According to a forum post, the Trophy list for the PS3 version of Grand Theft Auto IV has been leaked. The Trophies match the Xbox 360 Achievements, so this isn’t very far fetched.
Are Trophies important to you? Will this bring you back to GTA4? I’ve moved on and doubt this will give me any reason to come back. It is nice to see developers adding Trophy support to older, popular games, though.
The creator of Metal Gear Solid, Hideo Kojima, recently had an interview with Thomas Puha of 1up and some interesting questions and answers popped up. The one of greatest note, aside that he couldn’t comment on trophies being in development for MGS4, was revolving around Metal Gear Online.
1UP: Are you happy with the amount of players playing Metal Gear Online?
Kojima: [Laughing] Not at all!
1UP: I think you know where this is heading — the Konami ID and Game ID registration processes are a pain in the ass and just too complicated.
HK: [Laughs more and shakes head] No comment! That’s, er, a difficult matter.
1UP: Understandably, the whole Konami ID and Game ID infrastructure is a Konami-wide initiative that you had to use, and we’ll see it in future Konami games like Pro Evolution Soccer 2009.
HK: Honestly, officially, I can’t say anything on Konami ID and Game ID. It’s a company policy. But frankly speaking, the idea wasn’t a very good one.
When you ask a creator if he is happy about an aspect of the game he created and he flat out tells you “Not at all” that is a very bad sign. He did not even try to put a spin on it or anything, just came out and said he did not like that entire aspect of the game. He does not go into detail, but plainly states that it was not a good idea and I am sure that anyone that has tried to play this game online will agree.
I am almost positive that the online portion of the game gives Kojima nightmares to this day. Wakes up in the middle of the night screaming in Japanese.
[Via 1up]
It seems that everything for the PS3 is getting delayed these days. The SOCOM beta, the Resistance 2 beta, and now the PAIN Amusement Park expansion and the Trophy patch. Apparently, the Trophies were too damn hard.
While we were testing it became apparent to quite a few people that although the trophies were achievable they began to resemble the tedious level grinds in MMOs and not the spoils for being good (or experienced) at PAIN.
It’s good to see the developers of PAIN listening to the community. The expansion and patch will still be available in September, just not this week as planned. Sit back and relax, because it might be a bumpy ride.
PAIN is about to get better. The upcoming Amusement Park add-on is coming September 4th and Trophies are coming with it. Here’s all you’ll get:
Gold Trophies
Silver Trophies
Bronze Trophies
PAIN Add-on Character Trophies
Sounds cool to me. Can’t wait for both Trophy support and the Amusement Park. PAIN is still one of my favorite downloadable titles on any system.
PS3 owners are having a good old time right about now. Yesterday, the Uncharted patch was released to add Trophy support. Today we get report that the Warhawk Trophy patch is coming August 27th.
No official word from SCEA yet, since this date was given for our European friends. I’m willing to bet they’ll be ready the same day.
We already knew that some Trophies could be awarded retroactively, but now we get to know that the coveted Trophies will be divided into four categories: Community Building, Game Mode, Vehicle and Warhawk Weapons. Can’t wait to see exactly what they’ll be. Hopefully more games with Trophy support come out soon, since this great new feature is being left alone as it is.
Guess I know what I’ll be playing when I get back from vacation. The Uncharted Trophy patch is now available everywhere in the world. The 13MB download will allow you to level up your PS3 life.
I’ve been wanting to get back to Uncharted for a while now. I’m about halfway through on my current play-through, but it’s been a long time so I’ll probably just start over to get the Trophies.
I bet a few of our readers will be hopping all over this one.
If you’re going to turn into a Trophy whore, I’ve got some good news. Q Games has let loose the details on the 20 Trophies in PixelJunk Eden, which comes out today on the PlayStation Network. There will be 19 Bronze Trophies and just one Silver Trophy. No Gold or Platinum here, folks.
Seems like a pretty good list of Trophies. Along with the YouTube upload support, I think we’ll be seeing a lot from PixelJunk Eden in the near future. I’m excited for Remote Play. Watch out for our review coming next week.
In an interview with IGN, Naughty Dog’s Arne Meyer confirmed that an upcoming Uncharted patch will bring 48 Trophies to the game.
You’ll be able to get up to 48 Trophies in Uncharted. There are 47 Trophies related to what you do in the game — finding treasures, hand-to-hand or gun combat and the like — and the last one is the Platinum Trophy for getting all the other Trophies.
All 47 will be directly related to the accomplishments/medals already in the game, so you won’t be too surprised to see what’s there. No word yet on which will be Bronze, Silver, or Gold.
Even without Trophy support, there’s more than enough reason to play through Uncharted for a first, second, or even third time. It’s one hell of game (I picked it for Game of the Year 2007). Can’t wait for August to dust this one back off. There shouldn’t be much else out then, so it’s a good time to get back into the game.
As if you didn’t know this was coming, 2K confirmed that Trophies are definitely coming to BioShock. Yesterday on PlayStation.Blog, they confirmed what a few of them would be. The game will have all of them: Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum.
What I think is cool is that the team behind the game is rethinking the Trophies and not just using the same ones from the Xbox 360 Achievements. There will be a Gold Trophy called Brass Balls where you have to beat the game on Hard with the Vita-Chambers turned off. You have to really step it up to get that one.
2K is keeping many of the Trophies secret so as to not spoil the story. I’m sure they’ll all get leaked before the game’s release though.
There’s been a recent uproar on the internet with gamers getting increasing angry that older PS3 titles will not be patched for Trophy support. Honestly, what’s the big deal? Is earning a few Trophies and boosting your Level that important to you? Is it really going to make you replay all of your old games?
I don’t see the reason for getting so upset over such a small issue. Sony just introduced this feature, and it’s undoubtably a good one. But people are forgetting that this is not just a new feature for gamers, it’s a new feature for developers. Asking them to drop what they’re doing to implement this into games that they have not touched in a while is just silly. Let’s think about this for a bit, shall we?
