My Top Ten: Games I’d Like to Platinum

4.  Singstar

I like singing. I’m one of those annoying guys who is always singing along with songs and most people don’t dare enter my room when the music is on. You can imagine I was thrilled when I heard Singstar would be getting trophies. Now this game may be party game, the platinum is only reserved for the best of the best. I can sing pretty good but getting over 9000 points on 5 different songs on hard is out of my reach (except when drunk maybe). Furthermore the game wants you to beat their resident singstar, Bravo. Curse this man and his stupid score of 9344 points. Not even Jake and Edward can pass that score, though thinking about it they may not have been the best choice here.

Of course there are also online trophies as Singstar wants to be a community game. You can place photos, audio samples and videos on your profile for others to see. And see they must, for the trophies require you to get 8000 accumulative views on all your media and have at least 1000 4 star ratings. Screw you, I’m not that good of a singer. No one is going to watch me sing and no one in their right mind will rate me with 4 stars. The way to get these trophies is to either be a really good singer or be a really attractive girl(face it, most gamers are men). Since I’m neither this trophy will take a lot of time and patience and some good singing. In the end it’s all worthwhile though. When you hear that final ping and see the trophy name come up you know, You Are A Singstar.

(I still need 200 views on my profile, so if people would be so kind. I love you, I really do)

3.  Tom Clancy’s EndWar

This game is actually really good and it’s a waste it hasn’t been bought by many people. Apparently ordering your troops around with voice-command wasn’t as hot as the developers thought, which is a shame as the concept works really well is. The trophy list is also very good with a lot of diversity and some of the best trophy images around. The list gives you lots of things to do and is very challenging. Shooting 10 transport choppers is very simple and creative whilst completing the game on Hardcore is extremely difficult and requires a lot of dedication.

There are also online trophies and these are the weak point of the list. The trophies themselves are fine but the online Theatre of War doesn’t really work with such few people playing online. The point is that every action has consequences which makes you completely dependable on what everyone else is doing. This can be quite annoying but it also makes the platinum one of the most unique around. From what I can tell there are less than 10 people on the planet who have the platinum. Do I want to be part of this elite group? Why yes I do.

2.  Disgaea 3

Numerous games have been quite time-consuming to platinum. Resistance 2 requires you to kill 10.000 people in online ranked matches while FFXIII wants you to have held every weapon and accessory in the game. However these pale in comparison with Disgaea 3, a Tactical RPG. This game is brutal. Finished the storyline? Good, but you’re not getting anything for it. No to get any trophies here you have to play for 10 consecutive hours, defeat enemies of level 9999 and do over ten billion points of damage in a single attack. These trophies are anything but ordinary.

Every character in the game can go to level 9999. You can also reincarnate them making their base statistics better but this sets them back to level 1. Some special moves require ridiculous amounts of mana to buy and it takes more and more experience for you to level up. This is the ultimate grind RPG. It is in my opinion also one of the best and the whole trophy list is one of the most unique I’ve ever seen. ‘Defeat an enemy with a ten story tower’ and ‘Counter attack over 10 times(look it up)’ are just a few examples of some crazy trophies you’ll see in the game. I like this game a lot and I can’t wait for that final trophy to pop up and to get my 4.0 GPA. Then I’ll be the most badass demon in Evil Academy and no one will take that away from me.

1.  WipEout HD

If there is one platinum that earns respect from people it’s this one. In my humble opinion this is the hardest platinum for any PS3 game. While some trophies just require a lot of time or patience these require something different: skill. The list is very imaginative and has a perfect balance of bronze, silver and gold trophies. You can expect the bronze trophies to come naturally(most of them) while the silver ones require a bit more patience. It’s the gold trophies that really require you to be a master of this game.

Elite Campaign Legend, Beat Zico and Zone Zeus are three of the most difficult trophies ever made and they can all be found in this list. To achieve them you must reach milestones within the game such as completing the campaign on Elite difficulty or reaching Zone 75 in Zone Mode. WipEout is the only game that has me truly worried if I will ever get the platinum simply due to the lack of skill. I know many people who have given up on getting this. If I ever manage to get it though it will be the most rewarding trophy ever. That’s when I will have truly Transcended.

