Platinum Difficulty Rating

[CoLe_LiGhtNiNg]

8/10.. 1st game with throphies i bought, got my plat before 10 minutes.
Overall, the game is time consuming, not hard. AWP is really annoying if it glitches and wanted is a pain in the ass without boosting.

Thanks and good luck to everybody who whelped me in this journey !

[ShinYagami13]

i gave it a 7
more time consuming than hard really
got L.C. minute in 14hours and 100% in 40
after that it was all boosting the multiplayer

[mcjoey]

its a verry hard game

[AdrianRaiden]

only Wanted trophy and that other one are almost impossible and time consuming
10/10

[peteM1911]

I just platted this, gonna give it a 7 for difficulty. Frustration at rockstar servers is 10 out of 10 though.
If R* are listening, please no more freakin pigeons in GTA V. Give us Hangmans NOOSE II (servers working), I don't mind. Just no more pigeons!

[erdvilla]

This was my very first game (PS3) and my very first Platinum. At that time I didn't owned any other game so I had plenty of time to master it so it didn't feel that hard to Plat, in fact after replaying it several times I'm pretty sure I would double Plated it except for Most wanted.

I got extremely good at Heli piloting during the online boost so by the time I joined a team to go in for the Fly the coop trophy I was designated pilot without any discussion XD

7/10

Boosting online is a must, specially for Auf widersehen Petrovic because most of the time during the longest races the competition will quit once you win making the race void.

Note: Since this was my first game I didn't even knew about PS3T at the time and I forgot to vote it til now that I was wandering around the game lists XD

[Angry Gargoyle]

Personally, I gave it a 6 but I am awarding it 2 extra points because I had to partially boost a couple of MP trophies to save time. AWP is possible to do legit but it would take a very, very long time as very few participate in the races.

Therefore 8 out of 10 and voted as such.

[Pseudonym]

Gave it a 9.

Played through most of it before the trophies came out and wont be replaying it any time soon.
Plus i keep hearing that the online has major issues that make some of the trophies almost impossible to get.

[Marisapo80]

I voted 3.
This game is not challenging at all besides a couple of the stunt jumps. As its been said before countless times, this is an easy plat but VERY time consuming. It took me 16hrs to 100% the game then 4million hrs online to grind one trophy. Hands down the most unpleasant gaming experience I've ever had.
If Gay Tony was part of the plat criteria then I would rate it an 8 for sure as that's where the game's challenging missions all went!

Frankly glad this is over with. I have never felt so happy about taking a disc out of my Playstation. Me and GTA have had many fun years together but our relationship ends with part 4. This game not only ruined the franchise for me but almost put me off gaming all together. Thanks R*, you're insane online trophies and shit servers have burned me out. Never again.

[PlatinumChaser]

Originally Posted by jqtaxpayer

GTA IV gets a rating of "8" from me, largely due to the tedious and time-consuming nature of the trophies.

None of the single player trophies are terribly difficult, particularly if you have maps of the Hidden Package and USJ locations. Getting "Key To The City" (i.e. 100% completion) took me 40 hours. Be forewarned that only about 15 hours of that 40 are fun.

The multiplayer trophies are just as time-consuming, if not moreso. As I haven't gotten the "Wanted" trophy as of the time of writing, I'm not able to provide an accurate time-frame here, but "Auf Weidersehen Petrovic" will take you at least 10 hours, and since there's no way in hell you can get that trophy without boosting races, you can multiply that number by two.

Getting the highest rank possible involves reliving 2.5 minutes of your life (i.e. NOOSE) over and over again -- the video game equivalent of being a rape victim.

Anyway, here's to hoping that Rockstar gets over themselves by the time they release their next game and make its trophy set a little less time-consuming.

YOUR WRONG DUDE. AWP is not impossible without boosting. l have had this game 100% platinum on 4 different accounts. PlatinumChaser is my only account now. and l did every single trophy without boosting. people also say that trophy is bugged. well all 4 times l did it. l got it first try with no problems. only issue is when your racing and someone quitsout because their losing.or because you beat them. if they quitout before the round is over you just have to re-race that track again. and l did it legit. so it took me 2days. only due to people quitting out like lil babies once they lost. so i had to re-race it. and people saying that the stats would reset the rank to 0. that is true it did. did for me to when l was doing it. but it didnt actually erase it. once rockstars servers were fixed everyones rank was restored to what they had earned