Hello everyone it’s Travis Williams, PAIN Producer, again and I wanted to take some time to tell you about the new PlayStation Network Trophies being added to PAIN Downtown.
The last trophy I ever “earned” was in ROTC. That was way back in High School (tragic I know). So, I have been really excited to see PlayStation 3 trophies make their way into games both old and new. It’s a new way to show your “ePump-a-tude”. PAIN already features internal trophies that make the modes challenging. That’s why it’s so awesome to get to make a whole new set of trophies. Here’s a list of some of the Trophies you will see next month. If the names seem sophomoric or juvenile to you, then you clearly haven’t been playing PAIN enough. That’s kinda “How We Do.”
To answer some questions before they come up…
Q: When will Trophies be available for PAIN?
A: When the Amusement Park ships on 9-4-2008 we will update PAIN to include trophies.Q: When does Amusement Park ship?
A: DuhQ: Are Trophies retroactive?
A: Most of the trophy requirements are new so we haven’t tracked your progress until now. Some work you will get credit for.Q: Are you CRAZY?!
A: Yes… Yes I am.
So here they are…a “somewhat” complete list of PAIN Downtown Trophies. I say “somewhat” because PAIN keeps getting bigger and bigger. There are more trophies for the Amusement Park, but I’ll talk about them some other time.
PAIN Trophies
Gold Trophies
- Affliction Addiction: Get one billion points (Good Luck)
Silver Trophies
- Dude Abides: Use “The Dude” to score 50 Strikes in Bowling
Bronze Trophies
- 10 Mill Club: Get “PAIN in the Park” and “D-Town Destruction”
- Harder Dick’s Balls: Get all of Dick’s Balls in the Block Party Dumpster without resetting
(Heh heh heh) I really need adult supervision. - D-Town Destruction: Get 10,000,000 score in PAINdemonium and Aftermath
- Combo Mambo: Get 20x Combo in PAINdemonium, Aftermath, Block Party and Demolition
- Attention Spam: Get every type of PAIN (Groin, Head, Arm, Hand, Leg, Foot and Body) combo in PAINdemonium, Aftermath, Block Party and Demolition
PAIN Add-on Character Trophies
- Trill: Get PAINful Tosser Trophy with Scurv Dogg or Hung Lo
- Grenade-A-Maid: Get Exploded 500 times with any female launchable character.
That’s it for now… We’re going to be releasing a lot of information in the coming weeks about the Amusement Park. New modes, new launchable characters and the brand new PAINLabs. When you have some time mosey on over to www.painps3.com that’s where you’ll get more info on all the new content!
Peace!
how many trophies all together? any online modes added??
I rated this 5 out of 5 I am the first to post today. But I cannot enjoy this nice update because for some reason the kind folks at SOE have decided to delete my copy of Pain from my downloads list. can you tell whoever is in charge of the PSN to give me back my Pain. it Pain’s me not to have it and the circumstance over losing it is a real Pain. I just want to play my Pain. It was supposed to be Castlevania Symphony of the Night that you were supposed to delete not Pain.
What a Pain in the neck trying to get some Pain back in my life.
Trophies are nice!
Nice to see your back Travis
I am definatly buying the Amusement Park on day 1. And finally… TROPHIES!! PAIN rocks and needless to say, you and the team do too.
I’m guessing the Gold Trophy will be only reasonably possible in the Amusement Park?
And how many trophies will there be total? Or cant you disclose that yet?
Keep up the awesome work guys
Ad-Kemp
Thanks for the update Travis!
how is pain? i’ve been thinking about getting it for awhile.
Alright!! :-D Got 70 trophies at the moment, hope they’re not a huge pain (lol) comparing to Pixeljunk Eden.
Dick’s Balls? HOLY CARP I figured that would get the [censorded] mark. Dick’s balls indeed. WHat a ROt LMFAO @ TRavis
This game is not really my style. Great to hear the Trophy support news though.
1 Billion points?? :_: Aw, I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to do THAT!
Any word on when the AAC playback is going to be updated- only a very small handful of songs on my hard drive are MP3.
Thank you very much! :D
great to know that you guys care and are giving us trophy support. thank you very much
:)
psn id whitwhit
Is there anyway to see how many trophies other players have? I have 63 currently. I think the trophy system is a really enjoyable system that helps to bring life back into some games that have been played for awhile. What are the benefits to collecting trophies? Does anyone know?
If anyone responds thanks.
