Topic: The Trophy Discussion Thread

@Sorteddan I really liked the game! Did you play it solo? It must have been great fun co-op.

Best trophy is definitely the one for spelling BUM using the crane

@Thrillho
Agreed that was also my favorite. I played it mostly solo as well. I haven't decided whether Nessa was actually an imaginary friend or an actual character. And I like that the game has still got me pondering such things

Wrapped up the platinum for It Takes Two last night. The game was really fun in the most part and a lot of the trophies are ones you just unlock through doing random things which I always quite like. We only had a few that we hadn’t got so we must have spent a lot of time just messing about rather than progressing the story but it was easy just to mop up the last few with chapter select.

@render congrats buddy, the missus and I have been playing this too… and agreed, it’s great. So good in fact that I think we’ll play through the PS4 version too at some point.

@colonelkilgore Good thinking on playing the PS4 version too. Think I’ll borrow your suggestion and do that sometime too 😉

Just this morning wrapped up the Platinum on Demon’s Souls…. Wow, what a journey!

I actually approached this game from Day 1 with a ‘Platinum Mentality’, as I didn’t really fancy 3-4 potential runs (when my existing game backlog is as large as it currently is).

I must say though this game is surely impossible to platinum without resorting to a guide? The world and character tendancy mechanics are beyond convoluted, with no real explanation as to how they work ha

I went with a DEX build (first time in a Souls Game) and really enjoyed the samurai sword & longbow combination.

Planning to go into Elden Ring blind, might also try to squeeze in DS3 before release…

Next game up is REVillage, although I hear the platinum is absolutely horrendous- has anyone here platted it? If it appears too daunting, I might just do a single playthrough for fun

@CJD87 Hey well done, you totally beat me to it. I’ve still got to go back and finish this off as I’m about 1/3rd the way through a NG+. Which bits did you find the most challenging trophy wise?

If you want another challenge after this you should definitely try Kena which can be ridiculously hard even compared to DeS.

@render Thanks man!

Let me know if you want/need any co-op support through NG+… I’d welcome an excuse to return to Boletaria!

Honestly, I didn’t find this as challenging as Returnal… but it was actually the early NG+ Of DeS that nearly broke me! I needed to do about 70% of a Ng+ Cycle to clean up the purchasing of final spells, and couldn’t believe the scaling in difficulty vs standard NG

Started NG+ around SL 75… and found that incidental enemies (like the mobs in 1-1!) were actually 1-shotting me. I spent an afternoon grinding to get my SL a bit higher, which then allowed me to progress - but you really need to play a cautious game. How are you finding NG+

Ha ok I actually kicked off Kena straight after Returnal… and shelved it so I could play DeS instead. I did a couple of bosses in Kena, and would argue strongly that they were much tougher than any of the bosses in DeS!!

@CJD87 congrats mate, one of my favourite games ever and it sounds like you had a good time with it too (apart from the start of your ng+ run that is).

I haven’t played RE Village but my mate plat’d it earlier this year and said that it wasn’t too bad. I think there is a hardest difficulty playthrough required… but I’m sure he mentioned something about having access to maxed out weapons by the point that he got to that playthrough and it made it more than manageable.

@colonelkilgore Thanks mate and yes I loved every second of it… I can imagine it is very replay-able also, messing around with different builds etc. But yes the start of NG+ was a very unpleasant welcome call!!

Much respect to you also for your MGS 2 conquest/ordeal! I think I saw a few posts remarking about your tremendous effort for the platinum… a true hero among men ha!

I’m actually leaning towards a blind ‘fun’ play of Village and might completely avoid the platinum. I think sometimes that going into a game with a platinum mindset can take away a little bit of the ‘magic’….. although saying that I might change my mind and pursue it if I’m still hungry for more game once I complete the initial playthrough.

Excited for Elden Ring?

@CJD87 Yeah can’t wait mate, one of the very few games I’ll play as soon as it releases.

… and yeah I kinda would go with ordeal when thinking back to MGS2… which sucks as I absolutely loved it… but talk about over-egging the pudding. They don’t make trophy lists like that anymore (thank the lord).

