Breakingthegreen's Elusive Unobtainable Trophies + Random Junk I've thought of

[Breakingthegreen]

Nearly a year ago, I made a thread called "What Unachievable Trophies do you have that you are most relieved about?" I put a bunch of games on there, but I wanted to add more without cluttering the homepage and jist of the thread with my dumb account

 

If you wanna post your own unobtainables and you don't wanna make a new checklist, I recommend adding to the original thread here:

I wanna tighten up the specific rules for my personal list.

• If I have all the online trophies in a game with a server shutdown either current or announced, then either the final multiplayer trophy or platinum if earned will be represented.
• If I own a delisted game, then any trophy to show that I have the game and can earn all the trophies is fine, with obvious preferences towards and significant trophies earnt in the game. (It's worth noting that it's likely people are still earning trophies in these games.)
• If it's delisted DLC the last trophy I earnt will be used.
• If I've earnt some of a game's online trophies but not all, then I will not count it, this includes delisted shutdown games, so there won't be any appearances of Max Payne 3, Playstation Home or Drawn to Death despite having earned some of the online trophies. (maybe I will make a subsection on that later.)
• If there's a physical copy available the delisted game won't be counted unless it is a very expensive or tricky game to get.
• There are also some trophies that become unobtainable through patches or glitches, these are also counted.
• When looking in the subcatagories, a server shutdown is considered more important than a delisting

 

 

If you wanna go through my trophies and recommend any online trophies to clean up, feel free. Also pointing out mistakes I've made is more than welcome. Or your own goals, I don't mind I'm not precious about this thread.

 

I'll keep this updated as more trophies get lost to time.

 

 

The Platinum/100% Collection

 

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The Severed Server Completions

 

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Private servers and services will one day disappear, this is true of most things, but capitalism dictates that video games bare the brunt of much of throwaway art culture, but these completions were achieved before their final toss.

 

Smart As... (Vita) - Intelligent Being

 

Now unachievable legitimately due to Near closing down on the Vita, Believe it or not I actually own this game without PS Plus... I think I was the only one to be honest... Anyway... The gimmick that breaks this Plat is that you need to get street stars, 100 of them, assuming that you kept your PORTABLE DEVICE in on area it would take a minimum of 12 weeks to unlock that trophy, fortunately as a child of divorce, visiting my father's house sped up this adventure two-fold by being in to regions in one week. Fun fact I got the platinum for this game while I was in detention... responsible.

 

 

Playstation All Stars Battle Royale (PS3 & Vita) - All-Star Legend - You've Only Done Everything

 

Servers closed in 2019 and I got both Platinums in 2013 No story to tell, I just liked the game.

 

 

Hardware: Rivals (PS4) - Hardwearing

 

Has also been delisted and the servers closed in December 2021 for this online only game, I did not enjoy grinding this game out, I bet this game coulda survived if they converted it into a free to play game, wouldn't have played it without having got it from PS Plus in 2015. I feel for the fellas who played this game religiously 'til the end, musta sucked for them that I showed up and constantly threw myself into the river.

 

 

Laser League (PS4) - The Real Laser Lord

 

Another PS Plus multiplayer game, my brothers PS4, my PS4 and my PS5 were what lead to this eventual platinum, tested my sanity mind you, made me question my motives massively. I don't understand why they didn't just keep the bots and let people platinum it even if it'll be a massive pain.

 

 

 

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception (PS3) - Platinum

 

The servers are now gone, it's a shame, the multiplayer was really fun. I finally earned this Platinum nearly 10 years after release after some clean-up. But no DLC trophies, because I like to think I have something of a life... it's a *Deception* though, and I'm aware of that.

 

 

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (PS4) Original Release - Ultimate Fall Guy

 

The original launcher was removed reduce hackers... I think? I had earned it sometime before the announcement. I liked the game a bunch, and was planning on pre-ordering it, I was searching for the page for weeks until it was announced to launch on PS Plus. The Platinum was still achievable even after the supposed date of death for the launcher, that was until the connection was severed following the first season of the Free-to-play relaunch.

 

 

CounterSpy (PS4 & PS3/Vita) - International Nemesis

 

I loved this game, I thought it was a brilliant 2D stealth game which none have matched, there was no panic here, just happened to have the one online trophy already.

 

 

Assassin's Creed: Revelations Multiplayer Map Pack (PS3) - Carnival

 

While I didn't boost the main games trophies, I did end up in a Boosting group for Brotherhood and also Revelation's DLC, (Thanks to Ars, Charlotte and Judas,) these were free through the Hong Kong store, which I very much liked. I did these trophies in a heatwave in a room with no window, so that was fun.

 

 

Disc Jam (PS4) - Unstoppable

 

A sport game that game was free on PS Plus back in the day, there's only one online trophy, and the only one I was missing until the announcement of the server closure, where I was on that sh*t like a puma. It's just 50 wins in public matches which is easy when your brother leaves his console unattended. I posted my technique on a forum here, I hope it helped someone.

 

 

Everybody's Golf (2017) (PS4) - Platinum Club

 

I'm annoyed how much I ended up liking this game with how Sony doesn't seem interested in continuing the franchise. I feel like I'm one of the only people who got the condors without using glitched, I wanna say it's out of pride, but it's actually because I'm an idiot. It's still a lot easier to do legitimately with online since you can replay the same hole. The major required trophy was the fishing, which was kind of... a massive bore. Anyway, I didn't expect to like the game enough to 100% platinum it, but apparently I did.  

