Thropy_Croissant Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 (edited) hey guys , here's the question We all have that one moment when you just realised what you have done and that ONE trophy just f***ed you up real good. So what is your biggest mistake on a platinum journey? Mine is really not that bad because I am PARANOID about not screwing up and missing missable trophies in my games to the point it's almost a OCD But I remember one of my first platinums(bioshock) There was that bronze trophy for researching every ennemies to the max by taking pictures. The problem is that you get the camera halfway through a chapter and almost immediatly after, one of the ennemies disappears forever which I didn't know ended up with everything full expect ONE more of this ennemy to full my researches and had to do a THIRD playthrough for this bronze trophy. Guess I learned my lesson because it's the only time I ever had to do a full playthrough for a dumb mistake;). Yeah, I know nothing crazy but I warned you. But I'm convinced some of you have HILARIOUS stories about screwing up a goddamn 200h+ JRPG or something so share your story!! Edited May 30, 2015 by dav1d_123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manuelito Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 I screw up the AWP trophy from GTA IV, after +20h of boosting, because of that I gave up with gta4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lonemankane Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 well for me it was doom bfg, I played all of the first part of doom 3 and I forgot to back up my save and I ended up having to replay the game again to unlock nightmare mode 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChickenExotic Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Started playing Diablo III never finished it...lack of finding friends to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crono Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 AWP- GTA4 Did half of wins wihtout using a checklist before re-reading the trophy again. Afterwards I won all of mp modes (and sub modes) for it and it didn't pop. Heard there was a rare glitch that you could lose the trophy if you had more than 1 win on any mode. Won all modes again in hopes of getting it...guess the result. I got so mad cuz it was my last trophy for plat, so I sent a complain to Rockstar (even e-mailed them and wrote in their Facebook and twitter) and a guy told me to wait for them to process the complain. 1 week later one of their team fixed my mp results and told me to win a certain race. Did as they asked and... POP! So yeah, it was 50% my fault, 50% theirs. Afterwards they erased my complain from their system, etc. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thropy_Croissant Posted May 30, 2015 Author Share Posted May 30, 2015 (edited) AWP- GTA4 Did half of wins wihtout using a checklist before re-reading the trophy again. Afterwards I won all of mp modes (and sub modes) for it and it didn't pop. Heard there was a rare glitch that you could lose the trophy if you had more than 1 win on any mode. Won all modes again in hopes of getting it...guess the result. I got so mad cuz it was my last trophy for plat, so I sent a complain to Rockstar (even e-mailed them and wrote in their Facebook and twitter) and a guy told me to wait for them to process the complain. 1 week later one of their team fixed my mp results and told me to win a certain race. Did as they asked and... POP! So yeah, it was 50% my fault, 50% theirs. Afterwards they erased my complain from their system, etc. At least you didn't give up ! That plat must have felt good My GTA V game glitched at 99% completion and no I'm not kidding Only thing needed was ONE loosy 5 minutes long side mission but it just...disappeared from the map after a while and never reappeared and YES it is a glitch I know about certain activities at certain hours of the day and that wasn't it. I saved by accident at 80% while doing the car stunts hopefully but that last 20% was the longest one with things that were worth 0.3% and a bunch of side missions and races but i eventually did it! Without that save I would have been at 0%. And another trophy glitched on me on single player, had to redo a huge bunch of the story...wasnt lucky with this game Edited May 30, 2015 by dav1d_123 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chubaqc Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 After 100+ hours on FFXIII, noticing I selled an elemental ring 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crono Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 At least you didn't give up ! That plat must have felt good My GTA V game glitched at 99% completion and no I'm not kidding Only thing needed was ONE loosy 5 minutes long side mission but it just...disappeared from the map after a while and never reappeared and YES it is a glitch I know about certain activities at certain hours of the day and that wasn't it. I saved by accident at 80% while doing the car stunts hopefully but that last 20% was the longest one with things that were worth 0.3% and a bunch of side missions and races but i eventually did it! Without that save I would have been at 0%. And another trophy glitched on me on single player, had to redo a huge bunch of the story...wasnt lucky with this game Owww, glitching at 99% completion must definitely suck (glad you had that backup though), and another trophy glitching? that's almost fatality. You are the one who deserves respect for enduring that, as you had no means of fixing it quickly. So congrats! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lesk8vaincra Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 I had to do 3 whole playthrough of South Park stick of truth because each time i missed one of the collectable. It is a short game, but i lost at least 10 hours doing it. Also, in "Dust an elysian tail", the game glitched after many hours of play. My character is stuck in a wall, can't get out, i don't have a backup save, the only thing i can do is restarting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thropy_Croissant Posted May 30, 2015 Author Share Posted May 30, 2015 After 100+ hours on FFXIII, noticing I selled an elemental ring lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Floriiss Posted May 30, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 30, 2015 Dying at the end boss on Max Payne 3 NYMHC. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MStalker58 Posted May 30, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted May 30, 2015 (edited) Not sure if it was the biggest mistake but here goes my most embarrassing that I can remember. The game was Uncharted 3. I was extremely new to trophies. Had never been to this site or even seen a trophy guide at the time. I decided that I was going to try for my first platinum and began working through the trophies. For some reason, the whole idea of difficulty trophies stacking never occurred to me. You can guess where this is going. I wasted many hours beating the game on Easy, then Normal, then Hard, and eventually Crushing. About halfway through my Hard run I was like "Damn this is getting old having to beat the game on every single difficulty setting." Needless to say I was extremely embarrassed when I learned of difficulty trophies stacking and realizing I could have just done 2 playthroughs instead of 4. Edited May 30, 2015 by MStalker58 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styx2319 Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 1. Accidentally overwritten my save file on Sly Cooper Thieves in Time with 1 collectible left to get. Gotta do that all over again now. 2. Playing Hardcore mode on Diablo 3 while half asleep and dying at level 69. Those are my two worst that I can recall. Luckily it's not like my friend who was very close to 5 or 6 plats because he was jumping back and forth between 6 games at the time and ignored the signs and my warnings that his ps3 was about to die. He didn't back up his saves like I told him and 2 weeks later it crashed. All those plats plus a bunch of other games he had started before we're suddenly gone because his saves were gone. It devastated him to the point that he still hasn't gone back to finish those plats yet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wdjat Prinny Doods Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 On Tales of Graces f during my 1st playthrough I had almost all the inn request done doods, then I found out I missed the only missable quest in the game and had to do it all over again on my next playthrough. What really sucked about it was I had spent hours upon hours grinding for some of the shards I needed so having to do them again was just......ugh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Mayus Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Grinding out My Kung Fu is Stronger on Mortal Kombat. Finishing 3 fighters 24 hour trophies. Thinking "you know what would be smart. I should replace my save on the cloud just in case anything happens I will have my save with these fighters done" The only problem is I did it in reverse order and copied my old cloud save to my ps3 and deleted my Ps3 save...all those fighters went back to 0 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avatar_Of_Battle Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 So far the only game that comes to mind is Dead Space. And it was a stupid thing on my part. Upon completing my first run I unlocked the hardest difficulty setting. (idr if it's called hardcore in the first game.) I knew that playing the game on another setting would lock the difficulty...but didn't think that playing a new game plus would. Suffice to say after completing new game plus I found the difficulty locked and to this day haven't gone back to beat it again...and then again. I just didn't find the game enjoyable enough to play 4 times in a row. (I had done this for Dishonored and it killed how much I enjoyed the game.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaneAusten69 Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 Mine would have to be Kingdom's of Amular. I didn't realize that there was a difficulty trophy which is something that I usually check for. Beat the game (which is very long) only to find I was missing one trophy. Checked to see what the trophy was and couldn't believe I would have to do a whole nother play through for one trophy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihiris- Posted May 30, 2015 Share Posted May 30, 2015 I missed one enemy for Okami's bestiary and screwed up my chance to get the platinum in one playthrough. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Ys Celceta. That stupid trophy of getting information from an informant. Was half way through when I realized I can't go back (because once you pass a story point you can't get that informant to give you old info) so now I have to restart again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edu_gamer Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 When I was almost done with Ventus reports on KH:BBS I decided to start a Critical playtrough since I was starting to get bored of the grind, played untill the first Save point and decided that I had played enough for that day so I went to save and quit the game, sadly after a week or so playing and saving with Ven I was so used to save on the green picture that I end up overwriting my save, funny thing is I completely HATE every single minigame on that game, so having to replay all of them was a pain, but to compensate I adore every other aspect of the game, otherwise I wouldn't even bother to try the plat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starcrunch061 Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 The road to Star Ocean's plat is littered with the bodies of many. I might yet get it one day, but the reason I don't have it is because I lost my original save file was lost when my first PS3 died. The thing is, I knew it was on the fritz, and a fellow trophy hunter warned me to back up the save, but in my arrogant stupidity, I kept right on playing, and lost the save (about 150 hours). Then, playing again, I was careless and missed a missable chest, which forced me to find all of the chests on yet another playthrough. If I ever finish the last two trophies (I have only 3 battle trophies remaining, and I need to make three items), I might throw a real, physical party. Stupid trophies. Stupid Japanese. Good luck to the crazy fools going for the plat in June. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MStalker58 Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 Grinding out My Kung Fu is Stronger on Mortal Kombat. Finishing 3 fighters 24 hour trophies. Thinking "you know what would be smart. I should replace my save on the cloud just in case anything happens I will have my save with these fighters done" The only problem is I did it in reverse order and copied my old cloud save to my ps3 and deleted my Ps3 save...all those fighters went back to 0 lol, I worry that I'm doing that every single time I copy a save file to the cloud or usb drive. I'm not sure why since I've never actually done it in reverse order. Still, I double, even triple check, each time I do it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limelight1979 Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 I dodged the bullet *twice* on this topic but i would say Doom 3 BFG getting all the collectibles in a single playthrough had me paranoid even though i was using a guide, (but i figured it would be my bad luck that the guide missed one somewhere). And the second would be on Saints Row IV where you have to upgrade everything but not do it early in the game or it glitched. I think its called Where's My Cape. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrToboThe1st Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 I haven't majorly stuffed up at all (yet), but I would say just ditching the game and going to another. I am cleaning my v=backlog up a bit though so I'm making progress! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hyappatuhyakuchu Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 I don't remember precisely... but it involves playing Persona 4 Golden from beginning to end 3 times (I still don't have it and have to do a 4th NG+). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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