@MasterVG71782

I think time should definitely be heavily weighed in the difficulty rating and should be weighed higher than perhaps KylieDog & Getrdone are counting for. Just because its an easy grind doesn't mean everyone will take the time to do it. I think a game like White Knight Chronicles should be a 4-5 stars based on time alone. 1000 hours, are you kidding me!? If that is true I'd say that's 5 stars no matter how easy the rest of the game is.

Percentage wise I would say a difficulty rating should be broken down to roughly 50% skill based and 50% time based. Of course we are not that scientific with our rating being a league thats meant for fun. But polling from other sites like ps3trophies.org and getting a larger user base of voting I feel that our ratings are accurate. Of course there will always be ratings that people would argue otherwise. Some people might naturally be more skilled or have more experience at certain kinds of games so its easier for them. Some people may have used a guide to find the tough to find collectibles the first time and others had to play the game a 2nd time or spend countless more hours trying to find them all. Some people may have boosted and others didn't. There's just too many factors really.

Edit: meant to write 5 stars for the 1000 hours.

@ HideoK

I was considering 1 star about 20-50 hours. 1,000 hours in my opinion if true is a 5 star. lol Thats just a lot of time.

Agree Hideok at some point u have to consider the time u put into a game. Dragon age isn´t hard at all but takes like 100 hours to plat should be rated 1 star then its means its just as easy to plat as Terminator salvation or Hannah montana.

Ps: Think Arcturus is doing a great job on plat difficulty.

@Getrdone

For time difficulty I was thinking more like:

1 star = 1-15 hours
2 star = 15-30 hours
3 star = 30-50 hours
4 star = 50-100 hours
5 star = 100+ hours

Then factor the time rating along with the skill difficulty rating to get the overall score.

Of course White Knight Chronicles 600-1000+ hours should be an automatic 5 star in my time example. Thats like factoring in 6-10 more 5 star time ratings. Would come out to a 4.6 overall rating for 1000 hours of time and if the skill difficulty was rated a 1.

I like the 5* rating system
However i disagree with some of the ratings(like Kylie)
Burnout Paradise is a * plat but there is a trophy that only people with a PSeye or some other usb camera device that is compatible with the ps3. That trophy and the Burnout License(which is a little time consuming) should make it a 2*
Buzz Quiz TV is a 1* and the winning the games online is a bitch because there is always that one person who is smarter than you and it really is a grind.
NCAA Football 10 is a 1* and its harder than Madden due to online trophies but Madden 10 is a 1*
Cod W@W shouldn't be the same as MW2 because MW2 is a cakewalk compared to W@W. Either W@W a 4* or MW2 a 2*(Also more people have the MW2 plat than W@W). If KZ2 is a 4* then shouldnt W@W? I heard W@W was more complicated due to the nade spamming
NBA 09 The Inside is a 2* plat but only 2 people in the league have it. And from the online trophies it looks like a 3 maybe 4* plat(thats impossible now due to online servers down)
I agree with most of the rest

Finally, after weeks without trophies, I rented Bioshock 2 yesterday.

I played it for a bit. Seems very good, I really like being back in Rapture. Story-wise its still too early to tell.

I also played a bit of multiplayer and apart from Capturing a Sister, I just need to grind to get all MP trophies.

Say, anyone here wants to help me Capture a sister?

What on earth are you saying here?  It's a 2* plat but 4* because of online?  You could say that about a lot of games.

I challenge you to plat it.

lol platinums and there ratings what bloody headaches :P can't please everyone but im agreeing with the timeline hideok mentioned, was very depressing completing pro evo which took 100 hours and got a 1* for it :(

im really struggling to get into any games at the moment :/ iv tried dragon age, bayonetta, katamari, mag and ratchet and clank and can't settle with one yet :(
started AvP and im liking things so far and im going to try dark void soon to so hopefully something will hold my attention otherwise my completion percentage will be god awful :P

@mattbfg

Dark Void is an okay game but if you're struggling to get into a game stay away from Dark Void. Maybe you need to mix it up and Heavy Rain is something that is completely different.

Ive quit with trophies.