Not_like_therest Digital Conglomeration of Mementos and Knickknacks

[Not_like_therest]

My first attempt with gimp, simple crop and text no smudging or anything

Not_Like_therest Digital Conglomeration of Mementos and Knickknacks
 

Gaming History: Mementos for the memories (May Delete this upper portion at some point)
 
         I started gaming before I had a "real" console. When I was little (late 80s-early 90s), wal-mart used to sell these handheld games that were stand-alones. Sonic, Batman, pinball etc were a little larger than the typical cheap smaller ones (think whole hand size vs palm span) that played football, baseball, etc sport games, that some of us who are a bit older probably remember better than those I first mentioned. The stand-alones cost about $15 and we were too poor for a real console until I was about 9 or 10 when my dad found a used SNES for my sister and I.  A few years later I got an original gameboy with a few games like Donkey Kong, Tetris, Kirby, at some point I got the Magnifier (with a light) that snapped on so it didn't strain my eyes, and that cartridge that let you play GB on the SNES. When we finally got a computer around 1999, it came with the game Age of Empires, thus my fascination with strategy games began. I played it for hours and hours, same for AoE 2: Age of Kings when it was released, and so on for Caesar 2/3, Pharaoh. Plus a few types of other games.
 
         Around 2001/2002 my cousin's dad had given her a ps1 for christmas or a birthday or something. We played Tony Hawk for 6 months to a year straight, mastering that game. 100%-ing every level and getting good at learning how to do the specials. This was back when you could throw a controller at a wall hard as you could and not worry about it shattering or need to spend another $60.
 
         About 2004 or 2005 I traded my own ps1 up for a ps2. Never 100% any of the games I played on it, but I loved that thing. GTA: SA flight school tested my patience more than any other game I had tried. 
 
          At some point I had decided to go back to pc gaming, bought a new video card, more ram and space. Played America's Army 2, Fallout 3 (Pre-dlc) for months on end. Went through a couple computers before I decided to go back to consoles. I had wanted a ps3 but they were still too expensive, so I made the biggest mistake ever. I spent 5 years on xbox with a disk drive dying on me every year and had to get it replaced.  
 
           I was a clan officer of an Achievement Hunter squad for about year, that was a horrible experience with being cyber-stalked by more than a few people and left so extremely creeped out and scarred from it. I closed down facebook and never again will I have another social network account. 
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            Anyhow, this isn't going to be just platinum list, I plan on adding other stuff. Backlog, 100% list, games I don't care or want a platinum for but do intend to increase completion rate or even just a few additional trophies in one day, desire and importance scale, color coding, I don't know....just stuff. 
 
            I only play games I am interested in as long as I am interested, I have a limit to my patience. If it has a serious grind or too many collectibles, I'm likely to leave it after I finish the story and whatever misc trophies I want. As much as I enjoy certain types of games, it can be short lived, and abandoned for a year or 2 or more. I'm still working on games I 1000'd on xbox since I like the platinum concept better than just numbers in a "gamer score" as well as PS exclusives that I had never played before...so my backlog is sizable at the moment. 
 

 

Color Code list- 

(Mostly to remind myself of where I am in my backlog and progression intentions)

 

Trophy Milestones listed and not on my profile, Honorable mentions for my cabinet

(Whether due to trophy image or game/story) 

Older Games- Pre-trophy/achievement era that I spent many hours enjoying. 

All Platinum/100% game titles. If a game is not 100% but has platinum, it may show up later as a Backlog title.

 

 

Current Records

Fastest Platinum- The Walking Dead (Vita)- 1 day 56 minutes

2nd Fastest- The Order: 1886- 1 day 16 hours

3rd Fastest- Assassin's Creed II- 3 days 10 hours

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Most trophies in a month: September 2015- 272

Previous Record: August 2015- 218

Most Platinums in a year:  December 30th 2015- 31

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 Most Productive Singular Trophy: Game of Thrones Platinum-

PSN Level 18 acquired 11/18/2015

Highest Ranking on Country Leaderboard to date 24,890 and Highest Page- 498 11/18/2015.

