The Official Platinum Difficulty Discussion Thread

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This thread is first and foremost a discussion thread, but it also has a poll. Please do not vote in the poll until you have earned the platinum trophy for this game. That being said, we invite you to post below and discuss the difficult aspects of the game, even if you do not yet have the platinum trophy in your collection.

When you post, give more than just a number. Give reasons why you feel the game is easy or hard. What parts of the game are easy or hard? Were there collectibles? Were they a pain? Is there a required online component? How easy or hard is the online portion? What is the most frustrating part about the game?

Once you have obtained the platinum trophy, feel free to return to this thread and post your official vote. Say something to the effect of "I give this a 2 because there was only one tough spot and the collectibles were easy to find". At this point, you may also add your vote to the poll.

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[Jygga]

I voted 5 - Very Hard because to get every charachter to rank C is extremely hard to do. Besides that there are those extremely challenging trials. This platinum trophy isn´t for the casual gamer.

[xero21]

Very Hard - Hardest here is getting to C rank to all characters and the trials are hard but possible to complete..

[prarpin]

Seriously hard. It took me probably over a month alone getting every character to C. Maybe even six weeks. With easy-to-learn characters like Guile, Ryu, Ken and the like it only took one night, however, with characters like Dan and Hakkan, it took at least two nights.
Trials are crazy as hell. They are doable and YouTube helps with timing issues with some trials. For the love of God, I was stuck on Gief's 24, Honda's 21, Fuerte's 23 and 24, and Viper's 24 for the longest time.
If anybody needs help with the Endless or Team match related trophies, I'll give a patient hand.

[Enviouswrath]

The trials are insane! even something as 'simple' as a punch punch kick combo is impossible to do due to certain timing, mad respect for those that have the patience and skill to succeed in every trial.
And currently the majority of the online players are too good to even stand a chance against, i can beat them with my strongest characters but that doesn't really help me rank up the others, so it takes even more time to actually getting good with your weakest characters so you can hold your own in the ranked matches and subsequently ranking up.

[DRAGON1NINJA]

Very Hard. Only because of the trials, I can do them easily now but learning was really hard. Everything else is easy.

[jprsdas]

Only issue with this game is the online mode. Prepare for a ryu ken and akuma army the amount of lag you get from others is awful and uppercuts seem to have priority over other moves.

[darkdaxter]

Very Hard. This platinum is more difficult than the original's because of the C to Shining C Trophy. Even with boosting, that one takes FOREVER to finish. Other than that, I could copy and paste my critique on SFIV's Platinum Thread. Took me 6 months to get because it took me that long to find a good boosting partner.