By Stryctnin; PSHG team writer
PSN trophies have become bragging rights, maybe even an addiction for the people who collect them. It’s proof that you took the time to complete a game 100%. The debate, however, is are trophies worth it. Do they take away from the game? Do they add to the game? What’s the fun of playing a game just to get the trophies?
I’ve been a trophy hunter now for over a year. I have 35 platinums, 171 gold, 573 silver, 1926 bronze, 2705 all in total and am level 18. I used to think that trophy collecting was a waste of time and just wanted to play a game to have fun. But then I found collecting trophies brought me and my wife together closer. Luckily for me I have a wife that likes to play games. So we started renting from Gamefly to help boost our ranking up. The thing is that people will always have their own opinions on trophy collecting, whether they like it or not, it will always be debatable. Much like it is debatable on why stay in Home all the time and not use your PS3 to play a game. What it basically comes down to it is what people want to do, if it makes you happy then do it.
With that said I decided to cancel my Gamefly account and to just play the games that I really enjoy to play and strive to platinum them instead of renting a game that I don’t really want to play. Which has become the problem for me with collecting trophies. Quantity over Quality. Now I’m feeling more like Quality over Quantity. Trust me, I’ve played some pretty bad games…some so bad I’ve had to send them back to Gamefly. So bad I didn’t care if it was an easy platinum or not.
So I decided to list off 10 games that I think are very easy to platinum for those out there that are looking to boost their trophy count.
01. Megamind - By far the easiest game I could ever think of to platinum. In fact, you can easily finish this and platinum it in 4 hours or less depending on how well you are with games. This game has 26 trophies – (1
, 7
, 8
, 10
). Basically, start the game and just play through it. When you complete each chapter you will get a trophy. When you defeat the boss for each chapter without dying you will get a trophy, and that is very, very, very easy. Pick up every blue orb known as B.I.N.K.E.Y. and you’ll get trophies, they are everywhere, in everything you break and every enemy you defeat. There are no collectibles to search for, no time limits to deal with and no multiplayer. Even the weakest of gamers could platinum this game without trying.
02. CSI : Fatal Conspiracy – The only thing fatal about this game is that it was actually made. Don’t get me wrong, I love CSI, the original series, not NY or Miami as much. The hardest thing about this game is it will bore you to sleep. If you can stay awake long enough you could probably platinum this. It has 26 trophies - (17 12 6 ). It takes at least 10 hours to platinum this if you have done everything you can do in each chapter. My advice is to look at everything, click on everything, examine it and use your forensic tools on it. Each chapter will take you about 2 hours to complete. Seriously, though, the best thing to do is use a thorough walkthrough. Though I usually use PS3Trophies.org, this one was the more detailed and helped out a lot : http://www.ps3trophies.com/forums/showwiki.php?title=CSI:-Fatal-Conspiracy-Trophy-Guide
03. Spare Parts - This game isn’t a bad game at all. It’s a downloadable game from the PSN store and surprisingly it had a platinum with it for only $9.99, but, I think I purchased mine through the PS Plus program for only 5 bucks. It only has 13 trophies but it is a very short and easy game. (1 ,2, 10 ). Yeah, that’s right, 10 gold trophies. This is a trophy whores orgasm, a must have for all trophy hunters. Simply play through the game starting with the tutorial, don’t worry about collecting the ship parts right away because you will have to come back to them anyways when you have the correct gadget. After you beat the game then go back and get all the ship parts you missed. The worst part about this game is grinding for the Bling Bot trophy, the easiest way to do this is go to Jungle Approach Zone 1 and run through it. Scan everything before you break it, it gives you extra coins. When you reach the end of the level, the level is very short and it ends when you push in two stones and go through the gate. Don’t exit the level, instead run back to the cave…hopefully you know what I’m talking about by this time, if not, there is a cave you need to hit a rock to break open in the middle of the level, not too far from the end. Just enter that cave, kill the things in there, because they have re-spawned and exit the cave, all the enemies have re-spawned there as well. Continue to do this till you hear the trophy ding, then you can go and purchase all that you need to purchase to finish up the last of the trophies and your platinum will pop. Actually, this game is pretty fun…just really, really short.
