PlayStation 5 architect Mark Cerny is not just a genius console designer: he’s also a better gamer than you. The industry veteran has made a habit of procuring some of the most challenging Platinum Trophies available, and he’s just added Housemarque’s uber-hard roguelite Returnal to his virtual cabinet.
“My favourite moment: when I stopped running from the enemies and started hunting them down instead,” he wrote, like the badass he is. Cerny rarely posts on Twitter unless he’s earned an impressively difficult Trophy: other borderline impossible Platinums he’s unlocked have included Cuphead and Invisible Inc – the latter of which has a 0.1 per cent completion rate.
[source twitter.com]
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Cerny is my idol.
Wonder how long it took and how many deaths taken.
Well done.
Well, being the lead architect for the PS5 has got to be some kind of unfair advantage. 😜
Well done! I’m in the process of hunting down all the cyphers myself
When you've got the difficult task of creating games and consoles, getting a plat is easy work.
I gave up when the trophy for beating Act 3 didn’t pop. I have it on video though! That’s good enough for me. For now…
Currently trying to get the platinum for this but honestly it's getting really tiering now done the 1st biome around 50 times looking for one audio log no 9 and it never drops, did a run from 1-3 for other audio logs and cyphers nothing dropped again this is what makes getting the plat harder as you have to rely on luck for things to drop. Still going to try a bit more but might give up in a bit if things don't drop.
Love this game but the plat was stupid due to rng. Still got it tho 😅
Just got the platinum today as well. I know that still doesn’t make me as good as Mark Cerny but it’s something 😉
@Daleaf try going offline for #9. Sounds weird but it works.
@Gooseuk Sweet cheers mate will take any advice doing my head in lol, did read something online saying to pick up parasite then die and try again, tried it a few times but nothing.
Very nice! Cerny is a good trophy hunter.
One day I'll add this platinum to my collection (I'm almost there!) — they just need to stop bringing out other games for a bit. Gimme half a chance, developers!
Always nice to see that the some folks in the high positions are also avid gamers. At least they know what they're talking about.
Now show us Jim Ryan's trophy list...
Not only cuphead but returnal too, man mark cerny really love challenging games
Pffft. Come back when you earn a platinum in a mind numbing, most inane trophy list... like any Naught Dogs game. Returnal trophy list is a logical succession of trophies while you are getting good.
I'll allow him to shine my controllers when he gets the Red Dead Redemption 2 plat.
best ps5 game no doubt
Someone, please, give that man a game to design!
@vict0RGM
I'd take a Marble Madness refresh any day!
I'm slacking on Returnal. I'm 84% complete on biome 1, but have only made it to the boss on biome 2 once. It rush dashed me into oblivion, and I had already used my astronaut.
I agree with Cerny though...you have to be the aggressor. I do a lot of AoE and melee attacks.
Took me about 50 hours to do everything except the cyphers, and another 50 for the cyphers. I kind of regret it because it changed my affinity toward the game.
How did he get scout log 9 lol. I gave up going for the plat after not being able to find it
@Arugula Ha ha yep guess I just need to invent an amazing console or two and I might get one as well. Cheers though, it was awesome to get it 😁
@arra1213 the only PS5 game
This is why they should let Mark Cerny or Herman Hulst do the PR work for PS5 and leave Jim Ryan doing the business stuff out of the public eye.
Gamers can relate a lot more to an actual gamer rather than some business man.
🎼 like a Mark Cerny!
He got a Plat on Cup Head so Returnal must be a walk in the park after that! lol
Surely child's play next to designing next-generation system architectures.
Kudos to him. Puts his money where his mouth is when it comes to gamer cred among the industry pantheon.
He loves his bullet hell, the lad!
Slowly getting there, I managed to get the old No.9 yesterday which is a relief, as I've heard it can take a long while. So now it's just the rest to go.
Also, when can I send a picture of my ear to Sony?
The trophy system in this game is an effin JOKE thanks to RNG. I literally had to play 215 HOURS to get this ONE room in Crimson Wastes to spawn for the first time (I'm not even kidding) so that I could get my final xenoglyph cipher. (Yeah that's right, I deserve all the credit for my perseverance on that one.😂) Finally got the Platinum yesterday, but the RNG and trophy system almost made me resent the game and the journey ...
