Platinum Difficulty Rating - 6/10 The New Vegas trophy list follows a very similar mould to the previous Fallout game, with the vast majority of the list packed with cumulative and quest progression trophies.
There are significantly less trophies related to side quests this time round, though that's down to the branched off ending paths present at the end of the game.
In a very similar manner to the karma system in Fallout 3, which had trophies revolving around hitting the same levels with each of the 3 karma stances, and therefore promoting multiple playthroughs, this list does exactly the same thing, except with multiple game endings depending on selections and choices throughout the game.
Thankfully, and in the same manner as Fallout 3, there is also a crux point where you can choose which path to take, at which times you can use a bit of save game trickery in order to reload the game from that same section and mop up each of the trophies related to the games 4 different quest endings, without the hassle of actually having to play the game through 4 times in full.
The main questline isn't terribly long anyway, but going through each of the 4 endings individually on separate playthroughs would take a solid amount of time and dedication, and would essentially turn the list into a needless chore, so it would be in the best interest of time and enjoyment to duplicate your save file and just reload them before each quest choice.
Carrying on that progression based theme, there are a bunch of tasks all relating to small grinds over various aspects of skills including lockpicking, hacking, speech challenges and repairing. You can naturally unlock most of these, but for others, you will need to delve deeper into the expansive wasteland and side activities, especially for the trophies that have higher accumulative totals to rack up.
There are also handful of trophies that require you to deal 10,000 points of damage with various wasteland weapons, making caps and healing yourself but most of these are just a matter of playing through the game naturally, and will flow throughout the course of the game. Accumulating damage with weapons is easy to farm through, and there definitely isn't a shortage of dungeons and caves to blast through in order to rack up enough damage points for each weapon category.
It can get more difficult when it comes to 10,000 points worth of things such as unarmed damage and melee weapons, simply due to the reason that enemies are always more dangerous when you're closer to them, but all the points based trophies are simply just a matter of time and shouldn't be too difficult to unlock.
Being set in New Vegas, it wouldn't be a complete list without some casino based trophies. The "Courier Who Broke the Bank" trophy, awarded for getting barred from each of the strip's casinos, essentially comes down to just cleaning them out of caps, and being banned from competing inside them.
Each casino has a different limit, which is usually higher than the previous one, and even though it can be quite difficult to win so often that you clear out an entire fund pot, if you raise your in-game luck attribute high enough, you can essentially win every single game you play, which definitely takes the sting out of the challenge. Even if you didn't choose a high luck attribute at the start of the game, you can wipe and modify your attribute set specifically for these trophies, which you will most likely need to do if you want this trophy, as it's very difficult to win such a high volume of casino games without it.
The only trophy you can argue that provides any sort of challenge is the only Gold trophy in this list. The "Hardcore" trophy, awarded for playing the game from start to finish in hardcore mode, is a mode where you have to take into account various factors that pertain more to real life survival, including starvation, dehydration, prolonged limb damage and sleep.
Even though you have to keep the permutations of Hardcore mode switched on throughout the whole game, you can choose to play it on any difficulty, which does make this considerably easier. It is still tough to keep tabs on the various survival factors in the game, but they degenerate your characters health at a much lower rate on the lower difficulty levels, meaning you're not constantly keeping an eye out on your survival factors so often.
If you want a genuine challenge, Hardcore mode will provide it on the games higher difficulty levels, but that really is the only way that this list will test you. There are a few difficulty spikes in some other areas too, but this Platinum is really just about time. Playing through the main quest is an 8-12 hour experience, and you will need to play through each of the 4 different endings, which, despite being a massive timesaver if you utilise the save game trickery mentioned above, will still take a fair amount of time.
The abundance of side activities and other quests that have trophies attached to them will add to the overall completion time significantly, and you can expect anywhere between 80-100 hours for a general estimation. If you're up for the grind, this is a relatively easy list, but you should expect a slight challenge.
Notable Trophies -
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| Veni, Vidi, Vici! - Completed Veni, Vidi, Vici Eureka! - Completed Eureka! Render Unto Caesar - Completed Render Unto Caesar All or Northing - Completed All of Nothing Hardcore - Played the game from start to finish in Hardcore Mode. |
Veni, Vidi, Vici!
Completed Veni, Vidi, Vici.
Note : Any of the 4 main ending trophies could be deemed as the hardest trophy, but I felt this one just about edged it in terms of difficulty.
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