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?
This popped up on the Inifinity Ward Forums:
With the latest Playstation 3 firmware now available, I see a lot of questions regarding how it effects Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare.
At this time, we have no plans to patch in Trophy support for Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for the PS3. Much like DualShock rumble addition to the PS3, the support for these new features have come much to late for us to add it to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare due to our current production schedule.
All I can say is this sucks, I have an un-opened copy of COD 4 for my PS3 just sitting and waiting for trophies, but it looks like that dream is gone. COD 4 gets no rumble or trophy support, this is just horrible. This also is a sign of things to come, something tells me that we will see many other game companies use the same lame excuse and trophies will only become available for new games.
This is a big blow to the new trophy system for PS3.
Dylan Jobe dropped by the official PlayStation forums and talked all about the upcoming Trophy support for Warhawk. No, they aren’t out yet. Soon, young Jedi. Soon.
Trophies are coming in update v1.5. But wait, v1.4 isn’t out yet. Don’t fret, as the two patches were developed in tandem and will be coming “very very very soon”. Yeah, I like the sound of that. There will be 56 achievements in all, with 10 being retroactive to medals and awards in the game. That’s right, if you already have them, you’ll automatically get the Trophies. Then there’s 34 achievements that are all new and have nothing to do with the current in-game medals. I’m betting things like a certain number of headshots, shooting down aircraft, etc. That leaves 12 more achievements. There will be 4 for each booster pack. But there’s only two out now, you so. Hmmm. Guess what’s coming…
Gotta give a lot of respect to Incognito for really staying behind the community of their game. Glad to see this awesome online shooter will be getting some nice updates and Trophies. Stay tuned as we get more information on a release date for both patches and the new booster pack.
In the pursuit of science, I spent a while today getting to know the latest PS3 firmware update. Some of the biggest criticisms have been addressed, while a few others still remain. If you don’t know what this firmware brings, shame on you. But I’ll tell you anyway.
First off, in-game XMB works as you would expect. Checking and sending messages, viewing what friends are up to, changing some settings, it all works great. There are some features that don’t work, such as changing your video settings, which is understandable. Two areas I hoped would make it, but should be slated for a future release are cross-game invites and private voice-chat in-game. Another minor feature is the addition of the date and time in the upper right hand corner of the screen. Good idea, bad placement. You see, whenever you hit the PS button to bring up the XMB, the clock is covered up by the controller battery status. When in the XMB with a dark wallpaper, it’s tough to see either. Hopefully Sony includes an option to disable the clock or move it in a future firmware update. Custom soundtracks are there, but currently no games support this feature through the XMB just yet (some games support it in-game, like PAIN).
That’s right, you won’t have to start over in Burnout Paradise to earn those Trophies. Announced by Criterion, the game will get an update “soon” to add Trophy support. This will not be part of the upcoming Codename: Cagney update coming on July 10th. No word on an exact time for this new patch, but I’d expect shortly after Cagney.
The reason Burnout Paradise will be able to issue Trophies retroactively is because the game save is tied to your PSN ID. Unlike most PS3 titles, you can’t share game saves with Burnout, which is why Criterion is able to go back and check your save for what you’re accomplished. I wouldn’t expect this feature in many other games. Hopefully we start hearing about what games will get Trophies later this week. I’d love to see games like Uncharted, Heavenly Sword, Ratchet and Clank Future, and SingStar get Trophy support really soon.
If you haven’t picked up Super Stardust HD yet, it’s a one hell of a good shooter. It flew under the radar and is one of the better PSN games out there. Sony announced that Super Stardust HD will be the first game to receive Trophy support, literally within hours of the firmware v2.4 release. With gamers clamoring to be the first to get their Trophies, will sales of the game spike this week?
I have a feeling this is the case. We don’t know the full sales total, but I’d expect Super Stardust HD to rocket up to the top of the charts on the PSN (as of mid-February, it was #7 on the PSN Top Sellers List). Just like with Achievement Whores on the Xbox 360, I fully expect Trophy Whores to be in full effect in the early morning hours of July 2nd once the firmware hits. Have to get started with building your Level, and why not spend $10 on a good game to get it going?
The real question is, did Sony plan this as a marketing move for the game? Being a critical success but not in the top sellers currently, why not make a big push with Super Stardust HD to garner attention? If this is the case, I think it was pretty smart move on Sony’s part. If not, they stepped into something good. Either way, I have a feeling we’ll be hearing about some high sales data at the end of the week or next week.
