Platinum Difficulty Challenge 2023

[BlackReka]

 Next Update, I finished Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, atleast the base game. But after I finished my list I will go back to Witcher 3 to finished the Addons. Now is Final Fantasy IX the next one on the list. I already got most of the trophies of the game, just some grind left, so I hope the next update will come in the next week. 🙂

 

1/10 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (Tactical, Adventure) 22/02/2023
2/10 Ratchet & Clank (Shooter, Platform, Adventure) 23/02/2023
3/10 Okami HD (RPG, Adventure) 23/04/2023
4/10 The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III (RPG, Adventure) 23/05/2023
5/10 The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II (RPG, TBS, Adventure) 24/05/2023
6/10 The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV (RPG, Adventure) 25/09/2023
7/10 Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition PS5 (RPG, Adventure) 15/10/2023
8/10 Final Fantasy IX (RPG, TBS, Adventure)
9/10 Celeste (Platform, Adventure, Indie)
10/10 Hollow Knight (Platform, Adventure, Indie)

 

Badges:

Above and Beyond: ✅

Spoiler

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition, Final Fantasy IX

 

 Award Winner: 

Spoiler

Final Fantasy IX

 

 Brownie Points:

Spoiler

Final Fantasy IX

 

 Finally!:  ✅

Spoiler

Ratchet & Clank , Okami HD

 

 Fresh Starter: (4/6)

Spoiler

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold III, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition, Final Fantasy IX, Celeste, Hollow Knight

 

 OCD

 

 Old School: ✅

Spoiler

Final Fantasy IX, Okami HD, Ratchet & Clank, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II

 

 One Trick Pony:  Adventure ✅

Spoiler

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (Tactical, Adventure)

Ratchet & Clank (Shooter, Platform, Adventure)
Okami HD (RPG, Adventure)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III (RPG, Adventure)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II (RPG, TBS, Adventure)

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV (RPG, Adventure)
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition (RPG, Adventure)
Final Fantasy IX (RPG, TBS, Adventure)
Celeste (Platform, Adventure, Indie)
Hollow Knight (Platform, Adventure, Indie)

 

 PS4 Master: (5/6)

Spoiler

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, Okami HD, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, Final Fantasy IX, Hollow Knight, Celeste

 

 Rare Letter: ✅

Spoiler

Okami HD

 

 Series Conqueror: ✅

Spoiler

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV

 

[Rebourne07]

2 hours ago, Inuty said:

I guess my count of 5 lists can be easily beaten then haha

In the hall of fame for most lists completed I won't count easy mode lists.

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

BlackReka

@BlackReka Congratulations on Bronze tier and earning 6 badges!

[BlackReka]

 After grinding the hole weekend for the 10.000 kills, I finally got the Final Fantasy IX trophy. I love the game, but the grinding at the end was hard. With Final Fantasy IX done, I also achieved the following badges.  Award Winner  Brownie Points  PS4 Master

Next up is Celeste.

 

1/10 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (Tactical, Adventure) 22/02/2023
2/10 Ratchet & Clank (Shooter, Platform, Adventure) 23/02/2023
3/10 Okami HD (RPG, Adventure) 23/04/2023
4/10 The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III (RPG, Adventure) 23/05/2023
5/10 The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II (RPG, TBS, Adventure) 24/05/2023
6/10 The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV (RPG, Adventure) 25/09/2023
7/10 Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition PS5 (RPG, Adventure) 15/10/2023
8/10 Final Fantasy IX (RPG, TBS, Adventure) 22/10/2023
9/10 Celeste (Platform, Adventure, Indie)
10/10 Hollow Knight (Platform, Adventure, Indie)

 

Badges:

Above and Beyond: ✅

Spoiler

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition, Final Fantasy IX

 

 Award Winner: ✅

Spoiler

Final Fantasy IX

 

 Brownie Points: ✅

Spoiler

Final Fantasy IX

 

 Finally!:  ✅

Spoiler

Ratchet & Clank , Okami HD

 

 Fresh Starter: (5/6)

Spoiler

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold III, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition, Final Fantasy IX, Celeste, Hollow Knight

