The Hardest PS4 Platinum Trophies

FFXIV certainly deserves to be there. The levequest portion is BRUTAL because not only are they time limited as you mentioned, but they are basically outdated. There's little reason to do them these days. I think I'm at like 2k hours in that game, but I'm only around 900 or so. Should also mention there's no easy way to see how many you have.... there are like 4 categories you'd have to look through and add up.

Honorable mention for this list: Farpoint. These Challenge medals are no joke. Not a super grindy plat or anything, but getting three medals on some stages takes a huge amount of skill/practice.

I did The Witness, and yes it was a horrible last trophy "Challenge" that stumped me for quite a while. I remember the attempt when I cleared it, about 3 go in that session and I really had a dreamy, matrix moment where suddenly the puzzles almost completed themselves in front of me, as if another force had possessed my hands. My realisation that I'd done those stupid rotating columns and was almost at the end before the music finished gave me a sense of euphoria I'd not got from a game for quite a while.
Don't think I'll do it again though.

EDF 5? You have to win every stage with every class at every difficulty level.

Friday the 13th deserves a mention. Impossible without boosting and would still take forever with boosting.

I see a good trophy list as a kind tour guide that has you see everything worth seeing, gives you a bit of a uphill climb in some areas and rewards you for enjoying the experience in a healthy way.
Then there are other trophy lists that expect you to give up your entire existence to achieve very little in return, except perhaps the realisation that you most likely have a serious problem.

White Knight Chronicles. I played through the game a few times and only have about 7 trophies from it.

Some trophy requirements keep a man up at night. They wake you up in a cold sweat.

I have quit playing games over impossible trophies like some of the ones listed.

Before someone gets snarky: some games have little or no actual end/completition other than trophies. When they have a single trophy like these, it instantly makes me give up.

It’s worse when such games also have easy-to-get achievements you get near the start of the game, leaving those forever incomplete trophy lists scar my trophy collection. I wish both Sony and MS allowed me to delete earned trophies...

@Shepherd_Tallon I'm stuck on that Hunk level too. Done every other trophy in the game without trouble, but just can't complete that one. Have tried the speedruns and dodging, tried going all out combat, still die towards the end. There's something about how he moves that just doesn't mesh with me. Many more hours of practice needed I suppose.

Any game with a multi-player requirement.

The only games on the list I wanted a platinum trophy for were Street Fighter (LOL), Wolfenstein and GT Sport. I never had any chance at Street Fighter but loved the game and would definitely have gone for the platinum had it been obtainable for me (I thought I was good then I got online!), Wolfenstein would have been doable had we been able to save although the courtroom level would have given me absolute nightmares on the hardest difficulty. GT Sport was definitely possible until the online trophies came into force which is a shame as I have sunk so many hours into what I consider to be the best racing game of all time and really wanted to get the shinny platinum!
I think in general online trophies are a nuisance and put lots of people of getting platinum trophies hence I was really pleased COD saw fit to get rid of them this time around!
@Neolit this would have to be Titanfall 2 for me, amazing game and loved getting every trophy but could just never get the one for doing the time trial

No Read Dead Redemption 2? I'm currently trying to get it and the gold rush (70 gold medals in missions) trophy is insanely difficult not too mention time consuming. It's by far the most difficult platinum trophy I've gone for. If only rockstar allowed you to skip to the parts that actually matter in missions. Mess up one requirement in a mission and that's it, you have to replay the whole mission with all cut scenes and travelling dialogue. Not to mention having to used gimped equipment, horses and stats if you try to replay the missions.

I've had to resort to replaying the game from the start and saving before each mission just so I can replay missions with my equipment and stats. Then there's the grin and bear it trophy which is a test of your sanity more than anything plus the online trophies which take a long time. If I didn't enjoy the game so much and had not achieved most of the online trophies naturally I wouldn't have even considered it.

@Old-Red I agree the Gold rush trophy ruins the fun of the missions, and the bear one is just stupid. I got all the other single player ones but gave up there. Shame, as the challenge and animal studying ones were mostly a great experience.

I'd have preferred the Platinum to be single player only as well, or at least just a few easy token online ones.

At first I was like 'maybe I have one of these'...then I remembered I don't even finish Souls games, let alone push myself through some of these annoying trophies!
I still have 22 plats and I'm happy for it!

Wipeout is another brutal one to add to the list. Was so very close to getting it on the PS3, figured I'd be able to when the Omega Collection dropped, that dream was dashed very quickly lol. My reflexes definitely deteriorated over the course of 5 or so years!

