Trophies. They’re the only point to video games in this new age of social media. Nobody plays for fun, but for the awesome digital trinkets that get awarded while playing. Even if someone has to replay a game they don’t like multiple times, it’s all worth it if they can get that elusive Platinum trophy that taunts them in their trophy list.
That’s why the question we posed in this week’s Now Loading was “what is your PlayStation Network trophy level?” Our staff has a high range of trophy levels from obscenely high (looking at you Chandler) to surprisingly low due to primarily gaming on other systems.
Check out the gallery below to find out what the staff answered:
Now that you’ve seen our answers, we’d love to see hear your answer. Feel free to chime in below with what your PlayStation Network trophy level is, and how many Platinum trophies you have!
For more on trophies, check out our Trophy Theory series of features.
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Now Loading is a weekly recurring feature where the PlayStation LifeStyle staff discusses anything video game-related ranging from hot topics to more whimsical subjects. Past editions can be found here.
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Now Loading: What's Your PlayStation Network Trophy Level?
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What's Your PlayStation Network Trophy Level?
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Blake Grundman
Here I am at level 13, hanging my head in shame… I don’t even have a platinum to my name. On the bright side, I do have a fairly respectable 57K gamerscore on Xbox. I am just going to hide over here in the corner and try not to be intimidated by Chandler’s e-Peen.
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Cameron Teague
I am level 23 and actually really close to 24.
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Chandler Wood
I'm currently level 45 with over 12,500 trophies, 174 of then being Platinum. Reviewing games has definitely helped boost that level quite a bit, and I feel like it could be higher if I hadn't sunk so much time into games like Destiny and Overwatch. There are a lot of games that I'm just around the corner from Platinum on, yet between reviews and getting stuck going back to the old staples, I can't be bothered to finally do the limited death run on Rogue Legacy, or the extremely tight speed run on Broken Age. I'll get to them eventually (is what I keep telling myself, even though both my wife and I know that's probably not true).
To be fair, I've been earning trophies since just after their advent on the PS3 in 2008. They came out right around the same time I was in my horrific motorcycle accident, so it was a good thing to be able to focus on at the time while I was in recovery. After Fallout 3 became my first Platinum, I was hooked. -
Elizabeth Henges
I... I am level 12. Well, I did lost some of my PS3 trophy progress since I had another account, but I still doubt I'd be above level 20. The only Platinums I have are either from visual novels and NieR: Automata. At least I got the Automata trophies legitimately!
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Keri Honea
I'm at a paltry level 16. I don't have the time or even the talent Chandler and Tyler have to catch up with them, because any time a game requires higher difficulty for trophies, I know the platinum is way out of my reach. That said, like Tyler, my Trophy level would be much higher if I wasn't a dedicated Xbox 360 player last console generation.
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Louis Edwards
I'm currently sitting at level 30 with 60 Platinum trophies. I do have every Uncharted Platinum so there's some trophy do-overs there with the Uncharted Collection on the PS4. Luckily that Uncharted card game didn't have a Platinum or I would have had to muddle through it.
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Paulmichael Contreras
I'm sitting at level 18, quite content with it. A game has to be something truly special in order for me to nab a Platinum, or indeed to chase any trophies. I don't have that same itch that some of us around here seem to have regarding trophies.
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Tyler Treese
I'm currently at level 39. While I'm slowly catching up on Chandler, I'm pretty sure I'll never actually pass him. I actually had a extremely low trophy level until recently. I only reached level 10 in October of 2012, and pretty much played all my multiplatform games on my Xbox 360. That meant that I had a solid 100,000 Gamerscore that could've been sweet, sweet trophies instead. I regret my past mistakes, but I'm trying to rectify that. Now if only Nintendo games had trophies...then I'd be in moksha.
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Zarmena Khan
I didn't start gaming on PS3 until mid-late 2012 so I'm still at level 14 with 1,520 trophies from 60 games. This count includes 10 fairly easy Platinums (and two more in progress). Nothing much to show off but I do have some rare trophies under my belt and an average trophy completion of over 43 percent.
