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What kind of gamer are you?

Trophy Hunter 8 21.05%
 
Hardcore 14 36.84%
 
Story Gamer 11 28.95%
 
Casual Gamer 3 7.89%
 
Master of My Trade 2 5.26%
 
Total:38
AHYL88 on 29 July 2018

I'm not against Achievements and Trophies, but they should NEVER be used as a replacement for the game actually rewarding you with something. Otherwise, they're pretty much just artificial and superficial ways to pad and extend a game out.

I'd rather a game actually reward me with something meaningful like an unlockable for doing a certain thing; like do this on X difficulty and/or without getting hit to unlock a new weapon or character. Or like for the Last of Us, instead just a meaningless trophy for collecting all the Firefly pendents, unlock a backlog of the history of the Fireflies, the formation of the faction, anything.



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S.Peelman on 29 July 2018
Barozi said:

These are usually used to keep the achievement/trophy list spoiler free. Most commonly used for story achievements.

Maybe incidentally, but I would’ve had much more of them if that was generally the case. And their percentages would be higher. I could just be ‘unlucky’ in my game choices, but the few hidden ones I actually have were of the “Feed the monkey” calibur, keeping with Uncharted 4.



Mr_No on 29 July 2018

I'd be hardcore. There are times I don't feel like seeing the trophies of a game, especially if they're difficult or tedious for the platinum. I play through a game. If there are few trophies left for the platinum, I go for it.



Chris Hu on 29 July 2018

I guess I'm in between a story and hardcore gamer then. I usually try to get at least half of the achievements or trophies in a game unless they are too hard or time consuming to get. I usually only get all the achievements/trophies in a game if its super easy to get them all or I really like a game a lot.



TruckOSaurus on 30 July 2018

I clicked story gamer but I'm more in between Story and Hardcore. I'll often do more than just the story part but I also never go after trophies especially if they don't give me any in-game reward.



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DonFerrari on 30 July 2018

I'm kinda trophy hunter... but since there are so many games and my time is limited this is how I do myself.
I like the game + platinum isn't very hard or time consuming = get platinum
I love the game + platinum isn't near impossible = get platinum
Like the game + platinum is hard = finish game picking natural trophies
Don't like the game = abbandon in the middle



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Veknoid_Outcast on 30 July 2018
TruckOSaurus said:
I clicked story gamer but I'm more in between Story and Hardcore. I'll often do more than just the story part but I also never go after trophies especially if they don't give me any in-game reward.

I'm the same -- BIG surprise :P



DonFerrari on 30 July 2018
S.Peelman said:

I don’t care about trophies/achievements at all as 90% of them are only obtainable by performing tedious and mundane tasks that have no added value to a game whatsoever and the rest are story or progression based which everyone gets without doing anything special besides just playing the game. Moreover actually getting them nets you exactly zero reward. I’ve completed Uncharted 4 with a 4% trophy completion rate, and I couldn’t care less because I’ve seen everything anyway. And then there’s the ‘hidden trophies’, which is the dumbest idea ever. Everyone interested is just going to look up a full list because who is going to endlessly try out all kinds of random stuff and hope they stumble upon a hidden trophy? The percentage rates of most non-story based trophies, that are also unlikely to be accidentally attained, are also always so low that it proves hardly anyone really cares about them, and that there are actually only a relative handful of ‘trophy hunters’ out there.

Anyway rant aside, by your definitions I’d be a combination of ‘Master of their Trade’, but without the trophy hunting, and ‘Story Gamer’.

In PS4 you can just click square after opening the hide trophy and it'll give you a description. It is just hidden so you won't see it without wanting or getting so you aren't spoiled.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

DonFerrari on 30 July 2018

And the good thing about the trophies is that you can check the trophy for completing the story and verify how many people completed against total people who played...
This way you can discover that God of War was amazing even on the completion rate. At the time I checked it was like over 80% of owners have finished it, and if you check trophies regularly you'll discover that is very uncommon for even a great game to go over 33-50% range of completion.



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Shiken on 30 July 2018
DonFerrari said:
S.Peelman said:

I don’t care about trophies/achievements at all as 90% of them are only obtainable by performing tedious and mundane tasks that have no added value to a game whatsoever and the rest are story or progression based which everyone gets without doing anything special besides just playing the game. Moreover actually getting them nets you exactly zero reward. I’ve completed Uncharted 4 with a 4% trophy completion rate, and I couldn’t care less because I’ve seen everything anyway. And then there’s the ‘hidden trophies’, which is the dumbest idea ever. Everyone interested is just going to look up a full list because who is going to endlessly try out all kinds of random stuff and hope they stumble upon a hidden trophy? The percentage rates of most non-story based trophies, that are also unlikely to be accidentally attained, are also always so low that it proves hardly anyone really cares about them, and that there are actually only a relative handful of ‘trophy hunters’ out there.

Anyway rant aside, by your definitions I’d be a combination of ‘Master of their Trade’, but without the trophy hunting, and ‘Story Gamer’.

In PS4 you can just click square after opening the hide trophy and it'll give you a description. It is just hidden so you won't see it without wanting or getting so you aren't spoiled.

You know, it is kinda funny.  I have been gaming since trophies first got added during the PS3 days.  Until I figured this out, you have no idea how mad I got trying to figure out how to see the trophies if they were not automatically unlocked through the story.  It just seemed like a bother to google it too.

 

You know when I figured out that you could do that?  A few weeks ago when I was considering getting the Plat for Horizon Zero Dawn when I accidentally hit the wrong button with a hidden trophy highlighted.  XD



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