"Why Did I Wait So Long To Play This?!"

[GrahfsLament]

COKTOE said:

GrahfsLament said:

I like trophy lists like Horizon: Zero Dawn and God Of War too. Most PS first party trophy lists are similar to this. Tied to the game in a fairly organic way, avoiding, as you said, grinding/farming, and Olympic gaming feats. Gran Turismo is an example of the opposite, although as a driving game, it's quite different. Notoriously brutal, both as tests of skill and patience.

Sweet Amaterasu, is it ever...especially regarding patience. B-Spec in GT5 was useful to keep things moving along when I was finishing up a degree, but I can't imagine going after the trophies for B-Spec (or the Endurance races, for that matter). It's kind of funny, to me at least, that when I was much younger I'd throw on a CD (like Garbage Version 2.0!) and that was enough to keep me entertained while I just endlessly navigated the tracks in GT2's and GT3's endurance races. Now there's, arguably, greater incentive, greater variety in music at my disposal, and I can't be bothered... Makes me glad that games like Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy Tactics came along before my time for gaming became so short.

On topic, I'd also add Resident Evil: Revelations 2. I really liked the story (for the most part) and atmosphere (which I think presaged the tonal shift from RE6 to RE7). I also loved the chimeric gameplay which was a complete surprise to me. It has one of my favorite lines in the entire series as well. I had avoided it because I was real burnt out on the Resident Evil series, dislike episodic publication of games, and was skeptical about any sort of 'gaiden' entries. The story of how I finally came to play the game is a bit longer and has to do with my analysis of the franchise in general, but Capcom's PS4 release being a complete edition definitely helped abate some of my reticence to play it.