Summing Up the Past #3 – Need for Speed? Done! Or not?

Hey there! Thanks for coming back! Today I’ll tell you something about the way to my 8^th Platinum Trophy as well as something about an unexpected DLC.

 

My “career” as a trophy hunter nearly ended before it even started. Soon after my first Platinum Trophy many things changed in my life and they had nothing to do with gaming. I fell in love with my girlfriend, moved to a new home and also become godfather of my niece. As you can imagine, those things kept my busy for a while and I was hardly ever thinking about playing video games. Nevertheless I still played some games from time to time and I was able to get the Platinum Trophies of following games:

• Lego Jurassic World
• Rocket League
• Farming Simulator 15
• Lego Marvel’s Avengers
• The Order: 1886
• Hitman GO

None of those games has been much of a challenge but I had to return to Rocket League from time to time over the next one and a half years to finish some DLCs.

In April, nearly a year after my first Platinum Trophy, everything settled a little bit and I found more time to play games. As I was thinking about getting the latest Need for Speed for a while, I thought it would be the perfect time now. The Platinum Trophy seemed a little bit time intensive and the DLCs seemed to be a bit of challenge but I knew I could do them.

I got myself a copy of the game and I truly enjoyed it since the first minute. I must admit, I’m a fan of the Need for Speed series since I played Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit on my Playstation back in 1998 and thus it wasn’t a big surprise that I liked this game.

It didn’t took me that long to unlock the Platinum and also the DLC wasn’t that challenging. Mental Unblock was hard as I couldn’t get used to the car for a while. In the end I was still able to unlock this trophy – although it took me a lot of tries. The lamest trophy in the game was Hit The Ceiling. It was just on big grind to reach reputation level 70. As soon as I reached it, I was done with the game. At least, that’s what I thought.

As I was thinking that I was done, I sold the game. And you know what? A few days after I got rid of it, the infamous Prestige and Speedlists DLC was released. The difficulty in this new mode has increased dramatically and you need a lot of skills and time to unlock the 3 new bronze trophies. That’s right, 3 BRONZE trophies!

I was so angry. If I had known this before, I wouldn’t have ever bought this game. After reading through some forum posts I soon realized that I’m not the only one. People were really mad at EA for release this DLC: They were complaining about the difficulty and that this DLC was released such a long time after the base game came out.

Up to now I never played the game again, meaning I never tried any of this new races. Maybe I never will. The only thing I can tell you is that only a few people out there managed to get those trophies and from what I know it took them around 100 hours.

 

That’s if for now. I hope you enjoyed reading: Next time I’ll tell you a short story about Mortal Kombat. Until then: Happy Hunting!

 

Yours,

AvengedEvil