 

 OCD

 

 Old School: ✅

Spoiler

Final Fantasy IX, Okami HD, Ratchet & Clank, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II

 

 One Trick Pony:  Adventure ✅

Spoiler

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (Tactical, Adventure)

Ratchet & Clank (Shooter, Platform, Adventure)
Okami HD (RPG, Adventure)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III (RPG, Adventure)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II (RPG, TBS, Adventure)

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV (RPG, Adventure)
Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition (RPG, Adventure)
Final Fantasy IX (RPG, TBS, Adventure)
Celeste (Platform, Adventure, Indie)
Hollow Knight (Platform, Adventure, Indie)

 

 PS4 Master: (6/6) ✅

Spoiler

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, Okami HD, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV, Final Fantasy IX, Hollow Knight, Celeste

 

 Rare Letter: ✅

Spoiler

Okami HD

 

 Series Conqueror: ✅

Spoiler

The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel II, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III, The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV

 

[Rebourne07]

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

BlackReka

@BlackReka Congratulations on Silver tier and 3 more badges! 

[Rebourne07]

PSA regarding the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1

 

I tried to have the MGS2 and MGS3 lists unlinked from the PS3/Vita versions since the lists are significantly different in my opinion, but that was rejected so as-is the new games share forums and guides with the old games. Therefore, all existing ratings for old MGS2 and old MGS3 will now apply to new MGS2 and new MGS3. 

 

The difficulty on MGS2 has not really shifted much, but now it's more of a true skill difficulty based list rather than a perseverance difficulty based list because of the introduction of the Big Boss rank trophy.

 

The difficulty on MGS3 has increased quite a bit, but until there's a trophy guide rating this particular version of the game, you'll have to use the lower guide ratings from the old version. 

 

Metal Gear Solid 2 - 7/10 8/10 9/10 10/10

 

Metal Gear Solid 3 - 3/10 4/10 5/10

Edited October 24, 2023 by Rebourne07

[Rebourne07]

Spider-Man 2 has been rated a 3/10 difficulty

 

Lords of the Fallen has been rated a 6/10 or 7/10 difficulty

 

Baldur's Gate III has been rated a 7/10 difficulty

 

 

Edited October 24, 2023 by Rebourne07

[Kramers001]

And the guide for Darkwood makes it a certified 4/10 now, courtesy of yours truly.

[Platinum_Vice]

Ticked off an easy one with Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. 

 

   1/10:     Knightin+ (playstationtrophies.org)

   2/10:    Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (psnprofiles.com) 

   3/10:    Maquette (platprices.com) 

   4/10:    God of War: Ragnarök (psnprofiles.com) 

   5/10:    Inscryption (platprices.com) 

   6/10:    Jurassic World Evolution 2 (psnprofiles.com)

   7/10:    Solar Ash (playstationtrophies.org)

   8/10:    Elden Ring (psnprofiles.com) 

   9/10:    WipEout: Omega Collection (platprices.com) 

   10/10:  Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time (playstationtrophies.org) 

 

I'll have to dig up the tentative list of badges that I wrote down in January... not too far away from finishing Solar Ash as well. This event was groovy.

[Rebourne07]

1 minute ago, Platinum_Vice said:

Ticked off an easy one with Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. 

 

   1/10:     Knightin+ (playstationtrophies.org)

   2/10:    Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (psnprofiles.com) 

   3/10:    Maquette (platprices.com) 

   4/10:    God of War: Ragnarök (psnprofiles.com) 

   5/10:    Inscryption (platprices.com) 

   6/10:    Jurassic World Evolution 2 (psnprofiles.com)

   7/10:    Solar Ash (playstationtrophies.org)

   8/10:    Elden Ring (psnprofiles.com) 

   9/10:    WipEout: Omega Collection (platprices.com) 

   10/10:  Crash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Time (playstationtrophies.org) 

 

I'll have to dig up the tentative list of badges that I wrote down in January... not too far away from finishing Solar Ash as well. This event was groovy.

