
While the likes of Sir Galahad and crew may require the murky MacGuffin Blackwater to keep their senses sharp, you clearly won't be needing any of the misty liquid to earn the Platinum Trophy in The Order: 1886. Bucking current industry trends, the PlayStation 4 exclusive will boast just 22 Trophies in total – and none of them will require you to beat the game on controller crushing difficulty.
Instead, most of the Victorian trinkets involve getting a certain number of kills with a specific weapon and gobbling up all of the hidden items and objects in the game world. This may prove concerning for those of you worried that there may not be much replay value in the release, but Trophy Hunters all over will already be licking their lips at the prospect of a free Platinum gong.
In other news, the developer confirmed today that the game has gone gold, which means that it's being pressed onto discs as we squeak. To coin a phrase from a famous football manager, that probably also means that it's Squeaky Bum Time at Ready at Dawn right now – after all, it's borderline impossible to tell how this will be received. Let's hope for the best, huh?
[source exophase.com]
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I'm stoked to hear it, honestly. I don't see the point in plats that are almost unobtainable, à la every MK game. When I see that I'd have to dedicate my life to the plat on a game, I don't even worry about the trophies, which I do enjoy collecting.
Absolutely with above. I have finished TLOU SEVEN TIMES (the last 2 were remastered though) & I have yet to platinum. I will next time with a road map, how am I not talking to everyone or getting everything? I spend most of the game looking in weird corners! Anyway, I am glad to hear it & am looking forward to getting it with my special sockboy Galahad figurine =D
Please watch the language -Tasuki-
@glassmusic yes impossible plats suck (see Fight Night...seriously...) But ones that prove no challenge other than "beat game on any difficulty and get 50 kills" aren't fun either. A healthy balance of various challenges and collectibles, with a few sneaky, easter egg types thrown in makes for a fun and engaging plat IMHO.
@seeafish I agree with that. I hate it when platinum trophies are an endurance test to get, but I would like to get some challenge out of them. Order's trophies seem too easy.
I don't really know what a "perfect trophy hunt" would be like, as I don't really go for platinums unless I know I can get them or willing to take the challenge (as of this writing I currently have 4 plats, soon to be 5). Although since I don't like to use guides, I'm also kinda giving myself another challenge.
Time for me to eat some crow. I jumped on my soapbox a month or so ago and said this would be delayed til holiday 2015. I've never been happier to be wrong.
I don't care about platinum trophies.
unless...
Sony gives us reward for completing those things.
new features!
TROPHY POINTS!
that can be redeemed for certain DLC's or even get new games for that!
Looks like The Order 1886 is Ready at Dawn......
Oh dear.
@seeafish i agree there needs to be ballance. I still wanna feel I've achieved something when getting the Platinum trophy. I only have one and that was Infamous Second Son. Some say that was too easy but I'd say it was about right... had to play game atleast twice, made you play as good karma and bad karma so you got to experience both story paths, plus had to beat it on highest difficulty.
The closest i came before was AC4 Black Flag. But that required getting level 55 on multiplayer that, frankly, nobody cared for. Games such as GTA, TLOU, etc just seem too hard and you would need to dedicate a huge amount of playing time to that one game. I don't get loads of time to play games, which is why i usually disregard the platinum hunt as 9/10 times its too much
@edgey yeah, the infamous games have good plats. A couple of missable ones too to keep you focused on the plat. Although, infamous 1 was one those plats that nearly drove me insane. Needed 1 last shard for the last trophy and I had methodically covered the entire very large map 3 times to no avail. Found it randomly when I stopped looking. That was a pain in the bum!
But yes, some games are for people who literally play games for a living or just have ridiculous amount of not just time and patience, but also gamer skill. Being worlds NUMBER 1 BOXER IN EVERY CLASS ONLINE seems like it rules out most people! Or games like GT which require you to gold everything and beat an actual world record set by an F1 driver....people do it, but AINT NOBODY GOT TIME FO DAT!
Proudest platinum for me is either RDR or KZ SF. I had to put in the work!
Glad to know that the trophies will be easy. I have many games that I don't have platinum due to having to play online, and I hate playing online. Finally a game that will be some easy trophies. Plus, this game looks really good, and I hate playing a good game that I come close to beating, and find out that I'm only 10% complete with trophies.
@edgey I'm with you. inFAMOUS: Second Son was just right for me, too. It encouraged you to do and see everything in the game, but it never involved going on pixel hunts for obscure hidden items or spending 10,000 hours in multiplayer.
I dont really collect trophies, but I'm not a fan of easy challenges either, because then they arent challenging. Getting kills with different weapons for trophies sounds boring, I'd rather have more easter eggs and actual challenging things to do.
Don't neccesarily hunt trophies but do use them as a waypoint to get a bit more out of games at times..
@dellyrascal Yep same for me. Trophies boost the play time of these games. Which is great.
Im glad i wont be pulling my hair to get the platinum but only 22 trophies? Infamous First Light has more than that it was only about 4hrs long plus the challenge rooms. This makes me a little worried about how much content is in this $60 full game as compared to a game like Transistor that has 34 trophies including the platinum.
Yey possibly my first platinum. I was going to buy it no matter what.
Awesome! I've been platinum hunting for a couple of weeks, i only have four so far, so this will be a welcome addition, plus the game looks great!
Difficulty doesn't bother me, however horrible grinds do like loadout
Disappointing, I prefer a challenge. Then again, I doubt the game will be much good anyway, which is a shame.
I can already imagine the type of reviews that this game is going to get, but it's still something that I can't wait to get my hands on.
What I hate about certain platinum trophies is that in a lot of games that are more single player focused but still include a multiplayer, I HAVE to earn those multiplayer trophies too in order to achieve the platinum which sort of sucks. I just hit level 13 in my trophy count with about 1200 or so total trophies, and only have one platinum thus far......for the Walking Dead season 1!! Lol Plan to get more in due time, and it would be cool if trophies earned you something, anything. Incentive is big when it comes to dedicating time to a goal like that
Arg, I hate collectibles! In most games, they just disrupt the flow of the game for me...like in Call of Duty, where everyone is like "Go! Go! Go!" and I'm like, "Wait, I need to look in every corner of this room for intel."
No difficulty-related trophies is kinda garbage too! The most rewarding trophies I've gotten are from beating games like God of War or Killzone on the hardest difficulty...all sweaty and my fingers turned to mush, and that mind-blowing "Oh my god, I actually did it!" feeling. THAT is the kind of moment they should create, not "I've been following this collectibles guide off of my phone's tiny screen for hours and i finally found everything!"
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