@Octane I'm afraid Sony support is a bit slow at the moment due to the pandemic. You can submit a picture of your ear on their contact page right now and a support technician (/ear doctor) will look at it in the next couple of weeks.
@eagletrippin I'm getting like that now still a while of everything so might just stop for now, I have literally been on biome 1 trying to get audio log 9 all day and honestly I just keep getting pretty much the same rooms all the time tried offline like another user suggested probably done about 10 runs and nothing, it's a bit annoying now and starting to take the love out if playing it so might leave it and come back to it in a few months. Or maybe just chase the alternative ending for now as I already have 4 of the pieces needed. 😞😞
I just finally beat the first boss and was proud of that!
Looks like he got the platinum on the same final cipher I had to find too.
Glad it wasn't just me.
platinum'd returnal. my favorite game so far this year
Played this for many many hours since launch and still struggling to get to the third boss. Still I love the game but doubt I'll ever finish it.
@HunkyJunk
Demon's Souls? Astro Bot? Destruction AllStars? Returnal?
Upcoming Ratchet & Clank...plus all the cross gen games. I mean, at least it has new games at launch. The competition that launched in the same window still has nothing. Literally nothing.
Picked up the sword for the first time yesterday!
It's Wicked!!
@Futureshark
Congrats! I remember searching for the sword just so I could get through the red vines and break shield. I use a lot of melee now.
@Daleaf With log 9 they way I found it was to just run through the first biome ignoring all the hostiles, tried the first 2 triangular doors I found and if it wasn’t behind one of those I’d restart the cycle. I’m sure I found it within 10 goes of doing that so was really quick.
@eagletrippin Nice work on the platinum. Shame it changed how you felt about the game. I really enjoyed being all powerful by that point and just destroying stuff in a run to collect things. Totally different to the feeling I had edging through the rooms trying not to die when I started.
@Dobbos @awp69 Great working even getting that far. I felt totally out of my depth when I got this game and really did think I wasn’t going to get any further than biome 3. I’m glad I persevered so can totally recommend you keep going. Fingers crossed for you 🤞.
Doing surveys now. Stuck at 19/20 ciphers in the Crimson Wastes. Been playing for hours and it will not show up.
Discouraged to say the least. Don't know how you did it, Cerny...
Doesn't he have a job to do?
@HunkyJunk You created an account just to say that? The mods give us the "ignore" button for this exact reason.
The majority of this community still just wants to talk about games and how much we love them.
What you're saying isn't even true, as @lacerz just explained. It's just the latest frenzy topic from online media to generate clicks and ad revenue.
Please move your fanboy baiting elsewhere.
@Daleaf it's weird how each person's experience (with how things randomly show up) in the game is different from another person's. I didn't have much difficulty at all with the scout logs ¯(ツ)/¯ It was the xenoglyph ciphers for me and specific rooms not spawning that was my problem...
@WYRMWOOD23 Eesh. Good luck, I just got mine yesterday, I don't envy your position, at all. Check out this video, and see whether you have never seen any of the rooms yet: https://youtu.be/H_1JvCDsIdw
I finally got the cipher 20/20 in the video (with the hidden orb) yesterday to spawn ...
@PhantomMenace84 Yup! Apparently the trophy issues are still a thing for a small number of people. I’ll probably just delete my save and play the game again in a year. It’s definitely my favorite game on the PS5 so far, so I don’t mind playing it all over again later.
@render Don't get me wrong, I still LOVE the game — I didn't expect to like it as much as I did when I bought it, and it turned out to be the most fun, engaging, and addictive game I've played in years. The high difficulty, no-save system I could deal with; but the trophy system based on RNG soured my trophy hunting experience.
Oh, and I'm not even one of the even-more unlucky ones who got their platinum denied by xenoglyph cipher glitches. I thought I got glitched --- xenoglyph's showed 90/90, yet biome 2 had 19/20 ¯(ツ)/¯ --- but I kept playing thinking that maybe I've had not gotten specific rooms yet, which it turns out I hadn't ...
