PSNP Interviews: Dr_Mayus

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Hello and welcome to PSNP Interviews. Today's interviewee is @Dr_Mayus

 

Stock Questions

 

How did you come up with your PSN name + and, is your name a reference to Apes, Simpsons, or an odd ball coincidence?

Figured I would answer both of these questions at the same time. 

 

When I was 16 my family finally got the Internet and I was trying to come up with my Hotmail account name. I was on break at school and was just shooting around ideas with my buddies and one of them started singing the Dr Zaius song but with Dr Maius instead (as it is a combination of Zaius and my last name). 

 

I liked it so much I went home and created [email protected]. You see this was before google was a thing and Ask Jeeves was kind of dog shit so I never thought to search how to spell Zaius and assumed it was spelled with a Y instead of an I...but the name has stuck for 17 years.

 

Also to all you young'uns out there...finding out answers in the past was a lot more difficult that it is now 

 

What games convinced you get your PlayStation 3, Playstation Vita, and PlayStation 4? and Have you ever been tempted to switch over to the Xbox/Nintendo/PC gaming ecosystems?

I am also going to kind of answer both of these at the same time.

 

I didn't get a PS3 until Christmas of 2009 so we were quite a few years into the life cycle by then. Up until then I was a HARDCORE Nintendo fan and owned a PS1 and PS2 because I got them cheap and there were some fun games to play on them.

 

I picked up a PS3 because I really liked the Ratchet and Clank games (more on that later) and I got a deal at Walmart that gave me Killzone 2, Uncharted 1 and inFAMOUS for free with the purchase of a system so I figured "what the hell". I was also able to pick up Bioshock, LittleBigPlanet and Ratchet & Clank Tools of Destruction for cheap.

 

I played around with all the games but I was more into playing Metroid Prime 3 (still one of the best FPS series of all time), Mario Galaxy and Mario Kart on my Wii.

 

In January of 2010 I started working for Playstation so I started getting more and more games to play BUT I was still a bigger Nintendo fan (actually while waiting for my interview to start I was playing Bowser's Inside Story on my DS).

 

Finally it was May of 2010 when Mario Galaxy 2 came out and I was so excited to play it...but I started to realize something was missing. It was still fun but it was exactly like Mario Galaxy 1 but with Yoshi. Modnation Racers came out at around the same time and realized it was like Mario Kart but with all the customizing in it...I then started to realize that while Nintendo games were great they basically never really tried to reinvent themselves. It was basically like Malibu Stacy with a new hat.

 

I then started playing more and more Playstation titles and just realized how deep their library really was and while the Uncharted games might play similar to each other there is a rich story and characters to help hide the "sameness". Mario or Pokemon games are essentially the same story over and over so all you are left with is the game design...which often times feels like DLC instead of a new experience.

 

So have I ever decided to switch to the other systems? Short answer is No.

 

My nephews owned a WiiU and I played most of the big games on that and once again it felt like I was playing the same games I had been playing for years. Still good...but nothing else.

 

Xbox has never impressed me. I never liked their sales practices (you had to buy a battery pack, wifi adapter, hard drive, online etc) and while most of those are now included you still have to buy battery packs which is just stupid in this day and age, the exclusives are too limited for me to "switch" over to them. Also despite the huge sales connected with the Kinect (no pun intended) it was complete shit and never worked properly.

 

I used to enjoy playing some PC games (mostly RTS games) but back when I played PC it was such a hassle to get things to work that I just gave up on it. This was before Steam and other things like that but it really was annoying for a non-hardcore pc gamer to play games back in the day.

 

Finally what games made me want to get a Vita and PS4. Well I got my Vita for free because I worked for Playstation and I actually got it about a month before every one else. Which would explain this (the number 2 spot was the Saskatchewan rep...not sure who the other 2 are but I am sure they worked for Playstation as well). It would also explain why I would constantly get messages from people asking for help on that trophy...even offering to pay me money to do it. It got so bad it was one of the reasons I limit my messages to friends only (sorry to all those people who try to add me now).

 

 

As for the PS4...I was considering not getting one as I really wasn't impressed with what it had to offer. I am not really big on the whole "SHARE" thing and that really seemed like the only new thing Sony was offering this time around. On top of that the amount of ports and rereleases was insane (the Portstation 4) and the underwhelming new games that gave off the same feeling I had with Mario Galaxy 2.

I eventually ended up getting one as there was enough games I wanted to try that were cheap now and games like Dreams, Spider-Man and Ghost of Tsushima were coming out so I picked one up during Black Friday and have enjoyed it since then.

 

What are your top 5 game series and why?

