Platinum Difficulty Challenge 2023

[D-E-U-S-X]

Second entry in my unofficial lunatic list of games with a 10/10 rating. Dreadnought - a free game in which fleets of spaceships fight each other and a game like this I've wanted to play for a long time. People who are interested shouldn't wait too long as the servers will be shut down on March 19th.

 

10/10 Star Ocean: The Last Hope International

?10/10 Dreadnought

[dieselmanchild]

6 hours ago, Kramers001 said:

You can put Steamworld Dig 2 on there instead.

 

https://metagame.guide/steamworld-dig-2-ps4/trophy-guide

Thanks for the suggestion, but I platinumed SteamWorld Dig 2 a couple years ago so it wouldn’t be eligible. I will find something. ?

[Rebourne07]

@DEMONICRUBLE18 Welcome to the challenge No need to fill out what games you'll do before you do them so that's fine. For the game's you've completed, please add a link to the guide that gives them the rating you have listed. And we'll have to sort out badges once you hit 7 out of 10 games completed, cause it appears there are multiple misunderstandings with badges. Check out the Badge Clarifications section of the main post when you have a chance. 

 

@D-E-U-S-X You freaking mad man, you're actually doing it. That's crazy impressive. Good luck!!

[Thedah]

3/10 - Yakuza 6 and the end of Kiryu's saga done! Finally a Yakuza game that doesn't take so long to platinum. This one only took me 25 hours.

 

1/10 - TBD

2/10 - Persona 5 Royal

3/10 - Yakuza 6

4/10 - Yakuza Like a Dragon

5/10 - Lost Judgment

6/10 - Final Fantasy X-2 HD

7/10 - Judgment

8/10 - Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

9/10 - Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

10/10 - Devil May Cry 5

 

Above and Beyond - Platinum a game with an official time estimate of 80 or more hours

 Brownie Points - Platinum a game from Rebourne07's favorite series (Final Fantasy)

 Fresh Starter - 6 or more games on your list had 0% progress prior to 2023

 Masochist - More than one game on your list qualifies as a 10/10 (MGS2, DMC5)

 Old School - 3 or more games on your list are remakes, remasters or PS1/PS2/PSP games (MGS2, Persona 5 Royal, FFX-2)

 PS4 Master - Platinum 6 or more PS4 games on your list

 Rare Letter - Platinum a game starting with J,O,Q,X,Y or Z

 Series Conqueror - 3 or more games on your list are from the same series

[Gambrosin]

Hi, could someone tell me how to filter the game difficulty here on psn? And also how to create a personal list of game to track the updates only of that list

Many thanks in advance

 

[Evil_Joker88]

1 hour ago, Gambrosin said:

Hi, could someone tell me how to filter the game difficulty here on psn? And also how to create a personal list of game to track the updates only of that list

Many thanks in advance

 

Well on psnp you cannot filter your games by difficulty. For that go to Platprices.com.

The lists some people show are created with the PSNP+ browser addon which adds a lot of functions, those lists among them.

[Rebourne07]

5 hours ago, Gambrosin said:

Hi, could someone tell me how to filter the game difficulty here on psn? And also how to create a personal list of game to track the updates only of that list

Many thanks in advance

 

Game lists are a part of PSNP+ which I highly recommend installing. Sorting guides by difficulty is something I've brought up several times and requested as a feature, but they wont implement it. You can use PlatPrices for it, but can't do it here on PSNProfiles unfortunately. 

[nitarmho]

LEGO Ninjago is done, 8 on the line. What a mess of a game, I had to watch the movie to sort of figure out what they really wanted to accomplish there. Kids might love it though, lots of colors.

- To Do -

3/10 - Claire

4/10 - Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

5/10 - Sayonara Wild Hearts

6/10 - Hades

7/10 - Agony

8/10 - Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled

9/10 - Hollow Knight

10/10 - The Elder Scrolls Online

 

- Done -

1/10 - Lara Croft GO

2/10 - LEGO Ninjago Movie: The Videogame

 

The badges are as follow:

 Above and Beyond - The Elder Scrolls Online

 Award Winner - Hades

 Finally! - Claire

 Fresh Starter - Agony, Hollow Knight, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, Lara Croft GO, Sayonara Wild Hearts, LEGO Ninjago Movie: The Videogame

 Mad Skillz - Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled

Masochist - Hollow Knight, The Elder Scrolls Online

 PS4 Master - All of Them

 Spooky - Agony

 

No giving up!