 

 

Onrush (PS4) - ONRUSH

 

Developed by Racing game veterans in Codemasters, who previously worked on Motorstorm. I really quite liked this racing game for it's gimmick of being more of a vehicular combat game along a race track, while making sure that you are always part of the group. Quite fun, I Platinumed it pretty quickly after it became available on PS Plus; clearly a lot of people didn't though since there was an onrush of people trying to finish the game before the servers went down. The game is still playable, but the requirement micropayments store has disappeared.

 

Rumbleverse (PS4 & PS5) - Extra Special

 

Rumbleverse is a free to play wrestling-themed Battle Royale game. Rumbleverse WAS a free to play wrestling-themed Battle Royale game, the servers are dead, it's a shame because the game was actually really fun so it's a shame that it lasted less than a year, but the trophy for breaking blocks 100 times was (pardon the pun) make or break to getting 100%. So naturally I did it twice when closure was announced. It wasn't too awful of a grind, and I already miss the game. I still feel proud that I got first place on the first ever round I played, and coincidentally got my only other solo win on the last round I played. (as proof, I'm the 10th person to get this trophy on PS5 ?)

 

 

Knockout City (PS4 & PS5) - Completionist

 

It's my favourite PvP game, possibly ever. I bought it after trying out the trial and adoring it. Yes, I'm one of those people who played it before it was free, and before it was on PS Plus. I regret nothing, it's that fun. When it's closure was announced, I went and got the platinums... on my brother's account... I just wanted an excuse to play some more before it was gone. Goodbye Knockout City, out of the ended servers, you're the one I'm the sadest to see gone.  

 

Side Bullet (PS5) - SIDE BULLET

 

This is an unusual case where the game was available to download for only a few weeks, and me being the digital magpie that I am, had downloaded it as soon as I saw that it was free. It's a Free-to-play 2D battle royale that's been delisted, but for whatever reason the servers were still up. The servers were filled with bots and you really need to heard them for some trophies, and other trophies are just unfeasible without a partner (who fortunately contacted me and we could help each other). I'd reccomend Worms Rumble over this tenfold. And only a few weeks later the servers died. What a huge waste of the developers' finite lives.

 

Rayman Legends (Vita) - True Legend!

 

 

This one stings, Rayman Legends is without a doubt one of the best 2D Platformers around, but the PS3 servers had been cut a while ago, fortunately the Vita and PS4 ones were still around. But since May 2023 the servers hadn't been working. Fortunately I had managed to get maximum Awesomeness before hand. Getting the Diamond cup is the big road block that stops a lot of people, you need to be in the top 0.5% of people in a trial and only 150 people played them, so you needed to be the best in the world. Fortunately 2 glitched challenges appeared when I was playing, one of which I'd reported on this site .  I basically treated this game as a second job, getting points every day to increase my awesomeness in the trials. Fortunately it was a dream job.

 

 

Far Cry 4 (PS4) - Master of Kyrat

 

 

Much like Rayman above, the servers have gone done in May for two of the trophies, one of which I completed in 2015 when I first got the game, the other I achieved when the game was released on PS Plus so I could easily get the coop trophies with my brother. Fun game. Still not as good as Far Cry 5 and I'll die on this hill.

 

Hunter's Arena: Legends (PS4 & PS5) - Legendary Hunter

 

 

This is a Battle-Royale game that released on PS Plus back in 2021, it was... bad. I did not enjoy my time with this game. Although I will say one interesting about this game, Hunter's Arena features an RPG mechanic where your stats in attack and defence increases with players and enemies that you defeat, as well as equipment that you collect, you even have levels. I completed this game within a week of it's release and the tiny font size lead to giving me atrocious eyestrain, I could feel my eyes twitch when I went to sleep after completing it, this game literally hurts to play. Maybe the server will come back, but considering no one noticed it was broken, sooo... I won't hold my breath.

 

Okay I, after I wrote that, the servers came back and they stated that the servers would close soon, saying that they would announce the date soon, as it turned out the date would be a week before the announcement... I guess that counts. 

Anyway the replaying this game for the PS4 version was less painful than before since I found myself in a boosting group which cut down on grinding a bit. But I'd still have to play over 100 games. At least I was closer to my telly and I didn't give myself eye strain this time. It's still a bad game, that wasn't worth the £16 you could have bought it for.

 

Rocket Arena (PS4) - Biggest Fan

 

 

I called this one out as a potential target to complete, only two days before they announced the shutdown, I'm a Psychic! But the game itself had been largely ignored by the general populous, but it's not a bad game, it definitely launched for too much (although I swear I saw it going for £4 only a month after launch.) This is a hero shooter with a big focus on knockback, it's a good gimmick. I had some fun with the game when I first played it when it released on Plus in 2020, replaying the game when the shutdown was announced, did remind me of the good time I had, there were a bunch of heroes I liked, my favourite being the sniper characters because I liked pipping the characters as they where just recovering from the edge of the ring. Also this game does what all games should do when a shutdown is announced, and respect players times by boosting the EXP earned and making the micro-payments free; if the game has to end, it may as well end with everyone dressed as a dinosaur.