Congratulations on Gold tier! Just post your badges when you platinum Solar Ash and I'll update the leaderboards. Btw love your 1-10 color formatting, I think I'll steal that for my lists 😆

[Platinum_Vice]

59 minutes ago, Rebourne07 said:

Btw love your 1-10 color formatting, I think I'll steal that for my lists 😆

 

You've actually said that before! 😁

[Rebourne07]

Posting another update about the MGS Master Collection Vol 1 since I know several people including myself are interested in using them for next year's challenge.

 

I found trophy guides specifically for the new versions that everyone can use:

 

 Metal Gear Solid 1 - 8/10

 Metal Gear Solid 2 - 10/10
 Metal Gear Solid 3 - 9/10

 

Also keep in mind that, as far as I can tell, there is no auto-pop or save transfer between PS4 and PS5 versions.

[MD_91]

A good video guide takes a lot of the difficulty out of it but I got The Evil Within done for my 10 on this list

 

Fourth List

 

1 - Unpacking 

2 -

3 - Endling 

4 -

5 - Hotline Miami 

6 -

7 - Tennis World Tour 

8 -

9 - 

10 - The Evil Within 

 

First List 

Second List

Third List

Edited October 26, 2023 by MD_91

[Rebourne07]

On 12/1/2022 at 1:08 PM, Rebourne07 said:

** Hijacking this old post to format PDC 2024 badges **

 

FIRST! Badge (1)

•  FIRST! - First person to complete the challenge at Platinum tier (only awarded to one player)

 

Primary Badges (25)

•   Above and Beyond - Platinum a game with an official time estimate of 120 or more hours
•  Award Winner - Platinum a game with a trophy guide that won a PSNProfiles Guide of the Year award
•  Backlog Breaker - 6 or more games on your list had 1%+ progress BEFORE October 2023
•  Brownie Points - Platinum a game from Rebourne07's favorite series (Final Fantasy)
•  DCO - Platinum all 10 games on your list in reverse order
•  Fresh Starter - All 10 games on your list had 0% progress prior to 2024
•  Licensed - 3 or more games on your list are licensed games with characters originating from movies, comics, etc. 
•  Money Bags - 6 or more games on your list came out in 2024
•  No Plat No Problem - Earn 100% base game trophies on a game without a platinum
•  OCD - Platinum all 10 games on your list in order
•  Old School - 3 or more games on your list are remakes, remasters or PS1/PS2/PSP games
•  One Trick Pony - 6 or more games on your list are from the same genre (excluding Action, Adventure and Fantasy genres)
•  Overachiever - Complete platinum tier on a second list in the same year
•  PS3 Master - Platinum 6 or more PS3 games on your list
•  PS4 Master - Platinum 6 or more PS4 games on your list
•  PS5 Master - Platinum 6 or more PS5 games on your list
•  Rare Genre - Platinum a game in the Card & Board Game, Music, Non-Fiction or Party genres
•  Rare Letter - Platinum a game starting with P,Q,V,X, or Z
•  Series Conqueror - 3 or more games on your list are from the same series (can be earned multiple times in a single list)
•  Simmer - 3 or more games on your list have 'Simulator' in the title
•  Snooty - All 10 of your games have Metacritic or OpenCritic ratings of 80 or higher 
•  Vita Master - Platinum 1 or more Vita games on your list
•  VR Master - Platinum 1 or more VR games on your list
•  Whoa - Complete Platinum tier on a third list in the same year
•  Y tho? - Platinum a game rated 1 or 2 difficulty with an official time estimate of 50hrs or more

 

Hardcore Badges (10)

•  Hard Mode - Platinum a list of all 7-10 rated games
•  Impossibru - Complete Platinum tier on a fifth list in the same year
•  Loyalist - All 10 of your ratings come from PSNProfiles
•  Minesweeper - Complete a full list without earning any other badges
•  Mind Blown - Complete Platinum tier on a fourth list in the same year
•  Rebourne Roulette - Fill out a gaming survey and I'll give you 3 games to put on your list
•  Series Master - Earn Series Conqueror twice or more in a single list
•  Speedrun - The sum total of the official time estimates of all the games on your list is 150hrs or less
•  Top Ten - Platinum one of the hardest games on Playstation 
•  Ultra Rare - 7 or more games on your list have Ultra Rare platinums

