Your Most Tedious Platinums

[ladynadiad]

Sorcery Saga: Curse of the Great Curry God

Definitely the most tedious platinum I currently have.  The most annoying is the Bookworm trophy that requires you getting every item. Normally not a huge issue, I don't even mind collectable trophies.  The thing is to get all the weapons and shields you have to go kill monsters and level them up, each weapon/shield needs to level up 4 times in total.  So this is a lot of extra pointless grinding.

 

MeiQ

Needs three playthroughs and 30k monster kills for the plat because not only do difficulty trophies not stack, but beating on each difficulty opens up an extra dungeon and you have to beat each one for the plat.  Only reason why it doesn't top Sorcery Saga is that it was only about 70 hours despite that and the game lets you summon monsters infinitely so you at least aren't having to go find battles constantly.

 

Omega Quintet

The grind for 1 billion approval is annoying enough because you have to purposely do it on strong monsters and then once you finish that you still need more kills for the 10k kills trophy.  Affection grinding is also annoying, but I used a turbo controller for that.  Approval farming can't be done with a turbo controller though.

 

Tales of Symphonia

Oh yes, I so love having to play a game 4 times for the plat because the game only allows me to get certain unique titles based on who I pick for a late game scene.  Also fun to farm for grade in the first run because there isn't a cheap method to get a bunch like other games in the series, it's just battle enemies over and over until you have enough.  Also the one million casino coins took forever before I got lucky enough to get it.

 

Akiba's Beat

There aren't any hard or grindy trophies at first glance, but once you play the game and you realize that getting the plat means hours of backtracking through previous dungeons to do one quest at a time in that dungeon because god forbid that it let you take on all the quests in there at once to wrap them all up in one shot.

 

And while I don't have the plat yet, I know very well once I do get it that Sengoku Basara: Samurai Heroes will be on the list for the Fashionista trophy that requires beating the hero story with each of the heroes 4 times.  There are 16 heroes, so that's 64 playthroughs.  I'm at 30 as of now.

Edited December 13, 2020 by ladynadiad

[antonioaaf]

Easily Stories: Path of Destinies

Redoing the story over and over again to unlock all possible endings was a tedious task.

[dieselmanchild]

3 hours ago, maiathewinners said:

Tomb Raider

So many hours spent on private lobbies collecting medic kits back and forward... 

 

Oh god! Somehow I forgot all about this one. I must have unconsciously suppressed the memories due to the trauma. It’s all coming back to me now.. something like 20+ hours spend hauling medkits around in an empty lobby. ?

 

The latest multiplayer grind I’ve been working on is Max Payne 3. The multiplayer trophies are quite taxing as it is, but nothing beats the one for reaching rank 50 online. The fastest and most efficient way to gain XP consists of playing this one 3-4 minute chapter over and over again in score attack mode for around 35 hours. It’s an absolutely brutal, soul crushing grind, which is why I’m spreading it out over many months.

 

3 hours ago, JaneAusten69 said:

I'm a big Prince of Persia fan, but Warrior Within is one of my lowest completion games.  Just haven't been able to bring myself to doing multiple playthroughs.  If I can offer you any hope, I thought Two Thrones was the highlight of that trilogy.  I really enjoyed it compared to WW.  It's also a lot easier in my opinion.  The only trophy I haven't gotten in that game is the beat the game without dying trophy.  I've attempted it twice and it didn't pop either time.  It's really finicky in that game which is annoying.  Overall, I like the boss fights and puzzles way better in that game.

I’m glad to hear a positive opinion of Two Thrones! ?

 

I’ve seen a lot of people say Two Thrones is the worst in the trilogy, but from what I’ve seen it looked like it had some neat ideas, and I’ve also heard a lot of people say the combat is far more polished and balanced than it was in Warrior Within, which IMO will go a long way to making it more bearable to play 3 times.

