The Jump Scares May Be the Hardest Part of Switchback VR's Platinum

Hate time wasting collectible trophies usually, and in VR it’s even worse as using a guide is much more problematic.

Going the whole game without dying is another annoying type of trophy if the game is long. As you get towards the end you risk wasting so much time. Or have to upload to the cloud to offset the risk, which is a pain in itself.

Just give us difficulty trophies and ones that encourage us to play in different ways or see everything.

Anyway, for Cave Digger 2 a couple of days ago, so need to get as far through that as I can before this hits.

Got this ticking down to release on my PS5 home screen. Can’t wait to jump into it. Absolutely loved Rush of Blood.

I cannot understand this new insistence on "Iron Man" type game modes that wipe literally hours of progress for making mistakes.

If you enjoy these, I think you're insane.

Especially as we now live in a world where glitchy games can cause a death thats going to clear your entire save.

Just as we break away from a world of unnecessary multiplayer tacked onto games with their classic "get to level 100 on a dead, bad multiplayer game mode", this is a new norm. It sucks.

This is the game for the new headset that I am most excited about. I still play Rush of Blood occasionally and it is always a game I pull out to show people who are new to VR.

Thankfully nothing really scares me in vr,looking forward to this game....standout games so far personally are gt7 resi. 8 pistol whip and synth riders.The headset is very good but still a bit fiddly and cumbersome and better clarity is needed as the graphics are already great the tech or lenses need another 5-10 years to be perfect 🤔

@thefourfoldroot1 So basically you want platinum trophies that require minimal skill and limited time and effort. Trophies are supposed to be “earned” and plats a collection of your gaming achievements. If you want mindless trophies, there are no shortage of “Press X” cheeses in the store.

@DefiledViper
“ So basically you want platinum trophies that require minimal skill and limited time and effort. Trophies are supposed to be “earned” and plats a collection of your gaming achievements. If you want mindless trophies, there are no shortage of “Press X” cheeses in the store.”

Think you missed the part where I said I want difficulty trophies bud.

What I would request is not easy trophies, but trophies that respect our time. Collectible trophies are not hard, they are just time consuming, especially in VR. Trophies that require you to play through the whole game without saving, again, not respecting an adult’s time and lifestyle. When I was a child sure, I had more time. These are the type of trophies I’d ask to be avoided if possible.

I almost managed to obtain the Rush of blood platinum, just a couple of trophies short. The permadeath trophy is BS.
I did enjoy hunting all the skittles though, a great game and I hope they remaster it (the lack of Sony remasters is seriously depressing).

@CaptD I'm hoping they are holding back some of the psvr1 greats to release throughout the year 🤞

@thefourfoldroot1 I know what you meant. Games do respect your time. Trophies are completely optional. Not obtaining trophies shouldn’t detract from your enjoyment. Like you, I choose to go after these and fully expect to put in blood and sweat to get them. Working on Like a Dragon Ishin. Talk about a time sink!! But that’s a choice I made. As for no death trophies, I relish the challenge. That also isn’t necessary. Too many games have made plats meaningless, so I appreciate both the grind and difficulty. I’ll agree with thought on VR trophies. Tough to do by yourself though the new pass through mode on VR2 should hopefully make it easier.

@DefiledViper
Unfortunately the passthrough is not good enough to read a backlit phone. I’ve tried!

Feel you on Ishin. I haven’t got it yet as I’ve been too caught up in VR, but I have all the other Yakuza and Yakuza spin off plats apart from Dead Souls and they are a (massively enjoyable) time sink.

That may seem to contract what I said before, but I feel they all respect my time (baring one annoying challenge with a badly spaced save / start point). Even when there are a million things to do, I am always working towards them, no time is wasted even if a lot is (joyfully) spent.

No death runs where I could spend 200hrs playing a game only to be distracted by family, encounter a glitch, or whatever, then lose days of my life? No thanks. Just give me a new hardcore difficulty mode if you want to challenge me, not the same old game where I can’t get distracted.

Just Interested in the game, looks amazing. Have no interest in trophies to be honest.

Can't wait! The game I bought a PSV2 for!

(couldn't care less about the trophies to be honest)

@naruball
Personally I feel this is one of the games where a collection of good trophy challenges can add a lot. It’s unlikely the narrative campaign will last too long. Maybe if there is a high score or time attack mode or something..

@thefourfoldroot1 Perhaps. But, personally, when it comes to VR games, I just want to get the awesome/unique experience and move on to something else unless it's something like Beat Saber.