US gamers who like to rock out in flOw can now download a patch for the game to enable Trophy support. If you still play the game, which I haven’t touched in a very long time, and need to get Trophies to feel better about yourself, fire it up and see what you can get.
The patch should be available for Europe in “next couple of weeks”, according to developer thatgamecompany.
While I applaud developers supporting their titles, I can’t help but think the resources could have been used elsewhere. Trophies are cool, but they aren’t the end-all-be-all that some people make them out to be.
Ever since Sony introduced Trophies on the PS3, gamers have been begging Konami to patch Metal Gear Solid 4 to include Trophies. They’ve been pretty hush on the subject… until now. In the latest Kojima Productions podcast, Sean Eyestone dropped some wisdom.
I just wanna tell everybody out there right now that your voices are being heard and that we’re not ignoring you. We hear everything that you are saying. It’s just that we can’t say anything just yet.
So, yeah, that’s a big “no comment”. Metal Gear Solid released over a year ago (June 12, 2008 to be exact). At this point, do you really see yourself going back and playing the game again? Sure, it’s an amazing single player experience and I’ve played through it twice, but I can’t see myself playing again just to boost my Trophy level. I know there are Trophy Whores and Achievement Whores out there, but for everyone else, do you even care anymore? Will you go back to Metal Gear Solid 4 if Konami adds Trophies?
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Back in December, I questioned whether Sony would ever bring Trophies to the PSP. It’s a logical extension of the service. With everything going on at E3, I completely forgot to ask Sony about this. Luckily, Joystiq didn’t. When posed the question, Eric Lempel – Director of PlayStation Network Operations, had this to say:
You’re not going to see Trophies on the PSP.
Just why is that? Because you’re all dirty, theiving pirates. Lempel went on to say “if people can artificially inflate their rankings and amounts of Trophies, it kills the whole system.” Fair enough. The PSP has been hacked to death, so it wouldn’t take too much for the astute PSP Scene to come up with a way to hack the Trophy database on the platform.
How about this, though… Sony comes up with a firmware update that can prevent hacking? I know, I laughed while writing that too.
Sony is ever so slowly adding features to the PlayStation Network to make it better. Today, we get the ability to view our Trophies on PlayStation.com.
Later this year, Sony will be allowing you to view other people’s Trophies and compare your stats, along with the ability to “sort trophies in new ways”. Who knows what ways those will be.
I’m looking forward to Sony making PlayStation.com have all the features of the My Xbox section of Xbox.com. I’d like to view and send messages along with comparing Trophies and seeing games played for my friends. Maybe by the end of the year, that will be a reality.
Nowhere near as exciting as a wardrobe malfunction, but still very important to our key demographic.
Sony has encountered another SNAFU with one of their recent firmware updates. It appears some users who have changed their PSN ID or their Password have encountered data corruption issues. In some cases, these corruptions will not allow the player to run the game.
CVG has reported the following fix for some instances:
- Delete your Game Data (that’s the install files for a game, NOT the Save Data).
- Use the Backup option in the PS3’s XMB to create a full backup of your hard drive.
- Restore your PS3 from the backup.
- You trophies will all be gone but don’t panic – that data will be stored on Sony’s servers. Just reinstall the game, install the Trophy data and the sync should work fine. Maybe.
The best solution is prevention, which means you should not change your PSN ID or your Password until this gets resolved.
If you’re a PS3 gamer who picked up Fallout 3, you’ve probably noticed a nasty bug that causes the game to freeze whenever you get a notification message. Bethesda had recommended turning off notifications as a temporary work-around, but now a patch is out to fix the issue.
The 24mb patch not only brings bug fixes, but brings Trophy support to the game as well. If you already started, you won’t be getting things retroactively. So that’s semi-good news. The update is available for English versions of the game in the US and UK only right now, but rest assured everyone else is getting it soon. The Xbox 360 and PC are said to receive similar patches very soon, which the code in the approval stages at the respective companies.
I have Fallout 3 for the PS3 but haven’t touched it yet. I know it’ll suck me in completely once I start, so I’ve been waiting until I get through a lot of the other games from this Holiday season. Come January, me and Fallout are going to be spending a lot of time together.
With the PSP now semi-utilizing the PlayStation Network, Sony has the unique opportunity of branching out their Trophy system to the handheld platform. Both upcoming retail and downloadable titles could feature Trophies that, when unlocked, could sync up to the PSN to add to your total level. But will they make it happen?
Of late, Sony has been slow on the uptake when it comes to enhancing the features of the PlayStation Network, especially on the PSP. With the PlayStation Store now running natively on the handheld, there’s no reason other PSN features couldn’t be worked in as well, particularly friends lists and messaging. There’s really no technical reason these features can’t be added. The same goes for Trophies. There is enough internal flash memory to store that information along side the firmware or even on the memory stick. The network functionality is in place to keep everything synchronized. It’s not a matter of logistics, it’s a matter of putting in the work to get it done.
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According to Bethesda PR VP Pete Hines, a Trophy patch for the PS3 version of Fallout 3 is in the works. Pete let this tidbit out in an interview with Eurogamer:
It’s going to happen, just not sure when. We’ll let folks know when we have something more definitive.
I own the PS3 version of the game, so it’s nice to see developers adding this in, even though it’s late. I’m hoping a patch comes sooner rather than later to fix the issue of slight freezing whenever you get an XMB pop-up.
To all the fanboys out there, the PS3 version is not hardcore broken. On my 50″ 1080p HDTV, the two versions look almost identical. In some cases the Xbox 360 has better textures and, in others, the PS3 has better textures. It’s a great game on both systems, so stop acting dumb.
I make up words. That’s how I roll on Saturday mornings. Some updates are coming for your friendly neighborhood PixelJunk Monsters to make the game easier for your n00bs out there. The game will introduce a Casual mode for people who can’t get the hang of a few stages as well as a Hardcore mode for those of you who might not last too long.
To go along with the difficulty tweaks, Trophy whores will be pleased to know that you can blow your wad on yet another game. Huzzah!
Other tweaks in the patch include YouTube upoading support, in-game XMB soundtracks, and a few Tower balancing doodads. If you live in Japan, you got the patch this past Thursday. Those of us everywhere else in world will get the goods this coming Thursday, October 30th. Get some.
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.
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