I hope everyone got some good schwag from all those sales we’ve had over the last week. I ended up buying about 20 different colours of Kindle Fire HD cases, and I don’t even have a Kindle Fire HD!
What did you all buy? I’ve no doubt one or two of you grabbed a game on the cheap.
Anyway, it’s Chronicle time.
This week’s gaming set up was sent in by Forrest, one of our stalwarts of the community, creating a seemingly neverending stream of meets for you all to join! I’ll hand over to him to describe in fewer than a thousand words what you’re seeing in the pictures that follow:
So this is my pretty much standarder than standard set up – The bare essentials are there of course, being my beloved PS3, a TV to plug it into & an internet connection so that I can continue to put meets up for people to ignore!
It does what I need it to though, and sits in a room that is almost entirely dedicated to gaming, (my fortress of solitude if you will) so I am happy with it. Well, apart from the spaghetti junction that now exists behind the TV since the Virgin man came to install the HD box. They apparently do not make them anymore, but will still give you one for free if you subscribe to their TiVo service. Not sure how that works to be honest!
The HD box does get a bit of use when me and the missus are being a bit lazy and can’t be bothered to venture outside of the games room. Of course it gets nowhere near as much use as the TiVo downstairs, which is generally under the command of the wife. She loves that thing and I think if it could do DIY, I would be out on my ear! Underneath the HD box, you have the multi-region DVD player, which is required for some of the more obscure DVD choices I have in my collection.
I have gathered a couple of peripherals into the picture for good measure too, for no real reason other than to make it look a little more impressive than it does!
Then we come to the games – As you can see, I am not really short on choice right now. The horizontal picture is the whole shebang, whilst the vertical one is just the Pile of ShameTM. That’s right, I have not completed a single one of those games in the vertical picture. How dedicated am I?
About as dedicated as I am. There’s always something newer and shinier to start playing and stop half way through!
It kicked off a little bit this week as The Walking Dead’s fifth episode was released. Hidden underneath all the praise was a tense battle to be the first to get the Platinum trophy! First to claim their stamp was element666, but moments later McProley came along to report his own slightly faster finish. But that wasn’t the end of the matter, as BlackRedYellow had got to the teary ending just a little bit sooner. It feels like this one came down to who was able to download it quicker!
A similar mini-kerfuffle sprang up around Assassin’s Creed 3, where McProley laid down the marker first, but it was beaten by Samiro05 just a little bit later. Clearly it’s not McProley’s week! Samiro05, though, also set a blazingly fast record for Hitman: Absolution. I don’t we’ll see that one being overturned.
The last of the fastest actually came earliest in the week. Figure that one out. It was R1MJAW rounding out his LittleBigPlanet Karting Platinum first.
Nice, but it’s not all about the trophies fastest, but just about playing the games themselves! So when people are going back and playing older titles that’s lovely, as Blast71 has been doing with Kane & Lynch 2 Dog Days, finishing it off this week. Similarly for theberzerka, finishing off the last few trophies on Sleeping Dogs.
When Crazy_Del’s about it’s very much a case of “lock up your daughters… and trophies too. Actually, mainly your trophies.” He’s a lean mean trophy hunting machine, and this week he’s been closing down the last few Need for Speed: Most Wanted trophies, hit level 50 on Crysis 2 multiplayer (maybe nabbing the Platinum at the same time?), and nearly finished Hell Yeah!
Oh, and apparently he gave Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed a “quick” go… He’s half way through the World Tour mode!
That’s almost your lot for this week. You can head over to page two for the Fastest Platinums leaderboards, but to finish off this page, we have the usual submission form for photos and accomplishments. Don’t be shy about it!
Motalla
Well, well, you think you know somebody. With that many trophies on your profile, I kind of guessed you platinum ever game you get your hands on. But now I’ve seen your pile, I not that ashamed anymore of my own, that’s quiet a relief.
Forrest_01
I would like to think that i could platinum any game i play, but that is simply not the case i am afraid – Some games test my skills as an older gamer a little too much or are too much of a grind becoming a bore/chore, some games require additional things that i am just not prepared to buy & some things just don’t have the draw to keep me coming back in order to see it through to the end.
I do like earning platinums, but i will only go for them if i am enjoying the game exceptionally (such as with Borderlands 2) or if i complete the game & it is somewhere in reach. There are a couple there that will never be played through to platinum.
I may be getting close to a couple in the next few meets /gaming sessions though! :)
RudeAwakening
Thats some great collection of games there Forrest.
Am i the only one that trades in his games once there finished? I have only two games in my collection, wouldn’t even call it a collection! :)
Forrest_01
I do trade, believe it or not. The only issue at the moment is that none of those games pictured are ready for trade as yet (i.e. are not complete, or i am not done with them for one reason or another).
I may make some hard decisions soon on what i am & am not playing though & just get rid of some that are doing nothing more than bulking out the collection.
According to my ‘spreadsheet of wisdom’, i have traded 118 games this gen alone! :O
Crazy_Del
That collection is pretty much what I have xD
(I really should post mine in…..)
Thanks for the mention again Tef and now I know why you tweeted me on NFS: Most Wanted and Crysis 2.
Well…… just recently a few hours ago I wanted to surprise everyone with a double Platinum…… its actually both NFS: Most Wanted got the PS3 version Platinum. Sadly still behind on Vita (Only need online and billboards)
And yes I have finally reached Crysis 2 level 50 multiplayer but one bloody online trophy is glitched…… so a Platinum may be out of reach, but I’ll google it to find a way to get that silly broken frigging bronze trophy!
Forrest_01
It’s pretty much what you have as i have the tendency to buy similar games to you… Only about 2 years later, when no-one is playing them anymore! :D
RudeAwakening
Which trophy is it Crazy_Del? Reason im asking is because i unable to get the “go online after 6 months” trophy, it was glitched but crytek eventually fixed it as i got it over a year later!
XisTG
Wait, you mean you didn’t complete as in “Platinum” or you didn’t even saw the ending?
Either way, that’s a small fortune invested in there, be sure not to waste it! ;)
Forrest_01
Ok, there is a ‘system’ in play & it is as follows;
The games in the vertical picture i have played, but have not yet completed (this needs to be rectified pretty soon for some things).
The games to the very left of the horizontal picture have been completed, but trophies still remain for the platinum. Some i will go for (Dirt Showdown for example), some i will most likely not (Dirt 3 – Damn you bloody beat the bobsled trophy!).
Any games that i have platinumed would not be pictured (as i have a ‘ready for trade’ shelf out of shot!).
XisTG
If I was your friend IRL, I would never buy a game and just borrow your’s :P
Forrest_01
… & you would be most welcome to! I mean, it’s not like i am playing them, right? :D
Forrest_01
So to everyone else that has commented (as whilst it would be nice to thank you all individually, i would monopolise this article somewhat!), thanks for the votes of confidence, both in the purchases i have made & the fact that i am not the only one out there that gets distracted by the next ‘shiny thing’! :)
Fact is that my setup is not exactly impressive, but the amount of joy i get from it certainly is. That alone makes it worthwhile to me.
The meets haven’t exactly helped me get through my backlog to be fair, but i actually wouldn’t give those up for the world, as i have met some fabulous people & we always have a great laugh, so i will continue to run & attend meets for as long as there are games released that we all enjoy.