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Achieve Trophies | January 2013 Thread | 2012's PS3 and Xbox Champions revealed!
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StevePharma
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If you see me online just hit me up. Should take about 5 min. tops. I'm GMT+1. Usually on Vita in the evenings but the game is crossplay so an invite should suffice. I did it with Graverobber that way (PS3 vs. Vita)
NEVER FORGET
Cool thanks. I'll send you an invite if I see you online later.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Platinum number six: Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3
This one was a pain in the ass. SO MUCH GRINDING. :lol Even though it took 90 hours, where Warriors Orochi 3 took 140, this one felt like it took so much longer (maybe because I started playing it in 2011 :lol). So glad to finally have it done.
I can't tell which one was worse, Musou Gundam 2 or Musou Gundam 3. I feel like Gundam 2 took even longer, but Gundam 3 was even more boring due to how dumbed down the game is.
Here is my January progress so far.
Completed/Platinum'd:
Winterbottom 200/200
Axel&Pixel 200/200
Modern Warfare 3 1610/1610 (finished the Collection 3 DLC achievements)
Doritos Crash Course 300/300
Monkey Island 1 200/200 (just needed to beat the game in under 3 hours)
I also beat Joe Danger 2 The Movie, finishing with 325/400, with no intention of playing further
Working on:
Black Ops 2 (currently 780/1000, goal is 830/1000, I just need to prestige once and then I'm done)
Bully (currently halfway through the game, goal is 1000/1000)
Completed/Platinum'd:
Winterbottom 200/200
Axel&Pixel 200/200
Modern Warfare 3 1610/1610 (finished the Collection 3 DLC achievements)
Doritos Crash Course 300/300
Monkey Island 1 200/200 (just needed to beat the game in under 3 hours)
I also beat Joe Danger 2 The Movie, finishing with 325/400, with no intention of playing further
Working on:
Black Ops 2 (currently 780/1000, goal is 830/1000, I just need to prestige once and then I'm done)
Bully (currently halfway through the game, goal is 1000/1000)
LorDjidane
Member
Just finished the 200G for I Am Alive. That was a tedious experience. Got caught by the hype, never again.
MaverickHunterX
Member
Add me please
The trial was pretty cool. Did you think it was a good game that was just made tedious by the achievements? Or was it just bad?
LorDjidane
Member
Yeah sorry, I should have made that clearer, since we're in the achies thread.
Well, I thought the game was mostly bad, regardless of the achievements. Art direction is boring as in "hey, end of the world catastrophy thingy", that gets you hooked for an hour but then... with a gameplay as rigid and awkward as it is, an empty scenario and some anecdotic audio, well. Add to that the not-so-good graphics (*) with a character too close to the screen. And bugs. I wouldn't advise playing it.
(*) with a huge fog à la Silent Hill, but this provided so much more as a game!
I don't know if I'm too demanding. I play lots of XBLA games, I don't spend too much time on retail games. And we have been served with so many good stuff that I might have become too harsh on new games.
However, this I Am Alive game reminds me of another similar game that got some hype and an end of the world catastrophy thingy mood: Deadlight.
I am under the impression that today, if you come up with an "original" art direction and a versatile gameplay everybody's used to enjoy (basic 2D platformer for Deadlight, RE4+Assassin's Creed for I Am Alive), you got yourself an "indie game hit".
But then again, I'm pretty demanding on XBLA games. Some would say I'm bitter. In recent games on the platform, I would recommend the wonderful Mark of the Ninja.
Thanks a whole lot for that write-up! In this game there was also a big focus on item management and item scarcity right? I love post-apocalyptic settings and I really liked the grainy graphics in the demo but I hate survival type games where you have to squeeze as much as you can out of every last bullet. Also the reason why I loved RE4 so much but couldn't get into the old REs. they're good but just not for me, way too difficult and stressful.
I ran it with Trish and it was probably the most boring AND frustrating time I've spent playing a game. Those enemies simply aren't designed to be fought in such a small room by the dozens at once (granted I doubt they were designed at all), and every floor giving the enemies DT starting from floor 100 is a cruel joke. I audibly groaned every time I ran into a wolf room, they're just not fun to fight at all.
Trish shoudn't be taking that long... She's arguably the best character for Bloody Palace because of her DT Beam attacks. They destroy things so you wanna use them in the Goatling spam rooms to save time. I wouldn't have even dared to try Bloody Palace with Dante or Lucia
LorDjidane
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Talk about difficulty. The ammunition is really scarce so you have a technique to use the least of it. That makes every fight the same. So that's like the rest, one hour is ok but everything is too repetitive. Even though you do so you're gonna have to count your bullets (at best you'd have three of them but you'd have to use them anyway in an upcoming fight).
