Top 5 Hardest Platinum Trophies To Collect

LAG Writes: "Today I have compiled a list of what I believe are the top 5 most difficult Platinum Trophies to collect. Putting them into an order was very difficult because, all 5 platinum’s require a lot of skill and time. If you’re looking for a challenge, these are the games to get!"

[moofo]

Nice list, i have to agree :P they are friggen hard ones

[ainsz]

GTA IV definitley, the online trophies are just ridiculous!

[JBaby343]

Warhawk is the only one of those I have and it is freaking impossible. I wonder why some devs make them so hard.

[trainsinrdr]

What about FarCry2 or even Bad Company 1.

[JBaby343]

Far Cry 2 is definitely rough but I'm only 2 trophies away from Plat in Bad Company. Trying to get the "20 teammate spawn" trophy and the "however many kills online" trophy. Sadly my BC1 game stopped reading in my PS3 and I have moved on to BC2.

[bruddahmanmatt]

Agreed on FC2 and BC1. FC2 is a ridiculous GRIND in multiplayer. BC1 is close to impossible without some asinine luck on your side given some of the requirements for a couple of the patches.

Wipeout HD is also pretty brutal, not much of a grind but just damn hard because of the skill required. I'd also say that Motorstorm: Pacific Rift falls into that category as well, online anyway.

[Marceles]

Street Fighter 4: I actually did all the trials for SF4, I just need to gold all of survival and do the online medals. I even playtinumed MK vs. DC.

Warhawk isn't bad but it's really time consuming getting all of those rank trophies. If you didn't play it day one then you can forget platinuming that.

Star Ocean 4 is ridiculously hard lol...I want to get it though :D

Lost Planet 2, never was interested in the game really. I rented it from Gamefly but let my brother play it and then took it back.

Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 is hard to do the legit way, but people glitch it and watch replays which make the trophies unlock

Hard platinums:

Far Cry 2
EAR 2
White Knight Chronicles
Star Ocean 4
Virtua Tennis 2009
BattleFantasia
Fight Night Round 4

[beastgamer]

no freaking demon souls???

[norman29]

What about GT5, collecting 1000 cars, getting gold in every race (races licenses and special events) and doing all those endurance races

[Bounkass]

ainsz, GTA IV isn't hard. Far from. It's just time consuming. Don't mess time consuming up with diffculty... PM me if you want the platinum.

[Biggest]

Star Ocean 4 is plain ridiculous.

[thereapersson]

Those are certainly a rewarding thing to unlock. But, I really, REALLY hate online-only trophies (multiplayer trophies). You're effectively alienating and punishing those players who don't spend every waking moment practicing in a multiplayer environment. The online grinding for some trophies irks the shit out of me. I'd like to have some sense of accomplishment, but since I actually have a life outside of my TV, there are those games out there that I know I'll never platinum. :(

[RedDragan]

There is nothing that compares to the GT5 Platinum. As already said above:

Over 1,000 cars
Gold in all A-Spec races
Gold in all B-Spec races
Gold in all Special Events
Gold in all Licences

The vast majority of people can't even complete the Sebestian Vettel challenge, let alone get the full 1,000+ cars.

GT5 Platinum is the mecca of PS3 Platinum Trophies.

[gaffyh]

@RedDragan - True, but those trophies are still possible. In Warhawk there are a couple of trophies that are near-impossible if you don't cheat. There's one to finish a Team Deathmatch, be the top Player AND have no deaths. And if you think that's bad, there's the same one, but for normal Deathmatch.

[JBaby343]

@gaffyh: I did the deathmatch one but not team deathmatch. I'll admit it is a great deal of luck.

[crxss]

I see no one's heard of WipeOut HD, otherwise it would have been listed in the coments already, that game's hard to freaking Gold lol

[red2tango]

SOCOM Confrontation isn't up there. Try getting 15 kills in a row without taking damage.

[pixelsword]

SOCOM: Confrontation is the hardest one, next to whatever else.

[beastgamer]

i got it.

[skip2mylou]

you got proof gamer?

[JoGam]

I have two friends that have the Socom Confrontation Platinums.

