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I'd say most, even though my backlog is extremely big, but most games in my backlog I haven't even started yet. I'm a patient gamer, if I play a game I almost always complete it (ie get the platinum trophy) and the past 20 years I've collected way more than I've played. Across all platforms.

 

[Sooner]

What! Is this serious?

If so GITT!!!

Thread 'PlayStation Trophy Club'

Dec 16, 2020

For all of you with the same trophy hunting illness as me. What platinum are you currently working on? Post your latest plats here too!

Could also use this thread for boosting or partners for any co-op or multiplayer trophies.

My last plat was Miles Morales. I'm currently working on Immortals (and absolutely loving it) - really just need to wrap up some collectibles and should have the plat.

Here's my current card

And before that guy shows up - I know you think trophies/achievements are lame a waste of time and you never look at them and you...

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Are you on PSNprofiles? I try and platinum lots of my games but have only just crossed the 50 platinum mark.

Only jesting

Would love to get through my backlog and only buy the very best games these days as I do that and try and get the most bang for my buck.

I am OCD when it comes to games. I have, I think, 315 platinums with no nonsense games to pad the list. I tend to feel the need to 100% most Nintendo games as well.

 

[Humdinger]

Interesting. We seem to have a bimodal distribution so far, with the two peaks at "almost all" and "few."

 

[Humdinger]

OP here. I went through my game library (PS4 and PS5) and did a count.

I have completed 57 of the 144 games that I started. That's 40%. As expected, the percentage was higher early on and dropped over time.

 

[TheDreadLord]

In the last 2-3 years I believe I've dropped only AC Shadows.

 

[Pasta la Vista]

I got better about this as I got older, when I was young used be like half. Now id say about 85% of them I do finish. For that other 15% its usually something I will likely never go back to.

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Most of them. Once I start a game I tend to focus and finish. It's pretty rare that I don't carry on, but sometimes I am wrong about liking something and set it aside, but it has to be pretty bad.

 

[Sorcerer]

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[Griffon]

I'm an old gamer and seen thousands of games. In a lot of games you can easily get the gist and predict how it will go, I don't have a need to finish to know how a game will continue to play like. If I don't particularly enjoy where it's going, it's better to skip and go play something that I do enjoy.

Time is more precious than the money spent on a game.

 

[forsakkenSoul]

I'd say most of them. I did the math and around 60% of the games I start with the intention of finishing, I actually do finish. The rest I drop either because I didn't find the game that interesting or because I have other priorities at the time.

 

[PlayStaytion]

When you make your money work for you, magic happens, you know.

 

[Bartski]

I'd say 95% of them. I usually know what I'm doing picking up a game

 

[EverydayBeast]

All games I absolutely finish

Nobody likes a quiter!

 

[Sunraku]

Almost all of them, easily 85% or more

 

[Queso de Grande]

Life has kept me too busy lately to play games, so I will go awhile without playing and drop games too much.

 

[Pimpbaa]

I get sidetracked by other games so easily. Dunno the exact percentage but probably 50 percent. Sometimes I have played through the same game most of the way multiple times but not finishing it. I think I like played through most of cyberpunk 2077 5 or 6 times, but only fully finished it once.

 

[Humdinger]

I read once that only about 10-20% of players finish a game (e.g., that's RDR's percentage). GAF's percentages are much higher than that - about 70% say they complete half or more of the games they play - which I guess is to be expected, given that it's an enthusiast forum.

 

[kiphalfton]

I try and see most games through to completion, even if they're shit.

Probably an OCD thing or something.

 

[foamdino]

I used to be a backlog grower (buy but never finish anything), but I'm much more conscious of what I buy these days. I only buy something I intend to finish and I'll happily stick games on my "big spreadsheet of games to buy" and then wait while I'm finishing off a game before going to the spreadsheet and picking the next game to buy (usually at a big discount).

I do juggle games, but I try to be really good about finishing (rolling credits) before buying anything new - I have 3 big RPGs on the go right now but I'll intersperse these with smaller point-n-click or puzzle games etc as palate cleansers. I also play much slower than others, so games that some people blast through will take me months as I rarely have big chunks of time to myself.

Right now I finish almost all games I start, but ~5 yrs ago that wasn't the case, I've had to thoughtfully change how I approached gaming as a hobby.

 

[calico]

Most. I never have multiple games on the go.

Typically if I do stop it will be because something new came out that I want to play ASAP, in which case there's basically no chance I go back to the game I dropped.

 

[Duchess]

I aim to finish all games that I start. In the main, I hate dropping games. However, this year I've dropped:

Trinity Fusion - this game seemed to have a bug where it never allowed me to get to the end boss / end game section. I tried for a week to do it, and it kept sending me in circles. I even followed guides online, and it never flowed correctly for me. So, I gave up.

Everspace 2 - this one suffered from infuriating difficulty spikes, which made it a chore to play. The story and characters were also extremely dull. There was no fast travel, and the game would often make you have to move from star system to star system, needing to fly between all the jumpgates in between. It got tedious.

 

[naguanatak]

Only a handful.

I have this curse where if I stop playing a game for a couple of days I just lose all interest no matter how much I was enjoying myself.

I can spend an entire weekend playing something for 30 hours only to immediately drop it after not having played two days.

Glad I'm not alone in this. Not only can I lose interest when not playing a game for two or three days, but I get triggered very easily by people talking about or me reading about or watching a game. After finishing Death Stranding 2 I started Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2, which I started two times before, playing roughly 80hours in all, but never finishing it... only to read on GAF about a potential Witcher 3 Switch 2 patch and thougt, hey... both Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3 have cross save functionality, so the potential to finish them is greater, since I can play on PS5 when at home and can continue at work on Switch 2. All is fine...
And then I come across either a Mudrunner or Snowrunner video... I tested these games years ago on gamepass when I had an XBox, but never played much of it. Still, I had fun as I remember, so I see Mudrunner on Switch is only 7.50€, immediately bought it. Having fun, but wondering how much better it looks and feels to play Snowrunner on PS5 when at home, since the Switch 2 and the pro controller do not have analogue triggers, Snowrunner on Dual Sense must be a better experience. I see it is on discount, 20€... so I guess I'm shelving Cyberpunk 2077, play Snowrunner at home and intersperse that witch Witcher 3 when I feel like playing an RPG with dialogue and questing.

so this is me, most of the time. It's gotten better only for the fact that with kids I don't have the budget to buy what I want anymore. But still, there has to be a better way. But I guess I'd have to stop coming here to read on GAF and I have to lower my consumption of youtube content to not get triggered by a little video/trailer about something that might interest me. Then again, I can play a fantasy RPG and be fine... watch a science fiction TV show and feel I have to play something akin to that setting. It might be a curse like you said

 

[Spukc]

Most games these days just fucking never end.
So no i don't finish a lot of games.

Short ones? Sure

 

[RCX]

Most but less than I used to.

I've tried to get better at letting games go over the years. Got too focused on "finishing what I started" in the past and sometimes ended up forcing myself to finish games that, in hindsight, I didn't like that much.

Now I'm happier to give anything a shot but to drop it without any regrets if its not hitting the target.