Topic: The Trophy Discussion Thread

@johncalmc do you play games for trophies or for enjoyment? I don't understand why would you move on because trophies are buggy while the game is good?

@NecuVise I play them for fun, but there are some tasks I'll do over and above just playing for fun to totally finish a game off trophy wise. Like, nobody on this Earth can honestly say that maxing out the entire sphere grid in Final Fantasy X is fun, but if it's the final thing to do to get the platinum and 100% the game you might well do it. With Hitman 2 I'd beaten every location multiple times and had a blast, but then since I was so close to getting all of the trophies in some of the locations I started doing some extra stuff - still fun, actually - but I probably wouldn't have if there wasn't trophies attached to it.

I guess it's an in for a penny in for a pound thing. Like I wouldn't play a rubbish game I didn't enjoy just for trophies, but if I'm in there and I've done most of it naturally, I'll hang around and do some other stuff to pick up the rest of the trophies.

@johncalmc oh, that's a totally different thing and it didn't sound like that in the previous post. Could you share you thoughts on Hitman 2 in its official thread?

@NecuVise Well, I reviewed it on this very site, but if there's anything else you want to know about it feel free to ask.

@johncalmc I wasn't aware of that, shame on me! Is it accessible to newcomers? Should newcomers start with 2 or play the previous one first?

@NecuVise I would personally play the first one first a) because the story of the second one starts directly after the end of that game, and b) it's great so you might as well.

@johncalmc I see, thanks let's hope we get it as a psplus game.

@RogerRoger Burly Men at Sea is supposed to be quite easy and its free on ps+ until Tuesday.

Do people have a platinum they’re most proud of?

Mine would probably be CoD:WaW back on the PS3. I was a student at the time so couldn’t afford many games so used it as a chance to get the most out of the game. Certain trophies were highly specific and skilled, like taking out the sniper target with your pistol instead, but completing the game on top difficulty was a huge challenge but a really rewarding one.

On the flip side, I’ve always hated the Naughty Dog games for trophies as they’re so collectible heavy and often have a really reliance on “kill x number of enemies with this one weapon” which is normally a slog.

@Thrillho bloodborne Plat trophy and hzd ng+ on ultra difficulty are my showcases, but I have only 5 platinum (Spiderman and 2 telltale games).

@NecuVise Nice. I think I did alright with Bloodborne but it’s the multiple endings that got me and I’m not dedicated enough to faff with cloud saves to do it that way. But I might not have got all the chalice dungeon ones either.

@Thrillho I was always proud of my Fallout 3 platinum, it being the first one I got. And the Soulsborne ones too, obviously.

I finally got the platinum for Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime the other day, I'm very pleased with that one because it's one of my favourite games of recent years.

I remember that World at War trophy list by the way. Me and my friend got most of them, but we were playing on his PS3 at the time so they went to him, unfortunately!

@RogerRoger Burly Men At Sea was my thirtieth platinum too!

@Thrillho Definitely the Downwell platinum for me. That feeling when I finally beat the boss on hard mode...

@Thrillho The Witness is the one I'm most proud of because it's really hard.

For those who haven't played The Witness, first of all it's awesome and you should, and second of all it's got a ludicrous hidden puzzle that you need to complete for the Platinum. Most of the game isn't too bad and I found the puzzles to be really satisfying to solve - although I really struggled with the audio ones and had to look a couple up online. For shame.

Anyway, the final hidden challenge is totally ridiculous. It's something like 15 puzzles back to back that you need to solve, but some of them are actually unsolvable and it doesn't tell you which. You need to work out that the unsolvable ones are unsolvable and then reset them and crack on. Also once you fail all of the puzzles reset and they're different the next time so you can't just memorise them. Or something. It's been a while. Anyway, you've got to solve these 15 tough puzzles while In The Hall Of The Mountain King plays in the background and you've got like six minutes to do it all. There's mazes involved to run around - which I hate anyway - and some of the puzzles involve rotating things - all sorts of stuff is going down, all while classical music is blaring in the background.

I spent like three good days on that puzzle. Doing it over and over. I failed and failed and failed. There were a few times I nearly sent my pad flying. My fiance was laughing at me and couldn't believe I kept going. But in the end I did it and danced around the room like a hero. There were platinum trophies that took longer to get or whatever, but none felt like quite as much of an accomplishment.

A month or so later, I got a message off a random dude on PSN offering me $5 to log into his account and do the puzzle for him. Given how long it took me to best, that's probably an hourly rate of like $0.22 per hour. I declined his offer.

@JJ-firl I've not even heard of that game but looking at the trophy list alone, that seems like a good effort to hit platinum.

@johncalmc That last puzzle is supposed to be completely random isn't it so, unlike the rest of the puzzles in the game, you can't google the answer. Another doff of the hat to that platinum.

@Gremio108 The Bethesda games are some of the few that I've platinumed consistently; FO3, FO4, Skyrim (damn you New Vegas and your survival mode which I did almost complete on a second game but moved onto something else)

@RogerRoger I wouldn't say I chase platinums but was slightly surprised to see I have 17 of them now.

For anyone who is interested, my list is;

PS3
CoD WaW (my first!)
Fallout 3
God of War
God of War 2
Mass Effect 2
Skyrim
Mass Effect 3
The Walking Dead
The Wolf Among Us

PS4
Far Cry4
Fallout 4
Tales From the Borderlands
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Horizon Zero Dawn
Game of Thrones
God of War (2018)
Nier Automata (cheap platinum as I bought the last few)

A lot of Telltale padding in there And damn you God of War 3 for ruining my clean sweep for the series!

