DoctorDrPepper Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 (edited) Hey I just noticed Dr_Mayus didn't post one this year but these are always fun, so i'm posting this in their honor. Same categories as last year. Minimal edits. Welcome again to the annual PSNP Awards If you don't know what to do..here is the breakdown. For each award pick a game you play/platted this year (it doesn't have to have come out this year). Some will be the best...some the worst but all of it is meant to be fun and a way for us all to remember the games we have played. For a trip down memory lane check out the previous events. 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Hey, all those games that have 11 golds, 1 plat and like 6 stacks?...well this is the trophy for that. Ahh, the It's Like Dark Souls plat. The game that had you pulling your hair out and cursing the gaming gods. Which game had you pleading in the Status Updates for just one little thing to go your way? Not necessarily a Platinum but a moment in a game where you sat back and said "I'm a Badass" What game had you running around racking up kills? playing through 6 times? Trying to find the one item with a 0.01% drop rate? What game did you just sink a ton of time into to earn that beautiful This one isn't opinion based...just what game in your backlog took you the longest (in terms of days, months, years) to complete. This trophy is for the most fun you had playing online. Maybe it wasn't even for trophies. Was it COD, or Fall Guys or some other game that you sunk hours into playing. The complete opposite of the last one. Which buggy server, shitty campers, ridiculous online requirements or complete deserted wasteland did you waste your time playing for that Which games has the most toe-tapping tunes. The game where the music doesn't drive you nuts while grinding out trophies. We all have that game that we got from PLUS or off some digital sale. Which game did you just enjoy so much despite barely hearing about it before. Usually reserve for some shitty AAA game with too much hype...but could also just be a game in a series you love. Which game made you regret buying it and wished you could have your money and time back. Simply put what is the best trophy image you earned this year. Normally it would be a Platinum image but maybe there is some bronze trophy you earned that just had great image art. Here is the award for the lazy developers that cannot figure out that trophy hunters might actually like to look at a nice trophy image. Which Female character this year was your favourite to play as? Which Male character this year was your favourite to play as? This award isn't meant for your favourite game of the year...it is meant for your favourite plat. A favourite plat should be something that was a pure joy to earn. It is one that you wish had multiple stacks so you could replay it to earn all the trophies again. This is the opposite. This is the platinum that made you want to quit earning trophies. The one that was just a waste of your time. Please go nuts and rip that shitty game a new one, you earned it. Which game are you most interested in getting the platinum in 2022. 2023. Go ahead and go nuts with your fantasizing. Thank you again for participating in this fun event Have a great year. Edited December 28, 2022 by DoctorDrPepper 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serrated-banner9 Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 well my 8 plats are shovel ware (yes i am sorry) so i see myself out, looking forward to everyone else though 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MAUSZX Posted December 28, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2022 (edited) Piece of Cake: Norman's Great Illusion It's Like Dark Souls: Ghostrunner Badass Award: Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout (Infallible) Grind of the Year: Marvel's Avengers Grind was a pain, you need to repeat missions over and over, specially the Hive trophy (which is buggy btw) Finally Done: Batman: Arkham Origins 7 Years. King of the Internet: Dead By Daylight Been having a lot of fun with this game this last few months. Worst Online Experience: Hood: Outlaws and Legends There were many good things about this game, but it was a psplus game and after 2 weeks the game was almost empty. Best Music: Tales of Arise The intro song is soooo good. Sleeper Hit: Chicken Police Mega underrated game, nobody talks about it. Biggest Bomb: Far Cry 3: Classic Edition 4 is better in every way and this one only gets the attention because of the more known animals. Best Trophy Images: Lost Ember Look at the Platinum image. Worst Trophy Images: Dreamals: Dream Quest I hate this game so much I cannot push myself for the Platinum. Best Female Character: Shionne. Tales of Arise She is the heart and soul of the story. Best Male Character: Adam Jensen Deus Ex: Mankind Divided Best Plat of the Year: Burnout Paradise: Remastered I don't do stacks or racing games and this one was super fun. Wurst Plat Ov Teh Yeer: AereA The game really looked promising and kinda original... it wasn't Most Anticipated Platinum of 2023: Cris Tales Been interested in this game since launch, had it on my Wishlist and now I have it thanks to PSPLUS. Edited December 28, 2022 by MAUSZX 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ovatsug09 Posted December 28, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2022 First time seeing this thread and I loved it! Here are my awards, got 74 platinum trophies this year so far (will try to do something really easy for the 75th). Piece of Cake - Arrog An artistic game with a 20 minute platinum. Really good and cheap game. It's Like Dark Souls - Immortals Fenyx Rising I suck at puzzle games... big time. And this game is 70% puzzles. It was not a fun journey and was done 50% by me and 50% by youtube videos that I had to check. Not a hard plat, but a painful one for me. Badass Award - Fury Played in 2016 and could not pass the 5th boss. Start playing again this year and got the platinum for both PS4 and PS5 stacks from the ground in 4 days total. Was nice to realize that I've improved my abilites in games that rely on bullet hell mechanics. Grind of the year - Injustice 2 Cat Call trophy took me 60h to get it. I know that can take a LOT more than that, but still... I'm glad its over. Finally Done Award - Red Dead Redemption 2 I love RDR2, it's one of my favorite games of all time. I played on launch day but always lack the motivation to go for the platinum. This year I took the challenge, cleaned up the remaining online trophies and made it my 250th plat! King of the Internet - Hyper Scape An awesome game that got shut down on April this year. I played on launch day and came back with a boosting crew 1 week before servers go down to clear the remaining trophies. I only have good memories of this game and I'm really sad its gone. Also, the boosting crew was the best, we had a great 4h-5h of boosting. It was fun. Worst Online Experience - Armello Love this game, but the online on PlayStation is really really bad. I tried playing a couple of times, but it was so laggy that I had to do the plat offline. I heard that now they have crossplay between all platforms, so maybe its worth checking out! Best Music - The Messenger This game has a lot of problems, specially regarding progression. But the music... oh, the music. There are not enough words to describe it. Amazing, outstanding, fantastic. I will keep listening its soundtrack forever. Sleeper Hit - Lost Words: Beyond the Page A friend of mine reccomended it and it was an amazing experience. Cried a couple times, not gonna lie. Its available on Plus Extra and its an easy 5h platinum Biggest bomb - Biomutant Cant even describe how bad this game is. A 18h platinum that I wish I never touched. Poor combat design, bad quest design, extremely repetitive. Best Trophy Image - Little Nightmares II I see value in developers that make a custom image for each trophy. I value even more when it comes together with a clever description. Schooled - Best days of our short, terrible life Worst Trophy Image - Alex Kidd in Miracle World DX The platinum image is just the trophy list image... boring! Great Protector of Radaxian - All trophies have been awarded Best Female Character - Far Cry 6 (Dani Rojas) The female voice acting on Far Cry 6's Dani Rojas is literally the best I've seen in a long time. Such a well written character with a lot of jokes and great phrases. Best Male Character - Ghostwire: Tokyo (Akito & KK) The game was not that good, but this duo deserves a spot. They talk ALL the time and are always making fun and interacting. Both complete themselves as a great character. Best Platinum of the Year - Blasphemous This game made my 2022 a little better. The gameplay, the art style, the soundtrack... everything was perfect. I really enjoyed the journey to the platinum trophy and will always remember it with a smile on my face. Worst Platinum of the Year - Everybody's Gone to the Rapture I simple hate this game and hate the boring platinum as well. For me, its not trying to accomplish anything and it does not "entertain" in any way. A bad game on my perspective. Most Anticipated Platinum of 2023 - Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus This will be my 300th platinum trophy. I cant wait to go for Mein Leben and I cant wait to FINALLY plat this game (will do the DLCs as well). 