 

That’s really rough about the not dying trophy though... honestly that’s like my worst nightmare. I was super paranoid about ‘Undefeated’ not popping in WW, but I ended up having a nearly flawless run where I didn’t even see the game over screen once. I’ll be sure to be extra careful in TT, because I don’t want to have to do more than 3 playthroughs. Thanks for the heads up!

[Burgins]

3 hours ago, dertswa687o said:

Star Ocean: The Last Hope - twice

Not sure if I have anything to add to this that hasn't been said before, but between 3 playthroughs, 321 items to create, 201 quests, and 900 battle trophies the game is certainly a long one. Many of the battle trophies involve completing a simple task an unnecessary amount of times. Sure is fun killing 30,000 enemies twice. I've actually done it 3 times including the Xbox 360 version and have managed to cut down the time to platinum to 230 hours so it's not horrible, but anyone who's done this platinum will tell you it's tedious.

 

Is there a specific guide you'd recommend for this game? It's a hell of an undertaking so I'd like to be well prepared going into it

[AJ_Radio]

10 hours ago, l33sar54 said:

As someone who also got hit by the Mafia III's glitched trophies, I sympathize.

 

However, I'm not really sure why you mentioned collectibles as being tedious to get -- there's not a single trophy in the game or any of the DLCs which asks you to get collectibles unless you refer to the TL-49 fuses you need to get to wiretap rackets (these can be obtained as you need them). Sure, there are collectibles in the game but you don't have to collect a single one if you don't want to unless you're a completionist. This is a style of play, though, not something you need to endure for a trophy.

They can help. The issue is taking down the rackets which you have to do for every district which I did the fuses for each one. Then you do a second playthrough to save/kill the same racket bosses. 
 

Love the story, the history and the characters. Just wasn’t all that great of a game to platinum.

[dertswa687o]

2 hours ago, Burgins said:

 

Is there a specific guide you'd recommend for this game? It's a hell of an undertaking so I'd like to be well prepared going into it

 

I'm biased but I recommend my own guide as a general guide to get through the game quickly. You'll have to use that in combination with other guides and checklists. For example, the game doesn't track which items you create so you need your own checklist.

[Burgins]

9 minutes ago, dertswa687o said:

 

I'm biased but I recommend my own guide as a general guide to get through the game quickly. You'll have to use that in combination with other guides and checklists. For example, the game doesn't track which items you create so you need your own checklist.

 

I actually think I've come across your guide before when considering the game. I remember seeing a post on those forums somewhere about someone doubling up on the 100%, cool to see that you've hit the triple. Thanks for the link!

[Yuber6969]

7 hours ago, KenjiCBZ said:

There may be others but the first that comes in my mind is the Platinum of Dragon Ball: Raging Blast.

 

Just two words:

 

ALL

RUINED

 

 

 

 

Do you mind giving me details about it? I was considering this game. Not afraid of a challenge but I'm sick of online trophies that are tedious.

[Deluziion90]

Dragonball FighterZ

1 week, 10-15 hours a day repeating the same thing over and over to get a trophy for 20mil zeni. The nightmares I had. 

 

Assassin’s Creed Unity

Getting 400 chests what a joke

 

Mafia 2

platinum was ok but getting 100%.. driving 1000 miles was so boring for days

[JaneAusten69]

Diablo III

All that glitters trophy is a pain.

 

Mortal Kombat

My Kung Fu is Stronger is one of the dumbest trophies ever created.

 

Red Dead Redemption 2

One of my all time favorite games, but the platinum is very tedious.  Still need to get like 30 more gold medals to plat.

[KenjiCBZ]

1 hour ago, yuber1234 said:

 

Do you mind giving me details about it? I was considering this game. Not afraid of a challenge but I'm sick of online trophies that are tedious.

The Online Trophies can easily be boosted, there is a thread here that details the best strategy and the list of matches that you and your boosting partner should play and how to win them: it will take 5-6 hours of boosting but obviously you can do it in multiple sittings.

