Topic: The Trophy Discussion Thread

@Keith_Zissou I’ve been playing for a couple of weeks so I reckon around the 50 hour mark? I can check on that later. The main story is pretty linear with plenty of fast travel available once you’ve visited areas before. Plenty of side missions and other optional stuff on top.

Disco Elysium is brilliant though but not that short either.

@render @colonelkilgore As I said elsewhere, I never played Alan Wake but had a quick read of the plot. It was clever to work that game into the overall world covering both games. The light mechanic in that DLC made the game feel a little different.

So far in Foundations I’ve only unlocked the first new ability and it’s been a bit slow so far. I think I sometimes find it hard to push on once I’ve already finished the main game.

@render @Thrillho yeah, there have definitely been rumours of it... and I reckon it'd sell pretty well too given the 10million sales of Control.

@Keith_Zissou Seems I was a bit off with my estimated play time..

35 hours for Control (so far)
37 hours for Disco Elysium

@Thrillho Congrats on Control plat. Was a favorite of mine. Like others have said, the Foundation DLC area was really aesthetically a nice change of pace. The abilities are alright too. Overall I liked it more than most people, who rank it as the lesser of the two DLCs but I think it was on par with AWE.

Just got platinum (#88) for Prey on PS4. Pretty good game, kinda like a bioshock/deux ex mash up on a spacestation. Took around 40-45 hours with two playthroughs and a little bit of save scumming for otherwise missable trophies. I would recommend it just for the tension & apprehension of the first few hours when mimics seem to jump out at you from everywhere.

@Thrillho
Good work on the Control shiny. Like most others I also really enjoyed that in all its weirdness a few months back. Also appreciated that you didn't have to get 100% of the stuff for collectables trophies if I recall correctly.

@colonelkilgore
@JohnnyShoulder
Good work guys (belatedly) on the recent plats.

@Sorteddan I know you said it was maybe a 6 or 7 out of 10 the other day… does that stand or did your rating change at all during the course of your playthrough?

I remember it seemed to get really average reviews on its release but seems to have really grown in people’s opinions (a lot of the Youtubers I watch) over the last few years it has been out. I really enjoyed the Dishonored games, so I’m quite curious to give it a go.

@colonelkilgore
I would stick with that, probably go for a 7. It's pretty good but not great. Exploring is interesting but it maybe drags a bit towards the end. Enemies are fairly menacing but once you upgrade enough they merely slow you down rather than challenge you, also they respawn in areas you previously cleared and as ammo is hard to come by/create and the game involves a bit of backtracking you are just as well running past them as taking them down.
I enjoyed the first play, head down grinded the second and was glad to see the final trophies pop so I can move into something else.

@Sorteddan 88 plats is good going!

Prey is one of those games I’ve half had on my radar but most people who play it seem to put it in the same sort of 7/10 category.

@colonelkilgore @render That didn’t take long

@Thrillho that’s what I call service! 🤯

edit. I’d also really like a million pound please Remedy 🤲.

@Thrillho @colonelkilgore Amazing! It’s not often games companies listen to us users. Perhaps Sony will take note 😉

I’d also like a million but happy to take that in free games over the course of my lifetime if that’s easier thanks Remedy 🤞

Returnal plat! 54 hours into it and I only understood around half of it!

Good stuff @Iver & @Just_2_milky, I thought GoT was a joy but yet to play Returnal (it's one of the games I'm most looking forward to though).

54 hours sounds pretty good for Returnal by all accounts.

@Iver congrats and that’s a fair assessment. Jin isn’t exactly oozing with personality. But I grew to like and appreciate him. Great and beautiful game, though, as you say. And well worthy of a sequel.

@Just_2_milky Congrats on the Returnal plat. Yeah - 54 hrs is pretty good. I am quite a few collectibles shy of the platinum and have close to 80 hrs invested.

@Iver I feel like I ask this of anyone who plays Ghost but did you play in English or with subtitles?

I played with subtitles and Jin felt like a solid character. I tried English language for a bit but the voicing felt really wooden to me like that.

@Iver awesome!

I'm currently playing it myself.

Got the Sackboy platinum the other day. Good fun from start to finish

@Gremio108 Congrats on getting that!

I'm stuck on getting the last few, one of which is finishing the final knitted knight trial in a reasonable time. I've watched a few videos and don't seem to be able to pull of some of the amazing moves that some do.

@Gremio108 heard that’s actually quite a tough one, well earned!

@colonelkilgore @RogerRoger Cheers folks!

@render Have you made it to the end yet? When I finally made it, I was surprised to find that time wasn't as much of a factor as I thought it would be. You can definitely get away with taking it slow in places.

My advice would be to practice the trials individually and work out which ones you're better at, and allow yourself some extra time on your trickier ones. Then put it all into practice on the big one. You'll get it eventually - after all, you've already completed them, so you've got it in your locker.