Every trophy hunter's lost dream: games you wish you had the time/knowledge to get platinum in your collection but it's too late

[Lonemankane]

16 minutes ago, Stan Lee said:

Really sucks that Hitman: Absolution is unobtainable on PS3 because they never got the Contracts mode back up and running, but at least there is the PS4 version without the online trophies.

but it is abit glitchier from what I know from the ps4 one

[Cassylvania]

The Legend of Korra. I don't even know if it's a good game. I just liked the TV show and would've liked to use it for a milestone in some way.

[Ich1994-1994]

i used to have very bad internet and due to a lot of disconnects and it not working properly i missed a lot of online trophies i would have liked to get. 
Biggest game i am sad i cannot finish is Motorstorm Pacific rift

others are
Midnightclub LA

Lost PLanet 2
LittlebigPLanet 2 DLC

but also
NFS The Run
NFS Shift 2

[Fenrirfeather]

The 100% game Destiny of Spirits. The game was an all-online gacha that was released for VITA in 2014 and promptly shut down a year after in 2015.  It has been unobtainable since. 

 

Some niche boards on GFAQs hyped the game and I was absolutely caught up in the movement. The game was casual fun and I wouldn’t hesitate to pick it up again today. To be fair, this wasn’t a particularly revolutionarily creative gacha, it certainly didn’t have mind blowing graphics (but it had real nice looking portraits of the spirit characters that you collected in-game and it did try to cater to a multi-national crowd by incorporating folklore from various corners of the world) but it was on VITA which, at that time, was a valid reason to embrace it and hype it to the moon. 
 

[nrs1nrs1]

One of the first games I got for the PS3 was Armored Core V. I knew absolutely nothing about how to play it and what trophies were at the time. I would have loved to go back and complete it with a better knowledge and desire to hunt that plat, but unfortunately the servers went offline in 2016. Oh well...

[Ninjise]

Killzone 2 definitely, was able to get the infamous top 10% of the week trophy, sadly real life responsabilities called me and was unable to get the rest of the trophies before the server was down.

 

Motorstorm Pacific Rift was another one I hightly enjoyed but at the time I was not inteterested in trophies and missed my shot at getting the online ones.

[blue_blur_98]

ModNation Racers - Sort of touched on this in another thread, but while I did get Star Creator and Taking On the World, two trophies I am very proud of, I knew I just wouldn't get the ludicrous 500,000 XP requirement for Level 30. It was twice as much as I had, and sure enough, the servers were discontinued two days later. Real shame. I also didn't get the chance to purchase the DLC, so even if I did achieve Platinum, I could never 100% the list.

 

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale - This one hurts even more. I had just one online trophy left... and I misunderstood what was needed, didn't get it to pop, and then the account my mom so generously used to let me download the game from ran out of PlayStation Plus, which was how the game was redeemed in the first place, and she couldn't renew it in time. It seemed like everything in the world was destined to snatch this Platinum away from me. And to think, if I just did one thing differently, I'd have this Platinum by now for sure. I was this close.

Edited June 5, 2022 by blue_blur_98

[Spyre382]

Starhawk - I didn't put in the time to get the multiplayer win trophies. Was playing too much mw3 multiplayer instead

 

Portal 2 - I never went back to the co-op campaign for some reason

 

Fifa street - simply started the game too late. I'm pretty sure one of the features needed for a trophy wasn't working even before the servers went offline (adding a recommended friend or something)

[VELOCIOUS-VIPER]

midnight club la

i was only about 10 when the servers went down i dont think i couldve got it then tho

oh well i can earn the achivements on xbox maybe since the servers are on there and better resolution on sereis x

[rangers_lead5278]

Army of Two: The 40th Day. It made the sting of the Hardcore trophy failing to pop after bothering to complete the game on that difficulty, while knowing that the plat was unachievable much worse.

Udraw Studio: Instant Artist. I had the game for years without realising it had an online trophy. It was on my shelf years before THQ broke the website. Now it sits forever at 97%.

Guitar Hero Live. I took a break from the million strums and forgot to return. Now it’s gone forever.
 

LOTR Conquest. I knew the servers had closed before starting the game, but it still stings.

[Platinum_Vice]

All PS3: 

- GTA V

- Portal 2

- Burnout Paradise..... except, there's hope for me on this one. Apparently for the two trophies I need online, there are legit ways to earn them, so I'm going to see what I can achieve. Crossing fingers.

[X_Wizi_X]

Darksiders 2 for Ps3

[Ya_Boy_James]

NBA 2K16

 

NBA is my favorite irl sports league, but I've basically written off these games. Got 2K16 about 1 year after release, and the servers shut down like 1 year later taking down some single-player modes in addition to online. Game and PS Store pushed hella online mode micro-transactions for 2K16 and their value would go to 0 in no time for those purchasers. What a racket.

 

It's a 0.02% Platinum so unreasonable for almost anyone to say they would have completed this if they didn't, but I have like a dozen dead trophies because of this list before I was a trophy hunter. Trophies aside, simply garbage support for a major game series... even EA supports their sport games' servers like 3x as longer or more. CRIMINAL.

