Also like BioShock 2, however, the multiplayer is a ghost town. Maybe if you jumped straight into the MP when the game released – and really, who did? – you’d be able to get the “Overachiever” trophy ($2.5 million earned, 50 jobs, 30 post-job awards). But now, a year after the game released? Don’t hold your breath.
Street Fighter IV
At 23 years old, I’d say I’m still quite young. However, I’ve been playing games since I was about 5 or 6 on my brother’s SNES – just old enough to do some serious button mashing when SFII made its way out of arcades and into living rooms worldwide.
So when SFIV came out, it fit me like a glove. Not that I was ever any good at the game to begin with, but it was great that Street Fighter had become accessible to the masses again.
This thought process did not extend into the game’s trophy list. While Super SFIV’s trophies swayed back into the realm of human possibility, vanilla SFIV’s trophies were here to hand you your ass on a silver platter (how nice!). Beating the challenges on Hard was already enough to smash your TV over your head, but to get gold medals in all of them for the “Gold Standard”?
Even Seth thinks these trophies are cheap
Unless you’re one of these guys, save your sanity.
Damnation
I dare you to tolerate this ugly, broken dreck dressed as a game long enough to get more than a handful. The trophies are completely doable, but are you really so desperate for a platinum?
Not nearly as fun as it looks. Not even a little bit
Don’t do it! I BELIEVE IN YOU!!!
WipEout HD
Of all of the game franchises with misplaced capital letters in the title, WipEout has to be my favorite. Why wouldn’t it be? The games are always pretty to look at, play at breakneck speeds, and have kickass soundtracks to match. This PSN release was no different.
Almost pretty enough to keep you from sticking your head in the oven
The game is also totally enjoyable without focusing on trophies (like the good ol’ days of, um, 2007). Once you start trying for them, though, you’re in for a hell of a time. Not necessarily a good one, as the gold trophies require you to be Jesus in a hovercraft, but a time nonetheless. “Elite Campaign Legend” asks that you obtain gold medals in every cell in the campaign on Elite difficulty. “Beat Zico” has you trying to beat one of the developer’s ridiculous lap times.
Believe you me, this game is much more fun if you just ignore the trophies and play it for what it is – badass future combat racing.
This obviously doesn’t list every impossible platinum in existence. If you can believe it, I’m just one man. What games have you given up hope for? Let us know in the comments below or in our forums.
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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