Who enjoys collecting trophies?

[TheFVguy]

Ever since Melee, I always enjoyed collecting trophies, it was just phone gathering so many trophies from many different series, I'm hoping we get a lot for Ultimate. Would love more trophies of Street Fighter and Final Fantasy.

 

[Luigifan18]

I also enjoy collecting the trophies. I wonder what's going to be available this time around.

 

[Twin Shot]

I love the process of getting them all and going through challenges or conditions to get them. It adds a lot to the game in a simple way - a digit trophy of your accomplishment, incentive to play more and background on the franchise it belongs to.

What we don’t need back are the collectibles like stickers/custom moves/mii outfits - they made sense at the time (stickers as sub space power ups, custom moves and outfits for single player modes in 4) but tend to be more obnoxious to gather than anything else. I am relatively sure and glad these items are out of the picture this time.

 

[Oddball]

I love the process of getting them all and going through challenges or conditions to get them. It adds a lot to the game in a simple way - a digit trophy of your accomplishment, incentive to play more and background on the franchise it belongs to.

What we don’t need back are the collectibles like stickers/custom moves/mii outfits - they made sense at the time (stickers as sub space power ups, custom moves and outfits for single player modes in 4) but tend to be more obnoxious to gather than anything else. I am relatively sure and glad these items are out of the picture this time.

I was with you until you said Mii costumes. I love me some Mii costumes. It's a great way to get characters that don't make it into the game in there somehow.

But yeah, I love trophies. It's a great way to be exposed to characters you don't know and a chance to see characters that have never had a #-D appearance done up in 3-d. I would honestly but DLC of just trophies... but only if you have to find/earn them. I don't want to buy them and just get them. Where's the fun there.

 

[Putuk]

Reading trophy descriptions is what got me into EarthBound, which is now my favorite Nintendo franchise.

It's safe to say I adore collecting them and reading all the descriptions. Every single one of 'em.

 

[notion_of_the_ocean]

Trophies don't really do anything for me. I just don't get hours upon hours these days of video game time to collect them all and don't really ever find myself giving the ones I inadvertently collect a second thought. I may be in the minority here though.

 

[Fell God]

I don't know why I like them, but I do.

 

[nirvanafan]

I enjoy it as well. There is just something satisfying about building this massive collection and seeing how close you can get to completion.

 

[Q-Long]

In Melee I did, but all the wonder went away during the Brawl era for some reason

 

[Zapp Branniglenn]

I'm hoping they bring back all previous methods of getting trophies. The capsule toy machine from Melee, the coin launcher mini game from Brawl, and the Trophy shop from 4. Because I think that's a good balance of methods. The capsule toy machine gives you the most trophies per individual coin, but it's completely random. The brawl minigame is fun and gives you an amount of trophies dependent on skill. And the trophy shop is just when you're trying to get the last entries in your trophy collection and you're willing to pay full price with the coins you've saved up.

 

[FalconFire93]

I like collecting them if they’re trophies of characters from games that I haven’t heard of, then I look up those games and eventually I become a fan of those games.

 

[JoyStar]

They were fun in Melee, I liked the Trophy Lottery.

 

[thirsty-pocket]

I enjoyed it in Melee and to a lesser extent Brawl, but I didn't get a lot of joy out of it in Smash Wii U. I think trophies have hit a point of diminishing returns for me.

Melee was great, because it was the first game to have trophies. The trophies you earned for clearing classic mode were classic versions fo the characters that resembled the source material more than their melee counterparts, and the selection of trophies in Melee were really diverse, having a lot of trophies from older games updated with ( at the time ) modern 3D models, as well as things from current games. I believe there were even a few trophies from unreleased games. And there were lots of Japan only trophies, which I loved learning about, even if I could never play some of them ( there's never gonna be a Shin Onigashima translation )

Then Brawl was more about current games, and all the trophies were basically models ripped from their source material. The Zelda trophies were just from Wind Waker and Twilight Princess. Earthbound only had trophies of things that appeared in Smash, and it didn't even have a trophy of the Ultimate Chimera. There were a few cool trophies of things I never heard of. I bought Magical Starsign because of the Mokka trophy ( that and I wanted to support Brownie Brown, as they were responsible for Mother 3. ) The most difficult trophies to collect were the Subspace Emmissary trophies, but they were pretty fun.