And totally fair comment about how a platinum mentality can effect playing games… it works for me personally but if you think you’ll enjoy it more without the plat-chase, that will definitely be the best option.

@render @CJD87
Good work peoples.
Got the post-xmas plats pouring in already.
Good to see.

@CJD87 I can’t remember what level I got up to after my NG but also remember it being pretty tough to get going on NG+. After a while though I got back into beating things easier. Once I’ve finished Kena I think I’ll go back to it so I’ll let you know if I need some assistance, thanks for the offer 👍

@Sorteddan Cheers. I was hoping to quickly add to it with the GotG plat but I’ve ended up having to replay way more than I thought I would because I hadn’t got enough collectibles on my first play through to just use chapter select. Almost there though so hopefully will pop that one tomorrow.

@Keith_Zissou Hope you continue to enjoy It Takes Two. We’ve played a few games together over the years but pretty much all of them you can play just as well solo. The puzzles are really well thought out to only work well with both characters and their abilities. The environments were fun too and made you want go and explore.

We also enjoyed Heavenly Bodies in coop. Although it can be frustrating, because it’s a physics based game, it was a really good laugh when trying to do simple things in zero gravity.

Had a chat with @Sorteddan the other day about trophies, trophy lists, trophy journeys that stuck out in the games that I played this year. No need to follow my specific format but feel free to include your own individual takes too:

Hardest Plats of 2021
1. Ashen
2. MGS2
3. MGS4
Honourable mention - MGS Peace Walker, Just Cause 3, Watchdogs

Easiest Plats of 2021
1. Telltale’s Batman
2. Donut County
3. A Wolf Among Us
Honourable mention - Bugsnax

Best Trophy List of 2021
1. Remnant from the Ashes
2. Bastion
3. Just Cause 3
Honourable mentions - Watchdogs, 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, Middle-Earth: Shadow of War & Ghost of Tsushima

Craziest amount of effort required for just one trophy 2021
1. Children of Sissna (Ashen)
2. Virtually Impossible (MGS 2)
3. All Extra Ops S Rank (MGS: Peace Walker)
Honourable mentions - Social Lubricant (Watchdogs), Sounds of the Battlefield (MGS 4) & All the Gears (Just Cause 3)

And there's platinum #47: Guardians of the Galaxy

Of those 47 plats, I've got 19 this year and that's from from just 25 games played (and The Pedestrian doesn't even have a platinum).

@Thrillho congratulations buddy, impressive strike-rate on the plats too!

@colonelkilgore Oh yeah, this’ll be easy for me —

2021 Trophy Review and Awards

Hardest Platinums (or is the plural “Platinii”? 😜)

• God of War
• Control

Easiest Platinums

• Telltale’s Guardians of the Galaxy
• Astrobot’s Playroom

Grindiest Platinum

• Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight

Platinum Most Likely to Make You Go Back For a Collectible You Missed

• A Plague Tale: Innocence

Platinum That Wasn’t a Gimme But Came Naturally Without Ruining the Fun

• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Game I Probably Should Have Platinum’d But Worried About the Grind Ruining the Experience

• Returnal

Game I Predict Will Be My First Platinum of 2022 If It Doesn’t Drive Me Mad First

• RiME

Individual Trophies That I’m Most Proud Of

• “Great Phantom Thieves Convene” (Maxing Out All Confidants in Persona 5)
• Peeress of Pull-Ups (Pull-up challenge FF7R)
• “Chooser of the Slain” (Defeating All Valkyries in GoW)
• “White Shadow” (Act 3 of Returnal)

Stupid Trophies That Ruined A Platinum Run Because I Can’t Stomach the Effort To Do Them

• “The City’s Hard Hitter” (For Hitting a Home Run at the Batting Cages in Persona 5)
• “Dressed to the Nines” (Obtaining all Bridal Dresses in FF7R)
• The Survey Trophies of Returnal

@Th3solution love it! … and yeah I remember both of those FFVIIR trophies you mentioned, was a tough plat tbh.

Platinum #70 - Spider-man: Miles Morales - enjoyed it quite a bit more than I was expecting. I honestly wish Sony would pump out these shorter 'expandalone' spin-offs to all of their big exclusives.