 

 

The Extinguished Entertainment Completions

 

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Digital media is inherently more delicate than physical game, they can be removed at a moments notice for any reason, although the reasons are usually one of a few set reasons: Licensing, server's going down, or downright poor relations. But if you have them, you can keep them... most of the time, but you need not keep them, once you've completed them. Here are mine: 

 

The Legend of Korra (PS3) - Video Game Bender

 

This Platinum Games Game's Platinum (try saying that three times fast) is now unachievable due to a delisting and no physical copies were produced meaning you need to have bought the game before 2016, tbh I kinda wish I bought the PS4 version too.

 

 

Jurassic Park: The Intruder (PS3) - Life Finds a Way

 

I didn't know the Telltale Jurassic Park game was delisted until this write up, but I guess it was when Telltale went under. I bought it when it was on sale after becoming a fan of the post walking dead style Telltale Game. It was pretty good for what I paid for it. I've completed all the Jurassic Park episodes and only got eaten several times.

 

 

Beyond Eyes (PS4) - Closure

 

Delisted due to what I can only describe as a really nasty relationship between Team 17 and the developer (to be clear it seems Team 17 was at fault,) I can't pretend I enjoyed the game that much, but one thing I will say was that the water colour aesthetic was beautiful.

 

 

 

Telltale Games Poker Night at the Inventory 2 (PS3) - Unlock All The Things

 

 

I played this on a free trial of PS Now back in 2015, I'll be honest I don't remember much about it, except that I still don't know how to play poker.

 

 

Minecraft Story Mode Episode 8 (PS3) - To the Victor Go the spoils

Unavailable due to being delisted, while I'm not certain of the PS4's version's status, I know I couldn't buy the PS3 version when the store was threatening to die, so I had to track down a complete edition of a game for the PS3 that launched in 2016 in 2021 for a reasonable price... my copy was water damaged.... ah well I only had one corrupted save... so all's well.

 

Please Don't Touch Anything (PS4) - Completionist

 

This is a game I quite liked, tried to finish it without a guide, that did not pan out well... I've completed it know with the aid of a guide. Delisted on Playstation store but not Xbox or Nintendo,  have no idea how the logic works there.

 

Tales from the Borderlands (DG) (PS4) - We Had Fun, Didn't We?

 

This is my favourite Telltale game by quite some distance, so much so that when I found out that the retail version of the game actually shared its trophy list with the PS3 version, I bought that too, just so I had an excuse to play it again. But for what ever reason all the digital re-releases also share the retail trophy list, so the first digital one is lost to time... It might be in your PS Plus library, you might wanna check.

 

 

 

 

 

The Completable Collection

 

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Shutdown but Completion Bound

 

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Do you remember when every game would include a multiplayer mode, I do. I'd say that they were awful, but sometimes they could be brilliant, but often that's not the case. Even then, they probably won't be around long, complete them first, then you can go at your own leisure for the rest of the game.

 

 

The Last of Us (PS3) - Firefly

 

 

Haven't got the platinum yet but I spent... waaaay too long completing every single multiplayer trophy in Last of Us as soon as they announced the server shut down of Factions, as well as Uncharted 2 and 3's base trophies. I did this right before a major exam at uni... because I am responsible.

 

 

Disney Infinity 3.0 (PS4) - Arcade Ace

 

Unfortunately I never bought the PS3 version and could have doubled up on unachievable Disney trophies after the Disney Infinity servers shut down. Especially since I clearly owned all the toys. Shame I was dumb and didn't get all the trophies of 1 and 2.

 

 

 

Uncharted 2 Among Thieves (PS3) - Thrillseeker

 

 

I had played the game on a previous account that I lost in the 2011 hack, so I had to re-complete the multiplayer trophies when the shutdown was announced.

 

 

Freedom Wars (Vita) - Constant Comrades 

 

Slightly bending my rules, I didn't consider a trophy that was available that was in Ad-hoc (the trophy guide says otherwise but some threads disagree. Well I didn't earn these multiplayer trophies in Ad-hoc so I think it's fair enough to put here. Good game, it comforted me to learn that some people were worse at the game than me.

 

 

Little Deviants (Vita) - Honor Upheld

 

Unachievable due to the Vita messaging service going down was the original theory but it is actually technically achievable with a lot of work and organising finding a person who hasn't played the game since launch. I was out of my mind on the group chat on banana flavoured energy drinks getting this trophy at 4:30am, thanks again smithzzy and Achilles!  Regardless of technicality, the server on the non-asian stack will soon become impossible as the leader boards cannot be updated and the people on those leaderboards are decreasing as more and more people get the trophy.

 

 

Killzone Mercenary (Vita) - Aces up

 

While I don't have the platinum, I did grind out the online trophies for a few days during 2021, it's a good FPS on vita, probably the best, which isn't hard to be honest. When the server closure was announced, I was pleased to already have this game safely in the bag. Oh and you may check and see I haven't got all the valor cards yet, don't worry, the collectables will help me to collect the rest of those.

 

 

Assassin's Creed III (PS3) - Head in the Clouds

 

The main portion of the Assassin's Creed games don't tend to force online trophies into the single player portion of the game, but that changed will III, for some reason that I don't understand you cannot collect the pivots without being connected to the server, this was the only trophy that I needed to preserve a possible platinum, but I had to go through all of my least favourite AC game for it; but it turns out the game is much more fun when all the talking is gone and you skip all the cutscenes to get to the stabbing.

