Topic: The Trophy Discussion Thread

@GirlVersusGame Yeah, the platinum for Yakuza 0 to 5 need to to 100% the completion list which means high scoring all mini games, including Mahjong and the betting games, as well as all sorts of odd things from combat to restaurants etc. Quite a few nutters on here who have done it though!

And the DLC was pretty controversial for Infinite Wealth being a clear fast track to the platinum and also locking NG+ behind it which has been a staple of the series (like I say, the top difficulty could only be played on completing the game in all previous iterations).

My avatar is from The Simpsons, as is my username from exactly what you mention.

I've changed it a few times over the years to different computer games from the series.

@Thrillho Mahjong, oh no thank you. I had to play that in Infinite Wealth too and all I did was keep pressing X for about twenty minutes until by some miracle I won and the game ended. There was an interesting card game too, sort of like snap, that was sheer luck too. The worst was in an Assassin's Creed game, some wild board game. I had to have someone build a simulation and then map what was in the game to that simulation so I could beat it, that was the only way I could do it. Poker was different, I understand Poker. I've been watching people play it for years, I learned just by watching. I don't want to watch someone play high stakes Mahjong. I respect the culture and their ability to play it like I respect my ability to play chess but locking trophies behind it is torture.

Maybe I read about the DLC controversy on an article here, gaming news goes so fast I don't know how anyone keeps up. I did watch State of Play though, it's always interesting seeing peoples live reactions to those announcements and last night was the most positive yet. That's the episode I was thinking of, he had Mortal Kombat or something and Bart had Golf. That was the very first episode I saw of the Simpsons. It was part of a DVD compilation then I watched maybe twenty years worth of Treehouse of Terror episodes. I've watched five seasons now, about thirty five to go then it's onto South Park which has games but I want to watch the show first so I know what's even happening and who the characters are. Futurama was recommended too and Rick and Mortiy.

@GirlVersusGame
Congrats on the plats. I must return to The Invincible. I started it but wasn’t getting into it and my Plus sub was expiring soon so I deleted it. I was just nearing the first base camp I think.

@Thrillho I was trying to figure out where the boxing avatar had come from.

And as for Bart and the golf game...

Your ball is sitting on the green.
You have selected 9 Iron, are you sure? Yes.
Your ball is in the parking lot.

@CaptD Congrats on the plats. I must return to The Invincible. I started it but wasn’t getting into it and my Plus sub was expiring soon so I deleted it. I was just nearing the first base camp I think.

• Thanks, it definitely starts off slow and I thought it was going to stay that way but then things get more serious and the story outweighs the walking. I stayed up all night watching the different endings, it was less about needing platinum and more about wanting to see those different outcomes.

@Bundersvessel You might go off the deep end with Satisfactory too, if you like mechanical things and automation that is. I'm forcing myself to stay away for a couple of more weeks. There are people on here who play it and won't admit it, probably because they don't want to admit their addition.

Those are my last couple of projects before Christmas. That big box looking thing is a storage building for some of my materials. They come from miles across the game world on conveyor belts then get automatically sorted into stacks of containers. That's the early stages, I have maybe thirty main facilities. All of my production lines are done on site then make their way back to the main hub, rather than doing everything at the hub and creating chaos. It also allows me to maintain a more sufficient power grid.

Eventually it will have a dedicated train network which will take weeks to build and probably months until I satisfy my nuclear ambitions. I need to move away from fossil fuels. I'm staying away until I know it's time to continue. All of that was something like twenty Discworld audiobooks, all of Lovecraft's work, four versions of Dracula, so many BBC radio productions and classics. I don't have a gaming back-log, I have a book back-log. I've gotten through (checks) 6111, and I have 8428 to go. On my last total count I had 30,000 and I'm always collecting for preservation. Especially now when certain topics and subjects are restricted even in my own collection, some were burnt hence using that Raiders of the Lost Ark method to ensure they are safe for whatever library I build or donate to. I wanted to build a zoo, now I've changed my mind and want to focus on a library or education instead.