 

About All Ruined, there are YouTube videos that show all the objects you have to destroy, making the Trophy easier, but even if the game is 10+ years old the exact requirements of the Trophy are not perfectly clear. For example, if the AI destroys an object said object doesn't count, because you yourself have to destroy it, but it is unknown if all the objects destroyed before that one count or not, and since it is better to be safe than sorry, you have to start over the stage. Also, imagine doing all stages perfectly, and having the Trophy not popping: it happened to me twice I think, and I had to start all over again from the beginning and at the end it was because I had missed a tree... And in the end, to avoid the CPU destroying objects instead of you, you have to personalize it with certain items to weak him, but as said they can still screw yourself and destroy objects regardless. I'm serious, whoever had the idea for such a senseless Trophy deserves a place in hell.

 

And in the end, there are at least a couple of other Trophies that are hard and a bit luck based, where you have to weaken the CPU as well, but it is doable. However, be ready to spend several hours for those lone Trophies: the game is also really hard, the AI in Story Mode is really strong. But again, it is doable, you just have to put your mind into it.

[hishomie1]

Dark Souls 3 is one. The covenants and that one ending that requires you to do things in a very specific order was annoying. Getting all the miracles, rings, pyromancies... was hella annoying too.

 

Red Dead Redemption 2 is another one. The online was a bit tedious but the singleplayer had the bulk of the annoyance. Gold Medals took me like 4 days to do after everything else. Exotics and 100% was hella tedious. Don't get me started on herbalist and gambler... urgh.

[Dr_Mayus]

For me it is any plat that you beat the game and do all side missions...but still have to grind out kills or coins or whatever to earn the plat. If i dont earn the plat by the time i do everything then your requirements are too high.

 

Okabu was a perfect example of this. I hadn't even earned the second highest kill trophy after 100% the game.

[TehUberCheezCatz]

Black Ops 3 - getting all the fucking camos in the campaign meaning you sit in that egypt checkpoint for hours on end for days just shooting people, what a mess

 

Evolve - all of the character masteries are just a trainwreck and i only got it done because i actually knew who i was boosting with; and the fact even after all that you still dont hit rank 40 is dumb

 

Hyperdimension Neptunia Producing Perfection - an entire fucking game of just checklists and tallies to make sure you dont miss one of the hundreds of events, only to miss one anyways, fuck this game

 

Resident Evil Darkside Chronicles - not a plat, but i dont give a shit, after coming from umbrella chronicles, which was pretty decent, to one of the worst rail shooters ever made that you get to spend 4 playthroughs, 50 hours, and a whole bunch more grinding the final boss on top of that makes me need to rant about it regardless, dont play this

 

Yakuza 5 - this game is like triple the length it needed to be, theres so much goddamn filler, and minigames, and collectibles, and the coliseum with akiyama & shinada which is just a disaster, on top of half the fucking story being dogshit
 

[Pray_4_the_End]

Easily UFC 2 & UFC 3

 

The grind was SOO real with the older games. I got both plats legit and UFC 2 took about 200ish hours across 2-3 months of playing and UFC 3 took upwards of 300-400 hours of online play and took me like like 2 years and 9 months of on and off play. I actually just got the the plat for 3 a couple of weeks ago, I was saving it for my 75th plat milestone. UFC 4 was WAY easier in comparison with the removal of Ultimate Teams, I managed to get that plat in like 4 days and some change. Also managed to break top 50 for Fastest and First achievers on UFC 4 as well which was pretty sweet. It was tedious for sure, but I didn't mind getting them being that I'm a huge MMA fan. Kinda pissed I didn't get a chance to play and plat the first UFC game, the servers were shut down last year making the plat unattainable. Would've been nice to clear the whole series, but it is what it is. 

