Diary of a trophy addict: anecdotes and curiosities of a disee with its own liturgy

Eighty-five Latinos. 85. Now the figure does not impress too much (or perhaps yes, namely), but it w practically the same one decade and then what if impressed. Rare w the month that no one proposed to share account (yours, yours or a new one) to add Latinos between them to a common cause. They came to promise me money and offer me to participate in an account with six other people who already exceed 250 joint platinum. It w how to be summoned for the national team .

Between those 85 it never became my name is May, that game that acts Red Flag and warns you that you are facing a possible addict when someone names him or, worse, he acknowledges having it played. It lts an hour, it is worth a euro, it consists of pressing a single button and gives you the platinum soon you finish it. All his grace is that, which adds one more platinum to the account. Pay for having trophies .

The fact is that it w not my name is May, but they fell in their day Implied quality products Terminator Salvation or Anarchy: Rush Hour, famous for that reon, for being short and ey. And of course, I have the Platinum of Motors tom RC and Sound Shapes because if you got it on PS Vita, and then you started the game on PS4, the trophy list doubled, and they all jumped you all again without the need to do any. (Needless to say, they don't start both on PS4 because I would like to play them in desk).

There came a time when, before buying or starting a game, I did not consult the opinions of the people or their analysis. Nor did I look at their trailers, price or details. The first thing he looked w his trophy list . I w obsessed with 100% and wanted to know how long I had been and how it w difficult to. It also mattered if there were DLC plans, because with extra trophies the history w blurred with the happy 63, 72 or 81% on average that cause the trophies of dischargeable content. A paradox, because although I hated them, at the same time there w no better claim for me in an expansion than to know that I had trophies and on top of it.

I w looking for Capstones pages if a game had a bug that made it impossible to complete the list. Or if it w extremely difficult. Or people with whom to grind anyone who w multiplayer. Pages bed on forums full of guides (PlayStation Trophies and the Jewel of the National Crown: Laps4). Websites in which often w treated and judged bed on the number of Latinos you had. Your opinion w despised if you had just started collecting them or if you had an average percentage of completely lower than your interlocutor. They even made Aquelarres and Public Cannot . Each day's bread w that, calculating the average of your history, how many days you were taking a trophy and see who w the first in the world and your country to complete x game. A continuous career. An eternal competition **.

Some exception allowed me to bretfeed, such Wipe out HD platinum, but most of my regret . You got to take garage a resistance 2 and bios hock 2 for the hundreds of hours invested in the trophies of their mediocre multiplayer modes . You forgot about your original experience with Heavy Rain after psing it the thousand and twice necessary to get all its finals. Also, you humiliated and medi Heart X Heart at Little Big Planet for just created levels in five minutes that barely consisted of starting, taking three steps and finishing. Not to mention when you advanced at ten per hour and with continuous interruptions in adventures such Tomb Raider Underworld and XIII, you would not lose a single object, staying without the corresponding copita for getting them all. Enjoy did not depend on the game, but on the trophies.

One of the most important characteristics of video games, immersion, disappeared in pursuit of them. Instead of sitting at television and abstracting, you often had the guide open to the side, a notebook and the editor on helping you, with the light blinding you at night. If the tk w very tedious, you put a background podct, or a YouTube video that entertained you in the meantime. Anything but attend to the screen . Anything but disconnect and get carried away.

Did I go back? Does that eat? If the ancient games did not bring trophies they were parked. I still remember the campaign that w done for years for INAMI to introduce them in Metal Gear Solid 4. He did it after four years due to how heavy people were (he left in 2008 and received them in 2012). PICO and Paley, Victoria for Calvinism . But just it happened to you with the old games, the same thing happened to you with those of other platforms in which you were not specialized. You did not want to divide efforts between several consoles to add everything in 1. In the rest you played only the exclusive and if that, that Nintendo did not give you anything and you felt confusing and lost .

The world of Capstones (or achievements, which for the ce is the same) h its own liturgy and is almost more demanding than the religious. Dozens of anecdotes, protocols and Unhealthy behaviors that return this hobby and put the satisfaction and happiness in duties and challenges, not in experience. A lady addiction that years later causes me chills when someone confesses how much she likes to collect them.

If you have recognized in you many of what is described in the text... encouragement, it goes out .