 

Top Ten Games

  Reveal hidden contents

• Assetto Corsa
• Crypt of the Necrodancer
• Doom 2
• Ikaruga
• Koihime Enbu RyoRaiRai
• Silent Hill 2 HD
• Super Meat Boy
• Tetris Effect
• Trials Fusion
• Wolfenstein 2

 

Rebourne Roulette Survey

  Reveal hidden contents

• What types of games do you love?
• What types of games do you hate?
• What PlayStation systems do you own?
• Are you ok with any new / full price games? 
• Are you ok with M rated games?
• Do you prefer indies, AAA titles or no preference?
• Do you want games from your backlog, games new to you or no preference?
• Are you interested in maximizing badges earned?

 

 

Sup guys, I'm hard at work preparing next years event. Been thinking about this a lot lately. I'm excited to present the tentative badge list. Hardcore badges have been added. Text in bold red indicates changes to existing badges. I dropped the Easy Mode idea...too many potential complications. Let me know what you think or if you have any questions!

Edited October 26, 2023 by Rebourne07

[Inuty]

53 minutes ago, Rebourne07 said:

 

Sup guys, I'm hard at work preparing next years event. Been thinking about this a lot lately. I'm excited to present the tentative badge list. Hardcore badges have been added. Text in bold red indicates changes to existing badges. I dropped the Easy Mode idea...too many potential complications. Let me know what you think or if you have any questions!

Hey Rebourne, the badges looks nice but i have a few remarks:

 

Backlog Breaker - the 3 year old badge from this year was given to someone if he/she had 90% completion. Is there some kind of rule for that badge as well? Otherwise this could be hard for completionist to get.

 

PS3 Master - i saw that you reduced the games for Vita and VR. Not sure how everyone else Sees it but i think you could reduce the number for this badge as well. I mean i have my PS3 but it was hard for me to find 3 PS3 games i still want to Do. I guess in the future less people will even own a PS3 anymore to even tackle this badge. But again this is a topic for discussion.

 

Simmer - does Simulator needs to be in the title or is genre ok as well?

 

Speedrun - not sure if 150 hours are realistic, if you break it down each game is only allowed to take 15 hours. If i look at the harder numbers it is more unusual to have a game under 15 hours. If you are really good i only can think of Vanquish and Deadbolt as a 10/10. Maybe the number needs to be a bit higher for people to reach it. But you can also try it next year and see how many can get this

[Slifer1945]

wasent devil may cry 5 a 10/10 difficulty game ore is it decreased in difficulty this year ?

[Slifer1945]

count me in for the platinum difficulty challenge this and next year it is going to be fun

Edited October 26, 2023 by maxfighter23___

[Slifer1945]

i nearly finished dragonball xenoverse 1 95% devil may cry 1 60% and i have started playing god of war ragnarok ps5 version 4% now but xenoverse 1 is 1 of the grind games i got with collecting all the super and ultimate attacks i stil got 1 online trophie left  observing 7 online battles 

[Rebourne07]

10 hours ago, Inuty said:

Hey Rebourne, the badges looks nice but i have a few remarks:

 

Backlog Breaker - the 3 year old badge from this year was given to someone if he/she had 90% completion. Is there some kind of rule for that badge as well? Otherwise this could be hard for completionist to get.

 

PS3 Master - i saw that you reduced the games for Vita and VR. Not sure how everyone else Sees it but i think you could reduce the number for this badge as well. I mean i have my PS3 but it was hard for me to find 3 PS3 games i still want to Do. I guess in the future less people will even own a PS3 anymore to even tackle this badge. But again this is a topic for discussion.

 

Simmer - does Simulator needs to be in the title or is genre ok as well?

 

Speedrun - not sure if 150 hours are realistic, if you break it down each game is only allowed to take 15 hours. If i look at the harder numbers it is more unusual to have a game under 15 hours. If you are really good i only can think of Vanquish and Deadbolt as a 10/10. Maybe the number needs to be a bit higher for people to reach it. But you can also try it next year and see how many can get this

Hey man! Thank you so much for the feedback! 

