Sleeping Dogs Platinum Trophy

  An excellent game from the Instant Game Collection for Playstation Plus members.  If not for Plus I'd never play this game.  My first "sandbox" open-world style platinum trophy.

Platinum #4

   I actually was starting to give up trying to get this but I played again after a couple months and it reignited me to go for it.  Beating the gold cup in boxing, golfing and skiing were my stumbling blocks initially but after that break I was able to win those events quite easily.  The six events in this game are so much more fun than the first game's sports, particularly bowling which is as near perfect simulation of the real thing. 

Sports Champions 2 platinum trophy

Tough Trophy

  In this new series I am going to highlight my latest tough or very time-consuming trophy accomplishments.  I am always excited when I achieve tough online wins trophies.  NBA Jam On Fire Edition has one which requires at least 50 online wins and I got it today.  According to psnprofiles.com it is 1.8% ultra rare among players.  I got this game free from Playstation Plus and it is a lot of fun, I find myself wanting to come back to it quite a bit.  Now I am going to focus on the road trip campaign to see if I can get the 100% completion.  These rare achievements are what makes trophies so much fun to collect. 

 

LBP Vita Arcade Challenge Update #2

  Three down, two to go!  What's left?  Only the toughest parts of the remaining two games.  I would like to set a goal time of end of January, I'll keep trying.

Tapling complete.

LBP Vita Arcade Challenge Update #1

   Scratch off one more game complete.  I'm nearly done with Stratosphere but it is really trying my patience with how precise I have to be in key parts.  Super Conductor is no doubt going to be the toughest for me.

 

Retro Vector complete

Playstation Plus Review

   Playstation Plus - Why didn't I subscribe sooner?  When I read that Plus was coming for the Vita this past month I figured now is the time to subscribe for all the added benefits coming for the Vita in addition to what's already available for the PS3.  One of the bigger draws to me is the online game saves storage (the cloud.)  It gives a sense of security for those hard earned and time consuming game saves especially for the tougher games.  The biggest new feature of Plus for majority of subscribers is the "instant game collection" as Sony puts it.  Had I subscribed earlier I would have had access to PS3 games months ago but I'll look forward to what I'll have now and in future additions.
   I have already downloaded Wipeout 2048, I was interested in this game at launch but never got it. It is incredibly fun and in many ways better than Wipeout HD on the PS3.  I would also like to download Uncharted Golden Abyss (another free full game) but at just over 3gb my 4gb memory card isn't quite enough.  As soon as the proprietary memory cards come down some more I'll get these bigger games, but for now Uncharted will have to rest in my download list un-downloaded. 
   There are other features of Plus on PS3 and Vita, the previous two above are my favorites.  Other features such as auto syncing trophies, auto downloading game and system updates, auto uploading games saves to cloud, exclusive avatars and dynamic themes, and early beta access.  For me though I'm not very into automatic syncing and updates so I'll stick to manually updating for now.  For $50 a year I ask again my initial question why didn't I subscribe sooner? 

The LBP Vita Arcade Challenge

   One of the toughest parts of Little Big Planet Vita is three-starring every level of the arcade games section.  Thankfully there is a shiny gold trophy waiting when you do accomplish this.  I have finished 1 out the 5 arcade games and I will keep posting to further my own motivation to finish completely.  I am actually nearly done on the remaining 4 games but these are toughies at this point.

Orb-It complete