Ratchet & Clank is my favourite game series of all time. The game design is flawless (except for the bullshit Vita ports) the humour is great, the characters and villains are memorable, the weapons are so much fun to use and they are not loaded down with a bunch of bullshit that takes away from the fun. I mean even the Hover Board challenge in R&C 1 is still fun to attempt and doesn't make you regret trying to go for the platinum 

 

Saints Row - I am going to repeat myself a lot in this list but once again The game design is flawless, the humour is great, the characters and villains are memorable, the weapons are so much fun to use and while there are somethings that are kind of bullshit (trying to bounce on 5 cars in a row comes to mind) nothing takes away from the fun experience of the game. Also unlike most other "open world games" it is fun to try and get around the city and makes you want to explore to find weird hidden gems or interact with the awesome side characters.

 

Katamari - These games are just FUN for me. You can pick up and play for 10 minutes...but you will be hooked for hours. The music is top notch and while it is not normal "video game music" it adds to the zany experience of rolling around a city and picking up whatever you can. This is my favourite "time waster" series and I wish a new one would come out.

 

Metroid Prime Trilogy - I put the trilogy here because I have no desire to play that federation force game or the new one coming out but the Trilogy is probably my favourite FPS series of all time. Retro Games did such a great job of taking what makes the 2D Metroid games work and applying it to a 3D world. Exploring never felt like a chore in this game and while there was always lots to do it also gave off the experience of "loneliness' that would come from being isolated on a hostile alien world. I had heard Retro was going to do the same thing with Mega Man and I really wish they had gotten the chance to do that.

 

Persona - This is a bit of a cheat as I have actually only played 4 and 5 but both of those games are so incredible that I really want to play the others in the series. Now barring in mind that I have only played 2 of the games...these games make you care about all the characters in your party to a degree that the choices you make actually reflect how you feel about those characters. I remember the first time I played P4G I made a status update saying "Persona 4...Faffing About the Game" and while I meant that as an insult at the time (as I was doing nothing but going to school, talking to people, going to shops, sleeping etc) I began to realize that was the appeal of the game. The fighting/dungeons were secondary to the in between stuff where you got to know your friends. There are very few RPGs that actually make you care as much as Persona does.

 

What are your top 5 games and why?

In no particular order

 

-Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando - This was my first game ever on PS2 (actually came free with my PS2) and got me hooked on my favourite series of all time. This was a near perfect game with insane weapons, huge bosses, fantastic and funny characters and very tight game controls. Also when I finally did go back and play R&C 1 I noticed how much had been advanced between the two games making this a perfect sequel (takes all the good stuff of the first game and adds to it). Also it began my idolization of a certain green Superhero  

 

-Katamari Forever - I know a lot of people were pissed because "this game just reused a bunch of levels from previous games." Well...sure but it took the best levels and improved on the game control...how was that a bad thing? Also those other games were all on other systems so for a PS3 user they got a chance to play the PSP, PS2 and X360 levels on 1 convenient game. Although FUCK YOU COWBEAR 

 

-Sega Soccer Slam - People who read my status updates know I bring this game up quite a bit. I also said in my FFX review that Blitz Ball should have just been Sega Soccer Slam because then it wouldn't have sucked. I have always preferred the aracdey sports game to the real ones (NBA Jam, Blitz, Basewars etc) but this game was just madness and so much fun. It was 3 on 3 soccer where each team had a special ability that could completely wreck their opponents. The other fun part was as you played it you could earn other players from other teams to help build a super team. I really wish Sega would bring this game back or at least rerelease it 

 

-Earthbound - Also anyone that knows me knows how much I loved this game. I mean one of my most famous sigs/avys was this one. Earthbound is not a very advanced RPG in terms of mechanics (except the wonderful SMAAAAAASH feature that I wish more RPGs would use) but where it succeeded is in the story telling. When I was younger I never really noticed how clever the game really was until I replayed it a couple of years ago and realized just what it was...it is a game about a child's adventure. Whether the evil alien overlord is really trying to take over the world or is this all some adventure that is being created by a young boy's imagination is kind of left a mystery. When you start thinking about it like that then things like a Teddy Bear forcefield, a talking bee, magic pizza, and turning into robots makes a lot more sense. It is a truly heartwarming story that can leave you either laughing or tearing up but enjoying it all the same.

 

-Journey - This game is so good...I don't want to play it a second time...if that makes sense at all. I popped this game in when it first came out and was just going to "try it so I could talk about it with my stores" and I ended up playing 6 hours straight and beating it with tears in my eyes. This is one of the most perfect journeys in gaming (a fitting title for the game) and is truly a marvel that has to be experienced for yourself. I am just afraid that if I replay it I won't have that same experience again.

 

Do you have any other hobbies outside of gaming?

Sure.

 

I love to write and really need to get back into it more. I have a few story ideas I have been playing around with but I have had a hard time concentrating on it for awhile. 

 

I was a film graduate at the University of Manitoba and I specialized in screen writing. I just got out of it a little as all of my friends who were in it with me also got out of it. I made a few short movies and would love to make more.

 

Here is one with my buddy Andrew, which I came up with when I realized that no clock in my mom's house was ever the same time.

