PushSquare: "I appreciate that there are rules in the real world. When developers create a sandbox game based on the real world, their imagination if often confined by the laws of the land. Take Grand Theft Auto – you're free to do anything within the world. Pick up a prostitute, bang her, and then shoot her so you don't have to pay. But like the real world, the laws of GTA often mean that I'm going to get chased down by the cops for carrying out this practice. Sure, I'm more likely to escape AI than I am real cops – but the moment I have to escape the police, my freedom ends. It becomes a video game. And that's what I absolutely hate about sandbox games."
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The Yakuza Games
Haha, yeah, currently over 100 hours into Yakuza 0. Considering going for 100% and well on the way but may not get there. Cat Fights are a real chore.
I use to be a trophy hunter, was getting around 20 to 30 platinums a year. Had a saying of Play-Beat-Platinum, play and enjoy the game like there wasn't no trophies, beat it and at least get 50% then look at them and see if I'll platinum and platinum it. I think death star was a pain, the servers was ending so i had to rush and play that for awhile none stop. NGs2 was hard because of that online trophy but easy if you had the partner that can do it for you while you grab the enemy attention. Grinding idk, death was grinding last one I had to grind for platinum literally 1 trophy needed was dungeon travler or something vita gave up on it. After that I stop trophy hunting get like a 1 platinum a year or 0.
Yeah, if I enjoy a game I usually go for the platinum unless there are some unreasonable trophies in there.
For Yakuza 0 I've invested too much time in it to give up just yet and most of the content is good fun, apart from Cat Fighting which is broken and dull after a couple of fights.
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 was literally the last platinum I got on PS3. After that, I went into PS4 kinda deflated and getting them where it felt appropriate.
I genuinely HATED that platinum, but it was a personal challenge I took upon myself. It was a lot of "get 1,000 kills with [insert weapon]" and it got to be a bit tedious. Master Ninja really pissed me off, but the WORST which you alluded to was that bloody Gold trophy for missions that you needed to do online because the AI was useless and got wrecked in moments. I jumped on the game a bit late so I struggled with finding a partner for at least 1.5 months. After that, I burned out hard with trophy hunting. I still came back for games I really enjoyed (Bloodborne, Dark Souls III, Nier: Automata, and a few others that escape me) and low hanging fruit that was just a bit time consuming and I didn't want to buy new games at the time (Final Fantasy XV). Total, it becomes clear where I taper off since I've only plat'ed 33 games since there inception of trophies which really isn't much.
Screw Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 lol. That game was pure nightmare fuel.
I say never force getting a platinum, its not worth the trouble definitely if it costing you to waste time on chore like grind. Those brainless design trophies.
Dead rising was the worst one I’ve ever tried. I haven’t tried it with the modern console “rest mode” but the 360 didn’t have that.
Was GTa4 the on where you had to collect a shit ton of pigeons around the map and there was no help in finding them?
The saving grace was that there was only on average 50 collectables with the two exceptions being graffiti and oysters from memory horseshoes and photos were capped at 50 each.
But for me it was all the other grind that was way more painful in SA like the car export lists which even with guides took way longer than collecting stuff
There was a guide book that came out with the game that had all the pigeons in it. I actually still have it
One of the more recent games I got a Platinum in was Killzone: Mercenary for Vita. What a crap game, that requires so much terrible grinding.
Awful game, awful experience.
Oh man..wish i could get a vita. I've been trying to get a preowned too(in my country) but no luck.
I can vouch for Just Cause 2. It was the reason I quit achievement hunting. 86 hours in, the game bugged on me during one of the last side quests (it failed no matter what I did) and my save file got corrupted. Wiped it off my drive and never looked back.
I downloaded the ‘complete edition’ or whatever it was called for $2 about 7yrs ago in hopes of trophy hunting it for a platinum. It always sounded fun and I would like to commit time to it but not enough for a platinum trophy
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GTA without the cops? That's a boring game right here.
The only reason why I shoot people in GTA is to get the cops to follow me. Seriously, you just want to spend your time shooting prostitutes? That's gonna get old really fast.
Uh, hypothetical game he's proposing actually just sounds like the hours of fun in Crackdown, even Prototype when I wasn't following the story or just getting lost in San Andreas.
Sandbox games without any police or enforcement? What?!? I'm not really sure what he's actually proposing here. The most fun I've ever had in a game is in San Andreas causing insane speedy crashes pile ups by parking a car and shooting gas tanks, jumping off a building with a motorbike and parachuting.
The very idea behind a sandbox game is the fact you can choose to play the game as a game, or just a wild simulation, make your own fun using the things given to you in a large space, like the way actual childrens sandboxes work. Half of the sandbox games I've owned, I've never really completed 100%, why bother when there are brilliant tools and physics at your disposal?
I would even, to a degree argue that Postal 2 is a 'first person sandbox game'. I mean, you can find things around and do whatever the hell you want to do and witness the chaos or implications of your actions. I've had many an hour just taking advantage of some of the hilariously twisted elements RWS put in the game.
Go play something boring like The Sims, that has no danger, no police, you can do whatever the hell you want and it never 'ends'.
GTA series has even kept pretty much the same cheats codes throughout aswell most ppl prob know the good ones off by heart now, i.e More/Less stars, More Ammo, Spawn a tank, lol!
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