Michael-5 said:
Slimebeast said:
Yeah it sucks that you have to play the game unnaturally by following guides. I typically have a hard time trying to decide wether I should play "blind" one time and then use a Trophy guide only after a I beat the game, but then the work becomes even harder.
Trophys both enchance but also derail your gaming experience.
But what do you do when you are hooked like I am? I feel like a slave.
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Yep, and I honestly think playing a game "blind" is so much better. Guides ruin surprises. However some games, like Catherine, and to an extent FallOut (if you remember to save for the level trophy's), have trophy's/achievements which compliment the game. They encourage you to play the game on the hardest difficulty and beat every side quest and get every ending (not hard in Catherine since you can skip levels on 2nd run throughs when you get a gold rank on them).
What would I do? What I did was be a slave like you, but then I got a Wii and started playing a few games without trophy's, and I dunno. The experience just made me stop caring. Wii doesn't have too many games, but some of them (XenoBlade, Zelda, Metroid Prime, etc) are real gems, worth buying the system just for them. However like I said, for individual games I still go for the platnium.
It's just who cares about the overall score? The people with the most platnium trophy's and gamer points play games like King Kong and Avatar, games which take <5 hours to get a platnium or a "completion" in. What I do is look into each game I get (after buying it), and decide is it worth it to complete? Is it worth getting a high score in? Also people with the most trophies limit themselves to easy PS3 games.
So like for me, games like Gears of War, I'll get 90% of the Gamerpoints for it. However I'm not going to invest a full year of playing the game online every day for that last 10% (yes it's that insane on some 360 exclusives). Same goes for Gran Turismo 5 on PS3. However Alan Wake has a pretty easy set of achievements, and so does InFamous on PS3, and I think the games are good enough for a second playthrough, even if they didn't have trophy's/achievements for it, I'd probably still play it again, so why not max out these games?
I'm still fairly addicted too, I won't play Mass Effect 3 until I get 100% in Mass Effect 2, and I don't want too many 400/1000's or 40% games to tarnish my record.
So what I do is just buy less games, and only get games I think I would enjoy playing enough to get a good score in.
In the rare case you have a game which isn't achievement/trophy frendly, I just try to get more then others lol.
So my advice is, moderation, only play games you know you'll get your moneys worth, and while you get your money's worth, you can pick up a few trophy's along the way, and get a Wii, or maybe a DS/PSP and start playing some games without a trophy/achievement system.
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