Topic: The Trophy Discussion Thread

@colonelkilgore ...right, but "plats that you want" are for games you basically enjoy and would want to play anyway, right? Would you buy and play a worthless game that is only designed to give players easy access to its platinum trophy? Because that's a thing, and I don't understand it.

But yeah, when designed well, trophies can push you to fully experience a game. I'm not sure I would have played something like Detroit: Become Human as many times as I did if I wasn't going for trophies. I didn't end up getting the platinum for that (yet), but I can absolutely say it led to me appreciating the game design more, even if playing it over and over got a bit tedious.

@Ralizah exactly that, I only try and plat games I want to play as the game appeals to my wants... ie I bought The Evil Within 1 & 2 yesterday both of which are considered difficult Platinums to obtain. I also have the Metal Gear Solid games on the docket for this year and the Devil May Cry series planned for the year after. All of those are considered difficult plats also. That’s not to say either that I only go for difficult platinums exclusively... these are games which I just really want to play.

@Ralizah @colonelkilgore I don't think that i have or will ever play a game just to get a platinum. All my platinum trophies are either games you get by completing the story, like the Telltale Games, or when I gave finished the story/campaign there are only a few obtainable trophies left. If there are any that i feel are obnoxious (replaying the game on a harder difficulty for instance), I move on. God of War and Ghost of Tsushima I could have played for a lot longer. Assassin's Creed Origins I tried to mop the last few trophies, but could feel my enjoyment of the game begin to fall away. I just don't feel it is worth it.

@JohnnyShoulder totally fair bud... and I used to see things exactly the same way. I only went after my first Platinum on Bloodborne as I loved the game so much and when I was discussing it with a mate, he asked if I was gonna ‘go for the plat’. Going for a plat had never even occurred to me before but I thought what the hell, the game was gonna be over shortly and I really wanted to keep playing it so I did.

I had no real intention of going for any others but bit by bit I’ve gone from ‘trophies not figuring in my gaming at all’ to ‘I’ll just Plat Bloodborne’ to ‘If when playing a game, I just really like it I’ll try for the plat’ to ‘I’ll try and plat things I play that only require one playthru and no hard playthru’ to ‘I’ll try and plat every game on the docket’. And in fairness, I’ve gained more and more enjoyment from gaming as I’ve ‘gone through the gears’ as it were.

@colonelkilgore In your 5 year plan (😉) do you placehold games based on their trophies — in other words, specifically intermix more achievable platinums alternating with the harder platinums? If memory serves, it seems like you have difficult platinums stacked back-to-back often. I’m just curious.

For me, I’m similar to @JohnnyShoulder in that my 27 platinums are a lot of easy ones that I just enjoy playing, like the Telltale games, or games where in my natural flow of playing and enjoying it to death I get close so I just push through the last few trophies (GoW, Spider-Man, GoT, Hellblade, etc). However, I do get a little dopamine rush with each trophy, and it seems to correlate with the type of trophy — gold and platinums giving me the biggest rush. So if I’ve played a game that just doesn’t hand out many trophies very easily, I’ll often intersperse another game with easier trophies between game sessions or at least after I complete the harder game.
That and most long games give a handful of trophies at the opening few hours, then you hit a long stretch without hearing a trophy pop, then at the end you get a load of trophies popping quickly in the closing hours. So after I finish a game, I usually have had a pretty good trophy “fix” but it’s the middle where I started to get one eye twitching and go through withdrawals. 😜 So sometimes I just take a little break from the middle of a huge epic and pop a few trophies on a smaller game, as a release.

The psychology of trophy hunting deserves its own chapter in abnormal human behavior 😂. I sound like an addict!

@Th3solution 🤣 I agree about that last sentence, I’m fascinated how trophy hunting has gripped a hold of my (& that of others) psyche... i’ve always been someone who likes a ‘project’ though and I guess that each game I take on now becomes a project as opposed to ‘just’ entertainment.

About my now infamous long-term plan/calendar... I do try to mix things up from one game to the next (& to the next etc). Mostly in terms of genre but also in terms of game length. I don’t tend to play 100+ hour games back to back... and in the same way I wouldn’t play like 20 hours-and-under games back to back neither. I would play multiple ‘average-length’ games on the bounce though, so like games in the 40-60 hour range.

But still, at any time and without warning a game comes up that just has to be played as soon as the current games’ plat is popped. Also, ‘some’ games I save specifically for when I have time off as I just wanna ‘live’ the experience 11/12 hours a day without work getting in the way.

I got the platinum in Danganronpa 1/2 Reload. It took forever and if I'd known what a slog it was going to be before I'd started I wouldn't have bothered.

