Topic: The Trophy Discussion Thread

@GirlVersusGame A bit of Trivia for you, it's based in Shropshire and Yaughton is basically inspired by Church Stretton which is where I live!! Funnily enough I got platinum for this at the end of last year.

@Oram77 Thanks I love random trivia like that and was curious, but now people know where you live. Was it weird playing a game set more or less where you live? For the longest time I thought it was set in America, had I known otherwise I would have tried it years ago. I don't think I've played many if any games set in Moscow, I feel like maybe Hitman went there once and maybe James Bond. I've lived in the English countryside but saw more of the English countryside in that game. What did Stephen's Dad mean by a den a ken? (I can't spell it) he said it after the fox had to be put down.

The stars have aligned and Yakuza Kiwami 3 is destined to be my 300th platinum trophy.

@johncalmc Do you remember your one hundredth?

I loaded up my old saves for the new Ps5 version of Kingdom Come Deliverance to knock out a few of the more tricky trophies so I can just replay the game in a more relaxed manner. Updating my PSN profile it would seem I managed to get myself on a few first to unlock lists for certain trophies for it. Plus my top 5 rarest trophies on my main page are all now from this game (although I'm sure they will slowly drift back out over time).
I've also noticed I hit my milestone for my 10,000th trophy with this. So that has been immortalised with the trophy 'B*stard' 😬.

With the recent cheats added to FF VII Remake I went back to finish my hardcore run plus a couple of other trophies to grab a totally undeserved platinum for it now.

I can't remember what I last updated but I also recently got the platinums for Tomb Raider: Legend and Red Dead Redemption for PS4 so I will at some point do the PS5 versions as well. It will be interesting if I can remember where all the collectibles are when I do TRL.
I'm pleased to now have a platinum for RDR as I never did for the original PS3 version due to the online trophies.

@GirlVersusGame No idea. 200th was God of War Ragnorak I remember. 100th was probably something stupid.

@BearsEatBeets
Yeah I popped a few of the more annoying KCD trophies, the dlc hardcore ones but unfortunately the no kill trophy didn’t pop despite me not killing anyone (as per trophy description). Other people have had the same problem so I’m a bit concerned now if on replay it won’t pop so I hopefully when I eventually get round to playing it again more details will be available. Still at least I won’t have to do it in hardcore mode (with all the negative perks).

@CaptD That trophy put me off of even going for the platinum so I left a few other trophies requiring another full play as well. I'll probably do the same with the PS5 version as I can't imagine getting through the game without killing (in order to survive myself).

I've been playing Art of Rally over the past few weeks and completed the main Rally mode yesterday (not much of a brag - don't need to do it well just to do it) so had a look at the remaining trophies and knocked off a few of the misc ones.

So I reached a point where I've only got the collectables to find which should be easy enough to wrap up in less than an hour and then the one that looks to be the platinum blocker (surprisingly low rate of around 0.7% despite being fairly easy) which requires 1000 stages to be completed.

Now there doesn't seem to be any counter but I would estimate the rally modes have around 150-200 to do and that took me about 15 hours so I could do that again 4-5 times and reach it in maybe 60 more hours... Nope! The shortest stage is around a minute and a half so I could do that 800 times in 1200 or so minutes -@20 hours more... Nope. So checking trophy guides and internet searches it seems it can be done in a few hours as it counts as a completed run it the car is destroyed. So a particular stage, set severe damage and driving one of the faster cars means you can accelerate to over 90mph and hit a barrier causing terminal damage. Then you can restart and do it again... repeatedly.

I was doing that this morning, can do around 5 runs a minute but as I was mindlessly accelerating into a crash barrier I thought it's a good job I don't have to explain my actions or justify what I'm doing because it looked like the type of thing an angry toddler may get up to. Got me thinking of the crazy things I (we?) may do just to get that trophy and earn another shiny plat that only I really care about (and I don't really care that much). As I was travelling to work it occurred to me that we only have a finite amount of time on this earth and I've decided to spend a portion of mine repeatedly smashing a video game rally car into a barrier, restarting and doing it again. And again.

Happy trophy hunting people.

@sorteddan
Grinds like that are obnoxious but it looks like you have found a decent workaround.
I felt this way about the Skate trophies, I thought “i can’t be arsed” but I did it anyway.

I’m actually doing a horrendous grind at the moment in Hellsweeper, a VR game. It has various classes, about 12 I think and each has their own perks, all go up to level 50. The thing is to get to level 50 is probably 25 hours of grinding and you can’t speed it up because the XP is capped per level so even running levels at a higher difficulty increasing the kills and whatnot results in zero benefit.
Very annoying but it is an awesome game so I’m enjoying it to a degree. Just pleased I’m only doing a single class but I’m sure there are people out there that will max level all 12 classes.

Platinum 144: Kingdom Come Deliverance PS5 version, having 60FPS really does make playing this game 100X better, the visuals are also very pleasing to look at especially the land scapes (I believe they are compared to ultra setting on PC), I will say however the game crashed.... like a lot but with this being a free upgrade I can't grumble too much. Overall it was a joy to replay this game to get the platinum (with help from my PS4 save data) and it really makes you appreciate all the changes they did for KCD2 which in my opinion is one of the best RPGs ever made.

Platinum # 78 Marvel's Spiderman

This went very fast. Three nights at three hours each then one hour for the rest of the clean-up. There was nothing that difficult about the game or about the challenges and such that lead to one hundred percent. The game itself was fine, some very good set-pieces, very fluid combat and movement. Earlier game was a little slow for my liking but I understand they needed to focus on some fan-service and ease people into the action. It all ramped up around the seventy percent mark of the story and things got a lot more interesting. There was nothing wrong with the earlier segments of the game, I just prefer the faster harder hitting pace of that late game content. I might try the DLC but NewGame+ is not that likely, at least not for two trophies. My favorite thing about the game was throwing things at people, people at things and people at people. Maybe I'll try Miles Moralis too, eventually.

@GirlVersusGame Nice work. And definitely play Miles Morales, especially if you're going to play the sequel.

MM is a much shorter experience and benefits from it. You can blast through the NG+ mode for the platinum in no time at all when you just railroad the main story. While Miles obviously shares a lot of abilities with Peter, he also has his own move set too which makes it cool to play, as well as offering the different perspective on New York life too.