Highest World Rank 85,634 and Page 1,713 11/18/2015 

Largest Jump on TrueTrophies Points Ranking of 98,888 from 95,222 (PSN score is now 64,170)

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Leaderboard- First Platinum Achievers- 12th for The Talos Principle

Leaderboard Fastest 100%- 12th with 1 week 1 day for The Talos Principle

Leaderboard- Ranked in top 20,000 of Country board- February 14 2016

Leaderboard- Ranked in top 70,000 of World board- February 14 2016

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Longest Trophy Streak- 39 days 294 trophies

Densest Trophy Streak- 10 days 110 trophies

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Platinums

 

 

1.  Final Fantasy: Lightning Returns    (PS3)- May 24th 2014

 

The first final fantasy I ever played was 13 on xbox, I liked the story and wanted to see it through to the end. But I played it to begin with because of Lightnings V.A. did an amazing job in Mass Effect and I wanted to see if she was as good in another game. 

 

2.  The Walking Dead  (PS3)- July 18th 2014

 

From xbox so I could continue the story of Clementine with my own choices not TellTale's randomness.

 

3.  Dragon Age: Inquisition  (PS4)- January 9th 2015

I like Bioware. But not enough to buy a repackaged core game with "codes" stuffed inside like a forgotten leaflet on a car window. I'll wait for a sale and rent.

 

4.  Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor   (PS4)- January 20th 2015 

 

Manager at Gamestop showed me a video of a few executions, wasn't interested before then but was after.

 

5.  Styx: Master of Shadows  (PS4)- January 31st 2015

Amazing and fun stealth game

 

6.  Transistor  (PS4)- Febuary 12th 2015

Loved the gameplay on this. I'm pretty picky about what turn based games I'll play and what indies I spend my time on. This became the standard for any indie game I play.

 

7.  Apotheon  (PS4)- Febuary 25th 2015

 

I spent too much time watching the History channel not to play this

 

8.  Tomb Raider  (Definitive Edition- PS4)- March 8th 2015

 

Because of all the frustration you gave me in TR2 on the pc in the 90's. _{Not sorry for drowning you all those times though....}

 

9.  The Order: 1886   (PS4)- March 12th 2015

Wonder if they will ever continue the story on this?

 

10.  Sleeping Dogs  (Definitive Edition PS4)- March 24th 2015

True Crime Nostalgia

 

11.  Final Fantasy Type- 0 HD   (PS4)- April 4th 2015

 

Final Fantasy Knickknack

 

12.   inFAMOUS First Light  (PS4)- April 24th 2015

 

I need to go back to Infamous 2 one day and at least get past the beginning, who knows maybe even finish the story. To do list noted.

 

13.   Dying Light   (PS4)- May 2nd 2015

 

I hate zombie games, I really do. I tried Left for Dead, Dead Rising 2, Waw zombies, this was the only one I completed beyond the main story. I want to give the Following Dlc expansion a try but I'll wait for it to be patched whenever it finally gets released and read some reviews. That other nonsense they called dlc was NOT worth that season pass and glad I passed. 

 

14.  The Walking Dead  (PS4)- May 21st 2015

 

Season 3: Clementine for the win!

 

15.  Ether One   (PS4)- June 7th 2015

 

The Lighthouse: A metaphor for Alzheimer's in an otherwise unforgiven, broken game. Lucky you had all those gold trophies.

 

16.    Dragon Age II  (PS3) July 15th 2015

My warden, my champion, my inquisitor

 

17.  Dragon Age: Inquisition  (PS3)- August 6th 2015

You were a buggy mess. Never got over your stuttering problems, did you? Nope. You still killed my last ps3, so now I say Good day!

 

18.  Mass Effect  (PS3)- August 7th 2015

 

Poor Shepard, when bioware wasn't abusing you, your teammates would get stuck until you commanded them to stand away. 

 

19.  Tropico 5  (PS4)- August 15th 2015

 

Have they released the final trophy dlc pack for you yet? I have no idea but I got sick of waiting. I dislike the turn based style on Civilization games. Nor do I like the futuristic setting of Command and Conquer.