 

I enjoy doing improvements to my new house (well it has been 2 years so not really new anymore). I put up a shed and fence, cut down 3 trees, planted my garden (more on that later) and there is still lots to do.

 

I enjoy seeing live music, theater, and going for walks in places I have never been. 

 

I am a huge Board Game player and my group of friends love going to thrift stores to find weird games and try to make them fun. I think one of the funnest games nights we had was for Sweet Valley High...there was no alcohol involved but we have never laughed that hard at any other games night. 

 

I am also a huge movie watcher but as a film graduate/10 years at Blockbuster that is no surprise. Here is a couple of pics of my TV room.

 

 

Top 5 TV shows, Movies, and/or anime, why, and would you recommend them to people?

OK...I can recommend dozens of shows and movies for you to watch. In Treatment, Treme, Six Feet Under, Pulp Fiction, Requiem for a Dream, The Big Lebowski, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, His Girl Friday, M, etc...but the only one I will explain "WHY" is The Wire.

 

This is THE show you need to watch. It is 5 seasons long of one of the most gripping, character driven series of all time. It takes a hard look into the problems of society and asks WHY and then fails to give an answer because maybe there isn't one. It makes you look at yourself and makes you ask  "why are you aiding the problems of the world and why aren't you doing more to fix it". I can't really say anymore about it, just check out the trailer. 

 

The last thing I will say is if you watch the show and think "oh man this is going to be like the Shield, 24 or Breaking Bad"...get out of that mindset right now.

 

 

Top 5 favorite music bands/group/artist?

Sigur Ros, Lumineers, Of Monsters and Men, Tom Waits, Tragically Hip

 

Your favorite platinum?

Well if you go by my standard for the Year End Awards and this is the game I enjoyed Platinuming the most and not necessarily my favourite game...then it is Tales from the Borderlands.

 

Most people know how much I HATED Borderlands so the fact that a game came out that shares its name AND was one of the most enjoyable experiences I have ever had gaming...then TFtB is the only answer to give 

 

Your least favorite platinum?

Is this really any surprise to people that know me. Just read my "plat thoughts" on Fairy Tale Fights

Spoiler

So almost 4 years ago to the day (I miss the 4 year mark by 2 days  ) I earned my first trophy for this game. I saw it on Kijiji for 5$ and looked at the trailer and it looked like a clever little beat 'em up so I decided "what the hell" and picked it up. I beat it for the first time in a couple of days and then decided to wait 2 years to play it again and then waited another 2 years to finish it Why did I finish it? Because I don't let crappy games beat me  . Now let me tell you a Tale of horror 

 

This game is bad, in fact I would go so far as to say this is the worst game I have ever played (at least the worst game on PS3). It has beat out Tony Hawk Ride, Kung Fu Panda 2 and We Dare. Simply put it is BORING, it is repetitive, the trophies are stupid, it is repetitive, the controls are broken and it is repetitive. Allow me to go through the trophies in detail as to fully explain why this game just SUCKS.

 

Difficulty doesn't stack and Awful controls

 

Did I mention this game is repetitive  So this game is probably the most bland game I have ever played. There is only one attack and that is done by pressing the Right Stick in any dirrection. There is no dodge or block button so on the harder difficulties you just get bum-rushed by enemies and have no way of defending yourself. There was a particular spot where there was a river you had to jump, on the other side of the river were two archers who just kept shooting you (there is no reload time) and every time they hit you you would fall in the river. The only way to get past was if you still had a weapon you could try throwing it or to jump far enough that you respawn on the other side. Another spot where there would be 6-8 knights all rushing you with archers in hard to reach spots taking pot-shots at you. All that would happen is you would die and hope that your respawn would stun enemies long enough to get a couple of shots on them (there is no recovery time either so once you get hit you get stuck in a damage loop).

 

The game also plays like you are on a skating rink. It is very hard to walk normally so you end up missing gold and jewels you were trying to pick up or you perform a jump and just slide right off the platform you are standing on. Attacking launches you forward so if you are not careful you will be attacking an enemy and go flying off a cliff or stop attacking him because you have gone to the side and are now attacking a wall.

 

 

So all of that sucks but even if you beat it on Hard you still have to beat it on Easy and Medium...but then you have to also beat it on Easy/Medium/Hard in Co-Op as well. That is 6 playthroughs of this boring game. Also for Co-OP you can play by yourself and just add the second player in at the end so it really just makes you play through each difficulty twice for no reason.

 

Statue Upgrades

 

Fine you have to play through 6 times but at least that will help work towards earning enough money to build the statue...except it doesn't. One I had beat the game 6 times I still had to grind out over 3 million in gold. The best level you can do is Chapter 9 which takes 15 minutes to beat and that only gives you 300,000 gold. So you need to grind that level 10-12 times to earn enough to buy the stupid statue

 

Arena Battles

 

Believe it or not but this game has multiplayer...you need to do 100 arena battles to get the trophy. 100 matches is a lot in good games, now imagine doing that in a piece of shit game . Luckily this is offline multiplayer so it can be boosted quickly with a second controller but that just makes it even more pointless. I've always said make your requirements for multiplayer low. If people like it they will keep playing it and if people don't like it then they aren't pissed off.

