thefourfoldroot Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 Recently I joined the site, and upon mentioning it to a friend, he was incredulous that I would find such a thing useful. He likes getting trophies but says, in a needlessly macho (childish) fashion, that a trophy guide makes a trophy worthless. That they should be earned alone. I get his point, a "collect everything" trophy achieved by following a guide is meaningless, but then so are all trophies. My only rule is that nobody gets to contribute to a trophy for me. I've heard of people letting their kids or friends grind away on their account, but mine is locked. I want to know that my hands earned the trophy for some reason, even if I used a guide. But there's no right way of course, so I was wondering how others chose to earn their trophies and if there are common rules to which people here hold true. Have you relaxed in ways over the years? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dr_Mayus Posted June 29, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2018 I personally make a mark on my body for every trophy earned 36 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ddracarys Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 (edited) I've never really had any rules for myself in terms of trophies, because that just sounds like it makes things longer and more annoying. After I've enjoyed a game enough to start trophy hunting, I usually try to get the trophy list done as fast as possible. Therefore I utilize guides, get help from siblings / friends, exercise any beneficial glitch, and so on. I don't see a point in having filters here to be honest, but I'm not saying you're wrong for doing so. I understand other trophy hunters only feel fulfilled with their trophies if they have earned the trophy fairly themselves, which is completely okay. Edited June 29, 2018 by ddracarys 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfamousKing27 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 I earn plenty of trophies using guides. Before I start a game I see if it has any missable. If it dont then I play the game till I am satisfied and then I use a guide to help 100 percent the game. I have small children and if they want to play a game on the ps3 I let them and once they are done I will just go ahead and mind numb out the plat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raitandrul Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 My only rule is to turn off trophy notifications so I can enjoy a game for the first time. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sepheroithisgod Posted June 29, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2018 My only rule is to steer clear of trophy stacks. It's fine to earn the same plat twice, but trophy stacks have inflated some trophy counts way too much. I really wish there was a separate leaderboard with no trophy stacking games allowed. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Kittens Are Awesome Posted June 29, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2018 My only rule is that my penis must be draped over my controller at the time of earning said trophy. If it's the vita, the console must be resting on top of my scrotum. Simple rule, I'd say. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Property_Damage Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 Rules? there are no rules all is fair in love and war ...except hacking 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiCBZ Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 I just pay attention to the milestones, nothing more than that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XjaegerbombX Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 I go like this: AAA-Indie-Easy-Easy-AAA-Indie-Easy-Easy-etcetc. I don't believe in stacks tho. I feel like playing it once is enough, PS3 should count also but only sometimes (no vita -- too many timestamp hackers). I think someone platinuming a game 15x is riduclous which I've seen before (PS4, PS3, Vita, EU, AS, UK, etc) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ProfBambam55 Posted June 29, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 29, 2018 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Phil said: My only rule is that my penis must be draped over my controller at the time of earning said trophy. If it's the vita, the console must be resting on top of my scrotum. Simple rule, I'd say. mine is not too far off this...i have 4 magnifying glasses next to me as I game...if I earn a common trophy, I use the x 2 strength one...rare, x 5...very rare, x 10...and ultra rare x 50...if it's an ultra rare platinum, out comes the microscope and I'll take a 2-minute "break"...then, I'll log onto this site, update my profile asap, and flag everyone above me on the fastest achievers list...pretty simple as well... Edited June 29, 2018 by ProfBambam55 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bezenko Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 I think using guides is fine, even boosting and glitches/exploits as long as you meet the criteria using in-game mechanics. Only rule is that I earn the trophy, having someone else do it for you completely defeats the purpose of trophies on the same level as saves/hacking. I’ll rather load up an unobtainable than having someone else earning my trophies. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil_Joker88 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 On ps3 i played games that looked interesting. I didn't think about trophies for nearly 3 years. After that i looked at trophy guides for my 2nd or 3rd walkthrough. Nowadays i look at guides before playing if i know a game isn't good (Orc Slayer i.e.)