I love Naughty Dog games as much as the next guy, but am I the only one that thinks half of their trophies are just busy work and random dares that they made on a drunken night?

I'm looking forward to June 19th, but I fully anticipating facepalming when I check the Trophy List.

Some of these legitimately sound like Sony should bam them. ESO’s, Gran Turismo’s, and SFV’s just sound ludicrous from making you be so good as online. Others are too, but dang.

I just did The Witness one a few weeks ago, after taking a four year break due to intense frustration at the bloody final column puzzles which I could consistently get to but never solve both in time. I don't think I've ever been so satisfied by a gaming achievement.

@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L no, it shouldn't.

FFIX isn't as hard to Platinum as people think, even without the workarounds. It took me a solid 20 minutes of learning the rhythm to the jumping to get the trophy. I suppose I do come from a background of Guitar Hero/Rock Band full completions, and so rhythmic sections in games don't trouble me too much, but once you learn that after 300 jumps, the speed remains consistent for the last 700, it's not that bad.

Don't watch the screen, learn when you need to change pace and watch out for the double-tap section that happens part-way through, and it's not that bad.

Yeah, I've been playing SFV since it came out, playing online matches here and there and I've only managed to get close to Silver League. I'm destined to be a Bronze scrub for life. Woe is me...

Some really tough ones I've accomplished are MvC Infinite, Dead Cells, Fire Pro Wrestling World, Super Mega Baseball 2, The Binding of Isaac Rebirth, and Rogue Legacy.

This is a great read. I got the Sniper Elite 4 platinum the other day, that was no laughing matter. I did in in co-op with a mate though, so I cheated a bit. It was our lockdown project

@Incarna Right Next To The We're In The Money Trophy From Fairy Fencer F Trophy Was So Painful That They Changed It For The PS4 Version.

I would nominate Rayman Legends for this list. You have to play the daily missions and score reasonably high on the global leaderboards for something like three or four months to unlock a trophy, and the (unpatched) game has a glitch where sometimes people go through all that only to get NOTHING at the end. I got my platinum, but good Lord I'm never touching that game again.

@ApostateMage I Still To This Day Think That Sony Made a Mistake By Not Bringing This Game To The PS4 It Could have Been a Launch Title For The System.

Trophies are like crack, and the way they are used to manipulate players (willingly or no) is pretty crazy. I've tasted it, and a trophy rush is pretty awesome, but think of your lives and the lives you could improve! I mean, how many millions of hours* have been lost on the last 20% of trophies.

*currently chasing Platinum in Yogamaster; but all those extra hours perfecting Asana are going to my body and soul, right? Namaste!

I only ever do platinums if they're reasonable, in that they give me a reason to get a little more enjoyment out of a game I might otherwise be done with.
The moment I look at a trophy list and see something like "Jump 15.000 times on your left leg on top of the tallest pillar on the edge of the volcano without being hit once by lightning bolts" I just stop caring. That, and online trophies.

No Darius Burst?

@munkholt there are games I've been working on and the only thing that's defeated me were online trophies. The last two were Bioshock 2 and Saints Row 4 on PS3. Literally impossible to earn now because there is no one online for the former and the latter has a trophy tied to uploading your character to a service that has been taken down.

I don't mind hard trophies, or trophies that are earnable online, but all trophies should be earnable offline.

@DanM
I agree. Personally I really just want to finish the game, not get the trophies, which I dont care about. Ive gotten them but I don't see the point. If you get trophies and that turned into real PS store discounts or free games or something then sure. But I have too many games to go jumping through stupid hoops.

Outlast 2 can be in this list.

@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L - Not quite. You can get hit up to 4 times per mission, you die in 1 hit but respawn where you fell. I haven't got the DMC5 trophy yet (it's on my to do list) but I do have the equivalent trophy from DMC4 which I'd argue is more difficult as that game is harder than 5 (imo) and you can only take 3 hits per mission.

Either way those trophies are definitely not for the faint hearted but they're far from impossible if you have the patience.

@Tharsman if I am correct, as soon as you launch a game, you would have 0% procent on a game. Then you can delete it. I don’t know that if you then earn a trophy that it comes back but I dont think so.

I have about 75 platinums now, the only one to make me snap a controller in half was World at War on veteran difficulty. The level where you have to take it out the 4 AA guns.

@thefirst nice... on your legendary platinum number lol. Yeah that GOW3 one was solid! I think the hardest section for me was the fight with the Cerberus dog near the end.