 

Pointless Trophies

 

Slide around in blood for 3 minutes (mess up at all and have to start over), Stand still for 15 minutes in the hub world, Randomly receive a trophy from a random wishing well, Drink 1000 potions (this took more than my 6 playthroughs as well) and so many more.

 

Collectables + Checklists

 

So you have to also use one of every weapon (161 in the game), open all chests (close to 400) and get an A in all levels. The thing is you have NO IDEA which ones you have done because it doesn't keep track. It also doesn't keep track which levels you have beaten on what difficulty. The fun thing as well is, if you know it is Chapter 10 you missed a chest on you have to collect every chest again in that level and not just the one you missed. There is also one chest/weapon you have to die in a specific spot to respawn in another part of the world. How you were supposed to figure that out is beyond me.

 

I could keep going with how crap this game is but I am done. I am done playing crappy games for awhile and am glad that this game is finally out of my backlog.

 

STAY AWAY FROM THIS GAME

 

 

If you could have one game from any gaming generation be remade or re-released what would it be?

Sega Soccer Slam...for reasons mentioned above 

 

How far are you willing to go for a platinum?

Well I almost broke my neck trying to get the Tony Hawk: RIDE platinum where I fell off the stupid board and came pretty close to hitting my head on the coffee table.

 

I left my PS3 on for quite a few days grinding out the MK9 plat.

 

I replayed Star Ocean 4 an additional 2 times (around 120 hours of extra gaming) because the trophy guide failed to mention 2 missable quests that I discovered on both playthroughs.

 

Is that enough...do you need more?

 

What feature (besides backwards compatibility) do you think the next console generation should have?

No load times. Honestly I don't care about better graphics or anything like that...just eliminate load times in games.

 

What is your favorite thing about PSNP?

Oh lots of things. The community is good (although most of the people I used to talk to are pretty much gone completely), the forums are easy to use, the site is well laid out. The mods actually seem to care...so yeah a pretty good site 

 

What is your least favorite thing about PSNP?

Fix the damn milestones and let us choose what we want displayed.

 

Is there anyone in the PSNP Community you would like to give a shout out too and if so why?

I don't like these questions because I am bound to forget someone and then that person will get upset and start playing some Simple Plan with the lights off and I will have to have that on my conscious  

 

PSNP Community Questions

 

A genie approaches you and grants you three wishes; one has be used for love (towards friends or family), one has to be used for yourself (self-gain), and the last wish has to be used for the world (something Earth could benefit from). These wishes can be as stupid or as serious as you want them to be, but once they're made, you can't tell anybody you granted them. Telling somebody you were the cause of a certain event will void that wish, therefore you would lose its effects forever (no pressure). What do you wish for? 

But how could I grant a wish for myself and not be able to tell myself about it 

 

-Honestly # 1 and 2 would be to change certain events of the past that destroyed my family and we are still seeing the effects to this day (even yesterday was a particularly bad day because of it). I don't want to go into details but if I could wipe out some of the events of the past  I wouldn't mind the Butterfly effect that came with them.

 

-For #3 I would honestly wish the world would care a little bit more earnestly. One of my pet peeves is the "Facebook Event" where something happens in the world and we all focus on it for a couple of days to get our Likes and our Shares and then the problem still exists but everyone moved on because it is no longer trending. Nothing gets done because we are all so focused on a "problem" but have no real desire to change the cause of the problem.

 

I always notice you're signature with the three green characters on it. They're from quite a wide range of games. What I'm asking is did you pick these characters because they're your absolute favourite characters, or to show that you play a very wide range of game, or am I overthinking it and you just really like the colour green?

I just like these characters. 

 

Actually I had made a Top 10 Green characters list for St. Patrick's Day once and much later I thought it would be funny to make a team out of the outcasts of society where they all wore green  Now I made this list before I had played Persona 4 which is why Chie isn't on it.

There is also a Trinity of Green B Team that never got their own Sig. They are The Prince from Katamari, Tingle from Zelda and Petey from the Mario Series.

 

 

 

Would you rather play Rambo The Videogame start to finish or start your account over again?

Dude...have you seen the shit I have played? 

 

We Dare, Fairy Tale Fights, The Raven, Kung Fu Panda 2, Tony Hawk RIDE and Shred...I don't think Rambo would scare me off 

 

What is your best(or worst) cringe story while at work? (At Eb Games)

Well I only worked for EB Games for a little bit but I have a couple of stories from it that make me sad to be a gamer.