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Copanele Posted December 28, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2022 (edited) Better late than never these posts are always fun! PIECE OF CAKE AWARD - MY BROTHER RABBIT A short and sweet Artifex Mundi game. It was quality easy stuff though (no lame trophies) IT'S LIKE DARK SOULS - PERSONA 4 ARENA Really, we should change the name of this category because Dark Souls wishes to be as tough as Persona 4 Arena was. Combos, score attack, unforgiving AI...a true 10/10 in difficulty. BAD ASS AWARD - DEFEATING MALENIA AT RUNE LEVEL 1 ELDEN RING Yes she is Malenia, Blade of Miquella and she really gave me one hell of a hard time at the base level 1 run(video embedded here). However I think this was the most "damn I am badass "moment in 2022 GRIND OF THE YEAR - ARCANA HEART 3 LOVE MAX!!!!!! Grinding this game was not fun. Levelling up and filling the gallery took AGES! FINALLY DONE AWARD - ASSASSIN'S CREED VALHALLA I waited and waited...and waited...and WAITED for Ubisoft to finally be done with DLCs for this stupid game. Since 2021 was the year of the backlog cleanup for me, in 2022 all I had left creeping in my list was this garbage of a game KING OF THE INTERNET - DEAD OR ALIVE 6 I don't play online games unless I have to grind for a trophy. I initially planned to boost this game...but the servers were quite populated and I had to do half the matches and wins legit. ...which I did. It was fun. It was also the only serious online experience WORST ONLINE EXPERIENCE - OVERWATCH 2 I was thoroughly done with Overwatch 1 so when I saw OW2 being released I was "hah no way am I playing this again". But then Blizzard rewrote the OW1 list into OW2 and started adding DLCs to my beautiful (former) 100% list.... BEST MUSIC - METAL GEAR RISING REVENGEANCE It's simply the best. I think everyone heard of the "STANDING HERE I REALIZE" song. Every piece of soundtrack in this game is a banger! SLEEPER HIT OF THE YEAR - TREASURES OF THE AEGEAN I initially put Yakuza Dead Souls here, but I have heard of that game. I had no idea what Treasures of the Aegean was, until I played it...and once I started, I played it obsessively over the week until I platinumed it. A fantastic and unexpected platformer that has a criminally low playerbase. BIGGEST BOMB OF THE YEAR - MARVEL VS CAPCOM INFINITE This is what happens when a beloved fighting game franchise is overtaken by the movie company intellectual wise. Due to the success of the Avengers movies, MvC Infinite suffered some changes...or rather some surgery botches. All the fun MvC3 gameplay was removed (babies can't press buttons) , the characters look like they went to a trip inside a Chernobyl nuclear plant, the story makes me want to forget the English language and...the game itself looks like one of those stupid Korean Mobile ads. Jesus what a crap game! BEST TROPHY IMAGE - - American Hero Platinum Trophy (Metal Wolf Chaos) It is truly inspirational WORST TROPHY IMAGE - HYPED UP (MARVEL VS CAPCOM INFINITE) The zombie looks better than Frank West in this picture BEST FEMALE CHARACTER - LILY (Ender Lilies Quietus of the Knight) Lily is the last surviving priestess in a poisoned and corrupted world. She has the power to summon minions to aid her in battle. I really enjoyed this game, it was my first platinum of 2022 and Lily is a great protagonist. BEST MALE CHARACTER - KRATOS (GOD OF WAR RAGNAROK) Despite my issues with the gameplay, Kratos was still the best male protagonist I played as, because...well..he's Kratos. I was this close to put Jetstream Sam, but sadly he is only playable in a DLC, which is a damn shame BEST PLAT OF THE YEAR - SHADOW MAN REMASTERED PLATINUM Since it's required to post the POTY, not the GOTY, my pick is Shadowman Remastered. Seeing your beloved 1999 game being remastered and rebuilt to have cut content restored...this platinum was a bliss. And even if there are 666 Cadeaux to collect, the smooth "metroidvania" mechanics that this game implements made it enjoyable. I'd gladly plat this game again. Actually, I am replaying through the game once more because the devs added a new DLC with a Horror difficulty and a new boss. Hell yeah! WORST PLAT OF THE YEAR - MARVEL VS CAPCOM INFINITE I really wish I could forget the experience that this game was... MOST ANTICIPATED PLATINUM OF 2023 - CATHERINE Well that's it for me. 2022 was a great year hope 2023 will be just as good! Edited December 28, 2022 by Copanele 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DrBloodmoney Posted December 28, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 28, 2022 (edited) I already did my big, exhaustive 2022 recap (Here incase anyone cares!).... ...but these are different enough, and fun to do, so what the heck? I'm game! 1 hour ago, DoctorDrPepper said: Hey, all those games that have 11 golds, 1 plat and like 6 stacks?...well this is the trophy for that. The Longest Road on Earth Great experience, and well worth playing, but let's not mess around - it's about as challenging as a very-un-challenging thing! Quote Ahh, the It's Like Dark Souls plat. The game that had you pulling your hair out and cursing the gaming gods. Which game had you pleading in the Status Updates for just one little thing to go your way? Tetris Effect Still plugging away at this one, and still one of the best versions of Tetris, which is in turn probably the most perfect videogame of all time... but holy hell is it a tough one! Quote Not necessarily a Platinum but a moment in a game where you sat back and said "I'm a Badass" Slay the Spire Getting Ascension Lv20 done was no joke, and I felt like a Badass when it got gotten! Quote What game had you running around racking up kills? playing through 6 times? Trying to find the one item with a 0.01% drop rate? What game did you just sink a ton of time into to earn that beautiful Monster Slayers Do you like completing games? How about completing games 12 times, with your previous character being the boss of each successive one? Quote This one isn't opinion based...just what game in your backlog took you the longest (in terms of days, months, years) to complete. Curse of the Dead Gods Started in 2021, only got done in 2022 - thanks to the RIDICULOUS Bestiary trophy! Quote This trophy is for the most fun you had playing online. Maybe it wasn't even for trophies. Was it COD, or Fall Guys or some other game that you sunk hours into playing. Far Cry 5 Not a great game - not even a particularly good one really - but playing through the Zombies DLC with my man @JoesusHCrust was a blast from start to finish! Quote The complete opposite of the last one. Which buggy server, shitty campers, ridiculous online requirements or complete deserted wasteland did you waste your time playing for that Not Applicable this year - Only ventured online a couple times, and had a great time each time I did! Quote Which games has the most toe-tapping tunes. The game where the music doesn't drive you nuts while grinding out trophies. Sayonara Wild Hearts A stellar game, and a brilliant soundtrack - a great reccomend from my man @Cruscah - and one I recommend in turn to all! Quote We all have that game that we got from PLUS or off some digital sale. Which game did you just enjoy so much despite barely hearing about it before. Griftlands The best game you've never heard of - I guarantee it! Quote Usually reserve for some shitty AAA game with too much hype...but could also just be a game in a series you love. Which game made you regret buying it and wished you could have your money and time back. Last Stop A massive poop from a butt - and that butt made Virginia - one of the bestest, weirdest indies around! A whopping dissapointment. Quote Simply put what is the best trophy image you earned this year. Normally it would be a Platinum image but maybe there is some bronze trophy you earned that just had great image art. Weird West Trophy: Elusive Prey Just a great trophy image! Quote Here is the award for the lazy developers that cannot figure out that trophy hunters might actually like to look at a nice trophy image. Manifold Garden Trophy: What Does it Even Mean? Come on Manifold Garden! I love you as a game, but WTF is this for a Platinum Image? Quote Which Female character this year was your favourite to play as? Resident Evil 3 Remake Jill Valentine (Nicole Tompkins) An outstanding portrayal of an established character, that redefines her for all future instalments, as THE best character in the franchise. Quote Which Male character this year was your favourite to play as? God of War: Ragnarok Odin (Richard Schiff) In my opinion, the single best portrayal of a villain in modern triple-A gaming - an OUTSTANDING blend of subtlety, acting chops, and unusual choices make Odin the standout on an already outstanding game. Quote This award isn't meant for your favourite game of the year...it is meant for your favourite plat. A favourite plat should be something that was a pure joy to earn. It is one that you wish had multiple stacks so you could replay it to earn all the trophies again. Inscryption Just a joy from start to finish - not an ounce of fat, and pure, mesmerising awesomeness from start to finish. After finishing Kaycee's Mod, I only wished there was more of it. Quote This is the opposite. This is the platinum that made you want to quit earning trophies. The one that was just a waste of your time. Please go nuts and rip that shitty game a new one, you earned it. Best Month Ever! Hey, you know what I don't want to do, when the game was a disappointment the first time round? Do it again 20 more times, trying to get slightly different ending screens. Quote Which game are you most interested in getting the platinum in 2022. 