I owe everything I know about the world to books, audiobooks too and they compliment games perfectly. I just haven't gotten around to The Witcher series, much to Ravix's dismay. Everybody's Goes to The Rapture blocks external audio. If I need a playthrough for platinum I might do it then, pipe some Andrzej Sapkowski into the Shropshire countryside and mix in my own ambient soundtrack so it still feels like I'm hearing the game world and not just the Narrator. It's easy enough with the correct sound equipment and mixing table. I had to do it for Death Stranding too.

@GirlVersusGame I learnt the very basics of Mahjong when I played Judgment as there's a mechanic in that game to make friends with NPCs and one can only be done via that game. The Yakuza series has always had lots of random mini games but the recent LaD ones have taken it to another level with some of the Mega Drive/Genesis games they've emulated for it. In some instances it's the only place you can find the games (legally) outside of the originals!

And fair play for putting yourself through the entirety of the Simpsons. You're in the middle of the golden era and as big a fan as I am, there are probably 20 seasons or so I've never even touched. Futurama is good fun though, as are the older Rick and Morty episodes.

There are also a ridiculous number of seasons of South Park but the evolution from grotesque adolescent humour to political satire has been an interesting one. The first game was set around the time I stopped watching and is a decent game. I didn't get many of the references for the second but it is so much better from a gaming perspective.

@CaptD An iconic scene that you have horrendously butchered

@GirlVersusGame A bit of Trivia for you, it's based in Shropshire and Yaughton is basically inspired by Church Stretton which is where I live!! Funnily enough I got platinum for this at the end of last year.

@Oram77 Thanks I love random trivia like that and was curious, but now people know where you live. Was it weird playing a game set more or less where you live? For the longest time I thought it was set in America, had I known otherwise I would have tried it years ago. I don't think I've played many if any games set in Moscow, I feel like maybe Hitman went there once and maybe James Bond. I've lived in the English countryside but saw more of the English countryside in that game. What did Stephen's Dad mean by a den a ken? (I can't spell it) he said it after the fox had to be put down.

The stars have aligned and Yakuza Kiwami 3 is destined to be my 300th platinum trophy.

@johncalmc Do you remember your one hundredth?

I loaded up my old saves for the new Ps5 version of Kingdom Come Deliverance to knock out a few of the more tricky trophies so I can just replay the game in a more relaxed manner. Updating my PSN profile it would seem I managed to get myself on a few first to unlock lists for certain trophies for it. Plus my top 5 rarest trophies on my main page are all now from this game (although I'm sure they will slowly drift back out over time).
I've also noticed I hit my milestone for my 10,000th trophy with this. So that has been immortalised with the trophy 'B*stard' 😬.

With the recent cheats added to FF VII Remake I went back to finish my hardcore run plus a couple of other trophies to grab a totally undeserved platinum for it now.

I can't remember what I last updated but I also recently got the platinums for Tomb Raider: Legend and Red Dead Redemption for PS4 so I will at some point do the PS5 versions as well. It will be interesting if I can remember where all the collectibles are when I do TRL.
I'm pleased to now have a platinum for RDR as I never did for the original PS3 version due to the online trophies.

@GirlVersusGame No idea. 200th was God of War Ragnorak I remember. 100th was probably something stupid.

@BearsEatBeets
Yeah I popped a few of the more annoying KCD trophies, the dlc hardcore ones but unfortunately the no kill trophy didn’t pop despite me not killing anyone (as per trophy description). Other people have had the same problem so I’m a bit concerned now if on replay it won’t pop so I hopefully when I eventually get round to playing it again more details will be available. Still at least I won’t have to do it in hardcore mode (with all the negative perks).

@CaptD That trophy put me off of even going for the platinum so I left a few other trophies requiring another full play as well. I'll probably do the same with the PS5 version as I can't imagine getting through the game without killing (in order to survive myself).

I've been playing Art of Rally over the past few weeks and completed the main Rally mode yesterday (not much of a brag - don't need to do it well just to do it) so had a look at the remaining trophies and knocked off a few of the misc ones.

So I reached a point where I've only got the collectables to find which should be easy enough to wrap up in less than an hour and then the one that looks to be the platinum blocker (surprisingly low rate of around 0.7% despite being fairly easy) which requires 1000 stages to be completed.