 

 

Assassin's Creed: Revelations (PS3) - Explorer

 

I really liked the Assassin's Creed multiplayer and hope they bring it back to that AC infinity thing, for Revelations and III, I happened to decide to get the multiplayer trophies a couple of months before the announced closure, but for Revelations I was only missing Explorer after a 10 year gap which was a pigs ear to get without boosting buddies.

 

Super Sonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars (PS3) - Striker

 

The overlooked and better named predecessor to Rocket League, and even was the superior game (in my opinion) for a number of months before updates. My brother adored this game and played it at the local Youth Club when he was like 14. I had never played it on my account, but the announcement of the server shutdown forced my hand and I completed the 500 goals in about 3 hours.

 

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (PS3) - Abstergo Employee of the Month

 

Most of the Ubisoft servers went down when they said they would, back in October 2022, but for some reason a few clung on to life for over half a year, Brotherhood was one of them. I adore the multiplayer that was in Brotherhood to Black Flag, but Brotherhood's level 50 trophy took soooo... long, and I was only able to get the Employee of the Month trophy thanks a set of trophy boosters who added me to their group (thanks one more time to Judas, Charlotte and Ars.) When we were getting these trophies, the UK was going through a heatwave which I mentioned earlier, but I didn't mention that I had a bucket of water that I dipped my head in as I played, so these were the only trophies I got while waterboarded.

 

Batman Arkham Origins (PS3) - Legend

 

This game actually holds something of a special place in this collection, you see this game had announced that the servers were closing, I decided to go out of my way to earn the trophies to retain the potential of the game's platinum. This was the first game that I did that with... in 2016... THE GOD DAMN SERVERS ONLY WENT DOWN LAST MONTH (2023). I worked my butt off to get these trophies and I did end up feeling a little short changed, but it paid off in the end because I did all of these without resorting to boosting, which I feeling ridiculously proud of. The game mode itself was kinda interesting, almost a Dead by Daylight which PvP going on at the same time. I've made it sound more interesting than it is; basically two teams have a team deathmatch while Batman and Robin try to take all of them out without getting killed to raise the intimidation level. Sounds like it might be fun, but the gunplay was so awful, I really had to force myself to continue.

 

 

Mirror's Edge Catalyst (PS4) - User Generated Finisher

 

This game managed to become the 6th most played game on this site just before the servers closed down, an impressive feat; but unlike most people I completed this fairly soon after the shutdown was announced. The server shutdown isn't too tragic for the game though, it only really loses access to leader boards and user generated races and collectables. I do wanna get round to finishing the game, it was quite fun, but let down by a tacked on open world which doesn't add anything. One fun thing though, You can make and play your own trial to get the race trophy, and when my brother played the game to get these trophies, he used my court and according to the leaderboard a couple of folks on my friends list used my race too after me.

 

 

Delisted but still Doable

 

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Unless you buy from Konami, if you buy a game you tend to keep it. So don't worry if you already have them. Here's some that I continue to not worry about.

 

 

The Simpsons Arcade Game (PS3) - Best Score Ever

 

Delisted from the PS Store, Christ knows I'm not 100%ing this game, but I'm happy to have a few trophies. 

 

 

SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (PS3) - Dirty Trick

 

Delisted due to a mess of five different companies having fingers in the pie of this game. I only have one trophy in this game... It's still one more than you'll probably ever get though to be honest.

 

 

No More Heroes: Heroes' Paradise (PS3) - You are recognized as Rank 10 on the UAA Ranking.

 

 

A physical release, but very hard to find an EU copy, I do plan to finish this game, eventually...

 

 

Jetpack Joyride (PS3 & Vita) - Blinged Out

 

A free game I downloaded, a tonne of fun, but it's since been replaced with a newer version that added... not that much to be honest.

 

 

Back to the Future - Episode 1: It's About Time (PS3) -  A Bicycle Built for Two

 

This is the digital version, where each episode has an individual episode has a unique trophy list, I only have the first one, but I do have the PS4 version digitally and PS3 version physically, which included a platinum trophy. It was a really good modern point and click, and it got me into the film franchise.

 

 

Sonic 1, 2 & CD (PS3) - Chaos Emerald 

 

I'm lumping these together because they're getting delisted for the same dumb reason and I own all the games. The new Sonic collection on PS4 & PS5 contains these 3 games so they're trying to force people to buy that version by removing old versions... Ignoring of course that the PS3 versions can't be played on PS4 or PS5 so... what was the point? I don't really like Sonic anyway.

 

Forgotten Anne (PS4) - Stair Master

 

Forgotten Anne is a very good game that has got delisted for reasons unknown, but I'm willing to bet it was due to Square Enix selling it's properties and chasing NFT trends. I really need to finish it, but fortunately, I can . 

 

 

Republique (PS4) - Hope is alive

 

It's hard to get mad at a delisting when it replaces the game with a superior version, well actually you can, Persona 5 is still around despite the presence of Royal, and we all seem to be fine with that. Not only that I can't find the new version on the UK store... so yeah. Another game I need to get back to.

 

 

Fat Princess (PS3) - Oh, It's on!

 

Fat Princess was delisted?! I thought it'd be safe since the game had bots, well at least online seems to be fine for now at least.

 

 

Tumble (PS3) - Victory is Yours

 

Supermassive Games' name used to feel a bit overambitious since the made smaller more experimental games, such as Tumble, which is thought to be removed to not confuse it with its own sequel which seems like a stretch... the games are on different consoles for heaven's sake. Fun game, if you want it, there's a compilation disc with echochrome ii and Lemmings.