[Kramers001]

❎ 1/10 - Oxenfree

❎ 2/10 - Undertale 

 3/10 - Severed Steel (16/1)

 4/10 - Ōkami HD (9/1)

❎ 5/10 - Persona 4 Golden

 6/10 - The Last of Us Remastered (15/2)

❎ 7/10 - Spec Ops: The Line

 8/10 - Neon White (27/1)

❎ 9/10 - Darkest Dungeon 

❎ 10/10 - Devil May Cry 5

 

Titanfall 2 will have to be on another list, went back to The Last of Us after starting the tv show and ended up spending way too much time grinding the multiplayer.

[Rebourne07]

2 minutes ago, Kramers001 said:

 1/10 - Oxenfree

 2/10 - Undertale 

 3/10 - Severed Steel (16/1)

 4/10 - Ōkami HD (9/1)

 5/10 - Persona 4 Golden

 6/10 - The Last of Us Remastered (15/2)

 7/10 - Spec Ops: The Line

 8/10 - Neon White (27/1)

 9/10 - Darkest Dungeon 

 10/10 - Devil May Cry 5

 

Titanfall 2 will have to be on another list, went back to The Last of Us after starting the tv show and ended up spending way too much time grinding the multiplayer.

No such thing as too much time on TLOU multiplayer. Best multiplayer ever imo.

[Inuty]

I am getting distracted of my list.. playing tony hawk right now in between to trackmania.was able to Do the got there trophy and only 1 track left in valley for trackmania. I thought 180 was the worst but 172, 175, 176 and 178 where no joke either.. i hope with lagoon i getting to a more reasonable time and dont need to put in 3-6 hours for each track. But an end is in Sicht, so thats good..

[Salamandxrs]

First list of the Challenge completed

 

1/10 - Telltales's Guardians of the Galaxy Point-and-click  

2/10 - No Heroes Allowed! VR RTS  
3/10 - Moss Puzzle game  

4/10 - Firewall : Zero hour Tactical  

5/10 - The surge 2 Science fiction  

6/10 - Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Stealth  

7/10 - Genshin Impact Ps5 Fantasy  

8/10- Dragon age inquisition Rpg  

9/10 - XCOM 2 TBS  

10/10 - Hollow knight  Platform  

 

Badges :

 

•  Above and Beyond - Dragon age and Firewall : Zero hour   
•  Award Winner - Dragon age inquisition  
•  PS4 Master - N°1/2/3/4/5/8/9/10  
•  VR Master - N°2/3/4  
•  Rare Genre - No heroes allowed ! VR  
•  One Trick Pony - (Action) Game 1/2/3/5/7/9  
•  Rare Letter - XCOM 2  
•  Jack of All Trades  
•  OCD - Platinum all 10 games on your list in order  
•   

Edited May 11, 2023 by Salamandxrs
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[Rebourne07]

On 12/1/2022 at 0:55 PM, Rebourne07 said:

Salamandxrs - February 15th - Hollow Knight  

Huge congratulations to @Salamandxrs on completing the challenge! Very impressive work! Especially getting so many badges and actually sticking to OCD! Great job!!

 

How'd you like Hollow Knight? I'm going through it myself right now. I plan to use the glitch as soon as I can, but I'm surprised to see how far you have to make it before you can use it lol. Did you use the glitch? If so, how long did you play before and after? Thanks!

[Salamandxrs]

@Rebourne07 I plat the game on 35 hours using the guide on psn profile, i start to use the glitch for the last 2 Pantheon and 1-2 very late bosses like Nightmare Grimm which is very hard to fight ! But i did almost all the game witout the glitch except that

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks ! i'll do a little cleanup on the dlc and start my second list this month !

[Yuber6969]

Finished Bakumatsu Rock Ultra Soul -幕末Rock 超魂 for my 6/10 game!

 

1/10 -

2/10 - Gensou SkyDrift (PST)

3/10 - Sly 2: Band of Thieves (PSTHC)

4/10 - 

5/10 - Smoots Summer Games (Platprices)

6/10 - Bakumatsu Rock Ultra Soul -幕末Rock 超魂 (PSNTL)

7/10 - 

8/10 - 

9/10 - 

10/10 - 

Edited February 16, 2023 by Yuber6969

[Evil_Joker88]

Hurray i've finished List 1 with to new additions: Hollow Knight (#9) and Xeno Crisis (#10).

 

Hollow Knight was an enjoyable but rather difficult journey through a kingdom full of various bugs. Many secrets scattered around this world, i like that I activated the Invincibility glitch as soon as possible and made it through to in 34 hours. I followed the videoguide made by optimusmart and Optinooby, great work they've put together.