04. Hannah Montana – This is the holy grail for trophy hunters. Everyone who wants to collect trophies has desired this one for whatever reason. It is a fast and easy platinum to obtain…however, it’s name demands ridicule and laughter from your peers if they see you playing it. I do have the platinum for this, rented it from GameFly, and I had a secret weapon – my wife played it for me…offline of course so no one would see it. If, and only if you can stomach the horrible songs you will have to hear over and over again, then you may enjoy this. But, if the horrible songs don’t bring you down, then maybe the terrible dialogue, the awful graphics and crap-tastic repetitive games will. Seriously, this is for the strongest of the trophy hunters, hell, even I couldn’t take it. I had to leave the room while my wife played it. That one song “Hoedown Throwdown” would win wars if blasted over the cities of our enemies, they would either surrender or turn the guns on themselves. Anyway, this has 43 trophies (1 , 4 , 8 , 30 ). And you should platinum it in 3.5 hours…if not you really suck and should stop gaming.
05. Burnout Paradise - Ah, this is redemption after talking about that last abomination. I don’t normally play racing games but this is no ordinary racing game. This has an arcade, free roam style to it. The crashes are the main course of the game but over time, after playing for a while, become very annoying as they are slowed down and you are agonizingly forced to watch them. Getting the Platinum for this game will require at least 25 hours of game play and with all the downloadable content there are a whopping 98 trophies (1 4 28 65). However, you only need to earn 51 to get the Platinum. Plus, you get 13 free trophies from the free DLC packs; Cagney Update and Bikes Pack. So without buying any DLC you will have a total of 64 trophies. The first goal you should shoot for is getting your Class A drivers license. You get your license upgraded by winning the various types of races available throughout the city. They do become increasingly more difficult the higher level you are…but nothing too complicated. If you can’t win one type of race then find another that suits you. Now, the best part of this game is driving around with your friends, which you have to do for the online trophies. This is one of the most fun games to try to Platinum and if you need any help with any trophy remember to check out www.ps3trophies.org and this for a map of the entire city which will be helpful if you missed anything http://www.senocular.com/burnout/.
06. Terminator Salvation - This hunk of smooth crap can get you a Platinum in not much more than 6 hours. But, this Terminator is so broke it could only afford 12 trophies (1 ,11). Yes, 11 gold, with 9 of them just meandering through the chapters and the other two for beating it on medium and on hard. So, just beat the thing on hard so you don’t have to play through it again and you’ll be thankful you only did it once. Duck, cover, shoot and, the most important thing, flank. 
07. Up! – This is a straight forward, easy game to Platinum and it should take you not much more than 4 hours to finish up. The only thing you’ll be wondering is how the hell are they walking through the jungle with a house floating in the air that is tied to their waists. It has 43 trophies; (1 ,4 ,5 ,33). Remember to just break everything and not rush through because you will miss collectibles.
08. Trivial Pursuit - This should take around 7 hours to Platinum and it has 45 trophies : (1 ,2 ,14 ,28. Not much can be said about it, if you know how to play this classic game then it’s all pretty self-explanatory. Just start-up a game and set all four players to one controller, that way you can control all players. But, the true player one is the one that will be unlocking the trophies.
09. Hasbro Family Game Night - Just casually playing each game by yourself or with a friend you should be able to get all the trophies in a fair amount of time. However, you can rush through it and get it all done in 5 hours. Simply look at the description of the trophy you need and make sure you do it in that particular game. Such as win 20 games of Battleship. Easy. There are 30 trophies and they are : (1 ,6 ,11 ,12)
10. Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection – This brings back a lot of memories. My favorite system when I was growing up was the Sega Genesis and most of these games on this collection I owned and beat. So, this was a must have in my trophy collection. There are 40 games and 9 locked games that you earn by doing certain tasks in some of the unlocked games. You can also unlock interviews with the original developers. Both unlocking the developers and extra games are trophies. The things you need to do in each game to get a trophy to unlock are all mostly very simple such as Communication is Key which you load up the Ecco the Dolphin game and swim till you find another dolphin and talk to them. The ones that can be a total pain in the ass are :
| Getting Chicks |  |
| Flicky: Collect 80,000 points |
| Yatta! |  |
| Dr. Robotnik’s M.B.M.: Complete the game |
| Easy as Pie | |
| Columns: Get 20,000 points only on Easy Mode |
These three took the most amount of time and the most amount of tries and by far, the hardest one of them, is completing that Tetris-like game Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine. There are 36 trophies to collect in here and they are ( 1 4,13,18).
Wanna know what I think are the insane hardest games to platinum? You can read that here: *Includes a special write-up from Hakoom. http://pshomegazette.com/2012/01/19/top-ten-hardest-games-to-platinum/?preview=true&preview_id=14527&preview_nonce=a12090825a Or, if you want to know 10 more games I think are easiest to platinum then click on this link: http://pshomegazette.com/2012/07/26/10-more-easy-games-to-platinum/
I love Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection. The Tower RPG game is stupid hard for no reason! >:/ That’s because the game is super glitchy and for you to even receive a trophy, you have to get to floor 5. Even when you input the glitch to where you can raise your armor to 99, it just by then becomes broken. Yes, you won’t take damage at all against enemies but imagine 4 said enemies surrounding you attacking and you take no damage……you’re just stuck for a good while until you move at LEAST one frame away from 1 enemy, to which you have to do this in order to be “unstuck” from 2 more enemies so you can move freely……tastey, right?