 

 

ELEMENT4L (Vita) - Ready Player One

 

I remember nothing of this game.

 

 

La-Mulana EX (Vita) - Welcome to La-Mulana

 

A very retro game that made my Gen Z heart not move in the slightest, it seems fine.

 

 

Friday the 13th Killer Puzzle (PS4) - Gorefest

I bought this when they announced the delisting... I'm not good at sliding block puzzles... I'll get back to it later.

 

 

 

 

The Confirmed to Become Lost, Achieved

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Oh Gods I'm so unorganised

 

 

I think that's all I've got...there are some technical stuff like how I have the online challenges of Mad Max but not the trophy itself, but I'll end it there for my own sanity at least.

 

There's also the Delisted games that I own but haven't yet started like Poncho, The Cave or Hatoful Boyfriend. 

Edited April 19 by Breakingthegreen
Rocket arena

[Breakingthegreen]

Guerrilla game's final servers have gone down, and and I only managed to save one before release... well... I started Shadowfall and gave up when I realise my mental health would be drastically improved if I didn't bother. So anyway Killzone Mercenary's unachievable trophies are safe from being lost to me forever. Next one to go for I think is Everybody's Golf (PS4), if learn how to play golf first... why does it tell me about boegies?  

 

Edited November 10, 2023 by Breakingthegreen

[Breakingthegreen]

I've just spent too long re-formatting this page to be in an actually pleasant to read layout, but I bet it's still bad. Anyway, I've just gone through the delisted games website and then I got sad and had to have a little break and sleep, and then some thunderstorms woke me up, so I continued cross reference, and got sad again. 

At least many of the games had wide physical releases or me or my brother had picked up during sales, but hadn't yet started yet. I'm most please to still have access to Poncho.

Back on track I've added the following to the delisted but completable section: Forgotten Anne, Please Don't Touch Anything, Republique, Tumble, Fat Princess, ELEMENT4L and La-Mulana EX.

I await the great server shutdown when we enter October.

 

Edited November 10, 2023 by Breakingthegreen

[Breakingthegreen]

Many game servers were lost as we entered October, it's a little murky which Ubisoft ones are gone, but I didn't get a bunch of them anyway. I did get some though.

The trophies preserved came from:

• Assassin's Creed: Revelations DLC
• Disc Golf
• Everybody's Golf (2017)
• Assassin's Creed III
• Assassin's Creed: Revelations 

 

Edited November 10, 2023 by Breakingthegreen

[Breakingthegreen]

Not to much of interest has been delisted or shutdown recently for me, which is good for my sanity, I have since completed Please Don't Touch Anything, which was delisted a while ago, but now the racing game Onrush's servers have gone down, and with it the chance of getting the platinum... But I already have it  

I suppose I could go for Medal of Honor's multiplayer trophies, they've been confirmed to go... Probably not though, I hate most military FPSes with a passion.

 

Edited November 10, 2023 by Breakingthegreen

[Breakingthegreen]

I've not been updating this for a while but I had recently managed to retain two 100%able games before the server shutdown or delisting, these are Super Sonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars, and Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle.

 

 

But I'm mostly updating because of the addition of Rumbleverse's server shutdown (PS4 & PS5) and sub 5% completion and I'm proud. 

 

 

As always the info if you wanna read it is in the spoiler warnings.

Ready to come back when Knockout City shuts down . 

Edited November 10, 2023 by Breakingthegreen

[Breakingthegreen]

On 2/28/2023 at 5:06 PM, breakingthegreen said:

Ready to come back when Knockout City shuts down . 

Ha fool! Little did a young naive Breakingthegreen know, the last of the Ubisoft servers would die before June. Meaning their collection of Assassin's Creed Brotherhood multiplayer trophies would become lost to time. And keeping the opportunity to platinum the game at a later date.

 

 

Also more annoyingly the older and wiser Breakingthegreen is lambasting their younger self for trying to complete Rayman Legends on PS3 too late, (In my defence Ubisoft kept saying the wrong shutdown dates)

 

Information of their, MY efforts are in the spoiler warnings above.

Edited November 10, 2023 by Breakingthegreen

[Breakingthegreen]

I wanted to write up earlier but life got in the way.

Knockout City has now left us, at least it somewhat lives on in the PC version. But I'm genuinely sad that it's gone, it was probably my favourite PvP game, and is certainly fighting with Everybody's Golf for my favourite sports game. 

 

 

Also I somehow forgot the original release of Tales of the Borderlands, it's a good game... play it. Even if it's not the original trophy list.

 

 

As always check out the games in the spoiler warnings for a bunch of games you can't play anymore... what fun!

Edited November 10, 2023 by Breakingthegreen

[Breakingthegreen]

It's been about a month since anyone has earned an online trophy in Batman Arkham Origins so I think it's safe to say the servers died. WB said that they were going offline in 2016 which is when I panic-played the game. Shame it never got a PS4 release, could've lived longer on current hardware.

 

 

I have also completed the small online portion of Mirror's Edge Catalyst, and an actual write up will occur should the trophies be lost to time.

 

Check out the latest in the Completable Shutdown section for more details on the Batman trophies

Edited November 10, 2023 by Breakingthegreen

[Breakingthegreen]

Friends, we have gathered today to mourn the loss of a game. It wasn't the most beloved, it wasn't the most notable, it was Side Bullet. 

