Topic: The Trophy Discussion Thread

25 plats and 1478 trophies overall for me in 2021, and the interesting part is that only 1% of my playtime was online. ^^

@ScarletSpidey Well Crash 1 is by far the most difficult, so you've been warned.

Platinum #39: Steins;Gate 0

Very simple Platinum but it can take upwards of 40 hours to get it if you want to actually go through the story and enjoy it. Otherwise you could probably just skip all text and get it in like 1-2 hours maybe. I also thought the Platinum in this game was much easier to get compared to the original Steins;Gate where you had to choose certain lines correctly in a specific order in order to reach certain endings. You basically had to look up a guide for this and it would get rather tedious.

But yeah, great game and very straightforward Platinum!

@Keith_Zissou @Keith_Zissou well, must’ve been a few days since I’ve been in here but seems that double congrats are in order… ‘we’ll done soldier’ 😉.

@RogerRoger Thanks! Yeah, I was actually struggling quite a bit towards the end because some of the other endings just felt a bit long-winded and I just wanted to get the game over with. There's only so much you can alter with the content of a visual novel before it becomes samey, you know?

@Keith_Zissou I've had my eye on that one but never puuled the pin. Congrats.

@LtSarge nice one. I have that one waiting to do but I'm thinking I'll wait for a nice sale of Steins;Gate Elite first, as apparently that is the first game in the series. Congrats btw!

@WCB Thank you! Yeah, Steins;Gate Elite is the first game in the series so definitely start with that one. It's kinda weird that they named the sequel Steins;Gate 0 since 0 is typically associated with a prequel to the original game (Yakuza 0, Resident Evil 0 and so on).

But yeah, the Steins;Gate games are just so good and they've definitely become my favourite visual novels of all time. Hope you'll enjoy them as well!

Platinum #71 - Assassins Creed 2 - I liked it… I imagine that I would’ve absolutely loved it if I’d played it at release on PS3… but some of the systems (I’m looking at you combat and parkour 🤬) are what I would consider a bit janky by today’s standards. Still well worth a play though and I’ll carry on with the remaining Ezio adventures throughout 2022.

Platinum #72 - Day of the Tentacle: Remastered - frikkin hilarious. As I’ve made pretty clear over the last year, narrative heavy, gameplay light games aren’t normally my thing… but there was something about this one!

@LtSarge Thanks, man! I'm currently playing AI: The Somnium Files through Game Pass and having a blast. From the same director who did the Zero Escape games, which I platinumed last year and absolutely loved. A bit more interactive than the usual visual novel but story is still king. I highly recommend them if your yet to play them.

@colonelkilgore Congrats man! Going back to those early Assassins Creed games can be tough considering how much they've evolved. Are you going to Plat them in order or just jump around whatever catches your eye?

Day of the Tentacle, I have that still to do on PS but I did play and 100% on Xbox last year through Game Pass. Man, some of those puzzles are super unintuitive and I know I would have gotten so frustrated if I wasn't following a guide. Still, definitely a funny game.

@WCB so I started the Assassins Creed games with Odyssey a few years ago… and played Origins, Black Flag and Unity thereafter. I am gonna play all the remaining one in order though, so I’ll fit the Ezio Collection this year, 3, Liberation and Rogue next year… and Syndicate and Valhalla the year after that. The old ones do play noticeably worse but I still like them a lot, for some reason I find AC games very serene and calming.

…and yeah… I don’t think that I’d be able to crack everything on Day of the Tentacle without resorting to google. I would just never have considered certain things… the random solutions always ended up making me laugh though.

@colonelkilgore Day of the tentacle was more intuitive than some point and clicks of it’s day, even though it still took some working out. I remember me and a mate being stuck on a bit in Monkey Island that led us to near despair until we saw the solution on Games Master! These were the dark days before the internet 😱😀

@colonelkilgore DOTT is one of my favourite games of all time. I much prefer that version of a point and click adventure game to what Telltale evolved into. The puzzles used to take me hours to figure out back in the day.

@render did you happen to watch the Games Master reboot recently? I was quite looking forward to it for a bit of nostalgia but I couldn’t even bring myself to get through the first episode.

I never really played any point-and-clicks back in the day… but I might try another based off this one. I think the writer of … Tentacle also wrote the two Psychonauts games too, so it’s made me more keen to give them a go.

@Keith_Zissou cheers mate, I wanna try and finish up some things before Horizon Forbidden West is released. I got the Score Attack left on Rise of the Tomb Raider and I got one trophy left on Yakuza Kiwami (I’m at a notoriously difficult car chase section that if you fail on Legendary difficulty, it takes you right back to the start of the chapter and you have to fight your way through 30 minutes worth of enemies and a boss fight before you can have another crack at the car chase again 🤬). As I want Yakuza Kiwami to be my 75th plat, I’m thinking of fitting The Sexy Brutale in too.

How about you bud, did you start up Demons Souls after, or have you started something else?

@ScarletSpidey yeah I’m with you on that mate. I’m not just saying this for effect… but I actually struggle to stay awake on Telltale games sometimes. I never had that issue with Day of the Tentacle.

@colonelkilgore I get that. I tried to play The Walking Dead with my wife but she got bored pretty quickly. We're really enjoying Back To The Future though. I get why that genre is pretty niche now but I really love all the wordplay and lateral thinking. Me and my brother actually spent hundreds of pounds on the helplines back in the day on those LucasArts games. My parents laugh about it now but they didn't then haha!

@ScarletSpidey 🤣 I can imagine, thank the lord for the internet hey? I remember the Game tips section in all the old video game magazines too, they were invaluable!

@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.