2023. Go ahead and go nuts with your fantasizing. Lies of P Still looking forward to this odd looking one! Heard it's coming this year - I'll believe it when I see it! Edited December 28, 2022 by DrBloodmoney 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Breakingthegreen Posted December 29, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 29, 2022 I bought this game believing it to be a bit like One Night Stand, which I liked, unfortunately I misunderstood that it was actually a music album release with very limited interactivity. But that did make this platinum super simple to get. I really didn't play many games that I found overly hard this year, and most of the difficulties with Sport Champions 2 I had completed in years past, and had only cleaned up now for some reason. My 3 Condors in Everybody's Golf, all achieved 100% legit. I got the Platinum for the PS4 and Vita... Jeez I was effectively treating it as a second job, *return from the ward* *get at least a silver in the two daily challenges* It's a good thing I like the game otherwise I wouldn't have bothered. For absolutely no good reason, I left Datura uncompleted for 10 years and 4 months, I was 14 when I first played it, and that frightens me. I had actually started replaying the Assassin's Creed online before the shutdown was announced, it's still my favourite online mode of any game series ever. It's stunning that this needed delaying for what ended up being released. Resident Evil Re:Verse is very dull. We are OFK is a debut EP for a band, so it's not overly surprising that I like at least some of the music, I genuinely listen to "Footsteps" a bunch This is also my game of the year (I was a Teenage Exocolonist), a visual novel card game that I'm currently writing a guide for, so if you wanna try it out, maybe wait for me to finish Wanna add another sleeper hit since no one on Playstation talks about the fantastic murder mystery of Tangle Tower This game told me sympathise with an absolute monster, for the record I didn't forgive him for doing those crimes and I wanted him to trip over a brick. This is probably show how simple I am... but I really like rainbows (Escape Academy) That's just a screenshot... If you're not as pretty as Okami, you shouldn't even attempt a screenshot as a trophy image... We Were Here Too... Tangent from I was a Teenage Exocolonist. A scientist who used to be close with her brother until she came out as trans, then lost herself in her studies and she can learn to heal or get so lost she creates a plague. B12 from Stray holds the weight of humanity on his shoulders and needs to learn to move past his desire to preserve humanity's legacy, and prioritising the lives that need saving now. It's the only sports game I've ever liked and I got so obsessed with it that my intention of just getting the online trophies before the servers closed morphed into a Platinum run. This was one of the other big grinds of my year, and I hated all of it, game stopped being fun after about 20 minutes. I love Telltale style games, so naturally I wanna play Wolf Among Us 2 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DoctorDrPepper Posted December 29, 2022 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 29, 2022 Here's mine. Radioactive Dwarfs: Evil From the Sewers If you try to walk out of the entrance from level 1 they game gives you a joke ending but thinks you beat it and pops all the trophies. Tunic While it works for the combat, the Golden Path was the Dark Souls of puzzles for me this year. Elden Ring I spent 4 hours on that last boss and three days on Melenia. But I did it on my own. I jumped up and screamed when I won. Among Us Just grinding out kills and tasks was kinda boring. Bioshock (PS3) I had originally played this on 360. When Infinite came out if had a free copy that i played once for like 20 minutes and then for some reason never went back to it. Actually played it this year putting the platinum completion times at 9 years, 4 months, 1 week, 3 days, 13 hours. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection It was super fun to play old TMNT beat'em ups with my buds. I should have played Shredder's Revenge this year but I just didn't. I'll get to it next year. Jump Force A friend and I wanted to try getting the trophies before the servers went down and after an hour we both said fuck this and threw the game away. Cult of the Lamb On blast, on repeat, ever since it came out. Toem Didn't know about it till it was free on PS+ and it was one of the chillest things I played all year. I totally recommend it if you got it earlier this year and haven't played it yet. Saints Row Took the coolest shit of all time with Saints Row the Third and just made if fucking terrible. Pizza Party! - Finish Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game (N) TMNT Cowabunga Collection It's just the cover of the TMNT arcade game but it's one of the most radical images of all time. A Common Synonym of Serious is Sedate - Choose "Never mind, i'm good" I'm in love with your dead grandmother Just a close up of a gross mouth Ellie - The Last of Us Part 1 The new version of TLOU was amazing to play and I had never played the DLC so it was cool to finally see that. Kratos - God of War Ragnarok Not only did he have the best story but nhe felt the most fun to control. It is always satisfying to let loose the true God of War. Dragon Quest XI - Echoes of an Elusive Age Started this game in 2018 and had to put it down after a pretty bad shoulder injury. Finally came back and finished it this year and i'm so glad I did. Gotham Knights Fuck this list. SO much useless collecting and grinding in a bad game. It was never any fun. Hogwarts Legacy All this game needs to be to get me is Harry Potter Bully. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post zizimonster Posted December 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 30, 2022 Piece of Cake: The Suicide of Rachel Foster It's Like Dark Souls: Little Nightmares Bad Ass Award: When I conquered Little Nightmares' speedrun. It was a tense but fun experience. I had to spend around eight hours to nab the speedrun trophy as certain sections in game kept screwing me over and over again. Grind of the Year: Rise of the Tomb Raider's DLC trophies AKA the most boring DLCs ever. Finally Done Award: Also Rise of the Tomb Raider. It took me six years to grab a bunch of those pesky DLC trophies. I forgot that I could use in-game cards to enhance the playable character Laura Croft. King of the Internet, Worst Online Experience: None. I didn't play any multiplayer games in 2022. Best Music: Candle: The Power of the Flame. Go ahead and give it a listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgFcpc3qdbM Sleeper Hit of the Year: The Artful Escape. Thanks to PlayStation Plus Extra, I got to experience this feel-good game. Biggest Bomb of the Year: Last Stop. Despite being made by the same studio who crafted the mind-blowing walking sim Virginia, to me, Last Stop is a disappointment. It started real good with its mysteries, but ended up leaving a bad taste in my mouth. Best Trophy Image: Bayonetta's Angel May Cry . It reminds players of Devil May Cry, does it not? Worst Trophy Image: Lost Words: Beyond the Page's No Remorse . Can somebody enlighten me, what animal is it? Best Female Character: The one and only witch mum in the whole universe, Bayonetta! She's sassy and fearless. What's not to like? Best Male Character: Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order's Cal Kestis. I mean, the whole galaxy depends on him to restore the balance of the Force. He's got a cool-looking lightaber. I also enjoyed the interactions between him and his companion robot BD-1. Best Plat of the Year: Witch mum the game AKA Bayonetta. A game so awesome I've decided to nab all the PS4 stacks... mayhaps the PS3 stack too if I can. Worst Plat of the Year: Blackwood Crossing. Low framerates, slow character movement, but overall a good game. Most Anticipated Platinum of 2022: Devil May Cry 5. I anticipated this hack-and-slasher so much after it first debuted at E3 2018... until I witnessed its overly demanding trophy list, then I said nope! Now that it has been in wishlist, I still want to plat it, however. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post reaperveteran86 Posted December 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 30, 2022 Piece of Cake: Mystery VN that plays more like a Kinetic Novel than a traditionel VN. Good story and twists but some of the solutions to the cases are more on the unbelievable side. It`s like Dark Souls: Not the complete game, but some of the Jump `n Run sequences in the extra rooms (especially in the DLC) made my hands and wrist hurts and gave me a blister on my thumb. Bad Ass Award: Got my first (2D) Soulslike platinum. The game was good, but I doesn`t find it as hard as some reviewers said it would be. Grind of the Year: 500 fights on a timer, because your progress resets after 7 days on top of the grind to get Legendary Pilot reputation. Finally Done Award: 7 Years and 3 months. Started it on the Vita and finished it with the PS4 Version. King of the Internet/ Worst Online Experience: I don`t play online much. Best Music: Electro soundtrack that reminded me a bit of Daft Punk. Sleeper Hit of the Year: Beautiful action rpg with an interesting chinese fantasy setting and great story and characters. Biggest Bomb of the Year: Blair Witch I like the first movie and the lore that was made for it (I even enjoyed Book of Shadows), so I played this one for october this year and got spooked, but not in a good way. The game (and more so the platinum) is to find collectibles in a dark wood with only your flashlight and your dog (best part of the game) by your side. The story was dumb and confusing at the same time and the horror wasn`t there, except for a few jump scares. Best Trophy Image: Who doesn`t like a cute zombie girl in an outfit that reminds one of the slave Leia costume, drawn in an anime art style? The person, who made the trophy names for Shantae and the Pirate`s Curse, who named the trophy "What an eyesore...". Worst Trophy Image: Paranormal Activity: The Lost Soul - Hell Yeah (You finished the game in hardcore mode). Just a distorted screaming mouth. I had two other contenders from the same game but I got them in 2019. Best Female Character: Dana Iclucia - Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana. All I can write about her could be a potential spoiler. The only thing I could say is, that Nihon Falcom picked an aptly subtitle for Ys VIII.. Best Male Character: The guy with the eyepatch in the foreground (I couldn`t find an Image of him alone) Yue Jinzhao - Sword and Fairy 6. The same as for for Dana - most of the things that makes him my best male character would be a potential spoiler. He first comes out as your typical happy go lucky protagonist who cares for his "sister" but he has an serious and melancholic side to him. Best Plat of the Year: As a fan of the first Record of Lodoss War anime OVA and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, this game was something of a dream comes true.It is a bit short but the gameplay (almost one to one Symphony of the Night) and the throwbacks to Lodoss made it fun from beginning to end. I addition to that, the platinum doesn`t overstay it`s welcome (except the bow training trophy) and doesn`t demand outrageous grinds or tasks from you. Worst Plat of the Year: Broken mess of a game that has as much to do with Handball as Nacon/Bigben has with releasing good games. The only way to get two of the trophies is to play the career in a very specific way, because otherwise the game crashes and you can start the career mode all over again. Most Anticipated Platinum of 2023: Loved the PS2 games and played a bit of this one and liked it, only to put it on halt because I needed the harddrive space. Which was, in retrospect, a good thing, because now they made a patch, that gives the game an cel shading look, so it feels even more like the PS2 games. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Helyx Posted December 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 30, 2022 Kinda odd not having @Dr_Mayus hosting the awards this year. Hope you're doing well dude. Piece of Cake: The Jumping Bullshits (you know the ones) It's Like Dark Souls: Mighty Math (laugh all you want, shit's hard yo) Badass Award: Double Dragon Neon (Misters Perfect) Grind of the Year: Deep Rock Galactic (Rock and Stone) Finally Done: Inferno Pool (after 12 years, 5 months, 3 weeks) King of the Internet: Among Us (Sus af m8) Worst Online Experience: Battlefield V (Battlefield has fallen off; we need Bad Company 3) Best Music: Dungeon Defender Awakened (throwback tower defense tunes) Sleeper Hit: Unpacking (Amazing story, cute graphics and satisfying gameplay) Biggest Bomb: Horizon Forbidden West (shit's trash; Guerrilla should be ashamed) Best Trophy Images: Evil Dead (Hail to the king, baby) Worst Trophy Images: The Bullshit G (you know the ones) Best Female Character: Tifa (Final Fantasy VII) Best Male Character: Ash Williams (Evil Dead) Best Plat of the Year: Ravenous Devils (Sweeney Todd simulator is dope) Wurst Plat Ov Teh Yeer: Horizon Forbidden West (Dreading having to do NG+ and the upcoming DLC for 100% completion) Most Anticipated Platinum of 2022: Dead Space Remake, Diablo IV, Killer Klownz From Outer Space, Resident Evil 4 Remake 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Biscoito18 Posted December 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 30, 2022 PIECE OF CAKE AWARD: PINBALL HEROES Thanks to the new rewind system finally I was able to fulfill my childhood dream of being able to turn back time and prevent the ball from falling into the hole. IT'S LIKE DARK SOULS: ELDEN RING Literally. To be fair, most of the time the difficulty was quite tolerable, but Malenia and especially Elden Beast broke me. BAD ASS AWARD: DEFEAT DRAGONLORD PLACIDUSAX WITH A COMET AZUR I had already used up all the flasks, almost no health left. I managed to perfectly dodge one of his fatal swoops and decided to go all or nothing with Comet Azur. The amount of mana was exactly what was needed to wipe out the rest of his health. In the same second that Comet Azur ended, Placidusax dropped dead. I almost didn't believe it. GRIND OF THE YEAR: JUST CAUSE 4 This is a 3/10 plat with a rarity of 6.38% for a good reason. 124 wingsuit stunts, 127 vehicle stunts, 185 speed stunts, over 150 locations to discover and 31 regions to secure besides collectables, side missions and another grind to reach army of chaos level 14. FINALLY DONE AWARD: CONAN EXILES After 3 years and 3 weeks, I finally found someone to help me with The Tower of the Elephant. KING OF THE INTERNET: MORTAL KOMBAT 11 I barely play online games, but I had a good time kompleting 50 Kasual Versus matches for this plat. WORST ONLINE EXPERIENCE: TOMB RAIDER DEFINITIVE EDITION The servers are completely abandoned. Thanks to PSNP I found a group of players to help me. Even so, the online grind to reach level 60 is almost unbearable. BEST MUSIC: WE HAPPY FEW "The Make Believes" is a fictional band created to produce the game's music. Their songs could easily be mistaken for some of greatest rock hits of the 60's. My personal favorite is "I Have Seen Everything" from the Lightbearer DLC. SLEEPER HIT OF THE YEAR: SHADOW WARRIOR 3 I still think "Shadow Warrior 3" doesn't get the recognition it deserves. The gameplay is addictive and everything works just fine. I played it briefly before it came out of PS Plus Extra and was quite surprised by its high quality. BIGGEST BOMB OF THE YEAR: REMOTHERED: BROKEN PORCELAIN It's a shame. I was rooting for this franchise, but Broken Porcelain is a hopeless mess. The plot is pathetically confusing, the stealth mechanics barely work and several moments are destroyed by bad AI. I'm glad I've only played this now that most of the bugs have been fixed, and even then, it's a massive disappointment. BEST TROPHY IMAGE: THE TOWN OF LIGHT (BEST TROPHY IMAGE) / MARTHA IS DEAD (BEST SET) LKA really cares about their trophies' artwork. The plat tile of "The Town of Light" is simple but encapsulates the whole feeling of the game. A mixture of history and abandonment. And their new game, "Martha is Dead" has a beautiful set stylized as tarot cards. WORST TROPHY IMAGE: TORMENTED SOULS (WORST IMAGE) / NEED FOR SPEED HEAT (WORST SET) I loved "Tormented Souls", but the trophies are really ugly. The gameplay does a good job hiding the under-detailed models so it's a surprise that the trophies decide to focus on that. This one for the "Remorse" ending is the worst. And "Need for Speed: Heat" could at least change colors depending on the type of trophies like "Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water" for example. But no, it's the same cheap image everytime. So lazy! BEST FEMALE CHARACTER: MALENIA, BLADE OF MIQUELLA (ELDEN RING) Not only for her epic storyline within the game, but mainly for her cultural impact outside of it. Malenia became synonymous with "extremely difficult boss" at the same time as she became a meme. She will never be forgotten. BEST MALE CHARACTER: ETHAN WINTERS (RESIDENT EVIL: VILLAGE - SHADOWS OF ROSE) The best dad in the universe indeed! Even after death, Ethan remains focused on protecting his family. The long-awaited reunion between him and his daughter Rose is heartbreaking even if it's surrounded by all the typical Resident Evil cliché spectacle. Also, being able to play the main game in third person increased my attachment to the character, even without being able to see his face fully. BEST PLAT OF THE YEAR: FATAL FRAME: MAIDEN OF BLACK WATER The first plat from one of my favorite franchises, rising from the ashes after years of being relegated to Nintendo consoles. I never thought I'd play a Fatal Frame again on PS, let alone get a platinum trophy from one. WORST PLAT OF THE YEAR: CONAN EXILES I conquered several easy 2/10 plats this year but none that feels cheaper than this one. If I could go back in time, I wouldn't have started "playing" this crap years ago. But since there was only one trophy left for platinum... MOST ANTICIPATED PLATINUM OF 2023: RESIDENT EVIL 4 REMAKE Resident Evil is my favorite franchise. I have 12 plats from the main series games and the RE4 Remake plat will be one of my milestones. Probably the 9,000th trophy just like the only gold trophy in the original Resident Evil 4 (ps4 version) was my 8,000th trophy. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TalesofGaming Posted December 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 30, 2022 (edited) Piece of Cake Award: Roll The Cat I don't play filthy plat games but this game stood out to me cause it was about cats and puzzles. My two favorite things! It's too bad the trophy list is somewhat filthy... It's Like Dark Souls: Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom I actually platinumed this game back in 2018 but finally came back to finish the DLC this year and OMG, I've never gotten so mad at a game in a LONG time. The Solosseum was by far one of the hardest challenges I've done in a game. I highly recommend to not do the DLC. Not worth it. Bad Ass Award: Thymesia I had always been carried through Souls games so it was an interesting experience to try a Souls-like by myself. I'm so proud of myself for powering through this game and achieving the platinum! ? Grind of the Year: Monster Hunter World I still honestly can't believe I earned the platinum, it only took me 4 years! Crown hunting is absolutely brutal but I somehow managed to get lucky with some Elder Dragons. Finally Done Award: Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony 4 years and 3 months... King of the Internet: Monster Hunter World I don't play too many online-only games but one I did enjoy playing with other people was MHW. Always feels good to help out a fellow hunter! ? Worst Online Experience: Dark Souls III Again, I don't play too many online games but regarding Dark Souls, I REALLY despise invaders... Best Music: NieR Replicant ver. 1.22474487139... Keiichi Okabe is by far one of the best composers out there, so of course I had to go with one of his soundtracks. Shadowlord by far, is definitely my favorite piece from it. Sleeper Hit of the Year: When The Past Was Around This was a really cute game. I impulse bought it since I'm such a sucker for point-and-click games. The story had me tearing up and I loved the puzzles. Biggest Bomb of the Year: Maneater I actually didn't like this game that much. I'm not much for sharks eating people so it bothered me quite a bit. ? Best Trophy Image: Hug therapy (Haven) Haven had such beautiful art that of course its trophy images would be just as beautiful. Worst Trophy Image: Thymesia Gotta love it when games recycle the same image. ? Best Female Character: Kaine (NieR) NieR is one of my favorite games and I absolutely loved Kaine, it's kinda refreshing to have a female character swear for once. ? Although, she could get better clothes. LOL Best Male Character: Yuito Sumeragi (Scarlet Nexus) I had to pick Yuito cause one, he's quite attractive, and two, had a great role to play in the story. I was immensely surprised by Scarlet Nexus and was definitely one of my favorite games this year. Best Plat of the Year: Monster Hunter World I'm just so proud of myself for getting this grindy plat, and especially as the last one for the year! Wurst Plat Ov Teh Yeer: Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony Great game, but horrid platinum. The difficulty doesn't even come from the main game... Most Anticipated Platinum of 2023: Hogwarts