Prison Mike
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Mark Cerny platinumed Returnal
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hemo memo
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Looking at Cerny list I would say that’s an impressive time dedication. He surely (based on that list) plays more than the average GAF member and surely because of his position, he has way less free time also.
Elbow Identity Shallow
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I remember him talking about this stuff a while ago and he said that he likes to 100% because it teaches him about what the team that made the game are doing which he belives helps him in his current role.
If you read about his early development/consultant he likes playing good games and he always seems to have enjoyed pulling things apart to see how they're made and learning from that so it makes a lot of sense really. I'm not sure if it's a common thing for executives to do but it does very much seem to be a part of who he's been.
If you read about his early development/consultant he likes playing good games and he always seems to have enjoyed pulling things apart to see how they're made and learning from that so it makes a lot of sense really. I'm not sure if it's a common thing for executives to do but it does very much seem to be a part of who he's been.
Bo_Hazem
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Bo_Hazem
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I'm a hardcore gamer and only had 1 platinum by accident. Trophies are cool but not everyone is interested in them.
McCheese
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Pretty sure he has the astrobot one too which is missing off that list.
I'm sure he did...and i'm the Pope of Rome.
Coming up next: Phil Spencer speedruns Sekiro in 20 minutes. Of course you will not see him playing it but that doesn't matter.
Cerny is a legit nerd, his entire work history has been videogames, he worked on sonic fucking 2, created marble madness, architected two generations of console.
Phil is a suit with a PR team telling him what t-shirt to wear under it.
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kyliethicc
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He probably played Knack on a dev kit or something, idk. He says it wasn't fun, lol.
"What about Knack 1 and 2? These are two games you helped create."
"These are worth pointing out. I play my own games to get the Platinum because I want to know what the experience is like. For Knack, it was not very enjoyable getting the Platinum. It pops out randomly. The time commitment isn’t bad, but the random nature of things makes it just brutal. We fixed that for Knack II."
"First thing, I’m so busy that I’m usually playing games two years behind. This year I finally played God of War. I really enjoyed it. By the time I get to a new game, it’s a known thing."
Cerny, 56, has picked up 33 Platinum Trophies on PlayStation 4. A few of these Platinums are gimmies that are automatically unlocked by finishing a game, but most took considerable time, effort, and skill. He’s currently pursuing Platinum number 34 in the brutally difficult Cuphead.
"I guess I want to take on the biggest possible challenge. It is a flashback to the arcades. I want to play it on regular, hard, and then beat it on the hardest. In the arcades, we’d build skills on those games for six months to a year."
"On PlayStation 3, I didn’t get any Trophies. I did most of my playing then prior to launch on my dev kit, so I don’t have much of a visible history on PlayStation 3."
"For me, the way it started was Resogun, which is basically Defender. That’s where I started getting into the Trophies. I was like, “I might be able to get the Platinum.” I was in the top 10 on the international leaderboards for some of the categories. I got confidence from that."
"The other thing, the number-two guy on [PlayStation] hardware is a guy at Naughty Dog, and we got into a competition. He had eight Platinum Trophies, and I had six. I’m still losing seven years later, but I’m still proud of where I’m at with 33 Platinums. He’s at 40 something. We still give each other crap about it. He got a Platinum in Job Simulator. Now how hard is that? [laughs] In his defense, he wasn’t even going for it – it just popped up – so he says."
The Platinum Architect – Mark Cerny On His Fascination With PlayStation Trophies
We talked to the chief architect of PlayStation 5 about the games he plays to completion.
www.gameinformer.com
sublimit
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I don't doubt that Cerny is much more of a gamer than the marketing puppet that is Spencer but if you think that a man of his position and his responsibilities has the time to platinum games like Returnal you are fooling yourselves.
makaveli60
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Nice! Your turn, Jimbo! Hopefully Cerny will show him how a controller works
8BiTw0LF
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1.3% Platinum? - That's without a doubt one of the toughest to get.
hemo memo
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Yeah he does. But I only but known games.
kyliethicc
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Any game over 1% on PS4/5 is not that rare of a platinum.
Red Dead Redemption 2 on PS4 is 0.1%.
GTA 5 on PS4 is 0.1%.
GT Sport is 0.1%.
Street Fighter 5 is 0.1%.
Project Cars is 0.1%.
Assetto Corsa is 0.1%.
Fall Guys is 0.1%.
Call of Duty Modern Warfare is 0.3%.
Civ 6 on PS4 is 0.3%.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 is 0.4%.
The Last of Us Remastered is 0.4%. (** I have this one.)
Driveclub is 0.5%.
Rise of Tomb Raider is 0.5%.
Knack is 0.6%.
Helldivers is 0.6%.
Uncharted 4 is 0.7%. (I got this one too.)
Nex Machina is 0.7%.
Metal Gear Solid 5 is 0.8%.
Just some I can find. Lots of popular games have less than 1% platinum rate.
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Interfectum
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Interfectum
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I'm sure he did...and i'm the Pope of Rome.
Coming up next: Phil Spencer speedruns Sekiro in 20 minutes. Of course you will not see him playing it but that doesn't matter.
