Platinum, trophies and whether there is meaning in them?

You know, I came up with a start for this blog for a very long time. At first I wanted to make a video. A thorough, long video.But then I realized that I don’t have a good microphone so that you would be pleased to listen to me, and I also, with my knowledge of video editing, just have nothing to do in this environment. And I decided to make a small article about these same trophies/Achivka. So to speak, so that it is easier for me and you did not have to listen to my disgusting voice.

That for each of us the achievement? Not playful, but the most that is the present. Say run a hundred meters in seconds. You could run more slowly, but you want to prove to everyone that you can do it in a short time, because so? And in game achievements the same. Kill the boss for a non -obvious way, find a secret weapon or just an interesting find. All this, in some way, the achievement and the developer for this praises the “dick” in the upper left corner of the screen. The game wants to praise you and it does it the most seemingly simple, but very pleasant way.

Each trophy can bring you to emotional pleasure and you will want to return to this moment again and again. Yes, you can just score these achievements and will not lose anything, but sometimes there is not enough simple passage of the game. You feel that you were not given something to you and therefore trophy/Achivka/achievements come to the rescue (as it is more convenient for anyone)

I will give an example from my experience: I am a big fan of the Mirror’s Edge game and on PS3 I passed it so many times that the fingers of two hands are not enough to count. I liked the process itself and I was delighted by the parkour and the smoothness of the main character. But I understood that in all these passages, I did not have a feeling of completeness. And I decided to sit thoroughly and knock out the platinum in this game. I killed dozens of hours on this (because hardcore), but when I knocked out the platinum, I realized that I was satisfied.I felt that I saw everything in the game and I could calmly part with this universe.

What trophies are

A trophy (since I am a sonboy, we will start from them) there are four types and differ in value and color:

Bronze is the most affordable from the types of trophies and there are usually hanging out the achievements from the section “Kill 100 enemies” or “Make up for the first time”

Silver-here a game can already give some Chelenga and just like that you will not get. Basically, Achivka type “Pass the X Mission” or the TrofiHanther Nightmare – collective Achivka shove here.This nightmare is that you will need to collect a number of things (see.Newspapers, coins, spheres, etc.D.).This is very tedious, and sometimes completely unbearable (hello, infamous)

Gold – we go to the most valuable due to trophies. In the descriptions of these trophies, sometimes the notes of hardcore sound and, basically, they are the only stumbling block. Here, the developers are recouped and mocking us (in a good way) and give an unclean chaleng to our nerves and game skill. Such trophies need a thorough approach and remarkable willpower.Basically, in this type of trophies, tasks such as “Pass the difficulties 悪 夢” or “Pass the game in the 10 hours” shove

If you went through all these trials, then you can safely take the main prize – platinum

Pros/minuses of trophies
No matter how I idolized trophies and their creators, they still have shortcomings. Now I will note their pros and cons of them

As we see from this table (if you can call it that), the disadvantages prevail and they are very significant, since the time-main resource in our life. But in defense of achievements I can say that they are not the main meaning of our game with you. They, rather, as a bonus, which some (including me) are erected to the Absolute.

Different services are a strict achievement

As they say, not PlayStation.As we know, achievements were born, first of all, not on the console from Sony. As far as I recall, this system was invented by Activision in some kind of shaggy year, but we must thank Microsoft with their G-horses. They appeared with the launch of the Xbox 360 in the market and gained any popularity. Later, and PlayStation and Steam service have acquired this function. Now we have more services and each of them can boast of its appearance. And now I propose to pay attention to them.