 

20.  Borderlands  (PS3)- September 6th 2015

I spent so many hours on this on xbox and now I have this shiny platinum. I doubt I'll have the patience to 100% this considering the claptrap collection drop rates. I get burnt out on this series quick now. I did 2+dlc playthroughs on xbox plus 2.5 on Borderlands 2 back then. Half of a playthrough on BL2 on ps3 before my previous ps3 died, then I picked this up on the cheap for some sale recently. 

 

21.  The Walking Dead  (Vita)- September 7th 2015

 

Zombie Knickknack- It is so bland compared to other platinums.

 

I'm not sure why I bought a vita, I'm positive there was a few games on it I wanted to play. I know I'll get flack for this but one of the ones I had wanted to play: Tales of Hearts R looked so dated compared to how I got used to looking at my characters on PS4 and PS3, the story that I had been so interested in didn't seem to matter.   It broke the immersion for me or something. I looked over some other games, but nothing jumped out at me to make me spend money on it rather than for my consoles. I hadn't wanted to play any lego games at the time and wasn't going to waste money buying what I wasn't interested in. Majority of the indies look like SNES titles for all the PS consoles. Never watched anime and I am extremely picky (more now than I was before) with any Jrpg I buy, it gets googled, wiki'd and youtubed. Got this particular game for 5 bucks from a flash sale. Played it the night before I sold it. 

 

22.  Mass Effect 2  (PS3)- September 11th 2015

 

N7 Golden Glory

 

23.  Assassin's Creed II  (PS3)- September 15th 2015

AC Heyday. I didn't 1000 this on xbox because of Sweeper and feathers. Did it for the platinum.

 

24.  The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim  (PS3)- September 18th 2015

 

Bethesda, let me count the ways I loathe you and your games. Really hope Fallout 4 is not a train wreck.

 

25.  L.A. Noire  (PS3)- September 25th 2015

 

Gonna attempt 100% if I can accomplish whatever youtube video I find for that Nicholson Electroplating trophy

 

26.   Final Fantasy XIII-2   (PS3) October 1st 2015

Another Final Fantasy Knickknack

 

27.   The Talos Principle   (PS4) October 21st 2015

Now this IS a puzzle game. Omg, did some of those feel so satisfactory solving them on my own. Like the moment of justifying to yourself the right to claim some intellect.

Anyone who identifies with the sleeper hit/ cult phenomenon niche or just love of puzzle games, I highly recommend this. 

 

28.   Everybody's Gone To The Rapture   (PS4) November 2nd 2015

I liked Kate and this plat image. Story's subliminal message was a bit too sappy for me. But it was fine for what it was.

 

29.  Game of Thrones   (PS4) November 18th 2015

Instinct and Nobility was my first. I'd only make a few changes second time around but sorry Mira, better off dead than being raped to produce children for someone like that. 

 

30.   Life Is Strange  (PS4) December 6th 2015

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31.  Mass Effect 3   (PS3) December 16th 2015

Journey completed. Can't wait for Andromeda!

 

32.   Fallout 4   (PS4) December 18th 2015

 

Addiction and Hoarding at its finest in a Bethesda game.

 

33.  Tales from the Borderlands   (PS4) December 30th 2015

Better than I thought it was going to be. Wasn't originally planning on buying it

 

34.  Tales of the Borderlands   (PS3) January 12th 2016

 

35.   Game of Thrones   (PS3) February 13th 2016

Because I couldn't play Book of Unwritten Tales 2 drinking mini-game without pausing the game first, and sometimes during main game.

Both were still horribly laggy titles on PS3.

 

#36.   Splinter Cell: Blacklist  (PS3) February 20th 2016

Another Sam Fisher and Tom Clancy game that is amazing.

 

#37. :platinum:Far Cry: Primal  :platinum: (PS4) February 29th 2016

This is a Leap Year Platinum. Sadly that doesn't come with its own Milestone notice.

It's title is Apex Predator. I found it fitting enough for a day that only happens once every four years.

Also my #30th 100% title, an accomplishment in itself if you knew how much I left my xbox games unfinished.

 

#38.  :platinum:Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes :platinum: (PS3) March 22nd 2016

I was sick of the golden bricks by the end. Have 3 more of these (Batman 3, Movie Video Game and Dimensions) with JP sitting on my wishlist.