 

Xeno Crisis is a very simple in comparison to Hollow Knight. Run through 7 levels and shoot every enemy around you. I used ingame cheats for unlimited health, ammo and grenades right from the start to make completing the game easier but getting a no hit run on every level was still not very easy. Level 7 alone took me around 14 hours and my successful run was around 7 mins...

 

List 1

Spoiler

1/10 Toem (PSNP) on 1st Jan

2/10 Bee Simulator (PST.org) on 1st Jan

3/10 Defense Grid 2 (PSNP) on 1st Jan

4/10 Jumanji (PSTHC.fr) on 1st Jan

5/10 Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag (PSNP) on 1st Jan

6/10 Guacamelee Super Turbo Championship Edition (PST) on 14th Jan

7/10 Remnant From the Ashes (Platprices) on 19th Jan

8/10 World War Z (Trophies.de) on 08th Feb

9/10 Hollow Knight (EU) (PSNP) on 16th Feb

10/10 Xeno Crisis (metagame.guide) on 16th Feb

 

Badges earned:

 

Rare Genre: RTS (Defense Grid 2)

Rare Letter: Jumanji, Xeno Crisis

PS4 Master: Bee Simulator, Defense Grid 2, Jumanji, Assassin's Creed IV, Guacamelee, Remnant

One Tricky Pony: Adventure (Toem, Bee Simulator, Jumanji, Assassin's Creed IV, Guacamelee, Remnant)

Jack of all Trades

- Toem (Puzzle)

- Bee Simulator (Simulation)

- Defense Grid 2 (RTS)

- Jumanji (Shooter)

- Assassin's Creed IV (Adventure)

- Guacamelee (Hack & Slash / Beat 'em up)

- World War Z (Survival)

- Hollow Knight (Platform)

- Xeno Crisis (Action)

OCD

Masochist: Hollow Knight, Xeno Crisis

Above and Beyond: World War Z (150 hours)

 

Since List 1 is completed let's go straight into list 2

 

First entry completed is One Night Stand, an adventure about two people dealing with the situation the morning they wake up after they had a one night stand. Several different endings meant replaying this a few times but it's fast so that's ok. I laughed a couple of times and some endings were obvious good or bad but in general i had a good time playing this.

 

Spoiler

1/10 One Night Stand (Platprices) on 16th Feb

2/10 Demon Hunter: Revelation (Platprices)

3/10 Stray (PSNP)

4/10 Assassin's Creed II (PST)

5/10 Assassin's Creed Revelations (PST)

6/10 Final Fantasy VII Remake (powerpyx)

710 Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (PST)

8/10 Red Faction (Platprices)

9/10 Xcom 2 (PSNP)

10/10 Hollow Knight (NA) (Trophies.de)

 

I've added the Above and Beyond badge to the list 1 completion as WWZ has 150 hours estimated time for completion @Rebourne07

Edited February 16, 2023 by Evil_Joker88

[Rebourne07]

On 12/1/2022 at 0:55 PM, Rebourne07 said:

Evil_Joker88 - February 16th ~ Xeno Crisis

Congratulations to @Evil_Joker88 on completing the challenge! You're also the first person to earn the  Masochist badge! Good job man! Good luck on your second list!

 

Edit: Added the Above and Beyond badge @Evil_Joker88

Edited February 16, 2023 by Rebourne07

[UnIvIIIrsum]

On 2/15/2023 at 8:46 PM, Inuty said:

I am getting distracted of my list.. playing tony hawk right now in between to trackmania.was able to Do the got there trophy and only 1 track left in valley for trackmania. I thought 180 was the worst but 172, 175, 176 and 178 where no joke either.. i hope with lagoon i getting to a more reasonable time and dont need to put in 3-6 hours for each track. But an end is in Sicht, so thats good..

I am also getting distracted. Nice work on trackmania! I just got my 145th gold and that last gold took me way longer than 6h ? So many times I was on last lap with 4-6 seconds to spare just to mess something up in an epic way. My distraction is the trackmania online mode, bloody hell people are good. Slowly gaining some ranks tho  

 

Anyway, anyone have some tips for romance games for the badge? Cheap and short if possible, hate playing two games at once. 

[Evil_Joker88]

7 minutes ago, UnIvIIIrsum said:

Anyway, anyone have some tips for romance games for the badge? Cheap and short if possible, hate playing two games at once. 

 

I played through One Night Stand, it costs 5€, crossbuy for PS4 and PS5. took me around 2 hours to finish.

