annoying, it's taking me forever." It's totally different in my experience with how people talk about completing other things in games. Like completing a challenging puzzle or a difficult platforming section in a game.
I'm currently playing Eiyuden Chronicles and there's a mini game in this game you need to beat NPCs in throughout the game to get a trophy. And I saw a user on Reddit the other day talking about how much of a chore it was and how they're ready to pull their hair out doing this task and how boring and annoying it was. And I'm thinking to myself "Then why the fuck are you doing it???" That post encapsulates perfectly my belief that most people do it for OCD reasons and not fun.
I also listen to Colin Moriarty rant every so often about how games these days are too big and don't respect your time and how platinums take too long to complete anymore. And he's said that developers should make the games shorter for gamers. I'll always respect Colin's opinion and he's entitled to it, but no one's forcing anyone to 100% a game. To me that particular gripe translates to "I don't want to 100% this game because it's too long and I'm getting bored of it, but my OCD won't let me" and then blaming that on the game developers.
But maybe I'm wrong and people do actually enjoy trophy hunting. I just want to see where people stand on it. And if there are people who do it who will admit it's mostly OCD thing.
And for the record, I'm not trying to talk anyone out of doing trophies. You do you. If that's your jam, get as many trophies as you want. I'm trying to understand why so many people are into then as someone who is an OCD gamer but never had the trophy itch myself.
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