... I use shortcuts like glitches, boosting online trophies and afk grinding with a turbo controller. But i haven't asked and/or paid someone to unlock trophies for me without me. Example in RDR Advanced Coop Missions i wasn't very helpful but still involved killing a few enemies. I'm glad i cannot use shareplay or else i'd probably ask people helping me more and more... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tekyumeeee Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 I steered away from playing games just because they had easy trophies a long time ago. No way I'll play one of those $1 "watch all the trophies pop in like a few minutes" games. Also don't like the idea of auto-popping trophies like with Sound Shapes, but I already did that once with that Sly Cooper game and wouldn't do it again just because it feels so cheap. Other than that, I dunno, as long as I'm not cheating to the point where it's something that would get me kicked off the leaderboards here, I don't care too much how exactly I earn a trophy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saionji Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 37 minutes ago, Bezenko said: Only rule is that I earn the trophy, having someone else do it for you completely defeats the purpose of trophies on the same level as saves/hacking. I’ll rather load up an unobtainable than having someone else earning my trophies. This^ and no stacks, no offense to people who loves going for stacks and doing those Sound Shapes 6 times etc but it really looks stupid. I like watching other poeple trophy profiles but whenever I see 200+ plats and easy plats stacked everywhere it feels like a waste of time scrooling through those. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stardroid Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 Never buy games for the sake of trophies in themselves. Talking about useless crap like My Name is Mayo. Cheap, sure, but for me still not worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlchemistWer Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 Seld-imposed trophy rules... I never saw it coming ? 1 minute ago, Mami Tomoe said: and no stacks, no offense to people who loves going for stacks And what about stack long or hard games? I did it with Persona Golden and believe me, I would like stack another great games like P5 or .Hack G.U ? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gisquared09 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 My rule for trophies is to play the game first before I start going for the platinum, even if it means I have to play a game twice or more. I'd rather enjoy my first time experience than worry about missing trophies or having to do specific actions. My only exception to that rule is if the trophies have a hardest difficulty trophy. In that case I will play the game on the hardest difficulty. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoDBoss173 Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 1. No stacks, no matter how great the game is. 2. No bought trophies ("games" like mayo, nubla,...). I would rather kill myself/stop gaming than "playing" such games ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saionji Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 8 minutes ago, AlchemistWer said: Seld-imposed trophy rules... I never saw it coming And what about stack long or hard games? If you like plating it twice then by all means do it but seeing the same game image several times on a profile looks kinda boring at least for me 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meachamp- Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 No rules, not limiting myself to what I can and can not do. I think people read too much into it, it's not like other people are bothered about any other profile than their own so people should just do whatever keeps them most entertained. If they want to set themselves rules that's absolutely cool but I'm not going out of my way to impress anyone so. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefourfoldroot Posted June 29, 2018 Author Share Posted June 29, 2018 25 minutes ago, Starlove- said: Never buy games for the sake of trophies in themselves. Talking about useless crap like My Name is Mayo. Cheap, sure, but for me still not worth it. LOL, yeah I regret that one! Never before and never again. Just feels cheap. But still, I like seeing numbers go up lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_Bobs_Beeper Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 I see a game that looks interesting and I'll check out a guide to see how different some trophies are and to see which ones I can earn while having fun. I'll play the game and earn what trophies I want and that I'm capable of obtaining, then move on. I don't really care for completion percentages or anything like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamer-Girl-Noire Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 I avoid trophy guides on my first time through the game to just enjoy it and see if I want to play it more after the first time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeastMcMercenary Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 My rules for trophy hunting -Dont buy games just for easy trophies (unless on sale) -Forget about trophies to enjoy the game first playthrough -Actually have fun with it and challenge/compete against yourself only Wouldn't really call it rules but thats just my trophy hunting routine. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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