So, I think I’m a little bit of a Borderlands convert. I never really saw the appeal until recently, and my attempts at playing the first game were horrible. I first tried it half a year ago when the chat didn’t work on the PS3, meaing I couldn’t talk to my compatriots!
Now we’re chatting on Skype and I’ve started playing a bit of the second game. I’ve decided that it’s rather good. It’s hardly breaking news, but it turns out that playing games designed for co-op when you can actually talk to people is much better. What a surprise!
The car handling sucks on the console version, though.
Are you ready for this? It’s time to see Crazy_Del’s house of trophies. The central operations base of his gigantic platinum trophy collecting apparatus:
My main Rig is a 42″ 3D TV. Just right underneath the TV are my PS2 and PS1 games. You can see only the PS1 Games, but the PS2 ones are at the back. I have tons more PS2 games but I can’t be bothered going in the loft to find the box that says “PS2 and PS1” along with Sega and Super Nintendo!
My games are not in alphabetical order but they are in order of gaming style. So RPG, HD Trilogy, PS Moves, “Games I haven’t opened”, “Games I am close to Platinum” and finally, at the other photo, are “Games that have Multiplayer” (At the top, next to a Killzone Mask, out of shot). The discs you can see are the games I am currently playing to either complete it or to get a Platinum before moving on to the next one. Finally, the photos of the long game shelf are the ones I intend to keep and have already platinumed, but are worth keeping for some replayabilty if I cannot afford to get a PS4.
My favourite pic is the Gaming Collection Display, and it took me an hour to organise that! Unfortunately it does not stay there, it lives in my Collectibles cabinet and that can be really hard to get a photo as it’s so cluttered!
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- The main view.
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- The collectibles.
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- The heavily guarded collectibles.
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- The “To Do” list.
Unfortunately, Del’s collection is rather large, and he sent me bucket loads of pictures! I’ve had to trim things back to show the main collection, alongside the creepiest collectibles ever… Chucky is scary!
If you’d like to share your gaming set up, please use the submission form below, get in touch with me on Twitter at @teflon, or just send me an email out of the blue to [email protected].
My own gaming has been a little restricted this week, aside from polishing off Dead Island: Riptide with Bunimomike and Ry-Ry (Ryan1991) last week, which certainly finished before we were really ready for it to do so! Ah well.
Phantom5813 finished RAGE this week, although they suffered through a rather disappointing ending, whilst Taylor Made endured his girlfriend playing Journey as she tries to get 100% of the trophies. One would speculate that he didn’t enjoy it so much because he wasn’t the one playing it…
Tactical20 polished off Goldeneye before embarking on the task of recreating London’s South Bank skate park in Skate 3, and Crazy_Del also claims an unusual accomplishment – taking out 3 choppers and a jet with a tank in a single match of Battlefield 3. As if that wasn’t enough, he went on to earn the 99 Laps trophy on WipEout HD! He’ll need to put those thumbs on ice for a while!
Temascos is mopping up the last few trophies on BioShock Infinite this week, as he burns through it on easy. Some way behind him are both Youles and Boonba, who are just starting off their 1999 mode attempts.
R1MJAW has 100% with Lego City Undercover on 3DS, while Matthangzhou thought he had the fastest trophy for Borderlands 2. Sadly he was mistaken, but he takes a lovely platinum, and even has 100% on the DLC.
However, we do have a genuine fastest record with BadBoyBoogie blazing through Army of Two: The Devil’s Cartel in double quick time.
Finally, Germanos finished Persona 4 this week, but on PS2, citing a fantastic experience which he might be tempted to grab on PS Vita when the price drops. However, in his email he posed the following question:
It hit me when I was watching the ending of the game, the credits and listened to the ending music, which was (as expected of a JRPG) some kind of j-pop song, which I normally don’t like, but somehow in game endings they are perfect. Japanese game endings always bring so much emotion out of me, especially JRPGs (Final Fantasy series, Breath of Fire IV, Suikoden, Tales of… etc.), but other games too, like Metal Gear Solid (PSX), Tenchu: Stealth Assassins (PSX) or Ace Combat: Squadron Leader (PS2).
So I wanted to ask: Which game ending you guys enjoyed the most or were “moved by” the most?
We’re nearly done, but you can head over to page two for the full trophy leaderboards. To finish off this page, we have the usual submission form for photos and accomplishments. Don’t hold back!
freezebug2
Phenominal collection Del, better than some stores I’ve been in. Maybe you should re-locate that Duke Nukem bust on the top, it seems to be bending the shelf a tad. :P
Some great achievements gained by people this week well done y’all.
Crazy_Del
Haha thanks freeze.
cam_manutd
I second that. Do like the fact you keep your PS1 games :)
matthangzhou
I also platinumed bioshock infinite this week ;-)
fillip2k
That is an awesome collection of games!
Crazy_Del
Cheers fillip2k
MadJunkBoy
awesome collection Del!
and love the order u have putted ur games in!
maybe i should copy/paste it into my Rig? :P
*checks around shoulders*
Crazy_Del
Can’t help myself for not placing them in alphabetical order. Just the style of game. Makes it easier for me to just wake up and decide to go for a quick game of fighting and I have 8 Fighting games to choose in one shelf xD
Broonba
Nice collection there Del. Those Chuckie’s are excellent….nice and menacing. ;)
Oh, and the Killzone helmet is ace. I take it that came with one of the special edition’s.
Crazy_Del
Yep Special Edition with the game inside the helmet which is still in there actually. Same applies to Halo aswell. I love Chuckie ^^
wonkey-willy
nice collection mate….
but sorry i had to call the alphabet police..cmon man wheres the alphabeticization?
think me and R1M better pop round and put the games into order for you…
btw those chucky dolls are awesome!
Crazy_Del
Haha thanks and no alphabet you’ll mess up my system! =P
Youles
What about putting the “To Do” pile in A-Z, at the very least? ;)
Nice collection Del, now I know where all the trophy earning happens!
Crazy_Del
Tell you what Youles and Wonky I’ll shall make ‘To do list Alphabetical order just for you lads. ;)
The Avenger
MGS3 ending really moved me. So sad that revelation was.
Crazy_Del
Well done to everyone on their accomplishment and also BBB for the fastest Platinum and Matt on Bioshock. I still don’t like what I see in the 1st pic…. so many wires xD
BadBoyBoogie
Nice rig mate, however if the wires really bother you, then you should see the tangled mess behind my TV and amp, and then you’d realise that you have nothing to worry about!!! ;)
cam_manutd
The Spec Ops ending moved me. After it came full circle, I felt like a right b******. For sheer emotion of the other kind, probably Final Fantasy 12.
bunimomike
Del is a shining light to us all. Married and a hardcore gamer as well.
We can have it all, brothers! :-P
Crazy_Del
*Nods in fashionable style*
Plus I’m not the only one here. There are are hardcore gamers here on TSA too ;) and married too! lol
Forrest_01
Yeah, i am in that camp too. Having a forgiving wife (who also likes to dabble in the odd game herself) certainly helps! :)