Topic: The Trophy Discussion Thread

@Bundersvessel A wonderful game! I messed up the trophy in the pub so had to run through the game again to get it but the humour is spot on and it's just the right length to not have the humour outstay its welcome.

Platinum #71 - The Entropy Centre
Not quite as good as Portal (and especially Portal 2) but following a similar design and quite enjoyable.
Wish the chapter select had some kind of counter for found and missed collectibles (emails) because it's pretty hard to remember which ones you already got even with a guide - which meant I basically played through 90% of the game again to get the trophy. Luckily it's pretty quick if you already figured out the puzzles before.
Can recommend to casual puzzle game fans for sure.

@Voltan
Congrats, I hadn’t heard of that game and I did enjoy Portal 1 and 2 so I’ve added it to the ever growing list.

@Oram77
Good luck. Strangely the moose I just stumbled across and I do recall reading that people were swearing about that creature.
My main problematic hunts was a certain owl, perhaps a white owl I think and some damn feathers for a hat or dress, I needed a certain amount of them and I could just not get the things to spawn.
Took me about 200hrs to plat that and I’m wondering if I would do it again if a PS5 version turns up, I probably would because I really enjoyed RDR2.

My latest is Homefront the revolution although that isn’t strictly true as I have a minor kill related trophy to get which I will get in the DLC.
I really enjoyed this game, sure it has dodgy AI and lacks polish but if you go in with the correct expectations then you can see the vision that they were working towards.
I didn’t have any trophy issues, well just a minor one with the capture related trophy and it didn’t pop despite all points being captured but upon starting a new game (I did two runs) it popped after a couple.
The story and world building was pretty good and it felt much like a Far Cry Fallout so if that appeals then definitely give it a go and it is often on sale for around two quid, the dlc which I still have to do is often very cheap as well.
Difficulty 4/10, time about 40hrs. Be warned there are MP trophies which aren’t difficult but do require another player and online is pretty dead but there are often many sessions arranged on psnprofiles.

#72 - Thank Goodness You're Here
Funny little game.
Obviously I missed some on my first go so I played it twice.
The whole thing takes about 2 hours, so it wasn't a big deal.
I enjoyed this one a lot.

Platinum #74 Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth

It was a journey. I wasn't sure if I'd like it because I'd never tried the series before and jumping in so late could easily become a situation of mass confusion but they did a very good job of tying the world and the characters together. Time-wise it was just over two hundred hours. It would have taken longer had I not gotten past a major roadblock by buying a level pack on the PSN store, and while that sounds very unscrupulous it wasn't without warrant.

Around level fifty I started seeing really weak returns in experience, even with buffs from food and gear. I had three options, grind one of the dungeons (for days) or buy the DLC that includes a new dungeon and grind that. The new dungeon comes with Newgame+ and offers better experience, but there's another way too. I was level fifty five when I finished everything and it just so happens they sell a boosting pack with fifteen levels, I took it as a sigh from the Gods of Gaming and went for it. Nothing is missable but I'd recommend taking a photo of a rainbow when you see one because there's a trophy for that and some people waited hours for one. I waited just over an hour for mine.

The infamous rainbow. Next up I'll be trying my first walking simulator as recommended by Th3solution.

Platinum #75 What Remains of Edith Finch

There's nothing I can say about this that wouldn't be a spoiler so what I will say is that it was my first walking simulator and that was only because @Th3solution recommended it. I'd call it more of an experience than a game, a rare one at that. Time to completion was about two hours, time to platinum was about five minutes. The memories though, they won't be going anywhere for a very long time.

Obligatory cat picture from the journey.

@GirlVersusGame really impressive stuff! Good knows how you find any spare time for anything else other than building London… but I get the appeal. I’m officially never going anywhere near Minecraft, it’d probably hit me like crack hit South Central in the 80’s!

@graymamba I've developed much faster building techniques, it's sort of become auto-pilot and second nature especially once you've built one hundred or so structures previously. Also most people sleep and I don't always, that helps. I could technically just build all day until I was told to stop, but I prefer to do other productive things too like study and have tutors etc. I don't have responsibilities, no Adult schedule and my last job wasn't even real, I thought it was. Just nepotism, the word Tjuz gave me. All I have is what you called spare time and I have to do something productive with it. That's one way, I have ten or so other hobbies, my charities etc, stagnation doesn't exist not even at night time, I keep going until I'm sent to bed or pass out. Anything other would be entitlement and that doesn't sit well with me when there are always things I could be doing or something I could be learning. I like doing three things at once, it's possible with building, hence four screens at once. Or, this might be funny but I'll run exercise machines while I game. I only met one other person on here who does that. They game and use an exercise bike at the same time. On party chat people used to ask what the 'whoosh whoosh' was, that was the bike or a treadmill. They thought the bubbles of a hot-tub were that glass cylinder people use with weed, also funny.

