Earning PlayStation Trophies is a really fun experience. Getting rewards for playing through a game, or even completing weird, funny tasks can be a lot of fun, sometimes getting players to do things in games they otherwise wouldn't consider. However, some Trophies take things too far. While there are many games out there that are extraordinarily hard to get the Platinum Trophy in, there are some games that make messily Bronze Trophies a grind.
The Bronze Trophy is usually saved for easy tasks in games, netting the least amount of rewards on PlayStation. But despite the reputation of Bronze Trophies, their appearances can sometimes be deceiving. Certain games put some of the hardest challenges you can complete behind a Bronze Trophy, which can feel like a slap in the face. Having your run for a Platinum Trophy ruined because of a Bronze can be demoralizing, and these five Trophies in particular have done that for many, many players.
Earning all the trophies in a game like Fallout 4 can prove to be tiresome due to the massive scale of the world. With so many quests, levels to achieve, enemies to kill and so much more, players could easily anticipate spending hundreds of hours in this world before earning the Platinum. What most wouldn't expect is to spend nearly a hundred hours for one Bronze Trophy.
"Benevolent Leader" tasks players with hitting the maximum happiness rank within a large settlement. To accomplish this massive feat, you'll have to pump loads of resources into your settlement to make its residents happy. If you ever wanted to run a virtual daycare/construction site, spending hours on end to make the irradiated survivors of the nuclear post-apocalypse happy, "Benevolent Leader" might not be that big of an ask; for everyone else, this trophy is nothing but a serious grind.
Earning a trophy in the tutorial of a game? Easy-peasy. All you have to do to unlock "...Becomes the Master" in Respawn's Titanfall 2 is to place within the top three on the tutorial area's scoreboard. This might seem to be a super easy task to complete until you realize that, to hit the record times in the tutorial gauntlet, you'll have to become a master of aim and keeping your wall-running momentum pumping for the entire section.
This long, winding gauntlet can easily take over a minute or two to finish on your first several attempts, which means it stings even harder when you realize you'll have to hit a 33.65 second time or lower to earn this Bronze Trophy. If this still doesn't sound like a total grind to achieve, note that more people have finished Titanfall 2 on the hardest difficulty than completing the gauntlet in record time. If there are players out there that will shoot for the Gold Trophy of beating the game on its hardest setting but refuse to achieve this Bronze, you know something's up.
Ubisoft's Watch Dogs was set to be the true showstopper of the eighth console generation. With better graphics, performance, and unique gameplay mechanics, Watch Dogs promised the world and then some. Unfortunately, Watch Dogs fell a bit flat, despite selling loads of copies.
Watch Dogs is a pretty easy Platinum, besides trying to find all the SongSneak tracks around the open world, and especially "Social Lubricant." This trophy forces players to endure a long set of mini-game challenges where they will have to precisely time their button presses to beat their opponents. The drinking challenges seem quite easy at first, but as you get closer to completing the challenge, it becomes a serious test of patience and skill. Short countdown timers, precision requirements with controls that are too slippery to get the hang of and the fact that defeat means you'll have to wait in-game days just to make another attempt make this Bronze Trophy a pain.
The Platinum Trophies in previous Batman: Arkham games were never all too easy, but they're certainly easier to accomplish than Arkham Knight's. This one Bronze Trophy requires that players string together 15 unique moves during a single combo. This means you'll first need a lot of enemies gathered together in a small area, then you'll need to make sure you can avoid damage the whole time as to not lose your combo. Lastly, you'll need to string together nearly every single move Batman has -- including the use of gadgets -- just to get this one Bronze Trophy.
Dead Ops Arcade has been a staple of Call of Duty: Black Ops games for a long time. The simple twin-stick shooter arcade mode can be quite fun for some players to go through, but Dead Ops Arcade 3 asks way too much for such a small reward.
"Reunited With Fidolina" requires the player to complete the entire Dead Ops Arcade 3 experience. This seems simple on paper until you realize that you will have to endure a minimum of three-and-a-half-hours in a single sitting to get this trophy. Dedicating this much time to a Bronze Trophy is bad enough, but Dead Ops Arcade 3 is also brutally difficult, sports no save states and, if your whole team runs out of lives at a certain point, you'll have to do it all again right from the beginning.
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