brendude13 on 03 March 2012
| Dante9 said: I don't have a single platinum, nor am I particularly sad about it. Getting the platinum usually requires one or more of the following things: 1) Completing the game more than once. Nope, not for me. I go through a game once, giving it my all, searching every nook and cranny, making it the perfect playthrough according to my personal tastes and then I'm done with it. I'ts been an experience that I've enjoyed more or less, but like a good movie, once I've seen it, I've seen it. This first point more or less affects all following points. 2) Playing the game on a harder difficulty level I want to enjoy the game in other ways than making things unnecessarily difficult. I hate difficulty levels. Why would I want to take the harder route? It's like "Do you want to drive to work today or would you like to crawl on your knees, so as not to make it too easy?". Don't give me the choice. Have only one difficulty level. I'll play the game and not complain. In fact, I'll enjoy it more knowing that this is what I have to deal with because I have no choice. 3) Making choices that I don't want to make I make the choices that I would do in real life according to my personal values and feelings. I don't want to be dick, a mass murderer, a rapist or whatnot just for the heck of it. What's the fun in that? 4) Completing the tedious stuff on the side You know the stuff, collect all of the 1000 hidden flowers in the world or capture every kind of the 800 monsters in every possible color, you name it. It's repetition ad nauseam, just artificial lenghtening of the game that has nothing to do with the plot, and actually takes you out of it, because the very nature of this type of thing reminds you that this is after all a computer or console game with arbitrary, shining flowers laying around in the secret corners of the world. |
Great post, very true.