[red2tango]

I know people that have it, but it's not a large number. It takes a long time and takes a lot of skill and luck (probably done early when more noobs were present).

[Rettom]

I was about to write that.

[Koromaro]

I couldn't even get one trophy =(

[RedDevils]

no Wipeout HD is the hardest try getting it

[JBaby343]

I wonder if there is a game that not a single person has the platinum for. That would be an interesting thing for Sony to release.

[red2tango]

I got a disagree because you think a game is harder than what I said? I never said it was the hardest, I'm just saying it should be up there.

[harrisk954]

I know the usual suspects that make theses lists. But, what about a game like MLB: The Show... I don't know how anyone gets a Platinum on that game where so many trophies are luck-based as opposed to skill based.

[admiralvic]

The biggest mistake many people (including those that made the list) forget is that time = difficulty. A lot of games are long and if luck comes into play its STILL just a long grind to finally have it happened.

By this logic the hardest platinum would be Pachi Para because you have ZERO control over anything the machine does and Sam's reach can take 200+ hours to get ONE TIME. On the other hand if you have a turbo controller you can just turbo platinum given enough time.

Maybe its me, but I never got the point of these lists. The average hardcore fighting game fan can do all the street fighter/blazblue/MK challenges/trials in a few hours. There were people who platinumed SSFIV on day 5. The same can be said of any game really... If you play a lot of hack/slash games then NGS2 will be easier than the average person. If you dont like grinding WKC can seem impossible. etc, etc, etc.

[hamburger123]

ugg just reading it sounds exausting

[Black-Helghast]

Come on...We all know the hardest platinum ever is Terminator Salvation..

No but seriously, Demon Souls and Socom: Confrontation said Hello.

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

Demon's Souls plat isn't hard to get at all. Half of them are just for beating the game. And the rest for making the best type of weapon per stone type, which takes not that many hours to grind and collect, especially if you have the right equipment.

[Mikeyy]

@Vashlion

Sounds like you found Deamon Souls to be easy. Im waiting to borrow it from my friend to find out first hand what kind of hell this game is...

[Cheeseknight28]

@Mikeyy

Play smart and don't screw around, it's not that hard of a game. Quick hit and runs won't get you killed in it.

Just don't play it like Fable or Dragon Age and you'll be fine.

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

@Mikeyy

Honestly, it is an easy game, you just can't rush it. Take your time, learn how your enemy moves and learn went to counter, that's all there is to it.

[helghast102]

Demon's Souls is a rather easy Platinum once you know how to play it.
The only thing that REALLY makes it difficult is PURE BLADESTONE, and even then it's down to luck, shit my friend got a Pure Bladestone just from playing normally, no farming.

Glad Star Ocean 4 is acknowledged on this, i've completed that damn game 3 times and only have 21%, it's ridiculous.

[Greyfoxdbz]

@ Vashlion and CheeseyKnight28
If its so easy guys, why do you feel the need to give him advice on how not to die. Trust me Mickeyy it is hard, you will just learn techniques that will make you die less. And you will die a lot, whether you accidentally roll off a ledge or get gang raped by Maneater.

[ExplicitG]

Easier than them 5 games, especially if boosted.

[Jason94]

I am not gonna lie but I would never even attempt to go for half of these. My trophy cabinet is a couple of bronzes, silvers at the most. It's too much effort haha

[waltyftm]

Now those are some seriously hard Trophies, I heard Chuck Norris has them all.

[JBaby343]

I heard he got them in a single gaming session.

[ainsz]

I heard Chuck Norris is in this discussion, somewhere...

[Man In Black]

He was, but Vin Diesel killed him.

[UnSelf]

google chuck norris and click im feeling lucky

[pixelsword]

.

[Swiggins]

@ Pixelsword

More like this...

[Ares84]

Some of those aren't hard just takes a lot of time to get. I would put Mortal Kombat there as well if time matters because you will need a ton of time to get a platinum with that. To master each characters takes more than 10 hours easily.

[Miiikeyyy]

To master a character u have to play with them for over 24 hours. so It would take over a month to get the master all characters trophy/achievement

[FAGOL]

GT5's gold trophy is pretty hard. Them X2010 challenges are freakin hard.

