@JohnnyShoulder Yeah, it’s a difficult balance sometimes between pushing through to feel the exhilaration of getting a platinum, and focusing on just experiencing each game to the extent it is enjoyable. I try to balance it and I have a mere 16 platinums. And a couple of those were a bit of a slog, but it’s just too tempting if you get so close to the virtual reward and just have a couple things to do. Often it is deceptively harder to mop up those last few trophies and before you know it you invested 20 hours in doing something that is not fun anymore. But having that platinum just feels so darn good! 😄
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Yakuza 0 is my first game of the series and screw trying to platinum that! Doing everything on the completion list will definitely stray into the territory of "not at all fun", and that's with me doing as many as possible to get the upgrade points as I go.
@RogerRoger@Kidfried@Th3solution Ah yes there have been l plenty of games where their have been a slow start only to improve after some more play time. It's not a hard and fast rule I live by, usually if I'm near the end and can be bothered to continue playing to finish off the trophies.
The two 'proper' platinums have been in games where I feel the trophies were really achievable and I still wanted to play the game more (Shadow of Mordor and God of War).
There have also been plent of games when I've been playing for ages and thinking when is the first trophy going to pop? Only to find out I'm still doing the tutorial or something! 😂
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Got Spider-Man's platinum today. It's my 19th platinum trophy.
Not a hard platinum, but I didn't like having to get the best rank for some of Taskmaster's challenges just to make every suit.
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@DerMeister I'm only a couple of trophies away from my platinum and should finish it later tonight. Luckily I realised those challenge tokens were scarce early on and didn't waste any on gadgets meaning the suits were much easier to get
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@JohnnyShoulder same here and that's why I only have five platinum with 2 of them being telltale (automatic on completion platinum). Those would be Bloodborne, Horizon Zero Dawn and Spider-Man. I'm currently going through Hollow Knight and I'd like to have that platinum, but if it gets tedious at some point I'm gonna stop playing. Life's too short to chase meaningless platinums just for the sake of it. I've recently tried and gave up on Uncharted 4 platinum. It just wasn't fun playing through the game again just for those trophies.
@Thrillho There are three different endings with a trophy for each, but my understanding is that you can upload your save from a certain point to cut out a lot of the slog.
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@Thrillho I haven't beaten it three times as the only difference is how you end it, so you can save swap. But even without that, the core gameplay is so satisfying that it's fun to play several times and obviously each subsequent playthrough is easier than the previous one due to several reasons. Unfortunately I don't own bloodborne anymore but if I did, I'd be playing it right now again because it's fun.
The Bloodborne platinum is actually pretty fun once you've gotten used to the game. I never bothered with the Dark Souls ones because there were too many items you needed to collect on the second playthrough and I ain't got time for that. With a bit of save file jiggerypokery you can pick up the ending trophies in Bloodborne without a second playthrough, and everything else is pretty cool because a lot of the trophies are just for kicking bosses heads in which is ace. The chalice dungeon bit sucks though.
@Rudy_Manchego I have to say I actually stopped playing it for like two months and then went back to it for the platinum because the chalice dungeons were so annoying for me. I just didn't enjoy them at all.
I didn't mind the chalice dungeons, I can see why people are not so keen as they can get a bit samey. But there is no way I think they are better than anything in the main game.
Life is more fun when you help people succeed, instead of wishing them to fail.
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
Rounding out Shadow of the Tomb Raider (finally), and although I won’t be going for the platinum since I’m not keen on trying for completing the game on the hardest difficulty, I expect by the end (just have the final story mission and one simple side quest to complete, I think) I’ll have something in the neighborhood of 80% completion of the trophy list. I have really enjoyed the way this game handles the trophies, as they pop frequently and are not terribly complex and most have come rather naturally through playing and enjoying the game slowly. Lots of bronzes. I am pretty close to the ‘100% completion’ gold (the only gold in the game I think) but I also won’t likely spend the extra 3-4 hour roaming around to find the last couple relics or treasures, despite the fun I’m having just wandering around, climbing, and exploring. I eventually need to move on to the next game in the backlog.
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I must admit, Bloodborne nearly lost me at the chalice dungeon stage. It was only a matter of principle that I pushed on through for the platinum. I refused to leave it with Amygdala. Once I got past that boss it got easier.
Good job, Parappa. You can go on to the next stage now.
So I decided to take a break from Red Dead 2 for a little while to cleanse the palate so to speak with something simple and light, so I chose Burly Men at Sea. Yeah, it’s pretty much the complete opposite of RDR2 — short (I spent about 2-3 hours to get all the endings), simple controls, trophies pop like wildfire, and the most basic graphics I’ve seen this gen. I actually played it on Vita and it was fine there because there is not combat, and just the simple story (if you can even call it a story, it’s barely that) with limited input and a few decisions that change the outcome. And I basically got the platinum in one sitting (I took a break to eat once). I can’t say I really enjoyed it all that much after the first couple play throughs, but the lure of the platinum kept me going. I feel dirty. ...Welp, I got a shiny platinum, a bunch of golds and silvers, and a few bronzes out of it. Don’t judge.
Now I can go back to Red Dead where I’ll play for 10 hours and maybe get one bronze if I’m lucky.
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