Now there doesn't seem to be any counter but I would estimate the rally modes have around 150-200 to do and that took me about 15 hours so I could do that again 4-5 times and reach it in maybe 60 more hours... Nope! The shortest stage is around a minute and a half so I could do that 800 times in 1200 or so minutes -@20 hours more... Nope. So checking trophy guides and internet searches it seems it can be done in a few hours as it counts as a completed run it the car is destroyed. So a particular stage, set severe damage and driving one of the faster cars means you can accelerate to over 90mph and hit a barrier causing terminal damage. Then you can restart and do it again... repeatedly.

I was doing that this morning, can do around 5 runs a minute but as I was mindlessly accelerating into a crash barrier I thought it's a good job I don't have to explain my actions or justify what I'm doing because it looked like the type of thing an angry toddler may get up to. Got me thinking of the crazy things I (we?) may do just to get that trophy and earn another shiny plat that only I really care about (and I don't really care that much). As I was travelling to work it occurred to me that we only have a finite amount of time on this earth and I've decided to spend a portion of mine repeatedly smashing a video game rally car into a barrier, restarting and doing it again. And again.

Happy trophy hunting people.

@sorteddan
Grinds like that are obnoxious but it looks like you have found a decent workaround.
I felt this way about the Skate trophies, I thought “i can’t be arsed” but I did it anyway.

I’m actually doing a horrendous grind at the moment in Hellsweeper, a VR game. It has various classes, about 12 I think and each has their own perks, all go up to level 50. The thing is to get to level 50 is probably 25 hours of grinding and you can’t speed it up because the XP is capped per level so even running levels at a higher difficulty increasing the kills and whatnot results in zero benefit.
Very annoying but it is an awesome game so I’m enjoying it to a degree. Just pleased I’m only doing a single class but I’m sure there are people out there that will max level all 12 classes.

Platinum 144: Kingdom Come Deliverance PS5 version, having 60FPS really does make playing this game 100X better, the visuals are also very pleasing to look at especially the land scapes (I believe they are compared to ultra setting on PC), I will say however the game crashed.... like a lot but with this being a free upgrade I can't grumble too much. Overall it was a joy to replay this game to get the platinum (with help from my PS4 save data) and it really makes you appreciate all the changes they did for KCD2 which in my opinion is one of the best RPGs ever made.

Platinum # 78 Marvel's Spiderman

This went very fast. Three nights at three hours each then one hour for the rest of the clean-up. There was nothing that difficult about the game or about the challenges and such that lead to one hundred percent. The game itself was fine, some very good set-pieces, very fluid combat and movement. Earlier game was a little slow for my liking but I understand they needed to focus on some fan-service and ease people into the action. It all ramped up around the seventy percent mark of the story and things got a lot more interesting. There was nothing wrong with the earlier segments of the game, I just prefer the faster harder hitting pace of that late game content. I might try the DLC but NewGame+ is not that likely, at least not for two trophies. My favorite thing about the game was throwing things at people, people at things and people at people. Maybe I'll try Miles Moralis too, eventually.

@GirlVersusGame Nice work. And definitely play Miles Morales, especially if you're going to play the sequel.

MM is a much shorter experience and benefits from it. You can blast through the NG+ mode for the platinum in no time at all when you just railroad the main story. While Miles obviously shares a lot of abilities with Peter, he also has his own move set too which makes it cool to play, as well as offering the different perspective on New York life too.

#61 - Assassin’s Creed Revelations

And with that, my time with Ezio is over. Great trilogy, played them so many times but finally got the platinums. This one is probably the weakest of the 3 but has an incredibly sweet story with Ezio finally getting hitched. The DLC is atrocious though, takes those heinous first person puzzle platformer things from the base game and has a whole 7 levels around it. Great story in the DLC delivered in the worst possible manner. Ended up clipping out of bounds to do the ‘don’t get hit’ trophies in the DLC too, it just was not worth putting in the trophy list for the remaster.

I already have 3’s platinum so either I go for Liberation and hurt my eyeballs or I attempt Black Flag’s multiplayer and see how bad the grind would be.