[Yuber6969]

6 hours ago, KenjiCBZ said:

The Online Trophies can easily be boosted, there is a thread here that details the best strategy and the list of matches that you and your boosting partner should play and how to win them: it will take 5-6 hours of boosting but obviously you can do it in multiple sittings.

 

About All Ruined, there are YouTube videos that show all the objects you have to destroy, making the Trophy easier, but even if the game is 10+ years old the exact requirements of the Trophy are not perfectly clear. For example, if the AI destroys an object said object doesn't count, because you yourself have to destroy it, but it is unknown if all the objects destroyed before that one count or not, and since it is better to be safe than sorry, you have to start over the stage. Also, imagine doing all stages perfectly, and having the Trophy not popping: it happened to me twice I think, and I had to start all over again from the beginning and at the end it was because I had missed a tree... And in the end, to avoid the CPU destroying objects instead of you, you have to personalize it with certain items to weak him, but as said they can still screw yourself and destroy objects regardless. I'm serious, whoever had the idea for such a senseless Trophy deserves a place in hell.

 

And in the end, there are at least a couple of other Trophies that are hard and a bit luck based, where you have to weaken the CPU as well, but it is doable. However, be ready to spend several hours for those lone Trophies: the game is also really hard, the AI in Story Mode is really strong. But again, it is doable, you just have to put your mind into it.

 

Thanks for the detailed answer. Most of what you said didn't scare me, but All Ruined put me off lol. Maybe I'll just play Xenoverse.

14 hours ago, jonads_ said:

Attack on Titan 1 and 2

100% gallery for both games. Grind in A.O.T 2 would've been worse if I hadn't bought the dlc missions.

 

Megadimension Neptunia VII

Lots of save scumming in order to get all the cards. 

 

Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls and Detroit: Become Human

Every play-through after the initial one.

 

Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth1

Grind to 100 million credits is the same boring battle over and over, except, you can't do it too often as you need to wait for the enemy to respawn.

 

Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth2

The set up required for each of the different endings gets annoying after the fourth one. There's eight.

 

Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War

Difficulty trophies don't stack so, have fun S-ranking all 32 missions four times.

 

Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth

Save scumming for those final medals.
 

Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Hacker's Memory

Same as above plus hacker rank 20 grind.

 

Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown

Complete on all difficulties (three of them), obtain 25 campaign medals (easier with VR), all S-ranks on ACE difficulty, earn 40 million MRP (only need ~32 million to buy everything, which is still a lot), and fly 76,500km in the campaign (break out the rubber bands).

 

Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony

Ultimate development plan with all 53 characters.

 

Hyperdimension Neptunia U: Action Unleashed:

Lily rank grind.

 

Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart

Lily rank grind, again...

 

Final Fantasy X HD

Sphere grid. Need I say more?

 

Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force

Even after the three required runs for all routes, you're still not even at a quarter of the required ten thousand kills.

 

Code Vein

Offline Mark of Honor grind is something else.

 

 

I experienced a lot of these too. I'm a diehard Digimon fan but those trophies you mentioned annoyed me too.

 

Danganronpa V3 was tedious AND hard (the minigames). What an amazing game and series though.

[Yuber6969]

23 hours ago, MandA60VISE said:

Gauntlet - So much fucking grinding. I know the developers expected you to play with friends or online but that would just make it take even longer.

 

Code Vein - Needless 10+ boring, repetitive grind. The addition that you need another player makes it worse.

 

Spider-Man - I don't like this game which is what made it tedious mostly. Having to replay the game on the harder difficulty made it worse. Whoever decided those normal human stealth sections were a good idea should be fired.

 

Exist Archive - Another needlessly grindy game. Made worse if you have the Vita version because the game craves every 2-3 hours.