Add me on psn if you want oldschool1987

@Tharsman You mean the 1% trophy lists i have quite a few of those. 😆

Also I would like to nominate CoD: Black Ops 3, to get platinum you have to complete every challenge in the game. There are over 200 challenges and they are hard. Like, play the game in the harder difficulty and you die with 1 bullet. I died over 300 in one mission (you kinda instantly respawn at the previous checkpoint).

Or clear the game on the second hardest difficulty without dying.

That and ofcourse you have online thropies and zombie missions.

@Ron22 Me after 200 plus hours Dragon Quest heroes 2 trophy hunting.

I only have 3 plats shenmue, shenmue 2 and spiderman (before the 2nd plat was added for the DLC) i generally dont bother chasing them unless i get to the end of a game and ive already got a very high percentage. The ammount of fodder ive got in my list with 1 trophey is rediculous.

@Shepherd_Tallon Sure it takes a few attempts, but I wouldn't put it in this list. It's very achievable once you know where all the enemies are.

I have lots of the easy platinums in my list, including a few cross plat ones for Vita and PS4 (I have no shame). In terms of difficulty, a few that caused me some issue but to be honest, in comparison to those above they are way easier. Probably the ones that were 'skill' based were Wolfenstein the New Order and Old Blood just because it had a lot of challenges however those were fun plats. I looked at the trophy list of the The New Colossus and thought... nah not a chance.

at lot of these game developers who make trophy lists like this are extremely sadistic and unwell 😡 honestly smh.

I also avoid redicilously unfair trophy list like the plague.

@Futureshark That is one of my most accomplished platinum as well! The music is still burned into my brain.

@Shinishii I know the feeling.

I wish I cared less about trophies but unfortunately plats which I deem achievable keep me glued to games I'm no longer enjoying (step up dirt rally 2.0 with its stupid online leader board trophy in uncontrollable audi!!!). Memorable painful platinums for me Include aforementioned god of war3 ending on hard and some platforming nonsense on guacamelee

I have the platinum trophy for ffxiv ^^
PSN: Stratos671

Dead Space 2, I think that was the one. I can't remember, but you couldn't die or use something or whatever, I just gave up trying for that trophy.
edit: I just looked it up:
"Hardcore" is basically Normal difficulty, with a twist - you can only save 3 times, no more than that.

on the guide it says: This setting is not for those with faint of heart and lacking dedication. Enemies are moderately tough and ammo is a somewhat limited resource. In addition you will need to be able to play for long hours as the game has 15 Chapters. You-will-be-dying-and-restarting, alot. Your first ideal save point should be somewhere in Chapter 6 or 7. Your second save point should be somewhere in Chapter 9 or 11. And your last save point at the end of Chapter 13 or end of Chapter 14 if you can make it that far."

I remember trying to get through it, but died early on and didn't want to have to restart it.

Ps3 was full of games that had "Complete game on hard mode" or "Do this hard challenge without taking damage" and although I don't think they had statistics back then, they must have realised basically no one did these things because of the difficulty. I only did Darksiders on hard tbh as I couldn't be bothered to play the other games over. Also some other were just so grindy that also no one cared. From what I saw this gen most trophies have been much better thought out and more to do with 100%, which can still be a grind but it depends on if you like it enough to do that. I much prefer it this way! They should have a separate section for new game plus and hard mode completion trophies always.

@IamJT I haven't played Friday the 13th much myself, but a friend who used to play it a lot prior to the lawsuit affecting the updates talked about how you needed to play a minimum of 2000 games to get the platinum, and that was under the absolute best set of circumstances, so in reality it would be much much higher. Crazy stuff considering the few matches I played lasted at least 15 minutes each if not longer.

@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L You only used "should" once. So, it's about the sentence "Trophies that hard should be banned." and again, no, it shouldn't. Achievement shouldn't be a tap on our back but a reward for challenges you overcome, that required some effort from us.

@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L really, man? You really need to chill because it's not about being right or wrong. I was just trying to prove my point.
If you think that Sony should banalize the trophy system so people don't feel bad about a trophy they're not skillful enough to get, so be it.

@1_W1NG3D_4NG3L Steam is full of games that are extremely difficult to 100% so it doesn't bother me too much on PS4 'cause I'm used to ***** achievements.

On Playstation, for most games, I'm satisfied with a B or C rating on psnprofiles (C meaning I got the average).

I look more for meta stats to motivate me. Stats like "trophies per day", "number of trophies" and "game ranks".