With Metal Gear Solid 4 receiving a trophy patch 4 years after its release, it got us thinking what other games we would like to see get the same treatment. After all this isn’t the first time developers have gone back to their games to implement the virtual crack we’ve come to love for no good reason.
Grand Theft Auto 4 came to the PS3 trophy-less, as did the original Uncharted. In both cases as with MGS4, a patch changed all of this. There are of course other games out there that came out before trophies were made mandatory, and while some are more likely to receive a trophy update than others, here are ten which would benefit from such a move.
10. The Orange Box
We’ll get one of the more obvious one out of the way first. It’s a crying shame that the Orange Box doesn’t have any trophy support, when 360 players have several games worth of acheivements in their copy. The Orange Box launched in 2007, one year before the Playstation’s trophy system went live. Of course the PS3 version of the Orange Box is cited to be the worst. While Valve handled the development on the PC and 360 versions of the game, the PS3 product was outsourced to EA. This of course was before Valve gave a damn about Sony’s console. While there might have been the chance of a trophy patch if Valve had handled the PS3 copy, the chance of it happening is practically nil.
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“Of course the PS3 version of the Orange Box is cited to be the worst”
That statement is enough to tell me that the author isn’t actually a gamer at all. It’s common knowledge that this is a total myth create by Microsoft and their gaming industry partners at the time, in a desperate effort to discredit the PS3 in America.
How they fooled you:
The PS3 version of Orange Box has a feature called QuickSave, that allows you to save mid-way though a level, the Xbox version didn’t have this. What the reviewers in question did, was they triggered a quicksave during a particular moment in the game, and captured the video, and then went on to pretend the PS3′s framerate was like this throughout the entire game. They then banked the big cheque that Microsoft gave them.
What they DIDN’T spot, was the giveaway in the video that showed a “quicksave” logo in the bottom right of the video comparison, which was the epic failure that dabbed their lame effort in. Ironically, the Quicksave feature is something that makes the PS3 version of Orange Box substantially better, as both console versions suffered horrible load time, but the PS3′s quicksave/quickload made is more bearable.
The problem is, 5 years later, idiots are brainwashed into believing the PS3 version was inferior, and the truth no longer matters. The American console whilst a flop elsewhere, is a success in America, and Microsoft achieved their goal. A nation too stupid to question what their eyes tell them.
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i may be being facetious but do adults actually care about achievements? i assume they were there for the 14 year olds with OCD or an epeen complex?
You would think that most adults wouldn’t really care about such things, however I know plenty of grown men who love going after achievements. I myself have some pride over my platinum trophies, and apparently I’m an adult, or so people tell me.
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