Topic: The Trophy Discussion Thread

@ApostateMage @Kidfried
Well congrats on that. And just fyi that's more than a week real time.

@Gremio108
Well done.
I also enjoyed it when I played it. I remember the first time the voices whispered that I was gonna fall off of a beam... I immediately did! Made me laugh.

@johncalmc @Gremio108 @ApostateMage @Kidfried @Just2Milky @WCB @ScarletSpidey congratulations one and all! LOT of platinums this week 🥳

#316 Far Cry 6 - Same old thing by the laziest studio in the business. Take any Far Cry game, apply a Just Cause skin on it and you got your full price game ! At least I haven't paid for it. It's still repetitive dumb fun but hey, it works.

#317 Paper Beast - This was a weird one. I found the world and the beasts fascinating, IA and physics are great, but I didn't really enjoy playing it. Puzzles were a bit too convoluted and nothing is really explained. Easy and short platinum apart from that infamous Walkman trophy, one of the dumbest trophies I've ever seen.

@Kidfried I remember saving when I thought I was close to the end after 89 hours. Oooh boy, how wrong I was.

@ApostateMage @Kidfried I had a similar experience with underestimating my remaining playtime with Persona 5. I ended with a total playtime of ‘only’ around 125 hours, if memory serves, but I kept thinking I was close to the end for the last 30-40 hours. 😅 Which is of course enough time to have completed something like Ratchet & Clank 3 times over.
The last game I had when I felt that same sense of “shouldn’t this game be wrapping up by now?” was with Red Dead Redemption 2. It was another one where you felt like it was about to be over…. and then it wasn’t.

(Both games are excellent, by the way. Not complaining)

@Cornaboyzzz congrats mate, as a low-key Farcry fan, I’m looking forward to playing the latest… picked it up relatively cheap the other day but it’ll be a while until I play it though sadly.

Platinum #62 - Metal Gear Solid 4

@colonelkilgore

@Iver @Thrillho @Jimmer-jammer cheers guys, though the shines been taken off it a little... I'm a hairs breadth off the MGS2 plat as well but ive found out tonight that the remaining Hold Up alternate missions i have left require the touch-sensitive dualshock 3 original. I've ordered a refurbished one this evening, so fingers crossed that the guy who ends up refurbing mine is a master of his craft and that he pulls a god damned R2D2 and puts that **** together remarkably well!

Don't you guys hate missable trophies?

@Voltan I’d take a whole list of missables over trying to hold up enemies with an M4 on MGS2 right now. I’ve done a bit more research and it’s a problem even using an original touch-sensitive DualShock 3.

I’ve just read a thread about rigging the square button so that it can’t be completely decompressed. It seems that I will have to fill a toothpaste lid with blue-tack and use it over the square button... what in the world were they thinking with this control method 🥸

@colonelkilgore Wow MGS4, great one ! Congrats.

And yeah if you love Far Cry, you'll definitely love this one. Weapons especially are great fun.

@Cornaboyzzz cheers bud, I’ll look forward to it… though we could actually be at the Farcry 7 stage by that point 😅

@Kidfried ‘kept me waiting huh?’ 😜

@colonelkilgore As painful as it must be, I'm thoroughly enjoying your trials and tribulations with the MGS2 platinum. Filling toothpaste lids with blue tack? You're truly going above and beyond.

@Gremio108 I haven’t gone there yet… still waiting on the delivery of a refurbed DualShock 3… but I’ll certainly try it if all else fails 😅

@Keith_Zissou appreciated buddy… and congrats to you on your recent shiney 😉

@colonelkilgore Congrats on MGS4 and good luck with MGS2! You’re a legend, indeed. If you end up having to use toothpaste caps or rigging your controller then I’ll definitely be curious to hear about that! 😂 Dedication!

But you do have plats for MGS3, 4, and 5 right? So you can’t leave out 2! That would keep me up at night!

And don’t you hate how the PlayStation consoles don’t let you customize how your trophies are displayed? It would be nice to have your Metal Gear Solid platinum trophy lists all grouped together on your list wouldn’t it? I’ve always wished they would put in a feature like that.

@Th3solution ... and MGS: Peace Walker too. That one presented its own unique challenges on route to the plat that’s for sure... but you’re far too kind.

Totally agree on the whole customisable Trophy List comment, I’d love an alphabetised option at least. It will actually show like that on PS3 though, so there is that.

@RogerRoger pretty much perfect gif-work there as always Rog. Though my issue with MGS2 means that this plat has released little-to-none of that precious digital-trinket dopamine that I’ve become accustomed to though. Still, if I do somehow conquer my MGS2 woes... it’ll be dopamine all’ round... on me 😉

Platinum #63 - Metal Gear Solid 2 - ... and that’s the set. NOW I feel I can enjoy the MGS4 plat properly... as this has just been niggling me. It’s taken about 2 months... but has definitely felt longer... and although most people consider the MGS4 plat to be the more difficult one, I personally found this one harder. Might just be the most difficult plat of all 63 actually.