 

1. A guy came lumbering in with stains all over his clothes and stared at me while mumbling. I asked "sorry" and he (a little louder but mumbling) said "do you have shovel knight" I responded with "oh we don't but it looks great, did you see Zero Punctuation's review on it (as Yahtzee had just given a good review for once) the guy stared at me with his big cow eyes and ran out of the store knocking someone out of the way. 

 

The only thing I could figure is my question deviated from his set of answers in his head and he had to get the fuck away from me as fast as he could.

 

2. A 30ish year old man and his mom came to the counter. The guy hadn't shaven in days and once again had stains on his clothes. His mom asked "do you have Warcraft cards" and I responded with "you mean a 30 day membership" and the guy leans over and whispers to his mom something and she responded with "yes, we will take 2".

 

I mean come on, you are the reason there are stereotypes about gamers.

 

3. A guy came in and I was busy so the other employee helped him out (who happened to be female). He just stared at her (well a part of her to be honest) and refused to say anything. Finally she just called my name out and I came over and got him out of the store as fast as possible.

 

People...stop contributing to the stereotype. 

 

Do you like bacon?

Yes

 

What's your most anticipated upcoming release?

Well it isn't upcoming anymore but Spider-Man. I am hoping it goes on sale for Black Friday so I can pick it up  I am also (as mentioned earlier) waiting on Dreams and Ghost of Tsushima.

 

Do you play anything else besides PlayStation?

Not really anymore. If I am over at my nephews I will play X360 or WiiU (they are planning on getting a Switch as well) but I wouldn't buy a new system.

 

Have you ever earned a trophy that you regret?  Perhaps for the way you popped it, or the timing of when you popped it, or for putting a game officially on your backlog that you’d rather not have in your history, or any other reason at all. 

Time for a story of shame and anger 

 

When I started with Playstation, as I mentioned, they gave me a bunch of games. The thing is they didn't give me any multiplayer games so I asked my boss about this because I wanted some stuff to show off in demos. She sent me a copy of Buzz Quiz TV, Buzz Quiz World and Singstar.

 

I played a bit of Singstar and Quiz World at home to try them out but that was about it (like 1 game of each). At the demo we played all the games but since we were at a store showing stuff off I didn't install the games (as that would take time). Also let me remind you I didn't really care about trophies until May of 2010 when I got my platinum for Ratchet and Clank.

 

Well anyways I didn't really play any of those games again but over the summer I started playing Quiz World to get the plat. It was fun but took a long time to do so I had no desire to do Quiz TV as well. Quiz World was actually how I met @dj_helyx and got me started in PS3Trophies.com (which would eventually be how I would end up here).

 

Anyways cut to like a year later and I was going through my games to platinum next and I saw Quiz TV. I remembered how much fun Quiz World was so I popped it in and installed the game data...and all of a sudden trophies started popping. I freaked out and googled it and it turns out that if you played the game before updating and then updated it afterwards it just unlocks like 80% of the trophies.

 

I was right pissed off about it but figured "well what the hell, might as well go for the platinum" so I began grinding for the last 50 wins trophy that didn't unlock and after 50 wins it still didn't unlock...so I kept playing another 50 wins and it still didn't unlock...turns out that if you get the glitch it fucks up the rest of the trophies as well. SO I deleted everything and popped it in again and this time I was able to playthrough and get the 50 wins trophy and all the other misc trophies as well.

 

So in the end I ended up playing around the same amount of games if the glitch didn't happen but all my trophies are fucked on this one  Honestly if this happened today I would just hide the game but if I do that now it would mess up all my milestones. AND if any of you fuckers are thinking of reporting me this technically falls under the OK policy of the dispute thread...but I have always been pissed about this happening as I take pride in my trophies (even the shitty ones).

 

The aura around you screams spy, secret agent, or Illuminati. Are you one?

Well if  I was one I couldn't tell you...could I?

 

I see you've got a good few JRPGs like FF, Persona, Kingdom Hearts, Tales etc. Which is your favourite and why?

As mentioned above Earthbound is my favourite JRPG but I would also throw in the pile, Persona 4 Golden, Final Fantasy 6, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, Crystalis, and Super Mario RPG.

 

In the children's song "Old McDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O." What does the "E-I-E-I-O" stand for?

Eradi Indomina Eleci Incha Odessa

 

Which translates to "Exterminate all the Undesirables."

 

Old McDonald was a complete racist and that song is just full of hate.

 

Are you a real doctor, and do you have the terrible handwriting to prove it?

No I am not a real doctor  but funny enough this guy is . Meet Dr. Marcus Mayus. 

 

 

I do have pretty horrible handwriting though 

 

What do you consider like cheating in trophy hunting ? If you can advise Sony to make new rules around trophies, what would you say them ?

I don't know. I mean I hate Shareplay BUT I will boost out a trophy. I am against save file transfers BUT I have Buzz Quiz TV and Sounds SHapes/Sly Cooper. 

 

Honestly I feel if you did the trophies once before (like Sound Shapes or Sly Cooper) OR the online is so dead that boosting is the only way to get the trophy you are good to go. If you can earn the trophies legit still then do that as oppose to boosting.

