r/Trophies

Now, I'm not saying the hardest or even least fun. Rather than stuff that was annoying or/and took the grindiest.

For me, it's easily RDR2. I love this game. One of Mount Rushmore of games (along with TLOU1, Witcher 3, and Clair)! The story was amazing and it had one of the best acting performances from Roger Clark as Arthur Morgan.

However, the plat is no fun. Going for 100% is no fun. The challenges, especially Gambler 8, was annoying and luck based. Then, the studying and skinning every animal was even worse. The regular moose took me hours to find it. I used to bait at the frozen pond. It spawned a bunch of horses but I managed to get a regular moose spawn.

And the 70 golds. I did this pre-patched so I replayed the story to have my best gear instead of the garbage replay Rockstar designed.

And don't get me started on online. I couldn't do right away because it wasn't released since I played the single player campaign on released day. Thankfully, I got all the single player trophies and the next day, the announced the online releasing for pre-order on that Tuesday. I did pre-order. But still took me hours to get to level 50 and some of the boosts was no good.

Mosaic from Pocket PSN

Great game, played it extensively on Xbox 360 and PS3 back in the day. Earned the platinum 16 years after starting it!

It was really fun(time attack was bit challenging)

The amazing ost made me bear the camera

What a lovely game

Going for a bigger challenge next - Demon’s souls!

I wanted something very special for my 250 milestone and I knew that it had to be Destiny 2. Destiny 1 was one of the very first multiplayer games that my wife and I played together and that carried all the way to Destiny 2. While it’s definitely sad to see that this game will not be supported anymore, there is still a ton of fun to be had and I’m still going to be playing it with my wife for as long as the servers are up.

My up-to-date Platinum collection as a beginner.

Just wanted to show off my progress and hopefully get some more recommendations and tips on trophy hunting.

Hoping to have the Doom The Dark Ages & Ghost Of Tsushima platinums soon!

Another one of my series of going back to things I only had like 1 trophy for and completing them.

This one I once tried to play with my wife and sister in law but due to how summoning help worked and level differences worked they both dropped it at Cleric Beast and so I stopped.

Went back and got the plat 8 years later and had I looked into the plat then I would have known to get chalice dungeons happening ASAP to rack up insight to be able to summon each other and to power level and power scale fast.

Chalice dungeons are basically a cheat code lol

There is even a code out there to fight a boss you normally have to collect like 6 chalices to get through after only 1.

Fun game though!

learned a valuable lesson when you buy collections to platinum always get the PS4 version cause the PS5 version only does one platinum per collection which is bullshit luckily I only spent 2 hours on that one before I realized my mistake might do that one later on

I enjoyed the first game, but this game perfected every single system and resolved any gripes I had with the original. They leaned into the niche this series has and nailed it; it’s exactly what I wanted from a sequel.

I bought this at release, loving the original game I never touched the sequel till now, safe to say the last 3 weeks have been lovely.

So rarely that these kind games captivate me. Initially the artwork picked my interest with a full red background and a retro font. Its a story driven sci fi indie game based on a novel. The game manages to pull you in further you go, leaving you breadcrumbs until the very end with carefully planned explorations, dialogues, vibrant colors and beautifully crafted environments. Normally a game like this, where you just walk and interact with stuff, no combat, no ways to die, on a wasteland of a desert planet would probably bore you to death but this game pulled it off masterfully. Pacing is done in a way that you are always giving your full attention to figure out whats happening in meaningful way. Platinum journey is smooth with a full playthrough + a half one for remaining endings. Highly recommend it. You will feel like watching a Black Mirror-esque Netflix mini series :)

Playtime: 75h. Such a good story and cinematography. If u have ADHD do NOT go for this platinum😭

This was one hell of a road to Platinum.

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The Good:

- If you're a fan of Fallout and/or Skyrim this will feel right up your ally. Particularly if you like the space theme, the closest fit I can think of would be the universe of the Expanse with the gameplay of Fallout.

- The game has 5 main storylines that you play through. The main campaign and 4 main faction stories. These storylines are independently good and have fun missions and unique rewards. They let you role-play entirely different things.

1. Main story - sci-fi powers, universal mystery, meta conflict.

2. United Colonies - space marine style conflict, fight aliens/bio weapons.

3. Freestar rangers - space cop/detective.

4. Ryujin industries - corporate espionage, stealth.

5. Crimson Fleet - pirate or double agent. Treasure hunt.

I had genuine fun playing through these campaigns and a few of the random other side stories were actually good, "the crucible" being a standout.

The Bad:

- While the individual story arcs are great, there is very little cohesive storyline that ties it all together or allows your actions to meaningfully impact the other campaigns. It makes the game feel like a series of short stories set in the same universe rather than a large novel.

- The companion friendship and romance system is very bland and the companion missions are minor and uninteresting.

- The two factors above makes the game feel generic, a bit more like Mass Effect Andromeda rather than Mass Effect 2.

- there is a lot of time spent in menus and loadscreens as you travel between planets and zones.

- whilst there were no major crashes or bugs encountered (June 26), the game still had a few bugs, especially NPC pathing or positioning ones which were occasionally annoying.

The potential deal breaker!

- The platinum experience was actually quite good until the end and you could get all trophies outside the level 100

from normally playing and enjoying the game and then cleaning up a few things at the end. The clean up is actually quite easy as you get powers and resources by endgame that makes the trophy objectives much easier than they would seem at the start of the game.

- However, with everyother trophy collected and playing the game thoroughly i was still at level 44!

- The leveling following level 50 is just absolutely abysmal with increasing exp requirements that the game is just not good at providing. There is no real xp scaling in NG+ and i think if you were to play normally to level from the low 40s to 100, it would likely take 100+ hours and unless you are fixated on this game would be super painful. I dont think the leveling was ever playtested as this just makes the platinum horrible. If the level 50 trophy was the endpoint, Id say that would have been a solid target to encourage you to try NG+.

The Tips/Advice:

- if you're going to do this platinum, you should accept beforehand that you will have a fun 60-70hr game if you're into the genre and gamestyle....then you have an absolute chore to level from 40-100.

- The semi work around (what I did). One of the highest exp activities per minute you can do is crafting. This would also be extremely painful to manually do as it is just pushing buttons on a menu endlessly. You can however automate this process.

1. Build an outpost on Bessel-3b, in the intersection of the mountains and rocky desert biomes. This will give your outpost access to both Iron and Aluminium simultaneously. Build as many extractors and storage as possible. You want to aim to have around 5k of both resources built up to make the automation effective. Due to planetary factors time on bessel 3 moves moves faster than universal time so sleeping for a few hours equates to sleeping for days on the planet and resources accumulate rapidly.

2. Build an industrial workbench and bed in the outpost. Have a maxed out companion with you for +15% exp boost after sleeping. The plan will be to craft a lot of Adaptive Frames.

3. Now. Setup PS remote play on your phone and if on Android, download Autoclicker or use the native app on iPhone.

4. You need to program a 3 button pattern while your character is at the workbench, press X once on Adaptive frame. Hold left D pad button for ~7 secs to max the amount. Press X to confirm. I suggest around 400ms delay between each actions to account for any lag or connectivity issues.

5. Leave the exp farm running while you watch a show or as in my case, the world cup.

6. Depending on how much storage you built, you'll need to manually supervise to make your character sleep once every 7-10 mins to renew the resources.

Even with this method, the automated farm requires intermittent supervision for several hours to level to 100.

I'll leave early game platinum Tips/quality of life in the comments.