It only gets complicated with newer developments. That one on the left had to be built diagonally which gets really tricky and that one to the right the circular one is sort of a puzzle. Herzog & de Meuron were not playing around when they designed that tower, and then of course everything has to be 1:1 which meant getting satellite imagery to measure the entire docklands including the water. The depth is custom too and all of that water had to be carefully filled in. What's even crazier (I know) is I put weathering under the surface so the brick looks faded and worn down but only I'd know that because only I'm there and who's going to be diving under South Dock. I saw some police diver footage then knew what was down there. I watch DLR train driver footage to see if I've missed anything on the train lines too.

There's all kinds of custom weathering throughout the map, tiny details. I even put a little memorial that was there in real life when someone fell off a building while doing some urban exploring. His candle etc is still in my world, it's not in the real world, they removed it. I still have his jersey number etc where it was in real life. Anything that was there I've saved as a kind of virtual time capsule.

Then there are the (housing estates?) like in the movie Harry Brown, I've built those too. I don't discriminate when it comes to accuracy and representation, if it's there in real life I add it to the virtual. That for sale sign was there when I saw that building, so it's there virtually too. I've programmed in dustbins too, I need to start adding those, someone made the proper English dustbins for me. I've wanted dustbins for a while, they seem to be outside a lot of homes like that. I've no idea where we keep ours, I've never seen them before. I haven't seen a lot of things but in Minecraft I can build them then see them. Different reasons restrict me from ever seeing certain parts of the city, that's why I started building, I'm curious about what's out there even if I don't understand it. I've never been to most of the places I've built, never been anywhere alone etc, but I can do both in the game and that's why I keep building, I safely see a little more each time.

Most games with cities have NPCs, that makes them harder to play, my city only has myself, that kind of anxiety just gets worse as graphics improve and as A.I. gets better, if it gets too real I can't play those games. I know they aren't real but my mind says something else, then I tap out and go back to simulators or Minecraft or my literal desert island in Deep Stranded. I tried to live solo in the hills of Fallout76 and that didn't work either, it's like I told Tjuz I don't know how anyone does it. I've lasted two minutes on a London street then I was back in a vehicle and we were gone, my builds offer a little more than that. The English term would be a coping mechanism, but it's one I built myself block by block and it seems to help.

@GirlVersusGame so impressive! Ball-park figure… when do you think you’ll finish it (if it’ll ever be finished)?

@graymamba Thank you, not to be morbid, but when I die. It's a kind of life line, it wasn't at first but it's become really important. I'm not sure what I'd do without it. I've tried a custom VR set-up that they use to treat agoraphobia. That was a lot like a game but it never took, it was too real, too loud and too fast. I get anxious even typing the words. It's a strange illness and I never thought I'd have to build my own world from the ground up to combat it. I think I've been building for six to eight years on and off, I have no track of time so I can't be certain. I'm going off of various events that caused it and amplified it. I'm not a member of the Minecraft community, other than this site I've never shown anyone. I wasn't sure sure if people would get it.

Right now my big goal is to finally ride a train, maybe the Underground. I've been practicing by playing Train Simulator and watching drivers videos of each line. Sometimes I'll watch videos that people make when they walk the streets too, it all builds up to that something. If it gets worse I'll have to stop building, I had to step away from street view a few times and those are only pictures. That set me back a couple of weeks. I want to try that Spiderman game but I'm not sure, it looks very realistic and populated. I'm hoping Everyone's Gone to The Rapture means they actually are, I do want to try that game hopefully after this second The Invincible playthrough. I should have one hundred percent tonight if I read the guide properly. It's a bit convoluted and probably why platinum is still ultra rare. I had to have someone else read it and see if they thought it was worded weirdly too. If all goes to plan I'll start the next game tonight.

@GirlVersusGame I have The Invincible in the backlog as it goes, though know next to nothing about it… I think I just liked something about the cover art if I’m honest. Walking-sim, or something different?