 

If Sony could make a rule around trophies it would be to tell developers to NOT put a trophy in the game if it has nothing to do with the game. Things like 10,000 kills in FF9, random drops, playing the game in a way that doesn't make sense and you need a guide to figure it out (Pictionary was full of those) and things like that.

 

How do you choose the next game you want to plat ?

I have different methods depending on what I am doing at the time. 

 

If I am in a contest I am looking at "what can I plat the fastest". If I am in a "get my completion % up" I will just kind of look at what numbers are low and just pick one at random. If I am just in a "finished a long grind...what next" I will pick something nice and easy.

 

I have also thrown games on the ground and picked one at random...all of these work for me 

 

What is the most silly thing you do for a trophy ?

Oh man...I have done lots of stupid things but probably playing Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee like 12 times trying to get the Regrow trophy not to glitch. That game was so horrible that playing it that many times just hoping it doesn't glitch again made it worse. 

 

Then the patch came out and I still played it 3 more times as it still kept glitching.

 

What game gave you the worst experience in trophy hunting ?

Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee, Star Ocean 4, Fairy Tale Fights, Buzz: Quiz TV...for a few 

 

At the contrary, what game gave you a totally better experience that you first thought in terms of trophy hunting ?

Transformers War for Cybertron was probably one of my favourite experiences. I did the online legit and at first I thought it was going to be a grind but I ended up loving the online so much that I really enjoyed getting it all done. It is still probably my favourite online experience in a game.

 

How do you manage your backlog ?

By only buying games after they are on sale and only a couple of times a year. I seriously buy less than 10 games a year now so it is easier to clean up my old games.

 

What would you like to be added on psnprofiles ?

Custom Milestones.

 

What are the games not popular that you loved playing ?

Venetica comes to mind. I only played it because i needed a V platinum and really enjoyed it (despite trashing it pretty early on for the horrible graphics). Seriously it is not the greatest game in the world but it was way more fun than it had any right to be.

 

Some ultra rare plats you loved playing and suggest ?

-Velocity 2x is a must (along with Velocity Ultra which is not Ultra Rare). It is one of the best games I have ever played and I hemmed and hawed about putting it in my Top 5 lists above.

 

-Start the Party! The only reason I can think of this being Ultra Rare is a bunch of people bought this when the Move launched but were mostly families that weren't into trophies. I loved this game and besides Sorcery it is the second best Move game out. I demoed this game so much at stores that I actually did more demos by myself than the entire Central Canadian team combined (something our Team Leader pointed out at the Sales Conference). 

 

-Buzz Quiz World although I think this is unplattable now due to the online. This was just a ton of fun and the fact that you could create your own questions to have your friends play was just an added bonus.

 

-Star Hawk I wish this game was more popular than it was as it was a truly awesome game. One of the last things I tried to do while at Playstation was organize a nationwide contest that would have pitted different EBs from around the country against each other but the bosses never went for the idea (once again this is unplattable due to the online)

 

-LittleBigPlanet Vita and LittleBigPlanet 2. All the LBP games are great but these 2 are in a league of their own. Both are amazing games and I highly recommend both of them.

 

-3D Dot Game Heroes - yes I have mentioned this game at least a hundred times on this website. Please go play it...it is awesome.

 

Have you planned any of your milestones? Which ones?

 

 

If you could achieve a crazy long grinding platinum in one day, which one you'd choose?

Well if you forget the 1 day thing I would really have liked to finish the White Knight Chronicles plat. The guy I was playing with didn't really want to play with other people at first (a tad shy) so the 2 of us tried to do it on our own 

 

But after the awesome success of some of the We Plays on this site I would have loved to plat this alongside some other PSNP users.

 

You're PSNP's resident PhD, right? What's it in?

I am the Doctor of Trophynomics 

 

My sister lives in Vancouver CA. I plan to move there or some other near state/providence since there are very good places to work as a software developer there. What can you tell me about Canadian people? I mean about their culture, the way they see themselves and the foreign people?

We are a very diverse group of individuals that all happen to live in the same country. When you try to define a Canadian you have to take into account all the people that live here and what their cultures bring to our way of life 

 

That being said you better like Hockey or you will be an outcast. This is no joke. When the 2012 hockey strike happened I was running a charity event where we were playing NHL 2012 in the centre court of the mall I liked to frequent. People just wandered by and started sitting and watching people play the game. I realized that they just really missed watching hockey so I started "charging" admission to watch the games with the money going to the Children's Hospital. I brought in over 100$ in admission costs (I just asked people to donate whatever)

 

We spell things with a U so if you neighbour has a colourful sense of humour you better not object, eh.

 

We don't really hate anyone...unless you are from Newfoundland 

 

Saskatchewan is hard to spell but easy to draw. 

 

I live in a place that is -40 in the winter and +40 in the summer so you have to get used to that as well 

 

Did you ever want to be part of the eSports group and play competitively?

