Topic: The Trophy Discussion Thread

I’m currently working on the platinum for Ys 8 on Vita. I’m hoping to do it all in one playthrough, so I’m playing on Nightmare difficulty. It hasn’t been hard. I do feel like I missed an opportunity on a certain trophy early on that I can’t get back, but we will see how the story unfolds and if that’s truly the case.

I’ve mostly fallen off the trophy hunting endeavor lately. I still try to maximize accomplishing any reasonable trophies during a playthrough, but I’m less inclined to go too far out of my way to get trophies. I still get satisfaction from hearing the chime of a trophy registering, but I have just been running short on time so I haven’t spent extra effort like I used to.

That said, I was curious to look at my trophy list and see what have been my rarest trophies lately. I was prompted to do this when I was looking at my PS Stars level (which is 3) and one of the criteria is a certain number of “rare and above” trophies. I don’t typically pay attention to the rarity of trophies, but rather just their color; I reflexively think of: platinum > gold > silver > bronze, which is true in any given game usually, as far as how difficult it is to achieve said trophy. But in looking at the trophy rarity, you get a completely different sense of a trophy’s worth. Fortunately the trophy list function easily shows you the rarest trophy for each game that you’ve played.

So a quick survey of games I’ve played over the last few years showed me some interesting stats. Here are my rarest trophies in recent times:

Immortals of Aveum Out of Time (bronze) for “Spoke to Orphe about every topic” — 1.1%

Tchia Thing (gold) for “Find and soul jump into Pwi Dua’s hand” — 2.8%

A Plague Tale: Requiem Explorer (silver) for “Open all the secret chests” — 3.2%

Guardians of the Galaxy, Platium — 3.2%

Rime, Platinum — 3.9%

Returnal Echoes of the Past (gold) for “Finish echoing ruins survey” — 4.1%

Stray Pacifist (gold) for “Complete the sewers without killing any zurks” — 4.5%

Astro’s Playroom, Platinum — 4.5%

God of War, Platinum — 4.6%

GT7 Circuit Master (silver) for “Complete 15 tracks in circuit experience” — 5.2%

Control, Platinum — 5.3%

And my rarest trophy that I’ve achieved on PS5 is…. (drumroll…) —

Disco Elysium The Most Honourable Cop in the Land (silver) for “Gather 11 honour points” — 0.3% !!!

I didn’t see that coming! 😅

Obviously there’s a pattern here that very clearly the rarest trophies are to be found in games that are available through PS Plus because presumably everytime someone boots up the game then that goes into the denominator, whether they really play the game or just try it for a few minutes then abandon it. Most of my platinums and difficult golds aren’t actually that rare. Most are in the 20-30% range.

So in conclusion, the subscription services have broken trophy rarity as any meaningful metric. Which is no surprise, but it was a fun exercise to look at it specifically on my own list.

I haven't been updating you all on my exciting trophy activities lately, but you'll be glad to know I finally completed my mission and got the platinum in every Yakuza game. Yakuza 5 is a joke of a platinum. Absolute ordeal. But once that was done it was all plane sailing. Did Yakuza 7 again on PS4 for a second platinum just for good measure.

@johncalmc wow congrats man

#55 - Hitman 3

Technically it’s like a triple whammy since I got every trophy in the other two games’ content through the 3rd one too. Incredible games, one of my favourite series, ridiculously good package. Good solid set too. With the way content carries over, this is really a game I’ve been chipping away at since Paris released so it’s nice to finally put a ribbon on everything.

Been a while since I checked in

Platinum no.27

Ratchet and clank rift apart

Really enjoyed this game, was a fun little action/platformer and the plat comes almost naturally with a few additional trophies to go out of your way for.

Took 10 hours, I paid £18 in CeX for it and I would say £20 and under is a bout right for it.

#56 - Animal Well

Really good. The squirrel trophy was a ballache but other than that it’s a great set that at least doesn’t require you to delve into the really really hidden stuff. I got quite a few bunnies but can’t really bring myself to 100% it now that I have the plat. If my theory’s right then I think the last puzzle might require machine code knowledge and mine is awfully rusty, haven’t done that since uni. Did feel like Einstein when I found the bunny that requires you to scan the grass that resembles a barcode though. Great game all round, highly recommend.

Platinum numero 42 - Life is Strange: True Colors

And that gives me the set. Well, at least until Double Exposure comes out.

True Colors as a nice little game. It doesn’t do anything too extraordinary for those who don’t like the LiS format, but if you do like a story based, light choose-your-path setup type of games, then this is a solid entry with likable characters, a nice setting, and a story that’s pretty okay. The game doesn’t get into quite the level of controversial topics as LiS2 and it doesn’t have decidedly the foundational coming-of-age characters as the original LiS, but it does tackle some heavy themes and does come with the hallmark indie music as a backdrop. And like the other LiS games, an easy and enjoyable platinum.

Loved it. Definitely up there with the best the genre has to offer. I'd probably even say it's the best platformer I've played.

Just hit 125 with Astro Bot. Was an awesome game! I'd say 9.5/10. Some of the platforming levels is why I won't give it 10/10. Still, this game was amazing and I loved it.