@johncalmc so just out of interest (as I recently bought the trilogy) how many hours(ish) are we talking?

@colonelkilgore I think that they're probably about 40 hours each. Don't know about the third one as I haven't done that one yet. The games are probably... I don't know... like twenty hours each, and there's probably twenty hours of nonsense after to get the platinum. The second game has slightly more nonsense to contend with. The games themselves are really good but I wasn't anticipating how much boring grindy stuff would be involved in getting the platinum.

@johncalmc fair, 40 hours ain't 'too' bad though... you gonna take a break from the series before starting the 3rd?

@colonelkilgore As someone who platinum’d the first Danganronpa game but not the second, I can attest that the first game wasn’t too bad, but yes, there was post game grinding aplenty. I found the mini game you have to play at the end (in order to max out all the character relationships) to be fairly entertaining in its own right. The post-game content is sort of like a mobile phone game, if I can compare it to anything, with some simplistic game design and graphics. If you’ve become attached to the characters then it’s a nice way to hang out with them a little longer.
But the second game ups the requirements a little more post game, and I didn’t have it in me to devote the extra 20-30 hours or so. Now the third game... supposedly it’s the longest platinum of all (est. 80 hrs or so) Likewise, I didn’t even try, but it’s like the others — it’s not a matter of difficulty, it’s just time consuming.

@colonelkilgore @Th3solution I think I would have felt less irritated by the grind if I'd done the platinum on the Vita version for the two games individually. But when you platinum the Reload version on PS4 you basically have to do everything you did to platinum 1 and everything you did to platinum 2 all in one go and then you get one platinum for it.

I'm already playing the third one now which I've never actually played before. I don't think I'm going to worry about trophies on this one though. PSNprofiles has it listed as a 100 hour platinum.

@johncalmc Ah, I didn’t realize they unified the two games into one platinum on the PS4 version. Yeah, I can see how it would be uber grindey doing both.

@Th3solution Yeah I have them both on Vita too but I wanted to play on PS4 so I did them together. I have to say it annoys me when they bundle games together but give it all one trophy list.

@Th3solution @johncalmc so they merged the trophy lists of 1 & 2 on PS4 eh... disappointing. I bought the trilogy collection and was hoping I'd earn 3 plats out of it... it does make it a less enticing proposition within the backlog in that case.

@colonelkilgore Yeah. On Vita the games were released individually so you get a platinum for each one, but on the PS4 port the first two games were bundled together as Danganronpa 1/2 Reload, and that package has one platinum. Then Danganronpa 3 has its own too.

@johncalmc well, having looked into them a bit since the purchase, i have a feeling they probably wouldn't be my cup of tea anyway.

@johncalmc Well done on the Platinum. Your times do seem pretty quick. I think I spent over 50 hours getting all the achievements in Danganronpa 1. I also spent a similar time playing Danganronpa 2, but ignored some of the more grindy achievements.

So I'm not a trophy hunter by any stretch of the imagination, I have 2 plats Horizon Zero Dawn and Astros Playroom but since reading a few comments on different pages of this forum it has got me thinking what does a Platinum trophy actually mean to you?

I normally like to complete a games story and if the gameplay is good I like to complete all extra side quests/challenges but it has to be a special game to keep me playing for longer than just the main game, the likes of Skyrim, The Witcher 3, God of War and the likes. Mainly due to time restraints it's complete a game and then move on to the next one.

Now it has always scratched away at me that I never got the plat for God of War because I enjoyed that game so much that I don't think of it as a waste of time if I was to replay it but I just moved on because I'm not really a "trophy hunter".

But now I've looked through a list of games that I really enjoyed playing, God of War, Spiderman, Bloodborne,Skyrim and even the game I'm playing now Days Gone and I'm looking at the trophy lists of what I have left to get the plats and I'm thinking I should go for it! I'm even searching online as to how long and how difficult/grindy they would be.

What have you people done to me!!! 🤣

@RogerRoger @MaulTsir I'm not really a trophy hunter either but got addicted to trying to platinum, or get as many trophies as I could, games that I really enjoyed. That started with Uncharted for me and I've generally tried to do all of the Sony exclusives but have branched out into others as well. Recently I got Spider-Man MM Ultimate Edition so have the remastered Spider-Man and rather than importing my save so that all the trophies just pop I've started it again from scratch, just because it's a great game. That's definitely the thing for me, it has to be a great game for me to want to do it but when I find a game I enjoy then I can't rest until it's done. Still kicking myself that I will never ever get that Hollow Knight platinum.