Good to know. The limited information I could find made it appear much more prevalent.
Good to know. The limited information I could find made it appear much more prevalent.
Assassin's Creed II hands out trophies like candy. I'm not even really trying and I'm getting them. Not gonna get a platinum in it though. No way am I going to bother looking for those 100 feathers. That's not fun. That's busy work.
It's not that bad, I finished them all off in about 2 hours probably. If you check your DNA strand, it tells you how many you got and are missing in each location and if you use a guide online, you should be able to do it in a sitting or two. It's annoying, but getting to level 50 and the other BS online trophies for Brotherhood are MUCH worse.
Yeah, ACII, simply because it's not online, has to be considerably easier (and more fun) to plat than AC:B.
ACII was one of the more enjoyable games to get the Trophies on. Challenging, but fun yet not too tedious.
On a whore note from the other system, my gamerscore just hit 7000 :nod:
pfft, I don't even whore gamerscore and have 10,000+ ;)Quote:
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...and when did you start? LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by morsdraconis
November 2008 for me.
Actually, I just started like July of 2008 but I wasn't the only one playing games on it for while.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
Combine that with my PS3 numbers and I'd be pretty high up :DQuote:
Originally Posted by morsdraconis
Anybody else notice JB is competing over how much of a whore he is?
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18,945 gamerscore, according to Xbox.com, since January 2009 without trying, too much, to whore gamerscore.Quote:
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You, JB, have some work to do if you want to hold the whoring title for 360 along with these forums, lol.
If I didn't play so much NCAA and NBA and didn't have two systems maybe LOLQuote:
Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Just knocked out the Madden platinum trophy. My football gaming is now done until I get to experience another inevitable let down from the Madden and NCAA teams here in about 6 months. Come on, EA, gimme NCAA '04 with updated graphics, rosters, and playbooks and I'll be a happy man!
Serious question, other than nostalgia, what did you like particularly about NCAA04 that you haven't found in recent versions?Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
Everything was so smooth. The animations were as smooth as butter, the online menus and interface were silky smooth, there was no major gameplay flaws, offense and defense was about as balanced as can be. I had several games where the final was 49-35 or whatever, but I also had several 17-10 battles. If you look at the game now, it's so...stiff. The menus are clunky, the animations are clunky, the gameplay itself is just way too slow and jagged feeling. Online was also so much better. The leaderboards actually worked, we had friend's list that showed the scores of their games while they were playing, we had clans in whatever year that was that allowed you to compete against other clans...which was awesome.
It was just so much more of a fluid and connected experience. Since NCAA '07, EA has completely gone away from the competitive online play portion of the game. As of now, their focus is 100% on online dynasty and creating a game that casual people enjoy. I mean, yeah, it'll get them more sales in the end, but for someone who has been playing the game every year since '98, it's just extremely disappointing to see them year in and year out make stupid mistakes and basically make the game unplayable online. '07 on the PS2 was the last time I had fun with an online football game. '08 on PS3 was a mess with the frame rate, lag online, spectacular catch, and the options...none to mention the defense was way overpowered in how quickly they got to the QB. '09 had ZERO pass rush whatsoever. There was no point in blitzing because they very simply were not going to get there. '10 had the same pass rush issues and the game still was way too slow and the movements were jerky and just not smooth. '11 improved on the pass rush, but it's still not where it should be. Zone coverage is worthless, man defense is overpowered, toss plays work way too well, and once again, the game is slow, clunky, and just gives me a headache trying to play because of the jerky and slow animations.
I was definitely spoiled by the PS2 version, because I've utterly despised every edition of the game so far on PS3/360. I just really wish EA would go back to what made the game so successful on PS2, and that's a well connected, well balanced, smooth, and biggest key of all...FUN college football game.
but still not as high as me with just ps3,Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
I OU, what's your initial reaction if I ask whether your post describes all of the PS2 games, or just NCAA 2004 and prior? I've long thought that NCAA 2004 was my favorite game in the series, and I haven't felt anything reached that level since.Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
On a trophy whore note, I'm so glad I finished off the Bowl Trophies trophy last week ... lost my NCAA profile while playing a user game, apparently. Lost all the various championship, individual and bowl trophies that I had accumulated.
My post is mostly towards NCAA '04-'07 on PS2. Granted, NCAA '04 was the best of all of them, but they all had what this current generation of NCAA Football games are missing - smoothness. NCAA '04 was definitely the best NCAA Football game I've ever played. The sad thing is that it was the first one that supported online, and it was more feature rich back then on their first attempt than it is now almost 7 years later.
I've said it all along, fix the zone coverage, fix man coverage, fix the defensive pass rush, fix shotgun run blocking(also all run blocking since blocking from big formations this year is overpowered), get rid of the terrible engine they're using and make the movement a LOT smoother(if you can do it on PS2, you can do it on 360/PS3), and enhance online with the features it had on PS2. I rarely ever talk about NCAA the series anymore, because it feels like I'm beating a dead horse, but there's one way to be sure that I'm speaking the truth. NCAA '04 I played over 500 games online. NCAA '05 I played over 500 games online. Same thing with '06 and '07 on PS2. In my PS2 lifetime, I easily logged over 2,000 ranked games online alone. On '08-'11 with 360 and PS3? MAYBE 200 combined, and I didn't enjoy a single second of any of them.
Anyone got the Plat for Uncharted Drake's Fortune? I'm contemplating going for it. I have some "clean up" trophies to get after beating the game on Hard. Of course, that leaves beating the game on Crushing and I was wondering how hard that is going to be.