@Thrillho Yeah it's random. There's like 15 of them and they totally change each time. The layout of the room and everything remains the same but each individual puzzle - and the maze bit - is randomised whenever it resets. Honestly it's really rough.

@Thrillho If we're listing plats, here's mine:

PS3
Fallout 3
Split/Second
Fallout New Vegas
Skyrim
GTA V
Sleeping Dogs
Hitman Absolution

PS4
Game of Thrones
Fallout 4
The Walking Dead Series 1
Dark Souls III
Parappa The Rapper
Bloodborne
Everybody's Gone To The Rapture
Tales From The Borderlands
Little Big Planet 3
Ratchet and Clank
Life Is Strange
The Order: 1886
Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin
GTA V (again)
Minecraft Story Mode
Rime
Shadow of the Colossus
God of War
Dirt 4
Batman Series 1
Dark Souls Remastered
Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime
Burly Men At Sea

No idea why I decided to platinum GTA V twice, it's far from being my favourite GTA. But my favourite part of the GTA games has always been driving around finding the collectibles, so once I'd done that I was almost there.

The soulsbornes and the Bethesdas were my favourites, but Sleeping Dogs, Ratchet and Clank and Split/Second were all surprisingly good fun.

Honourable mentions to Assassin's Creed 2 (92%), Vanquish (90-something%) and Rayman Origins (90-something%, I quickly gave up on that online trophy)

@Gremio108 Rockstar games for me are almost as horrible to get trophies in as Naughty Dog games because of all th collectibles etc plus the introduction of gold medals now. Fair play for doing that twice!

You guys have some good platinums heres some of my own

PS3
Fallout new vegas
Atelier Rorona
Atelier Shalle
Hitman Absolution
Dishonored
Fairy Fencer F
Trails of Cold Steel
Trails of Cold steel 2
Rune factory tides of destiny
Ratchet and clank
Resident evil 5
Resident evil 6
Heavy Rain
Bioshock
Bioshock infinite
Silent hill 3
Skyrim
Metro last light
Borderlands
Borderlands 2
Resonance of fate
Last Rebellion
Mass effect
Mass effect 2
Mass effect 3
Zone of the enders
Kingdoms of Amalur Reckoning
Infamous 2
Tales of Graces F
Ar Tonelico Qoga
Jak and Dexter
Sonic Generations
HyperDimension Neptunia Mk2
Sly cooper
Sly cooper 2
Final Fantasy 13
Final fantasy 13 2
Lightning Returns Final fantasy 13
Dragon Age origins
Dragon Age 2
Dragon Age inquisition
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy X2
Ailce Madness Returns
There are some unfinshed ps3 games that won't list yet

PS4
Tokyo Xanadu Ex
Ys 8 Lacrimosa of Dana
Trine enchanted Edition
Trine 3
Metro 2033 Redux
Metro Last Light Redux
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Shenmue
Shenmue 2
Ni no kuni 2
Gravity Rush 2
Resident evil
Life is Strange
Life is Strange Before the Storm
Snining Resonance Refrain
Syberia 3
Secret of Mana
Tera
Assassins Creed 2
The Order 1886
Guardians of the Galaxy
God of War
Batman The Enemy Within
The wolf Among us
Tales from The Borderlands
Batman season 1
Dishonored Definitive Edition
Dishonored 2
Dishonored Death of The Outsider
Game of Thrones
Nights Of Azure 2
Horizon Zero Dawn
Nier Automata
Rachet and Clank ps4
Divinity Original Sin
Blue Reflection
The Witcher 3
Senran Kagura Estival Versus
Yooka Lsylee
Dragon Quest Buliders
Root Letter
Dust An Elysian Tail
Grim Fandango Remastered
Apotheon
Mass Effect Andromeda
Like the ps3 still have lots of unfinshed games to get back to

Looking at other people's list of platinums has been interesting because I've seen some games that I would probably never have remembered that I'd got the platinum in if I hadn't read it here. So now I'm looking through mine, and it's a proper eye opener.

In reverse chronological order (because that's the order they're listed on my profile):

Yoku's Island Express
Jurassic World Evolution
Ni No Kuni II
Detroit Become Human
Uncharted The Lost Legacy
Valkyria Chronicles
Heavy Rain
Transistor
I Am Setsuna
Life Is Strange Before The Storm
Vampyr
Rime
Mad Max
God of War 2018
Batman The Enemy Within
Far Cry Primal
Sleeping Dogs Definitive Edition
World of Final Fantasy
Broken Sword 5
Horizon Zero Dawn
Guardians of the Galaxy
Gravity Rush 2
Final Fantasy XII The Zodiac Age
Aven Colony
Crash Bandicoot
Stories The Path of Destinies
The Bunker
Clockwork Tales
The Witness
The Walking Dead A New Frontier
Odin Sphere
Persona 5
Virginia
BioShock 2
BioShock
Ratchet and Clank 3
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Severed
Zero Time Dilemma
STEINS;GATE
Hitman Go
Batman
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy XV
Code: Realize Guardians of Rebirth (honestly I would never have even remembered playing this game)
Dust An Elysian Tale
Grim Fandango
Sly 1
God of War II
Gravity Rush
Uncharted 4
Game of Thrones
Ratchet and Clank (Remake)
God of War
Fallout 4
Life Is Strange
Bloodborne
Tales From The Borderlands
Volume
Metal Gear Solid 3
Ratchet and Clank 2
Ratchet and Clank
Sound Shapes
Ether One
inFamous First Light
The Wolf Among Us
Hitman Blood Money
inFamous Second Son
The Walking Dead PS4
Final Fantasy X
Ratchet and Clank Nexus
Fallout 3
The Walking Dead PS3
Virtue's Last Reward
Mass Effect 2 (my first ever platinum)