[PhoenixDevil]

Yh not to mention 'Gold Standard' involving getting Gold on every single race and licence, if the licences weren't bad enough the 24 hour endurance races are insane, props to anyone who plats GT5

[FAGOL]

You can get gold on the BSpec races only and still get the trophy. But you still need to gold the special events and licences.

[jerethdagryphon]

gt5 is a rock hard plat to get gold in everything offline is absolutly nuts

[Viper7]

Gotta agree with Star Ocean4 platinum, sure some of the trophies are basically just grind but considering that you need 100% of battle trophies and some of the trophies are like "beat the final super boss in under x minutes using character/weapon/etc x" which are far from easy.

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

Yeah, even worse, there is really no way to check if you miss something and there are missables, + you gotta play through a fairly long game 3+ times.

[despair]

I tried going for Sigma 2 but gave up pretty early, firstly I couldn't spend the time to get those ridiculous kill numbers per weapon and move each, and secondly, no way in hell would I get Master ninja rank on every mission, much less beat the game on the hardest difficultly.

[InLaLaLand]

Keep playing Team Missions for the weapon trophies. Most weapons are upgraded to the max on Team Missions.

Yeah Path of the Mentor was hard (bosses were hard except the second last boss and last boss).

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

It sucks, for me I only need to do the last two sections of team missions, but I don't have a decent internet connection and frankly team ninja sucks at online programming because it's laggy as fuck no matter what. You can't do most missions unless you have a partner however.

[dc1]

Resistance 2's 10,000 kill multi player trophy is rough! Cant get the plat with out it!

[dinkeldinkse]

It's a pain in the ass, but it is not difficult.

[pixelsword]

Considering that ranked matches only last one round, it's a little more difficult than most.

[badz149]

but these trophies are just time consuming, not hard!

[Miraak82]

only 2 platniums I ever cared to get R2 and Demons souls...those were some commitments

[dc1]

How long did it take you to get the 10k multiplayer kills? Although I loved the co-op...I gave up on the platinum after a couple of days of pursuing the 10,000 kill requirements. I believe its the only trophy I have left to obtain...... sad/slightly mad face.

[Miraak82]

about 3 months of straight playing everyday when the game first came out, was in the top 100 in deathmatch for those first 3-4 month ... the bullseye is one hell of a weapon if u can master it... tag and spin around your target and use that floating electic power( forgot what it was called)

[I_am_Batman]

The Resistance 2 platin wasn't that hard for me cause I had a lot of fun with the game. SFIV was a real beast (by far the hardest platinum I have). Generally I like it when the platinum trophy is hard to get. Skillwise hard not time consuming hard. I mean 800+ hours for the platinum? This is ridiculous. It means if I play the game 2 hours a day I will need more than a year to get the platinum trophy.

[TheRichterBelmont]

White Knight Chronicles should be on this list. it takes about 500-1000 hours to grind the hell out of everything to Platinum it.

[postofficebuddy]

Hey, you took my comment from PS3trophies.org! At least credit me. My goal is to have 3 of those plats eventually (SO4 and SF4. Already got NGS2). I don't think LP2 is even possible anymore. The top of the leaderboards seem to have been optimized. Warhawk... well that's just too big of a time investment. Up until the recent patch I'd say Blazblue Continuum Shift deserved to be on this list. The challenges were quite hard, although you didn't have to do all of them like in SF4. But the recent patch made a bunch of missions a lot easier plus Platina the Trinity gave another easy 7-10 challenges. Also, I think GT5 deserves to be on this list. Even with the DS3 sensitivity patch golding all 3 Vettel challenges is still just plain crazy. And then there's the hundreds of hours needed to get both A-spec and B-spec to level 40. Aside from that though, good list.

[Platinum_k]

demon's soul...?

(I WANT BUBBLES FOR THIS PLEASE)

[JasonBloodbourne]

Demon's souls is easy enough just takes a few run throughs mate.

[Hellsvacancy]

Demons Souls is time consumin

"I WANT BUBBLES FOR THIS PLEASE" lol, yeah right, ill take one off ya for beggin

[Platinum_k]

... you can practically say whatever you want because you have none... jerk.

