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Games you will never, ever Platinum

Joe Garcia of PSUNI writes "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."

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DarkSideRob5778d ago

Cool article and great topic for discussion. I can understand a trophy/achievement that requires the highest level of patience and skill to achieve. But sometimes I think these developers are just going out of their way to make our lives miserable...because they know someone out there is going to spend hours, even days, going for that damn-near unattainable trophy.

Rot_in_Fail5778d ago (Edited 5778d ago )

Does not require you to do all in one session, I did it in many sittings. I had to redo many because one failed to get recorded on the servers or something.
Getting to rank 10 was also "fun".

Redempteur5777d ago

well you have to be sure it record your session and that's the problem sometimes it doesn't ...

Ocelot5255777d ago

"sometimes"?!

i tried it 100 times already

BattleAxe5777d ago

They forgot to put Far Cry 2 in the list. These tophies are a bitch to get.

nickjkl5777d ago

killzone 2 is freaking hard to platinum

Bobbykotickrulesz5777d ago

I got platinum on Killzone 2.

I'd say MAG and Modnation racers. 250,000 create XP? Good fucking luck.

joemayo765771d ago

i'm having more problem finding ppl to play certain game modes on gtar iv online

also no mention of lord of th rings conquest?
that game is now literally impossible to platinum as online trophies are unattainable due to servers now offline

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kagon015778d ago

I'm wondering why Warhawk wasn't in the list?

Motorola5777d ago

Warhawk trophies are crazy....

Megaton5777d ago

Warhawk is a grind of Korean MMO proportions. Minimum of 900 hours of skilled playing for the General rank.

2EXS5777d ago

it is very hard to get, i will take you at least 1 year, getting to general is not the hardest thing to do, getting 5k vehicles kill is really hard ( you used to need 10k AtA kills to get to gen)so for me it should be #1

swinesucker5777d ago (Edited 5777d ago )

Lol, I am a gen and there is no way in hell I'm getting plat. I don't have time to grind turrets and what not and guess what who the fuck cares. Trophies are worthless and so are people that care about them. 900 hours is a bit on the wild side there bro. This isn't first year anymore.

More like 1200 for people that are extremely talented at CTF. I mean I have about 800 warhawk wings and it took me 1300 hours. You might get there faster playing zones but zones are fairly boring and there is just no way these days. The game is basically dead imo. People have their mics on they just don't use them it's a big fucking mess as far as team play is concerned. The tournies made sure of that. The community is now basically noobs that have no clue why they are there and more people are playing less every day believe me. I know one thing for sure. I will never put this many hours into a game for a looooong time. And there are so many games that are going to overshadow the sequel it doesn't matter how cool it will be the community will never be the same.

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xTruthx5778d ago

White Knight Chronicles should be there

sunnygrg5777d ago (Edited 5777d ago )

I have that one ^^

Took me about 800 hours.

rdgneoz35777d ago

Love White Knight. But I made the mistake to stop playing for a little bit and I can never find anyone around my rank to quest with...

Chris3995777d ago

I still don't have the plat for that and I'm at 600 hours+.

@ rdgneoz3, the community is still strong. Send me a PM if you want and I'll run around with ya. My geared up GR 15 is just parked at the moment buy I was going to go back to it in a bit and grab the plat. I have to run around doing tonnes of quests anyhow (of various GR) for those damned binding trophies.

Ratchet_Co5778d ago

Socom Confrontation would be a good addition.

moho-foe5778d ago

I got the Plat for Bioshock 2 a month ago, the MP sucked but I got through there are still people playing.

The game that needs to be on that list is Ninja Giden Sigma 2 OMG

Darkstorn5777d ago

@moho-foe-

Totally agree on NGS2. It basically requires about 7 or 8 playthroughs, each with a different weapon used predominantly. I only ever got the Dragon Sword trophy, and wasn't at all willing to go back and replay the game multiple times (even though it was good, if not better than its predecessor).

mugoldeneagle035777d ago

30 Hostage Extracts away from that damn platinum. Which blows since an extraction game mode is once every 7 maps, and the chances of extracting, let alone ME getting the extractions is even slimmer.

Fuck you Slant Six!

Luzce5777d ago

Unreal Tournament 3 should be there.

