I think i've become addicted to trophies. I've noticed that recently i've been aiming for trophies in games, out to get as many as i can. My first platinum, Dead Space, took me a few months to get, since i gradually got there. inFamous took me shorter than a month, while BlazBlue took me a fair while (largely due to playing 350 online matches).
I got the Uncharted 2 platinum earlier today, which i enjoyed getting, but once i got it i realised that i've had the game for barely longer than a week. I've breezed through it on Hard and Crushing, then went through and found all the trophies. moving forward at a shockingly fast pace. I realised shortly after just how fast i had done everything, all for the urge to get trophies. I enjoyed everything, of course. There wasn't any moment where i felt like it was becoming a chore. Uncharted 2 is a very entertaining game, but it's also very short, which is why it can be finished in just over four hours once you know what to do. At this point, i've finished the game four times in the space of ten days, and got all the trophies in the process.
Trophies seem to have become an obsession somewhere down the line. I don't know why, but i guess i've started to enjoy fulfilling the random criteria to get the trophies. I think the real problem is that i've always tried to complete my games to 100%, trying to find every secret, every unlockable, every everything. I only ever feel a game is truly completed once i've done everything there is to do. The addition of trophies adds to this, since now i aim to get trophies as well.
It's funny, since i've had my PS3 since before trophies were implemented and i never thought they were anything special, at least at first. I had already done everything in the original Uncharted, but now i've started doing everything again to get the trophies. I've always consideredmyself somewhat of a hardcore gamer, enjoying my JRPGs moreso than my FPSs, and i feel like going for trophies cheapens myself as a gamer somewhat. I haven't gone so far as to renting out horrible games for their easy trophies, but i have become more conscious, scoping out the trophies in games i'm interested in, then thinking about how hard they would be to get.
Strangely, i've had a X360 for a few years, and yet i've never had any real interest in Achievements or Gamerscore. I don't know what allure trophies have over achievements (is it because the bronze, silver, gold system is much more fun than the xbox's massive meaningless number system?)
Anyways, i haven't gone completely over the brink. I only go for trophies that i can get with relative ease, none of those soul destroying ones, like getting 10000 online kills in Resistance 2, or getting into the top 1% of players for the week in Killzone 2. No, i'm not even going to attempt any of those. I like my challenge easy, and attainable with very little strenuous effort.
So far, i've got around 500 trophies, with 4 platinums. That number looks to continue to climb so long as there are trophies available for games i'm interested in. Does enjoying getting trophies make me a trophy whoar?
(Gamespot won't let me spell 'whore' correctly, hence 'whoar')