No, but what I wanted to do was be a part of the Online Youtube people when that got really big in 2010. I had an idea for a show called Prescription for Perfection (which is what I ended up calling my Trophy Checklist) where I would talk about a certain game and the positives and negatives of going for the platinum.

 

I also wanted to do a show called "It's Not TV, It's my Review" where I talked about HBO shows (as I was a huge HBO fan...you can see in my pics above that I own a lot of HBO shows and even a "It's Not TV, It's HBO" sign I stole from my Blockbuster 

 

But in the end I decided not to do it...one of the many regrets of my life.

 

What genre of games do you refuse to play?

None, like music, movies, books, food, humans etc I don't discriminate on a group more on a particular member in that group.

 

So for example I hate Borderlands but I will still play Open World or FPS games. I hate We Dare but I would still play Game Show games. 

 

How is your garden doing?  (I remember seeing you put a few status updates about clearing it etc.)

All the trees are down but it took so long for the guy to do it I ran out of nice weather. I was able to get the following planted, but next year will be much better 

 

 

You've been around on PSNP a while, is there anything you miss about 'the good old days'?

I mentioned before the people. There are still lots of great people on here, but most of the guys and girls I used to chat with are all gone 

 

You've taken part in quite a few forum events, which has been your favorite and why?

If I had to pick a Top 3 (not including the Year End Awards) it would have to be @Superbuu3's Okami We Play, @Dragon-Archon's Star Ocean 4 Epic Quest and the second to last Plat Rain where I was able to plat 20 games in 1 day.

 

Favourite food?

Pyrizhky 

 

If you had to spend a full day listening non-stop to Lymle or Sarah (the characters from Star Ocean The Last Hope in case you forgot :awesome:) , who would you choose and why?  

 

Are you ever going to give Borderlands 2 a try?

No 

 

What about XCOM Enemy Unknown?

I am getting to it 

 

If you could only save one of the Trinity of Green, who would you choose and why?

You either save them all...or you save none...the trinity can't be split up.

 

Besides I had to save all their stupid asses already...it took me like 700 hours to do (click the link to see the super huge freaking plot twist that no one saw coming)

 

 

What is your favourite Tarantino movie?

Easy answer is Pulp Fiction but I just rewatched Jackie Brown a couple of weeks ago and that movie is largely underrated as a masterpiece.

 

Have you seen Guy Maddin’s “docu-fantasia” My Winnipeg - and if so, what did you think of it?

Do you have to ask?

 

 

Actually not only have I seen it (and own it) but George Toles (who was a co-writer on the movie) was my film teacher in University of Manitoba. 

 

Honestly it is a great film and I recommend it to everyone. The mattresses in the backlanes is a particularly funny part to me as it is so true.

 

If you rate your life from bronze - platinum, what would you give it?

Well I am going to go for  as I have kept to the shadows for too long not really letting myself be known to the world. I need to have more confidence in myself and actually let who I am out 

 

Do you have pets? If so, what pets and what are their names? 

Sadly I am highly allergic to cats so I don't have one at the moment  When I first moved into my house a friend at work gave me a cat she found in her barn (that was starving to death) I took her in for 3 weeks but I just couldn't breathe in my own home. She is living happily with my friend though so don't worry there.

 

Growing up I had (at once) 3 cats (Scampy, Squirty and Tabby), 3 dogs (Chico, Pepper and Denver) and a turtle named Donatello.

 

Do you think Luigi is destined to be under Mario's shadow forever or he will take over the series at some point in the future? If he was secretly plotting revenge against his brother for always being number 2, what do you think he could possibly do?

Luigi knows his place. He is the younger brother that kneels in the shadows but one day he will rise up...to stretch his legs but then continue to kneel in the shadows.

 

Who is your all-time favorite wrestler?  It better be a good one or YOU'RE FAAAAARRRRR!!!

Well hopefully I won't get fired but growing up my favourite wrestler was always Kurt Angle. I know as a Canadian that is the wrong answer but as a kid I really just took to him as he was both funny and a complete bad ass. He could play a great villain as well as a conquering babyface. He really was one of the greatest of all time.

 

Doc, have you ever seen a Mountie?  And are they as funny as everyone says?  And do they ride horses?

I have been present for the changing of the guards in front of Parliament in Ottawa so yes I have seen many Mounties and  some were on horses. They were also in full uniform as well . I don't know how funny they were because it was a ceremony...but I am sure a few are pretty funny.

 

And Thank You @Dr_Mayus for being a interviewee in the PSNP Interviews series.

The next interviewee will be revealed soon. 