 

Backlog Breaker - I'll put in the badge clarifications that this badge will be automatically awarded to anyone with a completion rate of 85% or higher on their second list. I say their second list because the only people that would even care about collecting lots of badges, or every badge, are people doing two lists or more.

 

PS3 Master - This is a really good point. I'll lower the requirement from 6 games to 3. PS3 still has some life left in it, but you're right that it's dying out. 

 

Simmer - For this one the word Simulator needs to be in the title itself. The reason being that its purpose is to get people to play games they otherwise may never try and give a unique challenge and IMDB puts some pretty random genres on games sometimes. Like I would not consider NBA 2K24, Weird West or Sakura Succubus 6 simulators...at least not in the same way games like Farming Simulator or Bus Simulator are.

 

Speedrun - So I was preparing to rebuttal with how you can platinum several games that are 1-3 hours and make more time for the higher difficulties...but as I looked on PlatPrices at the types of games that are 4, 5, or 6 in difficulty with low time estimates...they are garbage and I don't wanna promote that. So I'll scrap this badge and instead open up the 10th Hardcore Badge to community submissions. 

 

If anyone has any ideas for a Hardcore Badge please post them here. I'll gather them and make a poll of the top 4-5 and the winner gets in. A Hardcore Badge needs to present a tougher challenge than standard badges, something guaranteed to be rare. But it also needs to be interesting enough to make people want to try to go for it. Bonus points if you provide a cool or funny yet meaningful gif to go along with it lol

 

 

Edited October 26, 2023 by Rebourne07

[Skagarrin]

3 minutes ago, Rebourne07 said:

Hey man! Thank you so much for the feedback! 

 

Backlog Breaker - I'll put in the badge clarifications that this badge will be automatically awarded to anyone with a completion rate of 85% or higher on their second list. I say their second list because the only people that would even care about collecting lots of badges, or every badge, are people doing at least two lists.

 

PS3 Master - This is a really good point. I'll lower the requirement from 6 games to 3. PS3 still has some life left in it, but you're right that it's dying out. 

 

Simmer - For this one the word Simulator needs to be in the title itself. The reason being that its purpose is to get people to play games they otherwise may never try and give a unique challenge and IMDB puts some pretty random genres on games sometimes. Like I would not consider NBA 2K24, Weird West or Sakura Succubus 6 simulators...at least not in the same way as games like Farming Simulator or Bus Simulator.

 

Speedrun - So I was preparing to rebuttal with how you can platinum several games that are 1-3 hours and make more time for the higher difficulties...but as I looked on PlatPrices at the types of games that are 4, 5, or 6 in difficulty with low time estimates...they are garbage and I don't wanna promote that. So I'll scrap this badge and instead open up the 10th Hardcore Badge to community submissions. 

 

If anyone has any ideas for a Hardcore Badge please post them here. I'll gather them and make a poll of the top 4-5 and the winner gets in. A Hardcore Badge needs to present a tougher challenge than standard badges, something guaranteed to be rare. But it also needs to be interesting enough to make people want to try to go for it. Bonus points if you provide a cool or funny yet meaningful gif to go along with it lol

 

 

 

 

In a previous post about badges you did suggest the Grinder badge as a hardcore option which was missing from the 10 final ones.

I may be biased, looking at my list this year, but that would get my vote*

I think there are more good games with longer estimated times than shorter so it doesn't run into the same issue as the Speedrun badge did.

 

Grinder - The sum total of the official time estimates of all the games on your list is 700hrs or more

 

I think it will also give interesting decisions about multiple lists and whether you need to sacrifice a list to complete this one.

 

 

*This in no way implies that I am going to be daft enough to add a 1000+ hour game to my list next year 😀

 

 

[Rebourne07]

7 minutes ago, Skagarrin said:

 

 

In a previous post about badges you did suggest the Grinder badge as a hardcore option which was missing from the 10 final ones.

