What are you playing?

Do yourself a favour and abandon that ship while you still can. It's something I've been picking away at for the last year and I'm still not even close.

Yeah, I say I was working towards platinum, yet I'm only around 39% trophy completion. I can see a number of them that I could get with just a bit of time, but just a small number of them are well beyond me for now without true grinding for max. The main ones that would probably kill me are the few pirates that only show up in the Land of Carnage, and the whole reverse pirate EVERYTHING bit.

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Spent a couple hours in Star Ocean: The Last Hope. I think gamer's fatigue is finally starting to set in. It just seems bland to me so far; very different from how I experienced the prior one in the series. The fact that I'm over 5 hours in (over engaging in battles and checking all nooks and crannies), and have yet to be introduced to the item crafting system or new equipment of any sort is sort of discouraging since I enjoyed that from the last one, and delaying it so far doesn't make for good first impressions. That and they didn't really seem to bother with lip-syncing at all for the English voices. And the overkill bloom I've been hearing people complain about in new stuff for years. And the battle camera kinda bothers me unless I put it into angle lock (Note: I think I'm doing it wrong). But it doesn't just seem to be this game.

I'm just not enjoying these recent RPGs as much as the ones on prior systems. It's likely partly my perspective that's changed; some would even say, "well duh, that's what I've been saying for years". I never used to let things like overused archetypes bother me, but it seems they are starting to now. I guess I passed that benchmark where you start to get tired of the same thing over and over... Well, I'm likely going to let some dust settle on it for a while and go back to the games I remember enjoying and hope that memory hasn't been distorted by time.