The Reason Behind This Blog

 

Hello. My username on PSNProfiles, at least the one this blog is concerned with, is Mimic_Pot0, a name I created after two infamous monsters known for pretending to be innocent storage devices but are actually deadly monsters - the Mimic from Dragon Quest fame and the Magic Pot from Final Fantasy. (Well, Magic Pot isn't deadly as long as you give it a Elixir, lolz.)

I actually have three PSN accounts, each based around a certain philosophy of earning trophies in the Playstation Network. I love playing all sorts of Playstation video games created by both first-party and third-party developers, especially RPGs. However, after many failed accounts which I ditched, I decided to create three accounts this time under three different e-mail addresses. Each of these accounts has a certain policy around trophy hunting in Playstation games., basically, the concept of completion.

What is completion? Well, if you check any decent dictionary, it defines completion as "the state of being finished." But that's a very broad, vague term. What exactly defines being finished? There are several camps around that definition, especially when it refers to video games with trophy support, which all Playstation games from 2008 on, when Sony implemented the trophy system into the Playstation 3, are required to have. The only Playstation games without trophies are those which are emulated ports of Playstation Portable or Playstation 1 games on the Playstation Vita.

The thought process about completion in a video game splits around this topic, with three major schools of thought, which each of my accounts reflects:

(1) One school of thought consider the end of a story to be completion, which is the camp that this blog and the account of Mimic_Pot0 fall under. (I'll use the acronym MP0 for this account.)

(2) Another school considers earning the platinum trophy to be completion. This is the camp that second account, Cassilena_9, falls under. The platinum trophy is a visual reward stating that the player has done everything the game expected of them and no more, which means that this account will never go out of its way to get 100% in the trophies under Downloadable Content, or DLC for short. (I will use the acronym C9 for this account.)

(3) Finally, a final school of thought considers getting every trophy in the game, including all DLC trophies, to be completion. Basically doing 100% in a game. That's the camp that my main account, ProfSeajay7 falls under. (This will be called Prof7 for short)

If you examine my three accounts, which I will link below, you will see that the games in each account, for the most part, are not repeated amongst them. This is because the games have varied reasons why they belong in certain camps.

 Now, for the most part, I want to defend Prof7's glut of indie games and visual novels. I have played all sorts of games from Persona 3 to Super Mario Odyssey for over thirty-five years, but in my age, I am not able to play fast-paced games as often anymore as it stresses me out. I don't care what you think I am for playing these cashgrab games but don't call me out on it. I have destroyed PSN accounts because they had really ugly cheap games that people pump out to make a quick buck and I played them like the fool that I am. Games as crappy as Little Adventure on the Prairie and as easy as My Name Is Mayo, which is just a cookie-clicker clone. I'm trying to steer away from shovelware and low-denominator ware as much as possible. That said, games like LEGO titles aren't bad and I think visual novels would have been more popular had the stress of putting trophies in them not made them put in options to skip all the text and story transitions. I think that DoraKone, a game about a girl who plays a mobile monster-taming game and is entering an official tournament of said game and ends up falling in love with one of the same-gender girls who are her rivals and romancing them is a really cool story... and sadly it gets brutalized and violated by the text skip options so you only see flashes of the story.

But I won't get into the logistics of visual novels here. I have nothing against people who just play games for the trophies. I would say that Hakoom, whose real name is Hakam Karim, an Arabian(I did the research, he lives in Adliyah, in Saudi Arabia) who managed to get the most platinum trophies on his account topping at 1200, is justified at getting so many trophies by playing trash games. I saw he has kids who are infants and I know that it's very hard to play games and raise a family every 24 hours so maybe he wanted to score the highest score on the PSN network before he stops playing video games and spends his old age with his grandkids. I know Saudi Arabia is not as prosperous a gaming nation as us, the United States, so if I had a choice between earning 1200 platinum trophies from honest gaming or feeding myself and rushing visual novels on the side, I'd probably pick the latter.

So I don't judge people who just want the platinums. I try to play decent games to honor the people who made them. However, there are several reasons why I decided, after so many accounts that I dropped, to create these three accounts instead of creating one account and throwing it away again.

Here are the reasons behind my three accounts.