It might be 5 years before I'm ready for that collectible hunt.

 

#39. :platinum:Bully  :platinum: (PS4) May 4th 2016

Never got all the collectibles on PS2, so glad they changed that for the trophies. Played the Scholarship Ed on 360, it glitched and didn't give me the cheevo's for last 2 chapters I think. So I didn't even bother attempting the Nut Shots high score to 1000'd, can't say I would have attempted to anyways due to the 300 rubber band collectible.

1st of the PS2 ports I've done of the 4 or 5 I bought. 

 

#40.  :platinum:Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning :platinum:  (PS3) June 22nd 2016

Part of my backlog that I finally decided to start/ finish (base game at least).

Think the title Perfectionist is a pretty good one for a rounded number like 40.

 

#41.  :platinum:Dishonored  :platinum: (PS4) July 1st 2016

I really have zero interest in getting a 100% in this game.

Another 30 trophies and some of them are really annoying. Plus I'm just done with it. 

#42. :platinum: Gemini: Heroes Reborn :platinum: (PS4) September 3rd 2016

 

#43. :platinum: Horizon Zero Dawn :platinum: (PS4) March 31st 2017

 

First plat I earned in 7 months

 

#44. :platinum: Styx: Shards of Darkness :platinum: (PS4) April 24th 2017

 

#45. :platinum:Legend of Korra :platinum: (PS4) April 24th 2017

 

 

 

100%

 

 

1. Final Fantasy: Lightning Returns

2 and 3. The Walking Dead Season 1- 2 out of 3 played copies

4 and 5.The Walking Dead Season 2- 2 out of 2 played copies (Vita not played)

6. Styx: Master of Shadows

7. Transistor

8. Apotheon

9. Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition

10. The Order: 1886

11. Final Fantasy Type 0- HD

12. inFAMOUS: First Light

13. Toren

14. Ether One

15. Mass Effect

16. Assassin's Creed II

17. Final Fantasy XIII-2

18. L.A. Noire

19. The Talos Principle

20. Everybody's Gone To The Rapture

21 and 22. Game of Thrones- 2 of 2 copies

23. Kingdom Hearts 388/2 Days

24. Life is Strange

Fallout 4 -subject to change on dlc release

25 and 26. Tales from the Borderlands- 2 of 2 copies

27. Mass Effect 3

28. Splinter Cell: Blacklist

29. Far Cry: Primal

30. Soma

31. Dragon Age: Inquisition (PS4)

32. Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes

33. Bully (PS4)

34. Gemini: Heroes Reborn (PS4)

35. Horizon Zero Dawn (PS4)

36. Styx: Shards of Darkness (PS4)

37. Legend of Korra (PS4)

 

 

 

 

Older games (No trophies)

 

 

 

Beyond Atlantis- PC Around 98/99, Puzzle and adventure like tomb raider only no guns...amazing graphics set in locations all across the globe. I have a busted eardrum that Dr's had to repair, its still not top notch so I had to have someone help me with this in game sequence puzzle. To progress the story past the 2nd quest you had mimic this guy who who would only speak to you if you made the same bird noises, I couldn't tell the difference for the life of me so a friend had to do it anytime I started over.

 

Age of Empires

Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings

Caesar 2-3

Pharaoh

Tomb Raider 2-3 (PC)

Mario Bros

Super Mario Bros 1-3

Super Mario Kart

Tetris

True Crime New York

True Crime Hong Kong

Donkey Kong Country (Gameboy)

Kirby (Gameboy)

Sims 2 + All Explansions (PC obviously)

Tony Hawk 1 and 2 (didn't care for anything released after, played most of them though)

Grand Theft Auto 3

Grand Theft Auto San Andreas

Grand Theft Auto Liberty City Stories

Vintage Tiger Electronic Football (Link)

Vintage Game (similar to the Batman and Sonic I mentioned)

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 22, 2020 by Not_like_therest

[Not_like_therest]

**Reserved**

[Not_like_therest]

Favorite Trophy Images and Nostalgia titles added- 09/29/2015

Couple of links Added in Nostalgia titles, minor edits, fastest platinums added to Current Records- 10/02/2015. 