I also forgot to talk about item management. Well, you have to look for items that make you regain health/stamina but you lose those while searching for them. Note that if you don't know where to go (and it takes a while of getting used to imho), then you're gonna lose lots of items to regain your stamina. You can even come at a point where you don't have items anymore, so what do you do? You restart the episode (game's in 20 episodes or so). That's like a die&retry with a horrendous save system.
But note that you "have to" (I mean, achievements speaking) save 20 people that require items. Some of those items you could eat up. So you would be screwed for a perfect run. Though you have no idea who requires what. You could find them, see that you can't help them and see what they need, and come back later after you get what they're asking (usually you can). But for example, you have two bottles of wine to find in the game and some people require one. Say you drink both (they restore quite a bit of health I think), you're screwed and you have to reload an episode where you still had at least one.
That is why I restarted the game with a guide. You can either make yourself a list of what people will require and go for the game as is. Or you could follow a complete guide though you would lose the salt of the game I guess.
BTW, the game is scripted like shit. In one episode you're in an inside environment. At one point you come across a backroom with a lock on it. You can use a bullet to break the lock and go get some good stuff. At that point I had two bullets. When I started again (and again, and again, ugh) this episode, I decided I'd go get these items later. So you continue and you find an enemy that you can kill with your machete to rescue a girl locked in a room. In this room you have a bathroom. In this bathroom you find a bullet. However, if you didn't use one of your bullet on the aforementioned lock, then you won't have any in this bathroom. Knowing that after getting that bullet (or not) you have to chain two difficult fights, and a third one comes along just a bit after.
I mean what the hell? That's not a good die&retry game design. That doesn't even make sense. It's almost as if the game is scripted in a way that "hey dude, seriously, you're supposed to have two bullets at this point because the combat is gonna be scripted that way, okay?". It reminds me of another sequence where you have a really difficult fight. At that point I had zero bullet. In the guide I followed (youtube from TA) the guy got nothing, but in the hallway leading to the fight (at the very beginning of this episode), I got a bullet! The game must have thought "duuuuuuude you should have kept a bullet from earlier, but that's okay, I'm giving you another one because the upcoming fight is scripted in a certain way, blabla".
So yeah, terrible experience for me.
Sorry for the novel.
I enjoyed the post, no worries. This pretty much confirms I won't buy the game for a long time, probably not unless it gets a huge price slash. Good for me, I have a big enough XBLA backlog as it is.
GreatMightySymp
Member
IIRC until you hit Rank C you can't get downranked (you get the trophy/achievement for that rank level).
But you need two wins in a row or so to rank up each time I believe.
Tizoc
Member
BTW I thought you guys said that getting to the next level after Lvl. 20 was very slow...it seems to be increasing at a fine rate to me, then again I mainly Synch after completing a game or getting all its Trophies.
Anyways
ACHIEVEMENT-GAF
GRANT ME YOUR POWA SO THAT I MAY PLATINUM TR UNDERWORLD BEFORE THE MONTH IS DONE!
Anyways
ACHIEVEMENT-GAF
GRANT ME YOUR POWA SO THAT I MAY PLATINUM TR UNDERWORLD BEFORE THE MONTH IS DONE!
StevePharma
Member
The Cave Trophies.
20 Trophies, all of them Bronze.....
Started a second playthrough of Dishonored on PS3, already played it on PC though last year (my #2 game of 2012). God I love this game so much.
20 Trophies, all of them Bronze.....
Started a second playthrough of Dishonored on PS3, already played it on PC though last year (my #2 game of 2012). God I love this game so much.
Strange in Stereo
Member
@GraveRobberX: In Hokuto Musou there's a milestone trophy where I need to get 5000 Specific kills, just spent an hour to get it =P
For that matter
PLATINUM
25
GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
EDIT: PSNProfiles doesn't have Hokuto Musou image wut?