 

People who asked questions:

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@ddracarys @breakingthegreen @maiathewinners @JaM @MidnightDragon @DrEvilGuapo @B1rvine @Lava_Yuki @Beyondthegrave07 @DynaVita @GoldenShaka @SpaceCoresDad @Uchiha_Snake__ @Lorajet @Mesopithecus @A-Brawl3r @xFalionx @Dragon-Archon @Raitandrul @DrBloodmoney @Paleblood @Honor_Hand @Leon Castle @grimydawg @PermaFox @Super-Fly Spider-Guy 

 

@Parker or @BlindMango can this be moved to the Member Interviews section of the forum?

Edited October 15, 2018 by soultaker655

[GT__Jedi]

@Dr_Mayus  Loved reading the interview and your answers to all the questions (nice set of questions, too, community!).

 

You caught my eye with the favorite food!  With the holidays coming up, I'm looking forward to enjoying Pyrizhky and Holubtsi. 

[Helyx]

Good read, Doc.

[Rally-Vincent---]

Long interview, but definitely worth the read.The Simpson's Planet of the Apes musical is one of my favorite Simpson's songs, but I never associated your PSN Name with it.

[Divecomb]

Thou'rt the best Dr Mayus arn't thou.

Edited October 16, 2018 by Divecomb

[Feral]

Brilliant interview. Good to learn a bit more about my old mate @Dr_Mayus and definitely not use it to exact revenge for the kidney theft 

[Super-Fly Spider-Guy]

Doctor Mayus, Doctor Mayus.

 

Doctor Mayus, Doctor Mayus!

 

Doctor Mayus, Doctor Mayus, Oooooh, Doctor Mayus.

 

 

Doctor Mayus, Doctor Mayus!

[Keyser Soze]

interesting read on my fellow Winnipegger.

[grimydawg___]

 

If you would have said someone like Hogan or Goldberg, I would have questioned your tastes LOL

Edited October 16, 2018 by grimydawg

[Crispy_Oglop]

This was a great read! Also - @Dr_Mayus - I'm 100% jealous of those Pulp Fiction action figures you have lined up next to the movie poster in one of your shots. The poster itself is one of my all time favourites too.

[Paleblood]

Great read, really interesting answers. I just have one more question:

 

16 hours ago, soultaker655 said:

 

Metroid Prime Trilogy - I put the trilogy here because I have no desire to play that federation force game or the new one coming out but the Trilogy is probably my favourite FPS series of all time.

 

Why? If you love the series why aren't you interested in playing Metroid Prime 4?

Edited October 16, 2018 by Paleblood

[Superbuu3]

OMG thanks for the mention @Dr_Mayus I love you too man. Also glad you got one of these you definitely deserved it. Definitely one of the friendliest regulars on here.

[ddracarys]

On 10/16/2018 at 6:41 AM, soultaker655 said:

But how could I grant a wish for myself and not be able to tell myself about it 

 

-Honestly # 1 and 2 would be to change certain events of the past that destroyed my family and we are still seeing the effects to this day (even yesterday was a particularly bad day because of it). I don't want to go into details but if I could wipe out some of the events of the past  I wouldn't mind the Butterfly effect that came with them.

 

-For #3 I would honestly wish the world would care a little bit more earnestly. One of my pet peeves is the "Facebook Event" where something happens in the world and we all focus on it for a couple of days to get our Likes and our Shares and then the problem still exists but everyone moved on because it is no longer trending. Nothing gets done because we are all so focused on a "problem" but have no real desire to change the cause of the problem.

 

I've finally gotten around to completely reading your interview, @Dr_Mayus, and boy was it really interesting, so thank you for all of the time you took out to answer these questions. Those who are close to you probably expected most of these answers, but considering we don't know each other that well yet, a lot of these definitely surprised me. Although I'm sure you've faced a lot of difficulties throughout your life, especially considering your answer to my question above (which I will get to in a second), it certainly amazes me how much you have accomplished. From the small things like once being a Sony PlayStation employee, to the big things like hosting a charity event at your local mall for the Children's Hospital. Reading through these accomplishments are definitely inspiring, and I appreciate you deciding to share them.

 

As for my question, which was answered awesomely by the way, I mean't you can't tell anybody else about the wish for yourself.  Undoing all of your family's past mishaps is certainly a big wish though. You never know what the butterfly effect of a seemingly perfect life at home could be, and I imagine it would still be a bit discouraging knowing your family wasn't doing so well in a previous reality you lived. Even though you wouldn't be able to tell them, I imagine your family would appreciate your wish. But hey, I'm sorry to hear things at home aren't as well as they could be for you. I guess all I can really say here is, you and your family have survived through all of these past incidents. That's strength. And strength has to count for something.

 

I like your wish for the world too. I'm not on Facebook myself, so I can't relate to seeking likes or shares, but I am still guilty for focusing on something that pops up only because it's trending. I could give you a million excuses as to why I do this, but at the end of the day, there should be no excuse for entirely ignoring a situation just because nobody is talking about it anymore. So, I guess one of your wishes are coming true in a sense. I unfortunately can't send you back in time to fix your family, but I can at least try to be more earnest about everything which comes my way from now on.