The Trophy News Direct from Leipzig, Day 1

PS3T writes:

"As some of you know, a few of us are attending the Leipzig Games Convention this week representing x360a and of course, we never forget our sister site. In some developer walkthroughs with various publishers, we managed to ask the age old question to keep all you Trophy hunters happy:

Will your title support Trophies?

And here is the general consensus from day 1. I'll warn you know though, the day started badly for Sony's Trophy system, but certainly got better throughout the day.

Click the jump for the full list of confirmed Trophy titles."

[Fowack]

fallout i now have to buy this game, seeing that i am a trophy whore and all. good decision to implement them IMHO

[Ben1054]

when all games have trophy support, your gonna have to buy them all

[SullyDrake]

Or rent. It just so happens that all 4 games for PS3 with Trophies are worth purchase. Games like HAWX and EndWar are bound to be good but not my type, so I'll just be renting them.

And SIX, Fallout 3 isn't confirmed to have Trophies yet, but it's being seriously considered.

[Panthers]

OMG Endwar I hope is awesome. I havent been keeping up but I know it is a RTS!

[Marceles]

Spider Man: Web of Shadows - Probably not because it was too late in the development stage to add them in.

NOOOOOOOOOOO!

/end extreme sarcasm

[SullyDrake]

I'll give it a quick rent for the Trophies, you will too.

I doubt it'll be worth $60 though, so I'll drop $7, get my Trophies, and be on my way.

[TOSgamer]

Not bad. Sure better then the 3 games that support trophies out right now.

[Ben1054]

its 4

[Megaton]

Go hunt down Kojima and demand an answer on MGS4.

[meepmoopmeep]

that's the top of my trophy priority right now, MGS4.
i don't care much about trophies. only certain games.

[SullyDrake]

I'm still saving my next playthroughs for the inevitable Trophy patch... Which should of been out already.

[behemothzero]

I'm not good enough (yet) to get the Big Boss Emblem, so I'm trying for the Hound/Fox/Foxhound Emblems first and going to go for BBE when trophies arrive.

[SullyDrake]

Are you kidding? It's not out until November right? They have plenty of time! That's bullshit.

[ape007]

trophy system is pretty rewarding

[ThatArtGuy]

No pun intended, right?

[Lou-Cipher]

With such a bad start with trophies it is nice to see that they are becoming more accessible.

It absolutely brings a better experience to games.

[badz149]

I didn't get any excitement or anticipation when Sony announced the trophy support because I only play games and enjoy the stories, hence I've only played my games in easy mode and only sometimes in normal mode! but I'm gonna change my perception now regarding that matter because TROPHIES ROCKS!! I'm not saying I've been turned into a trophy whore but getting trophies totally had me feeling rewarded! 2.40 update coincided with me getting a HDTV and I was actually planning to play uncharted again! I waited for the update and ZING!! you've earned a trophy! that feels really nice and I'm now working for that Crushing trophy - the last one before my 1st platinum!! for a "easy mode" gamer like me, playing on HARD and CRUSHING really is something new and CRUSHING really is crushing me down!! near the 8 hours mark but still only 75%! hell I've managed to finish EASY with 42 trophies in 7 hours! I'm getting that platinum no matter what but still I'm only going to play games that I like and will never buy or rent games just for trophies!

I hope LBP, Resistance 2 and Motorstorm 2 have trophies!

[SullyDrake]

All 3 are confirmed to.

[badz149]

thank god! that's really good to hear and I'm good to go! thanks & bubble for you! ;)

[Adamalicious]

Crushing is pretty brutal. It took me about 10 hours, skipping all the cutscenes. Good luck!

[themyk]

I'll warn you know though, the day started badly for Sony's Trophy system.........

what a stupid comment to make. when only one game out of the list doesn't support them.

[CrazedFiend]

Ok, I don't really care too much about trophies, but I gotta ask this. What's the purpose of a trophy system if half the games don't support them?

Isn't part of the reason XBOX's achievements were so good was because it shows how much of a gamer you are? The more you play, the higher your score, right?

I play games 'til my eyes bleed, yet none of the games I have so far support trophies, and probably will never add them. Even my Japanese versions of Star Dust (Star Strike here in Japan) and Uncharted don't even support trophies because it seems that they only updated in certain regions.

So what does my trophy score of "0" tell people? That I don't game?

Even after games with trophy support start coming out, unless I actually plan to stop playing all the games I already have with no trophy support, it's still not gonna be anywhere near an actual representation of what kind of gamer I am. Is that what everyone else is planning to do? Stop playing the games they already have?

To tell you the truth, I could even see some point in the system if trophy points could have some kind of PSN value or something. But no.

When we first started hearing of some solid plans to do a reward system like achievements, I guess the idiot in me thought that Sony was gonna give some incentive to developers to put the support in their games, or at least to be able to quickly patch things if their games are already out. I would have thought that Sony would have wanted to have as many games with trophy support as possible right off the back. Instead, the firmware is released with only one game supporting it.

One game.

And on top of that, we've still got developers who are refusing to put support in their games because "we didn't know about it in time" or "our game is too far along in development to add it". What Sony, you kept it a secret from your developers too? You didn't tell ANYBODY what you were planning??? It's true that I sometimes do dumb s#!t like that, but that's why I have no money. What's your problem?

I can understand maybe the code wasn't ready to give yet, but you could have at least told the developers to plan for it. You told everyone to design their games keeping in mind the fact that every PS3 would have a hard drive in it and that worked out great!

So what happened with trophies? Why do the developers have to find out about them when we do? Why is it that developers of practically every game already released so far has decided NOT to patch their games? Why is it that trophies have been out for this long now, and not ONE person in my entire friends list has yet to get a trophy? (granted that my friends list is only 18 people, but still!)

I my be mainly a PS3 gamer, but if someone asked me which was better between Achievements and Trophies, I'd have to say Achievements because as good as Trophies could be, they're just not gonna be in enough games to represent what a gamer is.

As a gamer, I don't really care a whole lot about trophies and achievements and all that stuff. But I've been long since tired of this Sony habit of talking big and then waiting for things to trickle in.

If your gonna hit me, then hit me. Don't waste my time talkin' about how this next hit's gonna knock me on my @ss and then pluck me in the shoulder (0_o;) Sure, maybe I'll eventually feel it over time if they keep plucking me long enough (with like practically everything else so far) but if you're gonna talk like that, then I WANT YOU TO HIT ME SONY(>_<)!

They better hit me when Home finally comes out.

In the mean time, stop letting developers cry about why they're not gonna have trophies and get some support going. ALL the games on that list shouldv'e had trophies.

[themyk]

here i'll answer your question the best way i know how.

achievements were there from the beginning so all developers had to put them in their games.

trophies were not in there from the beginning. sony's not making developers who are almost through with their games put them in. thats probably why sony has so many exclusives, because they not jerks to developers. now back to my point. yes all games will have them, just not the games that are almost done, it's up to the developer.

sony has already said that all games well have to support them, starting next year i think. so stop whining.