 

 

I have sort out comments from the players who are still playing this game beyond it's delisting:

Bot 1: "Beep Boop, Boop Beep, Beep..."

Bot 2: "Bzzz! I Run and Shoot Bzzz!"

Bot 3: "Humanity will be destroyed all hail the Robot Goddess! "

Real Player 1: "You have been blocked. You can no longer talk to Real Player 1"

 

Truly moving words. 

 

In all seriousness I did my mini review in the OP in the delisted completed section this time around, yes I completed this thing, and a larger review in the Cancer Fighting Event which is still going and you should totally join if you can.

 

When it comes to other delistings, there seems to be a lot of movement on Sony published Playlink games but and the Apps are getting delisted for the non-Sony games, currently I have only completed Hidden Agenda, but there's still the App around and a disc copy so it not going on this list yet. Most of the others require multiple phones which means self boosting is unfeasible so the rest are unlikely to ever be completed by me. But I am annoyed about this development, Playlink is a cool idea, just try Frantics it's so fun, and they are just making it unusable.

There's also a random Gundam game whose servers are going down... and GT Sport is closing to... I am doing nothing about this and you'll need to pay me to make me want to try.

Edited November 11, 2023 by Breakingthegreen

[Breakingthegreen]

Side Bullet's managed to go from dead to deader

 

 

After being being Delisted a month from launch, and getting it's server severed two months in. So the game is moving sections (This is the first time on the OP that a game has moved from a Delisted to a Shutdown title, so get excited.) Here is a summary of the game's life:

 

Spoiler

 

 

Also big six month old news that I missed, the servers of Far Cry 4 and Rayman Legends (Vita) are buggered, (well I didn't miss it but I did expect Ubisoft to fix it by now.) So they're getting added to the list. Rayman Legends (Vita) is one of my proudest platinums that I worked for for months. And Far Cry 4 is one that I'm pleased that I eventually got around to when I could play co-op without stumping up the price of a second copy. Both were fortuanatly platted last year!  

 

 

See the rest in the spoiler boxes of the OP and more of my opinions on a lot of the games too.

 

 

Edited April 6 by Breakingthegreen

[Breakingthegreen]

I can see by the most popular section on this site that a lot of people wanted to preserve these online trophies in Mirror's Edge Catalyst, and I don't blame you, it was as easy as 3.14159...

 

 

EA had a mass FPS shutdown a few days ago featuring the likes of Battlefield and Crysis 3, and all of them looked grindy and annoying for a genre I didn't particularly like, but a short and good looking game was among them. Mirror's Edge Catalyst had it community features removed and now the two trophies associated with it are now lost to time for most people. It's not platinumed yet, but I can now get it done whenever I want.   See the OP for more details

 

On the lookout, I should probably get around to Rocket Arena. It's been Delisted, so who knows if it'll survive much longer... this is EA we're talking about.

 

 

Edited December 12, 2023 by Breakingthegreen

[Super_Mep]

45 minutes ago, Breakingthegreen said:

I can see by the most popular section on this site that a lot of people wanted to preserve these online trophies in Mirror's Edge Catalyst, and I don't blame you, it was as 3.14159...

 

 

EA had a mass FPS shutdown a few days ago featuring the likes of Battlefield and Crysis 3, and all of them looked grindy and annoying for a genre I didn't particularly like, but a short and good looking game was among them. Mirror's Edge Catalyst had it community features removed and now the two trophies associated with it are now lost to time for most people. It's not platinumed yet, but I can now get it done whenever I want.   See the OP for more details

 

On the lookout, I should probably get around to Rocket Arena. It's been Delisted, so who knows if it'll survive much longer... this is EA we're talking about.

 

 

I know I allotted for a few hours to get those trophies done on Mirror's Edge and then I got both of them in like 20 minutes hahaha. I will admit I already had the Mischief Maker mission on the map, most of those 20 minutes was figuring out how to control the game again after not touching the game for years!

[Breakingthegreen]

6 hours ago, Super_Mep said:

I know I allotted for a few hours to get those trophies done on Mirror's Edge and then I got both of them in like 20 minutes hahaha

 

A visual of what I imagine Super_Mep looked like when they had nothing to do after getting the trophies:

[Super_Mep]

4 hours ago, Breakingthegreen said:

 

A visual of what I imagine Super_Mep looked like when they had nothing to do after getting the trophies:

💯 accurate. Just ended up watching YouTube the rest of the evening haha

[Breakingthegreen]

Apparently Hunter's Arena: Legends servers have been down for two months with no word of acknowledgement on their Twitter or Discord. Frankly the fact it's still being allowed to be sold for money is currently a scam.

 

 

I didn't have a good time with this game, and have often talked about the literal pain it took to complete. Let's just say the experience was half baked at best. Read the rest in the OP if you're interested.

I do hate that there are shadow closures a lot of the time, I don't mind that Arkham Origins closed since we were warned it would... warded 7 years beforehand, yes; but we still knew that the intention to close the game was present.

 

On 12/12/2023 at 12:02 AM, Breakingthegreen said:

 

On the lookout, I should probably get around to Rocket Arena. It's been Delisted, so who knows if it'll survive much longer... this is EA we're talking about

 

Just so people know, they announced the Rocket Arena servers are shutting 2 days after this post. And I did get them done (thanks to that x10 exp multiplier.) If anyone would like me to read their fortunes I am availible at 24:00-24:59 every day. 

