Topic: The Trophy Discussion Thread

@Frigate Wow, high praise indeed! Best 7/10 game on record, it would seem. 😉

@Th3solution So is those Persona dancing games good or what? I spied them in the Big In Japan sale and I quite like a rhythm game and I love Persona and nobody has released a Hatsune Miku game in ages and PaRappa the Rapper is retired so this seems like a good one.

@johncalmc Oh yeah, I’m loving them more than I thought I would. I’m halfway to the P3DIM platinum. P4DAN was probably a little better game because of the better overall characters and more intricate story mode, but P3DIM is probably an easier platinum and more streamlined game presentation. They are great diversion games to just play for an hour or two, or to binge on for a day. I bought P5DIS during the sale because I like them so much, even though I haven’t finished the Persona 5 base game yet. The dance games are actually sort of like sequels to the main game, so I think it will actually be motivation to go back and complete it so I can play the affiliated dance game. 😄

Of note - I’m playing on Vita, which feels great. On PS4 I have heard about some difficulty with lag since it is so timing based. I’m sure it’s fine, but the hard modes can be pretty tricky. On Vita I feel no lag issues, of course.

@Frigate I loved the original Watchdogs at the time. Some of the things it was doing at the time was brand new to me. The amount of people in a scene, the fabrics on the clothes, moving a whole massive bridge in a mission etc. I was blown away and I was seeing 7/10s and stuff like that.

It's a graphical downgrade, the main character was boring etc etc. It was great - imo the last great single player none service game from Ubisoft. Sometimes you just see things in games other people don't want to see.

Finally got the Platinum for Horizon Zero Dawn and 10th in all, absolutely fantastic game with open world combat that is a step above any other game I've played. The game looks amazing (some iffy facial animations aside), plays great and the main story is very good and overall one of the very best games this generation and only bettered in the exclusives department by God of War and possibly Uncharted 4.

Speaking of God of War, that for me is the game of this generation and I'm currently nearing the end of it and then chasing the platinum, with only the Valkyries and those bloody crows that I think may be an obstacle to that end

@RogerRoger I wouldn't say that difficult, I actually had all the hunting grounds done shortly after first arriving at Meridian and that was probably the most difficult trophy but with end game armour I doubt it'd be too hard. My only tip would be very aggressive as the times limits are the only real obstacle and basically just ignore any machine that isn't part of the hunt. As for skills, you should be very close by the time you're level 50 and you get skill point rewards for completing the hunting grounds and some other side activities. I'll put it this way I maxed out the skills despite putting 9 points into the dlc skill tree but not actually completing a dlc quest and my last trophy was the main story one. Overall not too difficult and probably about on par with the Spiderman platinum

@carlos82 @RogerRoger Yeah, the Hunting Grounds trophies turned me off to any pursuit of the Horizon ZD platinum. I’m not very good at timed trials. So I have a 72% completion on the game and I’m fine with that.

On a separate unrelated note, I finally finished platinum #20 and the 3rd for 2019 - Persona 3 Dancing in Moonlight. Clocked in at just over 14 hours. Less of a grind than the P4D platinum because with a little planning the final trophies are more about maxing combos and perfect notes, so they can be played on any song, which was nice to have the variety and not grind an easy song over and over like the last trophy for P4D.

@RogerRoger I used some online vids to give pointers for some of them as they could be quite tough. I seem to remember you unlock some pretty good weapons if you do complete them all too?

@carlos82 The GoW collectibles were a bit of a pain as there was no easy way of knowing exactly which collectible/crow you had missed in an area. And as most areas were quite linear anyway, I ended up almost having to replay areas to get everything.

@Thrillho I've literally just finished God of War for the first time and am currently on 71% of the trophies. Seeing as my last 2 platinums are Horizon and Spiderman I many as well make it a hat trick of exclusives. Though I can see those crows and finding the last few artefacts to be a bit of a pain but I've completed Muspelheim and just need to do the Valkyries and that place with the mist. Might leave it for now to play a bit of Days Gone and have a rest but I cant wait for the sequel.

@carlos82 oh god, the misty place is so out of keeping with the rest of the game and is such a chore. It’s not so bad once you’ve got a bit of the gear but that was definitely the worst part of the game.

Those three games are all ones even I managed to platinum too!

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I’m currently trying to get the last few bits to get the Hollow Knight platinum and just have the “pantheons” to do which are runs of fighting bosses from the game back to back. There are rest points but die and it’s back to the beginning which can be as frustrating as you’d imagine..

@Th3solution @RogerRoger I've got 75% completion for HZD, so quite chuffed with that as I too tend to veer away from any time based trials. I give em a go, but when it gets to a certain difficulty my anxiety gets the better of me and just move on to something else. I highly doubt if I ever go back to it either.

@carlos82 @RogerRoger @JohnnyShoulder @Thrillho I struggled with a particular time challenge, you blow up barrels on dinosaurs backs to then pickup something and another you had to lure dinosaurs near log traps. Both of them sucked big time. The first one because the minute you took down a dinosaur every dinosaur in the world knew about it and the area went crazy. The second because the dinosaurs didn't go anywhere near the log traps.

It drove me that mad I started calling all the robots dinosaurs. Even the none dinosaur one.

I'm on my way to platinum 42 with Burnout Paradise remastered. Unfortunately I've hit a glitch whilst trying to find every car park. No matter what I do and how often I visit them (I've checked a guide and video) it won't pop. So annoying. Once I'm done with the last licence I will wipe my save file to get the missing trophy

I know how I've done it too. By using a motorbike early doors and crashing the barriers away - one of the carparks won't register as found.

@themcnoisy Glitches with trophies preventing platinums are the worst, I've had a few games do it to me. One was Burnout Paradise Remastered as well with something not registering so I just gave up with it. I also had Fallout 4 glitch, not allowing me to get one of the endings so I also gave up with that too.

@themcnoisy yeah that's one of the early hunting grounds and I'd argue possibly the hardest or at least most frustrating. I had the same trouble first time and it kind of convinced me I wasn't going ot be able to do the others. At some point I returned and did it using the electric trip wires to stun them in place before releasing the logs but definitely tricky as the Grazers just run away from you. Pretty much every one after that is just combat based and with enemies that don't flee making them a fair bit easier and most I got full suns first time

Platinum #57 Days Gone.

I got the platinums in the Persona 3, Persona 4, and Persona 5 dancing games.

@johncalmc Sounds soul destroying. Without ever meeting you John one thing is for certain you have both persistence and the ability to see tasks through to the end.

Currently playing Pinball arcade which has a million Trophies it seems. The downside is they are mostly impossible. 0.1% is the norm for the vast majority.

Team Sonic Racing has failed to grab me this time. I'm quickly coming round to the idea of putting a big story driven game on to boost my trophy count.

@themcnoisy Honestly I really like the Persona music so it's not bad. The one for 4 is a bit much because it's got a full story mode. I preferred the other two with more dancing and then just some little vignettes for story.

@johncalmc I’m glad you enjoyed them. Yeah, the story mode in 4 does go on for a long stretch and I liked the more streamlined approach to 3 (haven’t played 5 yet but I assumed it’s a cut and paste of 3, which is fine by me). I just loved the characters in 4, including the new ones they brought in. Who would have thought pop idols would be all that interesting. And the dance instructor cracked me up. But yes, the story dragged a bit. Did you play on PS4 and if so how was it as far as any lag or timing issues?