VGChartz Playstation Trophy League

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KylieDog said:

chenguo4 said:
First I dont know who said FF13 is 150 hours; the consensus is 80 - 120.

Second, by your arguments people would be penalized in this league for trying to platinum certain games, namely the likes of WKC and Star Ocean. The whole point of the star system is, if someone wished to go after games that take a bit longer to plat, their position on the plat leaderboards would take less of a hit. For some games, a single extra star doesn't do much. For up to maybe 80 - 100 hours, 1 additional star might be fine. For WKC, which is 500 hours, those 450 extra hours spent to plat should only be worth an extra star? When games like Terminator gets you that star in under 10 hours?

I realize really we're arguing semantics of the term "difficulty." But time is an obstacle. Hell, even getting a phd is no sweat if you're willing to put in the work into grades as an undergrad, then research as a grad.

As for the dead online communities argument... To change it now would be unfair for the people who got it under optimal conditions. I think the only time a rating should be changed because a game's difficulty suddenly changed is if the game got patched very shortly after release, like a week one patch that radically changes teh difficulty. Beyond that, precedence of previously earned trophies make changing the rating a bad idea.

Of course, if no one in the league's platted it yet, changing the rating then would be a trivial thing.

 

I thought the plat rating was so to not reward the people playing games like UP and Hannah Montanna non-stop.  Using examples like the Terminator games getting that extra star instead is flawed when you got some games like Smackdown vs Raw at 2 stars when you could probably plat that game using 1 hand (being serious) and in ~10-20 hours, if you are slow.  Yet that has the same plat rating as games like Uncharted 2 or Resident Evil 5 that will kill you repeatedly at some points and actually have a lot of challenge to them?  Are people platting RE5 and U2 being punished because they require so much more work and effort than Smackdown v Raw but get the same rating?  No.

 

Hardly fair for anyone who starts playing Resistance 2 to not get a 5 star for it if they are going to be spending a similar amount of time as someone playing WKC if thats a 5 star.  Keeping time as a solid factor like 1 star tops added after the chalanege makes examples like R2 better.  10k kills takes a long time in that game even when it was new and lots of people online, pretty sure that time was factored into the rating.  Now it takes much much longer that increased time doesn't need change the rating because time should equal 1 extra star always.

 

rating is determined by how time consuming and hard the game is after release, if the game isn't patched , rating isn't going to be changed,

Think a minute, what you are saying means we would change Madden 10 rating to 5 stars in 2 years when EA close the online servers because you can't get the online trophies anymore.

If you decide to wait 2 years to get the tropheis of an online game, too bad for you.......

And Resistance 2 10k kills doesn't compare to WKC even now, sorry. For starters you don't need any help to get that trophy ( and it isn't that time consuming really, all you have to do is mindlessly kill people online..)

 

Anyway i was just basing myself on the ratings on PS2trophies.org which we are using as reference for most of our ratings...

 

And the issue with Hannah Montan wasn't that's it's Hannah Montana, it was that you can plat the game in a few hours... In the end the difference between our 1 stars and our 2-3 stars isn't the difficulty, none of the 3 stars really are difficult, its' the time it takes to achieve the objectives...