But then Smash Wii U came out and it was almost nothing but models ripped from their source material, and they were all characters I knew about... I guess you can't really blame the game for that so much as you can blame me for having seen all the trophies in the past Smash games.

I don't know, I just think Trophies have kind of run their course. I'd almost rather they be replaced with something new. Maybe something like a log book pages for "books" dedicated to various Nintendo series, and 3rd party series, that have data on characters, locations, and events from various games containing artwork, screenshots, and video clips.

 

[Mogisthelioma]

Not me....

 

[Gyrom8]

I like unlocking things, as it gives me a sense of purpose. If there was an option to, I'd also like to unlock the stages in Ultimate. At least you still have to unlock characters. I don't really like the current trend in Nintendo's deluxe ports where everything is available from the start.

 

[smashingDoug]

I like them but to say they are as cool to get and instantly go see what is was like it was in Melee and somewhat brawl has lost a bit of meaning.

Their is just so many what are just not interesting,

@ thirsty-pocket melee had only one Zelda Trophie what wasn’t from oot or mm

 

[Luigifan18]

I'm hoping they bring back all previous methods of getting trophies. The capsule toy machine from Melee, the coin launcher mini game from Brawl, and the Trophy shop from 4. Because I think that's a good balance of methods. The capsule toy machine gives you the most trophies per individual coin, but it's completely random. The brawl minigame is fun and gives you an amount of trophies dependent on skill. And the trophy shop is just when you're trying to get the last entries in your trophy collection and you're willing to pay full price with the coins you've saved up.

You're forgetting about Trophy Rush.

 

[Jyl]

I love collecting things and I love reading them, giving me more background info on stuff I don't know about and having a nostalgia blast for trophies I know of.

 

[scoobymcsnack]

I enjoy collecting them, but after a while I get a little burnt out. Like I'll still and try to collect them, but I care less than I did initially.

 

[TheTrueBrawler]

I like that they're a thing as it gives people who like to go on collectathons something fun to try in Smash Bros.

 

[MajoraMoon]

In brawl, I LOVED collecting the trophies. It was just so fun shooting them down and trying to get a trophy of the character you recognize. But when it came to the Wii U....I didn't care about trophies. It just wasn't fun getting them. Now, if they did the same thing but also with unlocking music. That would be amazing.

 

[scoobymcsnack]

In brawl, I LOVED collecting the trophies. It was just so fun shooting them down and trying to get a trophy of the character you recognize. But when it came to the Wii U....I didn't care about trophies. It just wasn't fun getting them.

Yesssssss
I agree with this so much, and I hope it’s just as fun to get them in Ultimate

 

[TheTrueBrawler]

In brawl, I LOVED collecting the trophies. It was just so fun shooting them down and trying to get a trophy of the character you recognize. But when it came to the Wii U....I didn't care about trophies. It just wasn't fun getting them. Now, if they did the same thing but also with unlocking music. That would be amazing.

I would rather all music either be unlocked at the start. I didn't want to grind for twenty hours just so I can listen to one music track only available on one stage back in Smash 4 for Wii U, and I still don't have every song I want to listen to even to this day on my copy of that game.

 

[Uffe]

I love collecting trophies, checking out different angles of the figure just to look at the possibly missed details, and I just love reading the descriptions about them. I was collecting a bunch of trophies like crazy in Sm4sh, and the Sablé Prince trophy was really difficult for me to obtain, because you had to get 300,000g. Like why? I would spend a lot of time bidding on For Glory matches in hopes I'd obtain the gold much faster, and it took forever, so I eventually gave up on it. Then one day I got it. I just hope trophies don't end up being tedious to get in the next game.

 

[pap64]

Here is how my brain works regarding the trophies in the Smash games...

My critical thinking mind says that while they are a really nice addition to the games that create both fan service and Nintendo history, they really add nothing to the overall game save for an incentive for completionists that want to truly 100% the game.

My fanboy side, though, LOVES the trophies to death. Not only are they just fun to collect, I just love seeing what kind of trophies they came up with. This fascination started with Melee, and I love that it has becomes a series staple since. I love that many of them have a lot of effort put into them, even if some of them are just borrowed assets from a previous game. It also gives us context to the playable characters as well as their backstories, either as figuring out who they are, or just reliving great moments. The diorama mode in Smash 4 where you could draw the pictures had me creating hilarious photo mash ups.