Wow, those are some difficult trophies. I think I’m going to need to brush up on my 1334 sKiLz. :)
Travis Williams can you please pass this news down to the FW department.
Can someone please tell me what’s going with the PSN friend-list? Mine is all screwed up ever since I did the 2.41 update. Messages from one friend is going to multiple other friends inbox. Sometimes it says I have a message and I really don’t. It’s extremely screwy at this point. Will this bug be fixed anytime soon? It’s driving me insane. I know I’m not the only one with this issue.
Looking forward to getting more trophies. :-|
I like trophies but I am horrible at this game and doubt there are even any Bronze I could get.
@omen You can check how many trophies people on your friends lists have by viewing their cards but that is the only way I know of.
The only thing that sucks about this blog post is the date :( 9-4-2008 is a little less than a month away (too long away), I was hoping for a “next week” announcement :D, but good things are worth waiting for, right? I suppose it will give me ample time to finish the rest of the ingame trophies off.
Can’t wait Travis. Thanks for the update. Did you ever convince anyone else that having multiple PSN ID logins on one local console was a good idea in these multiplayer games. Hope it’s a feature coming soon now that trophies are here.
SUPER OOCH!!!!!!
nice, i just got this game when it went on sale,a nd my girlfriend and i love it!
can’t wait for a new level to explore!
ONE BILLION POINTS?!?!?!?!??!
hehehe, gonna make us work for this one, eh?
thanks for this update!
OOOOCH!!!
I like how I own all the games that are being patched with trophies. Yay me! And Yay everyone patching games with trophies.
Thats cool to know, thanks for the update!
Awesome, can’t wait :)
Pain just gets better and better. Great work. Seriously.
PAINLabs?
Travis, any comment on Jeff Litchford’s statements about Celebrity tie-in characters or other Sony IP characters?
Source: http://playstationlifestyle.net/2008/08/07/sneak-peek-at-upcoming-content-for-pain-celebritycross-game-characters/
It’s updates like this that make me want to run through traffic completely naked. Good job!
Also, what is the “PAIN Movie Lot” – it was mentioned in the Comic-Con sweepstakes promo material? Is that the nickname for an improved replay editor or hints at an upcoming level?
@Darrik, I know that you can view your friends trophies. I want to know how others are doing that aren’t on your friends list or players met list. Most of the people on my friends list has less than 10 trophies.I want to see more people trying to get as many trophies as possible.
I’m sorry I really need to say something, to maybe talk to you developers from a 26yr old working man’s point of view.
As much as I enjoy the trophy idea. The Trophy system needs to be balanced. Instead of adding to the games with (attainable) trophies you (developers) are starting to put trophies into games that are NOT FUN anymore. Stardust, Eden, Pain. Look at those trophie lists. WHat is wrong with making each trophy FUN and ATTAINABLE. Why do I have to spend Countless Nights to attain a Bronze Trophy in Eden on Level 7. Why do i have to spend Days getting “Late Boomber” in Stardust. WHy in the heck do I get to look at “Get a Billion points” and say Whatever, this is assanine.
TROPHIES ARE NOT FUN. MAKE THEM FUN. GEEZ. Why are tehre bronze trohies that are harder then Gold? Your average gamer should be able to attain ANY TROPHY with-in 2 Days of playing the game for 6hrs a day. I think all of you (Developers) need to do play tests and come up with a STANDARD.
(Rant over)
p.s. i have 100% in SSHD, 50%+ in Eden (and counting) and after those two ventures alone i realized that Trophies are just losing there “Fun Factor” because the Developers are just Jamming them in instead of making sure it INCREASES the PLAY EXPERIENCE, NOT DETERS IT!
I\’m just going to weigh in with my OPINION here…
You say that Trophies should make \”sure it INCREASES the PLAY EXPERIENCE,\” right before touting your stats on SSHD and Eden. Would you have gone back to play SSHD (or have played it that much) if not for the trophies? Isn\’t that increasing your play experience?
I\’ve never been a fan of X360 games that dole out an achievement just for beating each level, and then one at the end. I\’m playing through the game anyway – wheres the achievement?
If the Trophy has me do something I wouldn\’t ordinarily do, like (citing from Uncharted here) switching up my weapons, or making sure to line up more headshots, or (Eden) making sure to hit all the seeds as well as the spectra – that\’s 100% accomplishing the goal.
If everyone can get every trophy without breaking a sweat – then what\’s the point?
BTW, when you say \”rant over\”, try to mean it :-)