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binary solo on 18 November 2009
Crystalchild said:
Rainbird said:
Stupid. Trophies are a bonus, if you don't have what it takes to get a platinum, then that's that. Stop whining!

 

tried to get the Demons Souls trophy? it IS a pain in the ass, i am at 92% right now, and the counter says already 120 hours spent on that. =(

(So you can get 3 Fallout 3 Plat's in the time you get the one in Demons Souls)

 

its nothing bad about the trophies, but in some games its absolutely  unbalanced, some are too easy, some are too hard to get.

Was much less than 50hrs for the Uncharted Plat. But I did use a guide to get all the treasures - only managed to find about 45 unaided.



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Rainbird on 18 November 2009
Crystalchild said:
Rainbird said:
Stupid. Trophies are a bonus, if you don't have what it takes to get a platinum, then that's that. Stop whining!

 

tried to get the Demons Souls trophy? it IS a pain in the ass, i am at 92% right now, and the counter says already 120 hours spent on that. =(

(So you can get 3 Fallout 3 Plat's in the time you get the one in Demons Souls)

 

its nothing bad about the trophies, but in some games its absolutely  unbalanced, some are too easy, some are too hard to get.

Sure, there isn't a lot of balance in how much a platinum trophy requires, but it's still a platinum trophy. It's 100% down to the developers how hard they want to make theirs to get, and if you get the platinum in Demon's Souls, then you know you worked for it, and everyone who played the game also knows how much effort it took.

Platinum trophies aren't meant to be "worth" equally much, they just represent the hardest trophy a game has to offer.



Tridrakious on 18 November 2009

I do like the Trophy system better than the Achievement system. Here's why, with TS it seems like it tougher to get them than even getting a 200 gamerscore point increase.



V-r0cK on 18 November 2009

I usually just try to get trophies that seems reasonable if it requires online. Other games like Resistance 2 for example ill aim to get all the trophies single player, but wont for the online ones. And screw Warhawk, that game is too dam hard to get all trophies but I'd definitely like to see somebody with a platinum trophy for Warhawk lol



Mirson on 18 November 2009
theprof00 said:
I've refused to buy any game in which a gold requires killing 10,000 other gamers or something ridiculous like that.

So I take you won't get Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2? There are like more than ten bronze trophies that require you to kill/do something to 1,000 enemies. Kill 1,000 enemies with the dragon sword (1 trophy), kill 1,000 enemies with the lunar staff (1 trophy), perform an Izuma drop on 1,000 enemies (1 trophy), etc. It's a little ridiculous, but I'm pretty sure you can get them fast on co-op.

@V-Rock: Warhawk - 400 hours in, and I'm only at 71% lol. I only have half the points to get the General rank gold trophy, so another 400 hours to go?



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Kantor on 18 November 2009

I don't like online trophies.

On the other hand, a Platinum is supposed to be HARD. It should be too difficult to attain for casual gamers to earn.

It shouldn't, however, be painful. Getting the Platinum, for the most part, should be enjoyable, just extremely time consuming:

Good examples: Uncharted series, inFamous.



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Ghazi4 on 18 November 2009

well platinums arent supposed to come easily lol




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Somini on 18 November 2009

Sorry, but this is just a very pointless article!!



BHR-3 on 18 November 2009
theprof00 said:
JOKA_ said:
-Newcloud- said:
i hate one trophy that borderlands and GTA4 has which is to play the game with the developer or someone who has WTF!!

You mean "Let Sleeping Rockstars Lie"?

 

Thats actually pretty easy.  If people are still playing online odds are good they have, so if you just kill them once the trophy is yours.  Don't know about Borderlands.

The GTA4 ones were fucking horrible. I rate this one of the worst games to get trophy wise.

A platinum in this game can literally take you a year of non-stop play.

Getting to rank 1 is almost impossible in multiplayer, and finding all the pigeons in the game can take weeks even with a guide. On top of that, there are like 2 other collecting torphies, each with at least 100 things to collect. This is a shitty shit-ass attempt, and perfectly illustrates the OP. I'm thinking about deleting the trophy file with GTA4 on it just so I can never see it again.

i dont think u can delete just 1 games trophy file ull have to delete them all if u dont want to see it again



                                                             

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Porcupine_I on 18 November 2009
Rainbird said:
Stupid. Trophies are a bonus, if you don't have what it takes to get a platinum, then that's that. Stop whining!

i second that!

besides, if someone doesn't have Online, nobody will find out he can't get trophies anyway, unless they track him down at home :D



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