My Mistakes as A Beginner Trophy Hunter | Trophy Discussion

In this video I am sharing 5 beginner mistakes I personally made when I was starting as a PlayStation Platinum Trophy hunter about a year ago.

It was quite a walk down the memory lane to make this video, as I had to analyze my trophy list, find the mistakes I made and try to understand why it happened and how you can prevent it on your trophy list.

Time stamps for the video:

00:00 - Intro
00:11 - My Mistake #1
01:18 - My Mistake #2
01:52 - My Mistake #3
02:33 - My Mistake #4
03:16 - My Mistake #5
04:22 - Outro

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[IliyaKunin]

What mistakes did you make when you were first starting out? Let me know, I am curious :)

[prodomango]

Caring and thinking about stats is when trophy hunting goes wrong lol

[obenohnebohne]

To be honest: I don’t mind the mistakes I made. They are part of my trophy hunter journey. Yes, I will never have a 100% completion rate (not even near that) but I am proud. I hate managing multiple accounts, so I stick with my one and only account. It gives me a great sense of accomplishment. It is like a diary with all my flaws and successes. My motivation is to play as many different games to experience things I have not experienced before.
Biggest regret is to not play the Uncharted 2 and The Last Of Us Multiplayer (both PS3 versions).

[jerisbistro]

I think the one account with not much completionist is okay. The satisfaction comes from looking at your account and it shows the journey you have through the years

[gameplays_from_hdd]

I’ve just realised that I should get platinums only in games I enjoy. Some platinums are literally waste of time for me. I have to remember that my time is a piece of my life and I shouldn’t waste it for some garbage games I don’t enjoy.

[VoltaTom]

Your #5 hits home. Recently I felt I was playing games for the wrong reasons, just wasting time and money. Need to find a balance.

[slippingjimy]

Don't sweat on it, we all have a similar problem with unfinished games, especially on PS3. I actually see it as postive to have unobtainable plats on my account. Stops me from being obsessed with 100%, which I rather not have those chains and just enjoy my games. That 100 percent obsession is silly, gaming should never been turned into a job which it feels like it is for some people.

[tbhreviews]

I think it’s pretty silly to care about having 100 completion on every game whenever I look at my friends trophy lists I just like to see what games they really loved usually those are the games they have a platinum in and I find it funny when they almost 0 completion in a game lol

[skyeadamson]

I pretty much made every single mistake you made. Got a good 30 or so plats underneath my belt, some I was really proud of. But I was haunted by games like Fifa 17 and Steep that I just knew I would never get (and also didn't want to, accidently played them when I was trying out PS Now).

Started fresh about a month ago, using my old account as a blank account. On this one, I want 100% completion with 100 platinums - 13 down so far!

[Mort]

Biggest mistake I ever made was completing a game I actively despised all because I wanted to see how bad it got. If you're miserable completing a game, it's not worth completing, I learned this when I got the platinum for devil may cry 2

[orlyrubio]

My tip is to set boundaries, some games have achievements/trophy that are unobtainable because of online. So I usually just tell myself to not do those if their impossible to get or just takes a bunch of your time. Especially if it's a game I really want to play but I know I can't 100% so I just put boundaries to myself that not doing the online achievements are enough so I don't stress out when I see a missing online achievement. Simply just enjoy the game and don't stress out on missing achievements that you know are impossible impossible get, if you want to play it and it has an impossible trophy then don't stress the impossible trophy. Just think like it doesn't exist.

[BlueBlurCP]

My biggest regret was starting Call of Duty Black Ops 2 back in 2014 but never being able to go back and finish it due to not having a PS3 immediately available at the time. When the Big Leagues trophy became unavailable in 2015 I decided to leave it as a 1% sitting on my profile indefinitely. I also overdid it with easy platinums a few too many times but I don't really regret it too much. I think I have it balanced out with less than 1% completion rates for games.

[gfslamguitar]

I like having unfinished games. It gives you a full taste of what I actually liked playing and what I was willing to commit to. I feel you can tell a lot about a person by their completion rate. I love getting platinums but if I find that a game isn't fun, you'll know by that D rating. Or the flip of the coin, if a game was too hard lol. So many amazing games I'll never complete cough cough... Death Smiles.

[reinyday]

This vid has been released a year ago and by now trophy hunting has been ruined anyway by way too much non effort games. These days it’s only about how many foreign accounts you can maintain and how much money you are willing to spend. Please, as you stated, everyone should focus on ENJOYING gaming, not on getting as much trophies as possible or on having an accurate 100% completion account (what of course is adorable if you actually have it). By now I am experienced enough to know what kind of games I like, and I decided only to go for the Platinum trophy if I really enjoy the game AND have the skills to do it without torturing myself. Please, don’t ruin your gaming experienced by being obsessed with (unnecessary) trophy hunting. And if you feel like you must act compulsively about trophies or completion, you should really think twice about trying to cover up for something else. Take care, enjoy your games!

[kurtcobain.b]

I also did the first mistake. Like i never cared to much about trophys and back then ( 2013 ) when i had my ps3 i was to young to even care about things like trophys. Now i got a lot of ps3 games with 2%-10% and tbh it does trigger me cuz a lot of them are just trash and i know i will never play them again. Feelsbad.

Enjoying your content! Keep going :)

[unlucky_thiren]

I have a bad habit of playing around half a dozen games at any given point, which makes already grindy games stretch out way too long. I've been slowly getting better at that and trying to start up fewer online games as I complete others over time.

[douglas]

Sony should allow players to remove trophy lists

[swordbreaker]

PlatinumBro sent me
With me I didn’t start a new account so my completion percentage isn’t that high. Good Video mate definitely worth a sub !

[VaultBoySteve]

My mistake was wanting to replay the Assassin's Creed series as soon as I got a PS3, some Plat's I'll never get due to the MP grind 😂

I did play some games like ESO which I knew I'd never Plat, but that was on purpose 😅

[OGPEEPSYT]

Go for platinums on games that you truly enjoy and you are going to feel great