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What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 03:07:18 Reply

Am I missing something here? Why is this trophy system thing for the ps3 the biggest thing to happen since the clubbed baby seal? Maybe it's only a minority of owners who care about it but it seems like trophies are getting more hyped than the games themselves. And now people are saying they're going to not buy games like Resistence 2 because they've said they're not giving trophies? wtf. Could someone explain to me why the XMB isn't the only major change in the psn for 2.4

I guess this might not apply so much to me since I basically play my ps3... to play the game... not really compete.


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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 03:39:54 Reply

It makes PS3 look more like 360

Which will never happen

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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 04:10:10 Reply

It's a pointless feature, that would only be worthwhile if they'd had it since launch

You know, like the 360

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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 04:15:19 Reply

This is the same question that was asked three years ago when the Xbox 360 came out. Some people like these virtual points, others don't give a shit.


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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 04:26:26 Reply

At 7/3/08 04:15 AM, DirtySyko wrote: This is the same question that was asked three years ago when the Xbox 360 came out. Some people like these virtual points, others don't give a shit.

But Microsoft actually did it right. Sony could have had it at launch, but they didn't think they needed it. But now they suddenly decide they need it, so they are implementing it and doing a horrible job at it. I can understand giving developers a choice, but that will just alienate certain games because people who do give a shit about it won't feel as obligated to purchase the games not containing the trophies because they are stat whores.


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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 04:31:53 Reply

Its suppose to "enchance" replay value.

Like Achievements but you don't get a gamerpic.


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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 04:45:36 Reply

I like how PS3 fanboys like to say that achievements and gamerscore are pointless,boring and stupid yet are so excited about trophies.

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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 04:58:30 Reply

At 7/3/08 04:45 AM, Jaketheclonetrooper wrote: I like how PS3 fanboys like to say that achievements and gamerscore are pointless,boring and stupid yet are so excited about trophies.

Yeah, it seems like when the Xbox 360 has a feature that the PS3 doesn't have, they say "lulz, its ovarrated noobz" and when that feature comes to the PS3, they say "ALL GAMEZ ON TEH PS3 NEED THIS NOW". I think that maybe MS will try to give the Xbox 360 some internet shit, you know, go on NG on your 360 soon, then I can't wait to see what those PS3 fanboys say. They got achievements now, stop bitching.


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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 06:34:22 Reply

Rofl,
At my school all the Ps3 fanboys try to find everything they can to say PS3 is the best.
When really most of them are just saying it because they bought a PS3 instead of a 360.
They were all like "Yeah well the new trophy system they have will make it better!"

Personally I don't mind PS3's. I don't join in with the whole Console Wars thing.
Trophy System sounds good....But do you earn anything with them?
Just wondering :)

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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 08:36:34 Reply

its all stupid...

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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 09:42:33 Reply

Achievement Points = E-Penis size.
Trophies = E-Penis size.

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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 09:45:54 Reply

Personally I don't mind PS3's. I don't join in with the whole Console Wars thing.
Trophy System sounds good....But do you earn anything with them?
Just wondering :)

Sadly, there are no trophies at the moment, except for in stardust, and who plays that?


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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 09:49:47 Reply

At 7/3/08 09:45 AM, suicidalnene wrote:
Personally I don't mind PS3's. I don't join in with the whole Console Wars thing.
Trophy System sounds good....But do you earn anything with them?
Just wondering :)
Sadly, there are no trophies at the moment, except for in stardust, and who plays that?

I do........


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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 09:53:15 Reply

Sadly, there are no trophies at the moment, except for in stardust, and who plays that?

I do........

oooo awkward...
oh well when home comes out xbox 360 will tremble


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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 10:13:48 Reply

At 7/3/08 04:45 AM, Jaketheclonetrooper wrote: I like how PS3 fanboys like to say that achievements and gamerscore are pointless,boring and stupid yet are so excited about trophies.

Hurf durf, let's generalize a whole group because of a few.

Fuck off.


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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 10:15:32 Reply

At 7/3/08 10:13 AM, TehreTard wrote:
At 7/3/08 04:45 AM, Jaketheclonetrooper wrote: I like how PS3 fanboys like to say that achievements and gamerscore are pointless,boring and stupid yet are so excited about trophies.
Hurf durf, let's generalize a whole group because of a few.

Fuck off.

You're a pussy


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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 11:09:48 Reply

At 7/3/08 08:21 AM, Xtesh wrote: As a 360 owner, I think that Achievements were and still are a shitty thing.

As a PS3 owner, I have almost the same opinion about trophies. The only difference is that, unlike Achievements, you can actually use trophies.

Ahh you can actually use trophies?Please tell me how you can use a virtual trophy to do anything for your life? Can you feed your family with your unlocked trophies?