But I personally think Platinuming games is a good means to stay persistent in what you want, I suppose. I am slowly but surely growing to be a Trophy Hunter. So I can’t complain, really….well except the garbage that is King of Fighters XII. The game is sort of fun but I loathe the replay value of the game PLUS online is so atrocious, it’s just unplayable. Even the Time Challenge mode is just so terrible; it is officially impossible to beat the game in under 2 minutes, given the fact the game has no way of doing any 96% combos compared to the upcoming KoF XIII game, and even so, those combos will take a LOT of meter, to which that takes time. PLUS, I despise hidden trophies, to which almost ALL of them are hidden.
But yes, overall I am on the way to platinum another game that I will write an article about my experience on it.
I played the Hannah Montana game before i even cared what trophies where. I enjoyed the game, but then again i was a 19 year old girl… It gave me a false sense that trophies where easy to obtain lol.
Lol, I liked it, but I have to admit the Hoedown song still gives me nightmares.
if ur looking for a challenge and respect from other players- try gt5( grand turismo 5) any woman(me included) that gets the trophy for gt5 gets big props… it takes mad skills and patience to the sky
Haha, My patience is limited sometimes. Burnout Paradise is a rarity for me as it’s really the only racing game I like. I’m just not attracted to racing games.
Naruto shippuden Ultimate ninja Storm 2 is really easy too. The only trophy too watch out for is WEALTH TO MOVE NATIONS where you have to collect 999,999 ryo and WHICH NAME SHALL I USE which might be your last trophy if you don’t play online.
10 bucks says hes just a nerd who doesnt have a wife even though he says he has one. my reason saying this is his comment towards the start “trophy hunting brough me and my wife closer together” by wife do you mean your right or left hand?
Such a clever little troll you are. You certainly would be out of 10 bucks buddy, my wife has both her right and left hand and knows how to use them. But you’re not talking about her hands, right? You’re trying to imply that I have an imaginary wife and pretend my hands are her and that I masturbate, right? Well, since you seem to know a lot about this masturbating thing, obviously a pro at it since you’re wagering 10 bucks then I have a question for you: How did you find the time to type this stupid comment? I mean you actually thought this was important enough for you to take your hands off of your small piss stick and type it in here. Oh, you are the master at masturbating, you typed it with one hand! Congratulations!
The Easiest platimum(s) Are the Sly Cooper games Sly1,2, and 3 Just beat the game and collect things that is really easy to find
Sly Cooper 1 is real easy, but Sly Cooper 2 and 3 had the challenges and the games were buggy. So for me they might have been easy but were extremely annoying.
I think the N.C.I.S game is the easiest to get trophies i don’t know exactly how many trophies their are but all you have to do is beat the game and you get a platinum trophy.
I want to help in your trophy quest, both Alone in the Dark and Where the wild things are have easy platinums, and really Alone in the Dark is not as bad as they say at least it wasn’t for me except for the graphics but you know not everything is about graphics. I would say downpour also has an easy platinum but it needs to correct that fish rod glitch. Those plus Terminator and Uncharted are my only plats.
Yea, I’m pretty sure Last Rebelion is a much eaiser platnum then a few of these titles, and can be done in 12 hours.
Who cares? PlayStation trophies are lame achievements anyway.
MW2 is pretty easy as well. Just camp your way to getting the veteran trophies and shoot from the smallest possible cracks to avoid the aimbot NPCs to get you. Spec Ops is easy if you use the simplest strategies.
Burnout Paradise is a good game and yeah lol it’s ridiculous how easy it is to get a trophy in that game.
Nah man..you can’t just play Hannah Montana and Megamind for the trophies..they only matter if you actually enjoy the game your playing..they should have intrinsic value and only serve to show other gamers how into a game you can get. I laugh when I se people with crappy kids movie tie-in games for their platinums.
PlayStation trophies are for suckers. They suck and are lame achievement ripoffs.
Mbm is the game that prevents me from getting the platinum. I cant beat that game to save my life! I omly had 2 rows filled and he was at the top (this is the closest i came to beating the game) and he came back and beat my tail! s far as Hannah Montana, my nephew has me on video when i got the palt saying im the Hannah Montana man! I was shuffling and everything, how embarrasing! Lol!