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.
White Knight Chronicles is probably one of the most time consuming plats ever, I heard it takes about 1000h and it’s logical considering how much stuff you have to collect and so on.
I’m going to plat Demon’s Souls cause I love to play it and I’ve put almost 100 hours into the game so far. I can imagine it will take at least 50 more until I plat it.
Just to troll: Metal Gear Solid 4 lol
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I have to disagree with Ghostbusters. Since the game dropped to $20, there’s been an influx of new players. “Overachiever” isn’t hard to get if you just keep playing. It’s “Gozer’s Most Wanted” that’s a pain b/c the servers don’t always register that you won a match. I had to go through the checklist 2.5 times to finally get the trophy.
Fear 2 should be there if no one already mentioned it..
Totally Right About The Ghostbuster And GTA 4 Platinums. Online Trophies Are Impossible
@TraumaticTighearnan
No, I got the Heavy Rain Platinum. It took quite a long time, I’m rather pleased with that one. Have a total of 8 in all and getting the Red Dead Redemption Platinum sometime this weekend easily.
how about LOTR: Conquest? Bought it cheap the other day, finished all the single player and went to play online but theyve taken the server down so now I cant get any online trophies…..so thats impossible to plat now!
Definitely Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2. I still don’t think a single person has the platinum trophy for that game, and I don’t think anyone will ever get it. It requires you to beat 5 missions, each of which are TEAM missions, and each of which are completely f**ing impossible.
Last time I checked, which was around 6-8 months after the games release, 2 of the missions had STILL never been beaten, and most of the experts on forums agreed that they probably never would. I actually checked a few months later just to see what happened, and one of them had been beaten ONCE, and the other had still never been beaten. You can look at the leaderboards to see current progress.
Anyway, it will likely never be platinumed, and even if it does, it’s a safe bet that whoever does it will be asian.
Another one that sucks to platinum is Red Dead Redemption. I don’t mind 5-6 really hard grinding trophies, but RDR has like 10-12. Waste of time, and this is from someone who really goes out of his way to get platinums.
Fight Night Round 4 i got every trophy in that game except for one, which required you to fucking rank number 1 in the world???? wtf thats impossible
I never go for Trophies OR Achievements anymore. Too much trouble. The closest I got to a Platinum was in God of War.
I like the list though. It’s kinda lousy when a developer makes trophies for a multiplayer they themselves know won’t excel in terms of people coming back for it. That’s one of the things I like about Infinity Ward and Treyarch: while they could get away with adding multiplayer Trophies/Achievements (since there are a ton of people playing their multiplayer), they don’t because they know that not everyone can play multiplayer.
dude you are Wipeout trophies are friggin impossible, i gave and just enjoy the game every now and then rather then pull my hair out
LOL! Hahahah! You DON’T need to get the “Auf Wedersehen Petrovic” trophy in one sitting… That’s bollocks. I did the “Auf Wedersehen Petrovic” and platinum’d GTAIV. Thought it’s not hard, just time consuming… Add my PSN for proof.
easiest platinums i got were in borderlands and MW2.
Ginger-Reiki enters the room, Holds aloft his Warhawk platinum…. and the divorce papers to prove it.
I was lucky my wife was busy studying for a year when I manage to platinum it.
Ginger-Reiki. . . . . . I salute you!.
fear 2 is impossible cause there is no online community
Pain. Nuff said.
@PSN=Bounkass: The AWP trophy glitch does exist but not everybody encounters it.
I’ve given up on GTA IV and Killzone 2. I don’t really have any hard plats but I’m close on games like Mirrors Egde, GOW3 and more.
i got Killzone 2 Platinum to go with my 8 others. KZ2 just takes determination. haven’t Platted any of these games though. i would say Assault on Dark Athena is impossible. that game has lots of online trophies and the online is so awful nobody plays it. one even requires 10,000 killls!! what a joke!!
I have 6 plats, MK vs DC took me one week but it was HARD, I mean I think back to the stress those kombo challenges caused me and I can still hear myself talking to the tv.
Technically my quickest platinum but oh man oh man, I’ll never forget it