@graymamba I knew nothing about it too, I'd heard of the writer who's work it was based on but never read any of his books. That's why the cover art pops, the Devs went for that old Sci-fi book/cover aesthetic and that's not something I've seen much of with new games. It's a walking simulator but really engaging, there's no worrying about enemies or dying. The navigating isn't at all boring and the story hooked me within the first half hour. Platinum might make you work for it but it does have chapter select and that helps with the endings too. Technically you don't have to play the whole game twice, you could start a second playthrough around chapter 5. I've seen maybe four endings now and I'm typing this as the last one plays out. Hopefully that will be one hundred percent and I'll get to bed. I'd seen it on Steam a couple of times, then saw it on Plus+ but skipped it until Th3Solution mentioned it. If you like intelligently built games you'd enjoy it, the writing feels timeless which is probably down to the author.

Platinum # 76 - The Invincible

The guide puts it at about ten hours for two playthroughs and I'd say that's accurate. It's also ultra rare but I think that's because of a specific ending that a lot of people seemed to miss then never realized they could just use chapter select to speed it up. Pong was the most difficult, you need to get a score of 20 but I was too sleepy, the next day I got it first try. Nothing else is difficult. The story was fantastic, the world design really slick, most of it was relaxing and care free. I saw no penalties from going at my own pace. The guide lists two trophies as buggy and I didn't have problems there. I'm going to buy a physical copy to support the Devs and probably give the audiobook a listen too. I stayed up until four in the morning tonight going after the last few trophies and skipped none of the dialogue, it's too well written to cut corners even if I've heard it four or five times already, great voice acting and score too.

@GirlVersusGame nice, sounds really good tbh. Congrats!

@GirlVersusGame Nice work on the Infinite Wealth platinum! It certainly makes you work for it and it is especially annoying to get the level 70 trophy. I had saved all the level up drinks for the end but had to grind endlessly on the non-DLC dungeon. I did sell my soul and buy a five pack of level up drinks when they were on offer just to get it done though.

And yes, the rainbow one had me stuck for a while. The Dondoko Island ones were a bit of a pain too but just time consuming rather than all out annoying.

But that’s kind of how Yakuza platinums are. I only have them for Y6 and the two LaD games as the earlier ones saw you need to replay the whole game +/- 100% everything (including all mini games) which is quite the dedication. The others still have their fair share of grindy ones though.

If you enjoyed the game but aren’t sure on picking up the rest of the series, the Judgment games are great. I still have the sequel to play but they’re separate from the Yakuza games, just set in Kamurocho as well, and the combat it more like the old Yakuza games. The story in Judgment is just as good, if not better, than Yakuza ones.

And nice work on the quick fire plats since too!

@Voltan How does the comedy translate for Thank Goodness.. ?

There’s a fair history of absurdist British comedy but I wondered whether the accents, location etc make sense to non-Brits or whether it really matters!

@Thrillho tbf I think I have above average understanding of all that for an European and I'm familiar with British humor so I was never confused or anything.
Also the Yorkshire dialect is more subtle than I thought it might be.

@Thrillho you need to replay the whole game +/- 100% everything (including all mini games) which is quite the dedication. The others still have their fair share of grindy ones though.

• Everything even the mini-games? They need to find whoever thought that was a good idea and do something unpleasant to them. Dondoko Island can be made a little less painless by crafting a couple of hundred small builder hats. They cost very few materials, take up one cell each and boost your ratings quickly. Getting the endgame weapon so fast helped too but it feels like an unbalanced group slows things down after the story. Once those jobs started to open up I wasn't sure what to do, house keeper was obvious enough. I was sure it would lead to heals and buffs. The rest was one hundred percent experimentation and a lot of that came from watching the composition of the A.I.'s groups and learning how it played then using those same techniques against it. Had they made the dungeons a little bit more interesting I wouldn't have bought those last few levels. It reminded me too much of Alien Trilogy on PS1. It's a great concept, a great franchise and I've tried over the last two years to finish it. About an hour in I have to stop. It's got this really oppressive repetition that slowly grinds you down until it's turned off. People say Alien Resurrection is harder but I breezed through that in a day, I'm trying to get through a lot of the PS1's licensed catalog.

It feels like whoever designed the dungeons had a brief that said 'make it even more tedious so they'll buy the pack'. I would have implemented some kind of temporary power ups or something, everything outside of those dungeons was wacky and wild but once I got in there it was another game, maybe to sell those packs. They probably made a lot off of them when they put the game on Plus+ I usually buy a physical copy of something after Plus+ it's to pay it forward but not with Sega, locking NG+ behind a pay wall seemed really unscrupulous. I don't think I'd seen it done before. It's hard to support that thinking when you look at a game like No Man's Sky and see it's been releasing content for free for years. I'll read up on the Judgment games thank you, after many walking simulators.

Is that the Simpsons in your Avatar? I remember there were episodes with video-games and one of them had Millhouse as Thrillhouse.