Good day. My identify is Stephen Tailby, and I’m fantastic, thanks.
Welcome to a brand new characteristic on Push Sq., during which I recount each recreation I’ve platinumed. It is a verb now, alright? “You gonna platinum Balatro, mate?*” It is a verb, and it is all good. We have to make peace with this now, as a result of it is gonna make issues simpler in the long term.
I’ve platinumed dozens of video games throughout PS5 and PS4, and I am unable to work out if I am pleased about that or not. I believe it modifications from time to time; there have been durations during which I’ve gone severely out of my strategy to obtain a platinum Trophy, and others the place I do not give the rattling issues a second thought.
This characteristic will enable me to mirror on each recreation I’ve cared to platinum, and I’ve but to work out if that is price doing, or entertaining in any method.
On the very least, it may be enjoyable, and the potential for enjoyable is what all of us purchase into once we take an opportunity on a brand new recreation, proper? Am I likening this characteristic to a online game? In a way. Each are doubtlessly enjoyable.
Anyway, this is the primary situation of Going Platinum. When you prefer it, please let me know, and for those who do not, effectively, I imply you may let me know as effectively, however simply be good about it.
*The reply isn’t any.
Platinum Trophy #1: Rocket League
Date Earned: eleventh November 2015
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For the longest time — by which I suppose I imply the seven years between their introduction and me incomes this platinum — I did not give one solitary honk about Trophies.
Making their debut in 2008 on PS3, on the time I most likely thought they had been kinda dumb, and let’s be sincere, they’re.
I imply, they’re enjoyable to gather, however their sole function is to maintain you taking part in, and to maintain you taking part in on PlayStation particularly.
When you take a look at it that method, all you are actually doing by accumulating Trophies is preserving Hermen Hulst pleased. He needs person retention to go up, similar to all the opposite numbers on his fancy charts.
He and all these massive execs on the high, quaffing champagne from Trophy-shaped chalices and laughing as you earnestly try Fall Guys’ ‘Infallible’ Trophy for the 286th time. That is it, hold taking part in, they assume, a light Harmony standee wilted within the nook.
Sorry. What I used to be attempting to say is that I did not care about accumulating Trophies one bit — till I received my first metallic style of a platinum. Rocket League was my very first, and what a blast it was to get it.
I believe an necessary motive why I look again on this platinum Trophy so fondly is as a result of I wasn’t actually attempting to get it. I simply loved taking part in the sport a lot that I received 99% of the bottom Trophy set from pure, pure enjoyable.
I performed that dumb soc-car recreation alone, with pals, for 10 minutes or three hours, slowly getting higher however by no means making it greater than only a pastime. I do assume there was a second once I realised how shut I used to be to the platinum, and thought it might be cool to get it for this recreation I am having fun with a lot, however that is about so far as it went.
That is my favorite kind of platinum, and it is one thing I am going to most likely say many occasions as these go on — ones unlocked by means of a sheer love of the sport, no matter it’s.
Rocket League has modified so much since I used to be actively taking part in, however I’ve little question that I might have a great time with it if I booted it up proper now.
Cheers, Rocket League.
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