Ocelot5255777d ago (Edited 5777d ago )

the "get a life" trophy lives up its name

mugoldeneagle035777d ago

UT3 is actually easier than it looks. A lot of the trophies, if not all, can be done in SP. And the "Get A Life" trophy can be done in SP too. I got super annoyed after a solid month of grinding and set up an Online-Arena-Death match w/ Bots and just did one a day. Although I'm sure you could just change your calender settings if you wanted...Guess I never thought about that

But still a pain though..

himdeel5777d ago (Edited 5777d ago )

...I would think the multiplayer trophies wouldn't be include in the regular set of trophies and would be better suited as + trophies like in uncharted 2 and some other games. Oh well...

FACTUAL evidence5777d ago

His list wasn't impossible. I have to say check these 2 titles, and if you get the plat in the next year 1/2 for both games I'll give you 5 million dollars(Which I don't have XD)! The titles are:

Tom Clancy's Endwar
Farcry 2.
Have fun playing for something literally IMPOSSIBLE to achieve.

Jaces5777d ago

I'm actually on my way to getting that Plat for Bioshock 2, enough people play online that allows me to rank up easily.

GTAIV...only have two more trophies, earn 1mil online and Key to the City.

SO CLOSE!

xTruthx5777d ago

After I read this article, I went back to uncharted to get my last trophy and I just got platinum :D!!

MrAwesome5777d ago

Hakoom got them all... But rhen he isn't "You" he is "The" Hakoom

NY_Pride5777d ago (Edited 5777d ago )

Depends when you're online but in the afternoons till midnight I have no problem finding a match; free for alls are always packed.

It's a f**king crime more people didn't get BioShock 2 because the SP is great and MP is so much fun. I've been playing MW2 for so long that I've forgotten that MP can be fun to play! lol

I just recently bought Ghostbusters, Bioshock 2, Dead Space, RE5 and I'm having so much fun playing them, I'm in gamer heaven.

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Alos885778d ago

Damnation's are probably easier than the rest, but I have better things to do with my time, like watching paint dry.

StrboyM5778d ago

I'm still stuck on Wipeout...I need a few more golds on elite...but I'm almost out of hair (to pull out), and If i ever meet zico...I'm going to punch him in the face.

Blaine5777d ago (Edited 5777d ago )

If I met him, I'd shake his hand for making me realize how fast it was actually possible to go in Anulpha.

I recommend you look up a guide video on youtube, though. (Hey, it isn't cheating since Zico didn't figure out the best route by himself either.)

Edit: I won't even try elite campaign though--no way. I'm too bad at Chenghou!

Cenobia5777d ago

I went online and watched the videos...it is still fudging impossible. I literally drove 100 laps doing the same thing over and over, and never even got within a second of his time.

Fvck that trophy.

I like the games that just require a little additional effort, like Uncharted 1. And online trophies are stupid. If the game is fun online I'll play it. I'm a trophy whore, but I will not punish myself by playing shitty games online for 1000 hours...also I don't have internet at my house. :(

Megaton5777d ago

Even if you've earned it, it certainly isn't "easy". Takes a lot of practice and skill to get that one.

Redempteur5777d ago

did you know that zico redid this lap time and did better ?you actually have to beat one of his doable lap time ..his new lap time is ..well ..impossible

PS3Freak5777d ago

The only impossible trophy that i have is the Elite campaign trophy. There is no way i could get Airbraker, Zone Zeus, or Beat Zico. I almost got arcade perfect before i stopped playing the game though. Damn hard trophies.

GigaGaia5778d ago

I have 3 friends who got all of those.

Blaine5777d ago

who have one or more platinum trophies!

DaKid5777d ago

I only have 3 friends...

Jack-Pyro5777d ago

Dose someone need a hug?

sunnygrg5778d ago (Edited 5778d ago )

http://www.ps3trophies.org/...

The reasons being server closure, glitched trophies etc.

Nitrowolf25778d ago

this is why i hate online trophies, i think every dev should follow naughty dog and patch the online trophies after launch of the game

Blaine5777d ago

I don't understand why they always make online trophies so much more time consuming than single player trophies (not really harder, just more time consuming).

Usually, a single player gold trophy will be to beat the game on the hardest difficulty. No problem, anywhere between 10-20 hours.

Then, the "equivalent" multiplayer trophy will be: reach the highest level. No problem, only it'll easily take upwards of 50 hours. And then there's the "get 10 000 kills" trophy so many devs are fond of, which takes anywhere between 50-100+ hours depending on the game...

despair5777d ago

I really liked UC2 online trophies(not counting dlc) just 2 bronze that can be gotten by anyone just play a co-op and a deathmatch, you don't even have to win them. This is how I like my online trophies.

When I saw 10000 kills in Resistance 2 I nearly cried then packed it away, I like the MP but no way in hell I'm gonna play months on end to get 1 trophy.

