Topic: The Trophy Discussion Thread

@redd214 Good tips, thanks. Congratulations on getting that one!

@Gremio108 thanks and you're welcome happy to help!

Recently I've been finding going for the platinum a ton less fun recently. The games in my rotation pretty much for 6 months have had some bad Trophies.

I've got Dreams, RoundGuard, Puyo Puyo Tetris and another few all easily done - but they all have 1 or 2 Trophies when it's just too time consuming. I've mastered them all pretty much and just can't face wasting my life way after the point of fun. Dreams in particular has you recording a particular type of animation for 1 hour and 42 minutes altogether, if it was all the types of animations great but it's not. I like using microchips to automate as it's more efficient.

First World problem of course, easily sorted though and a bit of thought towards the end user would help. RoundGaurd has you finishing it's 3 hour ish campaign 11 times - sometimes with nerfs! Bear in mind it's a rogue like version of peggle so you can die. Completing an indie game 11 times is way over the top, it's good but not a game you would actively finish 11 times in a world before Trophies.

Feel the need to drop a gimme plat to feel better.

@themcnoisy Just play games for fun and stop when the fun stops. When a game starts to become chore to play I usually just move on. So what if you miss out on a few trophies?

@JohnnyShoulder Trophies appeal to the old school score chaser in me. From the relief of moving from the xbox to ps4 originally, no pressure from grabbing achievements. Now I want to hit an arbitrary figure of 50 plats and am stuck of 46.

My own worst enemy in that respect. Its like the gambling tag line 'when the fun stops, stop' but just like gambling that's very difficult when you have a trophy on the line. Either getting a platinum or 100% Trophies is a natural moment to move on. Get the game out of the backlog.

Even yesterday Pang adventures (great game BTW we should have 2 player if you fancy it) you have to finish every level of the world tour mode and 3 star every level. There are 99 levels. Of its list one trophy has a 0.1% completion.

Sorry @KratosMD I was writing my reply at the same time you commented.

I agree, Trophies play on something in my psyche unfortunately. Its not even like I punch the air and start chanting when a trophy pops. I grabbed one in Puyo Tetris I have been attempting since 2017, it popped and I was like, great, what's the next one.

Some games don't have a platinum trophy... Does it depend on Sony?

what i like about sony exclusives is that there is never a difficulty related trophy in the base trophy list.
you can still get the plat without having to put up with the hardest dificulties.

and to cap it off nicely is that they always add a hard mode trophy for those who want it,later on as a bonus trophy.

@jdv95 That isn't true. Uncharted has difficulty trophies that are required to get the platinum.

almost never than

@andreoni79 I think @get2sammyb wrote an article about this a couple of years ago.

There didn't seem to be a reason. In some instances full games released without a plat.

@crimsontadpoles @jdv95 Other than Unchartered I think the vast majority of Sony Studio games try to have an achievable plat. Spiderman, HZD, Order 1886. All fair and achievable by most gamers. I'm having a bit of an issue with the Dreams trophy list (all pre release gamers had to redo everything again) but it's a time thing rather than the list being difficult.

@themcnoisy I was wondering since a game like Adr1ft has different bronze trophies at <0,5% while HZD platinum is at 6%.
It's a shame my efforts in the outer space are considered not so worthy!

Yeah that's true. It's great that they do this, and let the player play how they like without locking them out of a potential platinum.

I’m still in mourning over God of War. At this rate I’ll end up buying it for my mum and then sneakily play that last 30 minutes to get the platinum while I’m there. At least that way I’m not chucking money at it for the sole purpose of getting that platinum but at the same time it’s totally sitting in the back of my mind, taunting me.

Sony's first party games have certainly done a good job of late of keeping 'hard difficulty' trophies separate with a new game plus update, if adding one at all. It will be interesting to see if Naughty Dog embraces this philosophy with TLOU 2 or continues with their own record of having the extra hard trophies.

@nessisonett How is it you're just short of the Plat without having it?

@andreoni79 people may have given up on adrift earlier. HZD is a great game, combined with its great trophy list which helps rather than hinders the experience.

@BearsEatBeets I played it through Now and I polished off everything except Sigrun, including all the extra stuff in the mist and fire places but the game went off Now just as I was about to fight her. I know this is literally case and point why people aren’t a fan of these services but I probably wouldn’t have got round to the game otherwise and I played the rest of the series through Now first. Now I’m like a travelling cowboy, spreading my tale of woe and dissuading people from this path I walk alone.

@nessisonett I see, that's a shame. I'm fairly sure the game is pretty cheap nowadays, physical and digital. Depending on your skill you still might get several hours game time out of it just trying to beat Sigrun.

@BearsEatBeets The gnawing feeling of the game being incomplete keeps me up at night. If there’s a sale soon that brings the price down to about £8, I’ll bite.