Ah, trophy whoring. While I’ve never obsessed over the fake-but-totally-real little awards packed into games enough to hunt down a copy of the Hannah Montana movie tie-in, I’ll definitely go after platinum trophies if they’re reasonably attainable. A couple of weeks ago I got the platinum trophies for Assassin’s Creed II and Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands, with the latter being the easiest of the five I’ve picked up.
There are a few other games I own that I’m on the cusp of getting the platinum for but have given up on. Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune only asks that I beat it on Crushing, but I couldn’t get halfway through without wanting to break something. For Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection, all I have to do is beat Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine. However, that would require me to get good at a game I hated as a kid and hate even more now. And as much as I love Red Dead Redemption, I don’t see myself putting another 20 or so hours into the multiplayer to reach the top rank.
However, those are all games that I could one day buckle down and do something about should I ever feel the need to. The games that follow are relentless and will do nothing but mock even the most steel-willed trophy hunter.
So if you plan on playing these games with the intention of getting that platinum, think again.
BioShock 2
This is the most recent game on this list, and also one that not many people played. It’s too bad, because it’s excellent. Not only that, but it hands out most of its trophies like candy. The single-player trophies just ask that you bunker down and beat the game on the hardest difficulty, and even the multiplayer trophies just require you to play all the maps and rank up.
However, that’s where the problem lies: no one plays the multiplayer, and with good reason – it’s tacked on, and you can absolutely tell. No one I know who enjoyed the original game asked for it, but there it is for dozens of people to enjoy. Even when I tried out the multiplayer during the first week the game was out I had trouble finding a match, taking anywhere between 2-10 minutes to find a game.
Buy this game, but not for the multiplayer. Or just buy it at all. C'mon, people!
I suppose you and a handful of really, really determined friends could try to reach rank 40, but the rest of us in the game community will just move right the hell on, if you don’t mind.
Guitar Hero: Metallica / Van Halen / Smash Hits
The Guitar Hero franchise was a bit saturated last year, to say the very least. On top of the (excellent) Guitar Hero 5, there were THREE other GH games released on consoles. There were two key differences between GH5 and these three offshoots: 1) the offshoots were based on the capable but unspectacular World Tour engine to varying success and 2) the platinum for GH5 is attainable, while the others were goddamn impossible.
I can’t possibly see anyone getting a Plat in Star Ocean 4. I’m not sure if anyone mentioned it already or not, but that game just asks for stupidly difficult trophies.
demons souls nuff said
@halfdeaf: Oh, so the glitch enables you to do it in more sittings? That’s weird.
Since when did GTA IV require you to complete it in a single playthrough? I helped a friend get the ‘Petrovic’ trophy over a couple of weeks and I’ve almost got it myself.
im sure a loot of people hawe platinum for killzone2 cuz i can uderstand being addicted to the game, howewer to get a platinum at killzone2 you must beat this hardcore game on hard, and beat it once on any dificulty without dieing
@Reigen:
Yeah, but the difficult part is beating the campaign on elite difficulty. Everything else is just a matter of putting some time on the task.
I still mantain that warhawk is the most difficult platinum trophie to obtain (which means to actually get, not like the ones some people mentioned that are “impossible” to obtain due to bad online implementation).
I mean, it took my brother some 920 hours just to get to general (I have about 600 hours, still pretty far from general) and not to mention all the medals you have to achieve.
You either just play warhawk ’till you get the platinum without ever looking at another games or just stopped playing the game at all.
BTW, I love this article =)
@Dreamer_Lion
I haven’t played Warhawk but having a game require you to invest 920 hours in it just to achieve part of a platinum is insane. In my opinion, it doesn’t really make it difficult to achieve… unless if the objectives in question are actually difficult, but it just seems like it’s a matter of investing a huge amount of time doing the same tasks over and over (which I assume this is what it is). I hate games that do that and I will never bother with these trophies no matter how much I love the game.
WipEout HD was difficult because it actually had some insane tasks to achieve. It doesn’t necessarily need you to quit your job and ditch any form of social life you may have to achieve but it is still hard. There’s no “eliminate 1,000,000 online opponents” of the sort, it’s just pure racing skills put to the most extreme tests. These are the challenges I enjoy in games.
@VofE:
Well yeah, kind of. Warhawk is a multiplayer only game, so you spend all of your time playing against other players.
Then as you play you earn points, which in turn make you “level up” in ranks. But Warhawk is a goddamn hard game, so you make 200 points per game (30 mins matches) when your team wins and a 100 when you are on the losing side (assuming you played really well).
It takes 275,000 points to get to general. You can do the math, lol xD
And yeah, I like games that are “hard” on the trophies but not time consuming. For instance, killzone 2 is a pain in the ass to plat but it never requires you to spend insane amounts of time doing anything.
I have “The Gold Standard” in SF4. But back then I didn’t know you could do a double charge to remember supers and I never completed any of the charge character’s trials on normal! Thing that sucks is I can’t go back and do it know because that PS3 YLOD’d with the data on it
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Heh, I got GHM plat. I do agree with SH and VH being quite hard to plat though.
GTAIV impossible no, time consuming yes.
Ghostbusters impossible no, time consuming yes.
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