OT - They should have added Battlefield Bad Company, I heard 1 of the trophies was glitched or almost impossible to get in MP.

f7897905777d ago

The platinum trophy is ridiculous. It amounts to a 1000 hours of gameplay which is out reach for anyone with a life. No way will I ever reach the rank of General.

Megaton5777d ago

I hate online achievements/trophies. Even if they're easy, they become unobtainable when the servers go down or people just stop playing the game. That's just wrong.

adlt5777d ago

10,000 kills in Resistance 2 wasn't bad at all. It took a little over 2 days of gameplay for me. If you just chip away at it, it really isn't bad considering I have over 50k kills in CoD:MW2 haha.

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PS3Freak5777d ago

@ Above

It's probably the one were you have to have 20 squad members spawn on you without dying. It is not impossible, but most people just chill in an area where they are hidden until enough people spawn to them.

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Final Fantasy X 25th Anniversary Website Launches With New Nomura Artwork and Merchandise

Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.

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-Foxtrot26d ago

Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.

They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.

solideagle26d ago

they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.

Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted

Relientk7726d ago

Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments

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15 Years Ago, Mortal Kombat (2011) Saved Gaming’s Biggest Fighting Franchise

A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.

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italiangamer35d ago

"Gaming’s Biggest Fighting Franchise"

Press X to (seriously) doubt.

DarXyde32d ago

Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.

Soy33d ago

And then MK1 killed it again.

DivineHand12532d ago (Edited 32d ago )

15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.

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PlayStation legend Shuhei Yoshida says Jim Ryan fired him because he didn't listen to him

Why did Sony push Shuhei Yoshida out of his role leading PlayStation's first-party games? He'd overseen some huge successes. Well, apparently, he didn't listen.

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Relientk7734d ago

Yeah I can see that for sure. Shuhei Yoshida should have been in charge not Jim Ryan.

Cacabunga34d ago

It should be free highway for him now.. but Sony are too stupid to see this, especially that moron Hulst

S2Killinit34d ago (Edited 34d ago )

Wtf why all that anger. PlayStation is dominating on every level. Besides I think there is a little more to hiring a CEO than just who is available. Its not like its a athlete your team wants to buy.

neutralgamer199233d ago

S2Killinit

live service failures, chasing trends, closing studios. yes dominating

Cacabunga33d ago

Sony is Dominating because competition is not existing. Compared to previous gens this is the poorest in terms of software offerings.

Last gen we got Uncharted 4 Lost Legacy and TLOU2 from ND alone.

This is so far a remasters gen, with no competition to lift up the quality

1nsomniac33d ago (Edited 33d ago )

..."PlayStation is dominating on every level"....

...Really???

PlayStation are soon heading into a new generation in the not to distant future. They currently have the worst customer satisfaction they've ever sustained as a company. The company is heading for a huge crash while at the same time they'll need to be planning how they are going to try and win back that favour and the build up to their new releases.

Yes financially they're winning but they're going to have to ride out this complete public corporate disaster. No one has faith in the company or the product anymore. They've damaged their public image so much this generation. Greed can kill anyone.

medman33d ago

Hulst is a disaster......

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blacktiger33d ago

He would've done the same thing and fire Jim Ryan and Shuhei would be the villain. Why?
Because Elite creates the narrative and distraction for gamers, users and citizens.

Outside_ofthe_Box34d ago

More confirmation that Jim Ryan is the culprit for what has happened to Sony. Hulst needs to go too. What sucks is that a lot of the good top heads at Sony are no longer there. I wish that guys that were forced out prematurely by Dumbo Jimbo like Shuhei and Layden came back.

robtion33d ago

Yep. Yoshida was responsible for bringing one of the best games of this generation to playstation (Stellar Blade). He is an actual gamer and is in touch with what gamers want (creative, fun games, not GaaS and agenda pushing). He also seems like a genuinely nice guy if you watch some interviews. Of course they got rid of him.

darthv7234d ago

Makes you wonder if MS even thought about hiring him after Phil and Sarah were leaving. He certainly couldn't make their situation any worse.

Agent7534d ago

Microflop. After Windows XP and Xbox 360, it all went floppy.

S2Killinit34d ago

Floppy 😆
No pun intended

badz14934d ago

Yoshida for President! Jim Ryan was and always be a hack! Sony should get Shu back

Lightning7734d ago

All the gamer/consumer lead heads are gone across PS and Xbox. shuhei gone phil's gone (questionable) but gone. The future of gaming is somewhat uncertain across the board.

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