[Se7en]

Midnight Club: Los Angeles. I wasn’t into trophies that much when the game servers went offline.

 

On 29.08.2021 at 10:36 AM, AJ_Radio said:

You must of done something inefficient. 
 

I’m basically doing the first part of level 4 (when you kill that New Jersey asshole) and getting a platinum medal (1000 XP) every time. Takes about three and a half to four minutes to finish, including loading screens.

You must be doing something inefficient. Chapter 4-1 in score attack mode of Max Payne 3 takes 2:30–2:45 per run.

[Guest]

On 29/08/2021 at 4:36 AM, AJ_Radio said:

You must of done something inefficient. 
 

I’m basically doing the first part of level 4 (when you kill that New Jersey asshole) and getting a platinum medal (1000 XP) every time. Takes about three and a half to four minutes to finish, including loading screens. 
 

Were you playing actual multiplayer the entire time?

I checked the order of my trophies to remember, and I had already played a few multiplayer games before completing nymhc. from that, it took me almost 20 days more to finish level 50, my conclusion is that i was playing very slowly and without any desire, i remember that this grind consumed me because it was really boring to repeat that; i would prefer to redo nymhc which only took me 4 days of trying. so i'm always impressed with people who reach level 50 in a few days, that's because i can't focus enough for something like that due to boredom, so i sabotage my gaming sections myself making them longer than necessary haha

[EmperorZetta]

Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational on the Vita had one (1) online trophy for participating in a single daily tournament. I was in the lobby right when it shut down with several dozen other people, it lagged out and I lost my chance forever. 

 

Thankfully I had just started playing it, so it wasn't a loss of time invested or anything. Still sucks.

[cubiCampla]

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark is a game I just recently got since I heard it was delisted but I wasn't aware of the servers being shutdown on what seemed like an enjoyable wave defense mode. Now I can never get the platinum and I have no will to play through the story.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, EmperorZetta said:

I was in the lobby right when it shut down with several dozen other people, it lagged out and I lost my chance forever

Damn, that must have hurt

3 minutes ago, FrostyMcNugs said:

Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark is a game I just recently got since I heard it was delisted but I wasn't aware of the servers being shutdown on what seemed like an enjoyable wave defense mode. Now I can never get the platinum and I have no will to play through the story.

something similar happened to me in Binary Domain, but I just lost over 100 hours of progress online and I have no desire to venture into the campaign

[Jasmin-Harun]

Not for PS3 but DRIVECLUB (PS4) 

I got the game two days before the servers went down, I was not aware of this and I was able to complete only 12% of total trophies available. 

Platinum is out of reach and this one is going to stink on my list since I am going to platinum all the games I have on my acc. Driveclub will always be out of reach....

and thats too bad, I believe the game had so much potential, just wrong timing I guess. 

[rebelkiller93]

I would also have to go for Resistance 2. The only Resistance game I don't have the plat for and would have been nice to complete the set. I did play the online but it was mostly the co-op mode. I always knew I'd never get the 10k kills trophy.

[horatio_deltoro]

Quantum of Solace - Servers were pretty much dead by the time I got the game.  Managed to get into a few matches but most modes had nobody playing them.

Red Dead Redemption - Achieved 100% completion of main game, had a terrible time with it online.  Was never even 8 people in any server I got into, making things as theoretically simple as "Posse Up" impossible for me.

Lord of the Rings: War in the North - Brutal glitch kept happening where you'd complete a level but it wouldn't unlock the next one, which would only be fixed when starting the game over from scratch.  I played through the game several times on normal before it finally went ok, and then it happened again right at the very last level of my Legendary difficulty run.  That was enough to delete, trade in and never look at it again.

Sleeping Dogs - Game glitched on me right near the end of campaign and everything disappeared from the map.  All I could do was run around, all events missions races jobs everything was just gone, making it impossible to complete without starting over.

 

Two of those are probably still technically achievable, but as far as I'm concerned they may as well be impossible.  Lol.

[UNLEADED_BRONZE]

NFS:Undercover

Technically/Tech earned/attained all online achievements on xbox

 

NFS:The Run 

King For A Day lilletery unobtainable after 2016

*(Side note I somehow managed it like 10/ten years ago on Xbox)*

 

Army Of Two 40th Day

PMC DMY 

Create/design a mask via on a website that hardly bearly exsists anymore

Edited September 2, 2021 by UNLEADED_BRONZE

[AJ_Radio]

4 hours ago, Se7en said:

You must be doing something inefficient. Chapter 4-1 in score attack mode of Max Payne 3 takes 2:30–2:45 per run.

Care to tell me what you did?

[Segimon]

Guitar Hero Live. Honestly I wasn't a big fan of that game nor did I care about it back then. Servers are down and I no longer own the guitar for it so it will be at E rank forever.

[kingofbattle8174]

15 minutes ago, Segimon said:

Guitar Hero Live. Honestly I wasn't a big fan of that game nor did I care about it back then. Servers are down and I no longer own the guitar for it so it will be at E rank forever.

Even if the online still worked, the guitars are so expensive. I need a replacement because one button has gone out. I could maybe finish the offline grind if a controller wasnt as much as a vr headset.