I've also picked up the two online trophies for the F1 Race Stars PS3 game not long ago. Good to get that squared away. 

 

Oh and news... I now have every Physical Playlink game! But for now I'm just hoping they discount Ticket to Ride before its delisting on April 1st; it's the only playlink game I'm missing (And I still have the app.)

[Breakingthegreen]

So I've not got any unattainable trophies or really checked the Delisted games website (though that does remind me that I need to buy Ticket to ride some point this month.) But what I have been doing is playing Inescapable and watching the Traitors. And I noticed some parallels that I need to get written down somewhere and I don't know where else to put it. So here it is.

 

A (Probably Typo Filled) Analysis of the Themes in Inescapable and The Traitors 

 

 

Let's start with a basic plot summery of Inescapable, in this game 11 people who have never met are placed on an island for a reality show, after which they'll all be given 500,000 Euros. In the game, how Harrison acts determines the kind of story, the attitudes he fosters and how competitive he is. This causes a branching moment early on in the game, the rest of the game then carries on with the theme that you played with until it's ending. These branching paths aren't merely aesthetic changes, they fundamentally change how the plays and how the characters act. These branching paths I believe are a good approximate to the different Traitors series. 

 

Before I link the two franchises, let's explain the Traitors and how to play it. It is very basically a game of Werewolf or Mafia with 18 to 24 players in a fancy rural area, if you don't know how to play Mafia and therefore don't know how to play Traitors, here's a rule set...

• Some of the players are selected as the Traitors (Usually 3 or 4). The rest are called the Faithful
• The goal is to get to the end of the game. If there are only Faithfuls at the end of the game, they all split the collected money, but if there are Traitors left, they win all the money
  • In some versions Traitors have to play a variant of the Prisoner's Dilemma, to share or steal all the money if there's more than one traitor at the end.
• Money is added to the prize pot during challenges which all players play, they can all get Shields which protect from elimination, (or daggers in versions I haven't seen.)
• At the end of every day, all players pick a player to remove by vote after a Roundtable discussion, after which then "Banished" player reveals their status as a Faithful or Traitor.
• Every night the Traitors pick a Faithful player to remove by "murdering" them.
• Faithful can be recruited or blackmailed into becoming Traitors if the numbers of Traitors falls too low, but the Faithful may decline. Doing this often negates that night's murder.

If you want to play a game with mechanics like this, it's most applicable to Gnosia, Lost Dimension or Among Us.

 

While Traitors is a game show, the heart of it is the relationships between all the players, and how they played falls very much into the 4 endings of Inescapable, and from this point I'll be talking spoilers for Inescapable and Traitors (In spoiler boxes though.) 

 

Ending one: Lust

Spoilers for Traitors US Series one.

 

Spoiler

In Inescapable, the Lust playthrough is less about sex and much more about popularity, in the game every player is given a means to rank every other player, and popular players are rewarded and the unpopular are punished. These votes start off honest but eventually they drift into tactical or petty, as a consequence players stop being themselves and instead form factions, and get irritated with each other and try to sabotage each other for no reason other than wanting to be popular. In the end the winner of this was Mia who was the one of the more inoffensive characters who didn't upset anyone.

 

This feels very similar to the first US series of Traitors which played closer to a game of Real Housewives. The first banishment was because Micheal got a little bit annoyed that Geraldine was hogging the map in a challenge. After this Kate was became a very much disruptive member of the cast who kept getting into pointless fights with other Faithfuls, causing most banishments to be based on drama rather than evidence. In the end the only ones who remained were the quiet members who never got in fights.

 

US Traitors 1 is a story about how our in groups and perception of others will lead to destruction of every one, 'A House Divided' you could say.

 

Ending two: Suspicion 

Spoilers for Traitors AU series 2

Spoiler

In the suspicion ending, the game turns into a Danganronpa style murder mystery, you find a character dead, and everyone else is a suspect. Even after you find the killer, everyone is on edge. Your protagonist becomes unduly suspicious of his best friend, convinced that she's hiding poison. This all comes to a head in the final case, where Harrison loses his friend then loses any ability trust anyone, after he becomes the only person left on the island who didn't commit a murder. He can't even accept the money because of those who he lost.

 

Of course in Traitors no one is actually dying, but there's something far more terrifying in Australia series 2, a level of emotional manipulation that is genuinely frightening. This series has a villain in the form of the Traitor: Sam, and he is probably the most terrifying player in the game (but not a good player, the faithfuls were really bad this series.) Sam has an ability to analyse the players in a way that borders on psychopathic. One example being the murder of one player to "Make Hannah lose her support system so she comes to me [Sam] and listens to what I say." Throughout the show there was a lot of suspicion on him, but he created an environment where calling out that suspicion was in itself suspicious, and any person who turned on him got banished or murdered as soon as possible. People where too afraid too turn on him because they couldn't trust the other faithful to see sense.

 

This suspicion extended to the Traitors themselves, on day 2, Sam started in the process of getting fellow traitor Ashe banished, and this left other traitor Blake under his thumb out of fear that he'd do the same to him. A new traitor was recruited to break the the prisoners dilemma at the end, Camille (has a youtube channel where she goes metal detecting called '10 Targets Detecting'). Sam and Blake underestimated how much she didn't trust Sam, and in the end, they all chose to "Steal" the money and no one won anything.