Congrats on that Platinum! The game is really grindy but I did enjoy it. Ready for Shin Hokuto Musou.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
Get this, I will believe in you grinding for a game
This will take you a fucking eternity
Grind + Boosting + Get 10+ people to listen! & follow orders... yeah, I lost 5 years of my gaming life to this
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Platinum #131
Assassin's Creed III Liberation
Fun game overall. Collectables were a bitch, (good job learning everything during the Ass Creed II - Ass Creed Rev arc) then regressing back to old school, LOL find it on your own bullshit
Near, the back camera light effect, and other stupid touch screen shit was unnecessary
SP story was middle-ground and you can tell the antagonist from a fucking mile away
MP was OK I guess, 6 hours of tapping screen
(I would have liked that Ass Creed Bro meta game of sending Agents out for certain missions, risk & reward method)
7.5/10
Tizoc
Member
Get this, I will believe in you grinding for a game
This will take you a fucking eternity
Grind + Boosting + Get 10+ people to listen! & follow orders... yeah, I lost 5 years of my gaming life to this
I fear there will come a day when you look back upon it, regret doing it and asking yourself why you even bothered @_@.
I still do not regret the 200+ hours I spent to Platinum Sengoku Basara 3!
YOU DON"T SAY? Could it be, a fighting game developer who finally got it right?
StevePharma
Member
I got 100% in Jetpack Joyride both on PS3 and Vita this month. I don't want to count the hours but probably around 45-50.
WHAT IS MY LIFE!?
WHAT IS MY LIFE!?
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
Hehe, I was just checking my stats timeline, my trophy level "Trophy" to push me to the next rank from 30 to 34 is fucking hilarious
"This wasn't the Plan, I was going for. I might have to Skip the stairs after all. Carrying this TURKEY! up these stairs would have really made for a Cool, Story Bro. Finally! reached home, Liberation from this foul fowl."
Yes I might be little quirky
"This wasn't the Plan, I was going for. I might have to Skip the stairs after all. Carrying this TURKEY! up these stairs would have really made for a Cool, Story Bro. Finally! reached home, Liberation from this foul fowl."
Yes I might be little quirky
Unfortunately they had fuck up an otherwise perfect trophy set with trophies for beating Score Attack with every character and doing all the character trials.
LorDjidane
Member
The Super Meat Boy run from AGDQ made me want to go back to my save to work on the achievements. Just spent two hours and a half on the The Kid warpzone.
God my hands hurt. But I did it! What a sweet feeling.
God my hands hurt. But I did it! What a sweet feeling.
george21000
Member
those wolf rooms, freaking brutal
Yeah and Trish's damage output is not as great as Dante who can just keep dodging and spamming Rocket Launcher. I was able to get the Platinum last night with Trish. The entire palace took around 4.5 hours with some breaks here and there. You can check out the highlight video below for the last two levels:
http://www.twitch.tv/i3rand0/c/1859896
Apologies for the burp halfway through
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
8,000 Trophies Get!
Woo-Hoo!
Woo-Hoo!
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
Well...
Platinums #132 & #133
Motorstorm RC
I put this in the back-burner for too long, was jonesing for a racer to play, got stuck playing this and finishing it up
Got 5 trophies left for DLC, should be finished by tomorrow hopefully
I've got 10 Platinums so far in 2013 to a roaring start
My Trophy Whoring is Strong at the moment
Hooray, I'm back to 75% completion rate
Platinums #132 & #133
Motorstorm RC
I put this in the back-burner for too long, was jonesing for a racer to play, got stuck playing this and finishing it up
Got 5 trophies left for DLC, should be finished by tomorrow hopefully
I've got 10 Platinums so far in 2013 to a roaring start
My Trophy Whoring is Strong at the moment
Hooray, I'm back to 75% completion rate
holy shit
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
Stats, so far:
1/1/13
1/24/13
1/1/13
1/24/13
Stats, so far:
1/1/13
1/24/13
8370 points so far if my calculations are correct?
LorDjidane
Member
Only need to look at the profile: http://psnprofiles.com/GraveRobberX
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
Yes I started most of them from scratch:
Sound Shapes (Vita)
Assassin's Creed III Liberation
Lego Lord of the Rings
Lego Batman 2
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (PS3)
Partial:
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale (Vita), did around 70% in December
Borderlands 2, was 80% done in December
Motorstorm RC (PS3 & Vita) was 35% long time ago, just bum rushed through it and now working on DLC
Insta-Ping!:
Sound Shapes (PS3)
Still working on:
uDraw Instant Artist (started this month, almost done)
Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (just started it, doing combat training)
On Deck:
(PS3)
Saints Row The Third, Alice Madness Returns, Assassin's Creed III
(Vita)
Call of Duty Black Ops Declassified, Mutant Blob Attacks, NFS Most Wanted