 

Persona 5 - I hate this game. Piss easy combat (I played on hard), boring and predictable story, uninteresting characters, especially coming after Persona 3 and 4. I could go on and on but I won't. I love Atlus and their SMT franchise but Persona was a major fucking let down for me. It's made all the worse because on my second playthrough the NPC refused to send me their request no matter how much I loaded previous saves. I had to play through again a third time. Atlus needs to invest in a skip cutscene button instead of just skip text. Can't even get up to go pee or take out the trash while the text is skipping because it will pause to make me choose a pointless option that ultimately changes absolutely nothing. As well, my level 99 Yoshitsune was somehow missing enemies in the first dungeon. But we got Beneath the Mask so it wasn't all bad.

 

The 25th Ward: The Silver Case - 100 fucking endings that take about 10 minutes each to get. Most aren't even interesting and the true ending is uneventful.

 

Persona 5 was a masterpiece, and the trophy list was long, but reasonable as long as you didn't try to do it blind.

[Athaen]

Path of Exile - All of the maps with the horrible PS4 economy.  UGH!  This took until I got a lucky drop ("The Doctor") which allowed me to afford the remaining maps.

 

Attack on Titan - All of the grinding for that gallery completion!

 

Mortal Kombat X - This was a lot of fun UP UNTIL the grinding for faction.  Could've done without that.

Edited December 14, 2020 by Athaen

[dimitrisn]

Diablo III (PS3) (Also wrote the site's guide for the game)

All that glitters trophy , days and nights on end farming gold to gather 5 million. Watched so much Netflix and podcasts during this.

 

GTA IV (PS3)

Countless hours online when it released and then gave up. Got back at it in 2020 via private matches and managed to finally do it.

 

inFAMOUS (PS3)

So. Many. Shards.

 

GTA San Andreas (PS4)

The game is a masterpiece ofc, but the PS4 port is trash. Camera angles and shooting almost made me dump the plat hunt but I finally did it.

[blacklight-nero]

•Stories: Path of Destinies

25 playthrough for different variations of endings that look the same to me granted the playthroughs are short but still 4 playthroughs and you’ve seen what the game has to offer the rest is just tedium

 

•Tomb Raider

Reach level 60 in multiplayer Picking salvage and medkits in empty lobby since there were hardly any players when I did it so did it this way since it was the fastest way, and as the trophy title says True Commitment indeed.

 

•Assassins Creed Unity 

To many collectibles chests were covering the whole bloody map it made me miss collecting feathers in AC2 it didn’t help that I disliked the game in general but started it needed to finish it.

[Infernopommes]

4 hours ago, Pray_4_the_End said:

UFC 3 took upwards of 300-400 hours of online play and took me like like 2 years and 9 months of on and off play. I actually just got the the plat for 3 a couple of weeks ago, I was saving it for my 75th plat milestone

I always wondered why you didn't get back to me for the swaying trophy. You really got that one legit? That is impressive (not necessarily skill wise, but definitely patience wise). While I probably have more than 500 hours in the game, the plat can be done in less than 100 (probably 50-60 if you boost every boostable trophy and exploit Single Player). I love the game and I'm sorry to hear it was tedious for you. Great plat though, I specifically dragged it out to make it my 50th.

 

Goat Simulator

That Flapmaster stuff took me longer than the rest of the base game trophies combined. None of the posted methods worked, in the end I got it through sheer stubbornness, but it wasn't pretty.

 

 

Edited December 14, 2020 by Infernopommes

[Desmuria]

Oh boy, have I played my fair share of games with tedious platinums.

 

2064: Read Only Memories

The Cardinal of Combat and Threat Neutralized trophies required a lot of patience (and some skill). Cardinal of Combat requires you to beat the final boss in an arcade game (and you only go up against the final boss if you earn enough points, so memorising where the bad guys show up is key). After all that, you have to survive to actually kill the boss. Threat Neutralized requires you to get past security without being hit by the enemies, which come in three waves and they hit at random. Precision and perfection are the order of the day here. Took a lot of practice.

