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Forgot to mention the horrific, god awful trophy list. Pro can’t solve that problem either, it requires competent developers that cater to trophy hunters instead of forcing bad trophy decisions on us.

Wait, why are they all excited now? This is a nothing but a Fed-Ex walking simulator, or so sneered countless fanboys through clenched teeth and tear-stained faces🤔

Hhngghhhh…interesting.

Astrobot. Nothing else comes close.

The article subtitles are strong with this one.

I bypassed their consumer unfriendly, digital only debut. Once they broke and released the physical disc version of the game that should have been there at launch, I had no problem giving them my $70.

“Try Remaster, but hole”

I enjoyed Ghostwire Tokyo, but was quickly soured when they shoehorned in that awful roguelite dlc mode. They should have left well enough alone, or at least not attached trophies to it, forcing trophy hunters to slog through that tedium just to get back to the previous 100% completion status. Bad move to add a mode that’s fundamentally different to the core game. I didn’t sign up for mindless rogue lite stuff, and wouldn’t have initially played the game had I known in advance they would have added it.

Looks more like a warning to me. Danger! You won’t be able to play any owned software out of the box, only rented and fake-owned digital titles which are in reality only licensed. To that I say, in the tradition of Charleton Heston You can have my discs when you pry them from my cold, dead hand.

My car wouldn’t start this morning. I place the blame squarely on Sony seeking to further their monopoly in the gaming sector.

If you’re looking for platform-wide standardization of what is and what is not acceptable trophy criteria, along with the ability to permanently erase games with partially completed trophies from your trophy list, as well as the option to do something as simple as sort them alphabetically instead of the terrible ‘last game you earned a trophy in gets bumped to the top of the list’ method…now is not a good time to get a PlayStation.

“Look, it doesn't take a genius to know that any organization thrives when it has two leaders. Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents. A boat that sets sail without two captains. Where would Catholicism be without the popes.”

I enjoyed Ghostwire very much, until they added that god awful rogue lite mode. It isn’t so much that they added a mode I have less than no interest in, it’s that they screwed over trophy hunters by shoehorning in additional trophies attached to that mode. Now I have to slog through that garbage just to get back to 100% completion. Note to self, either don’t buy another Tango Gameworks game or wait a year or so to make sure they haven’t butchered the trophy list.

@ATaco my thoughts exactly.

So that means they’ll Auto Unlock the trophies or else permanently remove the sku from the accounts of anyone who bought into the game but wasn’t able to platinum it before it was taken offline, right? Of course not. What good is a refund when a perfect account filled with a long list of games 100%+Platinum’d is now permanently stained by something sitting at 25%, 44%, 95% etc completion without any ability to erase it from the list? Another middle finger to trophy hunters. I myself am not affected, as I actively avoid games of this type for expressly this reason, but I imagine it’s gut wrenching to any trophy hunters in that boat.

These platform holders need to cater trophy/achievement design, implementation and execution to trophy/achievement hunters …the only people who really care about trophies to begin with.

Honestly so much depends on the trophy list as to whether or not I’ll give it a try, or avoid it like the plague. I remember Destiny 1 had that awful ‘Beat a raid without anyone in your fireteam dying’ trophy. That trophy alone is the reason I never even touched Destiny 2, fear they might add something like it. I would never pick up another game that put the onus of whether or not I get a trophy on the skill of multiple other people. If they shoehorn something like that into Marathon, count me out.

Very much enjoying what the PS5 brings to the table, both games and menu/interface design. Absolutely hate the physical design of the plastic box itself. Ugliest thing I’ve ever had the misfortune of looking at. This 30th anniversary color scheme is the only one that looks even remotely half decent—this should not be limited, this should have been the standard design of the system since launch (same with Pro variant). They need to show whoever designed the PS5’s plastic shell the door (along with whoever gave it the ‘ok’) and bring back whoever conceived the glorious PS1, PS2 and PS4 launch models.

Still waiting on a good 3D Sonic game.