[Rebourne07]

29 minutes ago, UnIvIIIrsum said:

I am also getting distracted. Nice work on trackmania! I just got my 145th gold and that last gold took me way longer than 6h  So many times I was on last lap with 4-6 seconds to spare just to mess something up in an epic way. My distraction is the trackmania online mode, bloody hell people are good. Slowly gaining some ranks tho  

 

Anyway, anyone have some tips for romance games for the badge? Cheap and short if possible, hate playing two games at once. 

I did Life is Strange: True Colors. Takes about 10 hours, but higher quality than most romance games you'll find. I've seen it rated 1/10 or 2/10.

[Inuty]

1 hour ago, UnIvIIIrsum said:

I am also getting distracted. Nice work on trackmania! I just got my 145th gold and that last gold took me way longer than 6h  So many times I was on last lap with 4-6 seconds to spare just to mess something up in an epic way. My distraction is the trackmania online mode, bloody hell people are good. Slowly gaining some ranks tho  

I feel you, the Real pain begins at Black series. The rest was manageable for me. Good luck on your end!

[Glorious Fury]

Thought I'd do a update whilst I remember to do so. Made a few changes to my original list as expected, putting in Shenmue 2 and Granblue Fantasy: Versus. Finally picked up a PS5 today too, so will likely make more changes based on that ?

 

Granblue was decent, but wasn't as enjoyable for me as other Arc System Works games I've played previously. Shenmue 2 is one of my all time favourite games and wanted both 1+2's platinum trophies on my account to go alongside 3 to complete the series, in which Shenmue 2 could be utilised in the challenge.

 

1/10 – Ark: Survival Evolved 

2/10 – Ratchet and Clank 

3/10 – Dusk Diver 2 

4/10 – Shenmue 2 

5/10 – Granblue Fantasy: Versus 

6/10 – Resident Evil Village

7/10 – Demon’s Souls

8/10 – Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled

9/10 – Hollow Knight

10/10 – The Evil Within

Edited February 16, 2023 by Glorious Fury

[ch4rl1e5_jabs]

As of 17/2/23:

1/10 - Suicide Guy - https://***/trophy-guides/ps4-guides/suicide-guy-trophy-guide/ ✅ 

2/10 - The Devil in Me - The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me Guides • PSNProfiles.com

3/10 - God of War Ragnarok - God of War Ragnarok Trophy Guide & Road Map (PS4 / PS5) (platget.com) ✅

4/10 - Grand Theft Auto V - https://psnprofiles.com/guide/14061-grand-theft-auto-v-trophy-guide

5/10 - Resident Evil 7 Biohazard - https://psnprofiles.com/guide/5653-resident-evil-7-biohazard-trophy-guide

6/10 - Ghostrunner - https://psnprofiles.com/guide/11898-ghostrunner-trophy-guide

7/10 - Resident Evil 8 Village - https://www.powerpyx.com/resident-evil-8-village-trophy-guide-roadmap/

 

[cferguson9595]

 1 - Duke Nukem 3D: 20 Annniversary World Tour 

 2 - Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

 3 - Final Fantasy VII

 4 - Golf With Your Friends

 5 - Call of Duty: Vanguard

 6 - Berserk and the Band of the Hawk

 7 - Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown

 8 - Stardew Valley

 9 - Darkest Dungeon

 10 - DOOM (1993)

 

And with Ace Combat 7 and DOOM complete, I have achieved Platinum Tier! 

Shoutout to my friend James who helped me complete Nightmare Coop mode in DOOM ?

 

Below are the badges I have earned for this list:

 

Above and Beyond  - Stardew Valley

Brownie Points  - Final Fantasy VII

Finally!  - Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown

Jack of All Trades  

Old School  - DOOM (1993), Final Fantasy VII, Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour

PS4 Master  

Rare Genre   - Stardew Valley (Business)

Vita Master  - Stardew Valley, Berserk and the Band of the Hawk, Darkest Dungeon

 

Now I will relax and play some new release games like Hogwarts Legacy and Wild Hearts! Congrats to those who have finished and good luck to those who will!

 

[Umdytr]

I ended up playing a little game called Omno via Plus Extra and that happens to have a 2/10 guide on this site, so I guess that's another entry completed by chance. The game was okay, cute and enjoyable enough but nothing to write home about.

 

Also added links to each of the PSNProfiles guides just to make the list a bit tidier.

 

1/10 - Life is Strange

2/10 - Omno

3/10 - House of the Dead Remake

4/10 - God of War Ascension

5/10 - Resident Evil 0

6/10 - Rez Infinite

7/10 - Kena Bridge of Spirits

8/10 - Slay the Spire

9/10 - Hollow Knight

10/10 - Super Meat Boy