Topic: The Trophy Discussion Thread

@colonelkilgore Yeah I did and I was a bit like you on the first episode, I thought this is just going to be awful so I turned it off. Then one day I was after something to watch for a bit so thought I'd give it another chance and ended up quite enjoying it. I mean it's terrible just like the originals, but then I think it's supposed to be to a certain extent. There were even a few funny bits although I think some of the stuff they thought would be very funny is just not funny.

I wondered if whoever did the casting had been watching Lemmy as Robert Florence gave off that sort of vibe. The cast were ok though, just seemed like they were perhaps trying to check all the boxes with it a little. I'm guessing that they were also aiming for my sort of age group, so people who had watched the originals, as I'm not sure how it would appeal to millenials when they can get much better stuff on twitch / YouTube.

One of the guys that worked on Day of the Tentacle was Tim Schafer who also worked on a load of other great point and clicks that came out of Lucas Arts back in the day. They all had a great sense of humour to them that easily would have spanned generations but we found particularly funny in our older teens. He's produced some good stuff at Double Fine as well although I've not played their full output so don't know about things like Psychonauts.

The thing is the point and click genre comes from a time when people seemed to have more patience. It also did best when it was 2D and every time someone has tried to take this style of game into the 3D world it just hasn't really worked. They did it with Monkey Island and Broken Sword both of which didn't do well. They've also done it with the sequel to Beneath a Steel Sky - Beyond a Steel Sky - which I haven't played yet but might take a look at as hopefully they've gone about that the right way 🤞

@render randomly I happened to watch a review of Beyond a Steel Sky the other day. It just kinda came on automatically after whatever other vid I was watching. It sounds pretty good from what the reviewer was saying.

I might give Games Master another shot then based off your post. Might check out some other Tim Schafer point-and-clicks too 👍

@colonelkilgore hey, did you need help with the mp in Rise of the Tomb Raider? I remember I'd say I'd help when you started it. Offer still stands if you need it.

@RogerRoger can-ching ching indeed 😁, cheers buddy.

@WCB no worries mate, I though that there was some co-op required for the platinum but it turns out that they were just dlc trophies. How did you find the Score Attack stuff?

I have just encountered another of those annoying trophies that require me to continue with a game I have otherwise 'finished'.

I've been putting a few hours into Dirt 5 for the past couple of weeks since getting it with plus, it's a pretty good arcade racer, easy enough to pick up and play. So I have now completed all events and gotten most trophies and have now got to grind for the drive 1000 miles trophy! Playing on and off and completing everything else has only gotten me to around half this distance and so the next bit is just gonna be needlessly repetitive and grindy.

I hate it when games do this, I mean I understand that developers want people to continue playing their games but achievements like this (or minimum hours played) just feel a bit tacked on and ruin the experience for me. Anyhow, thank goodness for the track designer and the community who have supplied courses which can be completed with nothing but a running console and a rubber band - but still, watching a game play itself while I read a book or catch up on housework and assorted tasks seems somehow wrong to me.

@colonelkilgore congrats on the recent plats, as ever.
And I very much agree - the Games Master reboot was trash. I think it was squarely aimed at people my age who retain the nostalgic for for the original and little kids. Anyone inbetween would likely have no interest.
Though Sir Trevor as the GM did have some funny lines that caused a chuckle

Got the Spider-Man Remastered platinum. Requiring 100% of the crimes is just a downer and kinda annoyed me by the end. Onto the DLC now which is unremarkable at best.

@Sorteddan thanks mate, we’ll I must be around the right age bracket having watched the old series during my teens… but something didn’t feel right, that or it was always rubbish but I didn’t mind so much as a youngster.

@nessisonett if you haven’t played Miles Morales yet, I’d say that trophy list is far more friendly (& neighbourhood 😉) than the original’s.

@Sorteddan That's my last Dirt 5 trophy as well and after finishing all the career events I'd racked up 730 miles. I've been playing on and off for the past few days and have managed to add just 20 to that so good tip about the community courses as I don't think I could be bothered to keep driving the same ones again and again.

@Sorteddan @render I’m sure I read that this was originally 10,000 miles and they patched it down to 1000 miles as it was taking a 200 hour grind after all other trophies had popped 🤣

@nessisonett I really wish I could get this without having to buy the Deluxe Edition of Miles Morales.

Just got a Platinum for Guard Duty. Fun enough point and click adventure game. A couple of puzzles I had to look up because I was never going to get it (I don't have days to spare like I did as a kid) but some good humour and clever puzzles.

@colonelkilgore I don't even rack that up in a real car over the course of a year these days 🤣

@ScarletSpidey I got the normal edition of Miles Morales as a present. The remaster was £20 bought from Miles Morales’ main menu.

@nessisonett Oh amazing, I didn't know that! Thanks for the tip!

@render makes you feel better about hitting 1000 though right 😉

@colonelkilgore A lot lot better, it's at least achievable in 2022 😆

@render
Look up online playgrounds and do a search for the term 'miles' - the first couple both have names like 1000 miles afk - So that's what my ps5 has been doing this afternoon, now up to 700+

@Sorteddan Cheers, will check that out. I get what you mean about watching a console play itself being wrong though. We should be petitioning these games companies to make trophy requirements less grindy in order to help save the environment 👍

@render
I was thinking something similar earlier on. I have had games previously that needed 20/30 hours or something so I have just left the machine on while I went out for a few hours which is crazy if you think about it. The requirements should at least be tied to how long an average gamer would take to complete everything, not just an arbitrarily big number.

Still, as the Colonel says, just be glad it wasn't 10,000 miles. Especially with current energy prices!

Maybe they could introduce a thumbs up / thumbs down vote on the trophy list when you achieved it that could let Sony and the game companies know which ones proved popular and which ones everybody thought sucked.