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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 11:17:45 Reply

Sadly, there are no trophies at the moment, except for in stardust, and who plays that?

I THINK Johnny Utah....

oooo awkward...
oh well when home comes out xbox 360 will tremble

That Idea has Flaws....dont you think that people could spend an AGE on that....its a very good idea....but it just seems to just get a foot-up on XBox 360......

Which it Will....


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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 11:24:01 Reply

Agreed. All sony have done is give Xbox fanboys a reason to bitch about being copied.
I get the feeling that if there was no PS2, there wouldn't have been an Xbox, so I think Microsoft are bigger copies. But whatever.

I want rid of the trophies though. They make people say 'Stand still so I can headshot you' and stuff.


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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 13:49:24 Reply


I want rid of the trophies though. They make people say 'Stand still so I can headshot you' and stuff.

lol those people aren't gammers. Trophies are interesting but I wont center my whole gamming experience on trying to get them all.

I only hope games start patching them soon because right now its just sitting on my XMB taking up space :P

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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 13:53:14 Reply

At 7/3/08 04:07 AM, KevnSevn wrote: it makes ps3 owners feel like they have acomplished somthing..... Because they were jealous of the 360

If you had said PS3 "fanboys", then that would have been fine, but you had to go and bring in every single person that owns a PS3, and assume that they are jealous of the 360's features, which is far from true.

Like TehreTard said, don't generalise an entire group of people simply because some of them are being fanboy dicks.


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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 13:54:30 Reply

Oh well this thread is going places...

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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 14:14:58 Reply

I like the achievement system on the 360. It gives you something to work for outside of just beating the game giving some games replay value and others more play value then originally intended.

GTA IV is a decent example... some of the achivements are to flip a car 5 times in one wreck or blow up 10 cars in 10 seconds. These are things that wouldn't normally be done in the game but 360 players do them anyways just for the achivement credit. It gives you something to do besides simply beat the game.

Other achievements mark that you not only beat the game, but how well you did. Like there are achivements in Dead Rising for saving x amout of people. So it's worth replaying the game to try to save all 50... giving a game I wouldn't have normally replayed, replay value.

And some of them actually incourrage peple to play online at an attempt to keep the community alive. It doesn't work very well, but it does work.

I think you'll find you enjoy the trophy system more then you think. Especially when you start seeing that "Trophy Earned" message pop up on the screen after doing something difficult.


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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 15:12:58 Reply

Maybe a mod should consider locking this, since it's probably only going to be encouraging fanboyism


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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 15:35:34 Reply

Unless you can buy games and stuff with the points, it's worthless, so why bother wasting time at SONY making new software for a console that costs more to make than the cost for us to buy. They are just expanding too quickly.


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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 15:40:52 Reply

It kinda makes people want to replay the game differntly instead of just shooting someone and gameover.


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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 16:11:12 Reply

At 7/3/08 10:15 AM, MojoFilter wrote:
At 7/3/08 10:13 AM, TehreTard wrote:
At 7/3/08 04:45 AM, Jaketheclonetrooper wrote: I like how PS3 fanboys like to say that achievements and gamerscore are pointless,boring and stupid yet are so excited about trophies.
Hurf durf, let's generalize a whole group because of a few.

Fuck off.
You're a pussy

You're a faggot.


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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 16:18:37 Reply

At 7/3/08 03:39 AM, macio wrote: It makes PS3 look more like 360
Which will never happen

Thank god too. Because i never want my PS3 to suck that bad.

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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 16:28:26 Reply

At 7/3/08 04:11 PM, TehreTard wrote:
At 7/3/08 10:15 AM, MojoFilter wrote:
At 7/3/08 10:13 AM, TehreTard wrote:
At 7/3/08 04:45 AM, Jaketheclonetrooper wrote: I like how PS3 fanboys like to say that achievements and gamerscore are pointless,boring and stupid yet are so excited about trophies.
Hurf durf, let's generalize a whole group because of a few.

Fuck off.
You're a pussy
You're a faggot.

Cry about it a little more. Once you let it all out, you'll feel a whole lot better


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Response to What's The Big Deal About Trophies? 2008-07-03 23:26:44 Reply

At 7/3/08 04:28 PM, MojoFilter wrote:
At 7/3/08 04:11 PM, TehreTard wrote:
At 7/3/08 10:15 AM, MojoFilter wrote:
At 7/3/08 10:13 AM, TehreTard wrote:
At 7/3/08 04:45 AM, Jaketheclonetrooper wrote: I like how PS3 fanboys like to say that achievements and gamerscore are pointless,boring and stupid yet are so excited about trophies.
Hurf durf, let's generalize a whole group because of a few.

Fuck off.
You're a pussy
You're a faggot.
Cry about it a little more. Once you let it all out, you'll feel a whole lot better

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