 

Albedo: Eyes From Outer Space

The game is absolutely dire and the controls are even worse. It's just awful! If you haven't played this game, I envy you because I can't erase this from my memory.

 

Deponia Doomsday

The 1001 Jackalopes trophy made me want to quit gaming. You are given three cartridges with different characteristics on each one. You will create 243 different jackalopes with every possible combination. You have to do this manually, one at a time. All 243 of them. It's so easy to get yourself confused and lost, so I highly recommend using a spreadsheet or something to keep track.

 

Ghost of Tsushima

Don't get me wrong, I loved this game. The bloody fox dens, though. 49 of them. Arghhh! Everything else in this game was sublime, I just hated the post-game grind and seeing yet another fox waiting for me. I got so annoyed with them by the end of it, I did the unthinkable and refused to pet the fox after reaching the shrine. I'm ashamed of myself.

Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness

The mini game was ridiculous and you had to achieve 100,000 points for a trophy. I watched a lot of Netflix while grinding this one out!

Edited December 14, 2020 by Desmuria

[Lava_Yuki]

On 13/12/2020 at 9:50 AM, OmerSenpai said:

Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness

Its a pretty standard visual novel, easy right? Wrong. The mini game is insane and requires the patience of a monk. Some of them are extremely hard and you have to get around 600,000 points which is impossible so you have to use the save exploit. Even with the exploit its insanity.

Agree this was a pain. i got really lucky in the mini game and somehow managed to clear almost all the levels so I didn't have to grind, but it was super annoying and boring. 

 

Hakuouki Shinkai Fuukaden: The most boring VN I have ever played. I usually love otome games, but this was sooooo boring, I only read through two routes and just skipped through the other like 10 or something, and it still tool 50 hours?! It was all Shinsengumi and Japanese history which made me fall asleep. I don't know how this game got good reviews, but to me it was 1 star, and also very very long for a VN even with skipping more than half of it. The characters other than like three of them were dull. At least it was an easy platinum. 

 

Tales of Berseria: This was a great game but the grinding is insane. Collecting those Cat spheres to open all their chests and grinding for a solid b trophy added on at least 40 hours of endless and repetitive battles in the arenas. I thought I was going to get a thumb strain with all of it. 

 

FF13- Turtle farming, enough said. 

 

Tales of Xillia 2: You have to use all characters passive and partner skills 450 times each, and there are 9 characters with one of each, so a total of 18 skills, 450 times each. This was a horrendously long and tedious grind having to use things like Jude's Snap pivot 450 times. I took me ages to grind all the skills out.  

 

 

[Shmeefly]

On 13/12/2020 at 9:37 AM, ShahinMiah said:

Whilst I usually enjoy tedious Platinums. This one took the cake - Dangerous Driving. Having to drive 100 miles with nearly every car was boring and just stupid. Then with one car you have to drive 1000 miles like as if driving 100 with the others wasn’t enough. And it’s just going around the same track over and over again which is so boring

 

Dont start Grid... Which brings me to my current tedious plat, Grid is a good fun not so serious racer and takes about 60h to gold everything inc dlc, then you check miles driven after finishing the entire game, and your counter reads 5k, Around The Globe requires 24,900 miles, for sure finishing a 60h racer only to find you then have to do 99 laps of Indionapolis... 70-80 times for 1 trophy is stupid, yea about 50h left of going round n round n round n round... yawn

I love racers but im going to need some time apart for a while when this monstrosity finally pops

[NOWITSREYNTIME17]

9 hours ago, MandA60VISE said:

How about refuting any of the points besides the first one where I gave an opinion. Didn't even state the game was bad just that I didn't like it and the reasons why and then pointed out flaws in it. I'd gladly replay 3 or 4 anyday before thinking about 5 again. Also, the game has so much assistance with the teacher and fortune teller confidants that one could play the game blind and still get the platinum.

honestly, I disagree with both of these things you said, the Platinum isn't as easy as you say and the game is great