The bizarre Trophy inconsistencies continue, as Hitman – the stealth series' big-budget episodic reboot – will not pack a Platinum. This is despite mobile spin-off Hitman Go: Definitive Edition recently launching with one of the silvery blue statues. Make any sense to you? Nope, us neither.
The package's pots are instead built around the prologue and base game mechanics, with more specific gongs included for the Paris mission as a DLC pack. It's safe to assume that the Trophies for future episodes will follow the same format, with the additional locations added as expansions.
As we're always eager to stress with articles like this, the lack of a Platinum itself is not a problem – but the inconsistency between releases that pack one and releases that don't is bizarre. Perhaps it's time that Sony started to require the top pot so that we all know where we stand.
[source psnprofiles.com]
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Maybe there will eventually be a platinum trophy when all the content is released? I haven't played many episodic games, so not entirely sure how the trophies work, but Hitman is releasing as a full game on disc next year. Perhaps the platinum will emerge then?
@Quintumply Could do, could not. Bit of a kick in the nuts for your early adopters, though?
@Quintumply Telltale games usually don't have a platinum. Life is Strange, however, a Square Enix game, has one. I don't know when the platinum for Life is Strange actually was active on PSN. If the platinum was up on PSN from day one, I don't think Hitman gets one. Otherwise, we will see.
@get2sammyb I'm actually more bummed about Hitman being an episodic game than a complete experience, not to mention the platinum.
The bitter reality, like I said in the article, it's that there's just no consistency. Some Telltale Games do, some Telltale Games don't. Life Is Strange, an episodic game from Square Enix, does, but Hitman doesn't - even though Hitman Go does.
It's not important, but there needs to be some hard rules in place for this stuff. The easiest solution is to just require all games to have a Platinum. Done.
Why couldn't they follow a trophy list similar to Life is Strange, 10-15 trophies per episode/ pack and a platinum when your get them all.
@get2sammyb Agreed! But with Indies publishing their games on Steam first where there really are no rules at all, this will be a problem for them. There are games that have one achievement only... One achievement? Are you trolling me?!
Hmm that's weird.
This is effectively a full retail game chopped into episodes right so why no plat? I think Sony need to sort this inconsistency out and just make sure every game has one.
@JerriKoe TellTale games - at least the ones since they switched to their current format - usually all have a platinum. Only one that hasn't was Walking Dead S2.
When TT games trophies go "live", the full list covering all trophies and the platinum is put up, it's just that most of them aren't obtainable until all episodes have been released and paid for by the player. Same thing happened with Life is Strange.
The thing in common with both of these is that their trophies are capable of being planned in advance. TT games lists are always "complete X chapter" and "complete X episode", and LiS had, simply, "complete X episode", "take X photo" and "take all photos in episode X" trophies. Even if you're still developing the later episodes, the teams knew, at least, that these things would be in the final game. In a story based game, that's easy to do.
I guess the difference must have something to do with what kind game HITMAN is and how it is still in development. If they're still designing levels, they might want to leave themselves open to including trophies if you find particularly ingenious ways to make your kill or something. It's open world gameplay, and if they just put in story trophies now people would complain that the list is dull.
This will presumably have a knock on effect on whether they can predict in advance exactly what trophies they're going to want, and thus have an effect on how they're put through Sony's certification.
I think a platinum will pop up once all the content is released. It's entirely possible that there isn't enough content at the start to justify a platinum trophy.
I reckon a platinum will come out when the whole game releases, but this is still annoying. I don't get why they have to be inconsistent, surely there are measures that can be put in place.
I think the platinum will eventually be integrated in the "full" game. I wish street fighter 5 did this so they could pick more interesting objectives and I could stop trying to beat survival on hell and lose at stage 96.
Anyway lately Square is weird with trophies...type 0 and FF7 are like a free platinum each.
What about Assassin's Creed Chronicles? Individual lists and a full one with a plat?
@DerMeister I can't think of a single instance where that's happened. If SquEenix want to give the game a plat, I think they will have to submit a whole new list to Sony when they go through certification for the full, boxed release next year. I assume, because I can't remember it ever having happened before, that Sony's process doesn't allow for a plat to be added with the last episode of a release schedule like this one.
@StrickenBiged This is an odd case for sure, and you do bring up a pretty good point. It would be very strange to have a game like Hitman lack a platinum trophy due to it's format, which seems likely if you're on the money there. For the sake of trophy hunters, let's hope this gets sorted out, eh?
I want my platinums!
Said no one at the olympics.
@themcnoisy That's probably because they don't know that platinums are worth more than gold.
Yes we need more pot n_n
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