The Platinum Architect – Mark Cerny On His Fascination With PlayStation Trophies

Game Informer writes: "We talked to the chief architect of PlayStation 5 about the games he plays to completion. "

[-Foxtrot]

"So, if the Platinum Trophy needs online, I skip it"

If Mark even knows this you'd think he'd drop a memo to ask if they could separate online trophies

[bouzebbal]

Depends which ones.. Killzone 2online trophies are what made me love the series so much... And taught me how to play the game

[-Foxtrot]

If it’s

“Play 10 games of Deathmatch”

Or

“Play every mode”

However things like

“Get 5 headshots in a row using the high powered scope sniper rifle”

Or

“As X character, perform a ultimate attack and then strike an opponent killing them with a melee attack within 5 seconds”

No thanks, relies far too much on luck not just skill

[Sunny_D]

I hated that shit in KZ2. Didn't have nowhere enough time to play the game online to be top 1% for the week.

[Dirtnapstor]

Generally speaking, unless they're easy to obtain, having to acquire online trophies to get the Plat is a real deterrent.
The only online trophies that I've ever gone after hardcore were the ones in Battlefield 3 & 4.

[Teflon02]

Problem is servers may go offline making the platinum never obtainable, plus the ones that need you to be a loner at home for a week etc. Or even ones like ModNation Racers where you had to essentially have one of the most popular items in the game to platinum. Because I had the most popular charlie brown skin and pretty successful tracks and only hit 28 on create and never got all the trophies mainly because of it. LBP's are alot more reasonable and understandable because the whole game pretty much consists of online after the story. But even then they should make the online ones separate like they're an online pack or something

[P_Bomb]

Good interview!

[Hellcat2020]

I'm shocked he even has time to play this many games

[Viking_mo]

He has cuphead and demon souls platinum. When i saw them he was so calm about it showing no rage lol

[neutralgamer1992]

Haha

[DeadManMMX]

Hmm I would like a Cuphead Platinum. I will depart for that now....

[BattleCat]

It's slowly time for cerny, to make a good game now. It knacked away...
The ps5 is very good, but why not using his brain & talent for a real good game.

[Dark_Overlord]

Shame Sony as a whole gives zero fucks about the trophy system :/

[Deathdeliverer]

What makes you say that? It works no different than Xbox achievements/ Steam achievements/ and so on. They also revamped it to levels. What more do you think should be happening?

[Dark_Overlord]

How about making sure trophies actually work in games before allowing them to release, sorting lists so they can sync (there's a lot of games that still don't).

Making it pretty doesn't fix the long term issues. Sony has no interest in making sure devs have working trophies or even making sure lists sync.

[Gamist2dot0]

Tell that to the guy who won the Killzone 3 costume with the Trophy contest. They also tried to turn Trophies into rewards. Wonder what happened to it though.

[RazzerRedux]

lol....what are you even talking about?

[Teflon02]

They revamped trophies last year making em even better lmao. They were already the best achievement system outside the lack of individual tracking. And now they have it with features to help in some cases so you don't gotta go online. No achievement award is a better feeling than a platinum.

[CrimsonWing69]

What do you mean?

[Damrock]

I do always think to myself it's so impressive when I see someone has spent 100+ hours on a 15-hour long game to get the trophies.

For someone who is OCD, I hate Trophies and wish I could disable them.

I feel sorry for those who get addicted to Trophies.

[Teflon02]

You can just turn off the notifications and turn off the trophy screenshots and video (if on ps5)

[Masterchief_thegoat]

Same thing happen to me. I went from 1000g achievement to platinums. Never again, I was interested in getting more 1000g achievements. Getting platinum trophies is much better

[Gamist2dot0]

Game developers that require you to play online to get the platinum are jerks. I was very close to getting a Platinum for Far Cry 3(?), I think, only to find out that I had to complete 15 online games. It took a while just to get a game going.

[andy85]

It may sound sad but I've never been as big of a gamer since I started chasing trophies. The trophy system must make them a lot of money

[Yppupdam]

Mark Cerny Looks like Garth from Wayne's world in that pic.....

[DaniMacYo]

Am I not turtley enough for the turtle club!

[Master of Unlocking]

Mr Cerny, please, tell whoever is responsible for it to revert back to the "old" (from the PS3 & PS4) trophy sound on the PS5. If it ain"t broke don't fix it, as they say...

[Teflon02]

It's not that serious. The ps5 sound is fine. Think the idea is with this gen blending into last gen so much, they had to make some design choices, whether sound or whatever to differentiate things. I actually like the new sounds. Feels like I'm on a new generation piece of hardware

[waverider]

Sony is so Lucky to have someone like him in charge