Physiognomonics
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That's nothing compared to him getting Cuphead's Platinum.
I'm sure he did...and i'm the Pope of Rome.
Coming up next: Phil Spencer speedruns Sekiro in 20 minutes. Of course you will not see him playing it but that doesn't matter.
xrnzaaas
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Comparing platinum rarity can be tricky, because with games that launched recently and are more niche (like Returnal) they're bought mostly by the fans of the genre so the completion percentages are higher than usual and they don't necessarily reflect their difficulty.
Also with a lot of the popular games the platinums are extremely rare because of the multiplayer trophies and having to devote a lot of time to pointless griding or NG+ playthroughs.
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Kilau
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I hadn’t seen the list but it’s quality, all good games with some legit difficult plats.
Not a single Ratalaika game
Insane Metal
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He's not Phil Spencer, so yeah probably he did.
Insane Metal
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Holy shit that's one of the best gif replies I've ever seen here, congrats. lol
SLB1904
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Probably more than most of us.He a gamer like us!
Fake
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Port beggers.
xrnzaaas
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It's an addiction and some devs exploit that by selling very cheap games (costing a few €) which have platinums obtainable in around 20-30 minutes.
Urban
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u can literally just google for his PSN profile and can see his Platin trophies
I'm sure he did...and i'm the Pope of Rome.
Coming up next: Phil Spencer speedruns Sekiro in 20 minutes. Of course you will not see him playing it but that doesn't matter.
dont be so ignorant. Just accept the fact that he is a better player than you.
sublimit
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You mean one of his accounts got Cuphead's platinum.
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SSfox
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Absolutely, having more platiniums doesn't make somebody more hardcore than someone who have less platinum. You can play 1 game in 3 years and you can still be hardcore, it depends.
Platinum are cool as long as I'm having fun. Unlike some kill 100 pigeons in gta4.
CitizenZ
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My point is two fold, its wayyyyy over priced(should be $40 max) and the game design is nothing special if not horrible for this specific game.
The artful mincer
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Jesus why are you so cynical!?
I'm sure he did...and i'm the Pope of Rome.
Coming up next: Phil Spencer speedruns Sekiro in 20 minutes. Of course you will not see him playing it but that doesn't matter.
Not everything has to be a conspiracy theory?
MrS
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Hit me up when he gets the Vanquish platinum.
The difference is Cuphead and this requires skill... not a trophy guide....
VN1X
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I'm actually amazed GAF manages to turn a bit of lighthearted news, where someone high up the foodchain in the industry platinumed a rather difficult game, into a console-warring-hardcore-gamer--gatekeeping-pissing-match. Well done!
"Nuh-uh! He only has X amount of platinum trophies and some of which aren't even in the 0,0001 percentile range!!! what a fucking loser amirite boys?!?!?"
I'm not saying we should all suck his dick but lord some of you are insufferable lol.
"Nuh-uh! He only has X amount of platinum trophies and some of which aren't even in the 0,0001 percentile range!!! what a fucking loser amirite boys?!?!?"
I'm not saying we should all suck his dick but lord some of you are insufferable lol.
MrS
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The only hard trophies in Returnal are the stupid collectables. The game is easy if you have a modicum of skill. The Nex Machina platinum was much more fun to get because the trophies were all skill based.
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kingpotato
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Congrats to Mark.
This game isn't hard. You just have to take your time and figure out which guns and perks work for you. The only time I've had trouble is when I'm using a gun I'm not good with to unlock a perk on it, or if I'm going too crazy with malignancy.
All of these people who think it's so unbelievable or that he must have cheated are hilarious.
Returnal is really fun and if you can get over yourself that Sony published it and whatever issues you have with money, it's worth checking out. Definitely play on an HDR set when you do.
35 platinums is impressive, I feel like I play a lot and only have 16. Still working on Returnal, just need more xenoglyphs in the later biomes.
This game isn't hard. You just have to take your time and figure out which guns and perks work for you. The only time I've had trouble is when I'm using a gun I'm not good with to unlock a perk on it, or if I'm going too crazy with malignancy.
All of these people who think it's so unbelievable or that he must have cheated are hilarious.
Returnal is really fun and if you can get over yourself that Sony published it and whatever issues you have with money, it's worth checking out. Definitely play on an HDR set when you do.
35 platinums is impressive, I feel like I play a lot and only have 16. Still working on Returnal, just need more xenoglyphs in the later biomes.
hemo memo
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I hadn’t seen the list but it’s quality, all good games with some legit difficult plats.
Not a single Ratalaika game
Rat Rage
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You guys really believe this dude is busy? What did he do for the PS5? He traveled around the world, asking devs want feature they want to have for a PS4 successor. They told him a SSD would be helpful. AMD designed the most important parts of the console. The Sony engineers did the rest probably (cooling and stuff, yet they couldn't even put qualilty capacitors in that thing that don't whine). That's it.
Of course the man has a lot of time to platinium games.
Of course the man has a lot of time to platinium games.
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Animagic
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Have you ever considered the possibility... oh, I don’t know... that he’s actually a psychopath?It's so funny that this guy looks like a psychopath. I love that.
El Pistolero
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