To quote the late, great, Darth Sidious:

”Wipe them out. All of them.”

sigh…Just imagine a Bloodborne Remake/Remaster 😢

Awesome character actor, such a shame he passed. I loved him as the concierge type character in the John Wick movies. Great voice on this dude, very talented voiceover work as well.

As I posted on the last relevant article, this is fantastic news for trophy hunters. All too often devs will shoehorn in terrible trophies alongside new DLC content, sometimes based around game modes many of us have less than zero interest in. The Uncharted series springs to mind; I bought, played and loved the original for its single player story. I expected more of the same with Uc2, and I got it—but then they crammed in some multiplayer mode I didn’t want to bother with, but was forced to because of a slew of accompanying trophies (some of the most ill-conceived, poorly designed trophies ever to stain a Sony console, btw).

Trophy hunters want nice, neat, clean, concise lists that can be accomplished in a single playthrough so that we can move on to the next game. The last thing we want is to have to trudge through something we’ve already played and shelved just to get back to the ideal 100% trophy completion for that title.

Tips hat, spits tobacco

I don’t like it. No sir, not one bit.

The core systems all function well, but that atrocious visual aesthetic bumped a ‘Great’ vote down to just ‘Good’. I can only stomach the awful menus and UI for so long before I have to stop playing. I detest the frenetic, splatter menus more than anything in the world—give me a clean, legible, concise menu system any day over this Jackson Pollock haphazard design. It’s like a monkey threw menus at the screen instead of its own you-know-what.

I couldn’t be happier. All too often devs put out a game with a well designed trophy list, only to come back to it 6 months later with some dlc content packed with god awful modes or additional ultra nightmare hardcore difficulty settings with new trophies attached. This is a cardinal gaming sin. Not everyone likes low effort, tacked on wave survival trash, and not everyone wants to slog through a game they’ve already played all over again on some absurd difficulty just to get their trophy percentage back to 100%. There are games I never would have bought or played if I had known what the future doc would be (looking at you, Days Gone, Little Big Planet and Uncharted 2-4). Knowing Spiderman 2 can be done and DONE trophy wise frees me up to tackle the next great game without obsessing over whether they’ll shoehorn in some poorly thought out trophies.

Love the new hub. Major improvement! Now we only need the ability to permanently delete games off our trophy lists with partially completed trophy percentages (delete, not merely ‘hide’). Since there is no standardization industry wide as to what is acceptable trophy criteria and what is heinously offensive, we need the option to eradicate a partially completed game from our lists. I have passed on spending literally thousands of dollars on various games due to the devs forcing stupid or otherwise obscenely ridiculous trophy requirements. The option to wipe a game off our lists, no matter what % complete the trophies are, would instantly alleviate this issue.

Also, PS3 let us alphabetize the list. Why in the world would they remove this fantastic option and force a strictly worse ‘Last game you earned a trophy in gets bumped to the top of the list’ method? Instead of a neat, clean, alphabetized list it’s now a garbled mess.

@Czar_Khastik I see your pre-patched Cyberpunk and raise you a fully patched Bethesda game of your choice. $20 says I fall through the map, get stuck in the stairs or the game crashes before you encounter your first glitch.

I’d rather have no trophies than poorly designed ones.

Wait, is PlayStation one of their partners in the partner showcase or something?

Such an amazing game, with such a horrendously awful trophy list. As someone with less than no interest in multiplayer who bought this for more of the same single player epicness the first game brought, slogging through those god awful online trophies was an infinite chore. Then they repeated the mistake with 3, and made it even worse with 4’s tacked on horde mode trash. All multiplayer trophies should have been in a separate list so as not to ruin the experience for everyone who didn’t want to be bothered by that slop. Makes me shudder to think what sorts of trophies the game director will allow them to shoehorn into Uncharted 5.

My personal GotY easy.

In other breaking news, the Earth is round. Of course, this statement will also have its naysayers and deniers with heads buried in the sand.