Legacy Been looking forward to this for a while and am excited to finally play a proper Harry Potter game. ? Edited January 4, 2023 by TalesofGaming 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BlitzkriegHottie Posted December 30, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 30, 2022 The Artful Escape 80% of the game is literally just walking! They might not be my hardest of the year but how about every single soulsborne (From Software) and every single souls-like (Non From Software) platinum I've gotten this year: Spoiler (ordered by date) Code Vein Salt & Sanctuary Nioh 2 Blasphemous Elden Ring Dandara Chronos: Before the Ashes Jedi: Fallen Order Demon's Souls (ps3, EU stack) Pure bladestone, nuff said. I don't know if I should include Hyper Light Drifter, that one is basically 2D Bloodborne... should I? Oh what the hell, here it is: Mein Leben will literally turn you into a professional speedrunner, so when that trophy finally pops you'll feel invincible. Also yes, I took a screenshot of the very rare 'Mein Leben!' dialogue so I could re-screenshot it when I got the Mein Leben trophy. Bloodstained: Ritual of the Moon Let's just say that without all that farming and crafting this would have been a 20h platinum instead of the 40h it actually is. Downwell "Platinum in 3 years, 9 months" Elden Ring 荒野行動 (Knives Out) Dead servers. Katamari Damaci Reroll Katamari on the Rocks and Lonely Rolling Star will never stop being the ultimate earworms! Just happiness in music form. The Sexy Brutale Really want a sequel. Code Vein "Anime Souls" had potential... Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen Game is called "Artful Escape", has a million beautiful views in it,,, but this is the platinum... It even looks like a knock off version of Bentley's glasses from Sly Copper. Bayonetta Alan Wake Catherine (EU), which is also my 300th and now means I have a trio of Catherine platinums. Zombi was miserable. Luckily it was short. Lost my save, will have to collect everything again. And that's the easy part... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Leon Castle Posted January 1, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 1, 2023 Piece of Cake - LEGO Bricktales It's a Lego game so it's of course easy and unlike a shovelware it's fun. It's like dark souls - Atelier Sophie 2 The only hard part was fighting Frenzied Elvira on Very Hard difficulty. Bad Ass Award - Genshin Impact Learning how to make Scaramouche "kneel" before me was a Bad Ass moment for me. Grind of the Year - Bakugan Battle Brawlers Have done it before on DS. I don't recall how I grinded for BP on the DS but it might be the same I did on PS3, do Battle Royales a lot. Finally Done Award - Tales of Xillia 2 Would have plat it two years ago if I did not leave it for to play some PS4 game. King of the Internet - My Hero One's Justice 2 It and the two AC with Online Trophies was fine until... Worst Online Experience - Assassin's Creed Unity ... The one I was boosting with on Unity asked me for help with the Co-op Mission "The Tournament" and I started it with them and some randoms, not much later after I stole one of those letters of permission I got kicked out. Sounded like they cleared the Co-op Mission with the randoms. Best Music - Genshin Impact My new favorite theme from Genshin Impact. Sleeper Hit of the Year - Maglam Lord Only got it due to Protag is a Maō(Demon Lord) and as a plus the Female Maō is cute. Biggest Bomb of the Year Best Trophy Image - Dragon Star Varnir Worst Trophy Image - Atelier Sophie 2 Best Female Character - Kuki Shinobu from Genshin Impact Honorable Mention - Musashi from Azur Lane Best Male Character - Edward Kenway from Assassin's Creed IV Best Plat of the Year - Mary Skelter Finale Getting the plat for the last Mary Skelter was both joy and sad. Worst Plat of the Year - Jump Force The not so great popular Shonen Jump manga/anime only crossover fighter with the only good things doing the plat road was getting to use United States of Smash(All Might DLC only Ultimate Move) and mocking DIO that went Quote DIO uses Ultimate Move and rush at you DIO: The World! Player blocks and answers with an attack that sends DIO flying DIO: Nani!! Most Anticipated Platinum of 2023 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viech54 Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 (edited) Piece of Cake Legends of Talia The first game I played on PS5, a 32 seconds VN platinum. I wanted to go back to the game and read through the story instead of skipping everything, but I never did so far. Not sure I'll ever do that at this point. It's like Dark Souls Elden Ring I got the platinum twice (PS4/PS5) last year despite not even liking the gameplay all that much. Bad Ass Elden Ring My second playthrough specifically. I had a really strong build and knew a lot more about the game. This was when bosses no longer felt strong and instead lost quite easily. Grind of the Year NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... Getting all weapon upgrades in NieR Replicant took quite some time. It's not that grindy, but my grindiest game of 2022. Finally Done There are actually a few games that'd fit the Finally Done category, but I'll take the one that has the longest completion time on my account in 2022. That's Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth with a time of 4 years and 6 months. The game isn't that long, nor is it particularly hard. I just put it on hold and only returned to it last year. Honorable mentions for Finally Done: Divinity: Original Sin II (2 years, 1 month) Ghost of Tsushima (1 year, 7 months) NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... (1 year, 3 months) Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights (10 months, 4 weeks) King of the Internet Genshin Impact I don't want to list it for this, I didn't use the online mode nearly enough for it to fit this category, but it was still better than the other games I played online, so congrats, Genshin, I guess. Honorable mentions: Ghost of Tsushima: Legends I auto popped most trophies on PS5, but had to do some coop missions again as they don't auto pop. Worst Online Experience Elden Ring An open world doesn't work well in online coop, not being able to ride a horse for faster travel between areas and too many areas where the host had to enter alone just to summon me again after 30 seconds to complete a 3 minute dungeon made it the worst online experience in 2022. Best Music Crystal Defenders Tower defense with Final Fantasy music. Honorable mentions: NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... Sleeper Hit of the Year Crystal Defenders My first experience with the tower defense genre. I didn't expect much, but I had a good time and am glad I chose to play this game. I wouldn't name this one as GOTY, but it's the game were I expected the least, so it fits. Biggest Bomb of the Year No game I played last year was that bad to be named for this category. If I had to name one, it'd be Elden Ring. I didn't like the game as much as I thought I would, but I didn't hate it and got the plat twice, so it doesn't really fit. Best Trophy Image Ghost of Tsushima Honorable mentions: Various Elden Ring trophy images Worst Trophy Image Nothing comes to mind that I disliked enough for this. No trophy image made me want to claw my eyes out. Best Female Character Dana - Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana Honorable mentions: Kuon - Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth Best Male Character Haku - Utwararerumono: Mask of Truth Best Plat of the Year Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana Wurst Plat ov Teh Yeer Legends of Talia I skipped it for a fast plat, this is less the fault of the game and only my own for the way I played (or rather not played) this game. Most Anticipated Platinum of 2023 Not sure. I don't actually know all that much about new games this year. I mainly intend to play older games. Once I'm done with the 2022/2023 Winter Backlog Challenge, I want to make a Final Fantasy year, i. e. mainly playing Final Fantasy games. So any of these games are likely candidates: Final Fantasy XIV (PS4 and PS5) Dissidia NT Final Fantasy VIII Final Fantasy IX Crisis Core Final Fantasy Other FF games that I haven't completed yet, check https://psnprofiles.com/series/25-final-fantasy/viech54 There is one new game that I'm somewhat interested in, Hogwarts Legacy Edited January 2, 2023 by viech54 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InsomniWrench Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Piece of Cake - Tachyon Project A colourful, chill, and fun little game. Badass Award - Fall Guys I was racing to get the plat in the original version before it shutdown and switched to the new launcher and I managed to get it! (now if they'd fix the trophies in the PS5 version that'd be great) Grind of the Year - Red Faction: Guerilla 400+ collectibles and no tracker. Painful. Finally Done - Sly Cooper 11 years, 11 months. I got the trilogy on the PS3 way back when and didn't enjoy it. Went back this year just for the trophies. King of the Internet - It Takes Two Had so much fun with this one! Definitely a highlight of my year. Worst Online Experience - Fall Guys It used to be fine but it just started to go downhill this year, the fun seemed to get sucked out of it and bugs and glitches became more common. Best Music - Beyond: Two Souls Lorne Balfe and Hans Zimmer, it's not even a competition. Amazing music. Sleeper Hit - It Takes Two I never would have gone near this if a friend didn't want to play it with me and I'm really glad she did. It was really fun to play and had a great story too. Biggest Bomb - Crash Bandicoot Trilogy I know this is an unpopular opinion but I remember enjoying these games when I was younger but the PS4 trilogy annoyed me so much. I don't remember the controls being that clunky. I got some of the easier trophies and called it quits. Best Trophy Image - Chorus Spooky red skull trophy that you get just for dying. I just like it lol. (Shoutout to Ghost of Tsushima as well, every trophy image looked great) Worst Trophy Image - Beyond: Two Souls It's just the same image for every trophy with a different colour for plat, gold, silver, and bronze. Best Female Character - Jodie, Beyond: Two Souls A really well written and well acted character. Best Male Character - Atreus, God of War: Ragnarok From my least favourite character in GOW 2018 to my favourite in Ragnarok. His solo sections got a lot of hate in Ragnarok but I enjoyed them. Best Plat - Ghost of Tsushima I was interested in this game for ages but only played it this year and wow, what a game. Everything about it was amazing. I even enjoyed the multiplayer which I don't usually enjoy. Worst Plat - InnerSpace Nope. Most Anticipated Plat - Spider-Man 2 Spider-Man 2018 and Miles Morales were amazing, I can't wait for the sequel. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ExHaseo Posted January 2, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 2, 2023 I was just wondering where this thread was. Anyway, here's mine. Piece of Cake Award This one was so short it was really disappointing. The game itself is actually pretty fun, but it's one of those games that just hands you the plat. It's Like Dark Souls I didn't really play anything that was difficult this year. Not sure if I've just gotten so old that games aren't as challenging as they used to be, or if games are just easier now, but either way I don't have anything for this. Badass I wasn't the biggest fan of this game, but I have to admit, it was so cool being able to just walk up to a group of enemies and OHKO all of them with the quick draw. Grind of the Year I had to play through this game 4 times. By the end of it I was so tired of it. Finally Done There was a lot of competition for this one this year. I went back and finished up a lot of games that had been left unfinished. But clocking in at 3 years 1 month for the plat, I have Musynx. King of the Internet I hate playing online, so I'm giving the award to BBCTB, because I just had to win a single match. Not even in ranked, just in a player lobby. Making it painfully easy to get. Worst Online Experience Boosting this was a nightmare, even though I was self-boosting with my PS4 and PS5. First off, you have to do 100 matches, which is already kind of a nightmare. But to make it worse you HAVE to do ranked, and you have to win 50 of them. To make matters worse, you can't tell who your matching with, so you just have to kind of hope it's your boosting partner. Many times I would get matched at the same time on both consoles, and end up with different people. Then the matchmaking itself is absolute garbage. It only matches you if you're within a very specific range of someone. I had to make a 3rd account to boost my 2nd account to get caught up to my actual account, because I had done about 5 matches before trying to self boost. That alone was enough of a gap to keep the accounts from matching. So whenever I ran into randos, it was nerve wracking. Since it could screw up the ranks and prevent me from matching with myself. Then to make matters even worse than they already are, it had a lot of difficulty matching me with myself. Sometimes it would take up to 30 minutes to match. It was just a nightmare. If I wasn't such a big DOA fan, I never would have made it through. Best Music I mean, it's FFXIV. Sleeper Hit of the Year Indivisible This game is so good. It's unfortunate that basically no one has played it thanks to the controversy surrounding the developer and the developer getting shut down as a result. All around the time this was released. Biggest Bomb of the Year I had high hopes for this game. An ArcSys fighter is almost always good, and this was recommended to me by someone who I used to play fighting games with a lot, but this game is a broken nightmare. It's VERY clear who the best characters are in this game. Plus, I just didn't like how limiting it felt. Most anime fighters let you chain most normals into each other, but not here. You can only chain very specific moves, unless you're Striker. But she's absolute garbage. A full combo using an entire meter does the same as a single special from Crusader. It's so dumb. Best Trophy Image Cobra Kai 2: Dojos Rising - The Best Defense is More Offense Terrible, broken, mess of a game, but hilarious trophy image. Worst Trophy Image Urban Street Fighting - All of them This is the worst game I have ever played. I thought it was a joke game and would be funny based on the images, but no. It's just an awful game with awful and overly basic trophy images. It was clearly thrown together in an afternoon as a cheap cash grab. Best Female Character Jesse Faden - Control I wanted to give this to Aloy, but she was just kind of a self righteous dick in Forbidden West. So instead it goes to Jesse. I'm pretty excited for Control 2. Best Male Character Zack Fair - Crisis Core Final Fantasy VII Reunion I try not to include remasters/ports on lists like this, but Zack is one of my favorite characters of all time. He was the only one deserving of this spot. Best Plat of the Year This game was so much fun. I could not stop playing it. I did the whole thing in a single sitting without even stopping to eat. I haven't enjoyed a game like this in so long. Wurst Plat ov teh Yeer This was actually a pretty fun game, but it's a demo. A demo you have to pay for. It's an unfinished game and it never tells you that until after you've beaten it. I was so mad that I got tricked into buying something both unfinished, but also apparently had no intention of getting patched or finished. I played the Vita version and they recently released this on PS5, but there's no way of knowing if it's just this unfinished version, or if it did get finished and that's an actual release. So if you see this game, I wouldn't recommend buying it. Most Anticipated Platinum of 2023 I can't wait to play through this game 4 times again. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParkestNight Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 Piece of Cake - Destiny 2 I earned the Platinum for the PS4 version in 2019, and it turns out that the PS5 version autopops - I guess it was just Destiny... 2. It’s Like Dark Souls - Vampyr Some of the enemies can be tough, but the true boss of this game is its poor performance; a lot of stuttering, frame drops, and crashes. The crashes in particular were almost hourly, and a preventative measure cited online is to turn off/on your console periodically. Badass Award - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2019's Call of Duty: Modern Warfare takes me back to the original MW trilogy, and how much fun I had playing them back in the day. Seeing the return of Captain Price and Task Force 141 alone cinches it this award for me. Grind of the Year - Lost Judgment Heeeeeeere's Johnny- er, Lost Judgment! Overall, Lost Judgment is less difficult than the first game, but it's grindier, too. In addition to the regular Yakuza-standard Completion List, substories, minigames, etc., there is also a whole new string of quests called School Stories. In these, Yagami has to deal with angsty teenagers and their shenanigans. Finally Done - Far Cry 6 Far Cry 6 wasn't actually the longest completion on my list, but it felt like it since you have to wait three real-life weeks (at a minimum) to defeat 3 Insurgent leaders since only one spawns per week. Also, these events actually include the enemies retaking your hard-earned liberated camps to artificially lengthen the game - annoying, to say the least. King of the Internet - Destiny 2 Destiny 2 takes this by default since this and Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl are the only two games in which I played online multiplayer. Worst Online Experience - Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl I played the PS4 version, and the performance even in single-player campaign was pretty bad. The issues only worsened in online modes. I love the premise of the idea, but not its execution. Best Music - The Artful Escape The Artful Escape not only had good music, but also featured it as a thematic concept, using it to touch on authenticity and identity. Sleeper Hit - Chicken Police At first glance, you have a noir-themed game featuring anthromorphic animals (and well, it's true), but you also have an engaging detective narrative that takes unexpected twists and turns. Biggest Bomb of the Year - Vampyr Luckily, I didn't play any games this year that were irredeemably bad; however, if I really had to pick one, it'd be Vampyr (for the previously mentioned performance issues). Best Trophy Image - "The Whole Picture" from Chicory: A Colorful Tale Seeing this image before playing the game I would have said, "I can definitely draw better than that." After playing through Chicory: A Colorful Tale, I can confidently say this trophy artwork is infinitely better than anything I can produce. Worst Trophy Image - "Welcome to MASTER DUEL" from Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel I'm already playing your game, Konami. Is it really necessary to advertise it further via the artwork? By the way, all trophy images are identical to this. Best Female Character - Kena from Kena: Bridge of Spirits & Stella from Spiritfarer Throughout the game, Kena demonstrates her compassion, fear, doubt, and courage. Her interactions with others she meets on her journey, and as well as confronting and overcoming her obstacles makes her worthy of this category. Stella's character development and backstory reveal is quite a slow burn. Little by little, Stella (via her duties as a Spiritfarer) helps and comforts herself by helping and comforting others in their time of need. Best Male Character - Kratos from God of War: Ragnarok 2018's God of War already showed Kratos' growth as a person, but God of War: Ragnarok takes Kratos' character to heights I could never have imagined during his Angry Loincloth days. His growth as a father, friend, and as a god was incredibly engaging - I look forward to Kratos' future adventures. Also, Christopher Judge gave a phenomenal performance. Best Platinum of the Year - God of War: Ragnarok Minus the collectibles and some story beats, I loved everything about God of War: Ragnarok. The customization, armours, characters, environments, themes, etc. I especially loved Vanaheim and its diverse terrains. Wurst Platinum ov the Yeer - Horizon Forbidden West I was a bit lenient on Horizon Zero Dawn's lackluster main narrative since it was the first of the franchise, but I expected Aloy's character and Forbidden West's story to better than it was (especially since now Guerilla had the first game to build upon). I thought the main antagonists of the game were laughably bad, and Aloy was just kind of a jerk in some situations. Also, I experienced quite a few bugs as a day one player, such as falling through drawbridges after lowering them, getting stuck in obstacles, etc. Most Anticipated Platinum of 2023 Award - Marvel's Spider-Man 2 While I'm a little disappointed they missed the opportunity to call it Marvel's Spider-Men, I'm looking forward to this game after playing both the original 2018 PS4 game and Spider-Man: Miles Morales. I just hope they don't bring back crimes (or at the very least as trophy requirements) and MJ-like sections. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blacklight-nero Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 (edited) Piece of Cake - Jigsaw Finale Nothing else to say about this one It’s Like Dark Souls - Mortal Shell Well its like Dark Souls but a bit easier Badass Award - Nothing comes to mind right now Grind of the Year - Death Stranding The closest thing to a grind I did this year was reaching max connection with all facilities in this game. Finally Done - Assassin’s Creed Odyssey I got this game with the season pass included and after I played the main campaign and all side content I had to take a break, Came back after two years to finally complete the expansions. King of the Internet - Aragami I’m not sure if this even counts but this is literally the only game I played this year with another player in coop so I guess this can be considered multiplayer right. Worst Online Experience - Nothing explanation above. Best Music - The Artful Escape Music to my ears baby yeeaaahhhhhhh Sleeper Hit of the Year - Lost In Random Liked the way it looked but was skeptical if I would enjoy the gameplay but to my surprise I really enjoyed it very good game. Biggest Bomb of the Year - Journey of the Broken Circle I know this game got good reviews and praised but for some reason I just didn't like it as much as I thought I would, I played worst this year but I knew they were going to be mediocre though. Best Trophy Image - Psychonauts 2 Worst Trophy Image - Stray (Surely the platinum had to be the cat holding the trophy in his paw right) (fyi I only looked at platinum images because going through all the trophies to see which I liked best was just to long) Best Female Character - Kena Best Male Character - Razputin Aquato Best Platinum of the Year - Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Not my favourite game of the year but for me this was the most fun platinum I got this year, Had a blast from start to finish great fun. Worst Platinum of the Year - Gleamlight Terrible game really but that aside one of the trophies is bugged, Platinum was still achievable but I spent more time on and off in the game which I would have liked to avoid. Most Anticipated Platinum of the Year Taking into account I don’t own a PS5 Hogwart’s Legacy is the one that intrigues me the most on PS4. Edited January 4, 2023 by blacklight-nero 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Yuber6969 Posted January 7, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted January 7, 2023 Thanks for this @DoctorDrPepper! I'm really late here but I was looking forward to this one. PIECE OF CAKE AWARD Pantsu Hunter: Back to the 90s I don't play trophy delivery software and this was the only pure VN that I played in 2022 (also played Zero Time Dilemma, but that had puzzles). IT'S LIKE DARK SOULS Art of Fighting Anthology While this was not the hardest plat that I achieved in 2022 (pretty damn close though), it was easily the most frustrating. The AI reads your inputs and the balancing is ridiculous. Your opponent does so much more damage than you do even if you're using the same character. This game had me raging 80% of the way through it and I can honestly say that I had zero fun. BAD ASS AWARD Skullgirls 2nd Encore Clearing 100% of the base game combo challenges in the game I had considered myself to be a very mid-level fighting game player. I'm nowhere near noob level, yet I'm not one of these guys that gives a 3/10 difficulty score to every fighting game that isn't P4A or Koihime. That being said, these combo challenges were a major step up in difficulty for me - mainly because pause cheese does not work in 90+% of the trials, and that was something I always abused in the fighters I played before this (and I still abuse it when given the option). I sank several hours into this one trophy and I had to take two breaks from the game where I started and finished an entirely different game each time. I'm still not at the "it's a 3/10 lul git gud" level, but now I feel like I can say that I'm good at the genre. GRIND OF THE YEAR Injustice 2 Outside of a story mode that wasn't very time consuming, the entire game was a grind, and it was one that took over 100 hours. Granted, a lot of that was AFK time, but this game still comes to my mind when people talk about excessively grindy platinums. Hated this game. I would have given this award to Digimon All-Star Rumble, but I had completed at least half of that grind in 2021. FINALLY DONE AWARD Marvel vs. Capcom 3 At least 10 years (I have missing timestamps so possibly longer) Loved this game in my non-trophy hunter days. I was excited to go back to it but now that I have more experience in the genre, I didn't enjoy it very much. KING OF THE INTERNET Naruto to Boruto: Shinobi Striker I bitched a lot about how time-consuming this plat was, but I had a lot of fun moments with this game. I ended up getting really good at this game and it was super satisfying beating real people who have been playing this game since release. I met some friends in the game's public Discord server, and there was a period of time that we played together every night. WORST ONLINE EXPERIENCE Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout I had quite a few fun moments in this game, but the server closure was announced very shortly after I started the game, which made the experience very stressful. BEST MUSIC Yakuza 0 90% of my playlist is from this game. Baka Mitai and Koi No Disco Queen are songs that I listen to every day. SLEEPER HIT OF THE YEAR Claire I bought this game for about $4 solely because I liked Lone Survivor and heard this was similar. This game was a very memorable experience for me and the story hit me hard. This game would have been a masterpiece if it had a good budget. BIGGEST BOMB OF THE YEAR Dead or Alive Xtreme 3: Fortune I like lewd games. I'm a Senran Kagura fan, so that should say enough. Due to the controversy surrounding the lewdness of this game, I was expecting something great. I imported it from Playasia and had to spend a lot of money on Hong Kong PSN cards for the DLC. The lewdness in this game was tame compared to Senran Kagura, and the actual gameplay was boring as shit. BEST TROPHY IMAGE Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r] Welcome to the Hollow Night IMO, Hilda is one of the hottest female video game characters. WORST TROPHY IMAGE Undertale Every trophy in the game was some variation of this. BEST FEMALE CHARACTER Skullgirls 2nd Encore Annie Just like last year, I'm confused about whether or not this category is for "favourite female character in general" or "favourite female character to play as." Assuming it's the latter, I loved playing as Annie; she is one of the best characters I've mained with in a fighter. She plays like a combination of Ryu, Ragna, and Sol. @DoctorDrPepper can you clarify which of the two it was, for future reference? BEST MALE CHARACTER Yakuza 0 Goro Majima Like I said with the female category, I'm unsure if this is for "favourite male character in general" or "favourite male character to play as." Luckily, Majima is both for me. Holy shit, what a well-written character. His slow descent into madness was portrayed very well and he was fun to play as. He provides so much comic relief while still being a respectable and sad character that you want the best for. BEST PLAT OF THE YEAR Digimon Survive In my opinion, this is how a JRPG platinum should be designed. The plat makes you get everything that the game has to offer without making you do stupid, meaningless tasks like "obtain all weapons" or "kill 10,000 enemies." I enjoyed this one the whole way through, although the first couple of chapters were a bit slow. It was worth it though, because the story was really good. The plat requires 3 full playthroughs and a partial one, and it did not feel like a drag at all. WORST PLAT OF THE YEAR Digimon All-Star Rumble Funny how both my Best Plat and Worst Plat awards are from Digimon games. This game was shit even from a non-trophy perspective, but the journey to the platinum literally made me question this hobby. 90+% of the game is an RNG-filled grind. I would not recommend this to even the most hardcore Digimon fan. MOST ANTICIPATED PLATINUM OF 2023 Guilty Gear XRD -SIGN- I would have chosen Yakuza Kiwami 2 for this category as Yakuza is now my second favourite series (after Persona). However, I'm really busy lately and I'm prioritizing games for PSNP events, so I likely won't have time for it. Thankfully, Guilty Gear XRD -SIGN- is a bounty in the Ultra Rare Cleanup this year, and it's a series I'm into anyway. I'm hoping this fills the BlazBlue void. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meikoro Posted January 8, 2023 Share Posted January 8, 2023 On 28.12.2022 at 9:53 PM, DoctorDrPepper said: The Jumping Pizza DJMAX RESPECT Not much to choose this Year, but i guess the whole Demon Gaze II Cast was Badass SOULCALIBUR V grinding 87.600m Catherine Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel DJMAX RESPECT DJMAX RESPECT POKEMON SCARLET (deal with it) The Jumping Taco On 28.12.2022 at 9:53 PM, DoctorDrPepper said: Merurulince Rede Arls Peter Parker Catherine The Jumping Pizza DJMAX RESPECT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonesey46 Posted January 9, 2023 Share Posted January 9, 2023 Hey, thanks for doing this thread! Sorry I'm late. Anyone know what happened to @Dr_Mayus ? Anyway, here we go! Piece of Cake Donut County A nice simple and funny game about holes. Making holes bigger to be exact ?. It's Like Dark Souls Ashen I mean, it's literally like Dark Souls, it's a soulslike through and through. This game is super punishing, especially on the hardest difficulty 'Children of Sissna' which doesn't really increase the difficulty but instead cuts your health and stamina by two thirds. Doesn't sound like much but trust me it turns every encounter into a dance with death. I really enjoyed this though and it felt super satisfying getting the platinum and 100%, even if I did cheese the last two bosses and the DLC boss ?. Bad Ass Tunic - Thank you for playing! Finishing the golden path in this game was so fucking cool and my wife and I felt so clever figuring it out. Getting a notepad and pen out to solve this thing gave us this amazing feeling that we hadn't felt for years. Truly a wonderful game. If you haven't yet, check it out! Grind of the Year Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number - TROPHY ADDICT Getting A+ on all levels and beating all levels on hard mode was a massive grind and when compared to the first game, ball crushingly difficult. I love this game overall but there were definitely times where I wanted to stomp on my Vita. Finally Done Dishonored - 10 years, 1 week This year marked the monumental occasion of finally getting 100% on one of my favourite games. The DLC has a infamous reputation for being very difficult and RNG based, which turned me off doing it for years. Went back to it on a whim as I was replaying the main game anyway and got it done with relative ease. And had a lot of fun doing so! If you want some more of my thoughts on this I did a long ass post on it in my trophy checklist. King of the Internet Fallout 76 Second year running giving this award to Fallout 76. It has genuinely become my favourite Fallout game. I was anticipating The Pitt expansion all year and when it dropped it was a little underwhelming to be honest but I still had a blast jumping back into this world and exploring an old location from Fallout 3. Worst Online Experience Resident Evil 6 Got the platinum for this in 2022 and then attempted to tackle the online DLC stuff. Big mistake. It's soooooooooooo boring. Me and my boosting partner fell off with it and then I never got back to it as my son was born. Maybe one day? Best Music Tunic Seriously this soundtrack absolutely SLAPS. Sleeper Hit of the Year Toem Had no idea that this game existed when it hit PS+, watched a quick trailer, thought "this looks cute" and my god, it was. Just a really chill experience taking pictures. It reminded me of A Short Hike which I loved the previous year. Biggest Bomb of the Year Horizon Forbidden West Everyone loved this and I honestly have never been more bored in my life playing a video game. I mean, it's fine, it plays well, it's utterly gorgeous and the story actually starts out really strong. But yet again we have a bloated Ubisoft open world with icons everywhere, a story that goes nowhere which ends on an unearned cliffhanger, has the worst use of Hollywood actors and the protagonist is about as interesting as toenail clippings. I really liked Zero Dawn and have fond memories of it, and I really wanted to like this but I just couldn't. I'm willing to admit that it's probably not the games fault and it's probably my tastes that have changed. Maybe. Best Trophy Image Toem - And that completes the list! A trophy image that captures the best moment of this game beautifuly. Worst Trophy Image Deliver Us The Moon - Mankind's Brightest It's just the game image compressed into a trophy image. Best Female Character Selene - Returnal A beautifully complex character that isn't what she seems at first. I had a great time figuring her out during my time with Returnal. Best Male Character Atreus - God of War Ragnarok Yeah we all love Kratos but my boy Atreus grew up and became a man in this game. I really appreciated that there was more focus on him this time around and I really enjoyed the parts where we play as him. He's a good kid. Best Plat of the Year Elden Ring It was obviously going to be Elden Ring, come on guys. Worst Plat of the Year Last Stop Making my way through all the Annapurna published games and this is the worst one by far. Just utterly awful and dragged out. Most Anticipated Platinum of 2023 Same as last year ? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zadorvp Posted January 10, 2023 Share Posted January 10, 2023 (edited) I miss Dr_Mayus Thanks for doing this topic in his stead. PIECE OF CAKE AWARD Spoiler Night Detective: Decrepit Manor. Let's leave it at that IT'S LIKE DARK SOULS Spoiler Got to play Stranger of Paradise again for its newest DLC, that applies pretty well. There was also Yurukill: The Calumniation Games which I never planned to platinum anyways since I'm not a fan of bullet hell shmups (I played it for the mystery story and gameplay alone). Lastly there's the endings in New Tales from the Borderlands that I was unable to get any of other than the perfect ending no matter how many times I tried. BAD ASS AWARD Spoiler Completing nearly all the optional title challenges in Sword and Fairy 6, finally learning how to play Mahjong and other minigames in the Yakuza series in Lost Judgment, obtained all monsters in Digimon Survive, and completing nearly all missions in Crisis Core as soon as they were possible (had to delay Minerva a bit for my own sanity, but otherwise I was constantly overleveled and overequipped for everything xD) GRIND OF THE YEAR Spoiler Dreamlight Valley with its many trophies that I am still slowly working on. For actually completed ones, leveling the ghost in Ghostbusters felt like the biggest chore even though it wasn't that bad. FINALLY DONE AWARD Spoiler For this year, The Darkside Detective Season 2: A Fumble in the Dark was completed in 1 year and 6 months since new DLC had come out. AC Valhalla (still unfinished) is at 1 year and 9 months though, but I did manage to clear two of its DLCs at last. KING OF THE INTERNET Spoiler I'll give it to Gotham Knights this year (haters be hating), with Ghostbusters and Escape Academy as runners up The Devil In Me was fun, but very bugged at launch so that made the experience not as good as these three. WORST ONLINE EXPERIENCE Spoiler Stranger of Paradise just because the newest DLC was better to play solo Would have wanted to play together as usual. BEST MUSIC Spoiler Chrono Cross, Crisis Core, Lost Judgment, and many more. A lot of good music this year. SLEEPER HIT OF THE YEAR Spoiler There were so many good ones I played this year, but I'll limit myself to just one this year instead of making another list... I'll go with The Centennial Case: A Shijima Story since I feel like less people played it than the similiar 428: Shibuya Scramble which I also finally played this year. BIGGEST BOMB OF THE YEAR Spoiler The impossible plats (Reverie Knights Tactics, Monster Crown) and Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice for its unnecessary second playthrough. BEST TROPHY IMAGE Spoiler WORST TROPHY IMAGE Spoiler BEST FEMALE CHARACTER Spoiler Tama from 428: Shibuya Scramble BEST MALE CHARACTER Spoiler Doctor Strange from Midnight Suns. What a perfect adaptation of this character. BEST PLAT OF THE YEAR Spoiler There were several which were just a joy to complete (and in some cases, play through several times), such as Cyanide & Happiness: Freakpocalypse, Stray, the visual novels, the Sam & Max games, The Quarry, and Digimon Survive. A really great year for games. WURST PLAT OV TEH YEER Spoiler Not counting the impossible plats, I'll go with New Tales from the Borderlands for a game I actually tried to platinum. Just could not get any of the other endings. Leisure Suit Larry: Wet Dreams Dry Twice would be my pick if only completed plats counted (for the unnecessary second playthrough). MOST ANTICIPATED PLATINUM OF 2023 Spoiler Depends on what releases next year, yet again my "most anticipated plat" games list from last year ended up having games that did not release in 2022 For 2023, I'll go with the Pixel Remaster Collection of Final Fantasy I to VI, Theatrhythm (though I may not end up platting that), Sam & Max Season 3, Hogwarts Legacy, and many more. Edited January 10, 2023 by zadorvp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voodoo_eyes Posted January 11, 2023 Share Posted January 11, 2023 (edited) Piece of Cake This was more like a proof of concept or a tech demo than a game. Just walk around a small area and pick up collectibles. It's Like Dark Souls It's not really that difficult, but the final boss was a bit of a pain in the ass. Didn't really plat anything difficult this year. Badass Award Just related to the previous award. Finally defeating the final boss. Grind of the Year The whole game felt like a grind and was super tedious to me. Finally Done 1 year and 3 days - Didn't really feel like playing it when I started it up originally. Picked it up again like almost a year later and wrapped it up. King of the Internet NONE Worst Online Experience NONE Best Music Sleeper Hit Murder Mystery Machine Had a good time with it. It's sort of a detective thriller in which you go through cases connecting the "dots" on who was murdered how. A bit overpriced though. Biggest Bomb This series was so hyped up and praised by so many and was a major letdown. Granted visual novels are not my favourite genre, but I've played a fair amount of them and this one is far down at the bottom. Best Trophy Images Lamentum Worst Trophy Image Five Dates Best Female Character Maya Best Male Character Sonny (Chicken Police) Best Plat of the Year One of the best platformers I'e played. Wurst Plat Ov Teh Yeer Didn't like anything about this game. Ark would've been chosen for this, if it wasn't essentially just using the command menu. Most Anticipated Platinum of 2023 Thymesia Edited January 11, 2023 by voodoo_eyes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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