...at least I tried

[HardCover]

Demon's Souls trophies are not difficult, just insanely luck and time based.

Alternatively, you trade with a friend and get most of them in 5 minutes.

[PhoenixDevil]

I wouldn't exactly say luck based but more patient based, I recently platinumed it without any multiplayer help n it was quite tough but buying a load of good health items n just being cautious makes it easier. Now doing a no level up playthrough with a new character

[BlmThug]

What Will Bubble Do For You My Friend? Give You A Life

[dinkeldinkse]

Definitely needs to be on here. Gold Standard is ridiculous.

Edit: @Platinum_k demon's souls is not a difficult platinum, it requires 3 to 4 playthroughs and grinding. If it wasn't for the ridiculously low drop rate for a pure bladestone and having to legitimately kill the 5 main black phantons for the foe ring, I could have platinum the game in under 100 hours easily. Instead, it took a 130 hours.

[PhoenixDevil]

Yh I know what you mean about the drop rate of pure bladestone, tho i did manage to squeeze out the platinum in under 100 hours, 96 n a half :P

[thedriffter50]

GTA IV online trophies are beyond difficult. I have been playing the game since it came out and still don't have the online trophies. I'm a huge GTA fan and wanted this and had all of the single player trophies but the online trophies are too time consuming and are impossible without boosting.

[JasonBloodbourne]

well for me the hardest game to platinum would have to hannah montana! cos i'm not prepared to put the game in my machine!! lol!

seriously what about singstar? that looks hard as nails to plat! also dj hero2?

[Der_Kommandant]

Terminator Salvation is the hardest of all!

[Ravenor]

It is, I got to I think the third mission and just stopped. That games dumb, really really dumb.

[clarkdef]

I think GT5 takes the cake. Hardest platinum rating on ps3trophies.org too

[cervantes99]

Wipeout HD - The skill required to do it puts any gamer at automatic elite status in my opinion.

[kza]

I have some1 on my friends list with Wipeout plat and Motorstorm PR. This is what trophies should be about SKILL! I really want to try the Ninja Gaiden plat but dont want to rely on other people in the co-op missions.

[postofficebuddy]

I hear you on that. The first time I beat Ultimate Mission 2 I had a grandmaster at the game helping me out but it kind of felt like I cheated so I practiced really hard and went back and beat it again and beat one of the Genshins myself. I'd say the hardest part of that mission is getting into the groove of walking the 2 Genshins. Once you get used to his attack patterns actually fighting him is relatively easy.

[badz149]

the SP trophies alone are insanely hard. those lvl 7 and 8 AIs are brutal as hell!

[PirateThom]

Gran Turismo 5 and Wipeout HD really do take the cake... if there's only one GT and one Wipeout game this gen, they've gone all out to extend the playtime as much as possible.

SOCOM Confrontation's also struck me as a completely hateful list... ESPECIALLY WITH ALL THE TROPHY NAMES AND DETAILS IN CAPITAL LETTERS.

[Ravenor]

HI! YOU PLAY SOCOM!? THIS IS HOW YOU GET THE TROPHIES!!!! BUT YOU WONT GET MANY LOLOLOLOLOL.

Yeah, it is a mean list. I only ever got the get 150 kills without a TK, but I'm fairly sure the game launched without trophies so that is probably why.

[ross102]

what about dead space 2? has anyone seen the hardcore trophy of complete the game with only 3 saves! its brutal took me days! also killzone 2 is a tough one

[Muitnorts]

Yeah hard core was kinda tough but really you just have to learn the game.
The fact that I managed to get that platinum probably means it's far from the five the hardest!

[MrDead]

I think Yakuza 3, 4 would be insane to get and yeah I agree with cervantes99 Wipeout

[postofficebuddy]

Yakuza 3 is pretty difficult (The pool and the batting cages induced a huge amount of rage in me), but I don't think it quite ranks in the top 5. Top 20 easily though, especially the JP version. Although Yakuza 4 is a lot easier than Yakuza 3.