I may be biased, looking at my list this year, but that would get my vote*

I think there are more good games with longer estimated times than shorter so it doesn't run into the same issue as the Speedrun badge did.

 

Grinder - The sum total of the official time estimates of all the games on your list is 700hrs or more

 

I think it will also give interesting decisions about multiple lists and whether you need to sacrifice a list to complete this one.

 

 

*This in no way implies that I am going to be daft enough to add a 1000+ hour game to my list next year 😀

 

 

Thank you! Glad to see someone liked that. I didn't know if it'd turn people off or not. I'll put that one in the poll (or just adopt it outright if I don't get enough good submissions for a poll). My original inspiration for Grinder was to give myself motivation to put games like Personal 5 Royal or The Witcher 3 on my list that I normally avoid because they are too long lol

[Inuty]

I like the 7-10 List of hardcore games. I think this will be a good hardcore challenge.

[Slifer1945]

@rebourne07 i have completed persona 5 royal it is not long if you use fastforward that is a option that can be used in the game 

[zaxonzaxon]

20 hours ago, Rebourne07 said:

 

Sup guys, I'm hard at work preparing next years event. Been thinking about this a lot lately. I'm excited to present the tentative badge list. Hardcore badges have been added. Text in bold red indicates changes to existing badges. I dropped the Easy Mode idea...too many potential complications. Let me know what you think or if you have any questions!

 

I like the list overall! 

 

For the hardcore badge, I would second the vote for Grinder, if only for the selfish reason that the tentative list of games to play I've put together for next year is stacked with 70+ hour games. 

 

For the system badges, I think 3 is the right number for PS3.  The 1 for Vita and VR seems a little unfair to those of us who don't own those systems, as it's close to a free badge for those who do. If those badges are so unpopular that they have to be made that easy, they might deserve to be dropped altogether (or maybe just combined into one "Secondary Hardware Fanboy" badge where you get 3 total from either/both systems.)

 

I would also suggest Money Bags be nerfed a bit, to at least 5 if not 4. That one's too hard since guides + ratings are so unreliable for all but the big AAA games, and those are like 90% 3 or 4/10.

 

Finally: no Guide Writer!? Did it get dropped? I had fun with that this year and had a couple potential targets for it for next year.  

Spoiler

(I can neither confirm nor deny that I planned on creating my own 1/10 ratings .........................................)

 

[Rebourne07]

2 hours ago, zaxonzaxon said:

 

I like the list overall! 

 

For the hardcore badge, I would second the vote for Grinder, if only for the selfish reason that the tentative list of games to play I've put together for next year is stacked with 70+ hour games. 

 

For the system badges, I think 3 is the right number for PS3.  The 1 for Vita and VR seems a little unfair to those of us who don't own those systems, as it's close to a free badge for those who do. If those badges are so unpopular that they have to be made that easy, they might deserve to be dropped altogether (or maybe just combined into one "Secondary Hardware Fanboy" badge where you get 3 total from either/both systems.)

 

I would also suggest Money Bags be nerfed a bit, to at least 5 if not 4. That one's too hard since guides + ratings are so unreliable for all but the big AAA games, and those are like 90% 3 or 4/10.

 

Finally: no Guide Writer!? Did it get dropped? I had fun with that this year and had a couple potential targets for it for next year.  

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(I can neither confirm nor deny that I planned on creating my own 1/10 ratings .........................................)

 

Well that’s a second vote for Grinder and no one has submitted any alternatives so yeah I’ll make that the 10th hardcore badge, thank you  

 

I like the idea of secondary hardware. Maybe I’ll do 1 game that either requires a Vita or VR or Move controllers. Hmmm.

 

Youre kinda right about money bags. Dang AAA games are almost always 3/10 nowadays. I’ll nerf it to 3. 
 

I actually had several people complain about Guide Writer. But I personally liked it. Maybe I’ll add it back if I can’t think of a better badge since combining Vita and VR will leave a vacancy in the 25 standard badges.

[barra333]

I was going to suggest a badge for a list where the time estimates for completion increase as difficulty does. Your 1/10 has to be the shortest and 10/10 the longest, with everything else slotting in between in order.