{"id":15,"date":"2010-01-11T21:54:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T21:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/?p=15"},"modified":"2016-03-16T15:41:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T15:41:05","slug":"on-ps3-trophies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/2010\/01\/11\/on-ps3-trophies\/","title":{"rendered":"PlayStation Trophies: My Unhealthy Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PS3Note:<\/strong> This was originally an application piece written for a job as an amateur game reviewer. To no one’s surprise, there were about 30 applicants and I didn’t get the job.<\/p>\n

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I don’t hold any trophies for sport or physical achievement. It’s not like I didn’t try, my brain would tell my foot that it needs to swing into the round thing to provide the necessary kinetic energy to move it on to one of my team-mates, but somewhere between the dark recess behind my eyes and the ball the message would get lost in translation and I’d often end up flat on my backside.<\/p>\n

This is where the marvel of technology has truly brightened my life: digital trophies! All the personal achievement and none of that nonsense of having to buy some cheap timber for shelving from the local DIY store1<\/a><\/sup> and going through all the malarkey of applying said wood to the wall to store your coveted prizes. Now you can recognise your gaming prowess via the medium of a small jpeg accompanied by a small dinging noise that is the audible cue for “give yourself a pat on the back”.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, trophies are a bit of a nuisance. Now I’m obliged to play through the game on very hard “dead on arrival” mode, if I ever want to complete the collection. It’s an obsessive-compulsive’s nightmare – all those games lined up with numbers that aren’t all 100%\u2026it’s probably just easier to not play the game at all and leave it on 0%. For example, I’ll never get the all of the combo trophies on Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe<\/em>. I managed to earn two of them but gave up on the rest before I crippled my fingers and developed early onset arthritis in my hands. Then there’s the small matter of Bioshock<\/em> – I completed the game fully and did everything but that’s not good enough for the taskmasters! Oh no, I have to collect the ones from the DLC as well if I want to retain 100 percentiles, and all for the nominal fee of \u00a37.00 that I’ll never fully feel was worth the expenditure.<\/p>\n

Overall, I am glad that Sony decided to borrow (read: flat-out steal) Microsoft’s achievement system for their console. I am certainly getting more out of games than I used to, and that’s crucial as next-gen games are arguably a lot shorter than their younger siblings of the 128-bit era, and we’re all a bit poorer since the economy decided to take a short trip off a long pier. You may call me sad, but then you’re not the one who beat [PROTOTYPE]<\/em><\/a> on hard mode, are you?<\/p>\n

Postscript (16\/03\/2015)<\/h2>\n

I’m still mad about collecting trophies, and I have two accounts on social media sites designed to track game progress. You can check out my PSN Profiles Page<\/a> or my Playfire Profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Note: This was originally an application piece written for a job as an amateur game reviewer. To no one’s surprise, there were about 30 applicants and I didn’t get the job. I don’t hold any trophies for sport or physical achievement. It’s not like I didn’t try, my brain would…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2543,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[355,38,3],"tags":[9,7,8],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video-game-articles","category-trophy-whoring","category-video-games","tag-achievements","tag-ps3","tag-trophies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.payneful.co.uk\/blogsplosion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}