[InLaLaLand]

Yakuza 4 trophies are easier than Yakuza 3. The only hard trophy is the Ultimate Skill (well not hard but some trials can be annoying) in Yakuza 4. One of the speed trials takes the piss but it can be done.

[celtics345]

WipEout anybody? Good God!

[ainsz]

I'd just like to err.. mention, I have the Beat Zico trophy. Yup, read it and weep. Feels good... Oh yeah.

:p

[NotSoSilentBob]

I gotta give WhiteKnight Chronicles the hardest award. Due to the simple fact its hundreds of hours grinding for the stupidest crap. Right next to Crossedge.

[Kenshin_BATT0USAI]

If we're comparing RPGS, SO4 is actually harder to get and takes a lot longer too.

[Ace_Man_6]

Might not have a platinum, but what about getting 100% on PAiN? That definitely isn't easy lol

[LordLaguz]

Disgaea 3?

[Nexy]

Chronicle of Riddick has a trophy of sth like you must win a ridiculous number of online matches.

[Jamito]

I can't comment on any of the other games. But Warhawk is absolutely unreal. I respect anyone who has earned a platinum on that because it's ridiculously hard !!

[X-Zone]

Wipeout HD Fury

[Daves]

Damn right!!

Of the games I own. These seem the hardest.

Wipeout
Socom

Not sure if Demons Souls is a long grind or truly hard yet. Prob a grind.

I don't count long grind games as hard plats - I'm a few hours away from Dragon Age Origins plat and have Dragon Age II plat.

I count games that require deft skill as hard plats.

[InTheLab]

GT5 gold standard trophy...holy hell.

Those of you saying Demon's Souls plat is easy are full of it. Pure Bladestone...wtf..

[dinkeldinkse]

Is ridiculous, but most of the other weapon trophies can be accomplish by just farming a particular level 2 or 3 times.

[admiralvic]

A) all weapon trophies can be obtained by picking up an item that uses X or Y. In this case if you pick up the level 5 item that uses bladestone; you will get the trophy.
B) Low drop rate =/= hard. You can in theory get it in 1 try, or never. In the end every time you do it... it just becomes more likely to happen.

[dinkeldinkse]

A)I know that, but if you don't trade with other people the trophies are not that simple. You have to get the right weapon, upgrade(most +3)it and then have the right Demon Soul and required amounts of shards, chunks, and a pure stone. And have to have killed Flamelurker on that playthrough to be able to upgrade to +5 weapon and get the trophy.
B)Low drop rate is not hard, but is extremely annoying when you have every other requirement besides a pure bladestone. 1 in 250 drop rate is ridiculous.

If you are trading, all Demon's Souls item trophies are a cakewalk, but if you are doing it legitimately the trophies will take you at least three playthroughs.

[JasonBloodbourne]

its so easy i platted it 3 times!

[Darkseeker]

Star Ocean isn't hard, it just takes a very long time, but if you have the time to do it, it's very easy.

Long doesn't mean it's hard.

[zanzibarlegend]

METAL GEAR SOLID 4.

nuff said. (-_-¡)

[dc1]

So true......so true

[Mikeyy]

Idk where Hideo was on that one...

[GLoRyKnoT]

COD Classic was the most painful of my 10 plats.

[anyname]

Vanquish...only took me about 500 tries to beat the final challenge

[Goodfella]

Wipeout HD, I just sighed when I looked at those, developers can be pretty dumb when they want to be,

[user1337]

Dunno about hard, but in terms of number of hours needed...white knight chronicles is also pretty darn long.

[Azerach]

GT5 is definitely among the hardest. Requires a lot of skill and a LOT of time, most of the games on the list require only one of the two.

[csreynolds]

- GT5
- Metal Gear Solid 4
- Mortal Kombat
- Sonic 4: Episode 1 (anyone managed to beat all four bosses in the DeathEgg without taking one hit? Because I bloody can't! Lol)

There are a few more I could add, but I'll spare you all the misery :)

[Kte]

OMG Star ocean is one of the worst and Mortal Kombat cause the last trophy is 24 hour gameplay per character!!

[Ddouble]

GT5 for sure.

[PsERSONA]

I keep going back to try and platinum Star Ocean 4...