Best Buy sent me a mangled, mutilated copy. It didn’t even ship in a bubble mailer, it was literally a brown paper bag wrapped around the game. I can’t believe the incompetence of whoever deemed this an acceptable way to ship something so easily broken in transit. They might as well have stuck a post-it note to the jewel case and thrown it in the outgoing mail just like that. Couldn’t even quickly exchange it for an in-store copy, because they never ordered any due to an overabundance of lesser ‘people’ buying digital instead of physical. Uncivilized savages

Fantastic game (even though the trophies were pretty awful, not sure how that received approval from the lead director…). A true tragedy there was never a 60fps pro patch, or improved performance through PS5 backward compatibility. Let’s go, Sony, these are easy layups you’re missing.

Still waiting on a good 3D Sonic game. Until then, I’m more than happy to play nearly perfect 2D gems like Sonic Mania. Perhaps one day we will actually get a good 3D Sonic after all.

How about a Best Trophy list/Worst Trophy list category?

FF7Rebirth hands down worst nightmare slog of a trophy list, while Astrobot takes the crown with an absolutely perfect trophy list.

Hnnghhhh…that would be good— DAMN GOOD

I’ll miss the feel of newsprint between my fingers. At least the last issue has [the remake of] one of the greatest games of all time on the cover. Nice way to go out.

To quote the great Senator Palpatine, “Wipe them out. All of them.”

Cross button placement is fine as far as I’m concerned, although I wouldn’t mind offset analog sticks if I’m being perfectly honest…

I wonder how many Bloodborne Remakes/Remasters $400 million equates to 🤔

Unpopular opinion, but I didn’t think GoW Ragnarok was all that good. I love the original trilogy, and was blown away by GoW 2018, but Ragnarok was a letdown. Story was bland and characters were hit or miss, but the most egregious offender was incredibly poorly written dialogue that felt extremely anachronistic. By the end of the game I half expected Kratos to shout “Boy! Let’s hop in da sled and bounce out this joint!”

At least it looked nice and played well. I just wanted more, especially after GoW 2018. Also glad the tacked on rogue lite mode they shoehorned in was mercifully brief. Once I unlocked those trophies, I dropped that trash immediately and never looked back. I wonder if they’re forcing PC players to slog through that mode for the trophies, or if it was reworked to better cater to trophy hunters with better things to do with their time.

No interest unless they remove those awful additional trophy requirements they shoehorned in post-launch. Bad trophy design will immediately kill any interest in a game I might otherwise have. Not everyone enjoys low effort, tacked on modes that offer no compelling immersive content. Developers should cater trophy lists to trophy hunters, the only people who really care about trophies to begin with.

Sacrilege…

Is what I wanted to say but for some reason the site won’t let me post just that, so I have to add this post-comment explanation which now detracts from my initial statement.

I had always just assumed it was a play on words. You work all day in the office on your computer workstation, then go home and play on your PlayStation.

Seeing quite a bit of ‘This is the most colossal failure in the history of the universe’ hyperbole here. Is Concord hot garbage? Of course. Should it ever have been greenlit? No way. Even so, I’d cite Redfall and Suicide Squad as two objectively worse titles in recent memory.

Here’s a question for everyone.

How will trophy hunters be affected by this?With refunds issued and access being removed soon, will those who invested in the game be permanently locked out of being able to 100% + Platinum the Concord trophy list? This is precisely why I avoid online-only games like the plague. If the game is fundamentally altered, the existing trophies may be permanently unobtainable.

Without any industry wide standard as to what is acceptable trophy/achievement criteria and what is not, nor having the ability to permanently erase games with partially completed trophies from our lists, this is a very real issue. I, for one, have no interest in seeing a game sitting at 42%, 65%, 98% etc on my trophy list and the specific nature of a game’s trophies is a large influence on whether or not I decide to purchase or skip it entirely. There is no reason platform holders cannot or should not cater to trophy and achievement hunters, who are realistically the only people who actually care about trophies/achievements in the first place.

They say if you stand in front of a mirror and say “Slitterhead” three times, Colin Moriarty will appear and chastise you.

@xDD90x My thought exactly.

Still no way to alphabetize our trophy lists. This was available on PS3, then subsequently removed for reasons unknown on PS4 and has yet to make a return on PS5. Many of us aren’t fans of the ‘last game played goes to the top of the list’ method…