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82 Comments

  1. Nice guest writer piece! Really enjoyed it! I have so few platinums, but on some games im really just one or two away from the platinum but dont have the will power to platinum them.

    • i have 5 games under 2 trophies and another thats 11 trophies
      all in all i could have 24 plats

  2. I have EndWar. Haven’t played it much since i completed it, as well, there is nothing left to do. The hardest difficulty is silly, and the is literally no-one on-line. not one person. I think they exceedingly over-estimated how much on-line activity there would be. Even Mw2 doesn’t have on-line trophies! And that’s massive!

    • i kept on end war for a while but it just couldn’t hold my attention. traded it in last year

      • I loved Endwar, but sadly I was rubbish at it. Such a great game, but I constantly got spanked online. Sad to hear nobody’s online any more, was contemplating picking it back up again, it’s only a fiver in certain places now. Suppose I’ll be getting my fix from RUSE though when I pick it up, so probably wont rebuy it.

      • I’m getting ruse as well, hope a few tsa’ins play it online

  3. Nice article, ive got a ton of games im trying to plat at the moment

  4. Did you mean John and Edward???

    Anyway, good list there and I agree the AC2 one was extremely fun to get as is Burnout Paradise. Personally the ones I would have loved to have got that I’ve played are InFamous…those bloody blast shards!!!, Prototype…ridonculously hard, FIFA 10 but its too time consuming and Uncharted coz i got the Uncharted 2 one

  5. That list was quite strange. I definitely wouldn’t want a Terminator plat.

    Trophies I have Smackdown 2010, WWE LoW, Heavy Rain, Uncharted 1 and Uncharted 2.

    I only plat games I really like. I wanted the Assassin’s Creed Plat but I absolutely hated the game, very dull and very repetitive.

    3 games I would love to plat are UFC 2009, Gow3 ( which is impossible ) and GTA IV.

    I want to plat GTA IV because its my favourite series but trophies are either too hard or require tonnes of boosting to get the platinum.

    • How is GOW3 impossible? Seem’s strange when it’s in my collection :s?

      • Completing Titan can be a pain at a couple of points, but it’s definately not impossible. And a couple of the challenges take some time. But all the rest are really easy, and nowhere near as hard as the GoW 1 and 2 platinums.

      • God of War 1 plat was easy! If God of War 3 is easier, might be my cup of tea!

    • Also, I’m afraid I have to ashamedly admit to having the terminator platinum. My brother went and got it, and that gave him the trophy lead. Due to our trophy war, that meant I had to go get it too. That’s the only time I’ve ever played a game I didn’t want just for trophies – but I have to say it wasn’t as bad as people make out, I mean it was ok. I’d give it 5/10.

      • Snap. This is one of my 7 Platinums, I too was in a trophy battle (first to 1,000 including a minimum 5 of Platinums, loser has to buy other a retail game of his choice – I won). And I too think it is nowhere near as bad as most claim. Scraped a 7/10 from me.

  6. Wipeout was my 2nd ever plat

  7. Nice article this, I enjoyed reading it. The WipEout HD platinum is indeed an extraordinarily satisfying trophy to get btw, just sayin’.

  8. Im trying to Plat RDR atm, but can’t be bothered with the online trophies, mainly the reaching Rank 50 one.

  9. Yeah, Assassin’s Creed II was my first platinum, and I would absolutely love to have that Demon’s Soul platinum as well. I can’t help but feel as though Killzone 2 and Final Fantasy XIII should have been on this list, though.

    • Killzone 2 wasn’t on the list because I don’t have it. I’ve heard numerous times how hard it is but seeing as it’s not really my game it didn’t make it to the list. I did think about Final Fantasy XIII but it came no way near Disgaea 3

  10. I suck at trophy collecting, every game have as a disappointing trophy percentage of less than 50%, even Uncharted 1 & 2, except for Burnout Paradise: My lone platinum. Anyways, really good article, enjoyed it very much so, I like top ten lists

    • *Every game *I* have.

    • But by avoiding becoming a trophy whore, do you get on with other games or the real world? If so, you sir, do not suck. :-)

    • Yeah I’ve only got the 2 platinums, and the rest I’m in the same boat as you – around 50% for most of the games I own. I like to justify it with the fact that I have a social life though.

      If this article is true though then hopefully I can platnium AC2, as I’m playing that at the moment.

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