 

Australian Traitors 2 is a tale of removing the human element of social deduction game, thinking of people as numbers, cause and effects. And that can be right in some cases, but humans are more complicated than that. 

 

Ending three: Greed

Spoilers for English speaking Traitors Canada Series 1

Spoiler

The greed path consist of giving monetary rewards for playing the game in a certain way, and soon afterwards trading comes in to turn the Island into an capitalist hell hole controlled by the two most insane people around.) The money has caused people to sabotage each other, exploiting sickness and food for easy profits, even if sharing supplies is generally better for everyone in this microcosm of a society, Lumi the doctor now charges 100,000s for medicine because she can, people don't have a choice, she'll need to do this since she now needs to buy food.

 

The anarchic capitalist element isn't present in this series, but moves in Canada were much more motivated by money. In the US Alan Cummings suggested that performance in the challenges would effect whether you got murdered, but that is actually a factor in Canada for the first murder. Other openly selfish moments include a condition where if they catch a traitor that night an extra $10,000 gets added to the prize pot, and the two traitors drop all loyalty and go at each other. The big moment though comes at the end when two faithful decide they want to vote out people they are pretty sure are faithful, so they'll get a bigger cut of the money, this is foiled by the remaining traitor putting doubt in one party, but still plays into the greed plan since it makes winning harder for the faithfuls.

 

Traitors Canada shows the risk of being motivated by money, and shows that a zero sum game can lead to self sabotage all because every one wants a bigger cut of the pie. Someone may win, but it'll only be one winner.

 

Ending four: Trust

Spoilers for Traitors UK series 1

Spoiler

In Inescapable, the trust ending in achieved by doing actions for the sake of the group and avoiding being overly competitive or suspicious. This eventually culminates in a boycott of the suggested killing game, and focus on enjoying your time together.

 

No boycott of the show happened in the UK, but there's a much closer focus on the players bonds, banishments at the beginning start out petty, "She didn't say cheers to the faithful" and "He resented being on the team with the less able bodied in a physical challenge," but as the game goes on, evidence becomes much closer to how people behave. People understand the need for slight suspicion, 72 year old Andrea has received no push back, and Amos politely pointed this out; his concern over whether he was cruel in the roundtable is very endearing.

 

Because these people have been together for so long, they understand each other and on a strong level. This is tested in a cruel game of "who do you trust the most?" Where one woman is left as the least trusted and is bribed to leave the contest, and she declines despite all sense saying to walk.

 

The biggest example of trust being a major theme for the UK series, is how Traitor Wilf lost trust in his fellow traitors, and turned them in, so when Kieran was blackmailed he knew the plan was to bin him off too. Instead of trying to save himself he cryptically asserted that Wilf was another traitor with his final vote, he put his trust in the remaining faithful even if he wouldn't see it through.

 

Wilf would be banished in the final vote, and he admitted the remaining faithful were still there because he wanted them to be people to win if he lost. 

 

In my mind this series was all about finding love and trust in an environment that demands you distrust anyone.

 

 

So what am I saying? Inescapable is like Traitors? No. Inescapable talks about how reality TV's theme is decided by it's contestants; it's a fairly basic lesson, but given how fake and edited we think of them, it's easy to doubt. But the many international versions show how these themes can come from the players in a very organic way that's human. 

 

Now that I've written all that I realise I have no proper conclusion... ummmm... watch the show, it's really good, UK especially.

Edited March 22 by Breakingthegreen

[Breakingthegreen]

I've had a shutdown that I've been meaning to complete a write up for, but I was ill as heck, and still recovering when they shut down the servers to Rocket Arena. I managed to get the platinum only 2 days after the shutdown was announced. 

 

It's a pretty good time, I've written a full write up in the OP with more thoughts (About the game, I didn't get distracted and talk about Claudia Winkleman's fringe this time.) This game actually lasted a really long time considering how much this game got reduced within weeks, it lasted 4 or 5 years. I would have thought that this game flopping would have made EA too afraid to produce Knockout City, and I'm glad that it still made that game (it's so good, unfortunately I've got to write it up already  ). 

 

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Oh there's news, I wrote up Hunter's Arena Legends because the servers have been busted for 2 months... UNTIL A WEEK AGO, hurrah! But they announced it's gonna shutdown soon... But fortunately I completed the PS4 version this past week, with a little help from a boosting group (Thanks Emii.) I'll add to the write up with details of playing the game at the end of it's life compared to the start was like, that'll be interesting, hopefully. At the game didn't physically hurt me this time.

[Breakingthegreen]

Surprise shutdown alert! Hunter's Arena Legends (PS4) developers announced that there'd be an official shutdown date soon. But usually the date announced presceeds the actual shutdown, but Hunter's did it differently and I feel bad for the folks that have a forever unobtainable on their account, not enough to campaign though... it'd only increase eye strain based hospital admissions.

 

 

The game isn't fun, but since I've played the map has changed. Before it had a interesting alter and winter castle, but now... it has a featureless lava pit... so the game has manages to get more boring, which is a hell of an achievement. Thanks again the the boosting group that helped me, Emii and Vanquished were there among others, I'd have lost my sanity if y'all didn't help me out. 

 

Original post in the first post has been amended with my new experiences of the game, check out the spoiler boxes up top.

 

 

Edited April 19 by Breakingthegreen