Favorite Trophies- The Honorable Mentions- 10/06/2015

Minor edit/additions, Preorder/Wishlist section added. 10/14/2015

Leaderboard added to Current Records, new plat and milestone, honorable mentions updated- 10/21/2015

Banner for any who care to return for looks 10/24/2015.

Leap Year platinum added, revisions made to Trophy Milestones after hiding Driveclub. - 03/03/2016

Edited March 3, 2016 by Not_like_therest

[freddie1989]

Nice list so far, keep it up. Just got the 100% on Borderlands last night. For Claptrap just leave him behind the bus and let the drops happen for a few hours and play PS4 instead.

[Boooda]

Solid checklist, I like the milestone and backlog section. Seems we've got the same opinion on xbox lol, I'll never be able to get all the time and money I spent on xbox's back...but such is life

[Not_like_therest]

Solid checklist, I like the milestone and backlog section. Seems we've got the same opinion on xbox lol, I'll never be able to get all the time and money I spent on xbox's back...but such is life

I know, to make matters worse, I played all 3 Rockbands and had over 500 songs downloaded on to my hdd

 

 Thanks by the way freddie and booda

Edited September 29, 2015 by Not_like_therest

[zajac9999]

Nice checklist. I like how you've added a good amount of background about yourself and would agree with you and Boooda about Xbox. You have a few nice plats too.

The colour scheme looks a bit convoluted imo but also I haven't spent too long looking at it. I'm sure it makes more sense to you.

[Boooda]

I know, to make matters worse, I played all 3 Rockbands and had over 500 songs downloaded on to my hdd

 

 Thanks by the way freddie and booda

 

Oh god, me too. I'd repressed those memories until now 

[Not_like_therest]

Nice list so far, keep it up. Just got the 100% on Borderlands last night. For Claptrap just leave him behind the bus and let the drops happen for a few hours and play PS4 instead.

Oh I can't, my tv has 2 hdmi plug ins and 1 is for the dvr/satellite box. 

 

Nice checklist. I like how you've added a good amount of background about yourself and would agree with you and Boooda about Xbox. You have a few nice plats too.

The colour scheme looks a bit convoluted imo but also I haven't spent too long looking at it. I'm sure it makes more sense to you.

 

Lol yea thx, it probably is to the outsider but I know what I mean lol. I'll probably add "Importance" to the red number at some point but it was like 2 or 2:30 am local time last night. And clarification on the difference between desiring how nice the plat would be and how important it actually is in relation to rest of my backlog and my time.

[TwilightSpira]

Congratulations mate, such a great checklist.

Really liked the intro and the amount of rpgs platinum

[Not_like_therest]

Congratulations mate, such a great checklist.

Really liked the intro and the amount of rpgs platinum

Thanks Mah2c, lol yea I got some more in the backlog too 

[Roster13]

Your Introduction is as good as your Trophy Checklist

 

Pretty amazing platinums and achievements you have there ( I'm totally not jealous of your 500th silver trophy )

 

Was Styx : Master of Shadows an easy platinum for you ?Might attempt that soon enough.

[Not_like_therest]

 

Your Introduction is as good as your Trophy Checklist 

 

Pretty amazing platinums and achievements you have there ( I'm totally not jealous of your 500th silver trophy   )

 

Was Styx : Master of Shadows an easy platinum for you ?Might attempt that soon enough.

 

 

It has some frustrating parts but nothing too bad. Just make sure you read .org's guide. And thanks glad you like!

Edited October 2, 2015 by Not_like_therest

[Not_like_therest]

Since I downloaded Gimp and went through the trouble of signing up for imgur because when I attach with the forum mechanic it shows up as incredibly tiny no matter the file size or px....THIS gets a brand spanking new post!!!!! 

 

Gonna try my hand at creating my own signature...gonna be a bit more sophisticated that my banner and that might get edited or changed when I develop some skills.

[Not_like_therest]

Think I'm going to start posting my sigs in the reserved post or even make the jump to create my own art work thread in the studio. Idk, if you return....leave your opinion!