@eagletrippin Totally agree with you there, it’s a very fun and addictive game and I can’t wait to see what they do next.
I can understand about the trophies though. It probably wouldn’t be such a big issue if all the rooms had a equal chance of spawning, but some of them are pretty low odds.
@WYRMWOOD23 It could be the same one I was missing which has a 1 in 25 chance of spawning. I found it easier to run it in reverse, going to the top and working my way back. Couple that with speed running the 1st biome and outside section of 2 and it was possible to do a cycle quite quickly.
@render Right?! I feel like they need to tweak their random number generator formula. If a room is rare, why put a cipher or scout log in there?! What's the point of that? Honestly it makes me wonder whether they are just padding their stats (total number of hours played by users, etc.), but I don't know ...
@eagletrippin I'll check the video and see what I can remember. My strategy has been to just keep running the biome and checking everything that's an upside-down triangle. Hasn't been working.
@render That's an interesting strat. How does that effect the chances exactly?
@WYRMWOOD23 1/25 chance meaning you basically have a 4% chance of having that room spawn. Or, basically, slim to none! :-/
I'm so bad at games, this is an obvious wait until "greatest hits' or bargain bin for me.
@render @eagletrippin I ran in reverse and I GOT IT ON THE FIRST TRY! It was in the room with the hand, which I've never seen before! Thank you so much, gang! THE PLATINUM DREAM IS ALIVE AGAIN!!!
@Daleaf Almost as if he's figured out some way around the RNG gods.
This platinum isn't as much hard as it's annoying getting the 100% survey trophies. If you can get through the game and beat the chapter, you can platinum this game skill-wise. Whether you have the patience to survey the biomes is anyone's guess. Or you could just be fortunate and find everything in a decent number of play-throughs. I do think there are videos that shows you the rare rooms and I believe its possible to do speed-runs where you avoid most fights and just survey. Still, I just don't think a trophy should be tied to anything RNG unless the percentage is really high. Like it would have made more sense to tie a trophy to completely maxing out a weapon (which would take forever) but at least that's something tangible and straight-forward to accomplish. Still my GOTY so far though, but annoying trophies at the end.
Cerny probably plugs in a keyboard on his PS5 and types in some 300-character console command that only he knows which instantly unlocks the platinum.
I'd have had mine weeks ago if the stupid House sequence one wouldn't have glitched on me. 🤬
@WYRMWOOD23 Nice! Yeah in all my time in Crimson Wastes I've only gotten the room with the hand once... Keep it going!
I just platinumed the game just now. I think I can die a happy man! Or come back to life and have to platinum the game again over. And over. And over…
@WYRMWOOD23 Awesome, well done and I'm really glad it worked for you!!! It's bizarre but it seems to do the trick 😁. Oddly the room with the hand I've had loads of times but other rooms that some people say they've had I hardly ever see. Even still playing now I saw one room yesterday that I'd never seen before. It's like the RNG is tied to something unique to your system / save.
@eagletrippin Yeah I do wonder if it's to push the replayability angle but I can definitely understand the frustrations with it. I spent an age trying to get the last Crimson Waste collectable and did quite a few runs of 5 when I needed that one, which was harder work as you couldn't just go in there without any upgrades.
@AgentGuapo Congrats on earning the platinum as well 👍
@render Oh man, biome 5 is a beast. That and 3 were the least enjoyable/most frustrating. Stupid effing drones. Lol. Really glad my trophy hunting concluded with the easier biomes.
Not long till they put Cerny on to PS6, glad he gets to enjoy the fruits of his labour before he cracks on with designing future dream machines, what a legend
@WYRMWOOD23 ergh, Crimson Wastes was the worst for me. I was stuck on 19/20 for ages! I recommend speed running all the way through the desert and jump in the portal that takes you close to the boss and then work your way backwards. The last cipher for me was in an outdoor space with one of those shootable platforms you can only see with the visor. The room was rare and only ever popped for me once. If you work your way backwards and end up too far in without any sign of the cipher then you can then restart your cycle again.
The platinum was tedious by the end due to rng but still a fantastic game.
Edit: just saw you got the last one so ignore this! Congrats!
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